Hello! A bit of a weird chapter this time. Check below for reviews also! Hope you enjoy!
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Chapter 10 - Wisdom
Wis, or Wisdom, is the numerical representation of your ability to determine the outcome of situations. This stat also assists with the duration of spells, and provides a significant portion of your Mana bar. While increasing Wisdom will not make your decision making faster or easier, it will assist with your confidence in said decision.
Your Mana pool is determined by the following: (Int x 5) + (Wis x 10)
Written on the page (in a confusing mess of English and Japanese): If you decide to use spells, Wis will help you more than any other stat, besides Int. Playing chess was the easiest way to level my Wis in the early days.
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They had gone through the nearby campus and made it to the gym, but it was occupied by students. After nearly making it to a nearby gym, a call was sent out to him and Kota. It was from Mandalay looking for them. They made it back to find a skinny All Might, Mandalay, and Nezu waiting for them.
Nezu smiled as he saw them, "I don't believe I've met either of you. My name is Nezu."
Akito bowed, along with Sei, "Nice to meet you sir, my name is Akito and this is my sister Seiren. We helped train Izuku before he came to you."
He chuckled a bit, "Always nice to meet a fellow educator. Are either of you interested in teaching in the future?"
"Nope."
Akito smiled, "Sei doesn't want to be tied down, and I want to be a hero. Teaching would be fun though." She looked over at Kota, who raised an eyebrow at her. "I'll think about it. I still have a while before I get into hero school."
'How old is she?' Izuku looked at Mandalay, and held up six fingers secretly. 'She doesn't seem only six. Is that her quirk?' Izuku shook his head and nudged it to Sei. 'Older sister has a quirk that messes with learning?' Izuku shook his head again.
"Well. I hope you come to our school, I look forward to having you in class." Nezu finished with a smile.
"I want to make it into UA. We'll see." She turned to Izuku. "Are you ready to go Izuku?"
'Awwwww.' Izuku raises an eyebrow at Mandalay but she just held a smile.
"Uh yeah. Let me just get my stuff." He walked back to the car with Mandalay and Kota.
As he reached into the car, he was smacked on the back of his head. "Ow. What was that for?" Kota snickered at his pain. He snatched her quirk from the brief touch.
'For lying to me.'
'It's not like I could tell you the truth about him.'
She huffed, 'Couldn't have come up with a better lie at least?'
'That's what All Might said to say.'
She put her face in her hands, 'He's going to need so much work.'
'Work?'
'Nezu hired me to train All Might in lying and suppressing emotions.'
'Why? You're not that good at it?'
He received another smack, 'I'll have you know I'm an excellent liar and I suppress my emotions around other people perfectly. Thank you very much.'
He rubbed the back of his head, 'Ok okay, sorry. I've just never seen you like that before.'
She blushed, 'Well I can't act like that all the time.' She got into the car, 'I'll be by Sunday to get you and start All Might's lessons. Have fun this weekend.'
He waved, 'Bye.'
With bags in hand and his mentor waiting for him, he walked back to the small gathering.
Nezu spoke to him, "Now that the excitement has calmed down, do you mind showing us what your new quirk is?"
Izuku smiled, 'Ill be more than happy too.'
"Kid? You going to answer or just continue staring?" He looked at All Might with a questioning glance. 'Wait.'
"Yeah, sorry about that." Izuku chuckled, rubbing the back of his neck. "Though where are we going to test it? Aren't all the gyms filled with students right now?"
Nezu smiled, "The gyms are yes, but several of the arenas are open." He turned to Seiren, "Young Ms do you mind opening a portal at that wall back there?" He pointed off in the distance. "It's exactly 4,245 meters in that direction with a raised elevation of 2 feet."
Seiren smiled, "You got it old man." With a snap of her fingers a portal opened. "I can't open a portal to the same dimension so we'll have to take a very small hop through another dimension."
Akito grabbed his arm, "Let's go Izuku." She pulled him through the portal. It led through a serene forest, which vanished instantly as they went through a second portal. The others walked through shortly after them.
"That is a very useful quirk young girl." Nezu complimented Sei, who had a slight tinge of pink to her cheeks.
"Thank you sir."
All Might walked up to him, "You ready to show me what you can do?"
He couldn't help his excitement. Saluting, "Yes sir!"
All Might and Akito laughed, "Calm down kid. Now I cant exactly fight you, so do either of you want to spar against him?" The question was aimed at the girls.
