One week went by as everyday Van felt he was becoming closer and closer to this mirror feeling. He began to notice the sensations of existing outside himself while also receiving some boost in his stats. He even saw an increase in his aether energy count despite only deepening the base feeling of the image of the black hole seeming like a mirror.
It was early in the morning beginning a new week and he decided to start the week off my checking his stats screen to see his progress from last week.
[Van Magnus]
[Bloodline: Akira Sun God, 75% speed, 36% Strength, 1000% intelligence]
[Strength: 11]
[Speed: 12]
[Endurance: 11]
[Intelligence: 14]
[Aether Energy: 23]
[Luck: 50]
[Wisdom: 54]
[Stat Points: 5]
Attributes:
{Passive}[Lightning speed: 100% affinity with Lightning, and 99% speed]
{Passive}[Aeternum: 2% affinity with time, gain wisdom stat, +50 wisdom]
{Passive}[[Super Speed: 300% all around speed]
Skills:
[Energy Body: allows used to create clones of himself using his aether energy (1 clone requires 100,000 aether energy, elemental and attributes clones require 2,500,000 aether energy)]
Connected Celestial Bodies:
[Prime Black Hole: the First black hole be birthed in the host home universe. Celestial body has Ultra Tier aether energy]
Seeing this Van realized with so much going on he had never went ahead and put those stat points in, it also reminded how unbalanced his stats were and how he would be completely unable to use his full speed yet.
He decided to put 3 points into strength and 2 into endurance. He also noticed that his wisdom had gone up more than his intelligence stat and wondered why that was so he decided to inquire with the system for his answer, he also wanted to know more ways to increase his strength and endurance so he could be his best self as soon as possible.
'Hey Nora, why is that me wisdom stat went up higher than my intelligence stat? And are there other ways for me to raise my strength and endurance faster, I don't know how strong everyone else will be for the trial but I want to be as prepared as possible.' Van asked his system while clenching his fist and imagining the types of superhero like battles to come in the trial.
[That is because intelligence is best explained as your ability to comprehend something while wisdom is more of the insight you are able to gain looking into abstract concepts and experiences. As for increasing your strength and agility the basic training would work well until about 15 points but after that you would notice a drastic decrease in you speed of growth, I recommend sparring your ally's and buying the different items from the shop.]
Hearing this max decided to himself that starting today before they all went into their solitary training they would hold Mach battles with their abilities to help him increase his stat points while also helping the group become ready for the trial. As for combat experience he know all of those from the orphanage had close to 0 so they would need some or in the trial they would be as good as dead.
Nora also reminded him that he had the system shop that he hadn't gone through everything in, yet he still decided seeing everything in the shop could wait because he and his group were on a fixed time schedule.
'Nora I don't really know how to fight and I don't think any of my friends do either is there something you could do to help me out and also my friends?' Van asked the system, if there was a way that they could attain a fighting style that would greatly help the group and increase all of their chances for survival in the upcoming trial.
[I actually do have access to just the thing and it's in the shop it's a sort of special option but I can make you a loan for points you would just have negative points for a while, how does that sound?]
Hearing this Van's face lit up it was great to hear that he could get what he needed almost for free, being the nieve young person he was he quickly said, 'That's great! Thank you Nora I will make sure to earn however many point you loan me back.' Little did Van know this would be the start of the war between him and his system.
[Great, your current shop point balance is -4,900 and if you hold out your hand the training manual will materialize in front of you, all you and your Friends have to do is touch the pages and the information will be transferred into your minds.]
Hearing this Van couldn't help but freeze. 'D-did I just hear you say -4900 t-that can't be right.' Van said with a face of disbelief.
[It may not be right but it is 100% correct I'll be happy when I recoup my points from you, also verbal agreements between us are like contracts as I'm basically a part of you now.]
Van Didn't know what to say all he could think right now was did he just get scammed or hustled. This incident caused new feelings to rise up in him but right now today he didn't know how to handle them he just knew this felt wrong in so many ways.
[Also I reccomend you and your friends only learn a couple pages at a time so your bodies can keep up with the knowledge and experiences in your mind.] Nora added somehow making the feeling Van was feeling turn into a light sting.