Game of Thrones: The Legend of Jon Arctic - ASOIAF/GOT

Chapter 24 - Adventures in the North 21.

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**JON POV**
Wolfswood near FrostRoar, 290 DC, 3 moons later.
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He woke up groggy. It's been two weeks since he turned 9 namedays, which made him think he was growing. However, his body still refused to grow rapidly, and Jon had a bit more fatigue than a normal child would.

Jon spent some time trying to muster some strength to face the new day. In the last 6 moons, he had been working and training every day, almost collapsing from exhaustion when he went to bed. Finally, he got up and went to the entrance of his dwelling once he had his clothes on. After being blinded for a while by the first lights of dawn, his eyes adapted to the early daylight, and Jon looked around, pleased with the transformation of the place. Until 6 moons ago, it was full of abandoned houses, but now there were 5 new structures.

First, they renovated the forge to make it a bit more modern, with the limited resources at their disposal. Second, a custom laboratory was created for the alchemical studies of the 9-nameday boy, his favorite place where he spent most of his time during the day. There was also a kennel for the wolves, whose number had increased during this time. Lastly, they built two new houses, refurbishing the others to accommodate the giants and the miners taken from the mines by the giants themselves.

The sun hadn't fully risen yet, but Jon, who had already recovered from the previous fatigue, began to run through the camp, under the watchful eyes of his wolves. They saw their lazy master as always when he started his morning exercise routine. Jon, initially, struggled, after all, he was still an 8-nameday-old boy until recently, but he felt a very pleasant development in his opinion. Even though he still felt far from his ideal, he couldn't demand too much, as he noticed the change in the last 6 moons.

Jon became faster, and his sparring sessions with Ducken began to bring surprises to the soldier. The boy was still far from being able to defeat him, but he was starting to pose some difficulty for the man. Ducken also knew that in the coming years, this outcome would be very different if Jon continued at this pace.

Jon had an unlimited future as a warrior, and he knew it. He had been training and creating a new diet recently discovered using his alchemical knowledge, peculiar plants and herbs, and some genetic power to develop his body to a level never seen before in this world.

As he developed this diet recently, something he named the growth potion, the results were not yet very visible, but he knew that would change in the coming weeks.

But the growth potion wasn't the only thing he developed during his thousands of hours in the laboratory. He made a kind of drug that gave him a temporary physical boost. Of course, there were some side effects, but Jon minimized them in his development and made sure that nothing would be permanent if he knew how to control the dose, using it only in emergencies.

This didn't stop him from testing it with Ducken one day for him to see the results. This made Jon go from an 8-nameday-old child with considerable talent in fencing to a little monster in strength and speed. The northerner, a war veteran who left the continent in search of glory, lost in that place to an 8-nameday-old child after taking that potion. Of course, the man was shocked to the core by this, refusing to believe what happened. This garnered more attention from the giants and William, yielding the same result after another sparring session, something that earned many laughs from the spectators.

But Jon did not abuse that glory, as he used the potion only for a test. Jon explained that his strength and speed increased threefold, thanks to these experiments he has been conducting in the last few moons. The only side effect is the pain that comes right after conditions return to normal, but other than that, it does not harm the body. Of course, this effect is only when he still controls the dose he can take; otherwise, his body could be even more harmed than the pain.