When Dave came to he found himself in the middle of a forest near a lake, what was he doing here again? Oh right, he was kidnapped by some stupid gods because of some mana problems they had.
“Deep breaths, Itsu… oh I guess my name is Dave now? Another act by those stupid gods.” he slowly got up and looked down at himself, wanting to make sure that nothing had changed about his body, everything seemed to be fine and when he felt down his body he didn't find anything new like horns or longer ears, everything was the same as it used to.
He sat down near a tree where there was a small bag, dave picked it up and looked inside to find a few small books, a tent, some tools like a knife, a box and a few rations that would probably last a month. “A space-time bag huh? I guess it is normal here or they wouldn't give one to me.” He took out the box, it was about 50x30x20 cm, inside was a robe and a pair of gloves, probably the mage starter gear that Hermes told him about. As he finished putting on the robe and gloves he felt a faint sense of warmth flowing over his body. He grabbed the bag and climbed on a nearby tree as he didn't know if there were any dangerous creatures. As he lay on a steady, thick-looking branch he pulled out one of the two books he was given. The book was called “Introduction to Magic” and luckily it was in English. it explained that each person was able to use magic of any kind as long as they had an affinity for it, people were born with an affinity or even multiple affinities and you could get affinities by surrounding yourself with an element related to the affinity (bury yourself in the earth, burn yourself with fire, sit underwater, be in the middle of a wind storm) but they take a lot of time, effort and understanding of the elements so most people train the elements they are born with. To check his affinity Dave opened his status and found a few changes to it
Name: Dave Class: Mage
Level:1 HP:120 MP:170
Strength:8 Vitality:12 Agility:9 Intelligence:16(+1) Preception:7
Skills
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Horse Riding(English and Western style)(lvl:5) (old): A combined style of horse riding- you are fairly advanced with horse riding
Animal Care (lvl:2) (old): From small animals to the medium you took your time and cared for many animals be it washing, cleaning their fur or just scratching their belly. the system will help guide you when you need help.
Rhythm Follow (lvl:4) (old): The ability to follow the rhythm, used mostly for playing music and dancing in a different world but also important while casting magic in this one.
swimming (lvl:3) (old): The ability to swim. Nothing special, just swimming.
Mana Control (lvl:1) (new): The ability every new mage gets when they first start. from sensing mana to moving it around to forming magic, this is the beginning. The system will help guide you when you need help.
affinities: taming+summoning, fire, earth and space
The first thing Dave noticed was the (+1) in his intelligence stat, it grew by 3 not 1, it also wasn't the only stat that grew, probably because of the class so why the +1? After a bit of thinking he remembered that sometimes gear in RPG increased stats, he took off one glove and after checking his status the (+1) to intelligence disappeared and his mana went down to 160. after a bit of messing around with the gloves and robe, he found out that all of them needed to be on for him to get the +1, like some set bonus.
Dave then looked at the new addition to the status sheet, the skills. The first thing that stood out to him was the mana control he was very curious about what they meant by "The system will help" How will the system help him? was it there for everyone or just for people who are from different worlds? after looking at the rest of his skills he noticed it was only for skills in levels 1 or 2 which probably means it is something to help beginners. after examining the skills he was curious to learn how rhythm is supposed to be important to casting magic so he quickly took a look at his affinities. "taming and summoning are usually two different classes in RPGs..." Dave tried to focus on the affinity, hoping new information would pop up but it was not built in, maybe he could learn a spell in the book. He decided to close the statue and refocus on the book.
After explaining the affinities, the book moved on to explain how to feel the mana, it suggested sitting down and meditating until feeling a warm sensation, after feeling the warm sensation you should imagine it moving in your body until you can comfortably move it around your body with ease so that what dave did. he closed the book and closed his eyes, trying to envision a warm feeling inside of him. It took him a few minutes before he finally felt something but as soon as he did he moved on to moving the mana, he imagined the mana moving like air in his blood cells so it was pretty easy for him, while he practised that he continued to read, wanting to learn his first spell.