I’m going to die! There I said it! My mom is a sadist. I knew this but I thought this wouldn’t apply to her own flesh and blood!
It has been a month since I entered this room in hell, although I haven't missed a day of school because of the thing that basically seems to be a hyperbolic time chamber it looks like a nice beautiful meadow in the countryside it was a sphere with a diameter of about a mile. Only a minute has passed…. yeah thats how powerful this chamber is, one second outside is equivalent to one day inside. I was afraid that I might spend my entire teenage life in this training hell! This month I have not been allowed to stop running even though I really wanted too! For some I’ve gained 900 more points in stamina! And My stamina Regen has reached 10 stamina per minute! That combined with my new skill Running mastery I basically am now unable to stop running because my stamina won't even go down anymore.
Running Mastery lv27: 49%
Reduces stamina used while running by 13.5% (+.5% per level)
Increases running speed by 27% (+1% per level)
Every ‘day’ my mom adds another pound of weight onto me. This caused my strength, agility, vitality all to go up to 40, 30, and 50 respectively.
Today mom said that I can finally have some sleep. I left the chamber for the first time in a ‘month’ and went right to bed. Little did I know that my mom was just helping Dad get back home.
“Wake up maggot!” is what I woke up to this morning.
“5 more minutes” I moaned.
“No your mom has been too soft on you! Time to begin your real training!” My heart dropped, ‘mom was going easy on me’ I thought with terror. If that was easy then what is hard.
My dad picked me up with ease even though I was squirming at him treating me like a kid and he carried me downstairs to the time chamber.
“Ok David, time to learn about your natural born abilities, first find your mana”
Seriously thats some awful teaching “How do I find my mana?”
“God, I thought you read this kind of stuff every day!” he sighed “Ok first lie down.” I did “Ok, now try to feel an energy in your chest.”
I focused on my body and searched for this energy it wasn’t hard, it was right in my chest.
“Good job you found it.” He stroked his invisible beard “I’m surprised though, normally it takes days to find your mana and you did it in an hour”
An hour it felt like only five minutes!
“Ok son, now to teach you how to use it, first send some mana to your hand and try and release it through your palm in one burst.”
I focused on my hand and a little mana went to my hand.
“This part takes a while I’m going to go take a nap”
Arrogant bastard. Nah, he just really likes naps.
I worked on getting more mana to my hand like dad said. After what felt like forever I finally got the skill.
Internal Mana Control lv1: 0%
(Active)
Allows you to control the mana in your body
Thank the Lord I can finally start training for real. I focused on my pointer finger and started to transfer mana to my finger and continued to charge it until I felt it had a lot of mana in my finger and I tried to shoot it. Needless to say it did not go well instead I got a face full of an explosion.
-50 Hp
“Oww, that hurt”
“Wow, David you impressed me again to make an explosion that big. Thank god you trained your body before we let you start magic training. You must have used all of your mana and it only took you a day to move all that mana to your finger. To be honest I was expecting to get a nice long rest, but you seem like you're only goal is to keep me awake”
“You were expecting me to get hurt! I’m going to kill you one day! And I didn’t even use half my mana, I only used one sixth of my mana.”
“Oh yeah, your mother told me about your skill. Well enough chit chat, time to teach you how to expel mana.” He took a deep breath “Expelling mana like you did will only result in explosions and you will hurt yourself! Now, releasing mana must be done in a steady stream. Watch what i do….. see a nice steady stream”
“Dad, I don't see anything”
“Seriously you didn’t, are you, never mind. Just, focus mana to your eyes until you can see the thread I’m making ”
I sent mana to my eyes. 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100 mana. I can finally see the tread though faintly.
Mana sight lv1: 0%
(Active)
100 mana per minute: allows user to see mana in the environment
“I can see the thread dad.”
“Ok David, now you try”
I sent 1 mana to my finger and released it continuously and gained a skill.
Mana Expulsion lv1: 0%
Can release little mana at a time
It wasn’t making a thread though, it was just making a big blob of mana around my finger.
“Dad, why isn’t the mana making a thread?”
“Oh yeah, thats a more advanced technique, controlling mana in the environment. To do this, just push the mana out instead of letting it flow out”
I tried to do what he said and pushed the mana out and this time I heard two dings.
External Mana Control lv1: 0%
(Active)
Allows you to control very little of your own mana outside your body
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Mana Manipulation lv1: 0%
By gaining all three skills to control mana you have unlocked Mana Manipulation.
(Active)
Can control very little mana inside and outside of the body with ease.
