Training

Another day, in this new life and today I am going to start training, leveling to be precise. Workouts can be done before going to bed.
I tried out the Create ID skill to get a feeling what it's like to be transported into a separated subspace.
[Create ID: Empty]
It wasn't as I had expected, you don't feel your surroundings change, it just happens. I went out of the house, just a couple of meters, before exiting.
[Escape ID]
As I expected I returned back to where I had entered the ID.
Next up is grinding the Create ID skill until I get a dungeon other than the empty one, so I can finally start leveling.
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Time-skip 1 hour
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I've surely been creating and exiting empty IDs for the hundredth time, leveling the skill 3 times and finally what felt like an eternity, I got it.
[*Ding* Due to skill [Create ID] reaching LVL: 4, user is now able to use [Create ID: Zombies]. ]
And that is exactly what I did, I created an ID with zombies. Though, I moved to the street first, better fight outside than inside. I started to aimlessly walk down the street, until I encountered my first enemy, which i used [Observe] on.
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Name: Zombie Civilian
Race: Undead
Level: 2
HP: 40
MP: 5
VIT: 0
STR: 8
DEX: 2
INT: 2
WIS: 0
LUK: 1
Description:
A random civilian, that has been turned into an undead. They are neither fast, nor are they intelligent, they just try to get your brain for a snack.
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So a perfect first opponent, to get back into fighting. Don't get me wrong, just because I worked as a paramedic doesn't mean I didn't learn how to fight, I learned some Taekwondo for self defense in my free time.
So I got into my stance and waited a bit for the brain-muncher to get closer, before giving the poor rotten bastard a punch to the face, that took it's head off. I guess my strength stat isn't only for show.
[Enemy defeated, you gained: 10 EXP, a basic health potion x1, 50 Yen and 10 Gold.]
I continued fighting those basic zombies for multiple hours, until I reached the church where I decided to quit for the day and continue with physical training.
It was a good day, I leveled up 3 times and gained about 25 basic healing potions, 1300 Yen and 250 Gold. To bad those potions only restore health and not stamina.
[Escape ID]
I decided to cook dinner and started with a simple workout to get back into training.
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I got +2 in Strength and +1 in Dexterity so not too bad. Afterwards I took a long bath and tucked myself in to sleep.
Tomorrow I'm going to start with magic training before going back to leveling.
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The next day
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After I woke up and had breakfast, I moved back to that empty room.
I sat down and tried to feel my magic. In my past life, to use magic, you had to have a focus and could only cast as much as the area had energy to supply. If you drained the area of too much energy, it would get unstable and after a while of not being able to regenerate its lost energy, it would start to corrupt. Worst case being, a 'rift' opening.
If magic is anything like in my original world, it's nothing to be taken lightly.
After a hour or so, I felt a warmth in my chest, I tried moving it through my body towards my palm. It moved, albeit slowly, steady is the name of the game, for now. Once it was near my palm, I tried coating it in a thin layer of mana.
[Due to independent action the skills [Magic Control (Passive) LVL:1] and [Reinforcement (Active) LVL:1] have been acquired.]
[Magic Control (Passive) LVL:1] A skill that allows the handling and control of magical energy (Mana), the higher the level of the skill, the better the control and the less mana spells require for the same effect.
[Reinforcement (Active) LVL:1] A skill that when used, allows the user to reinforce his body, increasing defense, defense depends on the skill level.
I continued to train my magic control and reinforcement, I really hope I can upgrade my reinforcement skill to Touki, since it's a lot more useful, but for that I need to either learn senjutsu or train my body to the extreme.
[Skill Reinforcement has reached LVL:3]
[Skill Magic Control has reached LVL:6]
After having trained my newest skills to a certain extend, I looked at the time on my phone and saw it was just about time for lunch, so I made some sandwiches and headed to the park, see if Sona was there. It was a Thursday when I met her and if I got it right, currently they are having summer holidays anyway.
My luck was with me it seems, since she was still there. I made my way there when I saw that she wasn't alone. With her was a small girl with shoulder length white hair and two bangs that framed her face, she had golden eyes and was currently playing against Sona, but was on the loosing side. She was between eleven and thirteen years old, but seemed way to small for the age, I can only estimate her height to be around 4'1".
