[Date: 10th Hayturn, 147 CA, Waterday.]

After a jogg for endurace i slept at home and in the morning after a breakfast im already out the door to the shook of dad and my siblings but my mum hold them back and gave her permission what ever she told them because i was already gone for good for the day.

After i was far enough i spurrted my mana maschine into running wild while i trained well i trained in running endurance that what i will most likely need the most in the future.

my mana breathing was pretty hard to implement while moving jumping and doing what ever i needed to do but only after a few hours it felt like it was second nature.

Sure i had to come back for lunch, while dinner will be my end of training meal.

[a few weeks later]

I made sure to not go wide on the muscles im not sure how but i guess my will to make a powerfull but normal looking body is inprinting in my body trough mana because i am infusing my whole body with all my mana continually while also mana breathing to regain that mana well i do not regenerate enough mana to keep it up but i am close to it.

I had also a few days with mom telling me and showing me things i learned that all mages are capeable of turning pure mana to life mana and showed it to me and i picked it up in almost no time after i saw it and felt it she also gave me a simple healing spell for scratches and little things like muscle ache called "minor heal" and anatomical knowledge will boost the effectiveness of such spells while the curch will not aknoledge that fact because they use normaly divine mana for such spells wich is off the table for me because all Advanced priests can feel divine mana on a whim and it is not possible to hide it properply.

Which is why we will wait for after the assessment before i will dabble in that region of mana.

and while i did not advance my mana pools i did train my mana control sensibility and burst output through every day while still advancing the veil of mana that saturated my whole body flesh and muscle

[Date: 25th Goldleaf, 147 CA, Solday.]

My birthday on the 21th well that was not really worth mentioning my dad was still confused were i would go and what i did out there but hey he heard from mum that i wanted a wooden sword and i got one for my size well lets just say my brother got a bit of a payback while i still hid my true potential from others my mom well she was aware and my dad welll he not im not sure if he should ever find out but today whas the day of the great revealation as the temple called it.

Big fat bunguss by the way had a talk with mum what in the status should stand so that i know if i fucked up or not when my status poped up and lets just say i prepared.

Well the temple got here on the 24th and put up a little town of tents for the escorts and such and a giant shrine tent for the assessment.

Already going inside the giant tent was pretty annoying because i felt 5 looks on me instantly and i felt the priests mana concentrating in their eyes 'look at them looking me up like i am some kind of treasure almost drooling' well i am but i will not be their treasure.

The ceremony was slow and anoying with lots of talk about their god Solas i just tought while they berated us with curch propaganda

'fuck off priests i will chose my belive based on respekt if your god will grace me with his blessing so will i be inclined in sending him prayers of graditute but i will not be persuaded with nice words and false promises'

A bit of my old world education showing in that train of tought.

And finally they begann the assessment and i checked my status one last time and holy fuck really?

[Soulas's Blessing lv.1]

I scampered in my brain to open the conceal function i dubbed it and hid that as fast as i could.

In my head i said 'first of all thank you solas what ever your blessing is doing i will use it wisely and hopefully to your satisfaction but i have to say really you almost fucked me over with this one!'

Now i belive that the gods are lisenting in on us humans or at least in this tent maybe they need a shrine or a holy ground in the area to do that or what i do not wish to consider that is just a blessing a high ranking priest can dish out as he wishes.

Well a few kids were needing an assessment because it is held only 5 years after at least 2 births were reported in an village so i lucked out on that one but hey my sister also needed an assessment and the assessment is done behinde a divider curtain because of personal information and such things apearently even the priest is sworn by an oath to keep quiet about them but i call bullshit on that if they are taking kids who have too good stats like my parents said!

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So nope did not see the status of my sister but my turn came as last why because those priest most likely wanted me to go last for fucks sake i was annoyed at that and i needed to try pretty hard to not get riled up to much so that my mana hiding is still intact. And those eyes are watching me like hawkes 'holy look somewhere else!'

