Juan has just returned to his room to rest. He lay down on his bed, looking at the ceiling, when suddenly something appeared in the center of his vision. The long-awaited and missing transparent, white-bordered text box panel
[Ritual Successful. Created Healing Magic x1]
Soon Juan, who was confused by the number 1 towards the end, immediately realized an information had appeared in his mind just now. He immediately realized why.
Apparently, the magic isn't permanent! But consumables instead! The number of uses is directly related to the number of available magic rituals that can be acquired every day!
That means that if I had one magic ritual and I did the ritual immediately, I could only use the magic created from the ritual once. What about those with harder and more complex rituals?
Oh my, this is very dangerous. It's neither permanent nor unlimited to use! Wouldn't he tire himself out by making another ritual because of that? He remembered this morning that he had received that prompt.
[A day of embracing an encounter with the world. +1 Magic Ritual.]
So he will need to accumulate magic rituals every day from now on. Poor me! This will take more time than I had thought! I'm going to be too far away from my dream of having all kinds of magic in my repertoire.
Juan sighed and, at the same time, thought how this ritual thing was just too much of a hassle in the ass. But can he complain? Who to? Want to try? No way! He wouldn't dare, even if he was asked to.
He could not afford to lose this fantasy opportunity at all! It's his life, now or never. Juan immediately calmed his almost surging thoughts. The text box panel immediately changed after that.
[Ritual Magic: 0]
[Created Magic: Healing x1]
That's all? Juan was speechless at how stingy this system was, but it may not be a system at showing more data for him. Isn't there something like name, age, HP, speed, strength, dexterity, or something?
"Doesn't matter then," since he could only use this healing magic once for now. He'll use it on himself first. After all, health is equivalent to wealth. As long as you can move, you can continue to work for the sake of survival. Money would come, but it would leave because of the fast flow.
"I should go to sleep for now." He yawned for a while before he fell asleep. An hour later, he was woken up by his parents for dinner. Juan suddenly thought, "Why not use it on them first? Since his parents were quite old and already ill."
Juan thought that at least he could heal them first as the first repayment for taking care of him since he was a child, though he didn't really like the way they had him grow up.
Because Juan grew up to hate confidence very much. He hated pain more than anyone else. I felt disgusted to see any similarities to blood. As a village kid who grew up the village way. It's normal for him to be beaten up in front of the others, which gives him low self-esteem.
As for killing those livestock at home for their supper, he would at least feel guilty about killing them. Taking their lives and draining their blood. Just remembering those things almost made him vomit.
After dinner, Juan found his mother in the kitchen. He had just checked on his father, and he was already lying on the bed resting. He didn't want his parents to know about his current abilities after all. It's easy for the human mind to get corrupted. However, he might be selfish to not share it with even the closest people he had.
Juan trusts himself more deeply than the others. After all, all these years, he had grown to learn a lesson. Parents can't be trusted, but maybe for others they can. But for him and everyone in the village. It isn't a good choice to do that.
Juan raised his hand and immediately drew the word "healing" in the air while his mother was washing dishes and hadn't noticed him yet. The way to activate the magic was simple; he learned it from the information he received for the second time.
Soon, the yellow-colored word [healing] appeared mid-air before it turned into countless minitexts that Juan couldn't understand. Seems to be the words of another language— the language of laws. The yellow texts immediately formed into a yellow magic circle that appeared to hover mid-air.
There's no blinding light or any noticable sounds that attract Juan's mother's attention. When the magic circle was formed, a yellow haze of light suddenly appeared like rain falling on his mother's body.
His mother didn't seem to have noticed it at all. Instead, in her mind, she was wholly focused on washing the plates. She only felt that her aging and sickened body suddenly felt much lighter than in the past. The heavy feeling she had and the painful feeling from her ailments seem to have suddenly disappeared.
Wait, disappeared? Juan's mother was suddenly shocked to feel something different from her. Just as she noticed that, she felt the surroundings suddenly become dimmer. Hmm? She looked at the light bulb with suspiciousness. However, she immediately forgot about that.
What she cared more about was the current state of her body. She seems to have regained her former, long-lost, healthy body. Juan, at this time, had already left the kitchen and had returned to his room to reminisce about that fantastic phenomenon just now.
"That's so beautiful." Juan subconsciously grinned as he felt his heart beat more loudly in his ears. Energized, he can't find himself to sleep anymore. Juan continues to flip in all kinds of positions he has on top of his bed, but he still can't find a way to sleep.
So he opened the window and looked at the sky while lying on the edge of his bed. "I need to accumulate for a week at least." Staring at the stars above, he didn't know when he had fallen asleep with his window still open.
