Chapter 2: skills

So despite a year sounding like a short amount of time, which it is, it’s still a year that I have to be with this herd. So I have to do all I can to become a valiant stag. Or I might not grow to meet the average status of a spear deer. 

I've noticed that the young stags, a stag is a male deer; I like the way it sounds, ram into each other and more or less play around. my stats haven't improved much but that’s to be expected as I've only been alive for two weeks. 

My highest stat is magic attack so that's something I should work on anything else seems to be something I can do on my spare time. Magic attack seems to be not only my offensive capabilities but my overall capability in magic, sadly I can't do much. 

And my longing for teleporting around unobstructed and moving mountains with my mind was stopped short. I have a skill called object movement which would probably be telekinesis I asked for but I have no idea how to use it, well I'm in that situation for any of the skills. I thought to ask the the quick help but I wanted to try and figure it out naturally. 

This was not a decision based on logic or anything like that I was just curios as to how good this body’s instincts were. Sadly so far I haven't had any luck and that means I'm most likely not a genius with unparalleled might in this world. 

Well so much for easy mode, at least I wasn’t dropped into hard mode or legendary mode by having to start off as something like a goblin or a caterpillar. Well time to quit on the instincts thing. 

‘Quick help what are skills?’

Quick HelpSkills are an auto correction applied by the system that governs the world. As a skill level rises the auto correction applied by the system will increase. Skills are divided into two categories one being passive skills and the second being active skills. Passive skills constantly correct the user while active skills must be activated by the user in order for them to work.

Hm so active and passive now I just have to figure out how to use them and I'll be good to go. 

‘Quick help what active and passive skills do I have?’

Quick HelpActive:Humanoid transformation Lv.9

Minor teleportation Lv.1

Object movement Lv.1

Reinforcement Lv.1PassiveBroken one’s mind Lv. 1

Rush Lv. 1

Well that’s kind of surprising I thought that reinforcement would be passive and rush would be active but it was the other way around. So basicly when I rush at someone or something then the system will correct my rush by a slight margin. So it seems that I can ignore the passive skills for now as I don’t have to figure out how to use them. 

Now onto the fun part active skills. The one’s I have are humanoid transformation, minor teleportation, object movement, and reinforcement. 

The first one is a no go, I'm not sure how spear dear react to humans but I'm going to guess its unfavorably so I'll hold off on that for now. Next is minor teleportation, this is something that I'm most definitely going to work on. After all teleportation even minor could potentially save my life. 

So the next thing to do is figure out how to use these skills. As I don’t feel that my instincts are good enough to figure this out on my own let's ask my good friend. ‘Quick help how do I use active skills?’

Quick HelpTo activate an active skill one must perform the action that has been predetermined by the system. 

Example: to activate charge one must run head first into something/someone. If done correctly a small amount of mana will be drained to compensate for the extra strength given by the system.

So it seems that even if it’s called an active skill I can't just say charge and have the system take over my body and do it for me. Well that’s fine this is real life and not a video game so even a game like world has limits on how much system correction can be given. 

But that means that the other three are likely spells of some kind or follow a specific process in which to active them. after probing the quick help for a while I've come to a satisfactory answer. Because a spear dear is considered a monster I have to use magic in the way monsters do. 

Namely my using the mana in the air to create a rune or multiple Rune's to create an array, then that rune or array is “branded” onto the body to be used as a medium when activating at a later time. It seems that a human will either create the rune or array every time he or she casts a spell or record them onto a wand. 

They can’t directly use their own bodies as a medium. Reinforcement and object movement are fairly easy runes to do. Reinforcement for spear deers is just an outline of some scary looking antlers and I plan to place it on my head. I don’t know if it will help but when I bash things with my head I would like it to be reinforced. 

Object movement is even easier as it is just a square inside a circle. This one I plan to put in my left eye if it’s not a painful process, reason being that it would look awesome and anything within my sight would be under my control, hopefully. 

