Itch Stick.

After checking out his stats and skills he nodded, he asked the maid who prepared his bath to get him a notebook and a pencil.

"Pheeeeeew, this feels Am-aaaa-ziiinnnng." His muscles couldnt help but relax at the warmth the bath was emitting, his neck lost strength, slowly closing his eyes he thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of weightlessness

'Now that i know that i can gain most of the fundamental physical skills through trial and error, i will have to start looking into ways to combine them and synergize more skills, out of the 40 minutes i spent running i couldnt use the skills a lot because of my stamina constraints, thankfully i leveled up once which helped me replenish all my stamina, which increased the training time, but not by a lot.' He wasn't worried about the time it took to master the skills, he was worried about time management and his stamina recovery.

He might have to ask for a lot of those potions from his father if he wants to grind the levels for the skills, they are all very useful.

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Rodin could be seen inside his room at his desk with a blank page and a set of glowing quills. weirdly enough he is writing in a language not of this world onto the page, the page was slowly getting filled while at the same time he was mumbling and thinking.

After analyzing the stats he noticed that his HP was impacted by Vitality, his Mana by intelligence and lastly, his stamina by Endurance, this might not seem a lot but it seems each stat contributes to one important factor of the system.

Assuming that each stat contributes to an important part, we can guess that most athletic skills rely on strength and agility, most acrobatic skills rely on Agility and dexterity, meditation might rely on intelligence and wisdom, as for more, he needs to get more skills and to experiment.

Also it seems that the level multiplies his default HP/MP/STM getting his max hp, for example at 10 vitality he has 100 hp, and at lvl 3 he would have it multiplied by 3, giving him a total of 300 hp.

It seems that skills level up differently, instead of having exp he has a percentage for the next level, after realizing that he spent around 32 minutes running and having around 4% in his running skill beforehand gave him the amount of 36%, meaning that for now leveling duration limited skills takes around 1 minute of constant use to gain 1%.

While the use limited skill seem to take the same amount as the duration ones, 1 use equals 1%, for, it also seems that using skills together multiplies the percentage gain by 5, since he managed to get 5% after using jump and dash together, that unfortunately didnt seem to be the case for dash and run though.

And lastly, he has to put any reduction based skills to the hit or affected category, like for example Physical Damage Reduction, he has to get hit to get increase in %, it can be assumed that these work the same way as the use limited skills.

He would have continued his writting if it wasnt for the notification that sounded out.

[Ding !]

[Due to logical thinking and reasoning you gained 1 WIS and 1 INT.]

[Congratulations you learned [Basic Concentration] you gain 1000 exp !]

[Congratulations you learned [Basic Reasoning] you gain 1000 exp !]

[Congratulations you learned [Basic Analyze] you gain 1000 exp !]

[Congratulations you learned [Basic Observe] you gain 1000 exp !]

[You leveled up !]

*Whistle*

He couldnt help himself, he got even more skills after only a session of experiment assessment, but one thing bothered him, how come he gained stat points when he worked on such an easy task, yet when he ran for 30 minutes straight he didnt get anything, it must have something to do with the way the system perceives his stats and the original owner's, but he isnt sure yet.

"Well, i will have tomorrow all day to experiment and find out more things, this does bring a lot of excitement, cant wait for tomorrow !" He whispered while letting out a few creepy giggles, after seeing that its already dark outside he shut off the candle and took himself to the ever so endearing bed.

The night slowly and surely passed, the owls found their food, the rabbits and foxes scurried away into their burrows while the moonlight illuminated the dark and eerie forest.

As fast as it came, it went, the sunlight shattered through the mountain peaks, letting it glory slowly advance throughout the land, the morning sunlight penetrated through the abundant leaves, reaching into the far nooks and crannies of the mansion hidden away by nature.

Looking out the window was Rodin, with a refreshed gaze he opened it letting the dew touched wind caress his face.

"Another day, another chance to progress, lets make this day count as well." mumbling, he opened his eyes and turned around, he undressed from his pajamas and took out his freshly cleaned training clothes from his drawer and got dressed up.

"The preparations are complete Young Master, you can go and start your training, i will be watching over you to make sure you dont overdo it or hurt yourself." Johan's voice came from outside the door, thinking a bit, Rodin quickly took another book about Martial arts and body conditioning, if he had to be strong and fast to use a spear.

He might as well have a sturdy body which can complement the long range of the spear, if by chance he gets ambushed and cant use the spear, or if an opponent gets too close for the spear to be null.

"give me one minute Gramps !" He called out and quickly got his hands on the only martial arts book he got from his father.

Opening the door he looked at the back silhouette of Johan, who glanced at rodin and nodded, before he started taking his iconic walk run but this time it seemed faster.

"Oi, wait up !" He acted out of instinct and began running after Johan who had a small smile form on his old wrinkled face.

As he began chasing it was only after 5 minutes he realized that the old bone was taking the most complicated route up towards the garden, this did give him an idea of what the old man was doing.

After approximately 10 more minutes they arrived at the Garden, Rodin was inhaling like a dead horse with sweat all over his clothes, but this wasnt the end, after they slowly arrived under the tree Johan took down his cloak and shirt, seeing the scars all over his body rodin froze up.

