Zero to Hero (Prequel/prototype)

Chapter 59. Return to Chelmswell

"Ken. Please don't fall for any girl I beg of you. You are going to train and get stronger. Please remember your goal!" Genesis whined while clinging on to Ken as he got ready to be teleported to his first approved exchange program one month into the semester. .

"Genesis, I doubt Lovetta's dad accepted the exchange request for me to go and hook up with girls when his own daughter is one of my lovers." Ken replied while trying to remove the girl so he could pack without success.

"I am sure my dad will make sure he talks to none of the girls in the tribe and train him from morning until dawn." Lovetta added to assure the rest.

"I will have your things packed." Emma offered.

"I will help too." Indra added quietly.

"Thanks Emma, Indra!"

"I can't believe you are going to be gone for an entire month. TWICE! We barely had a month together! And you will be gone doing your stupid exchange!" Alice complained, not happy that Ken got approved for two one month long exchanges during the semester.

"Alice, I need to reach holy level as soon as I can. I feel like since most people get stuck around master or divine, once I can reach holy level fast, Clare's father will understand my talent and realize it's better to have me around as an ally rather than trying to waste resources trying to get rid of me. Once I get that spot in the top 10, we can all get married, live in some fancy large mansion and be happily ever after." Ken replied as he thought long and hard about how to get out of his current mess.

"Don't worry Ken. I will protect you even if you don't get stronger!" Seraphina said happily.

"Stop it Seraphina. He needs to be able to protect us or else he is just way over his head. He definitely needs to get stronger before thinking about marriage." Cecilla interjected.

"I call dibs on wife number 1." Clare decided to join the conversation as it derailed into girls arguing with each other who gets to be wife number 1.

"Well. It's time for me to get going. Take care everyone. I will miss you all. I will definitely miss the love making." Ken said with a grin as he grabbed the sack of clothes Emma packed and with his necklace activated with a red glow. The young man disappeared from the room and was once again, in the frozen tundra of the Chelmswell Forest.

"Holy hell I forgot how cold this place is!" Ken complained as he stood in the middle of the frozen forest shivering.

"Whining already? The coldest months are already behind us dude." A voice said calmly with a sneer.

"ZEEV!" Ken shouted as he hugged the wolf beastman happily.

"Glad to see that you are at least happy with all the bigshots after your life." Zeev replied with a smile and led the young man back to the tribe through the maze on top of the tree.

After reaching the village and happily greeting all the tribe members that he hasn't seen in two years. Ken was once again face to face with Boris the chieftain of the werewolf tribe.

"Hello Mr. Wulric. Thank you for accepting my request and I hope to learn all I could from you in the next month." Ken said politely to the ripped beastman.

"Well my boy. I can certainly say that you are no longer the same from two years ago but I am surprised you are unharmed after pulling the stunt you did." Boris said while patting the young man on the shoulder with enough strength to break a regular person.

"According to Cecilla, I am lucky that I am a fixture at the tournaments and even the king can't just have me disappeared without huge public backlash and her father wasn't about to deal with that so I got to live a bit longer." Ken replied with a slight chuckle.