`A/N: Apologies, I had some typos in my last chapter and I have yet to accustom myself to this website's publishing method. Examples are the XP bar and incorrect hp bars. Also, I only plan on updating after a good amount of days (4-5) to get a good idea of where I want the story to go, it may shorten over time but overall it'll be a long journey.
"Speech"
'Thought'
[Game]
[New Quest!]
[Quest: Secrets behind the veil.
Objective: Figure out how to harness your magic
Rewards: New Skills, 500 XP
Y/N]
'Shouldn't this have arrived sooner?' I thought to myself as sat in my shared room. Luckily my roommate only comes back at sundown.
I came back after reading a few more books, mostly focused on the stories involving the gods, since I wanted a lot of time to try and use my magic.
'Where to start?' I thought to myself. 'Observe is my only spell, so maybe there's a feeling or something that indicates how I'm using magic.' I thought before using observe on random things in my room.
'Wait, what was that.' I thought as I felt an extremely small tug in my gut area. Focusing on it I found myself losing sight of my surroundings.
'Is this my magic?' I thought as I was sitting in a black void, a blue ball of light the size of a basketball. 'How do I use it?' I thought, thinking of it being next to me. As I thought that the ball suddenly appeared directly in front of me.
"Woah!" I shouted as I stood up. "Did I just do that?" I thought, thinking about how I did it.
'Was it because I wanted it to? What's the word? Willed. Did I will it to come closer?' Deciding to test it I tried to mentally push it.
'Nothing, was I wrong?' I thought, 'What else did I do?' I brainstormed before realizing I had also thought about what I wanted it to do. 'To my right.' I said to myself as I thought and willed the ball to my right.
'Will and intent, that's how I use magic.' I nodded to myself, Intent for the effect and Will to make it act 'But then why didn't the quest alert me of being completed?' I thought, was there another variable?
'Power.' I thought, everything needs power so it can run, like a computer. To run the computer you need the power, which is electricity, the intent, which is the code, and the will, which would be whatever makes the code run.
[Quest Complete!]
[Quest: Secrets behind the veil.
Objective: Figure out how to harness your magic
Rewards: New Skills, 500 XP
Y/N]
[Level Up x2!]
[Status:
Name: James Rinder
Age: 12
Race: Human
Title: Yancy Student
Level: 3 (XP: 270/300)
Rank: Mortal
Health: 350/350 (Regen: 1 every minute)
Stamina: 350/350 (Regen: 1 every minute)
Mana: 150/150 (Regen: 1 every minute)
Str: 10
Dex: 11
Per: 10
Con: 10
Agi: 10
Int: 12
Wis: 12
Cha: 6
Luk: 10
Mag: 5
Sp: 35
Pp: 0]
[New Skill!]
[Skills: Magical:
Magic control (Lvl 1 XP: 0/100) (Passive): This skill represents your control over magic. Passively increases Mag stat by 1%.
Magic control: -F]
'That's a lot!' I thought looking at my Sp. 'I think that while saving them would be useful, I'd rather not have my one weapon be lower than my other stats.' I thought, putting 15 in Mag before evening my other stats like Cha.
[Status:
Name: James Rinder
Age: 12
Race: Human
Title: Yancy Student
Level: 3 (XP: 270/300)
Rank: Mortal
Health: 350/350 (Regen: 1 every minute)
Stamina: 350/350 (Regen: 1 every minute)
Mana: 200/200 (Regen: 1 every minute)
Str: 12
Dex: 15
Per: 12
Con: 15
Agi: 12
Int: 12
Wis: 12
Cha: 10
Luk: 10
Mag: 20 (20)
Sp: 1
Pp: 0]
'Much better.' I thought before closing my status. 'Now how do I get out of this place?' I thought before everything went bright, leaving me back into my room in the same sitting position I was in when I entered wherever that was.
'Thinking about that, was that my mindscape?' I thought before deciding I can think about that later as I still have an hour before my roommate comes back.
"Alright James, let's see what cool spells I can come up with," I said to myself before willing my magic to appear as a ball.
[You've rested in a comfortable bed! Health, Stamina, and Mana were restored by 75%. Status alignments restored!]
'I wonder, does my bed back home give 100% recovery?' I thought getting off my bed and grabbing casual clothes, before walking into the bathroom to shower and brush my teeth.
'Huh, is my teeth whiter?' I thought after washing my mouth out of the toothpaste. 'My hair's softer too, is this because of Cha?' I thought, 'Cool, I should add more points when I get more.'
After that realization and a quick shower, I found myself walking to the school's gym since today was a weekend and I could figure out gym safety and hopefully make a workout plan.
[New Quest!]
[Quest: Knowledge is power! Or uh, leads to it.
Objective: Go to the gym and learn how to operate the different machines.
Rewards: New Title, 100 XP
Y/N]
'Free XP!' I thought happily, before finally making it to the Gym.