Though Sona was facing me and should have seen me first, the little girl realized my arrival first.
???: "Who?"
Sona: "Don't worry Koneko, I know him, you can trust him."
Ashtal: "So you're now goading children into playing with you, quite shameless of you, Sona-san." I said with a teasing grin on my face.
Sona: "No, I'm just teaching her how to play, right Koneko-chan?" Sona asked Koneko, hope evident in her eyes. Seemingly not having realized that I was only teasing her.
Koneko: " I asked Sona-neesan to teach me how to play, but she's just been beating me without explaining anything."
Sona: "Whaa, no, I. Why did you betray me Koneko-chan?" Sona was trying to explain, but was unable to get a coherent sentence out.
Ashtal: "We are just messing with you Sona-san, right?"
Koneko was just nodding her head slowly before her stomach started growling, which made her blush and turn away from us.
We couldn't help but slightly laugh at this, since the act in itself was super adorable. I decided, since I made enough sandwiches to easily feed a glutton and two normal people, that I could spare some.
Ashtal: "Here, can't have you starve now, can I?" Before handing her a small lunchbox that had 4 sandwiches in it. That the sandwiches were either tuna or chicken was just coincidence, I swear.
Sona: "Do you have some for me too, Ashtal-san." Sona asked in a teasing tone, something you wouldn't expect from canon Sona.
Ashtal: "Only if you manage to win at chess against me." I told her, though she would get some anyway, I made plenty for a reason.
Sona: "Than I better give it my all." She said, seeing the expression of bliss on Koneko's face.
Ashtal: "So you weren't giving it your all two days ago?." I said with a hurt tone in my voice, but my face was showing that I was ready for our match.
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And so like last time I played against her in the same manner, taking her pieces without loosing too many of mine. Halfway through the match, our little cat decided to sit on my lap to get a better perspective on the match, or so she doesn't have to stand, there were only two chairs after all.
Why she didn't take Sona's lap is a mystery to me, but oh well, the match was over anyway.
Ashtal: "Checkmate" I said with a victorious grin on my face, I didn't even use Thought Acceleration.
Sona: "How?, again." Sona's look of bewilderment was also adorable.
Ashtal: "Adorable" I might have accidentally said that out loud as well, gaining me a blush and pout from Sona.
Ashtal: "Well you lost, so no food for you, more for us right?" I said looking at Koneko, who was sitting on my lap, already half asleep.
Sona: "No fair, she isn't even fully awake anymore." The pout was back on her face, adorable.
Ashtal: "Adorable" This time it was intentional, but it still gained me another blush.
I should stop teasing her, for now. I handed her another box similar to the one I gave to Koneko.
She subconsciously took the box and opened it. The first bite she took, broke her out of her stupor.
Sona: "Sho *Gulp* good." She said the first part while still chewing and the second after having swallowed the piece that was in her mouth. "Where did you learn to cook like this, it's amazing?" She asked, while Koneko that woke up again looked up with expectation.
Ashtal: "Self taught, I live on my own so knowing how to cook is essential, for me atleast." I told them, while taking out three other boxes and putting them on the table.
Koneko who saw that grabbed one with a small octopus on it and started eating again, you could think she doesn't get anything to eat from her 'family'.
I didn't wait around much longer and started to eat aswell before everything is gone, today I'm going to buy those cookbooks and try something different for dinner.
We continued to eat and chat, just having a nice lunch afterwards having another chess match.
Once the evening hit, it got even warmer and we had to go get some refreshments, I didn't think about bringing anything to drink. Thoughts for next time, we just continued to enjoy ourselves until it was time to say goodbye once again, only this time we made sure to exchange contacts and agreed to meet on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Koneko: "Thank you for the food." She said with a small blush and smile, while giving me a small hug.
Ashtal: "You're welcome, I just have to take your appetite into account next time." I said while ruffling her hair.
Sona: "Well Ashtal, until next time on Tuesday." She said while also giving me a hug. (Those you give friends when you meet them.)
Ashtal: "I'm looking forward to it." I said a small smile grazing my lips, it feels good to hang out with friends.
It was then that we parted ways and went our separate ways, I went to buy those cookbooks, before going home. For dinner I tried out some chop suey. It was delicious, good thing I know how to eat with chopsticks.
After a workout and shower, I went to bed. This time I didn't forget about using [Observe] on Sona and I even used it on Koneko, which leveled it up to level 2.

