How can people be so horrible?
[Host... I stopped your progress.]
'About time, show me my status.'
[I can't believe you are making me do these stupid things.]
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[Riku Void]
2nd Class Mage
Talent: SSS
[Stats]
Strength: 500
Agility: 532
Mana Capacity: 9001
Resistance: A-
Mana Control: A-
System Points: 300
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'Oi! It isn't stupid at all. This is for comedic effect.'
[There is nothing comedic about this. It's not like anyone will understand your sh*tty references.]
'Shh, guys don't tell him.'
[???]
. . .
Okay, perfect 10000 achieved! Time to begin my adventure for real this time! I'll just teleport down this mountain. Why not just straight to the village? Because I want to experience the forest, who knows what experience I can find in there.
Hmm... I just realized a mistake I did. I applied spatial control to one of my grimoire pages instead of creating the ability. Now I am gonna have to take out my grimoire for whenever I use this. My original plan was to have all of my magic created with my ability so I didn't have to use my grimoire.
Well, maybe when I get rich enough I can just buy it again, or better yet create a skill that allows me to use my grimoire abilities without actually taking out my grimoire. In fact, I'll just do that now.
Flipping to the mana bank page, I find that there is about 5.1 million stored. Wait what? Did my grimoire break? How do I have that much?
'Pyro, please explain.'
[Simple, you past out for 6 months. Don't you remember?]
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Kinda happened way to quickly. Either way, for a 4% increase 5.1 million seems a tad bit too much. I don't really want to do that math in my head...
I spend 400k to increase my grimoire pages and... well... what should I call this skill? I honestly can't think of a name for it. Grimoire-less magic? No that's a stupid name.
Well I'll just think about it later. I think I will go on a mana spending spree. I spent a huge 3.5 million on my upgrade ability and 600k on my creation ability. The discounts are helping but they are still crazy expensive to keep leveling.
Creation magic: Level 3 = 30%
+ 10m > 40% > 6m
Upgrade magic: Level 4 = 40%
+ 50m > 40% > 30m
Passive: Level 2
+ 2m > 40% > 1.4m
Bank: Level 4 = 4%
+ 1m > 40% > 600k
Temporary Immortality: Level 1
+ 1m > 40% > 600k
Spatial Control: Level 1
+ 200k > 40% > 120k
[Blank]
To increase grimoire page: 800k
(Author: I'm just gonna pray the lesser than/greater than symbols were fixed on mobile, last thing I need are stupid </>)
Honestly I don't quite understand why the discounts are the way they are. Shouldn't level 3 creation magic only give me a 20% discount? Not that I am complaining. Please don't tell Pyro about his mess up. Wouldn't want to be mean and hurt my- er I mean, there feelings.
Well I only have 632k mana left, soon to be even less. I spent 630k mana to buy origin magic control, that was originally 900k. Luckily I had enough. However now I only have 2k mana left in my bank.
Origin magic lets me use lightning, water/ice, fire, earth, wind, light, and dark magic. Now I have some attacking skills, only my mind and mana is the limit.
Let's hurry it up, I just can't wait to get into my first battle with a monster. I quickly teleport down the mountain and into the forest. Yet, when I arrived, I felt an eerie presence. I feel like someone is watching me. I look around everywhere and I can't find anyone.
I fill in my blank page with a very simple passive skill: Presence detection. Since it only costs 6k to level it up, I spent some of my mana on it... I still can't find anything. I hate to do this, but I am just gonna have to ignore this feeling, after all I can't really do anything about it unless I just teleport away. But I don't really want to do that, call me naive but I really want to fight with some monsters to increase my battle experience. I just hope nothing happens and that no flags have been raised with my saying that.
And so I walked into the forest in the direction of the town.
After walking for about 10 minutes I felt some presences, so as all idiots do, I walked towards them losing my sense of direction to where the nearest town was. That was probably not such a good idea.
I peered through a bush to find 4 men surrounding a girl. Oh god please don't tell me what I think it is. I listen in on there conversation for any clues as to what's happening.
"You bi*ch, you were trying to get us killed!"
"Please, I wasn't doing anything!"
"You were clearly trying to take our stuff!"
"No! I was just looking at all of the equipment."
"Just looking at the equipment! You were running away with the most valuable treasure! We aren't a C class adventurers for nothing. We clearly know when you are trying to take our stuff. Now face your punishment."
Woah woah, wait I didn't get enough info! I don't know who is lying right now but if you are gonna do something bad to a poor helpless girl, I am gonna have to stop you.
Siigh just as I expected, all of them are ganging up on her. Well I best intervene. Hoping out of the bush I cast a simple earth wall in between them, best part is that I don't even need to chant the spell since I have full control over it. That's the difference between origin magic control and simply origin magic. Though I believe it costs more mana to be able to use it. I'm getting sidetracked.
"Now now, I can't let you gang up on a innocent person can I?"
"Who are you? Wait are you with her?"
"Nope never seen her before, but as a man of justice I can't let you attack and do things to this lad, can I?"
"This girl isn't innocent. Now get out of are way or else."
Threatening now... yeah these people surely are bad people. One of the others went up and whispered into their boss's ear, and they suddenly turned around and left. Leaving behind a "whatever." I knew that no one would want to fight against this sage in training.
The girl seems to be relieved and thanked me. Luckily she knows the way back to town. I simply followed her. Not much was said between us. She told me that her name was Lily and wanted to know mine. She asked me a few other questions that are kinda insignificant.
As we were walking I felt another sense of danger.
"Are you sure we are walking the right way?"
"Yup, positive."
'Hmm, Pyro are we going the correct way?'
. . .
'Pyro?'
Something's not right here. The space around me doesn't feel right. It almost feels as if it's an illusion? Using my spatial control I easily broke out of it.
Suddenly it felt as if time slowed down. I could see a knife that was stabbing down towards my neck. Holy shit this is dangerous.
In the heat of the moment my hand grabbed onto the blade. Ouch this hurts a lot. I summon up a simple wind blade to protect me from what's attacking.
When I fully came to my senses, I saw a headless corpse of the girl I just saved.
I just killed someone. Why? How can people be so horrible? I just took a life yet it's not like I feel any remorse. It was just self defense. Can I even trust anybody but myself anymore? I guess it was a foolish thing to do. I need to grow up...