Chapter 9: The power I have gained and the first step of many to come.

So, over nine years had passed since I truly accepted myself as Elena and Emil daughter. Nothing much had happen, because well after that morning, we eat lunch and spend more time together than we used to be. Life is more beautiful than ever before.

A few day of resting later, I continue on my magic training with mom, who is paying a very close attention to me this time just to make sure the same accident never happen again.

I also train my body under the guidance of dad as well.

And It’s Turn out that the reason for why he is so strong. It’s because he had been cultivating energy, by condensing the mana into his body which can result in permanent increase of his strength, and his size, he said he is the first person in this world to ever do this and he ‘s only teaching this to me, but  I think it’s because the lack of knowledge in human anatomy, that’s the result is this 2 meter tall mini version of the hulk I call my dad today.

And since I had the resolve to beat the crap out of the other mercenary system user. I used every free time I could gather to train myself with the knowledge I had gather from mom and dad both, and because of that I never really made any friend with the other kid in town, except for this idiot one name Paul.

There are three major things I had decided and found out in these nine year.

First I decided to improved Dad mana cultivation, just because I don’t want to look like him when I grow up.

To improve it, thanks to the help of Alice. After a few weeks of experiment I realize that by mostly focus on condensing the mana into my bone, I can increase it toughness and flexibility and it’s the same with skin. Or if it’s in my muscle I can increase it power output and it resilience instead of just randomly condense it and hope for the best, like dad, which I never want to try, seeing the possible outcome to my body.

So I condensing my mana into my body following the order from the bone on the first step, to the muscle on the second step then to the skin on the third and finale, right before going to bed and repeat the entire process on the next day. With the result, is a major increase in my { strength }, { speed } and a little bit raise on my {vitality} stat, and I was manage to protect my body from becoming a macho.

Second, I discover that meditation and channeling the mana around my body after condensing it help increase my {energy} stats by a small amount right after the first few week, so I replace sleeping with meditating for the last nine year, and it felt good. Because every morning after meditating I feel refresh, like I had a full eight hours, no ten hours sleep on the night before, and it also slightly increases my {vitality} stats like cultivation mana as well.

The third and finale is that I learn a few new spells from mom teaching. Spells like:

{ wind blade } where you create a blade from wind and launch it at you enemy, the more mana you put into it the sharper it get.

{ wind wall } the spell where I pass out when mom first teach me on how to control my mana, which is creating a wall of wind around you to deflect the incoming projectiles.

{ heal } a basic light spell that can closed wound and stop the bleeding in a short amount of time

{ light ball } a basic light spell that can light up the surrounding area.

Learning is the spells from mom is only the easy part. No the hard part begin is when she told me to create a new spell on my own or there will be no sweet for me, and it’s so much harder when inventing a new spell of your own, with no sweet.

And after four years of trial, error and a bad case of begging for the sweet that I finally create my own spells thanks to the lesson I learn from mom, and the motivation from the sweet reward.

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With wind element I got:

{ Pressure bomb }: by condensing the air like when I was condensing the mana, I manage to create a ball of condense air and if I spin it fast and launch it away from me then the moment it impact, it explode like a grenade but without the fire and there’s more shock wave to do the internal damage than a normal grenade. The more air I condense the bigger the damage.

Mom was shock, with her jaw drop to the ground when I show her this spell. And of course, she said she is proud of me and make me promise to never used this in tight space, town or highly populated place cause it will be dangerous to the people around me and myself.

{ air jet } : a spell where you create a jet of air and push it in the opposite direction of where you were running to increase your speed and push into the ground to have a softer landing but it eat mana like there’s no tomorrow. So I never used it continuously.

{ vacuum space}: a spell where you create a space that devoid of air just like in outer space, making the victim slowly choke to death in their sleep, perfect for assassinating and killing pest like goblin. { vacuum space} and {air jet } is the two spell where I created in the middle of a few {goblin killer} side quest so I never show them to mom.

While with light element i had.

{ flash light}: after learning the {light ball} spell from mom I manage to change the direction of the light, instead of shining everywhere, I focus the light in one direction and result in a light that look like flash light. But since it a focus of light, it shine brighter than a {light ball} spell but had the same amount of mana it consume, I can use it to blind an enemy for a short amount of time. 

But i got no spell on dark element, because no one in venzor have it beside me, and i had no knowledge of the element to begin with so I just leave it there.

And well *sigh*, I hit puberty and boy what a hard punch, when it hit me back. I mean I have my first period with a trauma for the rest of my life with all the blood and the pain a girl have to go through to become a woman, plus the hormones is driving me crazy.

Those are the thing no man should ever go through. I mean, I almost used the short sword from back then to end myself with all the stuffs puberty give me.

And oh yeah, I'm still doing the { goblin killer} side quest, every two or three nights from then to now for 9 years straight as a way to release stress from the puberty and save up a good amount of 17300 system points, then I bought the { healing factor} ability from the system which cost me exactly 10000 points, I think I'll let Alice explain how this ability actually works, Alice.

[ Yes]

[ {healing factor}: an high class ability that triple the efficiency of user {vitality} stat and capable of letting the user re growth lost limp and increase life span according to the user {vitality} stat.]

Man, that is one useful but expensive ability don’t you think .

[ yes, yes it’s]

Ahem. Now since I had reach 14 years old and beat both mom and dad in a contest of strength and magic on the other day.

It’s nothing much, just an arm wrestling with dad and spells activating contest with mom.

What ?, you thought that we’re gonna fight until there is only one person left standing ?.

No !!, no we’re not, cause dad still have food to cook, mom is still need to manage an inn and healing potion is expensive.

So, no !! we do this the civilized way and settle them through contest.

And so I win and currently standing in front of the adventure guild equip in my new armor, a full set of leather armor, with two gloves, a pair of steel shoulder plate and a steel breastplate, all brown, just like my hair, it’s a gift from mom and dad on my 15 birthday.

The whole set is enchanted and cost 26 gold coin, that is over a year of money saving from my parent, to which I continuously thanks them for the gift.

My weapon of choice is a steel cleaver on the right side of my hip and a steel long knife which I put on my lower back, the material for the long knife is from the short sword of the goblin a while ago, I ask the town blacksmith to meld it down and change it to a knife.

Make two scabbard and enchanted both knife to increase it sharpness and it durability.

Taking one last look at my status to increase my confident.

“ Status.”

[ status]

[ name: Lena ]

[ gender: female]

[ race: human ]

[ point: 7300 ]

[ {strength} : 30.5  (26.1 up) ]

[ {speed}: 25.6  (23.4 up) ]

[ {mind}: 17.8  (15.6 up) ]

[ {vitality}:15.7  (13.7 up) ]

[ {energy}: 30.6 (28.6 up) ]

[ sp : 0]

[ skill: { weapon creation 3 }, { gun mastery 7 }, { bow mastery 3 }, { persuasion 7 ( 1 up) }, { stealth 5 }, { swimming 3 }, { knife mastery 6 ( 2 up) }, { close combat mastery 6 ( 1 up) }, { energy manipulation 3 ( new) } ]

[ ability: { limit break}, { inheritance}, { healing factor ( new) } ]

All of my stats increase by leap and bound thanks to dad mana cultivation method, which I had slightly improve, for the safety of my body.

With my new stats, Alice say that I’m as powerful as an summoning hero or even more, but I curious to where she get that information from.

Ah, all good and ready, now taking my first step through the door, say hi to that idiot name Paul, register myself as an adventure and let’s made a name for myself.