CTWMA 12

Chapter: 12

The Legent of the Galaxy God of War  – Reincarnation (3)

I watched my reincarnated clone, who was heading home in a car at a normal flow of time, and thought deeply.

“When is it normal to start talking?”

If I sped up time recklessly and went too far ahead, I might end up being diagnosed with autism.

While accelerated, it seemed that the clone only followed the commands I had given beforehand, making communication with other people impossible.

Would it be okay to just adjust the time normally until 100 days?

There shouldn’t be any problems if I accelerated time while my clone was asleep.

The problem was that, perhaps because it was a newborn baby, the clone repeatedly woke up and fell asleep every 3 or 4 hours, and whenever it woke up, it mostly drank formula.

The nurses at the newborn nursery were working three shifts and guarding the place 24 hours a day, so there were no issues.

Siwoo, who was taking care of me, was an android, so he probably didn’t need sleep.

While I was thinking that, we arrived home before I realized it.

Siwoo carried me inside while I was still in my case, and inside the spacious house, there were several more android robots.

“Welcome home, Siwoo.”

Unlike Siwoo, the androids waiting at home looked like robots on the outside, and their voices had a mechanical tone mixed in.

“I have returned. Is there anything to report while I was away?”

“One report. There is a message. Would you like the message displayed?”

“Display it.”

Siwoo and the android robot held hands, and Siwoo’s eyes scanned the air as if reading something.

“Hmm, I see. It is fortunate that all legal procedures have been completed. How did the entire house disinfection proceed?”

“Reporting that disinfection is complete.”

“Good. Management androids Raiden No.1 through No.12, switch to normal management mode from now on.”

“Executing normal management mode.”

At Siwoo’s command, the android robots headed somewhere.

I learned later that those android robots usually connected to the household appliances and managed the house, only appearing when physical force was needed.

Siwoo carefully lifted the case I was inside, looked at me, and smiled.

“We will go to young master’s room now. The room has been fully prepared.”

Even though there was no need, Siwoo continued talking to me.

Well, it was the right thing to do since a baby would learn language by constantly hearing voices.

That is, if I could actually hear while sleeping as a newborn baby.

I listened to Siwoo’s voice as I entered my neatly decorated room and was placed in a baby crib.

“Should I speed up time now?”

I had been observing at normal speed in case there was some information about this world, but it seemed that there was nothing more I could learn with a baby’s body that couldn’t move.

Well, even now, thanks to the effects of the 3D avatar, I could adjust my view and look around. If I couldn’t do that, all I would be able to see was the sky or the mobile hanging from the ceiling.

As I thought that, Siwoo removed his gloves and touched various parts of my body, infusing my body with magical power.

I stopped myself from accelerating time in surprise and watched Siwoo.

Not knowing that I was watching, Siwoo explained as if teaching me.

“This is called Chugung Gwahyeol. It is a massage that activates the body’s energy channels and helps prevent waste products from accumulating.”

Chugung Gwahyeol! That thing that often appears in martial arts novels!

The one that is said to give a newborn baby effects similar to undergoing a complete transformation?

Of course, the settings differ depending on the novel, but didn’t you need to be a master to perform Chugung Gwahyeol?

Whether Siwoo knew my doubts or not, he continued performing Chugung Gwahyeol for several hours while explaining.

The explanation sounded somewhat like it had been copied from Wikipedia, but to summarize Siwoo’s explanation, Chugung Gwahyeol was a technique that required multiple masters at the Hwagyeong or Peak Transcendent level to perform. Unlike adults, newborn babies had flexible meridians and energy pathways, so it had beneficial effects for comfort and growth.

It seemed that this really was the same Chugung Gwahyeol I knew.

But that meant Siwoo’s level, who was performing Chugung Gwahyeol alone, was at least Hwagyeong or higher.

Could androids also train in martial arts?

I had more questions, but after finishing Chugung Gwahyeol, Siwoo sat beside my bed and recited unknown scriptures as if reading me a fairy tale.

“A tree must have firm roots, a strong trunk, and flexible branches. When breathing, one should also be like a tree…”

While speaking, he infused magical power—or rather, qi—into my lower abdomen and moved the qi throughout my body with his fingers.

At first, I couldn’t understand Siwoo’s actions, but through the connected consciousness I shared with the 3D avatar, as if I had one foot inside, I realized something from the movement of the qi traveling through my body.

“An energy cultivation technique! No way, is he teaching me a cultivation method from the time I’m a newborn baby!?”

If that was the case, rather than sharing this half-connected sensation through the 3D avatar, it would be better to enter the clone’s body and experience it directly.

I immediately entered the clone.

Several days had passed since I was reincarnated as a newborn baby and came home with Siwoo.

During that time, I experienced Siwoo’s cultivation lessons and tried to move my own qi according to the cultivation method.

At first, because of the somewhat complicated movement of qi, it was not easy to move the small amount of qi inside my body.

I could feel qi itself, but the qi inside my body was scarce, and it was difficult to draw in the qi outside my body.

However, perhaps because there was some kind of spiritual medicine mixed into the formula, after drinking it, my entire body became filled with qi for a short while. I used that brief moment after eating to practice the cultivation method.

Then, just like when Mana Bullet first appeared in my status window, “Cheongmok Technique (淸木功) Lv1” appeared.

The fact that an ability appeared in my status window did not make anything easier.

The status window was only an indicator that showed my condition.