Akito smiled, "I'd love to give it ago."
Izuku dodged behind a replica flower shop. 'This girl would be scary as all hell if she was a villain.' She wasn't much stronger since the last time he saw her, but her versatility was something to behold.
"Come on out Izuku." A storm of electricity and wind circled her, as she threw fire with her hand.
'Don't know how I'm supposed to deal with this.' He quickly thought through his options. Fire would instantly go out, he couldn't use his gravity was almost useless without something to back it up. Most of his spells would be batted aside, so that left his only recourse being to take her in melee with One for All. Luckily he didn't louche on his training.
Activating [Stealth], he crouched and dived behind another building.
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"Not bad." Seiren held her chin.
"Is he using bone?" The principal spoke.
"Seems like it. I honestly didn't think you could use a spell like that, but it will buy him a bit of time."
"Your sister is a site to behold.", praised All Might.
Seiren crossed her arms, "She better be, she was trained by mom after all."
"If you don't mind me asking. Do you happen to know what your mother's stats were?"
She looked at the little fox creature, who sat staring at his screen. "Str, Cha, and Res were in the 700s. Dex, Agi, and Con were in the 800s to 850s. Int, And Wis were in late 800s almost 900. That's according to her, I couldn't see her stats myself."
"From what Izuku's told us, most people are in the double digits."
She nodded as they watched Akito let loose multiple spears of ice. "That's correct. Most heroes have higher stats than I do. Heroes who've been at it for more than a year normally have stats high enough that I can't see them."
Nezu hummed, "Did your mom happen to tell you anyone stats that were higher than hers?"
"The only one I know for sure is his." She pointed to All Might. All Might raised an eyebrow. "He has a Cha stat of over 1000." She recrossed her arms, "It's slightly freakish honestly considering he can rearrange weather patterns with a punch. He shouldn't just have a single stat that high."
All Might scratched his head and chuckled to himself, "Sorry?"
She huffed and shrugged, "Mom said don't think too hard, headaches aren't covered by Gamer's Body."
Nezu laughed, "I would have loved to meet this woman. She sounded like fun."
All Might spoke up, "Izuku is making his move."
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Using the sub-spell [Reaper's Shadows] was an idea that came to him from watching an anime at the WWP's house. It took about three days for him to unlock it but it was well worth the hassle.
[Reaper's Shadows Lvl: 3 XP: 32.45%
Using your own health, create bone copies of yourself. These copies have the same amount of health used to create them, but are only capable of a single attack of your choosing.
HP Cost - 17% of your current HP
Damage - 30% of your max damage.
Duration - (30% of Wisdom) minutes]
It cost him quite a bit of health, but they made excellent distractions, if not a little creepy. One thing he couldn't seem to change were their smiles. They had smiles that stretched ear to ear, if they had ears. Their mouths opened slightly into pure darkness, while the bleached white bone shone in the daylight.
With 3 shadows formed, he dashed out from behind the building and had to immediately dodge several lances of ice. Akito was several feet of the ground, being held aloft via a small tornado formed below her. She maintained a shroud of fire that scorched the surrounding terrain.
The easiest part of his plan was running toward her, the whole dodging and attack part was being made up on the fly. After dodging the lances, he was forced to dive under a truck, as she let an aoe fire spell. His constructs, had the skeletal trait, and didn't bother with dodging.
After the spell ended, he rolled back out and watched as a spear of ice impaled one of his shadows. The ice didn't pierce, it tore through the bone that made it up and sent splinters flying in all directions. He couldn't tell if it went down or not.
Akito laughed, "You'll have to teach me that Izuku." She sent a volley of arrows that blanketed the area. While he had never seen the spell before, he knew to hide and jumped through a nearby window into a building.
It was maybe only 5 seconds later that the world was filled with a bright light, and a brief pause later a boom happened. He didn't see what happened, but the resonating boom caused the rest of the windows in the building he was in to shatter.
[Ping]
He peeked open an eye.
[You have been affected by Righteous Arrow.
As you are not an evil or undead creature, this spell deals no damage to you.]
'So she was trying to get rid of the shadows.'
He quickly made a single shadow and had it hide where he was. He then took off toward the other side of the interior and jumped through an already broken window as silently as possible.
"Izuku? I know you're hiding. While I'm proud you leveled your stealth, this is becoming rather annoying." She made herself float a little higher as she headed toward where she last saw him.
