Chapter 5: The first day of training
[It's a beautiful day outside the birds are singing, flowers are blooming, on days like these kids like you…]
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[Suffer~]
"Ughhhh… my head…someone turn off the sun…" God lord, the pain… This kind of sh*t is why I rarely drank alcohol in my last life…
[Wakey, wakey, sleepyhead~]
"F*ck youuu…."
[Awww what's the matter did you expect to be 18 or older during your first hangover in this new life? Tough luck~]
"Ughhh…what happen in the end? Did it work?"
[See for yourself]
Due to special action you have gained
+ 500 MP
+ 10 END
Mystic Eyes of Truth Perception C (Active/Passive) Level 1/10
- Grants the user the ability to see the truth of any item of person he looks and/or touches Passively grants the user the ability to know when he is being lied to.
… I stare at that message for a few seconds then I stare at my ring and activate the MEoTP, I lose my peripheral vision as my eyes focus on the ring only, and my mana sinks in it.
Enchanted Ring of Magic Concealment Rarity (A)
Skill Magic Concealment Rank A
Mana Storage 1371/10000 MP
Item Disguise
Self-Repair
I feel a pang of pain, but compared to my current headache this is workable with, however using it once already…
MP: 4090/5090
Wow… just like that it became my most costly skill... but even so…
"Worth it," I say as I close my eyes and begin to rub them as I sit on my bed. Also I just now learned how to store mana, apparently just using mana manipulation to cover it, and let it absorb it, however, this way mana is wasted, but this can only be fixed by leveling up mana manipulation. Using the stored mana is the inverse process you use your mana to pull from the ring reserves. More things to try and practice I guess.
[Well, are you ready for the day?]
This is the first day of my new training regime, It will be long and sometimes tedious but I will do it I will be ready when THAT comes and this is the first step in that direction.
"Yeah, let's go"
I stand up, make my futon, and begin my morning ritual of bathroom, brushing teeth, and shower. And once out I'm completely ready to face this day.
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I was not ready for today.
So I thought that granny was a good teacher and knew about the concepts of mercy and whatnot, but now she is a drill sergeant willing to teach me anything, and before we continue I must learn ALL the basics. So with that in mind, I had to redo all the preview tasks she gave on forming magic circles: magic circle theory, magic manipulation, history, and changes were done to them and why, what could be done, what you couldn't do, what you have to do, what you NOT have to do… Ever.
You might think don't you have the system and know magic already why do you need magic circles for? Well first of all using one as a focus costs like 10 MP and reduces the costs of all my other spells by 5% that alone is worth it, and it was the one I made in less than a week.
I asked her about the more powerful magic circles and… well.
Basically, the most powerful and complex magic circles are ones that are so hard to do that… how to put it, imagine programming a website only on HTML code in its entirety is like that, yet somehow worse.
And considering that you need to remember the magic circle you have made to create one with magic, yeah you get the idea.
Luckily many mages have magic or a magic item with the sole purpose of helping "store" certain magic circles in their memories so they can use magic, since human don't have any "natural" magic except a few "like me" so they have to not only use the main circle to diminish the cost of their magic, they have to use another circle for the magic they actually want to cast. Most of them opt to make several magic circles and have the magical focus combined with the magic they actually want to use.
In my case, my skill "Magic Circle Construction" already "saves" all the magic circles I know on my mind so I don't need an extra spell to remember them.
The 3 hours of the class passed with me learning the book alphabet copying the characters and writing them a lot of times, and drawing quite a few magic circles getting better and better, THANK GOD FOR DRAWING SKILL! SUCK IT KAY! [ ¬_¬ ] But it was so drilling though she did not stop giving me more and more until my hand felt numb, and I had to do that while she was talking in the background explaining different subjects and then asking me about it to see if I was paying attention jeez!
The results?
Due to special action you have gained
+50 MP
+10 Int
+5 Wis
Level: 20
Class: Druid Level 2/100 Exp: 56%
Job: Scholar Level: 18/20 Exp: 10%
MP: 910/5720
Mana Manipulation has reached level 10! Rank up?
