Overdrawn

It was a new day, with Joe on the brink of becoming a wizard. He was heading over the animal shelter. He had gained a few more cat-like traits.

For example, he now chattered his teeth when he was excited, yet frustrated, like right now. He had to wait for his mental power to recover when he was right on the brink of becoming a wizard. His teeth were chattering like crazy right about now from the excitement.

Mulling over the cultivation levels for the Virginity Scripture, he asked the system. 'What about the classic way of cultivation like, Qi Gathering, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation. Stuff like that?'

[The Virginity Scripture is only practiced by Wizards. Non-Wizards can still be cultivators. They merely cultivate by using different types of techniques. Their levels are Qi Gathering, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, and Nascent Soul. Qi Gathering has 9 sub-stages, but the other realms only go from early to pinnacle stage. Immortal Ascension comes afterward, but there isn't much information online about it]

'Wait, if you got this information from online, how do you know it's reliable?' Joe was rather suspicious if the system had just copied the cultivation levels from a random xianxia novel even though those were the realms he mentioned himself.

[System is fully credible. The System has gathered security camera footage of supernatural powers, and tracked the smartphones of said users. These were the levels mentioned in their exchanges]

'Wait how did you get into the security camera footage?'

[The System merely used the Host as a medium to access the internet]

Joe thought less of it, as an advanced system would surely have no problem hacking part of the Earth's internet.

Joe arrived at the animal shelter.

He greeted the woman at the entrance, and entered. He had gotten rather familiar with all the people working at the shelter in the past few days, no doubt helping the system gather information.

He looked for an unsuspecting kitten to glean memories from as he waltzed around the animal shelter.

He found a kitten that looked rather small all by itself. He sat down in front of it like always, and stared into its eyes.

He formed a needle, and attempted to penetrate the kitten's mental barrier.

Crack!

The needle shattered as the mental barrier of the kitten cracked. Joe had never seen something like that before.

The mental barrier was already slightly cracked however, and memories were beginning to leak out. Joe had no time to form another needle of mental power, and attempted to intercept the memories of the kitten.

Joe was shocked. The memories of said kitten was fuller than others, having nearly twice as many memories as the other kittens he had infiltrated.

But, there was no use crying over spilt milk as Joe absorbed the memories slowly flowing out of the small crack. Joe began to sweat after a few minutes. Although it was more relaxed to absorb the memories at a slower pace, it was also more taxing on the total amount of mental energy spent.

After several minutes, the kitten's head was empty, as the memories had already finished flowing out. The copying process was sure to be more painful than before, as he would need to use more mental power to copy these memories, and he would have to rip out a bigger chunk.

Joe slowly copied the memories, taking a total of twenty minutes to absorb and copy the memories.

Rip!

Joe's mental power was torn once again as pain enveloped his head. It felt like he was having needles poked into his skull. He grit his teeth as he tried not to look too suspicious in the animal shelter.

It would be awkward if someone screamed in an animal shelter and wasn't hurt. Well, that applied just about anywhere though.

There was another problem however, as Joe couldn't push in the new memories through the tiny crack the old ones flowed out of.

Joe attempted to form a needle several times only to fail, intensifying the pain several times. After several more attempts, he finally formed a wobbly needle. It was only about half the power of the first, but that was enough to open the hole wide enough for the artificial memories to seep in.

The needle fired.

Crack!

The barrier was fully open now, and Joe hurriedly shoved the memories in. He covered the barrier with what was left of his mental power, and started panting. Although he looked quite odd panting in front of a small kitten for no apparent reason, he couldn't care less at this point.

Joe checked his virgin age.

[Virgin Age: 29.6]

'Hey system, just call virgin age Wisdom from now on, since saying virgin age all the time feels weird.

[Feedback taken. Completing changes]

[Wisdom: 29.6]

Joe didn't know why his Wisdom decreased, but he could guess that he lost some when he expended so much mental power this time.

Joe left the shelter and headed to a nearby convenience store, grabbing some food, and headed back to the apartment.