He sacrificed more HP to create another shadow, and left it in his current spot. They didn't need to move or take a hit for his plan, but they had to be completely still in order to not get taken out.
He watched as Akito seemed to shimmer and walk through the wall. 'Great she's a ghost.' Not seeing or hearing any spells or noise coming from the building, made him assume the shadow hadn't been found. Using the brief moment she was in the building, he dived behind a car toward her last known location.
The instant she shimmered back into view, with her back toward the shadow, he set his plan in motion. He jumped out from behind the car letting loose two spells, the first was [Pillars of Hell] and the second he let off after a small delay. She brought up an ice shield as anticipated, and he threw out [Stinging Rain].
As his spell repertoire was limited, he was forced to experiment with combinations of spells. The distraction he just threw out was one of them. The instant the razor sharp raindrops hit the pillar, they were instantly vaporized, causing steam to surround her ice shield.
While he couldn't see through it, he was guessing the instant the ice shield was down, the tornado holding her up would swirl the steam. It'd give him maybe five seconds before she dissipated it. He waited until he heard ice crack and commanded his first shadow to jump out and use One for All at her direction.
He could say he was expecting it to land, but he'd be lying to himself. He knew for a fact she had a spell that allowed her to see behind herself. Akito whirled around and sent a massive amount of wind, that not only neutralized One for All but sent the fog flying away from her. He then told the second shadow to attack with the same premise.
This one ended with the same result, but he used it as a distraction to jump via One for All at her. As the wind was sent toward the second shadow, which was starting to crumple away, she seemed to notice him and held up her other hand to cast another spell. While it was terrifying to have a spell about to be cast straight at him, he did something she, probably, wasn't expecting.
He called on his quirk and used gravity to yank her toward him. And as he waited for the brief second for it to take effect, he was greeted by a surprised look on her face. She ended up barreling into him fast enough that she smacked her head on his chest and he was forced to catch her before she fell.
She grumbled at him, "That wasn't very nice. Also I still win."
He raised an eyebrow as he landed on his one good foot. "How so?"
She pulled herself away, red in the cheeks, and pointed behind him. "That's why." He turned and was greeted by a massive lightning bolt, frozen in midair. "I stopped it the instant I noticed you didn't see it." She smiled and took a step up to him. "I win."
He laughed and held his hands up in surrender, "Okay, fine, you win."
A portal opened a second later, with All Might and Seiren coming through first. Nezu wandered through shortly after looking at his tablet.
"That was magnificent to watch you two." All Might smiled at them. "Though I do have to say, I fear what either of you will become in a few years."
Akito smiled, "Thank you!"
Izuku smiled at his mentor and nodded.
Seiren walked up to him, "You need more spells and harsher training pertaining to spatial awareness."
Izuku laughed nervously, "I guess?" He didn't mean to say it as a question, but he couldn't control his nervousness, when it came to her training.
"We'll work on it next month, I'm busy this weekend."
"Sounds like a plan."
The principal, in his slightly squeaky voice spoke, "I have to say, the power both of you let out was remarkable." He turned to Seiren, "Would you mind showing me your most powerful spell?"
She raised an eyebrow, "Why?"
"A test." He held his hands and tablet behind his back.
"What kind of test?" She squinted her eyes at him.
"To see how strong I need to make the next training course." He gestured to the surrounding area. It was like a decent bomb went off and leveled the nearby buildings. Izuku felt embarrassed and noticed Akito was looking at the sky.
Sei sighed and nodded, "Fine. Is it okay if I add a bit more devastation?"
Nezu nodded, "Why not?"
She opened another portal and gestured to it. "Go back to where we were."
Akito pulled his arm, "Let's go. You get to see a spell mom and Sei created together." Her face held excitement and anticipation.
All Might and Nezu walked through already, 'This should be good.' He, along with Akito, followed them.
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Sei sighed and sat crossed legged, it wasn't needed for the spell but there was no way in hell she was getting a headache for the fluff ball. Using [Meditation], she started the cast time for the spell. A cast time of one minute was almost useless in a normal battle, but one of attrition? The timer was nothing, as long as you had the mana to spare in both attack and defense.
Her mom came up with the framework of the spell, but after gaining her spell crafting perk she fleshed it out. She wasn't able to use it at first, but a year later she caused herself to black out to cast it.
[Mana capacity reached.]
'Here we go. [Color Bomb].'
