I opened my eyes while I was still tired but that was more mental exhaustion than anything physical. The few hours of sleep I got today is already enough for my body to feel refreshed but my mind still needs proper sleep every few days.

I got up and looked out the window to see where the sun was so I could figure out what time it was. Passed midday, so about three hours of sleep. I did some slow stretches so I could get my mind into the correct space. It was time to start with the first task understanding the new trait that I got.

Going into meditation I spent a few hours concentrating on the new trait. While meditating I could not actively do anything it was more like a dream where you could direct its start, but the rest was taken care of by my subconscious mind. It is interesting because when the meditation ends and I open my eyes I’m flooded with the information all at once. This time is no different.

This trait turned out to be an incredibly powerful one. If I had to classify it, I would say it would be legendary or even mythic. The problem was that I will not see any benefits for a long time.

The trait fixed my problem of not having any elemental affinities. With this trait, my elemental affinities will slowly start to grow inside me hence the name of the trait elemental seeds. I will still need to find a monster or animal that can control a certain element and then the trait will allow me to get a piece of its affinity by taking a piece from its core and making it slowly grow.

However, when I take this affinity from the core of the monster it will be like 0.001% of an affinity and then that will slowly start to grow like a seed. Completely amazing but for that affinity to have any effect that I could use it would need to be at a minimal 10%.

Even then I would only be able to produce a lighter worth of fire. To get to 10% it will take 10 to 20 years. The good news is that I could grow multiple different elemental seeds at the same time. This just means that eventually, I can be very powerful.

With this trait, I have elemental affinities, an energy core and I have ways to strengthen my body without the system. I think I’m closer to a monster now than a human. I need to be careful so I won’t fall into the mindset of a monster as well but I think I’m stubborn enough so that won’t happen. Still, I need to be mindful of it. It was now time to add this trait to my core.

I already knew that this would be a difficult job because my giant among men trait didn’t absorb it. But I hadn’t expected it to take almost 18 hours. When I finished there was a puddle of sweat surrounding me and the first thing, I did was not look at my notifications but go and drink and eat something. After scarfing down anything I saw I went back to my room and started to clean up while looking at the new notifications.

Skill increases Beginner mind is now level 41

A 7-level increase was madness but it was really difficult to add this trait to my core. But I only expected three or four levels. This means I can finally level up my adventurer class and get the two extra abilities for free. This time I knew that it will be an easy process so I laid down on my bed as I know I will be falling asleep right after I’m done. Even now it was kind of hard to keep myself awake.

I opened my adventure class and immediately the system started to do its job. First, my mind skill was properly levelled up, so it was now shown as advanced mind level 6. Next, I looked at my ability gain.

First, one was called mind palace and I really didn’t need any more descriptions because this ability is quite well-known and features in many books. What I needed to do was find out how many features this ability has. Was this ability a shallow one meant to just strengthen my mental defences or was it something more? I have read about many different versions of it and its depth can vary a lot.

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I kind of wanted to know right away so I quickly activate it to see what it was about. In an instant, I appeared on a grassy hilltop. From the abilities information, I know that this was going to be the site of my mental defence.

The ability was slowly being fed by my energy and by doing that I could slowly see rocks being made in a circle around the top of the hill. It was going to take a lot of energy and effort to make some proper defences, but it seems that this ability had quite a lot of depth in it.

I quickly got out of the ability and looked at the other notification to see what my second ability was. It was kind of a head-scratcher as it was named stubborn will. This wasn’t an active ability but a passive one so I couldn’t change anything about it. The only thing I could do was switch the energy fed to it from my regular energy to my core energy.

I decide not to do that because I didn’t want too many abilities pulling on my core energy. It was a finite resource and I wanted the core to use its energy to grow itself and especially I didn’t want to go into negative core energy production.

I might need to meditate on this ability to find out what it does, but I think it makes my stubbornness boost my energy strength while fighting or defending. I was on the fence if this was a good ability to get or not. It might turn out good later down the line but I’m quite certain there were better options that unfortunately I just didn’t get.

The adventurer class was waiting for my input. I needed to choose either stat point gain or a skill/ability whatever one was offered. I was quite disappointed as it doesn’t seem that the picks for each level were that good. They seemed to be completely random.

I think my homesteader class might be responsible for that because apparently what choices you get are affected by the restrictions on your skills by the system. So having such an open class affects the choice quite badly. I don’t know from how big of a pool the choices come from but getting anything good is statistically unlikely.

But it seems that the two points I have in luck are working overtime because, at the 14th level pick, I could choose an ability called tattoo storage. From the lectures I’ve attended any ability with storage in its name is extremely useful. It should be some kind of an easy way to transport objects and while I hadn’t heard of this one, I could already imagine what it might do so I picked that one. This time I decided to test it out later and went back to choosing the next levels option.

At level 17 I got an option for papermaking. This made me hesitate for a moment but in the end, I could just learn this skill on my own so the stat points would be a better option. At level 19 I got an option to pick an ability called extended claws.

At first, I was going to dismiss it but then I remembered that my nails are a lot better than any other human's. In fact, they are as strong as the sabretooth cats. If I could extend them at will, they could be a powerful weapon and a sneaky one.

Having weapons that no one can disarm you of and are completely overlooked is something I can't dismiss. Unfortunately, I don’t know exactly how this ability will work but I think I will take a chance on it.

Just in case I considered the option again but picking it might be a better gamble than just taking the stat points. After a bit more hesitation I took it. For the final level of the class, I got the chance to pick the next skill. There was a slim chance of there being a soul skill, but I needed to look anyways. There actually was one.

I had to hold back my yell of victory. While I might find something else suitable, I had already started the trinity of body, mind, and soul so why not complete it? When I finished taking the skill I knew one thing levelling this one will be incredibly difficult. The good thing is that it will level passively as I get stronger the bad thing about that was that it would be slow, and my adventurer class will be stuck at level 20 for quite a while. The other question was if there actually is a synergy between the three skills.

There was one more notification waiting for me. I was already close to a stat milestone with strength and the stat points I gained made me go past it. I was excited to see what I got so I quickly opened up my notification.

New trait gained

strength reaches 640 new trait gained kinetic absorption

This one felt powerful and from my knowledge, it might be a game changer depending on how it works. Now this is a trait meaning the system will not make it stronger so I do not know how much it will help but hopefully, it will at least mitigate some blunt damage.

I wanted to test out my remaining capabilities as well, but I was just so tired. There was just one more thing I needed to do. I reached over to my nightstand and broke the piece of paper that the Thorn Rose Company sent me.

I had six more days to get there and now I had more than one reason to go. I also needed to visit the adventuring guild headquarters so I could get The Court of The Young off my back for a few years.