Opening the gym door, I entered the AC-filled room filled with treadmills and other machines I don't know the names of. Looking around I see an adult on his phone wearing what looks like gym clothes.
[New Domain discovered!]
[Jock's Gym: By being in this area, you gain a +15% XP to all Physical stat gain and Physical skills.
I ignored the alert and got closer to the guy. Clearing my throat I decided I should get this over with. "Excuse me, sir, I was wondering if you could teach me the safety rules here? I don't have P.E yet so I wasn't taught." I asked as he looked up at me.
"Hm? Ah, sure." He replied while putting his phone away. Standing and walking away I followed him to a treadmill.
"Okay, so this is a treadmill. Now what you should never do-"
[Quest Complete!]
[Quest: Knowledge is power! Or uh, leads to it.
Objective: Go to the gym and learn how to operate the different machines.
Rewards: New Title, 100 XP]
[Level Up!]
[Status:
Name: James Rinder
Age: 12
Race: Human
Title: Yancy Student
Level: 4 (XP: 70/400)
Rank: Mortal
Health: 450/450 (Regen: 1 every minute)
Stamina: 450/450 (Regen: 1 every minute)
Mana: 300/300 (Regen: 1 every minute)
Str: 13
Dex: 15
Per: 12
Con: 15
Agi: 13
Int: 12
Wis: 12
Cha: 10
Luk: 10
Mag: 20 (20)
Sp: 11
Pp: 0]
'Despite doing every machine for the recommended amount of reps and sets, I only increased Str and Agi by 1.' I thought as I left the gym. 'Stats are not only gonna take a while to grow but there's 10 of them!'
Walking back to my room to shower I decided that I should pick from the machines and only use the ones that grant me the biggest stat gain.
'Str is nice to have, but I'm still a kid so I should stick to my strengths.' I thought to myself. My strengths were Mag, Dex, Con, and Agi.
'Magic has its own time, so Dex and Agi should be where I focus. But I also don't want the others to lag far behind.' I thought that having strengths are good, it's not good to be limited to them.
'I could just use my stat points to push them ahead, but that's temporary.' Should I just suck it up and do them all? 'There's also Per I need to work on, ugh, why couldn't I have a simple solution for anything?' I grumbled.
Luck is easy, just assume the outcome. Charisma can be built by interaction. My mental skills go together and are easily solved with puzzles and knowledge. Magic is something I'm working on. And finally, all my physical stats, all of them can be built on with the gym equipment aside from Per.
'I could play a sport, but then I lose time for my other things, Nah I'll just learn to juggle or something.' I thought while entering my room. 'Now, shower, lunch, then magic.' I thought after grabbing some clothes and closing the door behind me.
'What should I do this time.' I thought as I looked at my spells.
[Skills: Magical:
Observe(Lvl MAX) (Active): This skill allows the user to see the status of anything he looks at. Note, Intent is used for clarity.
Cost: 5Mp
Magic control (Lvl 3 XP: 140/300) (Passive): This skill represents your control over magic. Passively increases Mag stat by 3%.
Magic control: -F
Ball (Level 5 XP: 0/500) (Active): A ball made of magic.
Durability: 1.5(Mana)
Damage: 1
Cost: 16
Subcategories: Spinning ball, dense ball, large ball, Spinning dense ball, Spinning large ball.
Arrow (Level 1 XP: 5/100) (Active): A arrow made magic.
Durability: 1.5(Mana)
Damage: 50
Cost: 50
Subcategories: Spinning arrow, big arrow, small arrow, Spinning big arrow, Spinning small arrow.
Shield (Level 1 XP: 15/100) (Active): A adult-sized shield made of magic.
Durability: 2(Mana)
Cost: 1-
Subcategories: Small shield, Large shield, Spinning shield, Spinning small shield, Spinning large shield.]
'Let's go with a spear.' I thought as I made a spear of my magic.
[New Skill made!]
[Skills: Magical:
Spear (Level 1 XP: 5/100) (Active): A spear made of magic.
Durability: 1.5(Mana)
Damage: 100
Cost: 100
Subcategories: None]
'I wonder if there's a weapon mastery?' I thought holding my new weapon. Deciding that since I have no other targets I should make some.
'Balls should do.' I thought as I made about 5 balls and had them dash around the room for me to hit. Despite knowing where they're going I still miss a few times simply because I'm not fast enough with the spear.
After hitting all five and not hitting and not getting a ping I decided that I might need to watch a video or read a book on how to use a spear correctly.
'Now, a spinning spear-' I thought as I froze. Why? Well because my roommate is staring at me with awe.
"Uh, hi?"
A/N: This was my second draft, as the first was horrible and it rushed through the field trip. I hope you liked it and please let me know what you think. Also, if you have questions please do it with a FF account so that I may answer them directly unless you guys want me to do something like this?
Guest: At one point, as he'll be wanting to know more about the world he lives in.