I wake up from my bed and put on my clothing after quickly taking a shower.

I go out of my room and notice the maids and butlers all running around slightly panicked and afraid?

I walk towards the entrance of the house and Silan is there aswell...

"Silan!" (Colin)

"Colin!" (Silan)

"What's going on? Why is everyone running around?" (Colin)

"Vivian's fianceé is coming. An arrogant spoiled brat... Last year I was almost executed because of him convincing his father that I was a traitor... The true reason was just because I got tea instead of milk for him." (Silan)

"Oh god... This is going to be annoying...." (Colin)

"Also... Colin... Some news of you has gone around and he got wind of it...  We got a message this morning that he is coming here to meet his fianceé and meet you... We don't even know how news has gotten out of this place because nobody has left in a very long time. This place is self-sufficient..." (Silan)

"Spies?" (Colin)

"Possible. We'll need you to be careful and hide from him." (Silan)

"Can't I just meet him?" (Colin)

"He doesn't like men who are close to Vivian... That's why all the butlers including me aren't really good friends with Vivian... We must act like we are just butlers to her and shun her... It makes her feel like we are just acting friendly with her because we are her butlers... I can tell that she feels that way..." (Silan)

"This is going to be so annoying for me.. Is there a silent place where I can go increase my soul level? It's quite low... How do I even increase it? Meditating?" (Colin)

"Yes. You meditate to increase your soul level. Also, the most quiet place right now is the basement... Don't worry, it's very clean. It also holds a lot of weird objects that have appeared around here over time. To get to it just go behind the staircase right there and push the wall. It's a hidden basement." (Silan)

"Ah, thanks. I'll go now. Bye" (Colin)

"Bye." (Silan)

I head to the staircase and push the wall like Silan said... A door opens and a staircase leading down appears in my view. I enter and close the door and fires light my way down...

I walk for a bit until I reach a large room with things from... Earth...

Wait, these are my things! I lost my fridge three years ago!

I look inside the fridge and see my name and address on the inside... Yup, definetly my things.

I look around more and check out all the objects... Everything I used to have and lost is here...

Even my real katana that I bought and lost and cried over for a week. A real katana... I spent about ten million on it...

I pick the katana up and inspect it... I take it from the scabbard and it is as sharp as it used to be...

I cut three watermelons at the same time with one slice from this bad boy...

Red scabbard, check. Dragon-style fuchi, check. Red and White handle, check.

I put it back on the scabbard and notice the belt that I used so I could put it on my hip...

"Oi... Even my katana stand is here..." (Colin)

I pick up my katana stand and put it in the middle of the room and I unsheathe my katana and put the scabbard on the lower level and the katana on the upper level.

I look around the room and notice a rubik's cube in the corner...

I tried solving one of these. Got the red and blue done and yellow half-done. Then just gave up...

I go to the center of the room and put the Rubik's cube infront of me and infront of the katana.

I sit down and start meditating.

After about an hour of calmly meditating I suddenly enter a white world...

Only the colour white and my body exists here...

I feel awfully calm here...

Wait, not only I exist here... I see a faint blue line around me and a small three-coloured sphere following the line... Red, Black and... Blue?

If this is a magic core then Red is fire... Black is darkness... Blue is water...

I try to grab the core but it flies away and the blue line expands a bit but then retracts and goes back to it's original size...

The core is only about a finger wide both ways and could fit in my hand probably... The blue line seems to flow where the sphere goes not the other way around...

I sit down and start meditating because if this is my Soul I am in currently... This place should be the best to meditate in.

I meditate for about three hours and open my eyes to see if something has changed...

I see a faint red and black glow inside of the blue line and the core seems to have gotten a few centimeters bigger... The whiteness in here has begun to slowly turn into red in some places, blue in others and black in other places.

It still has a way to go before fully turning into the three colours...

Right now, I am guessing that the white is the untrained and unfocused mana that hasn't been turned into a specific type of elemental magic...

But why do I have three? And how do I have fire and water?

Too many questions... This place definetly doesn't have the answers...

I suddenly snap back into reality after I see a faint goldeny glow in the corner of the huuuge world-like room I was in before...

I look around to what snapped me back into reality just to find Silan in the room.

"Oi. You've been down here for eight hours. You never even made a sound down here... I got a little worried so I came to check on you. Your magical power seems to have increased by a lot. Check out your Status now." (Silan)

I nod and open my Status and what follows impressed me...

StatusName and Race:Colin TyccusHumanRace Bonuses:Less XP required to level upMore rare drops from mobsLevel and Soul Level:Lvl. 15Lvl. 20Jobs (Classes):Beginner WarriorBeginner MageTitles:First of the Human RacePro-GamerTitle Bonuses:Faster learning of different languages.Pro-Gamer's Mind (Calm and Collected)Abilities:[Mimick Sword Style][None]Stats:Strength: 100Magic/MP: 250Agility: 85Intellect: 1120Dexterity: 50Stamina/HP: 135

My mana increased by 150... I got two classes... And my soul lvl is twenty...

Why didn't Warrior pop up before? Weird...

I'm guessing it popped up with Mage but I don't know what determines the Status and things like that...

"Good. Also... That little arrogant brat I was talking about refuses to leave without seeing you. You are needed upstairs." (Silan)

"Fine with me. Also... What is the little white world that I appeared in after meditating for a while?" (Colin)

"Oh, that's your soul. You enter your soul to see what kind of mana you have. I'll tell you how to determine it later. We have to go quickly... The brat is harrassing the Little Miss too much and wants to kiss her every minute... She refuses in a polite way but she won't be able to in a few minutes... He has a short temper." (Silan)

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I nod and start heading upstairs. I grab my katana and the Rubik's cube and put my katana in it's scabbard and on my waist and pocket the rubik's cube.

