Chapter 4
After meeting his new friend the Reincarnator. Nick began to spend his time at a now pleasant pace, mainly meditation and practicing the sense of mana. Occasionally he tried to control the mana, but he never succeeded. Now he was absolutely sure that the formation in the mansion was to blame for this. He spent the winter and autumn mostly sitting in his mother's office, while she sorted through various documents. Occasionally his beloved friend Liam came and they played with different things, including with his mother's water magic, her name was Firel, and every time she arranged unforgettable performances with the help of water manipulation. This was very fascinating for Nick and Liam, these were flying swans and flying wyverns, once she arranged a whole water theater, then Nick was able to make sure that the formation really worked, since Firel looked exhausted. He very clearly hinted to Liam that they should not talk about reincarnation, even in English. So 10 months passed after the attempt on his life, Nick learned to walk, which made him very happy, now he could afford a slow walk around the mansion accompanied by Maria and Benedict. During this time, he gained a level in the race, and also decently, in his opinion, raised his statistics and skills.
Name: Dylan Ghostblade (Nick Miller)
Race: Evolved Human [Rare] Lvl 2
Class: Blocked
Class: Blocked
Health 110 HP 0.11 HP/hour
Mana 80 MP 0.04 MP/hour
Endurance 90 ST 0.9 ST/hour
Statistics:
Strength 7
Dexterity 7
Stamina 9
Vitality 11
Constitution 10
Intelligence 38
Wisdom 28
Mental Control 28
Willpower 36
Perception 18
Charisma 4
Mana output 5
Mana 8
Mana Regeneration 4
Luck 12
18 free attribute points
Titles: Otherworldly Reincarnator [Legendary+]
Racial Skills:
Quick Learning [Uncommon]
Low adaptability of characteristics [Common]
Minor Adaptation [Common]
Lesser Mana Core [Common]
Skills:
Lesser Meditation [Common) Lvl 9
Lesser Mana sense [Common] Lvl 9
Language Proficiency (Ramiast) [Common]Lvl 10
Possible skills:
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The hardest thing for him was to somehow increase his magic stats, but as far as he understood, they grew naturally. Now that summer had come, he often went outside to sit under his favorite tree, it still brought him pure pleasure. Nick could not stop admiring it. Just sitting in its shade, he felt better and healthier. Therefore, accompanied by Maria, Benedict and two guards, he often meditated next to it. It was on one of those days that he tried to manipulate his mana and immediately froze.
Did I succeed?
Nick looked at the top right icon and there he saw that he had unlocked a new skill.
Congratulations, you have unlocked a new skill: Minor Manipulation of Mana [Common].
Of course, Nick didn't think for a second and immediately picked up this skill.
Congratulations, you have acquired a new skill: Minor Manipulation of Mana [Common] Lvl 1.
Nick stood up and started laughing out loud, his joy knew no bounds, the people present started looking at him strangely, but it didn't bother him in any way. He was finally able to get this ill-fated skill. Having calmed down a bit, Nick decided not to tie anyone to his successes, since it took him a really long time and effort to at least unlock this skill. It would be strange for people that he was able to get it. Now his magical characteristics will finally be able to grow. Nick sat down leaning against a tree and fell into meditation. Nick began to manipulate his mana with particular joy and it was surprisingly easy. He began to pull mana from his core and circulate it in his body, in his opinion, he took about one eighth of his mana and began to practice this. About two minutes later, Nick began to notice that his mana was becoming less and less, and when the mana was completely over, he took a closer look at his body. All the mana he had been manipulating had been completely absorbed into his body. Nick didn't feel any worse and it was about 10 units of mana, so he decided that his theory about the mana output stat was correct. Nick decided to continue trying to manipulate his mana in his body, after an hour of such exercises, his body had completely absorbed all the mana from his core. Now Nick was faced with the question of how exactly he could replenish his mana. If he relied entirely on the mana regeneration stat, it would take forever. He quickly calculated in his head and it would take about 80 days, which was extremely unforgivable.
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How can mages become mages with such mana regeneration? After all, my mana reserve is just miserable! To get 4 MP per hour, you need to invest 400 attribute points in mana regeneration and this is about 20 Lvl in the race. And what can you do with such mana regeneration? Probably nothing, so it takes 20 hours to restore my mana reserve with such regeneration? And where is the balance in this? Damn, Nick, think logically! If everything was so bad, no one would bother to insert an anti-magic formation in the mansion, there must be some trick to this!
Nick focused on his mana regeneration stat
Mana Regeneration - Determines how quickly you can restore and regenerate your mana.
Now I just need to figure out how to start restoring my mana. I'm sure it needs to be taken from the environment, but I haven't reached the level where I can see mana outside my body. And even more so, influence it, it's hard, hard, how hard it is to become a mage! It's a nightmare!
Nick was again mentally depressed and only the presence of the tree made this moment bearable. He really couldn't afford to wait so long for his mana to recover or invest all his stat points into mana regeneration, as it would basically be the worst stat investment solely for this purpose. After waiting for a while, he began to meditate again, trying to sense the mana around him. And as sad as it was for Nick, he didn't succeed on the first try. Looking at his status again, he noticed that his Minor Manipulation of Mana [Common] skill had grown to Lvl 3, which brought him great pleasure, but in order to raise this skill to at least Lvl 10, he would have to practice mana sensing extremely hard. Back in his room, Nick spent the entire time thinking about how best to use mana recovery. After all, he was sure that there must be some technique, rather than just putting all the mana you can catch into the mana core.
The next morning Nick decided to go and have lunch with his family, for him there was now a special chair in which he loved to sit and delicious food. Naturally, he was seated next to his mother, despite all the noble rules that honestly made him feel sick.
