(Iori’s POV)

I first to the routine, I clean the statues and the stone lanterns that also decorate both sides of the stairs. It consumes an hour and half from my time. Well, it’s still morning, so no problem there.

Time to try some magic. Going inside the Haiden, that’s quite big, around 40 square meters in the whole building, I sit cross-legged and close my eyes, preparing to meditate the way that my grandfather taught me. I suspect that the strange sensation inside is mana, the uncomfortable sensation that I have been feeling since I woke up today.

Focusing, I can feel something inside me that I wasn’t able to feel before. How do I use it? I did read a lot of novels in the internet, so I will try its principle, and focus in the image of it moving and focus my will.

After a few minutes, it finally moves! I stay sited, practicing move the mana around to the point that I can do it with relative ease. Alright, time to try something else. Opening my eyes, I get up and look at my hand. Then, I try to move mana to it.

Dammit, it’s a hundred times harder to do it without meditating…

This will take a lot of time. I should stay put for some time. But first, let’s clean the place. This place has a whole weak worth of cleaning to do. After finishing the cleaning, it’s close to lunch time.

I go to my room here on the temple and prepare some instant noodles. I have some stacks of instant noodles here in the case that I have to stay here for a prolonged time. After eating, I begin to practice controlling mana again.

After two hours, I can do it relatively smoothly. It was harder though, I can barely do it while moving. Standing outside, near the forest that surrounds the temple, I gather as much mana as I can on my hand… and something happens.

As I gather mana in my hand, I can feel it accumulating, ready to go out from my skin. And I do that, I let the mana flow outside from my body. A blue, almost white light goes out from my hand. And then, I feel something changing in the world around me.

Congratulations! You have acquired the skill: Dungeon Creation!

Congratulations! You have acquired the skill: Mana Manipulation!

Dungeon Creation

Type:SkillMana Cost:0

Tier:CommonLevel:1 (0,10%)

The most basic skill required for a magician. Creates a copy of the space around you and drag any magic related being inside it. To exit, just gather mana in your hand and have the wish to exit. Creates the most basic dungeon.

Mana Manipulation

Type:Ability

Tier:CommonLevel:1 (1,09%

The basic for every single magician in the world. Enables the use of mana. As the skill levels up, the control and use of mana will be smoother.

Cool! Alright, I can’t stop here! Let’s see… can I create an attack based in mana? I extend my hand with my palm aiming to a tree. I gather mana in my hand and imagine it going forward, in the direction of the tree.

Suddenly, a blue mana sphere flies out from my hand and hit the tree, exploding, taking out a piece of the tree.

(Iori): “Wow!... uoh-oh…”

I say as I watch the tree falling, unable to hold its own weight.

You have acquired the skill: Mana Bolt!

Mana Bolt

Type:MagicMana Cost:10 MP

Tier:Commonlevel:1 (2,50%)

A basic skill created through mana manipulation that can be done by any magician. Explodes on impact.

Great! Wait, do I have a skill list? If I have this many skills so…

(Iori): “Skill List!”

I see some skills that didn’t show up before.

War God Style

Type:Ability

Tier:Uniquelevel:Advanced (72,32%)

Style given from parent to child by the Hiyuuki family since the ancient times. This style has yet to find it’s nemesis.

Gamer Body

Type:Natural Trait

Tier:Legendary

An unique ability that gives the user the body of a game character.

Gamer Mind

Type:Natural Trait

Tier:Legendary

An unique ability that gives the user the mind of a gamer, allowing him to be always calm and think rationally.

Carpentry

Type:AbilityLevel:Advanced (89,72%)

Tier:Uncommon

You know your ways to create things out of wood and make the manutention of buildings and wooden creations.

There it is, the skill list… well, the skills that I have are all listed here. So, the style that my grandfather taught me was called War God Style, huh. I didn’t know it. Anyway, it’s the family style, even my mom knows how to fight with it… although she isn’t that good at it, she can handle herself.

Granddad trained me in this very temple. I love this place, simple as that. It was part of my whole childhood, even my childhood friend came to play here with me… and got dragged into my granddad spartan training.

It was him that created my disgust for physical exercises, and has been two years since the last time that I trained my body. Anyway, I want to level up quickly. Dungeon Creation huh… I will be able to create monsters if I level this skill up?

I have to try. It’s also time to test some things. I go back to the Shamusho and make another noodle cup. I also put a raw and closed one and the kettle with hot water inside my inventory. Then, I touch the icon for the kettle.

It has the option that I thought it had! I can combine the items inside my inventory! I immediately choose the option, and it shows a timer with three minutes of wait. Great! Also, the hot water amount in the kettle showed in the description of the item has gone down. Alright, let’s wait a bit while checking other things out.

Next, I unequip my shirt and begin to do push-ups. I do have some muscles, but they don’t stand out since I neglected my training for a long time. Anyway, I do a lot of push-pus until I get to my limit, and then I do some more and fall on my face.

By training your body to a certain limit you have acquired 1 point of strength.

I see… breathing heavily, I look at my inventory. Yep, it seems that the noodles are ready. I take the noodles out from my inventory. Oh, it’s still sealed as if it wasn’t opened yet! That’s cool. I open and eat it quickly.

After finishing, I out the empty cup inside my inventory. Alright, I can raise my status by training my body. I open my status. Yep, the strength status is eleven now. Alright, how can I raise my mana? I try touching the intelligence status. Oh, an explanation showed up!

For each point in intelligence you increase ten points of mana.

Alright, I should invest in my intelligence for now. But first, I should train like mad. My body, that is. I should get some weights… and a lot of training equipment. Alright, I also have to get some money. But first, I should go home.

I have school tomorrow, and I shouldn’t lose too many classes. My mother wouldn’t like it.