Next I go back to the main menu and choose to open the status window.
[Name: Kel Lucifer
Age: 16
Abilities: Cryokinesis (lvl1) (Hydrokinesis locked); Enhanced physical constitution (lvl1)
Skills: Sword mastery]
Hmm cryokinesis I understand, enhanced constitution I understand, but sword mastery? Looks like I have to test that out later.
I check the competition archive next, but that's empty, so I move on to the communication/forums. The communications tab is unavailable, but the forums is there.
I move under the forums and as expected it's empty. It instantly asks me to input a username. I input "Lucifer" and check the different functions of the forum.
Eventually I get bored, so I make a new forum thread and title it "Sup bitches."
The thread goes like this:
[As you can see I'm the first one here. So please feel frustrated, since you always have to live with the fact that someone other than you popped the forums cherry.
If you see this forum thread reach out to me, so we can compare notes. ]
"Well this is boring..." I close the window and sigh. It's not quite as exciting as I thought.
I start to think about my next steps. But before I do that, I focus inside of myself and try to transform back into a man.
I successfully turn back and smile with happyness when I see it. Finally I cracked the code. No more random transformations. I turn back into a woman and then back into a man. I test it out for a few times, just in case I'm hallucinating. When I am sure this is real, I feel so much happyness that I might as well end the novel here. You do not understand the level of frustration this problem brought me.
When I finally get over my high, I start thinking of the next steps. For now I will need to test everything and then check the free stuff I got from the shop. I feel like I got stronger when the system activated.
I'll start hunting later on, when I'm ready.
I turn back into a female and test my cryokinesis. Unlike before, where I only emitted a freezing temperature, now I can conjure ice. Manipulating it got infinitely easier.
I form an icicle and launch it on the grass. It penetrates the grass and embeds itself almost wholly in.
I conjure another one and instead of launching it, I grab it and examine it. The ice looks to be much stronger than regural ice. If I had anything to compare it to, I would liken it to glacial ice. Ice that is made much, much stronger, by the pressure it is under.
Another thing is that I can control it like I had telekinesis. I can float the ice around me, I can reshape it, I can brake it apart and so on. And as before the low temperatures do not affect me.
Next I go down in to the gymn, to test out my physical strength. I try the weights I used before, but find them lacking. So I add as much weight as possible, but that ends up with the barbell snapping in half.
"Oh dear." I lament the death of a good friend, a true friend.
Then I just try to lift the weights rack that has just over 600 kilos on it. I lift it without problems. Tsk, this means that I cannot workout until the new gymn is completed. This one is completely useless to me.
For now I'll try to find some sort of metal recycling facility, where I can workout.
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I got a bit lost in all the testing and the new powers I have. But who could blame me, this is incredibly exciting.
5 days have passed since the day I activated the system. I have been constantly training my ice manipulation during this time. I also found an abandoned boat yard to train at.
I have gone a little overboard with the ice though, as my whole house is frozen. Even the construction workers working outside can feel the freezing temperatures emitting from the house. I mean it's the start of summer for fucks sake.
Since it's the summer break and the school is off, all sorts of people have been calling me for outings. Chris wanted me to come with him to some kind of mixer dinner. Nemesis was bugging me, wanting to come over to my place. A few other people called me out as well, but I denied everyone.
That's just the kinda personality I have. When I find something interesting, I get obsessed with it. And right now I'm obsessed with my powers and training myself to become stronger.
I can feel my ice power become stronger the more I train it. I've only been training for 5 days right now and I've already made some progress. Imagine what I can do with a month, or a year.
I have been training every waking second for these past days. Now is the time to take a small break, lest I lose my mind.
I sit on my leather couch that looks a bit worse for wear, because of the freezing temperatures in the house. I'm in my female form right now. Recently I've lost the reluctance towards my female form. No, actually that is not correct. I have simply stopped caring about everything, except getting stronger and improving, that's why I have no resistance towards my female form.
I open the menu, using my necklace again and select shop. Then I decide to redeem the free familiar and the free swords from the shop. I coose redeem, then close the shop and wait. When I chose to redeem them, a message appeared: "Please wait. We will deliver the items to your location shortly."
