5 minutes before:
"Ugh. The d*mn curse is finally gone! Hahaha! It's a good thing that I got the curse when I was just a baby! Otherwise, there wouldn't be anyone who would feed a grown man for three years!"
I got up from my bed, looked at a mirror, and I could see myself for the first time.
'D*mn! I think I might have been fed too much while I was in lazy mode!' I checked myself at the front and at the back. And it was at this time that Matilda came inside the room, with her jaw hanging wide.
Present:
"Matthew, so you mean to tell us that you could hear us all this time and you were able to learn from our dialogues without even talking to us?" Claire, I mean my mother inquired me.
"Yes, mom! I wanted so much to talk with you and dad and play with each other! But I felt something wrong so I couldn't move at all" I slightly frowned and lowered my head to show my dissatisfaction. If it wasn't for that d*mned curse!
Of course I didn't tell them about the curse, no one in their right mind would tell another person 'Oh, hey! I've just conveniently reincarnated as your son and I got a lousy system that gave me a lousy curse the caused me not to do sh*t for a while, teehee!".
Seeing as I wasn't lying, she hurriedly grabbed my wrist and I could feel something entering my body.
"Matthew darling, do not oppose the energy I am sending to your body. I will only check your vitals, Ok?" she gently looked at me and I nodded to show I understood.
A few seconds later, Jack, my dad, asked "So how's our son? Is he fine now?".
Claire replied with her brows furrowed "I can sense nothing wrong. Even before this he was still healthy according to the doctors. But what I'm curious about is what caused him not being able to move..."
Seeing as the two of them are about to enter a serious conversation about my 'situation', I hurriedly told them "Mom! Dad! I... I want to cultivate! Please teach me!"
Mom, Dad, and even big sister Matilda were surprised at my request.
My dad was so happy I could see his mustache curling slightly up while grinning stupidly at me.
Mom was still worried about me, but she still smiled as to show that she was also happy for my interest in cultivation.
Only big sister Matilda's expression was different. She looks to be thinking about something.
Before I could repeat what I just said, Jack suddenly spoke up "Good, good, good! Hahaha! That's my son for ya, Claire! Even at such a young age he's showing such great motivation for cultivating. In the future, he will definitely surpass us! Matthew, if you want to, would you like me to teach you? Of course you can choose your mother to teach you as well. It's just that... you can't cultivate both our cultivation techniques at the same time!"
I was kinda curious on why I couldn't cultivate both so I asked "Why can't I, Dad?"
Jack sighed first before answering "It is because I cultivate in a fire based technique called 'Angry Fire King' while your mom cultivates a water based technique called 'Serene Raindrops'. Cultivating in both fire and water techniques would not harm you at the early stages, but it would be nigh impossible for you to improve on either of them once you reach a higher realm because both the dao of fire and dao of water cannot coexist. Imagine if you placed a baby deer and a baby tiger in the same cage. They won't harm each other yet at first, but when they grow up, there will always be one predator among them. That is how fire and water interact with one another in a human's body."
'Oh! I get it! So if two elements that aren't oppose to each other, then I can cultivate them?'
[Yes. But the user does not need to worry about the compatibility of the daos that the user cultivates in. The system can act as a divider. Meaning that all the elemental daos that the user has inside the body will never touch each other if the user wills it]
Wow! That's too OP*! If I could cultivate in any dao I like, then wouldn't I have no fear facing enemies who use a different dao?
The system only talked for less than a second in my mind while I only thought for a good few seconds, making me look to my parents like I was deciding on something very important.
"Mom. Dad. Can I try to cultivate both your techniques first and see which one I'm compatible with?"
Both Jack and Claire looked at each other then gave a nod to themselves before Jack answered me "Sure! As long as you don't form a dao seed of that element then that's fine!"
'Seed... ugh. Just the word and it makes me sick. Oh by the way, shouldn't there be like a blessing or whatnot from that stupid curse?'
I checked my status on the system but it told me it can only be displayed once I hit LVL 1.
'System, how do I level up?'
[User can gain experience through quests. Quest menu has been added to the system. The system will now update. Note: You cannot access the system while updating.
Time remaining : 23 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds]
* - OP means Overpowered in gaming terms