(Y/N)
Magic Circle Construction has reached level 10! Rank up?
(Y/N)
I press Y in both as we end the lesson of today.
Mana Manipulation Rank C (Active/Passive) Level 1/10
- Indicates the user ability to manipulate magic energy in its purer form, Passively decreases cost of spells by 20% + (2% x Skill Level)
Magic Circle Construction Rank C (Active/Passive) Level 1/10
- Allows the user to use, learn, and create magic circles equal to this skill rank
"Huh…they leveled up pretty fast all things consider…"
[Thanks to your trait Natural Magician and your Job Scholar, their Exp gain is high, besides they were rank D when is easier to gain Exp to level up]
"That's cool, I really do have to save up the rest of the free skills rank up for A Ranks only, the grind those would need is ridiculous right?"
[Indeed that would prove to be wise instead of you know, using them in a D rank skill that you could just practice on your own later when you gained the Artist Job]
"Piss off it needed to be done quickly, besides this way we can focus in more useful jobs and classes and can use the time more efficiently"
[Are… are you planning on min-maxing yourself?]
"What? No… I think I don't… I mean… we are not going to be training all the time right?"
[Do you have anything better to do in this village other than helping on the fields and playing outside?]
"I… eh…watching TV or playing with the Smartphone I guess?"
[…]
"I… will look for Jobs that can provide Hobbies when I'm done with your quest"
[Please do, I don't want to have an insane partner for the rest of my life]
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After that I take the break as per my Gamer's Training Arc: Guide to Victory Plan and then enjoy lunch with grandma.
"You improve incredibly quickly Rio," She says as we eat soba.
"It's that so? I feel a bit slow, to be honest" I was 2 levels away from maxing scholar, after all, o well tomorrow will be another day.
"You need to remember to take your time Rio, using fear as a motivator to grow stronger is as good as any other reason to grow stronger, but don't let fear control your actions. There is a difference between using your fear and being blinded by it." She replies calmly and I can't help but think she is right.
I must never allow THAT to control my life, I control my life and I choose to become strong, strong enough to kill THAT, I choose my training, I choose which skills I grow, not THAT.
"You are right" I end up replying after a while, she must have seen my inner turmoil or something because she seems happy at my answer, she can still read so easily huh.
After helping out cleaning a bit I decide to rest a bit before going to train to the clearing. As I sit in the kotatsu eating oranges enjoying the calm while watching an anime called Drag-so Balls on TV, is quite funny.
"Ey Kay are you sure that the media in this universe does not exist as some multiverse out there?"
[I'm fairly sure yes (because they are all either parodies of the originals or flat out terrible)]
"Oh… that's too bad it would be cool to be able to use the Ki thing they talk about in this anime sounds like sensing with Druidcraft without using magic and more efficient… and flying, and firing beams from the hands is just cool"
[I'm sure you'll get there one day]
"Aw shucks Kay"
I continue like that until the end of the episode when I decide to go to the clearing to train after telling my grandma.
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I arrived without problems at the clearing and I begin to put my bag with water and towels in the ground and take my jacket off before I begin to run in circles around the clearing, phone on my pants pockets to tell how far I have gone. I start easy trying to keep a steady pace, trying to keep a breathing rhythm, I don't know how true it is but I heard somewhere that keeping a good breathing rhythm is super important if you are going to be doing physical activities.
I keep for a while but 20 minutes later I found myself having a harder time keeping the steady pace or the breathing rhythm but I keep trying.
After 10 more minutes it just gets harder from there I simply can't keep going like this for longer and I have to stop holding my knees with my arms.
"Huff…huff…okay…maybe should have huff thought this one a little better" My SP bar is pretty low and no notification of stat increase or nothing really appeared.
