Apartment No. 2526, OPS10-02, West Witwur City.
In the morning, Jono made boiled noodles with eggs and some vegetables while muttering and moving parts of his body left and right. He could feel his body aching from the exhaustion of walking last night.
"Ugh, my body hurts," he groaned. Jono then turned on his smartwatch and noticed that it was now nine o'clock in the morning. He realized that he had slept for nine hours.
"I'll have to do more physical training in the future," he sighed. Jono has been routinely beginning to do a physical exercise in the last few days, but his recent training has not yet yielded visible results.
Jono's simple breakfast was ready in no time. He sat on his dark-brown sofa in the living room with his food. Jono was eating when he started to notice the news on the TV screen in his living room.
Jono rarely watches television. He normally only sees it through the hologram screen on his smartwatch. There was no news or interesting programs on TV, so Jono activated his smartwatch's hologram screen and saw today's trending news.
After seeing some trending news today, Jono was interested in some news. One of them was news regarding the rarest unique abilities that have appeared in recent years.
According to the news, one of these unique super abilities was the ability to see objects that were very far away, and the first skill he obtained was the ability to see objects that were covered by other objects at a specific distance, or in other words, the ability to see through objects. They said this super ability is to be more powerful and advanced than an x-ray. This super ability makes many people envious. There have been numerous comments from people who want this super ability, especially men.
"I'm interested in this super ability as well," said Jono while eating. However, for some people, this super ability is very suitable for the type of long-range attack user because the owner of this super ability is a ranged attack expert who is well-known for his attacks.
The fluid body is another uncommon super ability that piques Jono's interest. As the name implies, this super ability can make the owner's body turn into liquid. They mentioned many benefits in the news for this super ability that even Jono envied.
"Fast healing, minimal effect when attacked with cold weapons and firearms, unpredictable movements; this super ability has many benefits," said Jono. He continued to read the other news until he finished his meal.
After he finished eating, Jono then prepared the things he bought yesterday in the living room. He was sitting in the living room with a radiant face. He kept staring at the weapon in front of him. Jono had purchased the dagger that was being sold earlier at the Semongk0 shop. He continued to stare at the dagger while occasionally stroking it.
Jono then tried the dagger and began swinging it. Even though Jono was still very stiff from using the dagger because this was his first time using the dagger, he was overjoyed.
"Hehe, what a cool dagger."
"I will definitely defeat many beasts with this dagger," he said cheerfully while dreaming of fighting beasts in the wild.
Jono then scabbards'd the dagger and placed it in his room's cupboard because, in general, teenagers under the age of seventeen do not commonly carry real weapons that have the quality of first grade or higher in public.
"Well, even if I can't go to the wilderness and use this dagger to beat the beasts, I'll use it for training and to protect myself if something untoward happens here," he reasoned.
Jono frequently reads in the news about people being kidnapped, threatened, and murdered in their homes. "I hope this apartment is safe and peaceful," said Jono, calming himself.
Although most of the time, inside a city, is a safer place compared to the wild or outside of urban areas, this is only an outward appearance. Many incidents of theft, murder, and other crimes actually occur within the city. In the darkness of the city, it will be more visible how the strong eat the weak. Nature's laws apply everywhere.
"It's time to practice," Jono grumbled, with a slightly lazy face.
He then went to his apartment's mini-gym. Jono took out two basirs and dozens of bamens that he had purchased earlier.
Jono categorizes bamens according to their origin or element type. They commonly found bamen in various parts of a beast's body, such as horns, bones, and other organs, which are typically tougher than other parts and contain magical energy.
Bamen can also be shaped like stones, minerals, and other inanimate objects that contain magical energy with specific elements. Each bamen has its own value for a blacksmith to use when creating basir, armor, or weapons because there is a possibility that the bamen used influence the effect formed on both basir and weapons.
A basir that can give off an ability or supernatural effect is called a "Magic Basir". People refer to armor and weapons with an ability or supernatural effect as "Magic Armor" and "Magic Weapon." They will usually only use a basir that cannot produce an ability effect as a high-quality ornament or home decoration, unlike armor and weapons. Although ordinary armor and weapons have no supernatural effect, they still have certain characteristics that can be useful in combat, making armor and weapons more marketable than basir.
To fully utilize the power of magic basir, magic weapons, and magic armor, one must possess a super ability whose elements are associated with or synced with the effects of magic basir, magic weapons, and magic armor. Otherwise, one cannot bring out the full effect or only part of the power of magic basir, magic weapons, and magic armor.
The magic basir, magic armor, and magic weapons, also known as magic equipment, have an effect that can strengthen one's abilities and power, but the maximum effect issued by the magic equipment can only be achieved if the element type of the magic equipment matches the element type of the wearer of the magic equipment.
For example, a fire element controller will be able to bring out the maximum effect of fire element-type magic equipment. However, if the fire element controller uses wind element-type magic equipment, even if he can bring out the effects of the magic equipment, the effect is likely to be less than half of the maximum effect that the magic equipment should produce.
There are a few people who are unable to use certain elemental types of magical equipment. They could only use magic equipment like ordinary equipment without being able to cast its effects. Therefore, most people will choose magic equipment that is very suitable or exactly the same as the type of element they have.
When Jono was in middle school, he also learned a few things about this magic equipment. Many fundamental concepts, such as magic equipment, bamen, and beast types, he had learned in middle school.
Jono purchased four types of basirs: the first is shaped like a miniature bear roaring and standing on its hind legs; the second is a box-shaped basir with brown equilateral sides that appear to be made of wood and has additional curved patterns on each side. The last two basir are miniatures of two humans dancing. They sold these two basirs as a set of two.
Apart from the four basirs, he also classified forty-three bamen that he purchased. There are about five groups of bamens, which he divides based on the element type described in each bamen's description. In the description, they also written that the origin of the bamen is, like a beast, the location where it was discovered, and so on. Jono classifies these bamen to find out if the particular type of bamen he uses will affect his super abilities.
It could be said that every creature would have at least one type of element. For example, a beast that has fire elemental type abilities will have a fire element type bamen as well. Each bamen will only have one element type. If the beast has more than one element type, then the bamen it has will also only have one of the two element types. However, there can be more than one bamen in a beast's body, and each bamen can have a different type of element.
The first group is bamen, which has an air element type with a total of ten bamen. The second group is bamen, which has a fire element type with a total of seven bamen. The third group is bamen, which has an earth element type with a total of nine bamen. The fourth group is bamen, which has a water element type with a total of six bamen. The last group consists of eight bamen with different element types, such as darkness, light, plants, life, death, space, time, and gravity elements.
Because the elements of air, water, fire, and earth are abundant, there is a large supply of these four types of bamen in the shop that Jono visited yesterday. They differ from the other eight less common types, particularly elements of the space and time types.
"I'm hoping it works this time," Jono said, slightly excited.