The room went quiet, with only Rosa being the other person in the room the others go quiet.
They had heard the sounds of something hitting against skin, but they couldn't discern if it was Baladan attacking or the creature.
With Rosa unconscious Tony turned the corner to look inside, there he saw a bloody Baladan with a face filled with anger. Tony didn't know where that anger was coming from but he decided to give Baladan some space.
Tony: "Everything's fine now, Baladan and Rosa took out that creature. We should get Gary inside and on one of the clean tables…"
Their tense expressions instantly got better when they heard the news. With Aria and Tony's help Gary, and Rosa was brought in and laid down after clearing off a table.
Aria: "Ok what now…"
She looked to Baladan a worried look on her face, the look of anger still looking at the headless corpse below him.
Bal: "We will be heading to the nurses office, if they survived they are most likely gathering the meds they need or they have been trapped in their office needing our help… if we want to have someone with some medical knowledge that's the best place to look…"
Baladan jumped off the meatballs corpse and over the lunch line wall. His bloody shoes made squelching sounds as he walked. Though in the middle of his walk a system message showed up again.
[Congratulations! You have received a gift! Check your status!]
Death System
Name: Baladan Thatcher
Level: 1
Exp: 300 (Next Level: 900)
Race: ???
Class: Life & Death Sorcerer
Innate Ability: Time Of Death, Steal Time, Consume Death, Sense Death (New).
Ability: Aura Warrior
Title: Surrounded By Death
[Status]
Strength: 10
Agility: 8
Health: 10 (4)
Stamina: 9 (6)
Mana: 5 (5)
Death Energy (DE): 90 (90)
Attribute Points: 5
[Techniques] (New)
Aura Empowerment
With a look of his status he couldn't help but be curious about the effects of the new ability and technique tab. Even though he had already got a basic run down on it he couldn't help but tap on them.
[Sense Death]- By concentrating Death Energy into the eyes your vision changes. Instead of looking at the world normally your eyes can see Death Energy even through walls. It is limited to how far you can see and won't be able to see through multiple walls at once. (Upgradable)
[Aura Empowerment]- The technique transfers your mana into aura, once aura is created the amount will return after rest. The more you gather the higher your maximum and the stronger you will become.
Bal: 'That is pretty simple huh… I wonder if anyone else can learn this… wait I have the technique right? What would happen if I taught the others?'
He looked up from his status looking at the 3 by themselves. Tony and Aria is watching over Gary while Rosa was passed out on a table close to him.
Bal was about to send the screen away when it greyed out a little like an ad just appeared on his screen. When he looked at it the gift box icon was in the middle of the screen.
He didn't know what kind of Gift he could get from killing a Shadow Blob but he thought he might look at it for now.
The moment he tapped on it, it felt like something inside his consciousness shifted. Immediately the box opened before a jacket came out of it.
When he tapped on the jacket the description was revealed.
[Uniform Jacket Of Power] (Rank: Common)
This uniform jacket was once owned by a student. Unfortunately the student had been trapped in the cafeteria with the Shadow Blob resulting in their death. This jacket was soaked in their blood, mana, and death energy the moment they passed giving it special properties!
-When worn you gain a +5 to strength and stamina.
After reading the description and looking over the jacket he was kind of confused. Even though it said it was soaked in their blood it was completely clean!
It looked like it just came out of the dryer and instantly got hot ironed just to get out every single wrinkle.
Bal: 'Well I needed a new one anyways'
As soon as he put it down on the table to take off his own jacket the new one disappeared into particles of light. Instantly the lights rushed into his head finding a place in his sea of soul.
When he took of his jacket still a little worried as to where that jacket went he tried to summon it back making him instantly wear it! It was a instant equip and a gift that made him just a little stronger.
Bal: 'Now I shouldn't lose out too much in terms of power. Let's finish that tutorial before seeing what my class can do'
Baladan sat down next to Rosa before diving into the tutorial once again.
———
It had been around lunch time when Rosa woke up. With the rest she got half of her mana had come back. What surprised her was the first thing she saw when opening her eyes was Baladan.
Though his eyes were also shut she couldn't help but feel touched that he looked over her while she slept!
Baladan had been transforming his mana into aura the whole time after finishing the tutorial. He had just finished with the last point giving him 5 aura points and 0 mana.
At the moment the aura wouldn't change much but with the constant nourishing of aura he could feel his cells screaming with joy!
Though his mind was exhausted making him a little drowsy from the lack of mana.
