YSLwn

Ed was the weakest in his school, being bullied all the time for his pathetic existence. Having dead parents and no talent for fighting, he struggled. However, what they had left behind would change his life. 

This is a project made for the purpose of improving my writing in the year of 2021. Mainly to improve my narrative and descriptive skills along with the ability to plan for an extremely long story. The mistakes that I had made in previous chapters will not be revisited and will be fossilized. That is; narrative and grammatical. So if I mess up, I gotta live with it!

My work is not monetized so I'd appreciate it if you checked out my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/YSLwn

Cover art by @lostinduat on Twitter!

Staryx

Ed smiled back at Staryx, nodded, and looked down at the book he was holding in his hand. He realized there was no title and it was completely blank.


He opened it to skim the first pages, but there's no sign of a name for the cultivation technique. It went off straight to explaining how to perform it along with diagrams showing what parts of the body to focus on. 


Ed looked back up at Staryx and asked: "Is there a name for this cultivation technique?"


Staryx tilted his head. "It doesn't have a name. After all, it doesn't actually exist in the real world."


"Well...thank you!" He said as he was leaving the sub-space. Staryx waved as he faded away into nothingness.


"Okay...let's try this technique out." Ed cracked his knuckles and started taking deep and controlled breaths. After a while, he began to feel more energized.


[You have cultivated for the first time]


Ed smirked at the notifications. It was working. He then moved the energy he was building up all throughout his body.


[Stamina +2, Strength +2, Agility +2, magic +1]


Ed stopped his cycling and checked his current stats.


"Alright...I think I could finish the workout now. Let me check my progress…"


Ed resumed his push-ups. He found himself much lighter. He was smiling. It was now much easier to finish the workout.


After an hour of painful exercise, Ed received a notification.


[Daily Quest: "Zero to Hero" has been completed]


[Confirm level up? Warning: might cause changes to body]


When Ed saw this, his eyes sparkled with excitement. He was able to level up in one day, but, to him, it felt like a week.


"Yes!" He shouted with excitement, careless of what his neighbours thought.


Ed started to feel hot from his insides...it was a feeling he was familiar with - it was the exact same as when he was out earlier in the sun.


The heat and thirst pains were worse, and it only grew and grew.


As Ed saw each percentage increase, he felt his consciousness slowly slipping away.


As the pain went away, Ed lost his consciousness, and fainted.


A soft wind sings its tune as cherry blossom leaves danced their way towards the concrete pathway. A person was sat at a bench. Their features were androgynous. A leaf danced its way onto their head. A subtle jump came from them, as it awakened them from deep thought. They felt their head with their small hands and grabbed the leaf. They gazed at the leaf, softly smiled and lost themself in thought once again. It looked like nothing could ever disturb their peace.


When Ed came to, he was greeted with ringing ears and a beautiful headache. In front of him rested a system window. He couldn't understand what he was looking at.


Evolution