*Ding dong*
After a minute the doorbell rings. I shift back into my male form and go to answer the door. When I open it, I see a small box and a seathed sword on my entry.
"How convenient." I say with a wry smile. It's like they are delivered by Fedex.
I grab the stuff and go inside.
I first examine the sword. I draw it out and gaze at it. It's a cool looking sword. Before I can put it back in it's sheath, the seath and sword disappear. A small sword tattoo appears on my right wrist. I focus on it and the sword appears again. I repeat the process and the sword disappeares.
"Cool."
Next I open the box and see an egg and a letter. I read the letter, it says; "Expose the egg to the elements for it to hatch."
"Expose it to the elements?" I repeat and think. Then transform and blast the egg with freezing temperatures.
After about 3 minutes of freezing the life out of it, it seems to crack. I have no idea if that's good or bad, but I continue to freeze it. After a few more minutes the egg completely falls apart and a little snake slithers out of it.
"Hello?" I grab the snake and look at it. It looks like a baby snake, light blue in colour, with a white pattern running on top of it.
It curls around my hand and looks at me with it's reptilian eyes. "A name please, master." It says?
"You can talk?" I exclaim in suprise.
"Yes, it is ssso." It responds.
"Hmm..." I take a minute to digest the fact that this fucking snake can talk. Then ask: "You male of female?"
"I am female." The snake answers.
"Alright, then I'll name you Snow." I say.
"Thank you for the name master." It responds.
"So how do I make you bigger and more powerful?" I ask without wasting time.
"Just feed me your ice. Other than that, only items from the shop can increase my power." It says.
"Alright then." Before I can continue to speak, I hear the doorbell ring again.
*Dong dong*
"Tch, what is it now..." I walk over to it and fling it open with annoyance. The annoyance quickly fades however into suprise.
The one in front of me is Nemesis and she is looking at me with a confused expression right now. Why?
"Who are you?" She asks me suspiciously. For a moment I think she is fucking with me, then I remember that I forgot to shift back and I answered the door with my female form. Not only that, I answered the door in my underwear.
"Umm, come inside, I will explain." I say and head inside.
She follows me with a frown and closes the door.
"Why is it so cold inside?" She exclaims in suprise, when she steps inside the house.
Nemesis is wearing a shirt and some jeans, so she's dressed for summer. Inside the house is a temprerature of -5° C, however.
While Nemesis is dealing with the suprise of the house being cold. My head is a warzone of thoughts. On one hand I think I should tell her the truth, but on the other hand I think omitting it would be more beneficial. So a big list of pros and cons is forming in my head as the seconds go by.
'Hmm... I'm too lazy to explain all this shit right now. Plus I have all the time in the world to tell her the truth anyway.' That is the conclusion I finally come up with. The verdict is: bullshit your way out of this.
"Now then, who are you and where is Kel?" Nemesis crosses her arms and asks. She looks super serious as well and glares at me, I wonder why?
"Ahaha, I'm an old friend of his. I just arrived in the city, so Kel was kind enough to allow me to stay with him." I answer the question, a bit awkwardly to make it more believable.
Now it's time to really sell the shit out of my explanation. "As to where Kel is, that I don't know. He's been away from the house a lot and he isn't talking to me as well. I don't know where he is." I explain it with a saddened expression.
Boom, Nemesises serious face softens remarkably. She still gazes me with waryness, but it's bearable now. I have been ignoring everyone since the start of summer, so now that Nemesis thinks the stranger living in my house is in the same boat as all of them, her hostility towards the new girl, aka me, is significantly lessened.
"Ok, well if he shows up tell him that Nemesis was here. And if he refuses to answer my calls, I'll destroy his balls." She declares and then walks out of the house.
Meanwhile I am frozen in spot with my mouth agape. "Jesus christ, what did I do to her?" i mumble in shock.
"Master who was that woman?" Snow asks me.
"Her name is Nemesis and she is my friend. Or atleast I think she is..." I answer. Destroy my balls, how does she even come to that sort of conclusion.
I choose to ignore this and refocus on making myself stronger.