{Day 7}
After waking my body up from a hard nights work of meditating, I finally learn how to manipulate mana. Yippee! Too happy to care about anything else I proceed to do my cicada dance, which looks like a crazy rabies infected bug having a seizure but hey who cares...I’m just too happy to care.
The journey, the battle it was hard, but I survived. It was a gruelling experience, one that not many can ever claim to have been through, something I never ever...ever want to go through again. Hey everyone, never ever mock the homeless and starving kids, you hear me! After going through this I understand a part of their pain. If you don't heed my warning a bad,bad cicada will come when you're about to eat your lunch and nick all your food. Kekekeke.
After enduring my long battle of meditating the system notifies me of my success.
[Skill- mana manipulation (lvl 1 ) obtained]
Due to this monumental achievement, I almost burst into tears at the very sight of the message. After a little short-term celebration, I proceed to make my speech and very brilliant speech I make. In fact, it's so good that I wouldn't be surprised if I looked like a world-renowned politician or the President of the USA to an outside spectator. Hello everybody votes me as the next US president, free food for everyone vote for the Cicada overlord. Kekekeke.
Erm enough of that, now for my actual speech content.
"I would like to thank myself, myself and most importantly myself for the massive dedication and willpower it took to get here. It was not easy, I experienced many trials and tribulations however, without me I don't think I would've been able to make it this far. Yet again I thank myself."
[System applauds, what a beautiful tear-jerking speech]
Alright, alright calm down system don't need to take it that far, much appreciated though.
After my heartfelt speech I proceed to give a gracious bow with my little cicada head, before moving onto my next target.
Rumble!
Ahhh I'm so hungry. As, if my body only realised now a massive surge of hunger erupted from my belly.
FOOD! FOOD! I NEED FOOD! Like a zombie, I dangerously glare at the remains of the fish that I caught a while ago, which I thankfully kept in reserve. My mouth starts drooling excessively, my eyes whirring, my brain going crazy. Believe me when I say fish has never looked so delicious in my life! At the exact moment I laid eye contact with the food, it was as if the food was calling for me.
Magiman have you resurrected from the dead? Yes, I can hear it, I can hear your voice calling me.
It's speaking, it's saying " Master.... master, please eat me, engulf me, become whole with me". Me being the gracious being I am I whole heartedly accept the invitation and proceed to run at a bullet like pace towards the food. I think that's the fastest I've ever run!
After I arrive in front of the food, I proceed to gobble it down in the most ungracious way possible, stuffing my face into the remains of Magiman like a rabid dog.
Hey, don't blame me here, a mans got to do what a mans got to do and I'm like this when I'm hungry!
NOM! NOM! NOM! CRUNCH!
After devouring the fish, I proceed to relax for a moment, contemplating the meaning of life. When did time begin? Did we invent maths or discover it? My head becomes full of mind-boggling philosophical questions, and it isn't long before these philosophical questions are interrupted by my bodily functions.
BURP! Ahh, that was tasty.
After making a scene of myself I proceed to study the newly obtained mana manipulation skill that I’ve obtained. Both excited and nervous at the same time, I proceed to ask the system about how to utilise the skill.
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[To utilise the mana manipulation skill, you need to visualise an image of an attractor; something that will pull the mana strings towards you. Then depending on your natural personality your mana affinity will naturally move towards you. It's quite easy to get your natural affinity but you need to grow stronger to use other elements and abilities.]
After being given an extensive tutorial by the system, I proceed to imagine my attractor.
In my mind I picture the perfect attractor, and just like my system-sensei advices I picture it repeatedly until it's stuck in my head. For all those people who are curious, the attractor I imagined is .... drumroll.... a hoover. Yes, a hoover, specifically a henry hoover. I don't know why it came to mind, but it did okay!
Visualising my red, strong henry hoover, I see that thin red strings of mana start to head towards each other like two trains colliding. When the strings finally meet, they start tangling into each other like star-crossed lovers before finally becoming interwoven. After, their little love session they start moving towards me, different pairs coming in from all sorts of directions.
