Waking up again, I feel refreshed and full of energy.
After fiddling with my phone and texting my sister, I decided to check my system.
[Name: Oscar Blake]
[Alias: Blaze]
[Rank H+]
[Status]
[Health: 110/110] [Stamina 56/100]
[Mana: 10/10] [Satiety:68/100]
[Corruption: 2%] (-3%)
[Buffs: None] [Debuffs: Mental Barrier Cracked, Duration: 6 Days 12 Hours 36 Minutes]
[Attributes]
[Strength:6](+1) [Agility:8]
[Intelligence:14] [Mana:2](+2)
[Charisma:10] [Physique:8](+1)
[Reflexes:9]
[Remark: Big gains]
My face filled up with joy seeing an increase in my attributes, but witnessing the debuff was a shame. I also understand why 'Oscar number 2' said we should use the ability [Data Mind]. Now that I know that corruption can be decreased very fast with potions, it seemed that I would have to download some knowledge and do some further testing, but before I could do that, I needed more mana. So I decided to start researching.
After researching and using my novel knowledge, I developed a theory on how to use and how effectively collect mana. My idea was simple, mana circuit was the maximum mana amount, (also mana purity and density) and usually, we get mana from either eating or breathing but it's very little. The most popular way to cultivate mana is by consuming mana stones. We can also meditate and use our mana to collect more mana and expand our mana circuits or recharge our mana from the surrounding area. But there was a limit to how much mana you could train in an ordinary place. The best place to meditate was at high altitudes because it was written in a report that the troposphere layer had a high density of mana that could be enough for a person to increase a couple of ranks but because the mana density is that high it also has mana storms that shreds all mana that it comes to contact with. These mana storms would cause an increase in mana on the surface of that area and could cause new dungeons or even dungeon outbreaks to appear. Mana storms can also hit high-altitude areas, and the highest density place is Mount Everest. Most hunters dream of coming to that place and cultivating mana, but that place is a monster zone with monster density reaching the highest level, although there strangely are no mana storms there.
Opening all the windows and sitting down, I close my eyes, plug my ears, and try to eject my mana from my body to sense the surrounding mana to start training my mana, but I'm unable to move my mana.
I try again and again, but I cannot move an inch of it. Then an idea hits me, and I use the skill I thought was the most useless one [Felling Simulation]. It was a skill that allowed me to recreate touch and pain, so I used it to try and recreate the feeling when mana was injected into me.
Using the skill made me feel uncomfortable, but slowly I got used to it, and finally, after what seemed to be hours, I could move my mana, but the next step was ejecting it, which probably be as hard as trying to move my mana.
Breathing slowly, I start imagining the mana leaving my body in molecules. After a bit, I started seeing without my eyes open, but all my view was black with white blobs swirling. It didn't take me long to realize that the blue is my mana and the white dots are the mana that surrounds me. After I realize that, I try to move the blue blob that is me to the white blob, and when I get close to it, the white blob starts moving toward me like a magnet and attaches itself to me, and slowly turns blue.
After collecting a few white blobs, I start returning the blue blob to my body and it enters it. After the blue blob enters me, I start feeling pain, but not as severely as before, and I impatiently check my attributes.
[Name: Oscar Blake]
[Alias: Blaze]
[Rank H+]
[Status]
[Mana: 11/11]
[Attributes]
[Mana:2.3](+0.3) (Mana will have a bit more accurate number, at least for now.)
[Remark: Something is wrong, I can feel it]
Seeing my mana rise by a lot, I start smiling, but after checking the time, I notice that I've been sitting and doing nothing for 15 hours and immediately get pissed off. 'Genius my ass, if I was truly a genius my mana wouldn't increase by a mere 0.3.'
Sighing and feeling hungry, I head to the cafeteria to get some food, but nothing interesting happens.
I returned to my room, rested, trained mana again, and repeated that cycle for three days until I was discharged. Before I got discharged, the doctor told me to stay home and rest because I might experience the same thing or even worse, and I nodded and left the hospital.
Waiting outside the hospital, my parents and sister and I chatted with them.
"It feels so good finally getting discharged," I exclaimed. It was getting dull with all that mana training.
"Did you dislike it there bwother?" my sister asked me, looking curious.
"Of course not. It was pretty interesting. How about you? What did you do while I was gone?" I asked her, but I was getting a bad feeling.
"I got a boyfriend!!" Hearing those words, I choked, and my face turned ugly.
"You got a boyfriend?!?! Ahem... Congratulations!" I congratulated her with a fake smile while deep inside, I was mad, 'If he hurts her, I swear to god ill break his legs.'
After catching up, we drove home, and after coming home, I instantly went to my room to start training my body and mana but before I could go my parents ask me.
"Don't you have anything to say to us," My mom suddenly asks causing me to know something bad was going to happen.
'Did they find out I awakened? No that's not possible... wait unless the doctor told them,' After thinking about it, it was most likely the doctor who told them, but just in case I acted like I don't know anything.
"Huh? I don't think so." The faces of my parents didn't change, but they only got angrier.
"You don't have to hide it, we know," It could still be a misunderstanding they may have found my collection and not about my awakening, I tried to calm myself down. Deep inside me, I was glad they found out because I wouldn't have told them until the final possible day.
"I still don't understand what you know," This was my final hope, but I already knew that they knew about my awakening.
"We know that you awakened Oscar. Why didn't you tell us?" My mom asks me seemingly in tears, presumably worried and I sigh seeing that.
The atmosphere was awkward and I didn't like it one bit but I knew that I couldn't avoid it anymore so I decided to come clean and tell them everything.
"Fine... Yeah I awakened, but I did plan on telling you just not now I still needed to come up with what I want to do with my future, but most likely ill go to the US" I tell them everything but leave out the part where my consciousness combined and some other like I know knowledge of another world.
At first, they didn't want me to go to an academy for awakened but after I told them about the perks and told them that I will go whether they agree or not, they eventually had no choice but to agree and decided to support me.
After the talk, I enter my room and I start training mana, but when training I get an idea, and if that idea worked I could train much faster, I hoped that idea worked but before I could test it I noticed it was 2 AM so I went to sleep.
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I didn't expect him to break his plans so fast, I guess 'He' choose a good candidate don't you think?
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