A small portal opened about 50 meters in front of her, and after a brief second, it enlarged. It started to pull the surrounding area into itself, ground included. The one problem with the spell was that it didn't care if you cast it or not. With the spell cast she made her getaway.
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Seiren came flying through a portal into the watch room and seemed to be slightly dizzy.
Akito turned to her sister, "No problems?"
"Nope. Just a little dizzy from the mana cost."
"What exactly did you do?", he could admit he was super curious.
Sei smirked, "Watch."
"How big will this be?", it was Nezu.
"How big is the arena?"
"Approximately 5 kilometers across in each direction."
"One kilometer circle, centered on the original portal."
Nezu sighed to himself, "I'll have to see about getting special concrete for Cementoss."
Izuku turned back to monitors mounted on the walls. The small portal at this point had swallowed a decent chunk of the block and was starting to spin.
Akito vibrated as she stood, "This is the best part!"
The portal picked up speed and was starting to spin so fast it looked like it wasn't spinning at all. Then, it happened.
It erupted into a myriad of colors made from light and dust. Each color seemed to do something different as red set anything it touched into a raging inferno. Green seemed to acid, as he watched a hunk of a building become liquid. Yellow saturated anything it touched, blue caused crystals to erupt from anything it touched and purple looked to create some type of haze that went everywhere. The most devastating though, was orange. It caused anything it touched to begin disintegrating.
The colors stopped abruptly and froze for a second. Then all hell broke loose as the portal, which began to spin in reverse, sucked everything back in and spewed it all back out. This happened once more, until it took over the area Sei said it would. The portal then began to fade away and with it the colors disappeared.
"That was." All Might paused to think of a word.
"Devastating seems to be fitting." Nezu was replaying the scene over on his tablet.
Izuku looked at Sei, "What did that cost to make? What's the mana cost?"
"Each color had its own cost, red was the condensed remains of 100 fire elementals. The cost was 75% of my HP and 90% of my mana. No I won't be teaching it to you."
Izuku turned to look at the screens. The area was completely destroyed and good hunks of the cityscape were just completely gone. Everything outside the area of effect, was completely untouched. He could see a lot of problems with the spell and was slightly glad he wouldn't have to consider using it.
"Are we done for today?" Seiren turned to Nezu.
He nodded, "We are. Do you mind taking us back to the main building?"
She gave a thumbs up as a portal popped open.
Akito looked at him, "We need to teach you some new spells."
Izuku grinned, "Really?"
They walked through the portal, "Yeah. You've been experimenting with spells and while it's worked so far, it could end pretty badly."
He tilted his head slightly, "What do you mean?"
Seiren cut in, "If you try to use a spell in a weird way, like changing what it does, you create a new spell. As you probably don't have spell crafting yet." Akito made an explosion sound and spread her hands apart. "Yeah that."
"Why an explosion?"
"Casting a spell you don't know Is very unlikely, and if you try casting a spell that hasn't been made yet, it will just explode."
"Why didn't [Reaper's Talon] explode when I made it into the shadows then?"
They made it back to the main building, All Might and Nezu were watching them interact as they spoke softly to each other. "What do the shadows do exactly?"
"They can run toward an enemy or hide in a single spot, and explode after dishing out a single attack."
"Cost is still health?" He nodded. "Then it's because you didn't change the nature of the spell. If you were to try and make it explode instead of crumple after attacking, then it would explode in your face. It's the same way, [Frost Giant's Weapon] can't be used to shoot shards of ice, you have to create a weapon. Got it?"
"That makes sense. Should I take spell crafting to get rid of the risk though?"
"You don't have to." Akito spoke to him. "There's no reason for either of us get spell crafting because Sei has it. All you need to do is tell her the spell you want and she can more than likely make it."
"Don't go overboard though, because if you ask for something ridiculous, you're helping to collect the costs."
"That reminds me, what should I spend my perk point on?"
"Children?" They turned to look at Nezu. "We'll see you Sunday, have a nice weekend." He waved and walked back into the main building.
All Might walked up to him with a smile, "Don't forget to see your mom. I'm pretty sure she mentioned something about food?"
While he couldn't get hungry, he could feel his stomach grumble. "I will. Thank you sir." All Might returned to the main building as well.
Seiren opened another portal. "Let's go. We'll talk on the way."
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I: Hey what's the largest library you know of?
S: Why?
I: Was on the internet and found several stories about people with powers like ours. A lot of them won't work but one gave me an idea.
