[Ding...]
[Detected host has increased hos tier]
[Lottery activating. Do you wish to draw?]
Lottery? Yeah, I remember the system mentioned it while it talked about available functions. So it gives a lottery when my tier increases? Wait my tier increased? I call out my status to see
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Name: Prot
Race: Human
Tier: Apprentice 1
Class: None
Skills :
[Heroes Cheats]: Growth and comprehension are greatly increased. Has the blessing of god who summoned them. Rank - SSS+
[Fusion]: Fuse compatible dead bodies with oneself or subordinates. Subordinates can be created but have a max limit of 5. All subordinates are loyal to the host. Rank - indescribable
[Determination]: Through practice, you increased your focus. This skill helps you to continue in your training. Rank E.
[Swing] As you swing your weapon, from top to bottom, you make use of the full force of falling to generate a great blow. Rank F.
[Mana strenghthening]: Absorb the mana into your body to increase the strength of your body slightly. The effect is permanent. Rank(E)
[Mana Sense]: Sense the mana around you. Rank F
Subordinates :
[illumi]
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So my tier increased. And I got a new skill too. One that has a permanent effect. Wow, so having mana also increases your strength. Mana is indeed good.
[Do you wish to draw the lottery?]
I say yes in my mind.
[Congratulations. You have drawn Ash.]
Ash. Eh! Ash? Really. What do I do with this Ash? What the hell system> Why even give ash?
[The ash has been stored in the inventory]
And a new screen pops up with 10 boxes with a flask in one of them. As I try to see what this new inventory could do, it gives me no information. I can only take out the flask, which I did not feel like it. It's Ash who wants it? But this inventory is good. Maybe the system gave this inventory to me, and this is the actual gift.
And I take a stick and try to store it in the inventory. Whatever I try, clicking the boxes, thinking in my mind, the stick never goes. I try with other objects but it never works. Inventory that does not store things... Maybe this system is stingy. It first stopped answering my questions, now gave me ash in the lottery, and does not let me use the inventory. As I my expression went from surprise, to happy to just a pure angry face, illumi interrupted me.
"Master is something wrong?"
"Nothing" I sighed and went back to sleep. After I woke up and ate some rabbit Illumi killed I started my training. I asked him
"I stored the magic power in my body. Now how do I use it" I ask Illumi?
"Just try to muster the magic power from the point of storage, and try to imagine the spell you want to cast. Remember to change the attribute of mana first. Try casting a simple water ball for now."
"Got it, just gotta take all mana from everywhere in my body and imagine the spell. Imagine a water ball" I try to muster the magic energy I stored in my body last night, but how much ever I tried I could not get the mana to come out.
I ask Illumi, who had now a surprised expression "How to get the mana out? I am not able to do it"
"Master, did you store the mana in your entire body"
"Yes," I reply.
"But you usually store it at a point. I store it in my core. And I cannot feel any mana from you"
"What!" I exclaim. I tried an entire day, and finally got a hang of it, but couldn't get any mana. But something feels wrong, I got a new skill, and I felt I was storing mana. So I explain the new skill I got to Illumi
"That is the reason. What you need to do is condense that mana and store it somewhere in your body. What you did was use up the mana and strengthened your body. That is why you got the mana-strengthening skill. Now try to condense the mana and store it somewhere in your body, not use it"
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" So my strength increased? But why do I not feet it?". I take a rock and throw it with all my strength onto a tree and a dent appears where I threw it with a loud sound following. My strength did increase. There was no way I could have done that before. Now that I know my strength and what I did wrong, I again sit down and try to store the mana.
"But where should I store my mana? Those monsters had a core, but I do not feel anything like that inside me. Should I try to make one? But where should I make it? Inside my heart? My brain? But if my core is attacked I probably can't use magic anymore. Why not try to store it in more places? Like some in my hands, some in my legs, one in my heart something like that. But I gotta form the first one though. Should I form it in my stomach? Because if they attack my heart, even if I had any other measures, without magic I would be dead. So it is better to store it somewhere else. Let's try near my stomach. I asked Illumi where he stores, but he just answered with his core. So I try to condense the magic in me near my stomach.
Three days passed and I was suddenly woken up from my trance by Illumi. It seems I was sitting in that position for three days and nights straight and he was worried. Now I that I came to my senses, I felt extreme hunger, so I ate some wolf meat. And then I slept for a day.
Now that I remember, the wolfs in the pile are still there, as Illumi goes once in a while to check on them after he checks the surroundings for any dangers. We also moved closer to the plain, so it was easier to check on the bodies. It is a treasure trove and losing it would be detrimental.