However, the fact that Cheongmok Technique appeared in my status window meant I was properly learning it, which was good news.

Now that I thought about it, since the technique I learned was Cheongmok Technique and my surname had become Cheon, it seemed I had been born into the Cheon Clan.

Since Cheongmok Sword and Cheongmok Technique were martial arts taught to the children of the Cheon Clan, my guess was correct.

When I began practicing Cheongmok Technique myself, Siwoo, who had been teaching me it, looked puzzled.

“Uh… Is it really normal to learn this quickly?”

Siwoo had introduced herself as a nanny android, but it seemed this was her first time taking care of a baby.

The way she fed me formula and changed my diapers was slightly unnatural at first.

After doing it a few times, she must have learned because she quickly became skilled, but it was definitely awkward in the beginning.

Having become somewhat familiar with Cheongmok Technique in my newborn body, I practiced it while switching between my clone and my original body.

The clone’s baby body seemed to have natural qi circulation because there were no impurities in its body, but my original body had difficulty absorbing and moving qi.

Perhaps it was because the clone drank formula mixed with spiritual medicine, while my original body had already aged and had never consumed spiritual medicine.

Even after I became somewhat familiar with Cheongmok Technique, Siwoo didn’t teach me anything else and continued only with Cheongmok Technique training and Chugung Gwahyeol.

“Is this all I can learn for now?”

I made my clone repeatedly practice Cheongmok Technique and accelerated time.

As time passed, my clone with a baby’s body grew.

After more than 100 days since birth, I could roll over and crawl on my stomach. When I reached 200 days, I could somewhat control my body.

And as I approached one year old, I became capable of making certain sounds and walking.

I didn’t spend the entire year only accelerating time.

Occasionally, I spent time using my baby clone’s body to practice the cultivation method.

No matter how much the clone practiced, it was still only moving in place.

Of course, I could feel that my meridians were being strengthened to some degree from the clone’s practice, but unless I personally embodied the cultivation method, it had no meaning.

My subjective time as a baby was about 30 days.

The time that passed for my original body was only around 15 hours.

Thanks to that, my tower clone had to buy extra sandwiches for my original body and transfer them into my inventory.

Now that I could communicate with Siwoo to some extent, I decided to reduce the time I spent accelerating and increase the time I directly controlled my clone.

“Young master, are you awake?”

“Mm.”

I got up and wobbled around as I walked.

Perhaps because I had learned the cultivation method, my body seemed to be growing quite quickly.

“Young master, before watching television, breakfast and cultivation training come first.”

“Mm, okay.”

My pronunciation was slightly unclear because all my teeth had not grown yet, but simple words were completely possible.

Siwoo lifted me and placed me on a baby dining chair, and in front of me was a baby meal made with spiritual medicine as an ingredient.

It seemed that all the formula and baby food I had eaten so far were official support supplies from the Cheon Clan.

Although the food was almost completely unseasoned for my taste, Siwoo’s cooking skills were so excellent that even with little seasoning, it was still delicious.

“Fufu, young master, it is nice that you eat everything without complaining about the side dishes.”

While raising me, Siwoo seemed to be checking parenting communities and smiled as she praised me for eating well.

I do eat well.

Even though my body was a baby, the contents inside were those of a fully grown adult, so I had no choice but to behave properly.

“All done.”

“You finished everything. Good job.”

Siwoo took me down from the chair and cleaned the table.

As an android, she didn’t eat, but occasionally she absorbed the surrounding qi as if cultivating and charged herself with electricity.

I toddled into the dedicated cultivation room prepared for practicing the cultivation method and plopped down.

I didn’t know how it was structured, but it had the effect of gathering and trapping qi in the space.

I had only started using the cultivation room about two days ago. Before that, I practiced Cheongmok Technique while lying in my baby crib.

Although I had only actually controlled my clone and trained Cheongmok Technique for about 30 days, I had practiced Cheongmok Technique like a macro while lying in my crib, so my body already had a dantian formed.

According to Siwoo, even among the direct descendants of the Cheon Clan, my progress was extremely fast.

Since I was constantly practicing the cultivation method while reciting the formula with the mind of an adult, it was only natural that I progressed quickly.

That didn’t mean I could become careless. Right now, I was ahead because I had the mental advantage of an adult, but it was common for a child praised as a genius to grow up and become an ordinary person.

To be honest, I knew I wasn’t especially talented with my body.

This body was my clone, and fundamentally it probably didn’t differ much from my own potential.

I didn’t have huge ambitions.

My minimum goal was simply to become strong enough that when climbing the tower, I wouldn’t end up in a situation where my weak body forced me to run away and die.

If possible, I hoped to achieve above-average results in this world as well.

I sat down and practiced Cheongmok Technique as usual.

The cultivation training Siwoo regularly made me do lasted two hours.

I wondered whether such a schedule was possible for a baby, but my mind wasn’t that of a baby, so I trained seriously.

After cultivation training ended, it was my favorite time.

Watching a comprehensive historical documentary produced by the broadcasting company under the galaxy information integration corporation “Gaebang (丐幇).”

Thousands of years had passed since humanity left Earth. Gaebang had escaped its past as a beggar organization and, together with Haomun, had become an information corporation ruling the entire galaxy and a gigantic righteous sect.

I picked up the remote control and turned on a documentary on the wall display that introduced the history of the martial world, Earth, and the exploration of the galaxy.

(To be continued in the next chapter)