S: Sounds fun. Give me a few minutes to find a place.
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Roughly ten minutes later a portal opened in front of his door, and Seiren walked out with an old looking scroll.
She raised an eyebrow, "What are you doing?"
"Uh." He looked down at his table. "Alchemy?"
"Well, even if you knew what you were doing it wouldn't work." She sat down next to him, and rearranged a couple of items. "Alchemy isn't like what you see in movies and anime. It's a literal equivalent exchange, for example." She took a pinch of sugar from his pile of stuff, "You have the chemistry skill correct?"
He nodded, "Yeah, got it a month ago, why?"
"Watch." She took his marker and made unintelligible runes on the paper, "Alchemy requires you to pay the cost of whatever you try to make. If you try to make water, you need to provide all components for it." She put the sugar on one of the star points.
In nature, water was created when Hydrogen burned in air. "How do you provide the heat to burn Hydrogen?"
"Water's the easiest and first alchemical exchange you unlock." She put her hands together and spoke in a language he wasn't able to understand. After a brief second, the star glowed and then died down.
Floating above the now burned paper was 3 coin looking objects. She snatched them out of the air and handed them to him. "There isn't a lot of each, but each coin contains the result of the exchange. To answer your question by the way, magic will normally provide the heat/cold."
He used [Observe] on the coins.
[Elemental Coin
Contains: Carbon
This coin can be destroyed to summon the contained amount, or used in other alchemical exchanges.]
[Elemental Coin
Contains: Oxygen
This coin can be destroyed to summon the contained amount, or used in other alchemical exchanges.]
[Elemental Coin
Contains: Pure Water
This coin can be destroyed to summon the contained amount, or used in other alchemical exchanges.]
"Go ahead and break the water coin over the bowl." He took the coin and snapped it between his fingers. The coin itself dissolved and from it dropped out a single raindrop.
His eyes lit up, "Cool, can you teach me that?"
She shook her head and gave him a sad smile, "Sorry, alchemy needs to be taught by someone that's at least level 25 in the parent skill. I never really cared to learn it."
"Then how did.." He trailed off as he realized why she gave him the sad look. "Sorry."
"It's okay. We'll find someone to teach you." She stood up and opened the scroll she had with her. "Now I managed to find a massive library, but it's sort of hidden and I don't think we could deal with the guardian. Also I don't like desserts."
He leaned back against his chair, "So?"
She threw the scroll in her pocket, "You have a few choices, we can either go to a dimension known for its library and help deal with the monsters in exchange for knowledge, or we can go on a quest to find a hidden library."
"Monsters?"
"Massive beasts that attack the city daily, they'll give you a card that tracks how many beasts you killed. More kills equals more knowledge you have access to. It sounds super easy, but you're surrounded the entire time, and under constant attack until you manage to escape."
"Uh, what about the quest?"
"We go on a year-long quest that gives us a key to access a library, where we have to hold off monsters while we browse books."
"Is there any other option?" He could feel his idea being shot down.
"There's a couple dimensions I know of that have decent libraries, but we'd need to pay for their services."
He perked up a bit, "That doesn't sound bad."
"It's not, but I'm not exactly rolling in cash."
That did present a problem. He had a little bit of money saved up from allowances but probably not enough to give access to, what was most likely, a magical library. "What's an easy way to get money?"
"Probably, but it would involve selling an item of value in a different dimension."
"So grinding then?"
She let out an annoyed sigh, "Yeah."
"What?"
"Nothing, let's just get this over with."
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"Is this honestly the best way to gain money?" He cast [Cold Snap] on another one of the Gem Crabs.
"Do you know of any other way?", she was obviously annoyed by the situation more than he was.
He held his tongue as he didn't. The crabs weren't particularly strong, but they didn't go down easily. The fact they only had a 5% chance of containing a gem of value in their center was super annoying. Their defense was super high, but they had a significant weakness to cold and ice spells.
"Ha! Got one!" Seiren picked up a sapphire from the rubble of rock sitting on top of the dead crab.
"How many do we have now?"
"Two rubies, a couple of miscellaneous semiprecious, and 3 sapphire."
"How many do you think we'll need?"
"Double the amount and we should be good for more than awhile."
"Just another few."
She shouted at him, "Don't you dare remind me how long we've been here."
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They walked through a portal into an open grassland.
"What's this place called?"