Still schooling my face into an curious glance as my time arrived i get going behind the divider was another priest a table a kristal and a chair for me so i sat down on that watching the priest who smiled first

"hello i am ray" i introduced myself stunning the priest first

"do you already know how the assessment is going to work?" he asked me

'joke question asshole it is not allowed for the parents to Prepare their kids for the assessment'

"no" i cocked my head and stared at the priest with still curios eyes who cuckled "well then ray i am High Priest Soulburn" he introduced himself and my mind recoiled 'Soulburn really' i mean cool either he is from a noble family or whatever i mean that name is more english than ever

" it is easy ray just place your hand on that kristal please" he instructed me and i did as he said and schwubs i saw in my log window requests flooding in and my fake information being send by the script who took those requests 'ha got you baited temple!' i said in my head.

And here it comes reading it in mirror mode is a bit difficult but i dont have to because my false status poped up also on my side of the table

Name

Ray

Level

3

Title

Child

Race

Human

Age

5

Sex

Male

Date of Birth:

21st Goldleaf, 142 CA, Flameday

Attributes

Strength

3

Dexterity

4

Constitution

5

Charisma

2

Wisdom

3

©Secured by Knox

I let out a "ohhh ahh what is that?" in false surprised well i was good in that charisma is one of my highest stats so the priest bought it

"that is your status ray lets seee hmmmm" he read my status and i saw they did not request any skill data so this assessment is realy only the normal atributes or do they not have any way to accsess skill lists?

"you are running around a lot he ray" he mused "apearently you might be a good hunter dexterity and constitution make a good combination for that kind of profession or making clothes might suit you" he said which let me pause

"and guard like father?" i asked in wich the priest shakes his head with a sigh "unfurtonatly no your stregnth is not high enough to be a guard im sorry ray" i looked down in mock disapointment and internaly i am enraged 'you asshole just skipped the part in wich my whole body is infused in mana so my stregth is no problem and i can build my body up to that point shalachtan! Trickster, Liar!'

"ok" i broght out sobbing because i turned that anger into sadness because now i know those asholes have most likley lied to all in the village about their profession choices. Later i will turn that later back into anger and then into more training more

"ist ok ray" the priest said and tapped the kristall to close the status "jack" he asked another priest in "jes High priest Soulburn?" the other one said "ray here is good to go back to his family"

And by that i stood up and walked off to my family knowing well inside that i won

"and do you know a god by the name of knox?"

'what?'

"do you mean Nyx?"

'ähm duplex what?'

"no Knox little ray here has a patreon called Knox we might need to inform the central curch that there might be a new god on the rising by the name of knox"

'no way! No fucking way! nyx is a thing here hopefully they dont find out that Knox is also a nyx synonym'

back at my parents

The spiel i and my mom put on display was really heart wrenching and at home alone i glared in the direction of those priests i took mom for a walk and walked far away before i talked to her and she almost fell on her butt of shock as i told her that these assholes of priests most likly lied to all in the village while they still said things that are considerable it was most likely never the best choice as i explained that the high priest never mentioned my mana infused body while all starred at me with their mana vision.

And they did not explain the status more but my mom asked what there is more to explain.

Wich brought me to a grinding halt in my tirade of anger i looked at mother and had both eye brows rised.

"you know you can acsess your own status if you think about it in the right way like a glass plate infront of your vision where your status is being able to be displayed right??" i asked and my mother eyes widden "wait" she just said and went pale "it worked wait we had accsess to it ourselfs? The entire time?" now i was flabbergasted "you mean assessments and checking up on how one is doing is only being available via these Kristalls?" my mom nodded wich made me pale "please let us use this as family secret because i already see thausend ways in wich the curch may hunt us because of that knowledge" she nodded still pale "i never knew" she said and i just said blankly "nobody here at least did" wich let her look at me again "ok ray i did not want to do this but you need to meet someone" wich brought me again in my thoughts to a halt "who" my mother laughed "just come i wanted to wait a bit but i think you need him now because you are already way above what i know in terms of knowledge"

My mom got moving and i followed her and we walked in silence also because my thoughts are now doiing 200 miles per hour curch mum meeting someone all that flooded my mind and it is a bit much together with the white burning fury i have in me because of those church fuckers.

I lost track but certainly we went around 15 kilometers into the woods and i saw a clearing before us my mum stayed outside the clearing and bowed i saw in the clearing animals many animals Wolfs, Deer, rabbits, raven and other a surreal picture all these animals are laying sitting or relaxing around an statue? Of a being it looks alien ancient and the statue is covered in moss grass and vines who do i meet here and to who does my mum bow to?