[2 Years Later]
In these 7 years I learned of many things and did a few things as well, Now let's talk about how to gain power.
But first I learned that cultivation isn't the only path to power in this world.
Primarily speaking there is two ways one can gain power.
First the old path which is through cultivation and second the new path and that is through the path of mana.
The two paths are vastly different but both have the same effect that is to gain power.
Now talking about the first path, we have cultivation which we basically know what it does but for those who don't know about it, Cultivation is a path to gain power by cultivating that is by sitting cross-legged and getting to higher realms/levels.
Now for Mana it is a little different. Everyone from birth have a small amount or high amount of Mana and by using mana one can cast different spells, items and many different things.
I know, It sounds better than cultivating but there is a catch here too. By cultivating you can gain higher realms and every part of your body and spirit are completely strengthened and any impurities you had will be cleansed of your body and soul.
By using mana you can't naturally gain power, to gain power any kind of it you must study skills and to study those skills you need mana. But just because you studied different skills you aren't going to become extraordinarily stronger than a cultivator.
For example, if a Cultivator and a Mana User of the same level were to fight, the Cultivator will have a massive advantage. Because a Cultivator has immense power in all aspects of his body but a Mana user even if he has a lot of skills his that doesn't mean he is stronger than a cultivator the same level but that doesn't mean a Mana can never win against a cultivator of his level, he can still have a chance if he were to use his skill and surroundings to his advantage or think of a strategy for his advantage.
You might be thinking that, Then isn't it better to be a cultivator. Technically no, Because a cultivator takes a lot of time to cultivate and that is not suitable for everyone. That's why people also searched for a different, faster way to gain power. After doing many experiments they found out about mana. Now where did mana come from?
After thousands of years of cultivating human beings found that there body had a strange occurrence and that was mana. Cultivation had an effect that permanently evolved human beings and gave them the ability to have mana and use it for vastly different things. They learned that albeit to Cultivation, Mana can be used on almost everything and skills can be learned on a much faster rate too.
The new generation started to forgo about Cultivation. So almost all Humans used Mana and a small amount of them used Cultivation. But older ones that have been using Cultivation techniques are still the ones who are truly in control of everything. Why? Because by cultivating one can permanently increase their Lifespans to vast amount and live for thousands of years.
Now with that gone let's talk about how to become stronger. to become stronger first one must strengthen his body and how to do that? Well one must get a breathing skill which is the most basic skill there is and anyone with a little bit of mana can use it. What does a breathing skill do? A breathing skill can enhance the body of the user by a small amount which can be used for cultivating or practicing other skills.
But the problem with me lies that because of my poor constitution and potential I was only given a Uncommon rarity Earth Breathing Art which doesn't do much for me.
Now I figured that something like this might happen to me.
Yeah I know that I have the system shop, but because of one rule that option became grayed out.
[Third Rule - You have to give half the amount you spend monthly to a charity or Orphanage]
Now how was I going to remove this problem.
Because of this problem and for one other reason I did something in the past to remove this problem and get a better Rarity Breathing Skill and be able to use the system shop.
In these past years I have been using the Money Generator skill to generate money and I used the maids in this branch household to give some of my money to different charities and many many orphanages and because my mother thought they were oh so generously gifted by my father and saw that I wasn't a greedy little basta*d she let me keep the money left over after donating them.
Now there was another problem and that was will the maids donate the money or keep them?
So I had a simple solution.
For 5 years I gave the maids and butlers a small amount of silver, not gold so that they don't become overly greedy and only gave gold to those hand picked loyal maids who almost all of them had a difficult background and by giving a helping hand I bought their loyalty.
With the maids and butlers in my coffers I learned many things. Things about who was stealing the silverware, who put too much salt in the soup and who was the plumber the lady of the house called daily to fix her plumbing.
They also gave me better foods and alerted me when ever Leoturd came over and also helped my mother over many things.
After all of this happened I started what I call Operation Flush and I was also careful enough to not use my or my family name whenever I told the maids to donate the money.
The maids were first confused why their young master would use other names but they thought of it as their young master's goodwill and smiled whenever I told them to donate the money to this church or that orphanage or a goodwill event.