Feeling like a new man, I got up from my bed, my migraine, and all the discomfort I had in my body all gone, checking the time I noticed how I had just slept for 1 hour but I already felt like new.
Looking towards the entrance I saw a tray with some food all in plastic bags and a message, approaching it the bags couldn't do their job very well the smell coming from the food made me salivate, but I controlled myself and grabbed the message first.
* I saw how hard you have been training these two weeks, and you must just how proud I am of you, it's doesn't matter what the world says, you are my little hero, I prepared fish for dinner to help you with your studies.*
The message struck harder than I thought it would, my eyes became watery because of how this message made me feel.
'Thank you, mom.'
I wiped the tears that were starting to accumulate in my eyes and began eating, wolfing down all the food in minutes, and getting a few boosts to HP and EP regen, also an int boosts, fish seriously help with studies.
Using my stealth skill I went down to the kitchen and left the plates on the sink, only to stop myself, and wash them.
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For maintaining an inanimate object: Repairing Lv.1(Dex-based)
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I ignored the new skill, finished cleaning, and immediately went back to my room, still having a full night of grinding in front of me.
Before that, I opened my inventory and checked out the skill book I had obtained from completing the dungeon.
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Skill book: Stone skin
One of the first spells a mage has to learn to become a graphite wizard
Effect: Learn the Active Skill Stone Skin
YES/NO
Stone Skin Lv.1
... No sexual jokes, If you are 15, use the energy stored inside your body to replicate the hardness of stone while still maintaining your normal flexibility.
Effect: boosts natural defences by Sk Lv.%
Cost: 100 EP/min
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Considering how much I had been beaten up inside the dungeon I immediately learnt the skill and tested it out, after I activated it, I waited and waited, but nothing changed.
' I guess it is still level 1 after all, and it says that my skin would remain the same but have the hardness of stone.'
Sighing I left it on for 3 minutes, levelling it once, and then had to deactivate it and let my EP regen do its work, boosted by the food I had previously eaten.
Every time it regenerated to max I reactivated it while continuing my research for new skills that might be useful for my Hero career.
Thanks to my boosted perception, intelligence, and dexterity, my brain worked like a machine, and thanks to the nap I had taken my exhaustion was completely gone, leaving behind a mind ready to focus, time continued slipping by, and hours turned into days, days into weeks, and weeks into months.
I continued training like a madman, my physique showing improvements every time I took a shower, my brain and body were finally on par, what I couldn't defeat with intelligence, and what I couldn't defeat with intelligence I did so with strength, it felt cathartic to finally have a body that didn't require attention every time I got mildly injured.
With the contact increase in my stats, my view of the world shifted. My studies on heroism, philosophy and law proved how the world wasn't as black and white as I thought it was, heroes weren't always good, and not all villains are evil, the was a thin grey thread standing between them, it felt like sickening to read some stories of what heroes did to villains, or even to some civilians, some of them were even well-known heroes that no one would suspect, an example is Endeavour.
' He is the representation of a hero with too much power, striving for an objective that no hero should aim for, a hero isn't someone that has to be first, a hero has to be a hero, that's it.' I thought while moving away from my computer, massaging my eyes because of the long period of looking at a computer.
The sound of birds chirping and small droplets of rain suited my mind, during these months my new perception of the world made me able to appreciate the little things, the beauty of the pattern in a butterfly wing, the different sounds that come out of each bird, the emotions that a mother can feel for their son, it doesn't matter how much people try to make me hate this world, I will always love it do whatever I can to protect it.
Turning off the computer I get up from my seat and head for the closet, changing into my new training clothes, I had to buy new ones when I rose to 5 foot 12 and my physique became similar to a martial artist, thin but defined and flexible, my body gained new scars due to other dungeon crawls I had done during these months, but nothing that couldn't be explained luckily, I didn't just gain a scar that cover my whole body from shoulder to hip out of nowhere.
Going out of the house I accepted my daily running quest and took the long route to the beach, after all this time I had cleaned 90% of it, and I felt proud every time I saw it, I wasn't able to meet the blonde skeleton again though, bummer.
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Run Bitch RUN
Reward: 21 XP
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I accepted the reward and sat down on the beach to take at the now clean sea, the smell of trash would be gone if it wasn't for my boosted perception.
It felt good to have finally done something good for the world, and all it took was 9 months of hard work.
Talking about hard work.
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Status
Name: Izuku Midoriya
Race: Human(Quirkless)
Age:16 Sex: M
( Yes, UA students will all be 16/17, and third years will finish at 19)
Level: 8 341/9000 XP
HP: 200/200 ( 10 HPxVit) 2(+1) HP/min (Vit/10 )
EP:490 /490 (10 EPxInt) 3(+1) EP/min (Wis/10)
SP: 5050/5050 (Endx100 + (Str/2)x100) 350 SP/min (Endx10)
Class: None
Production Class: None
Titles: The Gamer, Dungeon Explorer
Stats
Str:31
Vit:20
End:35
Agi:25
Dex:29
Int:49
Wis:30
Per:40
Cha:20
Lck:19
Will:49
All stats can increase through training, aside from luck.
Status Points:30
Trait Points:2(gained 1 every 5 levels)
Traits: The Hero's Mind, Reflective Dungeon Creation, Genius, Quirk Fanatic, Everyday Hero, Adaptability
Skills
Strength: Boxing Lv.30, Physical Form Lv.15, Karate Lv.30, Muay Thai Lv.30, Brazilian Jujitsu Lv.15 NEW, Taekwondo Lv.12 NEW, Shaolin Wushu Lv.4 NEW
Endurance: Hard Bones Lv.11
Intelligence: Physics Lv.30, Quirk Analysis Lv.50, Mathematics Lv.30, History Lv.30, English Lv.30, Mental Calculation Lv.20, Philosophy Lv.21 NEW, Russian Lv.15 NEW, Chinese Lv.20 NEW, Literature Lv.40 NEW
Agility: Stealth Lv.20, Running Lv.40, Swiming Lv.29, Dancing Lv.10, Parkour Lv.20, NEW
Dexterity: Knife Mastery Lv.20, Redirecting Lv.29, Repairing Lv.10, Multitasking Lv.11 NEW
Perception: Investigation Lv.30, Focus Lv.35, Reading Lv.49, Listening Lv.20 NEW, Smelling Lv.15 NEW
Charisma: Silver Tongue Lv.15
Resistance: Exhaustion Resistance Lv.50, Pain resistance Lv.30, Crushing Resistance Lv.20, Piercing Resistance Lv.15, Slash Resistance Lv.10, Heat Resistance Lv.10 NEW, Cold Resistance Lv.10 NEW, Electricity Resistance Lv.10 NEW,
Gamer: Observe Lv.60
Active: Flurry of Blows Lv.20, Stone Skin Lv.10
152,932¥
Items: Compressed Graphite gauntlets, Ring of Health Regen, Ring of Energy Regen,...
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'Yep, seeing your progress through numbers feels good.'