He had been practicing every night for some time now and he had started to figure out some things now.
First. His MP replenished as a pace of 1MP for every hour while awake, but at a rate of 3MP per hour when asleep. When he had tried to mimic his body’s state with [MIND OVER BODY] he had acquired [MEDITATION] which let him replenish his MP at a rate of 1 per 20 minutes of meditation. So that helped him extend his night training sessions.
Secondly, he had found out that when his MP reached 10% he started feeling mentally exhausted, but as he had continued to train every night out, his body had grown accustomed to this and it no longer affected him even if he felt the effect. After a few months he had gathered the courage to exhaust his MP exactly. He felt as he had the first time he had reached the 10% mark. What would have happened if he had gone all the way on his first-time training? He shuddered. But the real prize was the realization the morning afterwards. When you exhausted your entire MP upon full recovery your MP pool grew.
During the day he had gotten to experimenting with how he could manipulate his bodily functions to make better use of his otherworldly knowledge.
So far, he had been able to unlock quite a few skills by focusing his mind.
By focusing on each of his senses with his mind he had been able to unlock quite a few skills
[HEARING]
Level: 1 [72/100]
Rank: Basic [E]
Description: You hear a little better than most people. It’s easier to distinguish people by their sounds.
Cost: 0 MP
Cooldown: none
[SKIN]
Level: 1 [0/1]
Rank: Basic [E]
Description: You can feel the lightest pressure against your skin.
Cost: 0 MP
Cooldown: none
[TASTE]
Level: 1 [85/100]
Rank: Basic [E]
Description: You can correctly identify the different components in a dish.
Cost: 0 MP
Cooldown: none
[SMELL]
Level: 1 [37/100]
Rank: Basic [E]
Description: You can correctly identify a known scent.
Cost: 0 MP
Cooldown: none
By being able to correctly identify specific sounds and smells you could level up these senses. The same was correct for [TASTE], but if you could correctly identify the ingredients used you could level up faster.
He had also cut himself and upon trying to summon his platelets to clot the wound and his skin to mend faster he had obtained [HEAL] which allowed him to heal using the resources available to his body. So, you ended up tired and hungry, but healed. The resources consumed depended on the severity of the wound and of course there was a limit to how much you could heal this way but would be very helpful in concealing his nightly activities.
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Sonya had begun to worry, his youngest seemed to never want to play, barely made any noise, didn’t seem to get along with any of the neighbors’ kids, and had an insatiable curiosity, but not for things any normal kid would ask for. She could also have sworn that she had seen him training like grown men do, but every time she though so and looked back he was completely still and with his eyes closed. She had beginning to worry that some of the older kids would start to bully him as he got older.
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He was just meditating on the back of his house when he heard Jayce. He had seen the big brute bullying all the neighborhood kids. He was smart enough to not anything in front of the adults.
He would remain out of his way as much as possible as he would not let himself be bullied, but also wanted to keep a low profile, and that meant not standing out.
“I said STOP!”
Was that Ilya’s voice? She was next door’s daughter. She was sweet and was always nice to him. She even talked to him sometimes and treated him like an equal, even if he was 8 years younger than her. He looked next door.
“Or what? I saw your mother in the market and I know your brother is not home. You better do as I say, or you’ll regret it. Nobody here to defend you.” It’s a shame there are assholes like that in every universe.
He didn’t want to get involved, but he could not see this, have the ability to stop it, and do nothing.
“Please release the lady from your grasp. It is obvious she doesn’t want anything to do with you.” He said as loud and clear as he could.
DING.
Jayce looked around in a flash, as if afraid he had been caught up by an adult. Then looked at me. Stood perplexed for a second and started laughing. “What do we have here? Scram you fancy bugger! This doesn’t conce…”
I activate [KILLER INSTICT] for the first time since I got it “I’ll only say it once more. Please unhand the lady.”
He stopped and was not laughing any more. He seems unsure about what to say or do. He looked to the side. I hadn’t realized that he was with two other boys.
“Getting scared of a little baby?”
He pushed Ilya to the floor and came at me. “I tried to let you go since you are just a baby. But I will not…”
I had not actually thought this through, or I would have grabbed my wooden sword and had brought it with me. Without anytime to think I knew that most martial arts used the opponent’s momentum and strength against them. I may not have trained, but I watched tons of martial arts movies in my past life and recalling those memories and making use of [MIND OVER BODY] I tripped him, grabbed him by arm, slammed him against the floor. He was out cold.
DING. DING.
It had not occurred to me that stats made that much of a difference. Oops.
I turn back to the other two. “Take him and go. Or would you like to see if you can do better than him?” As they grab their friend and leave as fast as they could I offer my hand to Ilya. “Are you ok?”
Poor thing. She appears to be in shock. Jayce must have really scared her.
She grabs me and hugs me as she starts crying. “How? What? It doesn’t matter. Thank you so much!”
“Just a little bit of martials arts I learned. No big deal. If you ever need my help again, I would be happy to assist you”
I start walking back to my house. I need to check my notifications.
Skill [MIND OVER BODY] and previous has been used to generate [MARTIAL ARTS] skill!
+3 DEX
New title [DEFENDER] obtained!
I smile to myself. Time to get back to training and researching.