"Well that makes sense huff… even with Adaptive Body increasing my stats and my SP won't happen quickly and my muscles don't fix themselves quickly after a workout, it will take time"
I remain standing breathing heavily honestly it would be nice to increase my healing speed for my sore muscles or something like that…wait
Natural Healing Rank D (Active) Level 2/10
- Increase the natural healing speed of any wound Equal to this Skill Rank
I haven't lost a single HP but... I don't have Gamer's Body meaning my stats are not controlled by the system, meaning that my body follows the same rules any other human body does, when we exercise our muscles tear, then new muscle fiber is created, stronger than the ones before, in other words… our muscles get "wounded" then "heal naturally" increasing their strength as result…
"…Could it work?" I close my eyes and focus Druidcraft internally trying to look for sore muscles in my legs and my body in general, I feel a tingle from my eyes as if the Mystic Eyes were helping me sense better, makes sense they were made with structural grasp and now I'm "grasping" my own body.
Once I have located the different wounded muscles I cast Natural Healing on myself, slowly feeling the muscles heal one after the other, a bit stressful at first but it did get better until I even stopped feeling so tired, and once is done.
Due to special action you have gained
+5 SP
+1 END
+2 AGI
"Jackpot!"
The MP cost is almost nothing from me doing that, I guess it has to do with me not healing any HP and focusing on sensing my own body but more importantly, now I can keep going!
And so I did every time I would slow down or fall behind the initial pace and so 1 hour and 50 minutes later I was done with the 10 Kilometers run.
Due to special action you have gained
+15 SP
+3 END
+6 AGI
Due to special action a new Skill has been gained
Controlled breathing Rank D (Passive) Level 1/10
- It allows the user to keep a steady breathing while doing actions that put its body under stress, reduces SP cost by 1% x Skill Level
I freaking knew it!
Natural Healing has reached level 10! Rank up?
(Y/N)
Druidcraft has reached level 10! Rank up?
(Y/N)
I consider if there's any combination I should try but I fail to think into anything so I just press Y to the both of them.
Natural Healing Rank C (Active) Level 1/10
- Increase the natural healing speed of any wound Equal to this Skill Rank
Druidcraft Rank C (Active/Passive) Level 1/10
- Grants the user awareness of their surrounding by hearing the voice of nature, from falling leaves to a gust of wind, you will be aware. Passively it makes flowers blossom, seed pods open, or leafs bud bloom
With a newfound drive, I go back to where my backpack was, drank an entire water bottle clean my sweat with a towel, and take a breath.
"Ahhh… this is kinda nice actually" It took longer than I thought, and I must admit in my last life I tried to exercise several times but it got boring really quick and I end up simply eating healthy to not get fat and don't worry about muscles and whatnot, but being able to watch my progress with the status Is pretty neat, that way I know I'm doing good and makes me want to keep going. "Alright, let's get with the sit-ups, squats, and push-ups"
I keep doing what I was doing before whenever I felt like quitting, I used Druidcraft to sense whenever a muscle would tear and then use Natural Healing, which worked better now after ranking up, I feel like the cost and the effectiveness is better. And so 30 minutes later I was done with the physical training.
Due to special action you have gained
+10 SP
+11 STR
+4 END
Controlled breathing Rank D (Passive) Level 3/10
Natural Healing Rank C (Active) Level 2/10
Due to special action a new Skill has been gained
Cold Resistance D (Passive) Level 1/10
- Grants the user resistance to the cold equal to 1% x Skill Level
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Cold? Well, I'm doing this without a jacket and surrounded by snow, no wonder…
Alright then now I-
GROWL~
My stomach growled and I felt without energy face-planting in the snow.
"Ugh… why I'm so hungry... don't tell me that because I used natural healing… of course my body still uses the nutrients it has and I power-speeded what should have happened after a night of rest in 3 hours give or take ughh…"
GROWL~
[Huh… to be honest, one of us should have seen this coming]
GROOOOOOWL~~
[Yet no one did]
"Are you sure you didn't know?" I move while on the floor until I reach my backpack and pull out 3 energy bars and an apple and down all of them fairly quickly leaving only the apple core and then finish my other bottle of water, and yet.