On my right eye I plan to use minor teleportation and any growth it might have, hopefully it upgrades to regular teleportation then maybe something greater. This is also something I found out after asking about the magic arrays band Rune's but normally you obtain the skill after creating the rune’s in your head the first time and the following times it’s much easier, hence the system correction. 

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That means that completing the rune’s for me will be much easier the first time around because I was born with the skill. Unfortunately skills such as humanoid transformation and minor teleportation are incredibly difficult to gain because the arrays necessary are very complicated and must be “branded”, which actually makes it sound painful but if all is well it isn’t. First thing’s first though I will try body reinforcement for the spear deer and move on from there. 

To start I need to move the mana in my body and use my mind to begin drawing the rune. It was done easy enough because I had the help menu but I'm not sure how the rest of my herd does it. Although I can’t see it under the fur on my head should be a fairly elaborate design of a pair of very sharp antlers. The process was almost painless, I say almost because it left me with a headache and dizziness for the next couple of hours. 

I'm going to assume that this is because of lack of mana. I should test the limits of my mana and abilities once they are all “branded”, I'm going to start calling this grafted. Something about it being a brand bothers me so until someone gives me a good reason as to why it’s called branded I will be using grafted. 

When I finished the grafting of the mana array a small light enveloped my antlers for a brief moment and I was looked at weirdly by some of the adult spear deer, but after a couple of hours they went back to doing whatever they were doing before. Next I'll do object movement because it’s the easiest one, the only reason I didn’t do this one first is because I want this one in my eye and if it was a painful process then things could have gotten complicated. 

It only took about a minute to construct and place the rune but it left me feeling tired so I'm going to sleep for the day although the sun is still up it can’t hurt to sleep a little early. 

Waking up in the middle of the night isn’t fun, maybe I'll refrain from tiring myself out early. well regardless this gives me a chance to tackle the second most complicated rune array without being disturbed by any of the other new born calves, I think that's what you call a newborn deer. You’d be surprised at how many of them just go around looking for a fight with anyone. 

The silver lining is that they have yet to grow their horns so not much damage is done. once to see if rush worked I went full power against one of the other young stags and ended up quite dizzy so I can only imagine how it’s going to be when our antlers grow. Anyway getting back on track grafting the minor teleportation rune will be my next objective. 

‘Quick help minor teleportation rune array.’ 

Normally I just ark the quick help for some questions but because I don’t know what it looks like and going off of the vague feeling in my head that tells me it’s comprised of a dozen circles and a couple dozen letters isn’t enough for something I plan to use as my greatest escape method. 

After four hours the sun was already starting to come out and I still haven’t finished. The vague feeling was indeed not enough. 

Instead of just some circles and letters it’s comprised of circles, squares, and triangles in complicated locations plus tons of letters I've never seen before. If not for the system correction that allows be to clearly visualize and create the rune I would have found it impossible to do. Luckily I finished just in time to eat breakfast and by that I mean milk from the deer I believe is my mother. 

My teeth are growing so in a little while I should be eating grass with the rest of the herd. Although I've seen some of the one’s in the outer region kill and eat some goblin looking creatures. That means that I should be an omnivore. After my quick breakfast  continued onto the last of my skills humanoid transformation. 

This skill is different from the other three as it is two parts and needs two very complicated rune arrays working together. One rune array will work towards turning me into a human and the second one will allow me to return into my spear deer form. For this I have already looked at the first rune array enough and know how it’s formed. 

The only issue is where I'll put it considering the shear surface area required, it’s not like the minor teleportation which I downsized to fit into my eye. For now I guess I'll take the easy way out. ‘Quick help what’s the best location for the humanoid transformation array and the return array?’

Quick HelpFor the transformation array it is recommended that user does the branding on his skeletal system. Placing of the return array is best left to the user’s preference because of the size needed the back is a recommended area but it can be minimized to a certain degree.

This is likely to take a long amount of time considering it is comprised of two rune arrays more complicated than the minor teleportation array. 

The skeletal system is. Actually a good choice because it’s mostly just a large amount of runes in a variety of sizes so this should work out fine. For now I'll continue asking the quick help some questions then use rush as much as I can on other young stags until I'm tired.