"P-please no more" I begged.
"None of that, we've got to increase your strength as much as possible" Ithil laughed as she watched me run around with a boulder tied around my waist.
"Cant i just allocate stat points" I asked.
"Nope. Its better to raise your stats by using your own strength. Your body will be used to it." She denied.
I was in agony at that point, she had tied a boulder that was double my weight and asked me to run around. It hadn't even been five minutes and my body was screaming for me to stop. The more embarrassing thing is that I hadn't even moved far away from my starting position.
"Go! Go! Hakai! You can do this!"Ithil chanted from her seat.
"Easy for you to say. You're seating down and enjoying yourself" I screamed.
"Ah.ah.ah. If i were you i'd save my energy instead of screaming."She laughed unfazed.
A fleeting thought passed by me wandering if i should just put some stats in strength. It isn't as if she would notice the difference if it was small.
"If your thinking of you using your stat points, don't try it" She called out.
"Whatever." I grumbled under my breath.
I continued with each step without talking, knowing that i'd probably become more tired with how much Ithil was riling me up. A step forward took upto 30 seconds. I had to push my body to even lift up my leg before I dropped it.
"Stop, wait a minute." Ithil stopped me.
Her voice sounded more like an angel with the command she gave me.
"Yes? Are you finally going to allow me to use my stat points." I smiled in hope.
" Nope. It took awhile to get here. But we will be checking your element affinity." She denied.
"I already know how to fight with the elements." I explained.
"Thats from your art. We're going to find out what elements are innately for you." She explained.
"I didn't see something like that in the character creation menu" I wondered.
"Yeah. It's selected randomly for every player. Just put your hand on this orb" She handed it to me.
I shrugged and followed her instructions. Nothing happened and we just stared at the orb.
"Why haven't you injected any mana."She asked.
"Mana? What's that?" I looked up from the orb.
"God you don't know what mana is either? What have you been using to perform your skills." She rubbed her head.
"One strange energy like this." I replied.
"At least you can feel it. That strange energy is called mana." She sighed in relief.
"So i should direct it in this orb?" I looked for confirmation.
"Yes" She confirmed.
I felt for the strange energy called mana that was in me and directed it to the orb. The orb glowed a bright white color before settling down and having three colors in it ;ice blue, dark purple, and a slightly colorless slightly grey color.
"Huh. That's surprising." I heard Ithil mutter beside me.
"What do they mean?" I turned to her.
"Well the ice blue is ice element. Dark purple is shadow element. The grayish color is the space element." She explained.
"Cool" I smiled.
Itil turned away for a brief moment staring into the distance likely looking at her status.
"We should be logging out soon." She informed me.
"Should we look for a safe space." I inquired.
"Yeah. It would be better. Let's go i spotted a cave round the corner." She ran off.
I followed behind her. We entered the cave and Ithil put something at the entrance probably to prevent hostiles from getting close.
"Well. I'll see you in the real world i guess." Ithil shrugged before logging off.
Unlike what i thought of us going into particles and disappearing. Her body went limp on the wall. No wonder people avoided logging out in dangerous places. I followed after her sitting beside her limp avatar, Logging out of the game.
I stepped out of the pod and was surprised to see whatever was in front of me.
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Author here. I am deeply sorry for the lack of updates. It's something to be expecting when you have someone as lazy as me. I honestly only posted because i noticed one of the readers sending power stones for awhile. My updates are going to be very inconsistent when I'm on holiday. There will be times that i will update a lot and times where i will just ghost for awhile. I will try my hardest to post as much as i can this remaining week as i will probably be going somewhere next week.
Like usual please tell me of any mistakes i made during the writing.