It'll come in handy if I want to confuse the kid... Right now it seems really easy for me to solve it though for some reason...

I shrug my shoulders and exit the basement. Silan exited a half a minute before me because I took too long to grab my things...

I walk to the entrance of the Mansion and see Silan and the Little Miss and almost all the butlers and maids in the mansion and one fat kid who looks really dazzling because of all that fancy clothing he has on him...

Golden rings, golden necklace... Even a mini-crown... A fancy coat and a cape down to the floor...

"Quickly, Colin." (Silan)

I pick up my pace and go infront of the kid.

I look at him and notice he has a pig snout and a pig's ears and tails...

I am really trying to hold back my laughter but this kid is a real pig human.... A real one...

How did Vivian even manage to get engaged to this ugly pig?

I'm guessing that this pig's, I mean kid's father is somebody impressive...

"Bow before me, servant!" (Pigkid)

I raise an eyebrow before I see Silan really mad behind the kid and the anger is directed towards me.

I bow but not to the kid, to Silan behind him...

"So you are the man who has been hanging around my Vivian! Guards! Kill him." (Pigkid)

I sigh before I get up.

"Let us make a bet. If you can solve this puzzle within three minutes I will kill myself after torturing myself.. If not, I will not die and your guards cannot kill me either and they cannot do anything to me. And you quietly leave" (Colin)

"Hahahah! There is no puzzle that I can't solve!" (Pigkid)

I bring out the rubik's cube. I knew this would come in handy.

"In this puzzle you have to match 9 of the same colour on the same side. You will finish it if all the colours of the same kind are on one side." (Colin)

"You solve it first so I can see that this isn't a puzzle that can't be completed!" (Pigkid)

I nod and start solving it... I solve it within thirty seconds and show him the finished version of it. He looks at it and nods.

I mess it back up as best as I can and hand it to him.

The pig-human starts to try to solve it but fails and does the opposite of what he should be doing...

Three minutes pass and the pig-like kid hasn't even put two of the same colour together...

"Three minutes is over." (Colin)

"No it is not!" (Pigkid)

"Umm, sir... It is over. Infact... It's been three minutes and twenty five seconds now..." (Guard)

The kid throws the cube onto the ground and I pick it up and pocket it.

"I won. Leave." (Colin)

"Seize him!" (Pigkid)

"But sir... You lost a bet. Your father will not like it if you go back on your word... Your father never goes back on his word and his pride lies in that..." (Guard)

Thank you guard... I'll need to repay you someday.

The pig-kid sighs and gets in his carriage and leaves.

I laugh a lot and walk towards Silan and Vivian.

"What is that puzzle you gave him?" (Silan)

"Oh, just a rubik's cube from my world. You do know that everything down in your basement is things I have lost... It's like my former world's room was some kind of teleportation place..." (Colin)

Now that I think about it... None of the things outside my room dissapeared, only inside it... And now I dissapeared from that world aswell...

My family won't worry if I suddenly go missing because nobody will know I did and I definetly set aside 25% of my funds from the last five years so they should have an entire three lifetimes of money and I auto-made it so it sends them a bit of it per year...

Nobody will miss me anyways. A lot of gamers will be glad I suddenly left the industry infact.

That means... I have all the time that I could possibly want to stay here...

Vivian suddenly hugs me tightly and I notice her crying a little bit.

"Don't leave me, Colin! You are my closest friend right now! If you leave... I'll only have Silan and the others..." (Vivian)

"I won't leave Vivian. Why should I?" (Colin)

I pat her on the head and laugh a little bit...

I notice Silan looking at the katana on my waist and Vivian backs off and looks at it too.

"Hmm? Don't you know that this is a sword? A katana from Japan, a country. They don't make these anymore though... This one of the real ones... Only a few of them exist back in my old world." (Colin)

I unsheathe it and show them the blade.

"This... It seems to be a slashing weapon... Made for speed because of it's thin blade..." (Silan)

"Correct! I want to see if I can infuse it with magic and strengthen it but that is for later. I'm terribly hungry right now..." (Colin)

I look up in the sky and notice it is around 18:00... I woke up at ten?  I really need to figure out how to get a clock or something in this world... I doubt anything from my world would work here.

"Let's go and eat! I couldn't eat because of him eating all of my portions aswell.." (Vivian)

Vivian rubs her stomach and the maids immediatly know what to do regardless of whether they know what language she is speaking in or not...

I also noticed that only a minority of the maids and butlers know how to speak in the same language as Silan, Vivian and me. The rest just follow hand signals and such or the minority tell the majority.

I head inside with Vivian and Silan and the maids and butlers head off.

Soon after we eat and I go into my room and read a book that Silan got me...

A book about this world...

This world has one huuuge continent like Pangea from ancient times in Earth... Many smaller islands but nobody knows and bothers to go and check those out because not even the huge continent is fully explored yet... The center is still unknown because of a huge mountain range not allowing a lot of access and monsters covering the entrances to the middle.

The continent is split into many smaller kingdoms... I can't bother to count them all...

I already know about our kingdom a little...

There is also a lot about all the different monsters and such but I can't bother to read it right now... I'll carry it with me like a little wikipedia in a book.

I read it for about three hours before heading to sleep...

There was so much information in it that I could only read only about five percent of it during the three hours...

I'll need to meditate more tomorrow and train more...

"Strength and more mana is needed!" (Colin)

I say that before falling asleep completely.