The Weekend.

'Ever since coming to this world and waking up, midnight tends to be the time my unconsciousness wakes up for a quick snack and a thoughtful plan making.' Sighing, Daniel got up from his stupor and interrupted his own train of thoughts, slowly and deliberately he pushed himself off of the bed and looked at the window.

As the last few days flew by his already broken psyche started to slowly heal, unfortunately as a side effect would be to wake up at midnight.

He slowly arrived at his destination, with each second passing increasing the pressure and suffocating feeling within him, he got a grasp on the handle and turned it, then with a sudden jolt everything eased up as the moonlight brought with it the refreshing feeling of the wind.

"Darn Nightmares, ruining my mood." He sighed and leaned on the edge of the window, closing his eyes he focused and slowly everything has made way for him.

He heard it all, the leaves rustling the crickets singing, animals moving around and monsters roaming within the darkness.

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Morning arrived quickly and decisively, opening his eyes with more fatigue than usual Daniel was preparing to go out and train further, ever since he started training with old man Johan his stats have skyrocketed along with his skills, mostly his physical ones.

He tried opening the second page of the book but every time he would be assaulted by a huge headache and fall unconscious, which also gave him a new skill.

Also, due to the amount of skills he has been gaining he tried to organize them, his attempts were half hearted at best, but weirdly enough he managed to make the interface move a bit.

He himself wasn't sure how he did it but when he thought about wanting the interface to change it did, only issue, he would spend all his mana doing it, the good side, he got a new skill related to his mana points, it basically helped him regen mana faster.

'So, best course of action would be to simply make categories in the skill tab each relating to mental and physical tasks, and somehow make the system properly filter those skills to the appropriate skill group, hmm such a frustrating problem.' Scratching the back of his neck he started grumbling and almost broke his pencil in the middle of writing down his findings.

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Afternoon, at the Dinner Table.

Daniel could be seen biting his nails while focusing on something, which was easily spotted by Johan and Roland.

"Son, how has been your week, Johan told me that you made quite a huge improvement in your training, sorry son, for not visiting often, research and politics nowadays take too much of my time, so how about we go on a vacation to the eastern kingdoms ?" Roland looked with hopeful eyes towards his son Rodin, who gulped and wasn't sure how to respond.

"Y-yeah that sounds awesome !" Quickly averting his eyes he scratched the back of his head and showing an awkward smile, Roland nodded with delight and Johan sighed.

Daniel started to sweat coldly and began to think of the things that could go wrong on the trip, the eastern kingdom just gave him the chills, he doesn't really remember much but his instinct is screaming at him to do otherwise, but he doesn't want to be found out either.

Scared for his own skin he quickly agreed and after finishing lunch swiftly left towards his room, due to being Durun or Sunday in this world, he had some spare time.

He shook his head and slowly went to the table at which his writing equipment were located, Glancing at the Notebook with his mostly confirmed research papers letting out a sigh, he slowly sat down and started writing.

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THUMP ! THUMP ! THUMP !

Evening has shown itself, under the red dyed sky a youth could be seen being hit by a staff, each hit furious and ruthless, leaving red marks on the body of the youth, the youth barely keeping in the intent to scream, to squirm, firmly holding onto the horse stance all the while an old man was holding a wooden staff.

"NGHH!" The Youth's face turned into a mess every time he was hit, before slowly a feeling of calmness overtook his chaotic mind, slowly exhaling whenever the hit has passed, he readied up by inhaling and tensing every muscle inside his body, THUMP ! another hit, another grunt leaving the youth, slowly opening his eyes blazing red eyes flaming with will and determination, scrunching his nose up and closing his eyes he inhaled once again and tensed his muscles.

His face contorted into one of guilt and determination, the old man didn't spare the youth and kept hitting him, hours upon hours have been spent like this, in a moment of silence, before it was broken again by the sound of the hit, slowly every minute turned into tens of minutes, tens of minutes into hours, slowly the sun completely set and darkness has been beckoned.

THUD !

The sound of hitting has stopped as the youth has completely fallen unconscious.

"My apologies young master, my hits should have been more lenient, let this old butler bring you to the bathroom." Johan bowed to the unconscious Daniel and picked him up on his shoulder, slowly carrying him to the bathroom and letting him in the hands of a few maids who slowly cleaned his wounded and scarred body.

GASP !

Opening his eyes, Daniel slowly sat straight and looked around his room, seeing that he was changed and in his bed again he let out a sigh of relief and pinched the middle of his brows.

'My body is adapting faster than it was predicted, this warrants a change in routine, due to my physical damage reduction it seems old man Johan has to up his game if my skills have to stay up to date, but.... just because it reduces the damage to my body doesn't mean it reduces the pain, this is kind of a scary situation, slowly my body will start enjoying thi- NO , i wont let it happen, I MUST PERSEVERE.' Daniel Slapped himself awake before he would start having any delusions, he could feel the cold sweat slowly trickling down his forehead and ending under his nose, he started to feel as if the world was slowly morphing and spinning, looking at wrist the sweat from his nose fell, time slowed down, slowly and surely the sweat was making its way towards the open palm.

Right as it hit his hand time turned back to normal and as if a bomb the droplet turned into mush in his palm, as if a chain reaction all his senses dulled, his eyes rolled to the back of his head and closed, slowly he fell backwards and silence prevailed.

"Huh !?" Waking up in a completely empty and white space, Daniel got up from the white marble floor and looked around.

"Is this a new skill, no it wouldn't explain all the weird shit that just happened, and also there would have been a notification by the system, no something isn't right, why are my wrists so soft.. wai-" Before he could finish his epiphany a voice interrupted him.

"Yes, you're inside the MindScape of this youth, yes, he is still unresponsive, yes, it was me who made you appear here." The voice sounded rough, very disciplined and intimidating, but it had a weird flavor to it.

Turning around Daniel was met with Man in his Mid forties, a build that screams forged in battle, hair at the brown greyish side, his face starting to show age, a face with a unshaved short boxed beard, an unkept mullet hairstyle with a ponytail sticking out from the back, a scar is present on the face going vertically up from the cheek past the right eye and eyebrow stopping at the roots of the hair, his right eye clearly blinded and greyed out, while his left ocean blue eye brimming with life.

"Who the hell are you pops, and why did you have to call me in the middle of the night ?" Daniel couldn't help but ask while unconsciously picking his nose, cleaning his pinky finger in his shirt he was still staring at the old man who almost burst a vein, his left eye started to twitch, in an instant he appeared in front of Daniel and slapped on top of the head slamming him with quite sharp sound.

"ARGH ! WHY DID YOU HIT ME !?" Daniel feeling anger and confusion screamed at the old man who was already gone from his spot, quickly Daniel looked around until he found the old man looking down an abyss, confusion even more apparent on his face he just shook his head, he wasn't sure how he missed a huge gaping hole in the middle of the emptiness but he sure did, slowly and cautiously he approached the hole as well while not letting go of the old man from his sight.

"Come on it wasn't that bad, just think of it as a welcome ceremony into the team, also this much pain is nothing for someone like you, kekekek" Mock and sarcasm could be heard from the old man as his statement flowed inside Daniel's ear, gritting his teeth Daniel had enough and jumped towards the old man who smirked and disappeared.

"This isn't good." Daniel said while falling towards the endless abyss that was the gaping hole, fortunately before he could fully enjoy the newly found fear of the unknown his collar was grabbed and he was quickly pulled back up and patted down by the old man.

"Did you enjoy it, it is apparent you did, but for now lets talk real business." The old man looked at Daniel with a dead serious expression that could intimidate even the toughest of the tough.

GULP.