Alexander was jumping in the air full of excitement. These blessing were incredible and out of of this world. The only down side was that once used he would be in a weakened state for a while so they it was more like a trump card that was only used at serious cases. He calm himself and sat on his bed. He then remembered that the blessing wasn't the only thing he got and he also got a gift. He got a shadow. He then looked at his own shadow and saw nothing different. But the next second after looking at the shadow to long it flipped him off. He jumped back in surprise.
"System explain this." He asked while looking at the shadow weirdly.
{ This is a gift from the Shadow Monarch. This shadow of yours is now your partner. It can take a physical form and fight along side the host. The shadow will be having 65% of th host mana and status when the light is out. But when the is darkness it will gain 85% of the host power. It currently cannot go beyond 100 miles away from the host and th stronger the host becomes the more distant and more useable the shadow will be.
This shadow has the same personality, and attitude as the host. It shares the same thoughts and emotions as the host. }
Alexander was stood ok the spot completely shocked and excited. With this new skill he could have a partner who would never betray him. He smiled and looked at the shadow. He closed all his widows and exhaled. He closed his eyes and thought about his shadow taking a physical form. When he opened his eyes, in front of him stood... himself. Or to be more precise his shadow version. The shadow looked exactly like him but was only dark.
"Incredible. With this we can take down a group of creatures while watching eachother's back." He then checked his mana and it was going down fast. He frowned, his mana was going go down like drinking water.
He immediately dismissed the shadow and sat on his bed. He then thought of a few things before waiting for his mana to be back. He did many experiments and came to the conclusion that he could summon his shadow for at least 8 minutes without it doing anything. But when he wanted it to fight it would need last only 4 minutes. The shadow also didn't need a weapon created for it and would somehow pull the shadow of the sabres. The shadow sabres were just like the original sabres. Alexander realised that the more powerful weapons he got the stronger the shadow weapon his own shadow could use.
At the moment Alexander realised that he was really lacking in mana. He needed to increase his mana the most. Using his old life experience, fighting with his weapons was not a problem. Being a legendary battle warrior, he exhaled in all the weapons that was available to use and that was like every weapon ever.
His main weapon in his old life was a sword but in this life he chose a sabres not because they were a better choice but because sabres weren't that popular in his old life and he hardly trained with it. He could always add a sword to his weapons so he could have three just in case.
The whole day, Alexander kept on practicing and focusing on increasing his mana the old fashion way. When night came, he was pleased with himself.
{+2 mana has been gained.}
He took his dinner and slept well. The next morning he got prepared for th Academy. He got to his carriage. When he arrived at the Academy, everyone had eyes on him. The aura he was emitting was far stronger than their own.
Alexander using his skills of mana deceased his aura but people were still looking at him. Through they couldn't feel it they did hear about his breakthrough. With eyes still on him he went to class and sat. His classmates were even worse and would try to make small talk with him. He would answer some and ignore some making it look like he didn't hear. At some point he place his head on his table and closed his eyes.
A few minutes later and Instructor Lyrien walked in. He checked the class to see if someone was absent. His eyes stopped at Alexander and he stared at him for a while and smiled.
"Congratulations on breaking through to the Ascension step so quickly Alexander." Lyrien exclaimed then proceeded to address the class.
The class went on as usual with them going through some manipulation of mana and others. Then after lunch practicing everything they learnt or learning something new. The day ended just as usual as ever. Alexander's carriage arrived which he took home. He then got dressed as head out. His servants wished him luck and asked him to be safe.
Alexander got to the forest and began his hunt. He later found a lone Corrupted wolf and battled. They fought for a few minutes before Alexander won. He moved to a safe place to rest.
"My mana all through small is enough for me at the moment but it's not an excuse. I need to increase it." Alexander said with a sigh. He then noticed his Sabres. They were becoming less sharp each passing day.
"Well, I also need a sabre. I should probably ask that old man of mine since he hasn't done anything of help since I awakened." Alexander said remember his father who was a master rank as well as an Elder of the town. Alexander still didn't remember the real duty of his father.
"What a terrible son I am." Alexander said a little disheartened. "But what a terrible father he is as well."
As he said this a little smile came to his face. "I guess we are both terrible. Wait, he was a son before he... technically in this world of course. But still he should know this stuff."
As he sighed he got back up and continued on his hunt. He left before the sun went completely down and arrived home. His servants were uplifted that there only wounds on him was greases.
Before going to bed, he got two letters that were given to him by his servants. The first one was extremely shocking. The Academy was rewarding him for being the first to become a Ascension in the whole Academy among his year. The Academy told him that it was a surprise and that he would know when it got to him. They also said not to come to the Academy the day the surprise will be given to him. He was a little confused but when he saw the next letter his confusion turned to shock. Alexander was to meet someone tomorrow. He had met this person many times in his life but it was never a invitation type meeting. It was more like an occasional type meeting. It wasn't because he didn't like this person but it was because this person was the face of the whole town. This person had the most influence in the whole town. This was also the strongest person in the town. This was an invitation to meet...the town head aka Alexander's grandfather.