I don't feel any changes to the mana status, so I check my status to see the changes. I see only one change, one Determination ranked up. Maybe that's why I could continue for 3 days straight.
[Determination]: Through practice, you increased your focus. This skill helps you to continue in your training. Neither hunger nor sleep holds you back. Rank C.
Now that mana condensing was going nowhere, I took up the bow. illume helped make a makeshift target from a wooden stump and I practiced archery. First I adjusted my footing. One leg forward and the other back. And then I held the bow in the middle, took the arrow, adjusted it with my finger, and shot. And it went above the target and into the ground behind it. I missed the target by a meter or so. I did not give up, tried practicing archery. My day went as follows, Eat, practice, Eat, practice Eat, sleep, repeat.
A week passed. It has been two weeks since I was summoned into this world and with my skills in archery at a novice level, where I could hit the target eight out of ten times. Suddenly illumi surprised me by revealing he increased a tier. He said he used the way of my body strengthening and has been using it all this time. So this body strengthening skill was this good, increasing a grand-masters minor level.
All this time I was training in archery and got two new skills. And just now I increased a tier. I say status in my mind.
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Name: Prot
Race: Human
Tier: Apprentice 3
Class: None
Skills :
[Heroes Cheats]: Growth and comprehension are greatly increased. Has the blessing of god who summoned them. Rank - SSS+
[Fusion]: Fuse compatible dead bodies with oneself or subordinates. Subordinates can be created but have a max limit of 5. All subordinates are loyal to the host. Rank - indescribable
[Swing] As you swing your weapon, from top to bottom, you make use of the full force of falling to generate a great blow. Rank F.
[Mana Sense]: Sense the mana around you. Rank E
[Mana strenghthening]: Absorb the mana into your body to increase the strength of your body slightly. The effect is permanent. Rank(E)
[Determination]: Through practice, you increased your focus. This skill helps you to continue in your training. Neither hunger nor sleep holds you back. Rank C.
[Concentration]: While you try to lock into the target with your bow, you tune out all the irrelevant information. Rank D.
[Single shot]: You can hit a stationary target with 80% accuracy, irrespective of distance. Rank E.
Subordinates :
[Illumi]
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[Ding. The detected host has advanced a tier]
[Activating lottery]
[Do you wish to draw]
Well, I do not expect anything good, but something useful will be well appreciated.
I say draw in my mind
[Ding! You have drawn nothing from the lottery. Better luck next time!]
Holy shit! Nothing. Just! Why even keep a lottery? Shitty system. As I calm down from the anger, I realize, I shouldn't depend on the system. It just aids me. Even if it gives me nothing it shouldn't affect me much. Then I reiterate the understanding of the system. The system would help me in pursuit of strength but not give me strength. It will not spoon-feed me, it will just come and say hi once in a while.
Then another week passed, with just some regular monsters showing up and I training my archery. I started with 7 arrows, and now only 4 are in usable condition. I need to remember to not shoot arrows at rocks, where not only the tip is ruined, but sometimes the body is also weakened. I got to tier 3 this week alone, and my strength is now double of what it was a week ago. In archery I made strides. Now I can hit stationary targets 9/10 times and can hit easy-moving targets 5 out of 10 times. Now I say easy because when Illumi asked me to try to hit him as a target, I tried a whole day and failed every time. I could hit just a wooden target illumi carved out of a tree stump when thrown in the air. It is difficult to track the trajectories of those moving targets.
I also had the first game. A rabbit that I hit after 13 tries. And now my status looks something like this.
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Name: Prot
Race: Human
Tier: Apprentice 3
Class: None
Skills :
[Heroes Cheats]: Growth and comprehension are greatly increased. Has the blessing of god who summoned them. Rank - SSS+
[Fusion]: Fuse compatible dead bodies with oneself or subordinates. Subordinates can be created but have a max limit of 5. All subordinates are loyal to the host. Rank - indescribable
[Swing] As you swing your weapon, from top to bottom, you make use of the full force of falling to generate a great blow. Rank F.
[Mana Sense]: Sense the mana around you. Rank F
[Mana strenghthening]: Absorb the mana into your body to increase the strength of your body slightly. The effect is permanent. Rank(E)
[Determination]: Through practice, you increased your focus. This skill helps you to continue in your training. Neither hunger nor sleep holds you back. Rank C.
[Concentration]: While you try to lock into the target with your bow, you tune out all the irrelevant information. Rank C.
[Single shot]: You can hit a stationary target with 90% accuracy, irrespective of distance. Rank D.
[Moving shot]: You can hit a moving target by following its trajectory with 50% accuracy. Rank E
Subordinates :
[Illumi]
