Jace gets home and heads to the forest again and starts looking for an animal to curse. After 20 minutes, he finds a chipmunk that is slightly out of range.
He crouches and walks forward. Once closer he starts chanting under his breath. He sees the black circle appear over the chipmunk spooking it, but when it jumps to run away, it trips and stumbles.
his legs weak, Jace sits while observing the chipmunk tripping and falling for the next 10 minutes.When the curse finally wears off, it had only managed to move 20 feet.
"Wow, this is a lot more crippling than I thought '' Jace thinks to himself.. He continues to rest another 10 minutes until his recover and heads home.
He continues his routine of switching between the 2 abilities for the next 4 days until the knives arrive on the 5th.
Jace picks up the package, opens it up and is surprised to find his knives along with something his dad ordered. Jace takes them up to his room, gets on his computer and goes to teachtube to find a throwing knife and karambit tutorial.
Jace watches several until he goes to bed. The next day, when Jace gets back from school, he puts his throwing knives and a can of paint in his bag and heads into the woods. He finds an opening with a big tree and spray paints a bullseye on it.
He then walks back about ten feet. Jace grabs one of the throwing knives, gets in the stance the tutorials showed and throws. Jace watches his knife fall a foot away from the tree. He takes out another and throws again.
"Thunk," the knife hits the bottom of the 2nd ring of the bullseye "clang" but then falls out. Jace continues until he throws the entire package. He then picks up the knifes, only have gotten one to stick. Jace continues this for a couple more hours, then heads back to eat dinner. After he finishes, he takes out the kerambits and goes over the motions the videos showed, occasionally watching parts again.
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Jace does this for a couple hours, then takes his shower and collects mana before bed. Jace makes this his routine but also puts in casting hexes and curses after throwing knife practice, during the weekends, he mostly focuses on collecting mana with some knife practice in the afternoon.
This continues for 14 days until the 15 day in the middle of math class. "Ding, user has contracted level 0.1 disease activating immunity… immunity successful, disease being put into disease storage" the robotic voice thundered in Jace's head. Jace, in the middle of math class, jumps a little, but hears it again "Ding, disease has been found in users memory and has been identified as the Common Cold. Unlocked disease interface, and disease control insight."
Jace jumps again but calms down and gets through the class. As Jace is biking home he thinks, "The reason that it didn't let me access insight that night must have been that I didn't have a disease to control." Jace had tried to connect mana to disease control the night he connected hex and curse mancing, but when he tried the system it didn't respond so he momentarily ended up giving up.
When Jace got home, he opened up the disease interface which looked like the hex and curse spell library but had different tab names that were Disease Identification, Storage, and Incubation. However Storage and Incubation tabs were dark. He opened up the Disease Identification tab to see the common cold on the first line.
Common Cold (Level 0.1 E)
Symptom 1: Lowers immunity of infected by 1%
Symptom 2: Increases production of mucus in navel cavity by 1%
Spread: Transfers by touch and air with a 25% infection rate
Jace looks over the disease wondering "what does the E stand for?" Jace then tries the 2 tabs but finds that they won't open. Jace heads out to the woods again to practice throwing and to cast a few hexs. He picks up the knives now hitting 4 on the tree but none in the middle
A few focused hours later, as he is drawing his hex, he feels that it is a little easier now to draw, and when he finishes blowing up the tree and heads to another one.
Before Jace draws the hex though he checks the time, and sees that instead of taking 30 seconds it now takes 27 seconds which makes Jace wonder "Did the curse also decrease in casting time?" But Jace didn't want to spend that much mana,so he decided to go back home and practice with his kerambit.