Wow so cool.
Once they arrive, they melt into my cicada body naturally as if they were a part of my being all along. Enjoying this feeling, I bask in the awesomeness of the imposing aura and energy for a while before another message pops up.
[Natural affinity fire, skill- Flame body (lvl 1) obtained]
[Skill Mana manipulation lvl up 1-- 2]
[Title: Loved By Mana, obtained]
Wait hold on a sec! What's with the flurry of messages, let me take a minute to process. So, my natural element is fire huh, that pretty darn cool can't lie! I wanna burn everything down already, everyone call me Endeavour, with a hot body both physically and literally I'll burn any rubble in my path! Mwahahahaha. Cough. Cough.
No, but seriously, that's quite cool, my mana manipulation also levelled up as well, I guess my two days’ worth of torture were worth it in the end.
"Hey system can you please give me a description on the skill flame body"
[Skill : Flame body - enwraps user in a body of flames, this attack can sometimes cause a burn status on opponent and can sometimes result in a critical attack, this is when your current attack strength is increased by a rate of x0.5, costs 10 MP to use]
Wow for my skill level that's actually super OP, I wonder if I level it up if the rate for the crit will also increase. Anyway, I can't wait until I start using this, I really hit a jackpot this time.
Pleased with the obtaining of my new skill, I enquired with the system about the latest title that I received.
[Title: Loved By Mana - A title given to an individual who can learn to manipulate mana from the week that they are born. Signs of a genius, increases intelligence by +10 and Mana stat by +10, permanently once activated]
[Would you like to activate?]
YES, YES LORD YES! I shout out in excitement. This is so useful is today my luck day or something, blessings to Friday's the best day of the week!
Wait a second, aren't I supposed to have bad luck, last time I checked my luck stat was -10. Oh gosh, why am I even talking about it, maybe the Worlds Gods have forgotten; hopefully they have forgotten... please forget!
After applying the title, I could feel myself become more intelligent as well as the flow of mana entering my system. Ho Ho Ho, welcome the new Albert Einstein with an amazing IQ of 36! After boastfully showing of to myself with no shame whatsoever, I checked my status.
STATUS.
[Name: None]
[Class: None]
[Species: Common Venom Cicada]
[Level: 5/10 [XP: 126/210 [Status: Prepared]
[HP: 39/39 [MP: 15/15 [Stamina: 100/110]
[Stats:
Strength : 19
Defense : 10
Speed : 29
Intelligence : 36
Luck : -10 ]
[Skills: Weak poison bite (lvl 1), Poison stab(lvl 1), Acidic mucus(lvl 4), Stealth(lvl 1), Bull strength(lvl 1), Water shot(lvl 1), Flame body(lvl 1)]
[Titles: Early Riser, Void Eater, Loved By Mana]
Looky here, a nice array of stats and skills I have here. Well, I'm in a much better situation than when I came to this world.
Out of nowhere, one of the questions I pushed to the back of my mind due to my excitement suddenly came popping back up into my mind. Ahh yes, I remember what I wanted to ask now.
"Hey system, how many other attributes/affinities are there and how do you obtain them?"
The system took a while to answer, as if it were thinking of the simplest way to explain it to me.
[In total there are 8 basic affinities, which are: fire, water, electricity, nature, earth, poison, darkness, and light. From these 8 derivate natures hybrids magic can be created such as: ice, world tree, demon and elemental fusion magic as well as other types, the list is endless. The way to obtain these skills is to lvl up causing you to become stronger so your mana capacity and manipulation can increase, as well as obtain scrolls which contain the cultivation method for specific skills.]
Okay, okay I think I've got that. Looks, like I have a lot of hard work to go then. After memorising what the system told me I formulated an ingenious plan worthy of my 36 IQ. To get more skills, I need to get stronger therefore I need to hunt more. After coming to this epiphany, I knew what I needed to do next. It's level grinding time.
Also, spiders don't think I've forgotten about you, your time will come... you hear me your time will come! Mwahahahaha. Cough. Cough.