A few minutes later, he frowned and opened his heavy eyelids. Juan was woken up by the bites of those bloodsuckers flying around the room. "Mosquitoes? Where did they come from?" He slapped those who were still sucking flood from him as he scratched those he felt itchy.
Turning around to find a blanket, Juan suddenly realized the room seemed much brighter when it should have been dark. He raised his head and saw his window still open. Juan clicked his tongue out; he had actually forgotten to close it before falling asleep.
"How careless." Juan immediately stood up and closed the window with a lock. Although the bright moon hanging above gives him some peace and a little bit of security, Who wouldn't feel scared sleeping defenseless at night with an open window?
Who knew if some mysterious entity had seen him and played a prank on him? Juan didn't want to suddenly wake up with some kind of monster by his side. Not to mention the fear it brought to him that would surely haunt him with nightmares along the way.
Juan shook his head and returned to sleep. Time has passed, and it's already morning time. Juan woke up from his alarm as usual. At the same time, the most anticipated thing his heart desired once again appeared in his vision.
[Another day of waking up to embrace the future. +1 Magic Ritual.]
Juan suddenly felt relief, feeling the stone weighing on his shoulder disappear. Although he mostly believed what happened yesterday and the information that appeared in his mind, To see is to believe, after all. Now he was finally at ease.
"Hahaha, this is the problem of trust. I can't even trust my experience since yesterday." Juan shook his head as he left the room, ready to embrace the new day again.
...
After the usual routine, Juan left for work. And then, a few hours later, An average-looking car entered the village. Cars like this aren't that new to everyone, so they only glance at them before continuing to do what they were doing just now.
Soon, it stopped at the side of the road. At this time, Draw, who had taken a day off from work and was sitting on the tattered couch near the road, suddenly noticed a familiar figure coming out of the parked car just now.
"Mylene?" Draw immediately realized who it was; he leisurely put down the cup of coffee on hand at the nearest wooden table before walking towards them as a man came out of the driver's seat of the car.
The man was tall, handsome, and looked to be successful in life. While the woman named Mylene was very pretty with a lean figure and slender legs. She had long hair that reached her shoulders.
Draw's eyes lit up, and he walked towards them as he smiled, "Classmate Mylene, long time no see. What brings you here?" Mylene smiled as she observed around her before replying, "I'm here to send you three an invitation for my wedding. I haven't seen Art and Juan around though."
Draw grinned as he said, "Those two are at work in the city. Still, for you to personally deliver these invitations, you could have asked some of our classmates near us to pass them on to us." Then he turned his gaze on the man on the other side of Mylene.
"This should be your future husband, right? Hello friend, I'm a classmate of Mylene. Nice to meet you." Draw and the man shook hands rather friendly. "Hello, I'm Carl. Nice to meet you, Draw. Thank you for taking care of my future wife at school."
The scene was harmonious, and Draw gave Mylene a thumbs up. "Your future husband is very handsome. You're so lucky." Carl grinned hearing this, although he might not show it much. He was very satisfied with Draw's praise for him.
Mylene just smiled sweetly before handing the three invitations to Draw. "It looks like the other two are busy. Would they have time to go to my wedding?" She asked softly.
Draw nodded. "We had already thought it through and found that we were all free that day because, duh. It's the weekend for us." Mylene nodded, but she still asked, "Isn't Saturday still a working day?"
"Not for me though, as for Art and Juan. That I don't know, but since they already agreed, they will surely be free from that day." Draw said somewhat playfully.
After some casual catch-up, Mylene and Carl left in their car back to the city. Draw, on the other hand, smiled at their departure before leaving to pass on the invitation to Art and Juan's house.
"Aunty, please pass it on to Juan after he returns. It's a wedding invitation from our class, pretty muse!" Draw laughed mischievously after walking away.
...
Juan, who had arrived at work, sat in front, looking dazedly at the monitor. He had nothing to do, so he ordered some food early. As for leaving a bad impression to his supervisor.
Juan laughed it off; he wouldn't have done so if he hadn't seen the supervisor already eating pizza early in the morning in his office. Seeing that his order has already arrived from the monitor Juan stood up and opened the door.
After thanking Toybits for his effort, Juan tried to give him a drink but was denied. "I'm into gym lately, so I'm fasting up on drinks." Juan nodded as he looked at Toybit's well-buff physique. "Man, I envy you. How did you get this shape?"
Toybits laughed his shoulder off, feeling satisfied at how Juan with a good job looked at him. He flexed his arm muscles a bit, telling Juan some effective gym tips.
A few minutes later, Juan followed Toybits back until he finally left the door. Juan then entered the room after locking the door. Gently putting down the three still hot macaroni soups on an empty table along with the lemonade drinks Juan sat down and checked the screens around him, seeing that nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
Knock!
Knock!
Knock!
