Mitch read the class prompts, but he didn’t ponder too much on them, there was only one option that resonated with him and he chose that.
You’ve chosen the mage class.
New stats are unlocked in the status window!
New spell - Mana ball
New passive – Attuned with mana (+10 mana)
+1 allocable status point
+1 mind
+1 mana storage
Brace yourself!
„Brace yourself? What is it talki... URGHHH!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!”
He got to his knees, the pain was everywhere, in the bones, muscles, skin. Mitch felt like dying would’ve been a better choice right now. He felt like his bones were being destroyed and made anew, which could be what was happening.
Blood was oozing from every pore, mana in his body was getting chaotic, he laid down and suffered for hours until passing out.
After an unknown amount of time, Mitch woke up, against any reasoning, he was refreshed and invigorated, it was almost like he didn’t suffered at all.
His body had a black and red layer, red was the blood that painfully escaped from his body, but the black stuff he didn’t know exactly what it was.
Tier 2 acquired! Your body impurities were forcefully expelled! Your body quality increased!
„This stinks!”
Mitch washed himself, the impurities of his body had a rancid smell. While washing he found his skin smoother, the small imperfections in his skin that didn’t heal properly disappeared, and he wondered what other changes were there.
„Status”
Name
Mitch (human)
Level
10 [8 / 3000xp] (tier 2)
Class
Mage
Divine blessing
Creation system ★★★★★★★★★★
Body
15
Mind
19
Mana
250
Mana storage
11
Mana regeneration
10
Allocable points
1
Achievements
‚Otherworlder ★★★’ ‚Divine luck ★★★★★★★★’
Skills
[Gather], [Inspect], [Create common weapon], [Create element], [Small pocket space], [Mana ball]
Passives
[Apprentice mana manipulation],[Attuned with mana]
Mitch did the math on his mana, he should’ve had only 125, his mana storage gave him 110 then the passives added another 15, the only reason behind this was that him being tier 2 was multiplying his mana by two.
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He discerned that the level-ups he got until now really gave 1 stat point to every stat, even the ones that weren’t unlocked, that was why he got 10 mana every level, his mana storage was increasing by one point, and he even started with 10 mana regeneration.
„I wonder what other stats are there.”
Mitch got out of the cave, he didn’t want to damage his place while trying the new skill.
„Mana ball”
In front of his palm which was pointed to a nearby tree, mana started to gather at a fast pace transforming into a sphere where the energies constantly moved in all directions, making it look unstable but still keeping the shape. After the sphere was complete, it shot forward toward the tree where his palm was pointed.
„WOW!”
The sphere was the size of his hand and took 50 mana, it had great speed and exploded when touched the tree, leaving a little hole inside of it.
The knowledge from the spell finally gave him the answer for throwing his spells, he got excited and tried right away with his create element skill, creating a fireball the shooting at the tree. The trick was to push the mana inside the spell-like he pushed it inside his body while still maintaining a mana link with his hand.
Looking at the tree, the fireball did almost no damage, he tried using it with the other elements, the only useful one was the earth one which had some weight behind it. It also cost another 10 mana to push the spell.
With his newfound power, he felt ready to kill the bigger slime groups, but before that, he tried using his weapon creation skill again, after getting this much mana, the skill had to work.
„Create common weapon”, Mitch said while thinking of an iron dagger.
This time the skill activated using all his mana in the process, but there was no dagger, only some dust did materialize in front of him. He touched the dust and thought that it might be iron dust.
He waited for his mana to regenerate back to 250 then used the skill again, this time the dust from the previous attempt was raised, and tried to combine itself with the new materialized dust, still, no dagger formed, only a little bit of dust.
Mitch got an idea, he took a wooden branch from his pocket space and after regenerating the mana he used his skill, this time he was thinking of a wooden dagger. The branch didn’t move, and the skill managed to materialize a small wooden splinter.
Trying his magic senses on the iron dust, he found that it had his mana inside of it. Mitch tried inserting his mana inside the wooden branch and coating it with mana as well.
