I woke up from my nap with a killer headache. It was like drinking past your limit and waking up to the neighbors throwing a party on the front lawn with loud music.

I grabbed my head, standing up from where I was laying down. I looked around with squinty eyes.

This place was unfamiliar to me.

Trees circle this bright green grassy area. The sky above was clear but the heat bearable.

This did not help me understand where I was.

I gave a slow spin to take in the shadows cast by the trees. I remember some information that moss grew on the north side of trees and shadows were usually directly north or south in the southern or northern hemisphere.

“You won’t be able to tell the direction of the sun base of the shadows of the tree.” a female voice sounded out.

I spun around and grabbed my head, wishing I didn’t move so fast. The lady before me was beautiful but looked unrealistic. The kind of look you would see in games with the bust too big and round, the hips to waist to narrow then flared out, and the ass. Let’s just say, if she had appeared before me as a slender woman with a small firm ass, hand holdable breast, and cocky smile.

I might be drooling at this moment.

“And you are?” I ask politely.

The woman frowned while looking at me. That really half scowling-frown women do when they ask if they look fat in this dress and your reactionary response is yes.

“Yes, you will get to know me well. For I am the one that brought you here.” She had this funny lilt.

I wanted to ask where was here, but she kept speaking. Like a stage performer that you wanted to shut up so the real performers could come on stage.

“You are in another world, surprised?” She said it with a kind of mocking smile.

However, it turned really stale, really fast. I guess she was expecting to see a surprise? Some kind of conflicting emotion that could get her little dumbass some amusement. Sadly, I was waiting for the shoe to drop before I figured out if I should choke this bitch now or later.

“Aren’t you just no fun.” She stared at me for a second before stomping. “Then I’ll get right into it. There is a competition going on between the Gods, people like myself. Each of us has our own champions and you are mine. If you compare yourself to a game, then you would be an NPC. My champion can only be an NPC and I’m more in line with Mysticism so I picked out a host for you instead of allowing you to learn and train from ground up. There are players from your world, I’m sure you played a game, right? Well same concept but only one life.”

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I tilted my head, processing this information.

“This is the gist of what I can tell you. Build up a force, I’ll come back when the fun starts.”

She disappeared and I spun slowly. Looking around before sighing. I picked a random direction, took one step, and collapsed.

Memories flooded into my brain. Disturbing things that caused such unnecessary pain. Reminded me of being forced to watch a documentary on how something was made.

I rolled onto my back, covering my eyes.

I breathed in and out, letting the various memories play like a slideshow. It took what felt like hours for it to end. I acquired a basic understanding of my body’s past, but that was only a drop of his knowledge.

The guy is a genius and was given the best resources to become a prodigy. I am sure that if he had actual combat ability, his adopted-father would have actually cared more.

Sadly, this guy's abilities were basically useless for combat.

A support character.

A Mystic sounded powerful, even I would be confused upon hearing a description of it for the first time.

Mysticism is an untainted form of magic that can be used to create, manipulate slash mimic objects, spirits and powers.

This is like saying, hey, this guy can copy other people powers. Create cool gear, summon badass spirits, toss really deadly storms that can wipe out cities.

In reality, this guy was only adept in learning really useless stuff. Like Dream Magic, which he mastered to the level of entering anybody's dreams within thousands of miles. Pretty cool, right? He only used it during the training phase. Then only after that to pull weapons out of a dream. Ignoring the fact he had absolute control over a dream and could theoretically teach his own force within their dreams at a much faster pace than they normally would train.

In short, he could have made a deadly team of fighters that could do what he could not. Pacifists are scary.

Next he learned Energy-to-matter manipulation magic. Which is basically turning any form of energy into matter and vice-versa. This he learned to better control his ability to create items in dreams and dragged them out. Sort of an A plus, I guess.

A mage has to get up close and personal to kill his enemies. Wow. What a dumbass.

Third, he learned the bread and butter of Mysticism for Druids. Animancy magic, which revolves around manipulating the living, life, the life-force, and all lifeforms. Another very cool sounding knowledge but he learned it to assist with applications of restoration magic. Simple healing and defensive spells. Purification magic, which was all about bettering the environment.

In such form, this guy was the opposite of what his father trained him to be. Over empathetic and cared way too much about nature in all its beauty.

However, he had some high points. He learned how to shapeshift which is a transmutation magic. He mastered Cosmic Awareness from the divination category, which would allow him to be away from anything that might affect him on a universal scale. Well the textbooks say that but since processing my abilities, I only saw an image of someone talking about me with threatening intent.

However, they were thousands of miles away. The good news is that while the previous host was a shitbag and his knowledge preferred wasn’t the best suited for combat. His adopted father did force him to learn a lot about everything.

Thus I knew that Animancy could be considered soul and life magic. Which could have some very powerful implications, I also picked up a cheat code for training.

Closing my eyes, entering a dreamworld, I am capable of extending the time to whatever I want. This would allow me to spend all of today practicing spells and learning how to manipulate souls and life energy to better help me.