"Young Lord, firstly, let me ask you a question, does your body absorb aether?"
"I don't know, I just know that sometimes I feel a warmth in my body," replied John innocently, after all he couldn't possibly tell Augustus that he was already circulating aether throughout his veins and into his body.
"Good, that's a sign of aether converging on your body," said Augustus with a stern expression, "however most of that aether is being channeled through your veins into your core, which means that it barely affects your body."
"From today on, I will be fixing that, with a combination of physical drills as well as a special breathing technique. For starters you see what those people over there are doing? That's called a pushup, do it 25 times and then I want you to…"
For the next 3 hours, John under Augustus's instruction, did a variety of physical drills, ranging from pushups to short sprints, however for some reason Augustus didn't mention breathing techniques at all.
"Alright Young Lord, good job, you can rest now, tomorrow we will continue."
Tired and battered, John followed maid's back to his room. Throwing himself onto his bed, John thought to himself that he definitely needed to get some books. Sadly, until he finished his education with Scholar Evans, the only books he could read would be the ones provided by Scholar Evans.
Resting, John suddenly opened his eyes in surprise, observing his core he realized that the speed of sucking aether had increased, albeit it was slowly decreasing. "This is most likely due to the exercise I did today," thought John, "Perhaps this is the point of the training, in order to stimulate the core to absorb more aether which means aether passing through my body and veins.
Excited, John fell asleep envisioning what special breathing techniques he would be taught the next day.
The Next Day
After another session with Scholar Evans, John followed Augustus into the courtyard again.
"Today, Young Master, we will commence training you in breathing techniques, first, drop down and give me 20!"
For the next hour, John was subject to even more physical exercise, confused, John endured until he was suddenly stopped by Augustus.
"Alright, now Young Master, do you feel how there's a feeling of breathing inside your body?"
"Yes, I feel it." replied John. "Good, that's your core breathing because of all of the stress," said Augustus.
"The reason I made you do all this is to stimulate your core into breathing more aether in order to compensate. Due to your body being tired your core will compensate by breathing extra aether and channeling some of that into your body."
Quickly checking his body, John was shocked to realize that indeed, small strands of aether were flowing through his veins, it's just due to his constant circulation of aether through his veins that he didn't notice it. Checking the efficiency John realized that the speed had tripled. Mind you, John had already managed to increase the efficiency of circulation by a large amount with the discovery of aether veins, with this tripled efficiency his body was practically filled with aether.
"Now, Young Lord, remember this feeling and try to imitate it, don't worry this is usually very hard, so for the next month we will solely focus on breathing."
Attempting to imitate the breathing technique, John realized it was just a combination of suction from the core as well as some aether manipulation from within it. Normally, one would only attempt to stimulate the core and it would automatically do it, but due to John's extraordinary control over his core, he managed to increase the efficiency once again.
Successfully completing the breathing technique, John secretly beamed in joy, now armed with the knowledge of the breathing technique, he could now explore even more uses of enhancing the body with aether. After all with all the increases in efficiency his aether flow was formidable to say the least, and he could now temper his body even further.
Purposefully concealing his progress, John slowly revealed his progress and over the course the next month, John revealed his mastery over the breathing technique. Due to his concealment Augustus wasn't surprised at all, and even believed that John was a little slow in learning.
For the next 2 years, all John did was train daily, temper his body exploring the effects of aether, as well as learn the words of the world. Of course he also tried to gather pieces of information about his background, but had no luck except for the one time he listened in to some gossip on his way to his first class with Augustus.
After two years tempering his body and training using the breathing technique, the technique had already been ingrained into John's subconscious with his core performing the action while circulating aether even while he was sleeping. Previously John could only circulate aether during the day due to his need for sleep, but now 24/7 he was constantly tempering his body.
Observing the effects that aether had on his body, John observed that strength and durability had all increased to that of a normal human back when he hadn't transmigrated. His five senses had also been augmented to some extent.
Bang, while doing jumping jacks, John accidentally flew 6 feet into the air. Due to his wildly strong strength while still being the average weight of children his age, his strength meant that one wrong move and he would be multiple feet above the ground.
Falling back onto the ground, John observed as Augustus nodded approvingly. Over the course of the two years, John showed a slightly exceptional talent in absorbing aether which made Augustus very happy.
"Alright, that's a wrap," said Augustus before saying mysteriously,"You better head back inside and get some rest, tomorrow's going to be a very special day…"
Walking back, John thought about what could possibly happen tomorrow, and quickly came to a conclusion. "Well, I guess things are going to change drastically aren't they," muttered John as he walked back accompanied by maids.