GROOOOOOWL~~
"UGhhh… this sucks…" I watch at the apple core "Well I have to practice magic…" I dig with my hands on the snow until I find the ground and dig a little bit, then bury the apple core there. "Alright then…" Using the Magic circle for the first time today I begin to cast my magic, first with mana manipulation and one hand on the ground I guide mi mana to the apple core, then I use Druidcraft intending to sense the apple and try to trigger its passive effect of making plants grow, and using plant manipulation in tandem in an attempt to make the apple grow.
"Ughhhh now my head is going to hurt too? Peachy…" I feel a headache forming, yet after the appraisal and structure grasp fiasco this is pretty tame. But I keep focusing on the magic until I feel something on the palm of my hand and I raise it revealing a little sprout.
Due to special action a new Skill has been gained
Plant Growth Rank D (Active) Level 1/10
- Grants the user the ability to make plants grow and increase their growth speed
Plant Manipulation has reached level 10! Rank up?
(Y/N)
Mmm… "No", better hold that one and combine with Plant Growth and so now I just focus on Plant Growth and after a while in front of me lays a small apple tree no higher than 1,5 M (4 foot 9 inches) but since I'm still small it towers over me. But more importantly, it has 10 apples in it!
Using Plant manipulation I make the apples fall close to me while I still lay on the ground and begin to eat them even the core this time to level up Plant Analysis.
"Burp Okay I'm good to walk home and eat more to have a refill now" As I slowly stand up and gather my jacket and backpack with all the garbage that I have made with the energy bars and water bottles inside to throw at home at the recycle bin. I begin to check today's progress and see that Plant Growth is at level 9 so I begin to cast it again on the tree until it reaches 10.
Plant Growth has reached level 10! Rank up?
(Y/N)
"Nope, alright let's combine the 2 and go home. Skill Combiner Plant Manipulation and Plant Growth"
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"Ehm… did I do anything wrong?"
[Oh right, 24 Hours haven't passed since you used all 5 tries]
"What? I only used it once though right?"
[Nope the MEoTP took all 5 tries to get]
"Wow… is really a broken skill isn't it? Oh well, I can wait until tomorrow, I'll have to talk with granny about increasing my diet… I'm still starving…"
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After arriving home and taking a bath, while we begin to have dinner, I tell grandma my situation about increasing my diet and why.
Which she responded by freaking out and making a bit deal about how I could have died today, and then I had to explain how I manage to make it through but she wasn't convinced so I had to let her do a scan of me with some magic circles of hers to let her be at ease, when she detected nothing wrong with me she sighed.
"Rio just because apparently you can pull stuns like this doesn't mean you should, there are others less spartan ways to train" She does bring a really valid point but.
"I know but... I don't want to go easy on me now because... I don't want to lose someday, and regret it because I knew I could have done it better"
"...Sigh..." With a somewhat melancholic smile, she raises her hand and proceeds to pet me once again "You really are your... you really are a Fujita, striving to become better than anything that came before you" She corrects herself at the beginning, was she about to say my mother's child or something like that? I'll pretend to not notice.
As she pets me I can't help but perk up on that last bit, however "Is that our family motto?"
She stops petting me "Heheh something like that Rio, is in the nature of mages to seek knowledge and improve, a few generations back our family head at the time decide to challenge himself to become better than every other mage in the family that came before him, and that kind of stuck with the family becoming a tradition"
"Heeee...that's cool, I'll do just that" That's a nice side goal, and adding more fuel to the fire that is my motivation to grow stronger is never bad.
"Looking to surpass me are you now Rio?" She laughs a bit at the end clearly amused by my declaration but not in a condescending manner "Then I look forward to seeing the day"
Come to think about it... How strong is granny?
Mmm... I can't help myself I activate the Mystic Eyes of Truth Perception while looking at her when she isn't looking at me, only for a second.
Name: Nana Fujita
Age: 87
Race: Human
Level: 1500
Hp: 60000
MP: 800000
SP: 500
STR: 45
END: 20
AGI: 15
INT: 25000
WIS: 500000
LCK: 25
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I can't help but gape at that
"What the f*ck"
[What?]
