Walking on the road towards the exit of the village, Mason was deeply in thought.
'With my new-found powers, I should train them. But how do i find inspiration on how to actually start. Being the only awakened in the village, I can't ask anybody else for advice. Also, how will I tell my mom about this. I can't reveal the System, if I do some weirdo scientist will probably cut me open.'
Once he reached the exit he saw a group of girls talking to each other. When one of them suddenly ran towards him. It was Emma, the girl who had basically saved his life. Even though he didn't know that yet.
"Hey you, should you be out of bed yet? You had some pretty serious injuries yesterday." Emma asked.
Mason had a confused look on his face. 'How does this girl know I was injured?'
"Yes, I'm feeling fine right now. How did you know I was injured though?" he asked.
Now it was Emma who had a confused look on her face. 'Damn, I saved his life and he doesn't even know. The world truly is unfair to beautiful girls like me.'
"Oh, uh, I was the one who found your half-dead body in the forest. You truly had me shocked, how did you even kill a bear that big. It was at least 4 meters tall!"
'So she was the one who saved me, well I should somehow repay her in the future when I'm rich and powerful.' Mason thought.
"Well, I guess I got slightly lucky, hehe" Mason chuckled slightly.
'Yeah right, how does one pierce a bear like that with luck? But since he doesn't want to tell me I'm not going to force him to.'
"You indeed got very lucky if that's the case, anyways I see you're going outside again. Make sure to stay safe this time, I wont be there again!" She answered.
'She definitely doesn't believe me, well what can I do about it. It would be even more unbelievable to tell her I actually killed a beast.' Mason thought as he walked further outside the village, looking for a good place to test out his magic.
Once he arrived in a big field, with only a couple of trees. He started to pour some mana into his palms. This way, he tried to shoot an ice bullet towards one of the trees. Having a year of practice in his head, he could actually do most of the basic stuff with his mana.
*Ding*
[Skill learned: Ice Bullet]
Mason was once again happily surprised because of the System.
'So it can even do stuff like this, well that makes my life way easier. Also, I just realised it but don't normal people have to chant some weird cringy shit before the magic actually works? I guess the System truly is world-breaking.'
After a while of thinking, Mason started to try all different types of things with his Ice Magic. And thus, the day ended with some System notifications.
[Skill learned: Ice wall]
[Skill learned: Freeze]
[Skill learned: Ice Domain]
As Mason walked back to the village, he was checking his progress with magic in the System. He found some new functions, one being that he could now check his own Status.
[Status]
[Name: Mason White]
[Level: 1]
[Physique: None]
[Affinities: Ice]
[Active Skills: Ice Bullet, Ice Shield, Freeze, Ice Domain]
[Passive Skills: None]
[Mana: 250/1500]
[System Points: 0]
After seeing all of his skills, Mason though it was a good idea to go hunt some low-level beasts tomorrow. This was of course, to increase his level. But also just to fuck up some bears for revenge. The incident truly had an impact on him and he wouldn't be satisfied until he got 100 bear kills.
'I'm fucking tired, this magic stuff isn't so easy. That probably explains why only 1 in 1000 people awakens. Anyways, lets return home and get a good bath and some nice sleep.'
And so, after returning home to his lovely mother, he slumped towards the bathroom. Having been experimenting with mana for hours without stop tired him out as if he ran a marathon. And after the marathon, he climbed a mountain to then survive in the jungle for hours. Well, that might be an exageration but that's what it felt like to Mason.
After entering his room and jumping down on his soft bed, he fell asleep almost instantly. The next morning, when he checked his alarm. He saw he had been sleeping for 10 hours.
After eating some heavenly breakfast prepared by Elena, he put on some clothes that accentuated his beauty. Leaving the house once again he said:
"Lets go murder some cute bears shall we?"