After 4 more years, Garion finally became a five-year-old. It was a perfect age to start training the body, learn skills, and acquire valuable abilities.
The day after his birthday, Magnus took over. Compared to the original soul, Magnus wasn't limited by his body. On the contrary, his consciousness was connected to his god's core, which meant he can be active as long he has enough energy. Thanks to these 2 facts, Magnus could control the body throughout the whole 24-hours cycle.
Of course, some may say that it's pointless, but he'll disagree.
You see, the body is doing a lot of things while you are sleeping, for example, growth, cell division, energy replenishment, repair of tissues, and information processing. Now imagine, there is a supervisor that is capable of improving some of those things.
And Magnus is exactly that supervisor. While body remains in the sleep, he optimizes all these processes. In addition to this, he manually picks information to be processed and simulates different skills to train the body even during sleep. Although you can't train muscles in such a way, your brain can still strengthen the neural pathways associated with those skills.
Therefore, by the time Garion's body woke up, Magnus has pushed the young boy's body through 8 'hours' of rigorous training.
Another part that he tweaked was an immune system. Human's body has a gigantic database of diseases in their bodies and, more importantly, how to fight those diseases. However, the word "big" doesn't mean complete. A human body has a multitude of microorganisms present throughout their body, especially in their mouth. But it doesn't mean their immune system knows how to fight those potential diseases. They are just there, existing.
That's why Magnus decided to take it in his... "hands" and spend at least 3 hours in real-time to manage the immune system and get this body an absolute immunity...
Get it? Immune system... Immunity?
Anyway, getting that immunity wouldn't be an easy process finished in a day. It will take a year at least, but the first step is what matters here.
As soon as the body woke up, Magnus then took a few minutes to go through memories gained since his last check-up. After all, a whole year passed since then, so he wanted to be up to date.
However, what he learned left him aghast. Aunt Pol didn't teach him how to read. And he was five already. At this rate, he might stay illiterate till 16 with nobody to teach him at this farm. Although there are a blacksmith and a farm owner, who could probably instruct the boy on reading. However, who would spend their 'precious' time doing that?
'System, any possible quests to learn reading?'
[Authorization: Magnus/System... Confirmed]
[Connecting to the Framework...]
[Retrieving...]
[Possible 'Quest Line' discovered]
'Huh? A whole quest line just for a simple skill of "Reading"? Interesting. Take it.'
['Quest Line' begins: "On the road to literacy"]
[The first 'Quest' activated: "Persuade somebody to teach you reading."]
That was the first difference to a previous version of the System that Magnus used in the Potterian Universe. There he was mimicking System, while busy with rewriting the actual System and getting direct access to the Framework.
But now he has full access to the Framework and, for those who forgot, Framework is, in short, a tool to become overpowered. It's basically directly connected to creation itself capable of granting infinite energy and power, not limited by any specific Universe. However, there is one catch. There should be valid and logical reasoning for providing these resources to a person. And Systems, in this case, work as requesters for their users.
A good analogy for that will be a computer and software or programs installed on this computer. By itself, computers are useless to humans but, with software, humans can tap into the computational power of these calculating machines.
But we digress.
***
With plans organized, I finally stood up from my bed and stretched. Thanks to all the advancements I did this night, my body has barely enough energy to sustain the thinking process. I need to get some food.
'System, time?'
[6:30 am]
Okay. I exited my room and started moving towards the kitchen. Based on the sounds I heard coming from there, people already started preparing breakfast for everyone on the farm.
I got in and started patiently waiting for food to get ready. While waiting, I was thinking about what other skills I need to start training early.
'Training the body and martial arts.'
My age is close to perfect to start. Based on the body constitution, it's safe to say that the training I went through in previous Universes can be applied here as well.
Reading and fighting, two things any respectable world traveler should master.
Plus, there is a blacksmith I can learn from as well. Getting this craft can be entertaining. Plus, he has quite some destiny around him, so being around the guy might prove useful.
"Garion, what's wrong? You are up so early?" Aunt Pol noticed me first.
"I am hungry...", now to empower this sentence with loud rumbling, coming from the stomach, increase blood flow to cheeks, causing me to look flushed. And the final touch to avert my eyes a little to the side. Picture-perfect embarrassment.
[Request for a new 'STAT' assignment was sent...]
['STAT' approved...]
[Shaping...]
[Type identified as 'Ability'...]
[Incorporating...]
She smiled kindly and said:
"Well, the meal will be ready soon. In the meantime, you can take an apple for a light snack."
[New 'Ability' added: Decieving]
"Okay."
'Remind me to check the description of a new 'Ability' later during sleep, System.'
***
After dealing with stomach emptiness, I tried to leave the farm premises to train. Focus on the word "tried". As soon as I was 80 meters away from the kitchen, Aunt Pol magically appeared right behind me and gently asked:
"Young man, where might you be going, hm?"
'Well, I think I just pooped my pants.'
Anyway, after that small accident, I learned two things. Aunt Poll, somehow, always knows my location and 50 meters is the maximum distance that she can tolerate. Anything further and she swoops in, to... 'gently' lead me back.
Well, not that I care much about that. I wanted to leave the premises of this farm to attract less attention to the activities I am going to partake in. However, if I can't, it wouldn't be an issue, I'll just train. Plus, not like adults will pay much attention to what 5-year-old does.
*Sigh*
The next few years will be tough.
'System?'
[Connecting to the Framework...]
[Retrieving...]
[Application approved...]
['Quest' created: Acquire Fighting 'Ability'.]
['Quest' created: Acquire Crafting 'Ability'.]
['Quest' created: Train any 'Ability' to level 10.]
['Quest' created: Unlock any 'Attribute'.]
['Quest' created: Unlock any 'Skill'.]
[Details of new quests, such as rewards, time limits and etc. can be found in the quest section.]
'Nice'
Magnus smiled, thinking of all the things his own personalized self-made tweakable System with direct access to Framework was capable of.
'Let's see what rewards, I will be getting, he-he.'