The mess was cleaned like some kind of magic when he went to the bath he didn't feel uncomfortable because of his burnt skin. He wore some clothes and went in front of the mirror and noticed the changes in his body.
He could not believe his eyes, the man in the mirror was too handsome, with appropriate muscles, vibrant skin colour, shiny black hair and red eyes like gems. There were still signs of some scars that were deep but that was because they were flesh wounds. His eye has been recovered like new, he wondered how will he explain this much change to Lucia.
Along with these changes, there was something else that has changed, he felt more powerful and some kind of energy running through his veins. It felt like the time when he was given drugs to boost his performance. He sat on the couch waiting for his mother to wake up, he wanted to have a talk with her about his change of appearance.
Lucia also woke up for the preparation related to the shop, when she woke up she found Alvis standing in the hall rather than training. She looked at her son, the skin which was burnt had now completely recovered and even the eyes are normal again.
" How did this happen, Alvis?" Rex was surprised that she could recognise him even after such a major transformation.
" I just had something that could have healed me completely so I used it."
" What? Then why didn't you use it before."
" I was planning to sell that thing for money."
" Money is not more important than yourself Alvis, you should have used it earlier but thank god you did use it in the end. By the way, what was it?"
[ Say a high-grade pill, you found on the battlefield.]
He said the same line to Lucia making her finally feel convinced.
" Thank goodness, I was quite worried about your future."
" My future?"
" You know, how about you get married and settle down now?" Lucia said, but her eyes were looking all over his son's body. She had never seen such a handsome person in her entire life.
" I- I can not, I am not ready." It was an embarrassing thing to talk about for a 40-year-old man.
" Well, with this face, you will soon find a girlfriend so there is no need to worry," Lucia said in a teasing manner.
After confronting Lucia, it was now time to focus on the weird energy that he was feeling within himself. The Voice told him that he would not help with it, according to the memories of Alvis, this was something similar that higher-ups in the military used.
It's called internal energy, this depends on one's willpower, body and inheritance. Only people from a noble bloodline can use this, Alvis was also a noble so he could also use this but there was no one to teach him.
He sat on the ground of his room and began to meditate. It was similar to feeling chi from meditation, on earth he learnt this breathing technique to stabilize the energy inside of him. If the concept of internal energy is the same in this world then it should work.
Just as expected, there was something and through mediation, he could feel this within himself. By focusing more he found out there are other energies as well but everything is in chaos, he focused on the red energy that felt more similar to chi and gave him a warm feeling and tried to spread it through the body.
Because of having a very healthy body, the energy spread too fast throughout the body. It felt like his whole body was on fire, he tried to slow it down but the flow suddenly stopped and his meditation broke. Rex was having issues with breathing, he needed someone to explain more about this internal energy.
Only meditation is not enough, feeling this energy is one thing and being able to control it is another. For now, having a healthy body is enough, he felt something weird about this energy because it caused pain when he tried to channel it through his body.
There were also a lot of other energies in his body which made it harder for him to use them. One energy stops the other from being used, Rex had almost lost hope of ever using these powers.
[ You are right, you should not play with this. Don't let anyone inspect your body as well. Do this quest instead.
Quest 3- Become an A rank Adventure in 6 months.
Quest Reward- Separate Energy pathway
Quest Failure- None.]
It was the first time there was no death if he failed the quest. He decided to go and register as an adventurer and quickly earn the rank, if he is correct then these energy pathways are what he needs to use his internal powers.
[ While healing I had reconstructed your body in a way that it can hold all kinds of energies. However, other humans can hold these energies, they just don't have the means to use them. The number of energies your body can produce is much more than those people, it means you are even more of a cripple than them. You will need these pathways to channel energy through your body and use them.]
" Does that mean having fewer number energies is better?"
[ Yes, because the people can easily build a pathway for single energy but if they try to build a pathway for several energies it causes a backlash.]
" Backlash such as what?"
[ Death.]
" Then, why didn't you tell me before?"
[ It doesn't matter if you die by yourself but since you survived by stopping yourself on time. I thought that I should tell you this much at least.]
" Why do you want to kill me after giving me this new life?"
[ You are just a tool for us to use so behave like one and don't ask unnecessary things.]