Juan was jolted and shocked by the knocks at the back of his office chair while he was eating macaroni soup. He stood up abruptly, turning his attention to the source. Two eyes met; one was smiling at him as though his prank had succeeded.
Cough! Cough! Cough!
"Senior— cough... I almost saw something white flash before my eyes just now." Juan spoke as thought he was wronged. However, the senior just laughed it off and even jokingly said, "Hahaha, that's just a prank. Don't take it seriously."
Don't take it seriously. If you aren't my senior and I'm still new here, do you think I'll pass this off as a joke? I'm eating here, and your surprise has caused him to almost choke to death.
Juan sneered in his heart in anger, but on the outside, he was laughing merrily as though he really did pass it off as a joke.
"Senior, I got another bowl of still hot macaroni soup here." Juan naturally showed his friendly smile that wouldn't leave his face at work. Gesturing to his senior that he had another one on the table. His senior's eyes immediately lit up, and he stood up, patting his bulging fat before sitting on an empty chair.
His mouth was drooling upon sniffing the delicious aroma of the hot macaroni soup. Juan smiled, seeing that the senior didn't even bother looking at him as he started to savor his food. Hehehe, in the past. If I encounter this kind of situation. I would have laughed it off like it never happened.
While deep in the night, I would remember it and do things I normally don't do outside. How I suddenly become a professional kung fu master in my dreams, beating those who do me bad things within. But now....
Juan was smiling, but for some reason, the senior who was eating merrily suddenly felt a chill run from the soles of his feet to his spine. He turned around and checked the air conditioning. "Did you lower the temperature?" The senior asked Juan curiously.
"No, senior, I haven't even touched it since I came here," Juan replied casually. "That's strange." The senior shook his head out of those thoughts as he thought.
"Maybe the food was just hot and my body got some reaction from it?" He shrugged his shoulders, thinking that although he didn't know deep science, he might as well guess and believe it.
The senior saw that there was lemonade, so he took one and opened the cap before taking in big gulps, feeling the sweetness and its unique flavor. His eyes lit up as he relaxed, leaning backward. Juan looked at the chair, which was bending too much.
He was impressed that it hadn't given in after being sat by such fatso for so long. Juan remembered the brand; who knew he might buy one in the future? A gaming chair maybe? His eyes lit up. A gaming room with all kinds of gaming gadgets around.
Juan can already imagine the future where he would be staying as a neet and enjoying his free time in a dimly lit room playing with a high-spec computer along with all kinds of lights around the walls.
Suddenly, his senior seems to be saying something. Bringing his mind to reality "Oh right, did you hear about the news yesterday?"
"What news?" Juan didn't know about news anymore at all. Nor has he heard any updates from television or his phone's social media. The reason is that all his time was used to lay around like a sloth, reading webnovels with his phone.
Not to mention that he got a job; he can't fully concentrate on his hobby because of work. However, his senior didn't mind as he continued. "Apparently, some daughter of a big shot in business got kidnapped."
"Oh, got kidnapped for what?" Juan immediately followed behind the conversation as a good support player. His senior's expression clearly lit up from his response. "I heard it's because of business competition about a large contract! It's said to be in the billions that will cost a project."
"However, I don't know if it's real or exaggerating." Juan nodded, not bothering to delve into it too deeply. Anyway, he was just casually pleasing his superiors along the way. "I see, then where did this kidnapping happen?" Juan asked casually.
"It's in our city, actually."
"Oh."
....
Juan found that the clock was already pointing out its short hand on the number 5, indicating that it was already time to return home. He left the room after bidding farewell to his senior and greeting his night shift partner. After signing out, he bid farewell to the others too, but after he left the office.
Sami has already gone home early, apparently. Juan had nothing to do, so he started walking along the road slowly. There's nothing in his mind other than orange sunlight covering the land and tainting the sky.
"How nice would it be by then? I can't wait." Juan really wanted to do many things right now, but his plan can't keep up with the changes in the world. Walking down the road, he enjoyed the beauties passing by.
Specially mesmerized by their revealing clothing. "Oh, my. Such slender legs." Juan subconsciously gulped some saliva at the sight to behold. Truly a feast to the eyes. As for shame? Bah! It's free; it's not like there's a sign saying it's forbidden.
Hmm? You're looking at me with disgust, eh? What want to fight me, girl, homie? Juan threw a fierce look at the sexy lady he was ogling now. Hmph! Seeing that her courage wasn't enough, the lady backed away in fear.
Hehehe, you dress so scantily. That's your fault for tempting us men. It will further your sin if you get raped by someone who does not care for the morals and laws of society.
Juan sneered as he smiled and relaxed after passing the busy streets. It was just a normal day, like always. The setting sun cast a shadow on him as he walked away.