Running through the dark forest was Jack Jelly. He was currently carrying a goblin corpse because he wanted to obtain its memory.

Looking back Jack Jelly remembers that being ambushed by goblins was the first life-threatening thing he experienced in this world. He thought that he made Jill pretty op and that she would be able to take care of most things but it seem they were wrong.

Jill wasn't an experienced fighter. Even with the instinct given by JJ and Jack she still struggled against one goblin. He couldn't blame her though as the goblin was a pretty good fighter.

After Jill struggle against the goblin they first met, Jack, Jelly, and JJ knew that this wasn't a fantasy world where the weakest mobs like goblins are a pushover. While they may be pushovers in this world sense, for Jill they were pretty strong opponents. If it were not for Jack Jelly, Jill would have most likely died.

There was also the fact that the goblins knew how to fight and knew what they were doing. Jack Jelly looked at the goblin corpse after running away far enough and decided to check its memory.

He first made a cloud of mana in the goblin's mind and circulated it around its brain. After he was done he brought the mana cloud back into his head. When the mana cloud reached his head he started gaining memory of the goblin and he felt he might become the goblin itself.

With the mana in his brain, he quickly suppressed the goblins' emotion and sorted through its memory. From the goblin memory, he found that it was a low rank 1 goblin mage. From their memories, he found out about their kingdoms and their culture. He also found that the king of the goblins was at the peak of rank 1.

Sorting through more of the goblins' memory trying to find out more stuff he didn't notice an insect that was as big as a human child approaching him from above the tree. The insect looked like a black jumping spider and it was made of chitin with no furs.

Silently the spider got close to him from behind. It tensed its legs and then jumped towards him. The spider momentum was great but Jack Jelly was someone at low rank 2 and the spider wasn't even low rank 1. The spider flew at him expecting to push him and then inject deadly venom but when it got close to Jack Jelly, Jack Jelly simply smacked it away.

Looking at the spider he estimated its collision on a normal human would be enough to explode them. He estimated that the spider had around 8 strengths, 5 endurance, and 20 agility. The spider could be said to be at least 5 times stronger than a normal human which was pretty impressive. The mana of this world seemed to have made it extremely strong and the same could be said for other creatures.

After studying the black spider which he decided to call Black Ball, he decided to get back to sorting through the goblin memories. From more of his memories, he discovered that there were creatures of rank 1, rank 2, rank 3, and so on. A rank 1 creature would have at least one stat at 100 or more, a rank 2 creature would have at least one stat at 1000 or more, a rank 3 creature would have one stat at 10000 or more, and so on.

The only rank 3 creature the goblin mage knew was an adult dragon. Most adult dragons were at least low rank 3. There are also tiers separating ranks. The tiers are low, mid, high, and peak. A low rank 1 had a stat of at most 250, a mid-rank 1 had a stat of at most 500, a high rank 1 had a stat of at most 750, and a peak rank 1 had a stat of at most 999, anything after that meant they are at least low rank 2.

The process of absorbing memories took two hours and that wasn't even all of it. Jack Jelly stored the memories somewhere else and started to move back through the forest towards the log cabin. He had a lot to think about and what to do currently.

While Jack Jelly was enjoying his walk back, he started hearing light footsteps in the forest. The footstep followed him through the forest. He couldn't see what was following him but he could detect it.

Whatever was following him was most likely not noticeable if he didn't have a good sense of hearing. He got his sense of hearing from his strong endurance and agility. All of Jack Jelly's stats provided many types of benefit to his body and they all worked together to form him.

Endurance provided more mass in his body, better cell production, and more energy.

Strength condensed his cells which increased his organ's strength, muscles, bones and allow more consumption of energy for more firepower.

His Agility increased his body flow of blood, flexibility, reduce muscle stiffness, and increased the speed of electrical signals throughout his body.

All of these stats provided many benefits to him and they could be increased but none of these things would be possible without mana. Mana seemed to know what Jack Jelly wanted when he tried to increase his stats with it. This could be considered an advantage that Jelly had in this world in that he knew a lot about the human body and how it works.

