The next day Ray woke up completely relaxed, cleaning up his room he proceeded to take a shower and sort out his thoughts.
Ok so I became a returner, thanks to some giant snake who for some reason was eating its own tail... and now I'm back in time to start my training at Realm, I can actually write a good novel out of this.
Now getting back on track, now that I am back in past my first goal should be to become at least a S-rank hero before graduating from realm without drawing any attention.
Its next to impossible to stop the calamity by myself so my next goal should be to recruit some talents and form a guild. All this is impossible to achieve without money and I can earn some quick cash from stocks, then form a company to support myself and the guild.
If only it was as easy as it sounds, my rank is currently 113 out of the 120 first years which is extremely low and if I suddenly start jumping ranks I'll obviously attract some unwanted attention but if I settle for my current rank and slowly move upwards it'll get hard to recruit others to my guild.
Its obvious who will be stupid enough to follow a low ranked nobody in a world where power is everything and to make money from stocks I'll first need some major capital which obviously had to be hidden or I'll just end up blowing my cover.
This is already giving me a headache, never knew living a second life could be so tiring.
Whatever I'll think about it when the time comes for now my priority should be to get stronger this scrawny body is completely useless.
Thus, I proceed with my regular training regimen which I practiced daily in the future to keep my body in proper shape. It included 100 sit ups, pushups and squats followed by a 10km run.
However after only 10 pushups my body collapsed on the floor and I had to use my mana to complete the rest of my regimen. It was already afternoon after I completed my body training, I was really weak right now no wonder I was always bullied.
I freshened up and devoured the lunch I ordered earlier before collapsing on the bed and slept like a log till evening.
After a waking up my body was sore all over due to my 'regular' exercise, this won't do with this body it will be impossible to achieve anything in Realm. After all Realm is not like any other elite hero academy it was established to be the best academy by the League for the purpose of nurturing promising young heroes who would become the supporting pillars in the future.
The only reason why I was even able to enroll here was due to my high written score while my practical score was just laughable.
Then again due to its high prestige the Realm was targeted numerous times by fiends and demon even some demons and angles directly interfered causing a large number of students casualties in the future.
Hopefully I will be able to save them this time around but that'll have to wait until I'm strong enough for now I jotted down all the events that'll occur in the future so that I won't end up messing up due to my bad memory.
After all this was done I started to think about how I could boost my combat prowess in a short time even with my previous weapon proficiency at most I could reach the middle ranks.
The students at the top ranks were nothing but monstrous prodigies with their talent alone they could crush proficient martial arts masters like bugs. Not to mention that their families would nurture them with best resources.
Well it's not like I want to be a top ranker but if I am even thinking about saving Ceras I should at least be stronger than the 1st ranking student right. As for my actual rank anything above 30 will do, not only will it be a good rank it will also be less conspicuous.
ahhhh... I can't think of anything at all the closest thing that I could think of is the lightning bead found in the folded space on Piler cliff three weeks from now... back to square one I guess.
Oh wait I almost forgot about the stigma can't be helped every time I tried to activate it something strange happened I don't even know yet what the heck does it even do.
After a bit of mental relaxation I activated my mana circuit as mana started to flow inside my body I started to observe any changes happening to me.
One..two....five minutes later I nearly exhausted all my mana but nothing happened like literally nothing happened. What the hell, does this thing only consume mana like crazy am really that unlucky...
I sighed helplessly as I dragged my tired body to bed but one look at my watch and all my tiredness vanished, what seemed like 5 minutes was actually less than a single minute.
This was completely baffling; to ascertain my doubt I once again condensed whatever mana I had left into my body but this time I kept an eye on my watch while counting inside my head.
Due to insufficient mana I was only able to keep the stigma active for 10 seconds according to my watch but what came as a shock was that I was able to actually count till about 100 seconds. This meant that my stigma was able to accelerate the perception of time for me.
Which is completely different from increased perception because for me the the flow of time was itself accelerated inside my head. Basically if someone with enhanced perception could see a bullet in slow motion I could logically see the same bullet in a frame wise motion with a conversion ratio of 1:10, but this thing does consume a lot of mana.
This does gives me a decent boost in my combat but I'll have to use it efficiently. Thinking about my future training plans I finally went to sleep.
The next morning I woke up early and after doing my daily exercise, I directly prepared for the morning Realm class as in the first class I had to grab a good seat away from those annoying brats and mentally prepare myself for the day.
Taking a deep breath I walked out of my room and after locking the door I moved towards the first year building...