As his consciousness slipped away he felt an immense sense of comfort, a sort of warm feeling that felt seeping into his bones and muscles. After several hours of sleeping he awoke, he was a bit dazed because of tiredness that invaded his mind. After a bit of rest he didn't feel tired as he laid looking at the light entering through the roof and bathing everything it touched in bliss and comfort. He then decided to start working on a new assignment. Magic.
The first step of the magic was to perceive the basic elements that are in the surroundings of the mage. John sat on the floor closed his eyes and took slow paced breaths. He had to enter a meditative state in order for him to even conceive the energy's in his minds eye. After nearly two hours of calm thoughts and meditation he began to drift and feel as though he had left his body and was floating on his back down a long and thin stream. This stream was surrounded by pure darkness but as time continued to tick away with out his prescription, the stream began to glow and there were thousands of minuscule dots of lights in various colors and shapes. John reached his hand out and felt all the different energy particles and noticed a pattern behind them.
He felt that the red colored dots were brave and warm, the blue ones were not the most reliable but they were soothing, the yellow ones were study and strong, the green ones were agile and intelligent, and the black ones felt twisted and demented. He pictured the red dots as fire, the blue dots as water, the yellow dots as earth, the green dots as wind and the black dots as death and darkness energy.
Once he had picked up on the elements he thought back to the system and what it told him to do. The fireplace he built served two purposes, one as a way to smelt and the other as a way to cook. He had a dantian, but the system told him he needs to create runes of power to properly harness magic.at least that's true for his current realm, as one got stronger they eventually made the elements use their individuality and could harness them more efficiently and properly.
'[The system has decided to reward the host for his recent increase in magical strength]'. •Reward: 50 iron ingots, 15 magic stones, basic crafting tools, protective goggles, rune schematics, and the system shop feature.
Rune schematics:
The rune schematics are a paper scroll that can transform into any schematic you need. But you will need a certain amount of understanding of the schematic to create a flawless version.
He was very intrigued by the scroll that he held in his hand, he was surprised that it could show the schematics of any rune. He felt like their was an oversight and was about to voice his concern when the supposed to tutorial's administrator stepped in and informed him.
'[Oops it seems that I gave you the stuff to create the runes but not what element(s) that you can wield]'. As the system's administrator spoke those words, a large marble looking orb appeared in front of him, he was so stunted by that sudden appearance that he almost dropped the orb.
'[To activate the orb is simple, but you can't now so all you need to do is concentrate on the internal parts of your body. After you have done that, focus on an area in the middle of your stomach and it will happen as long as you force your will on to the area]'. Unlike usual when he heard the system with its cold and metallic voice it was deep masculine voice that sounded middle age-ish. John was very confused at the sudden information dump of information, but he was able to recover quickly from the suddenness of the situation.
He followed the orders to the letter and something happened, it was a sudden searing pain that increased in power as the time ticked by. He felt as if he was being burned alive and that his body was building up with pressure like a volcano moments before it's eruption. After many minutes the pain started to disappear he then felt a soothing warmness spread and was able to relax after that, but then he remembered why he had just gone through all that pain. "What the fuck was that you doucy Starducks ordering Karen like ass waffle?". His rage boiled up from the bottom of his soul as his spew a flurry of interesting cuss words at the system administrator.
'[It was you forcibly developing your dantian to a higher realm before its ready and if I had told you that it would be incredibly painful would you have still done it]'. The system let him think about that with snide comments directed at him.