[Calvin Pov]
I woke up and saw ais looking down at me, I got up from her lap pillow and inspected my body.
"You are lucky I had some potions, otherwise you won't be able to use your arm until you find someone with healing magic" Riveria, that was on the side resting her back in the wall said while pointing at my arm.
"Oh, thanks" I totally forgot about healing magic, was it like that healer that used semi-permanent illusions to heal? Or speeds natural regeneration?
"How much time was I sleep for?" I ask.
"Around 30 minutes" ais responds.
"Well, I'm totally fine now, so let's get out of the dungeon" I say to the duo.
"We were returning from our trip to the 20th floor" ais nods
"And how's in there? Are monsters strong?" I ask genuinely curious about the lower floors.
"Yes, but not enough" she says gripping the handle of her sword.
"Yeah..." 'well if she says it, it means that monsters there are at least 3 times stronger than this minotaur'.
That means that this minotaur was 'weak' and even so I got heavily injured
'I've really become weaker' I grip my sword that was vanishing along with its copies.
"let's go back to the surface, we can train-*ahem* spar a little if it doesn't bother you" I say to ais
"Yes, we can" she says with an almost imperceptible smile.
At least I can sell that magic stone that the minotaur dropped but I need a lot more money to pay the debt.
And this sword 'I think that copying 'magical' items only copies the physical part of it, and not the 'magical' properties'
Like Ais sword, I can feel that hers is almost indestructible, but my copy can only take so much damage before it breaks.
I need to get the real sword if I want it at its full potential, I'll need to talk to Hephaestus or somehow buy it.
And for that I need a lot more money, my pouch is almost empty as I just ran all the way here killing only the monsters that got in my way.
'But... I don't have a weapon nor bent to copy Ais' I look at her sword and she looks at me and tilt her head a little.
'WAIT, isn't this the best opportunity to experiment?' I've been having some questions about people in this world.
1-Do they have bent at all? supposedly everything that exists has bent, but, is magic what replaces bent in this word? Does every object and living being has magic/bent?
2-in the case that they do have bent, what is their capacity? the bent system uses different methods to extend the maximum bent that one can hold in their bodies.
Do they have the standard single digit that we are born with? Or does the 'level' influences this in some way?
I think I'll get some answers after this.
"Hey, Ais could you give me your hand?" I say extending mine.
"Sure, why?" she extends her hand too.
"Just some experiments, please don't resist" I say as the veins in my arm become completely black, and I grip her hand.
As a pleasurable feeling run up my arm I see:
[1/21 bent remaining]
[2/21 bent remaining]
[3/21 bent remaining]
A smile come to my face after the notifications star popping in front of my eyes.
[4/21 bent remaining]
[5/21 bent remaining]
[Warning!
Target of [lady killer] is out of bent]
Now I just have to confirm something.
I look at ais which face was red and had irregular breathing.
"Ais, you okay?" as I let go of her hand
"Y-yes, it felt strange" she says while controlling her breathing but her checks are still a bit red, she looks at her hand curiously.
"Did you feel something when I was gripping your hand?" I ask her.
"Yes, it felt as if something was being drained from me, but somehow I don't feel different at all" that answers one of my questions.
If you don't have the bent system you can't feel the bent inside you or interact with it at all.
"Ais what level are you?" I ask, to which she hesitates a little 'I guess you don't go telling anyone about your level'
"I'm level 5" she said after moment.
'Just as I thought, there is really no way to 'train' bent here so people just have 1/1 when they are born. And the god's blessing breaks that limit as a side effect of making their bodies stronger'.
"I see, thanks ais, you can go ahead I need some more magic stones before I go to the surface" I say to her
"Are you sure you are fine?" she asks a little worried.
"Yes, I am perfectly fine" as I stretch my body.
"Okay then, please be more careful... and don't die" she says
She signaled Riveria to follow her and turned around making her way to the surface
"oh, ais can I copy your sword? As you can see mine kind of broke" I say signaling the various shards of metal in the floor
Ais looks back at me and nods.
[talking to girls has reached level 6!]
"Thank you, [splitting]" I say after reading the notification
[4/21 bent remaining]
While ais made her way to the surface I explored the rest of the floor making use of the new ability I obtained.
Parrying attacks and attacking with 25% more force.
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It's been an hour since my encounter with Ais and I'm returning to the surface, I duped the sword twice and killed around 120 monsters.
"This surely is more than a million" I say as I look at my pouch filled with palm-sized magic stones.
And I feel like my warp is around half way to break and I've yet to max my body stats, Ais said that is better to level up after everything is maxed, and also that leveling up gives you some skill related to what you did prior to the level up.
"I'll have to train my body to the bone every day" it's going to hurt the first days, but I'll do anything for 'my beautiful princess and my cute genosian'.
'WHAT?' I put my hand in my mouth 'wtf was that? oh no' I try saying her names again.
'The princess of my heart and my sexy cannibal'.
"Ugh, THAT FUCKING LOVE POTION!" I think I'm going to die of cringe if I say that again.
(I almost died of cringe writing that)
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Finally reaching the surface I exchange my magic stones in the guild making 1.4Million valis and buy another steel sword.
"Better than nothing" as I put it in my scabbard
"It's getting late" as I look at the sun hiding in the horizon.
I went to eat at the hostess of fertility and then to the inn to take a bath and change my clothes that were stained with my blood.
After I was done it was already night.
I was outside the inn wearing black pants, a grey shirt and a hooded robe along with my sword in its scabbard strapped to my hip.
"perfect" I look at the part of the city that is as lively as ever. "Some bitches are going to get lucky to be with the great wizard king"
I say as I walk to the Red-light district of orario.
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That's all today.
And should I make a lemon chapter next?
I want to experience a little and seeing that webnovel is full of horny I have plenty of "research material"
Anyways thank you for reading and see you next chapter