From the way mana seemed to move to his will and understood his will meant many strange things could be possible with mana. If mana did not understand his will and was just a type of energy that didn't know anything, then when he had used it to increase his strength it would have simply kept increasing his muscle until he was bloated.

To put it into perspective, if electricity was dumb energy then mana would be super smart energy. If you told electricity to turn into a giant lighting dragon and charge it wouldn't do anything. If you told mana to transform into a rocket launcher that shoots banana then as long as you knew how this rocket at the basic foundation worked, then mana would be able to do it as long as you have the material.

The only limit of mana was one's imagination. If you told mana to summon a unicorn from another dimension but you didn't know how dimensions work, then you wouldn't be able to summon a unicorn from another dimension.

If one could not feel heat and did not know about the existence of heat, they could still fire a fireball but the mana would not make the fireball have heat and it would simply be a ball of light that did no harm. This is also where affinity comes in.

The affinity of an element was becoming one with something or understanding it more. The wind was a simple concept that Jelly understood at the molecular level, he also understand other concepts like water, fire, and stone at the molecular level. This understanding gave him an affinity with the element which reduces their mana usage and even made them stronger.

Understanding wind at the molecular level gave him a 500% increase in its damage and a 90% mana reduction in it. If he could fully understand wind at the atomic level he could reduce its mana usage to 99.99% and increase its damage to even beyond 1000% as long as he knew how to use it right.

The higher one's affinity with one's element, the stronger one would be at using that element. With this, fire, heat, wind, air, water, liquid, stone, minerals, and other elements would all reach the atomic level or beyond when one's affinity was high enough.

As long as one's affinity with an element reached a very high level, the other element affinity will start increasing too because understanding one element would increase one's understanding of other elements too.

To put it in simpler terms. There are three fruits, banana, apple, and orange. Let's say one eats an apple till they understood the crunchynous of it, the sweetness of it, and the energy it gives when eating it. By this point you would know that eating any fruits gives you energy, most fruits were sweet, but not all fruits were crunchy like apples.

The element wind was similar to air so its increase in affinity would also increase the affinity of air. The element stone, however, was not very similar to wind and an increased affinity in wind won't do much for an increase of stone affinity.

Away from affinity, one thing about mana that Jack Jelly thought was that it was going to break the law of physics. Jack Jelly thought you could conjure fire without oxygen, water without H2O, and wind without air molecules like in those movies but boy was he wrong. This made him a little sad though since it made mana seemed less magical.

With all the information he obtained from the goblin and the information he knew, he started changing the status screen.

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Jack Jelly - Low Rank 2

Age: 45

Strength: 20 (200)

Endurance: 20 (200)

Agility: 20 (200)

Mana: 120 (1200) - 120-meter range

Total Might: 1800

Passive: Mana Pressure, Force Field, Perfect Ratio, ...

Spells:...

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For tomorrow, he decided to leave Jill's status screen just as it is. Overtime when she completed more missions, he would slowly change her status screen.

Jack Jelly was about to reach the log cabin soon when the silent creature attacked. It was dark, thin, and tall of up to nine feet with two sharptails and four sharp long claws on its two-finger which were on its two arms. It had a head with two curved horns and two eyes with two mouths. He decided to call it Two Slasher.

Jack Jelly then decided to kill it silently as to not attract attention in the dark forest. The claws reached towards him and he grabbed it. Based on its strength he estimated it wasn't even a low rank 1. With his force field, there wasn't much the creature could do against him.

The two slasher tried to pull its claw away and it couldn't do it so it tried to kick Jack Jelly. Before it could kick him, Jack Jelly tore off both its arm and it screeched with its two mouths sending the creature in the vicinity running away.

Seeing that it was no match, it tried to run but Jack Jelly used a wind slash and cut both of its legs. The two slasher screeched more in pain and Jack Jelly fired a tiny ball of flaming air into its head and it burned away leaving ashes.

Looking around the forest Jack Jelly then went back to the log cabin.