“Yes!” I shouted and pumped my fist in the air.
“What?” Dad asked confused.
“I got a new Skill, Mana Manipulation”
“Ok now train that skill up as much as you can, I’ll be back in a minute (60 days)”
“Ok!” I was excited!
I trained up my Mana Manipulation for 60 days getting it up to level 127
Mana Manipulation lv127: 36%
(Active)
Allows you to control a little of your own mana outside your body
Can take in mana from the environment within limits
Once the skill it reached 100 I could control the mana in the environment, I played around with this and so far with that ability I can take in mana from things and gain their properties as long as I have the mana. Rocks make me harder, trees give me regeneration, fire lets me cast fire spells by mixing it with my mana so It doesn't run out too fast. Also, my maximum mana increased to 1000 from all of the controlling of mana.
My dad came back inside the chamber after the 60 days and asked me to show him what I could do. I took my mana and created a mana statue of me by mixing mana I took from a rock into it, this caused the mana to become a solid structure.
“Wow, thats amazing, not even I can do that!” He grinned “you're ready to learn the families secret techniques!”
I got to go up to my room and sleep in my bed again!
The next day my mom woke me up, thank god! She made a very nice breakfast of pancakes. I haven't eaten in weeks, literally, but the chamber affects time, but for some reason your body's needs stay on the same time schedule as the real world.
My mom asked Alex, Odin, and Rose to come downstairs with us to train. Alex complained but suddenly stopped mid sentence and fainted. Mom is scary!
Outside the chamber dad was waiting. we all went inside and activated the training room.
“Ok David time to teach you the families secret technique.”
“Can I know what it is first?”
“Oh silly me I completely forgot” she put her palm to her hand a habit she says she’s had forever “Our family skill is known as ‘Evolution’ it is one of the most powerful family abilities that is known. This skill allows us to transfer our mana to our pets to have them evolve to a more powerful form. Although we say evolve their are several things that don’t really apply. Some creatures can gain metallic armor and become a cyborg animal, some can gain an elemental affinity, and the majority of others just gain reinforced bodies.”
“I had you train your mana control so you would be able to transfer mana correctly, Our family has this book that has been passed down for generations on how to use the skill. Now we give this book to you.”
Mom took out a book that looked like it was printed recently and handed it to me.
When I took the book I was shocked a ding was heard
Would you like to learn skill ‘evolution’
Yes No
“Mom” I asked “ Are there copies of this book?”
“Of course how many branches of our family do you think their are? Each family has printed copy of the book”
“So it’s easy to get a new one if a book gets destroyed for some reason”
“Yeah, why do you ask”
“Just watch” I clicked yes and the book disappeared. I felt all the knowledge flow into my head and I heard a ding.
Evolution lv1: 0%
Allows animals to turn into an evolved form for the duration of the spell
Effects
Evolves creatures to a form of either basic elemental, technology, or body.
Costs 1000 mana per minute per creature
Extra effect
Blessing of Gia: Animal forms are more likely to be a rare type
I took the stance I somehow knew and called “Spirits of nature heed my call, Evolution”, I directed the spell at Alex and nothing happened. “Why didn’t it work”
“David, did you make the pet contract with Alex, Rose, and Odin?”
“What’s a pet contract?”
“It’s a ritual between master and pet to turn the pet into a spiritual beast increasing the pets power and allowing our abilities to affect them. All you have to do is say to each pet ‘will you (insert name here) agree to be my pet for as long as I live’ there simple”
“It will grant you some skills, but you need to get more pets before those skills get unlocked”
“Ok. Lets try this again” I took a deep breath “Spirits of nature heed my call, Evolution” Again I directed the skill at Alex and…… nothing again.“What’s happening, why won’t it work?” I complained
“Everything happened right, the thing is you need to continue to use the spell, the more it is used, the more the change happens, lets look at Alex and try and find some change”
We walked over to the complaining Alex and looked over him trying to find some change. Nothing, nothing, nothing, whats that shiny thing, it’s on his front paw. “Mom, Dad, look at this.”
“David, you got a tech evolution great job!” Mom congratulated!
“Yeah, congrats! To celebrate lets teach you how to use a Katana, don’t worry this time I’ll teach you directly!”
God, let hell begin again.
Alex, Odin, and Rose were trying to sneak away.
“Oh yeah, Alex, Odin and Rose, you will be training with Rufus.” Mom turned to me “Rufus is a pet we have been training for years just for you, and now he can train your pets so they can stay alive.” Alex, Odin, and Rose’s faces just turned solem.
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