Nathaniel was a bit exited to begin his journey with magic, but although he needed to learn how and what, he wasn’t going to let Tolverstov to go on and on about how magic was discovered and why, or about magic’s feelings. So, before Tolverstov had the opportunity to start lecturing, he stopped him.
“Look man, you know a lot and I appreciate you trying to teach me all that, but let’s try to focus a little. I’ll ask you questions, and you’ll explain. In the end, you can fill in the things I’ve missed. What do you say?”
“No problem. Ask away. And don’t hesitate to ask anything.”
“Thank you. How can you tell someone’s level?”
“Above level ten, you get the ability to see other’s life potential.”
“And by life potential you mean?”
Tolverstov’s face were getting more and more disappointed looking.
“You really jumping the study here.”
“It’s not a study, it’s a quick course.”
Tolverstov mumbled something but continue to explain.
“After you gain levels, your body is integrated with magic so…”
Nathaniel stopped him. “Please don’t explain scientific things now, just explain what life potential is.”
Tolverstov sighed. “Life potential is the name of magicians ability to die multiple times.”
“I’m sorry, what?”
“You see, that why I need to explain things.”
“No no no. just explain to me how you die multiple times, and not why.”
“Okey. When you die, your body disappear and you have a very short time to position yourself and you come to life fully healthy, and with all your equipment.”
“Oh, so that how they teleported into the room when I first came here.”
“you’re talking about bloom’s team I assume, yes, that how they ‘teleported’.”
In that moment, three people entered the house. It was the women that stayed with Nathaniel in the closet room when the others fought the dogs, and the man and women that came with her to the room at the beginning.
The women said something excitedly and Tolverstov jumped. They talked fast and the others eyed Nathaniel.
Nathaniel could understand Tolverstov, but it wasn’t enough to understand what they were talking about. He suspected that even if he could understand the women, he won’t understand the conversation. He did hear Tolverstov telling them about his powers.
After a short while, the guy that Siri called Jenifery approached Nathaniel.
“He said ‘hello I am Jenifery, and we are here to save you from Tolverstov’s explanations’.”
Nathaniel smiled and nodded.
Jenifery took a green board out of his bag and said something.
“He said ‘it is a translation board, just wright on it and it will translate it’.”
Nathaniel took the green board and wrote ‘thank you’.
“He said ‘no problem’.”
The women stepped forward and introduce herself.
“She said ‘I am tiki nice to meet you, lets grab you a language ability’.”
Strait to the point. Wow.
The man looked at her for a moment, then said something.
“He said ‘yeah, we should move before Tolverstov remember you’re here’.”
Nathaniel nodded. They sneaked out and went to a park nearby.
Jenifery took out a bottle from his bag and handed it to Nathaniel. The bottle was filled with purple goo and was corked with some black matter in narrow neck.
He said something.
“He said ‘spill everything on the floor without breaking the bottle’.”
Nathaniel looked at him questionably but then decided to comply and ask questions later.
He didn’t have tools to work with, so he tried to pool the black thing, but it was hard and a bit flexible. He looked around, there was nothing he could use. They stood in a grass bed boarding a lake, there wasn’t even rocks in the area. Realizing he don’t have another choice he pushed the black thing in until it moved freely in the purple goo. Now he tried to spill the goo, but it barely moved. He stopped and looked around again, his eyes stopped on the lake. He walked to the lake and put the bottle in the water. When he shook the bottle in the water, the goo started to dissolve and come out of the bottle. To his surprise, the black thing dissolve too and in short time the bottle was empty.
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You are now ready to advance to level 1.
“Oh, I understand.”
Tiki said something.
“She said ‘now, eat that’.”
She handed him a jar filled with green powder. The powder was shiny, and Nathaniel really didn’t want to put it in his mouth. He took the jar and looked at it, it looked like glitter.
I really really don’t want to eat that.
“I think that you have to, if you want to advance to level one.”
I guess you’re right.
He poured some of the powder into his mouth. It tasted like dust at first, but then it dissolved, and the taste changed to something between iron and smoked fish.
Now I really really really don’t want to eat it.
“Why? How is it taste? I can’t taste what you eat.”
It tastes like dust, iron, and smoked fish.
“Oh. I am glad that I can’t taste what you eat.”
Nathaniel took a deep breath and downed half of the jar. Then he tried to not throw up. At the end he managed to power through the whole jar.
Suddenly he felt a surge of power going through his body, like a shot of adrenaline.
