His mana pool was completely filled and he had achieved the required mana purity of 1%.
It was finally time for him to take his first step as a real Cultivator, achieve his first breakthrough!
It was important for him to not be distracted by anything in his surroundings while breaking through outside the shelter. Hence he decided to go to an inn and rented a room for 50 bronze a day.
There were always pranksters trying to troll people while breaking through, trying to damage their mana pool in return.
It was illegal, but even the slightest distraction while breaking through would be enough to result in a damaged mana pool.
This could either end as a temporary injury, which would heal with time, or with a permanent injury that had to be healed by buying precious items through the system. These items were more expensive than the resources most humans would use in their whole life.
Shane didn't want to take any risk and paying 50 bronze to be safe from trolls was definitely worth the price.
As he sat on the top of the bed, a notification appeared in his head as he stated his purpose of breaking through to the system.
[Host met the requirements to break into the [2nd-Mortal] stage]
[Breakthrough will require 8 hours. Commence breakthrough?]
8 hours was a long time and this could be reduced by breaking through at a place with more mana particles or mana stones around him. But right now, Shane wanted to be safe in an enclosed place even if fewer mana particles were around him. Purchasing Mana stones was not necessary at this point.
In the end, 8 hours were almost perfect for him, because the nighttime cycle on the Soul-Onyx-Jungle Dimension would start by then.
As such one could say that everything played into his hands.
[Commence!] Shane thought and his body was slowly enveloped in a white cocoon, covering him completely, sealing him from the outside world.
Not knowing what would happen, Shane looked around, when he felt a slight pain in his abdomen, where his mana pool was.
Closing his eyes and sensing his mana pool, Shane noticed that his mana pool had become unstable. Only then did he remember that one had to hold one's mana pool together while breaking through.
With the slightest distraction, the mana pool would turn into a violent storm, and become more unstable which was the reason why one had to mentally hold it together.
Concentrating on the mana within the mana pool would cause the vessel that is the mana pool to become slightly more stable.
The vessel itself would be tempered and grow while breaking through, like a muscle that strengthened itself by exhausting and recuperating in a repeated cycle.
It wasn't overly exhausting to hold his mana pool together and for Shane, it was rather playing around with his mana than doing anything difficult.
Even the mana around him seemed to be drawn towards him. One could almost say that the annexed mana had strengthened amity with him. It was almost as if it wanted to help him be stronger by all means. He entered his mana pool with his mind while circulating the mana within his mana pool perfectly, which wouldn't be possible under normal circumstances
With that, Shane could strengthen his mana pool more than fellow cultivators, like the Abytor-race that was known for their extraordinarily strong mana vessel.
Even overexerting mana was possible for them and wouldn't cause their tempered vessels to break. If Shane could do something similar, why not?
Having a more resistant mana pool was always good and a huge advantage to a cultivator.
As such, time went by and Shane circulated the mana within his mana pool around, filling every nook and cranny, without leaving a single cell.
8 hours later, his mana pool had increased by roughly 10%, which was a common increase within the mortal stage.
One could say that the difference of ranks would not matter much between the different stages of the mortal stage,, but this was only partially true.
Even though the increase within the mortal stage was only 10% per rank for both body refining and cultivation itself, it was nothing to scoff at.
It was possible to climb through ranks if one possessed superior combat prowess and Shane was confident in being able to do that, owing to his title he had yet to test out. However, playing safe wouldn't hurt in the beginning, because he didn't even have a graded martial art technique or skill.
Apparently, the techniques he had learned weren't accepted by the system for either not being strong enough to be graded or the system simply despised his techniques for being crude and flawed.
But that was fine with him as it wouldn't really change anything for his current situation.
Even if his mana pool increased only by 10%, it was better than that of the average human with 30% since the beginning.
For instance, with his initial mana pool that had a size of 1.3 units, it was now enlarged to 1.43 units instead of 1.1 units with an initial mana pool size of 1 unit as everyone else without a blessing had.
[Host broke successfully into the 2nd Mortal stage. Congratulations!]
A notification appeared in his mind and Shane could only smile lightly.
He wasn't sure if he should love or hate the system. But in the end, Shane liked it more than he hated it, because it made him stronger, even if he felt as if he was being monitored all the time.
Looking at his status a faint smile appeared on Shane's face.
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Title: [Berserk-Hunter(F)]
Occupation: [None]
Name: Shane Suro (Orus)
Race:[Human 100%]
Cultivation Level: Mortal-2nd [Purity 1.09%]
Body Refinement: [Mortal-4th]
Cultivation Manual:
→Mana purifying [Mortal-(Silver)]
→Mana gathering [Mortal-(Silver)]
![Artemis' Blessing]+
[Innate Skill]: Taming |Trash-★★ ★★★ (+)|
Finances: 2 gold 23 silver
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He placed his hand on the innate skill row to hide it from his view. According to him, it destroyed the beauty of the panel in front of him.
Looking at the time, Shane decided to leave the Deep Mountain-river shelter, after making a trip to the market.
Even though he hated giving out his funds, surviving was more important.
Having purchased a tracker and a translucent marker for 50 silver, he also purchased five marble-sized prismarine-luminous crystals for 1 gold coin. With the remaining 73 silver, Shane bought another concealment and nightsight potion, increasing his stock to 6 concealment and nightsight potions.
He still had 13 silver left, but he required 2 silver to enter the Soul-Onyx-jungle dimension. That left him with 11 silver to purchase something.
Thinking about what he needed next, he remembered running around with wet clothes and shoes.
As such, he bought a few sets of clothes, a raincoat, and two pairs of shoes, leaving him with a total of 4 silver from his initial fortune of 2 gold and 23 silver.
After their short shopping spree, a hungry Umbra pestered Shane by transmitting pictures of food. Thus, with his remaining two silver coins, they ate their fill, while Shane stored another few dishes within his spatial ring.
Walking towards the Dimension Portal with filled bellies, Shane and Umbra were ready to commence their mission and earn a mountain of gold in order to increase their cultivation, quality, and combat prowess by leaps and bounds.
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