Inventing all sorts of nonsense instead of practicality is how civilizations collapse. What normal person would even remember all the stupid rules of etiquette?Although thanks to a high wisdom indicator, it may not be as stressful as in my world. You just throw all the statistics into wisdom and you become a wonderful office worker, hmm, really convenient.
While Nick was thinking about his own, most of the relatives who lived in the mansion had already arrived for breakfast. Nick's father decided to choose this time to tell about the progress of the investigation.
"The investigation into the assassination attempt has not yet been completed. The necromancer who settled in the city hid through the sewers and left through the city's wastewater, the divination magic of the Holy Church could not find anything except the traces he left behind when climbing out of the river, his mana signature was identified as one of the commanders of the Undead Eminence. This necromancer had been in the city for about half a year and did not stick his head out. He had an artifact, or the ability to completely block his infected mana, an approximate calculation of his level gives a classer Lvl 300 [Special]. Which is very serious for us, a necromancer of such power could destroy a not big city.
What?! Not a big city?! And such crap is walking free?! Of course, I have no idea how strong a small town is, its approximate population, and so on, but isn't that too much?! But certainly not from one fucking person?! There must be a trick to this, otherwise necromancers would have taken over the world. I understand that the special level must be unrealistically strong if I suffer so much to advance my usual skills, but not that much? Let's say a necromancer must have weaknesses, but what are they? Different novels have different weaknesses, for example, they can't hit physically strong if the second class is not a fighter, if I were a necromancer I would take the magic class, of course. Then mana regeneration, do they spend their mana to maintain corpses or not? Do they need direct mental control over the undead, or not? How unbearable does life become if you are a necromancer, considering that my father mentioned infected Mana. Then, can the undead use their original skills, or do they only get the body? So many questions, and I can't ask them! Damn it!
While Nick was asking himself questions, Varion continued the conversation.
"Thanks to the strong presence of the Holy Church in the city, it was completely searched for the caches of necromancers and other heretical nonsense, and we thank the gods, found nothing more."
Nick continued eating and in the background tried to think of what else could be taken as an example of heretical nonsense.
Definitely demon worship, then maybe some evil god worship? Hmm, flesh mastery? Like reverse healers, maybe summoning evil spirits? Oh right, damn magic. Maybe fate magic? If it exists? And if it does, I'm sure it's pretty useless against me now, except to identify me as an Otherworldly Reincarnator. What else? Disease magic? Maybe poison magic, but hardly, I'm sure sacrifices, blood magic? Mind magic? Nothing else super heretical comes to mind. Oh right, how did I not think of soul magic?! A truly heretical thing!
Nick liked many types of the listed magic, but for now Nick did not understand what his father meant by heretical magic. It could be magic aimed exclusively at murder, perversion of life, simply morally unacceptable magic, or what the church itself calls blasphemy and because of this any users of this magic are kicked out. Nick was extremely curious and if of course the church forbids him to use some magic, then of course he can try . Breakfast then passed without any interesting things and everyone went about their business. Nick was thinking whether he should do something interesting or not? But having come up with nothing, he went to his favorite tree. And began to practice the feeling of mana, this time he decided to concentrate it on the tree. Having spent time like this until lunch, he decided to return to this activity later. It would be more logical for Nick to take and sit near the magician and try to feel his mana, but he did not want to be accidentally caught doing this. If it turned out that he had the skill to sense mana, it would be impossible to explain it to him. When Nick came to the tree after lunch, he noticed that its bark in the place where he usually sat had become softer. Without understanding it at all, Nick began to look even more closely at his favorite tree. And indeed, the bark had become softer, Nick could not yet understand this change, except to attribute it to the fact that the tree was alive or it was semi-sentient, he could not simply explain it by the fact that his practice of sensing mana was causing such ridiculous destruction. And now it became much more comfortable for him to sit. Nick concentrated on his thoughts and decided to try to simply transfer them to the tree. He tried to feel sincere gratitude for this. But he did not notice anything special. The rest of his day passed just like all the others before it.
After a month and a half, right on his birthday, he was able to start seeing the surrounding mana. But he would call it more of an active sense, it didn't extend far, about 20 centimeters from his body, but it helped him a lot. Now, like every reckless young man, he started trying to take control of the surrounding mana. He couldn't measure exactly how much mana he could control, and it didn't matter to him. The main thing was to try to shove the mana into the core. And it really wasn't as easy as he expected. Just shove the mana into the core didn't work, he had to surround the entire core with mana and try to keep it there for as long as possible, or rather, it became increasingly difficult the longer he continued, Nick finished after 7 minutes of concentration, and it left him completely drenched in sweat. It was really hard, and even his willpower meter went up by one point. Of course, the first time he didn't notice any difference in mana regeneration at all. But the important fact is that his skill has reached a very decent level.
Skills:
Lesser Meditation [Common] Lv. 14
Lesser Mana Sense [Common] Lv. 12
Language Proficiency (Ramiast) [Common] Level 15
Minor Mana Manipulation [Common] Lv. 8
I wonder how many skills the average person has? I'd like to learn a lot more skills, but I won't be that reckless.
Nick rested a bit and decided to do it before lunch. Since there was a dinner party planned for the evening, which Liam was supposed to attend. He honestly wanted to know how much mana the descendant of mages would have. He was a bit unlucky in this regard, but he would have a strong mage body and a second class of melee. Because of how quickly his mana was restored and how much effort it took, he was sure that somewhere along the way he would be caught without a drop of magic. Nick knew how mages died in novels. In a good mood, he went to his first birthday party.