Chapter 15: The Beginning

8 days passed since that incident, and oh boy, oh boy, someone just got 10,000,000 insects. Can you guess who? Yep, it's me, Auguste!

I got them on my birthday, which is today, March 28. I was so excited because this means I could get 1,000,000 KP without basically doing anything! I was rich, absolutely rich! But first, I had to kill them all, the insects I mean. And many might be asking, "How can you kill so many insects? It's impossible without getting grossed out!" But you see, I have a secret plan; which is to dispel all the clones working on my [Mana Training] at the moment.

If my calculations are correct, I could get 15300 [Mana] Stats if I dispel them all right now. It's currently nighttime because I saw the clock saying "11:50 PM". If I suddenly gained that amount of mana energy in my body in a single night, many of my cultivating brothers and sisters would notice it along with Alexander and Terra. But I'll just make up some b*llshit excuse about it.

Oh yeah, do you know about my calculation about the [Physical] Stats I could receive a year? I did another round of calculating and found out, get this, I can only get 143,100 [Physical] a year instead of 2,100,000! (Oh god, this is embarrassing) All of my previous calculations were ALL wrong! I had to ask tutorial bot why he didn't correct me, and he said that it was funnier that way… I mean, he's not wrong, but it's me he's laughing at!

 Anyway, I decided to dispel all the clones that are working at [Physical Training], and immediately, I felt the effect. I was at the bottom of the bunk bed, on top of me was Vane, who just got out from big sister Terra's hellish training. I heard he had to fight two earth golems made by big sister Terra to be as strong as him; yikes. And then he had to fight the monster herself; double yikes!

Immediately after dispelling the clones, I felt myself suddenly grow stronger but not after a bit of ache that hurt me all over my body. After receiving the immense amount of strength, I was focusing on something; I was trying to control my strength. I knew that if I moved right now, this entire bunk bed would be destroyed. I needed control, and this is when tutorial bot's voice sounded in my head.

[You could buy a [Strength Controlling Pill] in the [Shop] but that'll cost you 10,000 KP. Would you like to buy it?]

'I don't have that amount of KP currently, you prick! I need something cheaper, something I can buy with my 150 KP right now!' I said in my thoughts frantically, I was stupid for doing this right in my bed!

[Oh, don't worry about that because I'm sure that you will earn 100 times of that amount. I will give it to you right now and you can pay later!]

'What's the catch? Just tell me already!'

[Tch, this is why I hate smart brats. The catch is that there will be an interest rate of 100 percent every single day. So, would you like to buy the pill?]

'Tch, money-grubbing piece of shit. Fine! I'll pay you in an hour anyway! Now go put that pill in my mouth so that I won't have to move!' I said to tutorial bot in my thoughts.

[Successfully Purchased!] Here you go!]

The pill indeed appeared inside my mouth, and thankfully it's quite small, and by small you mean as big as my f*cking hands! I couldn't chew it since It was too big! That f*cking bot! I'll kill him later for this!

I was choking but with my newfound strength, I crushed the pill inside my mouth with the power of my jaw! But this was not without a price because my teeth were crushed along with the goddamn pill… I'm totally killing that f*cking bot later!

As soon as the pill entered my throat (Along with some of my teeth) I immediately felt rejuvenated. I could finally control my strength properly, and now I have a new problem; my mouth was bleeding. Deciding that I am never asking for tutorial bot to buy me stuff anymore, I opened my status screen and then tapped the [Shop] option.

I then searched for the medicine section and quickly found it. I saw that there was a painkiller being sold for 50 KP and a pill for stopping bleeding for 100 KP. I bought them all with my remaining Kill Points and just straight up let them enter my throat without chewing them.

Soon, I felt all the pain I was feeling gone and with that, I sprinted as quietly as possible to the door of the room and opened it. I went out, then ran straight to the ground floor without making any noise. Soon, I saw the door to the tunnel and it was closed but I easily opened it with the doorknob in place.

When I got out of the safe house, I sprinted as far away from it as possible and with my newfound speed, I was 15 times faster than the average adult human male. Later, when I thought I was far from the safe house, I took out a ring with a blue gem attached to it out of my baby pocket right by the side of my pajamas.

This ring is a storage ring where all the ten million insects are contained. Alexander gave this to me and said that I needed mana to open it. Maybe he noticed that I was also tricking him? But that doesn't matter right now, what matters right now is that it's f*cking dark in here! I can't see any shred of light! I should've thought this through a lot better!

Anyway, I then dispelled all of the clones working on my [Mana Training] and immediately felt the mana inside me slowly increasing. Suddenly, I started to sense something in the air; it was mana. I could sense mana! This is great because this means not only does [Mana Training] increases the mana inside my body, it also increases my control of it. I extended a small part of my mana out of my body and felt like it was an extra limb or something. It felt so… natural to just control it.