Sei used her sleeve to wipe some dirt off her face, "No idea. I can't understand the language and all prompts from the place are in the written language."
He raised an eyebrow at her, "How are we supposed to use the library here then?"
"Remember the dungeon a couple of months ago with the moths?"
"Yeah?"
"After you went to sleep I searched around and found this." She pulled out a necklace, it was made of gold and had a single light blue gem embedded in the gold disc.
"What's it do?" He had only seen a single magic item before, the last was a glove that increased stealth by a single level. Not impressive at all.
"Take a look." Tossing the necklace to him, he used [Observe] on it.
[Necklace of Basic Language (Single-Use)
Item level: 1
Using this necklace on a piece of written language, or in the vicinity of a speaker, will allow it to learn a single level of the language. This single level can then be absorbed, destroying the necklace in the process.]
"Wow. You sure you're okay with using it on this?"
She waved away his concern, "I didn't really have a use for it, I tend to spend long enough in a dimension to learn the language naturally." She gave him a slightly giddy expression, "You ready to do this?"
He smiled, "Yeah, let's go." He looked around, "Where's the city anyway?"
"Through that forest." She pointed to a forest, whose trees grew taller the further you went in. "It's past the trees and in a ravine."
As they started their trek he asked, "Why did you drop us so far away?"
"They probably won't take kindly to people opening portals in their city and so I can see your reaction once you see the city."
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A half hour passed as they cleared the last of the trees and came to the edge of a massive cliff.
"Whoa." A city sat floating above the sea of forest and resonated a blue hue that rained down onto the forest. The city itself was a combination of floating discs and hovering crystals that gave off an aura.
She laughed lightly, "You'll catch flies like that."
He didn't realize his mouth had opened at all, "Do you know anything about this place?"
"Nope, I found this place by accident when I was searching for a vacation spot. I opened a portal above the city and ended up falling into it. A quick spell and I landed safely, but I was apprehended by the city guard. On the way to jail though, I saw that massive building." She pointed to the bottom disc which was not only the largest, but held the largest building out of all the discs. "When I managed to escape, I took a detour and went inside. It's a massive library with so much magic radiating off it, that you probably wouldn't need to waste mana to cast a spell."
"Wait." He looked at her, "Won't they just arrest you again?"
She blew a raspberry, "Nah, it's been a few years here since that happened, so I doubt I'll be recognized."
"Oh." Wrapping his head around the time part of her quirk gave him a headache and the rules of it changed per dimension. That made trying to understand it nearly impossible, except to the person doing the traveling.
He looked back out at the city, "How do we get in?"
"I saw people using magical walkways coming in from this way. I assume it's still there." She started walking toward the general direction.
He looked at the city slightly closer, 'Where are all the people then?'
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Sei and Izuku made it to an ornate platform, made of marble, with two posts standing erect on either side.
"Sei, where are the people?"
"I don't know. This place was super busy last time I was here, if it was abandoned then I still want to take a quick look. The books may still be there even if everyone is gone."
He looked around at the surrounding forest, "Doesn't that seem rather risky?"
"I can just portal us out, I'm not ready to die Izuku. The smallest hint of trouble, and we're out of here." That gave him some comfort. "Now how do we work this thing?" She started looking around the posts and from what Izuku could tell, she didn't find anything. "Maybe it requires mana."
She stuck her hand on one of the posts, and started channeling mana into it. With a brief pause a shimmering light started arching over to the city, it then died and collapsed.
"Damn, that takes a lot of mana." She was shaking her hand, which had gone slightly red. "New plan, we portal over and just deal with anyone that has a problem with it?" She looked at him as she finished.
He raised an eyebrow, "And if they are stronger than us?"
"We run?"
He let out a sigh, "Okay, let's go."
Without him having to say more, a portal opened and Sei walked through. After nothing explosive or loud came from the city, Izuku followed. The portal once again led through a peaceful looking forest, another portal was open only two feet in front of him. Walking through the second, he found himself in a massive maze of stone, pipe and crystals.
Seiren was standing in the middle of the road right in front of the massive library. "Something major must have happened for this place to be abandoned. Last time I was here, this place was bustling. It's kind of unsettling to see it empty."
Izuku looked down the street, it was eerie to see it empty. The road and buildings were made of a dark stone, that made it feel like they were below ground. The street was roofed by piping, that didn't seem to make a sound, every so often a crystal was hanging in the air that gave off an aura large enough to illuminate the surrounding area.
