Al had 4 points to allocate. Without so much as a second thought, he put one into Dexterity, leaving him with 3 points left, but stopped himself before putting a second one in. 'I gotta think about this carefully...'

Other than Toughness, since he wanted to train it up to E Grade, Strength seemed like a solid option. It would allow him to pierce through tougher enemies and just make him life easier in general, but... in the end he discarded it. He had already massively increased his Strength just by training, and his build didn't require much of it. Regarding his mental stats, he would definitely need more mana control for cultivation, and Intelligence provided just that. He put his second point there.

Will... it wouldn't help him as much as Intelligence, but it would still be nice to be able to keep [Body Enhancement] for longer... he decided to hold off on putting a point there for now.

Al briefly considered putting a point into Charisma, but he knew that would be idiotic.

Then he moved onto Perception. This one was a woozy. Al had been trying to upgrade his Perception for a while by looking at things reeeaaally hard or listening intently to his surroundings, but it really did seem like there was no way for him to train the stat. Clenching his teeth, he put his third point in there.

That left him with a hard choice. Should he put the last point into Will, or put a second one on Dexterity? After some deliberation, he chose the latter. He wanted to be as comfortable as possible in his body, after all.

When he mentally accepted the changes, he felt a myriad of different sensations. First of all, he felt as if he could suddenly move much more freely, as if he'd been moving through water but was now surrounded by air. It was different from the subtle but constant changes training provided, and Al had experienced this almost addictive feeling many times before.

He also felt like he could see everything slightly more neatly, and he could detect subtler changes in sounds.

In addition, he could feel the mana inside him more precisely, and even the mana diffused in the air surrounding him. "Damn, do mages on Earth feel these mana currents all the time? It's definitely useful, but kind of annoying," Al said as he examined his surroundings as if through new eyes.

He then decided to go out to test the upgrades, even though it was already dark out. He activated [Quick Steps] and sped off in a speed he hadn't reached in almost two years, rejoicing at the feeling of the wind against his face. He enhanced his body, along with his senses, with some lightning mana, and started simply running around, climbing up trees, jumping from roof to roof and enjoying his new freedom of movement.

He was in a daze, not even caring about the time. He did pirouettes through the air and landed them, nailing his feet into the ground. After some time, running up walls became much easier, so Al started doing it a lot more.

He had had to lower his [Body Enhancement] output to match his mana regen, but suddenly he felt like it became more efficient, so he started going even faster, weaving inbetween the trees like a blur, leaving scorch marks wherever he placed his feet.

Only when the sun started peeking from the distant mountains to the east did Al get out of his trance, panting and wheezing and out of mana, but suddenly feeling 10 years younger. 'Wait, then I wouldn't exist...'

Suddenly, Al realised that there were several blue screens in front of him.

[Quick Steps] Skill has reached Mid proficiency. It now works on vertical and slanted surfaces in exchange for mana. [Body Enhancement] Skill has evolved into [Physical Augmentation] and [Sense Enrichment] [Physical Augmentation] (Low): Enhances either your whole body or parts of it in an optimal way. +50% efficiency in comparison to [Body Enhancement] (Mid) and (High) [Sense Enrichment]: Enhances some or all of your senses in an optimal way. +100% efficiency in comparison to [Body Enhancement] (high)

This was incredible news. Al knew the [Body Enhancement] skill has potential to evolved, but it was extremely rare for a skill to evolve into two separate ones. Who knew what they would turned into when their proficiency went up.

Al was itching to test his new capabilities in a fight, but his body was still that of a kid, so he went to bed before the adults woke up.

Khan-Wan could not for the life of her believe what she had just witnessed. She already knew that Al was special, that his mental age was higher than that of his body.

She knew that he was a proficient warrior capable of singlehandedly dealing with Rank 2 monstruosities, a child- no, a man with extensive medical knowledge, whose talent in cultivation was unfathomable, even overshadowing Yulia, who could be considered a genius that appeared once a generation.

But still...

She refused to believe what her eyes had showed her.

He was like the incarnation of a god.

She had gone to use the outhouse when the sun was setting, and didn't close the door since there was no need. Suddenly Al had stormed out of his room, his skin crackling with lightning, his glowing eyes brightening the broad grin on his face.

Then he sped off, doing loops around the orphanage at a speed her eyes could barely keep up with.

After several minutes, he had started jumping up onto the wall and back to the ground, or going from tree to tree simply by placing his feet on the right branches and using them as footholds until just before they snapped, as if he'd been doing it for decades.

Hours passed, but he didn't slow down, he instead started to do more and more outrageous stunts, such as running on the wall of the orphanage, then jumping onto the roof and doing impossible pirouettes in the air, and getting straight back to running just as he landed on the ground.

Then he began glowing even more brightly, and started running along the trunks of the trees, using vertical surfaces as if they were stable footholds, even using them to jump exorbitantly high into the air.

No human should be able to do that. He might not know it, but he must be the apostle of god.

Al felt sore all over when he woke up that morn... midday. It was midday already.

He hadn't noticed it when he went to sleep, but perhaps it was just because of the adrenaline rush. He decided to check his Status once again, since not much time had passed since the last time he did, a lot of things had changed in that time. When he thought it, the blue screen appeared in front of him.

Alberto Peñas

Age: 2 years

Level 5

Class: Prodigy of the Lightning Rapier

Strength

E

Dexterity

D-

Toughness

F+

Will

E

Intelligence

E+

Charisma

E-

Perception

F+

Assignable

0

Skills:

[Mana Manipulation] (High)

[E Grade Core] (Mid)

[Physical Augmentation] (Low)

[Sense Enrichment] (Low)

[Lightning Palm] (Low)

[Quick Steps] (Mid)

It was very satisfying to see a D in there, and his skill list had already grown longer than it had ever been in his past life. He'd never been one to value skills too much, preferring levels and actual combat experience, but after last night he had certainly changed his way of thinking.

Al didn't know how easy or hard creating another skill would be though, so until he thought of a really good one, he would focus on increasing his levels and proficiency of his current skills.

He felt his [Lightning Palm] would improve quicker in actual combat, and his two new enhancement skills seemed to be perfect for combat as well, so Al would kill two birds with one stone.

"Let's go beast hunting!"