"Don't "what" me Kay! what kind of OP character is my granny!?"
[First of all, is not OP, is specialized, second, you are a hero descendant remember? What does that make your Grandma?]
"Oh god...SHE REALLY IS A SUPER GRANY!"
"Did you said something Rio?"
"You are really cool Granny" I said immediately.
"Eh?" she looks confused at the sudden declaration, but I can't help but ask before she can recover.
"By the way, you said the family head declared to become better than any other mage that came before on our family right? Who was the best?" I'm kind of curious since I forgot but I kind of want to remember which hero I'm a descendant of.
"..." the humor is gone from her face as she begins to eat again and without looking at my eyes she answers "no one important, some no-name mage"
"Oh... okay" I answer as I finish my dinner. When I first read the description of MEoTP I thought it would be helpful yet... I never thought I would have tested the liar detector passive effect of the eyes on my grandma.
Change POV to "Hana Fujita"
Sigh
As I was preparing the lesson of tomorrow on how to better align characters in the magical formulas arrays and better conductive materials for magic, I could not help but think about Rio.
He might not realize but he is growing strong really fast, It makes me feel conflicted...
On one hand, I enjoy watching him grow, what grandmother wouldn't, on the other hand, he is doing it too fast, at this rate he will miss most of his childhood pursuing strength. And yet I know that if he does not do this, danger may come one day and I might not be enough to keep him safe...or be there to do it...
At least he still retains some of the traits of a child his age, making a lot of questions... the best mage of the family huh?
He left his mark on history and is remembered to this day, yet he didn't want the position and did everything in his power to complete the task he was given in the most annoying way possible for the God that forced the task on him. So much so that once he died of old age his kingdom could not work anymore without him, and collapse after one generation, his descendants then forsaken for all scatter across the world, many hunted down just for spite against him and others were ignored or judged by the same reason. He cared only for himself and lived for himself only even when forced into a position he didn't want or cared for... In the end, all he left for his family was pain and death... all except for a single grandson who received the ring he made...
Sigh
Perhaps one day I'll tell him, or perhaps not, maybe just forgetting about him would be the best way to protect him.
Change POV to "Rio"
After that we talked about our days for a while she agreed to increase my meals so my body would be able to support my insane training and I agreed to take 1 day of break per week, she tried two but after me bringing up that there was nothing for me to do here and as she realized I was right she ended up allowing it. Finally, I went to sleep after brushing my teeth. As I was in bed I couldn't help but think.
"Why did she lie to me?"
[She had her reasons]
"You know what that was about Kay?"
[Of course]
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"And...will you tell me?"
[I could tell you... Or...]
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(New Quest Added)
- Quests -
- The Hero's Name
You are a descendant of an important figure in the history of mankind, the question is, who?
- Uncover your ancestor's Name []
Rewards: ? Trait, 200 Free Stats points, 2 Free Skill Rank Up.
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Mmm... I look at my ring, "this ring belonged to him right? the hero I'm descendant from..." when I used structure grasp I was able to grasp some part of the history of the ring, if I level up the MEoTP I might be able to get the whole picture, then I will know the name of its first wilder, but... for that to happen I would have to spam the skill a crap ton of times... "I'm really, reeeeally tempted to just use a couple of free ranks up, and be done with it already...but..."
My eyes begin to shine in the darkness of my room with a golden hue as I begin to inspect the ring "I want to earn this".
-Status-
Name: Rio Fujita
Age: 6
Race: Human
Level: 27
Class: Druid Level: 9/100 Exp: 91% (+2 WIS +20 MP x Level)
Job: Scholar Level: 18/20 Exp: 97% (+1 Int + 10 MP x Level)
HP: 2106
MP: 5910
SP: 230
STR: 22 (22)
END: 39 (39)
AGI: 21 (21)
INT: 76 (76)
WIS: 73 (365)
LCK: 47 (47)
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Free Status Points: 0
Free Skill Rank Up: 7
Change POV to "Senior Gamer"
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"HELLO, BITCHES AND BROS AND NON BINARY HOES!"