"Hey, are you sure it's safe?", he asked.
She was rummaging through her pocket, "Yeah, if a monster did this, then there would be blood and destruction. If it was some type of natural disaster, we would have seen some sort of wide scale ruin." She pulled out a sealed jar with some sort of liquid in it. "I'm about to check if anyone is alive, so give me a second."
"What's in the jar?" He tried to get a better look, but it was too hazy.
"Eyes of a skeleton.", she said bluntly.
He made a face, "What?"
"Literal eyes of a skeleton." She set them on a nearby ledge, and started to look through her pocket again.
"Why do you need it?"
"Create a spell."
"You just happened to have that in your pocket?"
She looked at him and gestured for him to come closer. As he did, she made the portal in her pocket larger so they could peer in. There was some forty jars of the same hazy liquid sitting next to each other. "I'm almost always prepared to make a spell." She resized the portal and continued to search.
After a few seconds, a shriveled piece of meat was pulled out. "Okay, what is that?"
"Nose of a wolf." She had a glove on as she handled it. "Trust me I don't like having to carry this stuff around."
"What spell are you making?"
She shrugged, "What do you want to call it?"
He gave her a questioning look, "What?"
Smiling at him she explained, "When you create a new spell, you get to name it. All the spells you use were named and made by mom."
He let out a chuckle, "So that's why it sounds like all the spells were made by a mythology geek?"
Sei laughed with him, "Yep."
After coming up with a name and paying the costs, a new spell was created. She shared it with him, and he received a new pop up.
[New Spell Obtained!
Sight of the Hunter Lvl: 1 Xp: 0.00%
This spell allows the ability to sense nearby dead and living creatures. Only one sight spell is allowed at a time.
Range: 100 meters
Cost 100 mana per minute]
"This is handy, why didn't you make this before?", he asked as he cast the spell.
"Because I already have a way to sense the dead and living."
The spell made everything blacks, grays, and whites. When he looked at Seiren, she gave off a blue aura that stood out significantly against the saturated colors. "Then why make the spell?"
"Because." She pulled apart her eyelid and dropped a spell. Her eyes turned slightly black and looked a kin to the eyes of a demon. "I don't think you want to go through the same process as me."
He gulped, involuntarily, "Uh yeah, no thank you."
She started laughing pretty hard as he said that. She tried to talk through gasping for air, "That was funny … as all hell."
He could feel his cheeks go red, "Not cool."
After calming herself down, she spoke, "Just a joke. I actually just use the senses that come from my quirk."
That piqued his interest, "What do you mean?"
"My portals can feel the energy coming off beings, it allows me to open a portal without accidentally teleporting some random thing/person."
"That's cool. So without Gamer you'd be some type of support?"
She shrugged, "I guess. Not like I put any thought into it." Standing up she said, "Now let's get to the library."
He nodded, feeling some comfort from being able to sense if anything was coming toward them.
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Chapter 10 - Done!
I hope this chapter didn't feel completely out of place, I'm trying to get to the point in my outline that will speed up the story pretty significantly and this is needed to do it! If I'm able to fit everything I want into the next chapter, then a new stat sheet will be added next chapter.
Thanks for reading!
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Reviews
Dragonborn2704 - Car has been dealt with and I feel perfectly fine. Thank you for your concern and hope you continue to enjoy the story.
Winter Kitsu - ;)
theneed4beer - Unfortunately without the stats it wouldn't be much of a gamer story. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.
ProjectIceMan - I'm glad this joke was liked :) I also hope you enjoyed the idea of his new quirk. His embarrassed scenes from the anime are some of my favorites. Computers are a member of the family. As for the tower, I'll give you a hint, Girl Dungeon.
Ellainaparker - Thank you! I also hope you enjoy his quirk! We'll be seeing quite a bit of it.
d1n0s - Thank you! I personally think it makes the story boring if everyone he was friends with, had access to their stats.
THE BIGKLEW - I'm glad you enjoy it! I do not plan on ever abandoning this story, some updates just might take awhile.
Guest: I hope some questions were answered? If not feel free to ask more!
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Alulain P - I hope to be able to provide more chapters for a very long time.
JakeWJElliott2 - it's going to be a little while before he's OP, also I've tried to hold it before, but unbolds it, so I gave up, sorry :(
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Inritus - I hope I end up surprising you! Also he'll start earning stat points again once the xp deficit is paid back.
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