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5 hours later

‘I think I’m okay for now’

I’m guessing 5 hours from my status screen unless hours work differently here.

Current Mana

110/1000

Self Mana Generation

1/hour

Exterior Mana Conversion

10/hour(Max)

Yeesh, that was one heck of a ride. For the last approximately five hours, I was zoning out? Not quite sure about that one, but as I tried to organize my mangled thoughts and calm my panicking heart something peculiar happened.

It was like I was meditating and sleeping at the same time still aware but somehow in a dreamlike state. I could perceive my surroundings but like a dream vague and distant yet still aware, instinctively knew I could ‘wake up’ if I wanted or if something entered my attention. Time seemed to slow down but it also seemed to slip through my non-existent fingers. It was 5 hours but felt more as I organized my thoughts, let my mental breakdown recede, finding the cause and how it affected me. Taking time to identify and accept my emotions, slowly that devastating situation becomes but a moment.

Doing all this felt like more than five hours for me, on the other hand waking up felt like mere minutes had passed. Strange, I don’t know if I should be glad I can do that. But, I must admit a pretty handy feature.

Now listening to this amazing experience did it fix my newly acquired trauma ‘Ohh hellll no!’ Are you kidding me if it was that easy I would have not spent years of effort trying to live and come to terms with my trauma. In addition, spending a buttload of money on therapy, reading self-help books, and doing therapeutic activities even though most were a horrendous struggle for me. Even will all that shit I’m still insecure.

‘No, it will take a lot more than magic and dying to defeat my insecurity and self-hatred. For these mythic bitches are here to stay.’

Anyway, thinking about the whole dying thing, (yep that was the cause go figure), the thing is dying, well it kinda sucks. ‘Really dying is not a great experience. Wow, who would have thunk? Simply a revelation!’ bypassing my sarcasm, you see previously the experience of dying was close to nil.

It happened so fast, there was no pain, and the memories were hazy, like where you wake up and know you had a nightmare even though you cannot remember it. It was mostly just the shock of witnessing a horrific event play out even though I was in the leading role.

In conclusion, the impression I got was blurry, to say the least, enough to haunt me for weeks sure but wouldn’t scar me for life.

Then came the thing that started it all, the ability of photographic memory as I decided to call it that way, even though it would probably be very different, hey that’s the best I got, work with me here.

The memory became clear, my dumbfounded mind during that moment now ever so clear, every bit of my five senses sending signals as it implants in my brain, seared in my memories.

Then it came to me, the fear of death, the dread, the unwillingness, the panic, the desire to live, thinking of all the things I could have done in my life as despair fills me.

It was shitty.

Those feelings are currently but a shadow. Still, they're forever etched into my very being like all my other unpleasant memories becoming a part of me. ‘Great another one to the bucket, as if the shitty things before weren’t enough. Yay me.’

The silver lining to this whole fiasco though ‘Hey I got a superpower, super memory. A limited one with limited memories but hey SUPERPOWERS. Another tick to my impossible dream list that is looking like a bucket list at this point.’

Sure it may have cost me a traumatic experience due to my inexperience, but hey that’s life for you. Plus, not to brag but I definitely have given more for less.

Now I can get to watch all the novels, mangas, animes, movies, and television shows whenever I want or get bored, high-five. And also use this knowledge to revolutionize the world like those isekai-tropes, and probably rule the world in the process becoming unimaginably overpowered and creating a harem of obsessed powerful influential lovers.

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

Nawww, now who needs that when you have thousands of entertaining stuff? ‘Yay for stuff!’

Now where was I before my meltdown, ah yes checking my titles and what they do.

[As long as you interacted with it, and exists in this world you can create it] It was if I remember correctly. Seems like a very useful ability or a completely useless one depending on the similarities of the worlds.

Great now that I checked all that, taking a lot more time than I predicted, now to check out more

‘Perhaps this conspicuous flashing screen in my mind that forcefully woke me in my (zone-meditation-sleep?) let's settle for meditation. Hmm, I wonder?’

The instant I think about it jumps in front of my mind's eye(a metaphorical one as for the absence of visual organs, not a new superpower) cutting me off for more nonsense.

Confirmed parameters met for the minimum level of sentience…

Confirmed parameters met for 90% of total mana capacity and/or possessing 100 mana minimum…

Initiating protocol…

Binding tutorial to confirmed target…

Imparting basic world knowledge…

All set protocols are finalized…

Initiating tutorial…

Good Luck

Tutorial Step 1

Confirmed insufficient space

Please use the ability Absorb Matter to acquire sufficient space

Imparting basic use guide of the ability Absorb Matter…

Impart achieved

Task

-Form a 1m-radius space with your core at the center using Absorb Matter

‘ugh’

You know in those sci-fi contents where there's these inventions that allow to straight up inject information to your brain, making learning new information a piece of cake.

If you ever wanted to just jam your brain with knowledge for a test tomorrow you are horrendously unprepared for, or when learning something new, only to quit in the next few days.

You know what I’m talking about.

Want to know how it feels, as a first-hand experience, not pleasant. Gives me the willies, forming non-existent goose bumps on my non-existent skin. To be fair, a small price to pay for a wondrous miracle.

Did you know that in this world of Aetheria, a day is 28 hours, a week is 8 days, and 12 months being a year is the same? With 3 suns and five moons. There are elves, orcs, humans, beastkins, dwarves, halflings, and gnomes that are the main sapient race in Aetheria.

There are even multiple bonafide Gods, I know it’s ironic being surprised chosen by the all-mighty System and all, but still. A part of me thought the System would be the one and only god in the worlds it presides over.

Even got information on monsters, what they're called, descriptions of their appearances, and that's pretty much it. I have basically as much information as seeing a picture of a platypus the first time, even less than that for it’s all descriptions no image. I know its name, and I know how it should look, but as for the structure or what any organs do, nada.

On a side note, zero platypuses on Aetheria from the general information on fauna and critters. You don’t exist in a magic world, but exist in a non-magical world, truly an extraordinary existence.

For the rest of the information, rubbish. I mean they’re pretty basic stuff. The sky, the sea, dirt, colors, legs etc. Lacking severely of information and so theoretical.

For example, the sky exists in the air, up above most times a shade of blue, sometimes a different colors based on the time of day.

That’s it.

No image, no whys or hows just that. Barely knowing the concept of it. I guess it’s useful if you get to see the sky for the first time, you can identify it and know its name, but that’s as far as you can get.

Being a singularity, making most of the knowledge obsolete, I'm definitely not the target audience.

I wonder how much the threshold for sentience is. To be given such abstract knowledge.

Well, back to the tutorial always a fan of those no sarcasm there. I’m the type who needs to read the rules of the board game and understand it to have fun, even if said rules take hours to read. The rules are there for a reason! But I guess a little chaos is welcome it won’t be boring if anything else.

Shall we now use our very first ability (ignoring the photographic memory)

‘Now behold as I use the power in me bestowed by the mighty System.’

Absorb Matter

Then about 2 cubic centimeters volume of stone adjacent to my core disappeared.

‘Yes!!!! I am INVISIBLE!!!!!’