Mana dissipated slowly from the wood while he waited for his mana to regenerate.
„Create common weapon!”
The wooden branch disintegrated in pieces and floated up in front of his palm where it took a shape of a wooden dagger. The process took a few minutes, and Mitch got excited.
„Inspect”
Wooden dagger (tier 1)
A wooden dagger created in magical ways, it has a sharp edge uncharacteristic of wooden weapons, it has a great mana conductivity.
‚Mana conductivity?’, thought Mitch while touching the knife edge which was sharp, but not sharp enough to cut his skin.
He got another branch and started chipping at the tip to sharpen it, the wood was carved easily, but the wooden dagger got dull fast, wood wasn’t a strong material.
Mitch tried to push his mana through the dagger, it was easier than pushing in the branch the first time, it might’ve been because of the great mana conductivity aspect and the fact that he felt his mana signature still in the dagger, after all, he created it.
He managed to push 100 mana until he felt resistance, the wood felt tougher, he tried chipping at the branch again and he found that it cut better and didn’t dull as much.
The mana was dissipating from the dagger at a slow pace, it took 10 minutes for the mana to fully dissipate. The less mana it got the worst its performance got.
Mitch tried to make the next best thing he could think of with the resources he got at the moment, a stone dagger. He encountered a problem fast, it was hard to push mana inside the stone, and after pushing some, the mana dissipated at a fast rate.
Mana dissipated completely before he got enough to cast the skill.
Mitch collected more wood and made himself a wooden sword, three wooden bats, and a few knives, he couldn’t wait to use the bats against the slimes. Filling the bat whit mana made it tougher and had more weight to it, even tho he felt it the same in his hand.
Wooden sword (tier 1)
A wooden sword created in magical ways, it has a sharp edge uncharacteristic of wooden weapons, it has a great mana conductivity.
Wooden bat (tier 1)
A wooden bat created in magical ways, it has more weight to it uncharacteristic of wooden weapons, it has great mana conductivity.
He tried the bat on a tree with and without mana injected into it, and the differences were big, the normal bat would break after some bashes, but the mana-injected one not only did not break, it even took chunks of bark from the tree.
Mitch tried making a shield but the skill wouldn’t work, he had to try though.
With all his new changes Mitch almost forgot about his cheat, he opened the skills window of his creation system to see what is new.
Tier 1 skills
Gather (cost 1 point), Inspect (cost 3 points), Small pocket space (30 points), Create common weapon (10 points), Create element (20 points)
Tier 2 skills
Create furniture (6000 points), Create common armor (8000 points), Create uncommon weapon (10000 points), Medium pocket space (10000 points)
Tier 3 skills (locked)
Create subspace (? points) ???????????????????????
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„6000 points for some furniture, are you mad System??!”
Gather and inspect skills weren’t getting any upgrades like the pocket space and create weapon skills. Mitch wondered what uncommon weapon might mean, will it give his wooden weapons better stats or was he just able to make weapons from better materials?
Mitch prepared his new arsenal and make his way toward the chamber. With the bat fully charged with mana, he bashed through the earth slime in only one hit, the poor guy didn’t have time to even conjure an earth spike.
Mitch was dumbfounded, he was way more powerful and fast now that he was tier 2, he felt just a little resistance while bashing the earth slime which was the tankiest of them all.
„Mana ball”
The spell flew fast towards a group of slimes killing the earth slime it touched then exploding in a torrent of mana killing 2 nearby electric ones and injuring a nature one.
„Cool!”
The next few days Mitch killed almost all the slimes in the chamber gathering a whopping 2500xp, there weren't that many remaining after his last session when he got enough xp for his level 10.
„This is the last one.” Said Mitch effortlessly bashing a poor electric slime to nothingness.
The place started to shake, Mitch had to focus to keep his balance. In the middle of the chamber, a small green array appeared gathering mana from the surrounding atmosphere and then a green ball started materializing above the array, it got bigger and bigger until it got to 5 meters in height.
Mitch saw a big green slime with a core the size of his head floating inside of it. The chamber entrance closed off.
„Fuck!”