You have advanced to level 1.
New powers
1 death
You can now absorb abilities that involve conjuring tools.
“I like the sound of that.”
“They cannot understand you.”
Right.
Jenifery and Tiki talked with each other while he was struggling, now Tiki handed him a jar filled with purple powder with a smile.
Shit. Do I need to eat that too?
“How awful can it be”?
Imagin connecting Samsung earbuds to an iPhone.
“That bad”?
Nathaniel chuckled. He powered through the purple jar and finished it.
New ability
Language
“YES. talk to me, say something.”
“Nice to meet you, Nathaniel.” Tiki said with a smile.
“I understood that.” Nathaniel felt like a huge burden was lift from him. “You have no idea how lonely I felt.”
“I imagine that you have a lot of questions that Tolverstov was taking a day to answer one.” Jenifery said with a smile.
“You have no idea.”
“what do you want to hear first”?
“What is this dalahar thing, and why am I in the middle of it?”
“Shit. That’s a long story, with or without Tolverstov.”
Nathanie raised one eyebrow.
“I’ll try to shorten it as much as possible.” Jenifery said “the dalahar is a universal cult, they like to enslave worlds to their imaginary magic lord. They send people to conquer worlds, but their strongest warriors lose their powers while teleporting, so they send people with knowledge to perform some freaky magic to teleport a boss with powers and tools. That is what they were trying to do here, and thankfully we were there to interrupt and ruin the magic. I mean, cleopatra ruin the magic, we were just…”
Nathaniel stopped him. “Did you say cleopatra”?
“Yes. Cleopatra is the women that is talking with Tolverstov right now.”
“cleopatra”?
“Yeah. What’s the problem?”
Nathaniel smiled. “cleopatra is an ancient queen in my world, it’s not something I would find interesting usually, but now it feels weirdly like home. Just hearing the name.”
“Ha, I can’t imagine cleopatra as a queen.”
Tiki giggled and nodded.
“anyway” Jenifery said “cleopatra disrupted the magic, and the boss didn’t come. But for some reason, you came instead. And I hear that you got some powers suddenly, my guess would be that the high level tool is a tool that you work with daily.”
“Your guess is correct.”
“Here you go. You were summoned by an evil universal cult, and they gave you powers. They’ll probably want revenge, so you can expect some assassination attempts soon.”
“don’t wary, we’ll protect you.” Tiki said. Then she became angry “I can’t wait to kill those mother fuckers.”
Jenifery nodded, then told Nathaniel. “We saw some things when we fought them.”
Nathaniel nodded. “I need to start to learn how to defend myself if I’m being hunted by a universal cult.”
“I imagine that your next ability will be a sword or a bow. I think that the best weapon for you now is a long-range weapon, but you’ll get what you’ll get.”
“I have some purple powder”
“Really? Where did you get it?”
“I don’t know.”
“Can we see”?
“Of cores” Nathaniel took the purple powder out of his inventory.
Jenifery and tiki examined it, and then tiki said. “It seems legit.”
“Take it. Let’s see what you’ll get.” Jenifery said.
Nathaniel opened the jar and stopped.
Tiki laughed. “Yeah, it tastes like rusted spoiled meat. It’ll just get worst the higher you go through the levels.”
Nathaniel shuddered. He powered trough the jar.
New ability
The AR-15
“wow”
“What did you get”? tiki asked
“Something very good, I think.”
“Is it a long-range weapon”? Jenifery asked
“Very long.”
“What is it”? tiki was losing her patience.
“Let me check.”
Nathaniel gave a mental commend and a description appeared in front of him.
Ability the AR-15
Conjure an AR-15 rifle and full magazines.
You can conjure a new magazine every five seconds. You can conjure up to two magazines at the same time, you need to un-conjure a magazine before you conjure a third one.
You can conjure a red dot sight. Additional equipment can be acquired through more abilities.
“that’s awesome.”
“What is it”? tiki asked
“it’s a fucking AR-15.”
“that’s weird.” Jenifery said. “I don’t know what AR is, but usually you get weapon the same level as you. You only level one, so it’s weird that you got level 15 weapon.”
Nathaniel laughed. “it’s the name of the weapon. Its an AR-15, the 15 is not the level.”
“What kind of weapon is it”? tiki asked.
“it’s a rifle.”
“what’s a rifle”?
“it’s a weapon that shoots tiny lead and steel bullets in a supersonic speed very far.”