[Are you really doing this?]
"Don't ruin this for me System!"
[...]
"Ejem, Hey! guys it's me! ©舐½Ř§Ů? æآã╟舐)! And I came with an exciting new tale about or newest gamer, well I say newest but apparently, others get put in this sh*t by the day so it is hard to tell, BUT ANYWAY!"
"Today we are here to talk about the Omniverse editing that Rio Did! I realized that with metadata blocker we won't be talking about this kind of stuff until a Loooooong Time in the future and if he dies we won't get to see it ever so I decided to just go and talk about it while broadcasting to other gamers to see!"
[This is a stupid idea]
"STFU System! Could you please no?! Okay!? Could you be cool for like 10 minutes!?"
[...]
"Thanks! So where do we begin?, well let's start at the beginning of all, or more accurately at "The Root" of all"
"If you know about the Nasuverse then you know about the Root of Akasha, which is a metaphysical location within the Nasuverse as the "force" that exists at the top of all theories on dimensions. Is the source of all events and phenomena in the universe. Existing outside of time, it stores and archives information of all possibilities and events, past, present, and future, of the world. It is the place from where all souls, including those of Heroic Spirits recorded on the Throne of Heroes, originate from and to where they return after death."
"Or at least it used to be, Motherf*cker made it so the Root is not only the source of all events and phenomena in the Nasuverse, it made it so is the point of ORIGIN in the omniverse, the f*cking ground zero where all the others universes begin the form. Basically, all the universes in his omniverses are connected to "the Root". Sounds neat right? This means that the root has records of all the universes from magic, to skills, to tales, anything! You name it, is there, even the goofy ones."
"He also made it in a way in which each universe is connected to the root by one single path that only that universe can follow to reach "the Root" from there, they don't get tangled or meet halfway there never. Apparently, He did this so he could give each universe its own "Throne of Heroes" since they are kinda like the last line of defense before you reach "The Root", so yeah servants of different universes don't get to meet each other while there, shame."
"He also was clever to make it so not any world can develop an "ego" and connect itself to the Root and gain access to the throne of heroes like Gaia/Alaya did in the Nasuverse, no, apparently for that to happen he made it incredibly hard for the world to be able to pull this sh*t out, even in the Nasuverse he made it so Gaia had a hard time coming to be its own entity and only thanks to the help of the Mooncell Automaton, so yeah unless he does some more crossovers in the future don't expect servants, counter guardians and the like to pop out of other worlds he might visit in the future, then again... those are not the only things related to the Nasuverse that could pop out, right? ... hehehhee..."
"Oh well that was all the time we had for today, I am ©舐½Ř§Ů? æآã╟舐) and I've been your hosts, have a nice day!"
Author's Note:
I decided that every 5 chapters or so will be a good time to answer some reviews so here we are!
To runelt99: Thanks for telling me my typos, I know some may think I should get a Beta but I'm taking this as a learning experience so it would kind of defeat the purpose, and yes it was a Saitama reference.
To Sammy9992: Same as runelt thanks for telling me, it helps me grow.
To Elsoem: Thanks for the paragraph advice really helpful there, also love your reviews, as for Rio not seem much of an old man at the beginning that's my B I have 0 examples of old men in my life so it's hard for me to do one as the MC.
To Sh4d0wgh0st: First review ever and such a good one thanks, man.
To Crywolfseven: I love you man, thank you for suggesting Grammarly I didn't even know that was a thing.
Now the general ones
Thanks to everyone for their support it means the world to me I haven't been this hyped about much stuff lately so writing this and getting this reception is such a great feeling guys, you are great.
To anyone asking, I gave the clues and will keep giving them about which hero he is descendant but you guys can guess it already I'm not gonna tell who it is until is reveal thought.
And I think that would be all. What do you guys think about the Senior Gamer segment should I keep it?
Also, I decided to publish a chapter per week now in order to have time to write more calmly.
Thanks for reading and until next time.