"NOW !!! WE WILL BEGIN THE WARM UP AND THEN THE FIRST DAY OF THE RECOVERY TRAINING, IF YOU WILL YOU FILTH, THROW AWAY THAT MEASLY BAG AND START UP WITH STRETCHING." Johan started shouting all of a sudden taking Rodin out of his stupor and into a more confused mess.

"U-hh old ma- !?" Before he could finish his sentence Johan hit his head with a stick which appeared out of nowhere, the thing about the stick was, that it hurt like hell !

"ARE YOU TALKING BACK YOU FILTH, UNTIL WE MAKE YOU INTO A THROUGH AND THROUGH MAN WE WILL NOT BE STOPPING !" He gave another stick onto the back of Rodin which was rewarded with a yelp and grumbling, to which he gave another hit.

"Y-YES SIR !" quickly realizing that refuting was irrelevant he just quickly saluted and got into a straight and stiff position.

Johan just nodded and started explaining the warm up, first of all they started stretching their upper and lower body so that the risk of injuries from the training would lessen.

After the stretching session they started training the lower body and core using the horse stance, it wasnt only beneficial for the lower and core muscles, it was actually helpful for the whole body but overall the lower body, core and balance of the user got the most out of this .

"Straighten your back ! your feet has to be facing forward ! your hands must be straight !!!" Johan was merciless, every time he was off 3 or 4 cm from the true stance he would get hit with the stick, and no matter how much he scratched the area he couldnt get rid of the after itch it came with.

Weirdly enough the hits weren't powerful, no instead the itch was hellish, to a point he was more scared of the itch than the hit itself.

But all this suffering was not without reward, because whenever he got hit he would get a few % on his P.D.R. Skill, and also he leveled up after gaining a few more skills.

[Ding !]

[Congratulations you learned [Basic Body Conditioning] you gain 1000 exp !]

[Congratulations you learned [Basic Magic Damage Reduction] you gain 1000 exp !]

[You Leveled up !]

'Now this explain why i felt so fucking itchy every time i got hit by that fucking stick.' He curse within his mind while glancing at the stick, it still gives him shudders at this very moment.

"What are you zoning out for ! get your filthy ass back to training before i spank you with the stick again !" Johan said all the while Rodin was now doing pushups with the old man standing on top of him in a graceful manner.

"Your back shouldn't bend, Straighten it !! your arms shouldn't open up like the wings of a chicken, keep them in their starting position without a centimeter of deviation !" All the while he would hit Rodin whit the itch stick wherever the mistake happened.

[Status]

-Name: Rodin Pirkos, [Daniel Morn]

-Age: 12 years old, [20 years old]

-Title: Magical Trash, Prodigy, Spear Maniac, Body Enthusiast, [Incarnate]

Level: 5 (1000/5000)

HP: 750/750 MP: 950/950

STM: 750/750

Ailments: Cursed, Crippled, Incarnate Takeover.

[Physical Stats]

-STR: 27 (-10) = 17

-AGI: 26 (-10) = 16

-VIT: 25 (-10) = 15

-DEX: 26 (-10) = 16

-END: 25 (-10) = 15

[Mental Stats]

-INT: 9 + [10] = 19

-WIS: 10 + [15] = 25

-WIL: 12+ [8] = 20

-PRC: 6 + [6] = 12

SP: 20

[Skills]

Basic Magic Damage Reduction: lvl 0 (89%) [Novice]

Increases Magic Damage Reduction by 9% per level.

Decreases Magic ailments affecting the body by 10% per level.

(A skill used by those who needs a bit more umph to their defenses.)

Basic Body Conditioning: lvl 0 (98%) [ Novice]

Consumes 10 STM per minute.

Increases Physical Stat gains by 50% per level.

Decreases Stamina cost by 1 per level.

(A skill used by only those who seek to reach the pinnacle of Human physical prowess, if you add it together with some form of Martial arts and movement Skills, then you better pity your opponents.)

Basic Observe: lvl 0 (1%) [Novice]

You gain information on Living and Non living objects.

Information you gain depends on the level of the skill and [Basic Analyze].

(A skill used by many to determine the assessment of living and non living things in a simple and well explained manner.)

Basic Analyze: lvl 0 (66%) [Novice]

Decreases the time of Subject or Category Assessment by 50% per level.

Decreases Chance of Assessment failure by 10% per level.

(A skill used to decrease the time needed to analyze and asses the strength and properties of living and non living things.)

Basic Reasoning: lvl 0 (58%) [Novice]

Increases the speed of thought processing by 25% per level.

Increases

Decreases effects of mind manipulation and control by 9% per level.

(A skill used to speed up the thought process of the user and also help the user to get the right answer to a question much faster.)

Basic Concentration: lvl 0 (63%) [Novice]

Increases memorization speed by 50% per level.

increases comprehension speed by 50% per level.

(A skill which bought the sages to the world, without knowledge, the foundation of all things would be false.)

Basic Landing: lvl 0 (%1) [Novice]

Basic Physical Damage Reduction: lvl 0 (69%) [Novice]

Basic Dashing: lvl 0 (45%) [Novice]

Basic Jumping: lvl 0 (35%) [Novice]

Basic Meditation: lvl 1 (6%) [Novice]

Basic Running: lvl 1 (47%) [Novice]