Ch16.Three Weeks progress.

Three weeks have gone by since I started creating beer. I must say that I have made some pretty decent beer as well as some absolute horrible abominations that shall not be brought up! After acquiring some nice 5L sealable bottles to use for the carbonization process, I was able to complete a few batches of beer, unfortunately I had to throw orgive most of it away as it was just terrible. :'(

Over the course of three weeks I have made three batches of beer, in the first batch I used twenty different kinds of fruit to create different beers, the result was that only five of them ended up being 'not bad'. I then tried using different proportions of those five ingredients, I went with two extremes by either adding too much or too little of the various ingredients, thus creating four variations for each of those five. This surprisingly resulted in me finding four decent Beers.

In my latest batch I added five slight adjustments to those four and this has resulted in only two that I believe are of presentable quality, one light beer that is quite week, I believe it's about 2 to 4%vol, I wouldn't know the exact amount as I have no idea how to measure that. I just went on taste and the fact that I was able to go through about half of one of those 5L bottles before I became hardcore drunk, I mean I couldn't even walk. I keep forgetting that I am only 5 years old, this body can't handle that much alcohol yet. That, however, won't stop me though, practice makes perfect!! Fuck I love beer!!

The second Beer though was insane!! I think I had just two small glasses and I was out, I don't remember anything besides finishing my last sip and then stumbling forward. This one must be at least 18%vol, that is a lot for a beer! It's not the strongest, but it's definitely a good day drink.

A great thing about this world is that with Magical Energy flowing through me, it lets me handle alcohol a lot better! I have yet to throw up from drinking to much, I have also yet to get a hangover, after I go to sleep drunk my magical Energy must nurture my body, removing the negative side effects of alcohol.

So I am going to stick to these two drinks for now, maybe later I will try to create different beers and ciders, but this should be enough for now. So after creating my last batch according to these recipes, I created ten 10L buckets of each, they will be ready by the end of the month.

Besides creating Beer and getting drunk, I have made quite some progress in my fitness during the last three weeks. Thanks to having no hangover in the morning, I would wake up early, around 5am, I would then do 100 Pushups, after that I would run around the town, this was hard at first, with mostly running a bit then walking a bit, but I have been progressively walking less and less.

After my run I would do a few core exercises focusing on my abs and lower back muscles. I would then go out hunting in the forest, I wouldn't go in too deep as I know exactly what starts appearing as you go deeper in.

After that I would eat as much as I can, mostly some fruits in the forest and if I am lucky in my hunt I will then get to eat some protein. I have also started actually cooking my food… just basic cooking on an open fire, but just that makes meat taste so much better!! I missed this taste sooo much!

After eating I would go back to finish the rest of my workout, trying to get as close of a full body workout as I can. After my workout, I generally go exploring, looking at the different types of shops and I would look out for some 'easy' targets.

Last week I finally generated enough Magical Energy to finally be able to open my shadow space. I haven't been able to expand it by much but I can at least fit a backpack's worth of things in there.

The nice part about this ability is that I can access the space as long as there is a shadow I can put my hand into, I generally use my pockets to access it, as there is plenty shade in them. After robbing someone, I just dump it all into my shadow space and then check out my gains later.

I have been sneaking into a few houses looking for books to learn to read and write, I have made some progress by using my 'Greater Comprehension' symbol, and asking various shop owners to read the signs in their stores, this has helped me gain a better understanding of written language, and it probably won't take too long before I can read properly, that will be when I start to take in as much knowledge as possible.

It would be a waste to not use my 'Greater Comprehension' to learn as many different fields of knowledge as possible, this will start my foundation in this world.

I don't know what the conditions and requirements are to get accepted into an institution that teaches Magic, so I will cram as much as possible in case it is useful. I will also have to find out where I can find these institutes that teach Magic. This world is pretty advanced so I am pretty sure they will have some kind of Magic School somewhere.

After walking around a bit, I would go back to the bar to try and steal some booze and annoy Pam, it's quite entertaining I must say so myself.

The actual reason I go there is to get a few of the Bars regulars to test my failed brews, I couldn't bring myself to waste all that beer so I would bring all extras here, as long as the beer was at least drinkable. It was quite easy to get these drunks to become my guinea pigs, I had to test what tastes they prefer and if they would even enjoy this new type of alcohol, this helped me in my selection process whether a Beer was viable or not.

And I must say that the results were amazing!! Besides some of my really shit brews that were basically poison, the rest came across really well. Drunk people are also a pretty good source of information, so I have been trying to get familiar with a few of the Drunks. Hopefully when they open up some more I will be able to get some harder to acquire knowledge.

Now I just need to wait for the end of the week until I can start officially selling my Beer, I am so excited!