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Name: Sona Sitri (Sona Shitori)
Race: Pure-Blooded Devil
Level: N/A
Title: Heiress of the Sitri Clan, High Class Devil
HP: 250
MP: 450
VIT: 250.000
STR: 18
DEX: 20
INT: 120
WIS: 100
LUK: 23
Skills:
[Water Manipulation (Active) LVL: 34] Allows the user to control and shape water to attack and defend, the range of possibilities increases with level.
[Demonic Energy Manipulation (Passive) LVL:28] Allows the efficient manipulation of demonic energy, the higher the level the better one is at manipulating demonic energy.
[Omni-Lingual (Passive) LVL:MAX] Allows the user to speak and understand all languages.
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I'm jealous, that Omni-Lingual skill would be so useful.
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Name: Koneko Toujou (Shirone)
Race: Reincarnated Devil/Nekoshou (Rook),
Level: N/A
Title: White Cat, Low Class Devil
HP: 350
MP: 100
VIT: 200.000
STR: 45
DEX: 40
INT: 35
WIS: 40
LUK: 28
Skills:
[Senjutsu (Active) LVL:3] Senjutsu is the ability to control the flow of life-energy, also known as Ki, the higher the level, the better they are at using it.
[Youjutsu (Active) LVL:1] Youjutsu is the Youkai form of spellcraft and is mainly unique to the Youkai.
[Touki (Active) LVL:8] Touki can be utilized by those who have trained in Senjutsu, through controlling their base of life, in other words creating an aura of life-force around their bodies. As such, it results in a tremendous increase in their offense, defense, and speed. However, there are those who have trained their bodies to the utmost and gained extreme vitality. This even allows the user to counter magic attacks by punching or otherwise striking them. (Thank you wiki)
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It broke my heart, Koneko-chan had the skill I desired, but I will get it no matter what.
Wait I'm really stupid, I have unlimited vitality, I can learn Touki, I just have to figure out how.
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So I fell asleep, feeling good.
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The next day, again.
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So after I woke up, I did my usual routine. I packed some lunch and created an ID with zombies before I went outside.

[Create ID: Zombies]
I created the ID like last time and started my fight through to the church, where I stopped last time.
When I reached the church, unlike last time, this time I just felt a little winded. I entered the church and was met with a zombie holding a sword that radiated a weak holy and at the same time corrupted aura.

[Observe]
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Name: Zombie Exorcist (Swordsman)
Race: Undead
Level: 6
Title: Holy Sword Wielder
HP: 130
MP: 60
VIT: 0
STR: 35
DEX: 22
INT: 10
WIS: 8
LUK: 10
Description:

A previous holy sword wielder that has been turned into a zombie after his demise. It has alot more strength and is faster than its civilian counterpart. It still not very smart and can't form strategies.

Skills:
[Swordsmanship (Passive) LVL: 3]
Equipment:
Corrupted Holy Sword (Battered)
Iron Chainmail (Rusted)
Plated Gauntled (Decent)
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This will be more interesting than the civilian zombies. I got into my stance and waited for my enemy to come to me.
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I didn't wait for very long, as he rushed towards me at speeds that a normal human would have problems following, but I wasn't normal and so I got ready to parry.
He wildly swung his sword from overhead, straight down trying to bisect me, which I dodged by jumping sideways.
Next he stabbed forward, aiming for my heart, which was easier to dodge since I only had to slightly step to the side, before putting a step forward and giving a full-powered punch while also using [Reinforcement], I aimed for its least protected area, the head. The punch hit squarely, taking about a quarter of its health, but I also realized that the Reinforcement skill only protects so much and I took damage because my punch did more damage than it could absorb.
[-15 HP]
My knuckles where slightly bruised, nothing that can't be healed with a good nights rest.
I need to make myself a weapon for my next run, once I run into mages I really need to rethink my options.
I continued to dodge and counterattack my opponent every-time he over-swings, which was a lot.
After the fourth counterattack, he finally died.