Bal: 'I hope my mom is doing ok… now I wish I had a phone, just being able to call her would take a lot of weight off my sh-'
When he opened his eyes he saw Rosa had moved up real close, their noses almost touched that was how close they were. He immediately pulled his head back, looking to the side when the random thought of those red panties appeared in his head again.
He cursed himself for thinking back to that embarrassing moment. He couldn't even properly look her in the eyes after thinking about that.
Rosa: "Hmmm… is something wrong Bal?"
She had been observing him for a long time now, so she knew when he was in distress.
When he was down, or when he was angry. She knew better then almost anyone when he was acting different then normal.
Bal: "D-don't worry about it! Anyways let's get everyone together and make a plan for the nurses office!"
He avoided the question as he looked over to the other three. They had gotten some much needed rest allowing their wounds to rest.
Bal: "Ok so I don't know if this will work for everyone but it can't hurt to try right? I want everyone to think the word "status" and I want you all to tell me how much mana you have"
Each of them opened up their status as a screen displayed in front of their face. With Rosa being the closest to leveling up and having a fire ability she had the highest mana at 50!
The rest of the group had 10-20 mana each while Baladan was stuck with 5 starting. This made him feel bitter but after watching the tutorial on his class it quickly passed.
Bal: "Ok, I want you all to look deep into yourself just close your eyes and follow my directions. Breath in with your nose slowly for four seconds, after that four seconds is up hold that breath for seven seconds. Once that time is up exhale with your mouth for 8 seconds.
This will help you sense the Mana in your body, you must repeat that same breathing technique 4 times. If you still haven't felt it then do it another 4 times until you do.
Once you all have felt mana we will move on to circulating it to create aura"
His thought process was simple, why is it that he can do it but they can't? All it is, is converting energy they already have into a version that will constantly help them in the long run.
———
After the first cycle everyone had been able to feel the mana inside their bodies.
Bal: "Now then we are going to control the mana to move from the dantian up the spine to the top of the head before bringing it back down this time we will go down the front side from the top of the head down the center of the chest back into the dantian. If you revolve the energy like that until your mana is depleted the Aura will fill in for the missing mana creating a new source of energy!"
As he said that he brought a hand up focusing on it before a soft orange colored energy started to revolve around his hand. Everyone there had seen this moment and couldn't help but quickly start, all except for Rosa.
She had stood up looking at Baladan with the look screaming "I need to talk to you in private"
Both of them separated from the group and went into the kitchen where they can be alone for a second.
Rosa: "First off, thank you for teaching us the technique you got from the ability you picked, I just want to share my knowledge with you as well… after I got my ability I was brought to this tutorial world"
She began to talk about the being there, and what she learned.
What she learned was the path of a sorcerer, they had shown her how to use her mana to create a magic circle around her heart allowing her to gather more mana and gain power. They gave her a technique called [Gathering Force] this allowed her to gather mana in the surroundings to increase her maximum by 0.1 every 5 seconds of gathering.
Now of course there is a limit, unless she creates a magic circle she can not hold more then 100 mana at 1 time. That is not counted for external sources of containing mana but she was also told strengthening the body would allow her to hold more mana.
Bal: "I see, actually I also know about the path of a sorcerer. Since you want to be honest with me I'll trust you this once. Don't make me regret it ok?"
Rosa immediately nodded her head, her thoughts were screaming with love after hearing that he was trusting her with something!
Bal: "When I got my ability it didn't stop their, I actually got something called a class. It is a sorcerer class the requires the energy from those undead and mana to create a magic circle around the gate of death. Which is my heart"
Rosa was amazed at the news, the one she loved most in the world had just entrusted such an important secret to her. If anyone else heard about this people might start feeling jealous that he got something they didn't!
Rosa: "Your secret is safe with me! I won't tell a single soul about this at all! Even if I'm tortured to the point of death I will take this secret to my grave!"
Bal: "N-now you don't have to go that far… I wouldn't want the person who has been helping me out the most to suddenly die because of a little secret like this. I'm sure no one will even know I have something like this with us sharing abilities.
Now let's go back and create your aura, I'm sure everyone will be starving by the time they are done! So we can have lunch before setting out for the nurses office!"
Rosa nodded obediently, she was like a well trained loving puppy that did whatever you told it to do. At least she only acted that way when Baladan asked her to do something though.
Bal: 'Let's hope everyone finishes up quickly I wouldn't want to be too late to save the nurse'
With that each of them spent their time creating their aura. Even Baladan sat with them using the little mana that he had gathered to add 2 more points to his Aura making it 7 points in total.
[Congratulations! Your Aura has passively increased your stats! +1 to all physical stats]