I moved it everywhere and with it, light came. My mana was lighting my surroundings with its blue particles. Soon, I got distracted until I remembered I had to kill the insects in the storage ring and buy a medicinal pill that will heal my broken teeth immediately.

I looked at the ring, studying it, and then put it on my pointing finger but it was too big, so I used two fingers and it barely fit. I don't know why, but I just know how to control mana the moment I dispelled my clones that were working on it. Does meditation REALLY get someone that far? I should try it sometimes, maybe it'll increase my mana.

Anyway, I took the insects out of the storage ring and saw that they were all put in plastic bags that are now scattered everywhere around me. I suspect that there are cockroaches, beetles, mantises, and moths somewhere in those bags. There are about 10,000 plastic bags full of insects around me, right now I'm just thankful they can't escape from those bags or there will be a mass panic tomorrow from all of my brothers and sisters. Insects are bad, there's no doubt about it, so I'll do everyone a favor and exterminate them all.

Using my mana, I gathered every plastic bag together in one place where I will be able to target them all better. I then made a hole under those plastic bags and found that that was a bad idea because I almost drained half of my mana.

*Crack* *Crack*

'Just a little bit more… and I can finally taste those sweet one million Kill Points!' I was sweating all over, drenching my pajamas, and with a final clap of my small, chubby hands, the hole in the ground that I made suddenly closed faster than the eyes could blink, crushing every insect inside.

*Bam!* *Putong!*

*Ding*

[You got 0.1 Kill Points!]

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Soon, the notifications disappeared and there it was.

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[Kill Points: 990,000]

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Ah, it felt too good to be true. I think tutorial bot took 10,000 KP from that but I didn't care, there's just so much Kill Points that I could feel pleasure in my body!

I immediately bought a healing pill that would cure my injuries instantly, specifically the one I have in my mouth and refill my mana. It cost me 5000 KP but that only made a small dent in the amount of KP I have.

Now all I have to do is buy a lot of stuff.

The [Shop] is separated into 6 sections.

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[SHOP]

[Weapons]

[Armors]

[Accessories]

[Medicinal Drugs]

[Manuals]

[Others]

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And in the [Manuals] Section, there are techniques I really want to buy but they are quite expensive. They could cost me 10,000 to billions of KP, the way every item in this [Shop] is priced is really starting to piss me off. Now that I thought about it, 1,000,000 KP isn't that much compared to the most expensive items in the [Shop].

Anyway, there are 5 techniques I really, really want.

And these are the Basic Fire Techniques Manual, Basic Water Techniques Manual, Basic Earth Techniques Manual, Basic Wind Techniques Manual, and finally, Basic Lightning Techniques Manual. These five techniques have more advanced manuals and therefore more expensive. Just these five would cost me 10,000 KP each, imagine how much the advance manuals would cost.

Of course, I have to master them all first and I can only learn 10 techniques right now according to tutorial bot. Once I master the basics, I can finally buy and use the more advanced manuals like Advanced, Expert, Master, and Divine. Divine Manuals are so expensive that I even considered never buying them; they cost around 100 Trillion KP. Now that's unreasonable! I wish I could complain to my creator but he's dead, so that's that.

Anyhow, forgetting all about the other things, I bought the five elemental manuals and another transparent blue screen appeared in front of me, saying:

[You have just bought 5 Basic Manuals for 50,000 KP, would you like to learn them all? Yes/No]

I immediately pressed [Yes], and knowledge about the manuals entered my head so suddenly that I almost fainted. I fell to the ground because of the shock but stood up later when I finally absorbed all the knowledge about the techniques.

Out of curiosity, I pointed my palm at the wall of the tunnel and, with a single thought, a string of blue electricity blasted a part of the wall, dropping small debris on the ground.

*Crackle!* *Boom!*

I looked at my hands, smiling as crazy as my baby face could do.

I then started cackling, but of course, as a toddler, it sounded cute rather than menacing.

"Hahahahahahaha! UNLIMITED POWER!"

I shot fireballs everywhere on the wall, threw huge rocks, spat a huge amount of water, blew a wind so strong that it almost crushed the wall, and then I got addicted to using my newfound abilities until I was tired due to mana exhaustion and felt a bit a dizzy, so I bought another rejuvenating pill to cure my mana fatigue and suddenly felt so energized again!

But I didn't want to continue doing this any longer, so I had to go back to the safe house to sleep for the night. I would probably have to train my skills tomorrow, and maybe I can convince Alexander to train me while lying about how I got these techniques. Nah, that won't work. No adult is dumb enough not to get suspicious when a 3-year-old suddenly has elemental abilities that could destroy everything around him easily.