Awakening not knowing where I am, I try to open my eyes but alas it’s in vain, as the darkness around me persists. I try to juggle my memory around for where I am but nothing comes up other than my normal memories.
Those of a student in philosophy in his second year, wasting his life judging the morality of the world and its leaders and giving opinions about others without giving a fu… dime. He is the man named Maxim, or max for short. His looks didn’t matter to his story and he has the bad habit of speaking about himself in third person sometimes.
Huh I better stop with the 3rd person narrative. At least I’m calmer now. I wonder where I am. And most importantly how I got here. Aaaaaaand still nothing. Can’t see can’t move and can’t talk. Did I hit the back of my head or something? I don’t think I’m in a coma. Since I can feel pressure on my skin. Am I bandaged from head to toe? Trying to feel my body I find something peculiar I feel totally normal no discomfort or feelings of phantom limb, yet why the hell does my body feels that it is shaped like a freaking BALL?
I’m pretty sure the definition of human suits me you know two legs, two arms and all that crap. But how the hell did I become a bowling ball? Ok let’s calm down and gather more info. Taking in the sensation of my surroundings in to account. I’m feeling rough and wet pressure across most of my body with a few hard stuff around pressing here and there. And that tells me a whole lot of nothing. I’m a ball in who god knows where and that’s all I know no sixth sense, no god monologue about my miserable importance in his huge game plan, no resurrection plot and thank god for the lack of those overly useful status screens of convenience.
Ding!
Name: Maxim
Race: Mana Core/Crystal
Class: N/A
Job: N/A
Titles: One of a Kind
Condition-Healthy
Stamina-N/A
Mana-0
Stats:
Strenth-0
Agility-0
Dexterity-0
Intelligence-23
Wisdom-62
Skills: None
A screen like thingy somehow becomes available to my subconscious. I can’t exactly see it more like feel it.
Greaaaaaat. I’m a fucking crystal ball that can’t even see its own future. Oh wait I haven’t tired that yet.
Maxim-“Crystal, crystal on the ball who’s the pretties of all?”
Cricket-chiirp, chirp, chirp.
Well that’s productive. Ok let’s calm down empty my mind and focus on the problems one at a time. Breath in, breath out, breath in, breath out.
As he was breathing he was calming down by the moment once his mind was clear and empty as the void he was feeling in he started to focus on the facts one by one or he tried to unitl he was disturbed once again.
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DING!
Skill acquired: Mind-Meditation
Level 1(0/100)T1
You can calm your mind and enter an empty state allowing you to free yourself from yur mortal shell and focus on what lies beyond. Moving cancels the meditative state
While meditating:
Calms the emotions
Resistance against mental attacks-1%
Reduces rage stat-0.1/min
Increase in mana regen-1%
Skill acquired: Mind-Focus
Level 1(0/100)T1
Focuses your mind on a single task or skill granting you increased focus on it, moving or losing focus cancels the skill.
Focused tasks or skills:
Skill gains experience faster-1%
Task/Skills complete faster-1%
Skill have an increased effect(multiplier)-1%
Increases chance of succeed(additive)-1%
Synergy detected:
Meditation and focus can be active at the same time
New skill generated: Mind- Meditative focus
Unique (0/500)T1
Allows the user to focus on a singular task without the distraction of the outside world or his emotion putting him in a meditative like state. Allowing an increase of overall efficiency of the skill or task preformed.
Must have meditation and focus active at the same time in order to activate gains experience from both skills. Upon activation cancel conditions must be set
While active:
Increase of overall efficiency by 5%, becomes almost in a comatose like state.
One cancel condition.
Damn I guy cant have a free thought without being disturbed, huuuuuuuuuh. Lets see I got lots of crap about meditation and those dings are getting annoying. I’m pretty sure those can be turned off, somehow? Lets see… DATA LOG… nope RECENT DINGS… nope ANNOUCEMENTS
Ding!
Announcements:
Recent
History
Options
I quickly found the sound option and turned it off and put an obscure log in the upper right corner of my vision, this way I won’t even see it until I focus on. It has two tabs recent and history. Kinda like the ones in a browser. Anyway taking another look at my status screen I decided to put my amazing mana bar with a value of zero at the bottom of my vision and condition status below it. Clock at the top right and a compass in the top middle. Cheers for conviniencess. Now I have everything where I want it to be.
Maxim-“Now what?”
Well considering I can’t talk why do I even bother to ask? Deciding to get out of my little world and face reality I still find myself at the same predicament.
Maxim-“Best guess I’m underground. I’m a round crystal in a humid place with a coarse texture and a few hard places.”
Newsflash crystals are found underground, and I’m in some type of rocky soil I would try to wiggle around since it doesn’t feel too heavy on me unless my crystal nature has higher pressure resistance than normal then I could be from 1 meter depth to well over 20 000 depending on volcanic activity in the region. Cuz the temperature in here is pretty cozy, best guess is around 20C* or something.
Not moving is not good but I can feel for some reason so that means I could probably have other senses sight at least and sound on top would be best, I could do quite well without taste and smell.
From the stats I’d say I’m in a fantasy like world with magic, mana based at least. From my physical stats I’m not supposed to move, or am I? For now I would focus on magic why? Because it’s awesome!
For my misery my mana is at zero. How the hell do I increase it?. Mana regen is a thing, if skills are to judge so probably I have no mana capacity at all and need to develop it or my manna has no upper limit. Thumbs up for the latter. Since I’m not going anywhere I’ll try some meditation to become one with the world.
Closing my metaphorical crystal eyes, I begin to expand my perception of the universe, well a few inches of my surface at least. Feeling everything I can perceive I see myself and the world.
I feel like an empty void and the world like and ancient ocean full to the brim.
Slowly I try to drink the ocean but it resists and pulls making it trivially hard for me to drain a sliver of water from the infinity.
Maxim-“Well that was easy”
A quick look at the clock says I was meditating for a few hours and a glance at my stats says 1mp
Maxim-“I really hope its as op as it looks”
So meditation helps me take mana from the outside in order to store it inside myself, the lack of mana upper cap shows that I can store indefinitely and the lack of mana in me says I don’t have a natural regen at all. Ups and downs of life I guess. I doubt I can do anything with 1 point so I better start grinding.