[*Ding* Level Up]
[You have received: 1x Corrupted Holy Sword Shard, 1x basic potion, 200 Yen and 75 Gold]
In my moment of carelessness, from reading my rewards, I was attacked from behind.
*Whoosh*
I only heard the sound of something flying towards me, when I quickly turned around, I saw a fireball the size of a large water-ball almost a meter away from me. At that distance and the speed it was flying, I had no chance of dodging.
Before I could fully comprehend what is going to happen, or if I will survive the attack the world around me slowed down to what seemed like a crawl.
*Crack*
I felt as if something broke free inside of me and I suddenly had the urge to stretch my hand out towards the fireball. Before I managed to realize anything further the world started to come back to normal speed.
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I only blinked once and the fireball that was heading towards me was nowhere to be seen. I quickly rushed my attacker without even using Observe on it, I just wanted to get rid of it. A single punch and its head was turned into mush.
[+10 MP, MP are already full]
I collapsed with probably the worst headache ever, no that's not correct, the second worst. The worst one was before my death after I touched that orb.
[Thought Acceleration reached level 2]
[Sacred Gear: Formless Absorption (UNLOCKED) Capable of absorbing attacks, converting them into MP for the user to replenish his own or absorbing a corpse of an enemy, giving a chance of absorbing a skill the enemy has.
[*Ding* Level Up]
That sacred gear is overpowered, but I'm not going to dwell to much on it. I quickly left the ID.
[Escape ID]
I fell to the ground and laughed, strange after a near death experience, I know, but I unlocked my Sacred Gear and it's a f*cking cheat.
Ashtal: 'Status'
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Name: Ashtal Eldritch
Level: 8 (5% to next level)
Race: Human / ???
Soul: ???
Title: The Gamer
HP: 275/320
MP: 226
VIT: ∞
STR: 41
DEX: 36
INT: 74 | 72+2 (7.4% Magic resistance)
WIS: ∞
LUK: 8
Stat Points: 40
Skills:
[Gamer's Body (Passive) LVL:MAX]
[Gamer's Mind (Passive) LVL:MAX]
[Create ID (Active) LVL:4]
[Escape ID (Active) LV:3]
[Meditation (Active) LVL:1]
[Instant Mana Regeneration (Passive) LVL:MAX]
[Observe (Active) LVL:2]
[Lie Detection (Passive) LVL:1]
[Lie (Passive) LVL:1]
[Thought Acceleration (Passive/Active) LVL:2]
[Multi Thread Calculation (Passive) LVL:1]
[Magic Control (Passive) LVL:6]
[Reinforcement (Active) LVL:3]
[Magic Control (Passive) LVL:6]
[Reinforcement (Active) LVL:3]
Sacred Gear: Formless Absorption

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When I look at my stats like this, they seem way to high, maybe because I'm not fully human?, I went to take a shower, when I looked into the mirror, let's just say I looked beat up, my knuckles where open and bleeding my shirt was ripped apart and the edges where slightly melted from the fireball, the heat alone seemed to be high enough to have melted the synthetic fiber even though it was still about a meter away from me, before I absorbed it.
I decided I would try out those basic potions and I was disappointed, it just healed some minor bruises, maybe 3 to 5 HP or so. I showered ignoring the pain from the water that drizzled on my wounds and went to my bedroom, grabbing my bag on the way. Sitting down on the edge of the bed I started bandaging my knuckles, so I don't dirty the bed with my blood, because I don't know at which point in my sleep my wounds are healed, so safety first.
I put everything away and drifted off to sleep, it was a hard day.
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[Resting, HP and MP have been restored]
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Ashtal: "F*UCKKK " I couldn't help but curse out loud, I just had to lie down and close my eyes, that was a total waste of bandages. Now I'm to lazy to remove them.
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Goodnight.....