'Hours!'
'Hours' was his greatest enemy, his mind couldn't help spun high at top gear to figure a way out of this possible misery, before speaking.
"As we can all see, they are yet of age. And yet we can't afford to possibly wait a thousand years later or even a century less, for the new reincarnates of the gods' totem father's.
"So I suggest, in order to prevent such from escalating, five years is enough!."
"I accept." The golden crown man, thought for a moment before he replied.
"Wait, won't they be killed before then?."The robust muscular middle-aged man said, with a hint of questioning.
"No, unless someone has a death wish!" The skeletal figure, struck the ground with a silver blood staff, causing the whole hall to vibrate with an ominous vibe.
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During the following days, Tobi's experiments went from errors to countless failures, this made him feel like he was tackling everything from the wrong angle.
He couldn't figure out what was wrong but he knew, something was most likely wrong somewhere.
It was either from himself, or he had been doing the wrong thing all along, to even arrive at a reasonable response.
The first was that the feeling of empowerment he felt earlier wasn't there either, nor was there a flow of any Mana from his Mana core coursing through his body.
These were all bad news, but he still couldn't make any head or tail why he was always failing every damn time.
Slowly he started thinking back to when he had first felt that feeling, that feeling was not new to him because he had once felt like that when he was practicing the meditation technique!
It was the same sensation he had felt when he had activated 'Demon Intimidation'.
But what if he could get a replica of the same sensation, with something like reverse cultivation of the meditation technique?
Tobi couldn't wait any longer, so he decided to test his theory out.
After some time, Tobi opened the system interface and went straight to the S, B, T panels in the system. When he was sure, no one was awake he activated the meditation technique.
Soon Tobi started to feel a tinge, all around his body, and the energy no to be precise the Mana that gently seem to move and condense inside his Mana core.
The more he perform it, the more clearly he could sense the energy with his perception, increasing in quantity.
However, the more he perform the technique the more he realized he barely had any control over the Mana in the core.
Despite the fact, he couldn't control it Tobi didn't give up, as he tried to mimic the feeling of empowerment while trying to focus and reverse, the way the Mana was flowing into his body.
He focused on the last strand of any similar feeling, perception could pick up trying to make it stay at any cost.
Tobi wanted it to last forever, but a second later.
He felt something click inside of him, though he didn't know what it was he still focused on whatever strand of Mana remained.
However, weirdly he felt, a unique connection had been suddenly established between him and the strand of feeling.
Even as he closed his eyes, the establishment didn't stop as it continued to spread from his head to his body, making him slowly emit a dim halo of Mana. The sphere of Mana slowly transformed into energy that flowed into his body which was making Tobi slowly feel empowered.
As if something deep inside of him was taking form, the connection had suddenly become ingrained into his very fiber, obsessively he started repeating the feeling in his mind.
Tobi who was still obsessively repeating the familiar feeling, slowly opened his pale eyes as he stared at himself. However, what he saw made him flabbergasted as he stared at the notifications characters in front of him in shock, he could see a dim light to be precise a multitude of dim lights hovering around him slowly becoming brighter and stronger.
But barely a second later, just before Tobi fell asleep due to the exhaustion of his mana, a smile slowly crept upon his face.
[Hidden Quest has been Completed]
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After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, Tobi slowly woke up together with the previous event that had occurred in his mind, he slowly took mental note of his surrounding as it seemed like it was probably morning already.
'How long did I sleep?'
Though he didn't know how long he had slept for, Tobi assumes it must have been more than the hours he usually slept, since he didn't exactly know how this world time runs except it had three sessions of the morning, afternoon, and night.
One was calculated through the morning crow of a rooster, the second which was the afternoon was calculated through the rising of the sun.
While, the third which was the night, was calculated through the sluggishness of farm animals, setting of the sun, and the closing of little flower buds.
Since it was likely still morning, he guess his family wouldn't be too worried about his unusual sleep, so he just threw everything at the back of his mind.
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[Hidden Quest has been Completed!]
'Huh? this is?'
Tobi thought as he saw the notification, this was among the last thing he saw just before falling asleep due to over-exhausting his mana.
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[Host has completed the hidden quest]
[Hidden Quest details; { Created a Sub-Technique]
[Unlocked new Attributes Stat: Mana Sensitive]
[Attributes Points can now be added to the available 'Stat]
[Quest rewards]
<1000 exp>
<+2 Extra attributes point added to all stats!>
[Host has leveled up]
[+1 Extra attributes points have been added to all of the host's attributes!]
[Punishment for failure upgraded; Death!]
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