"Accept status recovery".
He said in an obviously exhausted tone. As he finished saying this an immense amount of pain was wretched from his muscles, he felt extremely refreshed and calm, as he sat on the ground. To keep his stats balanced he put 1 into all of them. He felt stronger and more in shape, he realized something on his status screen.
Mp: 5( to unlock magic mage core is required ).
Johns interest was peaked by this new addition and asked the system administrator about it. "Hey, what does this message mean?"
['User needs magical energy from magical beasts, to start the dantians development. Due to the host not being of this world, the users body has to undergo changes to become able to use this worlds magic.']
He was excited at the chance to be like the characters from the books he used to write. He could already imagine how he could be in the future. In his mind he saw him self in an epic set of red armor with a huge army in front of him, raising his hand to the sky a massive fireball descended on to the battlefield and eradicated everyone in front of him.
Finally deciding he needed to get started on this, John started exploring to find a beast to kill. After only about an hour of looking, he had found his target. The creature was a low tier crazed slime according to the system.The first nine realms are as follows, crazed beast(low, mid, high), demented beast(low, mid, high), pinnacle beast(low, mid, high). This system is used to measure the strength of creatures.
At this time it was about noon, meaning he had been there for a bit over three hours. Even still his body had under gone several changes already, his bones had started being infused by the atmospheric energy and his muscle limiter had lessened allowing him to use seventy percent of his power at full exertion.
As he approached the beast he noticed that there was a health bar that said 5 hp at the top. Just a bit more than he had. When he had reached the bottom of the hill he suddenly was attacked, the creature lunged forward, John barely managed to dodge by contorting his torso to the left. As the creature was still next to him John had decided to attack it, he threw a punch at the slime in its side. The creature flew a few feet away before slamming into the ground. It lost two hp, though the slime didn't have any time to recover, seeing as the humanoid hit him again. As the fist collided with the creature, it wrapped around his arm. After a second or two, the creature started to secrete acid. Feeling this John quickly slammed his arm into the ground, leaving a small crater. Then he finished it off easily with another hit, as it died a green orb got absorbed into his body.
'[The user has gained one unit of magical energy, four remain]'.
Seeing this notification John went on the hunt for all the crazed beasts around him. The same scene repeated its self four more times.
'[The host needs a energy of higher purity to advance to the development stage]'.
Even though he had gathered the five units, he still required a catalyst to initiate its development. He sighed internally and realized that his life from now on would have a lot of bowing down to the almighty system just to get the rewards.
There was the same dinging noise that honestly has started to annoy John, but he looked past that and looked at the message.
'[New mission]
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'[Kill a crazed beast mid tier to begin mage core development]'.
John went about completing the mission and quickly found his target, it was also a slime but this one was several times larger. It was the size of table and was several time stronger than the other ones he had fought.
Fate did not look favorably on the beast though, because after hunting the five slime's John knew the easiest way to kill it, he quickly began to pummel it with his bare hands. John circled around the beast as it tried to stretch its orb like body, while it stretched part of its body it became immobile this allowed john to slip in and attack its body. Like this he made quick work of the slime and finally killed the beast. This time an even larger green orb was absorbed into his body and he once again heard the damned systems ding.
'Dantian development has begun. Time left: 12 hours'.
He smiled as he looked at the notification, though it didn't last long. He realized that he had been wasting time and that he needed to set up a base to stay protected during the night. As he looked for some trees he had seen something sad. There was a wolf eating a dead body, he quickly moved to scare the wolf away. Returning to the scene when the creature was gone he buried what was left of the body, lying next to the man there was a machete. He wrestled with his conscience for a while, but in the end he decide to keep the dead man's machete.
"May you rest in piece, for now I will take this and live on." He then proceeded to light a fire using the forest debris and created a primitive fire starter using some vines and stick like he had seen on several videos and shows he watch while still on earth. Spreading the ashes from his little bonfire in order to prevent the corpse from being dug up.
Machete:
Adds five damage when attacking, this weapon also has many other uses.
For now all John did was cut down some small trees and bring them to a clearing. After about 10 minutes of clearing out all the dirt in a four foot deep hole that was 15 feet in diameter, he started working on the stairs. They took about 2 minutes, after that he had started to use the five feet tall poles that he had made using the smaller trees, he used some rope that he made out of vines to tie it all together.
After finishing the perimeter of the house he was almost done with all the poles he had, but before he made the roof he had to add one thing to a wall near wear he was going to put a bed he was going to make. It took forever to find a spring, but eventually he did. The first thing he did when he had gotten to the clearing was, to fill up some water skins he made out of leaves he had found. Next he searched around and found what he had been looking for, after gathering all of the clay into a basket he made using the reeds at the spring, he had started to head back to the camp. After about five to ten minutes of walking he had made it back. It took him a while to settle on a fireplace design that he liked but when he had, he immediately got to work on molding the clay into a about ten foot tall tower. It took him over two hours to get it done, from having to go back and get more clay, or wanting to make sure it was not messed up. After that long delay he got back to working on the roof after he had made a fire in the fireplace. After putting in all the roof he finally put about a foot of dirt on the top, then to finish off the house itself, he started to test out designs for the hinges he was going to use for the door. It was already around 5 pm by the time he finished with that and had made a hammock type of bed with a wooden frame and leaves sewn together to make the bed part.
John had some excess clay and felt his stomach was yelling at him, he quickly molded a large and thick bowl shape sporting two three by three inch holes as handles at the top and 3/4 inch side walls to prevent leakage. After setting the CarPlay pot in the fire and building sucks up around it for a heat treat John went and scavenged for some herbs and mushrooms. After and hour he came back with a plentiful harvest containing a few pounds of non toxic mushrooms, numerous herbs, several gallons of water in clay containers that he had made previously and a rabbit that he had seen while foraging.
After fully hardening in the fire John took the pot out before setting up a proper stand for it to sit on using two logs and a towing thick stick he cut to size. Finally he gathered all the ingredients he needed before tossing them in to the stew.
Sitting down at the desk he then stripped several vines and tied up the rest of the herbs to dry over the fire place.
After eating half of his fantastic stew he put more logs on the fire place and while holding his machete he drifted off to sleep.