Now that I know there are tooltips for everything so far, let's see what this Omniscience skill is all about!
Omniscience: The bearer of this skill is known to have no limits. No skill, no matter how impossible or improbable, is out of reach. The bearer of this skill breaks any and all limitations of a normal person.
I sit there just staring at the tool tip for my unique skill. I read what it says numerous times and try to comprehend what it means. Well, this sounds OP, but I still don't understand. I'm severely limited as I am right now, yet this thing says I have no limits! Why can't this be more specific?! Like, "Hey, this is how this works..." kind of thing!! I don't understand this skill any more now than I did when it first appeared!
The next year and a half go by without much change. I still practice my spells and mana control as often as I can, which is coming along a bit faster these days as now I know that my MP is refreshed after meals, but I have begun spending more and more time helping my mother with the daily tasks around the house. I'm getting older and bigger, so it's only natural that I ended up having to help out more. I have to schedule my magic practice around my chores.
In the last year and a half, I only had the opportunity to kill two other Horned Rabbits. I learned they were called Horned Rabbits that day I saw the food buff after my mother fed me one of them. It said it was Braised Horned Rabbit. So, it's a Horned Rabbit! I had to go a little deep into the trees behind my house so I can escape the watchful eye of my mother. I did manage to upgrade weapons. I snuck out one of the spare knives my mother uses for cooking. It actually made dispatching the rabbits much easier as you can imagine. Who would have thought that knives make more efficient weapons that rocks and sticks! I was able to unlock a Slash single hand weapon skill as well by using the knife. I can totally get into this adventuring thing.
It also seems that my stats are naturally increasing as I grow, which also seems natural as my muscles are also growing as I grow. Every several months I will see a Strength or Agility stat increase pop up in my vision. My biggest gains were in Intelligence, Mind, and Determination stats as a result of my diligent practice with mana control and spell use. Once again, practice makes perfect. As a result, each Flame and Water spell now only costs 19MP. Still a lot, but I am seeing how spells will cost less MP as I get stronger. That's probably how my mother can sustain her spells so long. Her level is probably so much higher than the low-level Flame and Water spells, that they no longer even drain any MP at all, or if they still do, it's an insignificant amount compared to her current MP pool.
As it stands now, at just a week shy of my 5th birthday, my stats look like this.
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I also gained another spell over this time. I was just messing around, experimenting, and seeing what else I can come up with, if anything at all. One day I was seeing if there was anything like wind magic. Doesn't seem like it would be of any real use, but to that point the only magic I have are spells I saw my mother use. I haven't seen her use any other spells than Flame and Water. I haven't even seen her engage in any combat of the sort, even when we go on walks through the woods to gather fruit. It doesn't seem like the area we live in has any dangerous monsters or even animals that are any higher level than the Horned Rabbits that are all over the place.
So, I tried to come up with possible words that would result in a spell being cast, and Wind surprisingly didn't do anything. I guess it's too vague. But then again isn't Water vague as well, and that worked! I even tried Tornado, which was kind of reckless in hindsight. How would I explain to my mother that a tornado just appeared inside my room! Luckily, it didn't to do anything, or I don't have the mana for it. Could be either or. Maybe spells don't activate if I don't have the mana or MP for it? Sort of like how Flame didn't work at first because I didn't concentrate enough mana into my hand to manifest the desired effect. Flame also took 20MP at the time, so these spells I'm failing at may require substantially more. I will have to try again once I have a larger MP pool.
So, I just decided to try something simple and benign, and I hit the jackpot. After accumulating mana in my hand, I said a simple word.
"Breeze!"
Sure as hell, a steady stream of air came blowing out of my hand. It was about the strength of a hair dryer on low setting. Rather useless, unless I want to dry my hair after a bath, which I would never do in the presence of my mother, or all my secrets would be revealed. Needless to say, even being a rather useless spell, it's still new! I'll take it!
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Magic Acquired
Wind Magic: Breeze
Nice! Let's check out my skills!
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Things are looking up. I'm learning magic on my own, I'm almost 5 years old, and in a few months in the summer I'm supposed to have my awakening! God, I wish I had a teacher. I can only imagine how much further along I would be if I did. I would probably have been able to learn actual attack magic, and even gone to level up with my teacher! I still believe keeping this a secret was the best choice, but sometimes I think I should have told my mom and maybe she would have found me a teacher, or taught me herself.
Since I was close to my 5th birthday, I finally decided to start asking my mother more questions on this whole awakening process. I figured it would be ok to inquire about things now, as I could justify it as a preparatory thing. I have to word my questions carefully though. The last thing I want is for my mother to become suspicious of me, or worse, find out that I have actually awakened early. 2 YEARS early in fact! I have no clue if awakening early would even be a bad thing, or if what happened to me actually was my awakening. I don't see why it would be a bad thing to have awakened early. Wouldn't that just be like a toddler learning math they would normally learn in first grade several years later? So, you are a bit smarter and advanced, so what?! How can that possibly hurt?! Well, let's go find out, shall we?!
"Hey mom!"
"Yes dear?"
"Since I'm almost 5, and my awakening is getting closer, can we talk more about it, please?"
"Sure dear, I don't see why not. What did you want to know?"
"Well, first, what is it? What exactly happens when the awakening occurs? How do I know it has happened?! What do you do when it does happen?!!"
"Woah, Woah there, let's take this one question at a time, ok?"
I'm grinning from ear to ear. Finally! Some answers!
"Ok mom. So, what is the awakening?"
"Well dear, in simplest terms, you get access to your status. When it opens, you get to see the skill you are imbued with."
Well look at that. It appears I already had my awakening. I wonder if anyone in this world has ever tried to cast magic before they reach the age of awakening, and thus awakened earlier? Is that something that's still only accomplished by only me? Or could it be that it's just so accepted that you awaken at the age of 5 that nobody even tries to cast magic early?
"Ok, so what happens during the awakening? How will I know it's time or that it happened?"
My mother raises her right hand in a fist with the back side of her hand facing me. Suddenly a familiar pale blue triangle appears on the back of her hand.
"Well, this will appear on your hand. It will stay lit like this, blinking slightly, until you first access your status. So, there is really no way to miss that your awakening has occurred."
Hmm, I never had that blue triangle on my hand. I look on my hand and concentrate to see if I could bring it out, but nothing happens. I wonder if I'm different somehow and mine is just in my vision. Maybe that's what happens when you force your awakening sooner than it is supposed to naturally happen? Again, this is making me grow concerned that what I experienced is unique only to me.
"How did you make that blue triangle appear on your hand?!"
"Easy, when you want it to appear, it will."
"So how do you open your status with that?"
"Also, easy. You just think 'Status Open', then your status appears in your vision."
Hmm, so I guess I still have yet to go through my true "Awakening" as it were? I guess I cheated and unlocked my status early! I wonder if that blue triangle will ever actually appear on my hand. Why would it if I already unlocked my status. It only appears blinking the first time you are to open your status. Mine only appeared in my vision, not my hand. I am not liking that I seem to be unique in this regard.
"So, what do you do once your awakening happens, and you finally see your skill?"
"You go to school!"
WHAT! Awwww shit. I didn't think about that. I'm almost 5. That's right around kindergarten age back on Earth. Fuck me, I don't want to go through school all over again! Then again, it is probably not like Earth's school. It is most likely more like what I have dreamed about over these past two years. Someone to actually teach me how to become stronger and learn more spells. Still... school. I would be more comfortable with a private tutor. Like, hire an adventurer to teach me or something!
"Why do you look so sad dear?
"Oh, no no no I'm not sad! I was just thinking hard about this. So, once I awaken, we go and register me for school?"
"Well, yes and no. Basically, once you have your awakening, we head over to Creshent and enroll you in school. Well, first we stop by the government registration office and get your skill registered. At that point you get issued your Citizen Identification Card, which has your name and lists your aptitudes. It's required to have your ID card in order to register you for school. You actually need that ID to do almost anything really."
Oh shit. What is going to happen when the government of this world sees my skill! A skill that says I have no limits and destined to shatter all expectations of a normal person!! I am beginning to seriously doubt there are any people alive that have a skill such as mine. That's the kind of thing that could start a war! there is even the serious possibility that I could even be executed if I'm deemed a threat to the country! This is bad. This is very, very bad!!