Wavering Will, Status.

Waking up Daniel looked around the room a bit confused before realization dawned on him, rubbing his eyes he yawned and swiftly got up from his bed, the morning sunlight shined through the room illuminating the whole mess of scattered clothes, books and papers.

With a sour expression he walked towards the clothes and sniffed them, it didn't stink too badly, so it was right up his valley, getting dressed for the the day, he left the room and slowly sneaked past the maids and guards, ever since he found out that he can learn any basic skill, he started abusing the system to gain even more skills, unfortunately he was overwhelmed with how many skills he has gotten, to the point where he is thinking of stopping his current training to start and organize every skill into a group, but that usually exhaust him to the point of fainting.

Shaking his head he cleared up any useless thoughts and decided to write down a routine to follow, he has been pretty accurate with his training regime, but it only started 1 week ago, so it was a good idea too add more training, after all his free time consisted of just writing in his notebook of ideas for skill combinations and research about the works of the system, which was still underway, in the one week he has been training with Johan he has only found out that he can manipulate the system interface to a certain degree.

"Sigh, this is getting too annoying to deal with, ill think of something later, lets go and begin today's training." Daniel just let go and continued onward while trying to avoid the detection of the maids and guards, weirdly enough the maids were harder to evade than the guards who were positioned at each door which held a significance.

"Phew, those maids are creepy, they always have such strong senses, but at least whenever they don't notice me my skill increases like crazy hue hue hue." He started to laugh like a madman before slapping his face and shaking his head, deciding he had enough fun he arrived at the garden, slowly approaching the tree he saw Johan who was also holding onto two staves, confused Daniel inquired.

"These two are for the sparring sessions we will be holding from today onward, due to your increasingly fast development in your physical fitness, it was decided that you are ready to take on spear training, but first, we have to get rid of your innate battle fear, that's why we are going to spar with staves until you're ready to train with a spear." Johan stated calmly while throwing a staff to Daniel, catching it he tried spinning the staff only for it to result in a painful cry from Daniel.

"Damn my genes, why was humanity hardwired to spin a stick whenever they got hold of one !." Daniel thought out loud while gritting his teeth and rubbing his head, Johan just watched with a blank face and sighed, light flashing in his eyes he quickly took a stance and swung his staff at Daniel.

Slightly opening his eyes due to the sound of wind whistling he saw the staff heading towards the right side of his abdomen, quickly he tried blocking only to be blown away due to the force landing in the middle of the flowery garden, opening his eyes once again he was greeted with an swaying field of flowers, Johan nowhere to be seen.

*Rustle*

"HUP !"Hearing a small amount of noise coming from behind him he quickly jumped high, grinning he tried turning around only to helplessly flail around.

*Whistle*

The dreaded sound of a swing could be heard, this time he tried to be calm only to backfire, while Daniel was floating Johan changed stances with a fluid motions, his feint worked and now he had to teach the young master why jumping mid fight is a bad habit. *KAPOW, THUD !*

A diagonal hit right on his back, due to the damage dealt to the skin blood started to flow and make the hit nicely imprint a lesson worth remembering, coughing and puffing he got up and spewed out some dirt and flower petals from his mouth, thinking of what to do he was once again take by surprise as the old man didn't give him any breathing room, seeing the trajectory of the staff this time his mind started to lose thoughts and let instincts control his body.

The staff approached his ankles and right before touching it he jumped slightly and tapped his foot on the staff, it was enough to trigger Jump which instantly launched the staff into the earth, with the gain in momentum he raised his knee and aimed towards Johan's face, Johan dodged to the right by a hair's breath, floating once again Daniel knew he fucked up.

Heading head on towards the embedded staff he tried orientate his body so he could jump off of it, unfortunately Johan quickly stepped on the staff so it would bend down, in an instant the staff launched back in breakneck speed, seeing no way to dodge he quickly blocked his face and was hit on his right forearm fracturing it, slowly he fell down while holding his right forearm and gritting his teeth.

"Get up, a crying soldier is a useless soldier !" Johan stated in response Daniel shook his head and tried to get up, looking at the half baked performance that the young master was showing his Johan almost bit off his lip due to the anger.

'What have those bastards done to the young master.' The veins in his neck started to bulge as he was controlling his inner rage, Johan wasn't happy, before the accident the young master was the incarnation of will, he never gave up, he always stood up, this is just a shallow after image of the once bright and determined child.

"So this is it, are you going to give up just because of a small fracture, what will happen if someone stabs you, breaks your bones into dust, cuts off your limbs, what will you do when you see your loved ones dies in front of you, and you cant do anything but simply wallow in pain, due to a small fracture." Johan Let out each word with a cold and unbridled rage behind it.

*CRK CRACK !*

The hold on his staff was so intense it broke in half when he saw no reaction from the young master only silence.

"ANSWER ME SOLDIER !" Johan shouted with all his might creating a small shockwave in the process, flower petals could be seen floating as the wind took hold of them, with slow and deliberate movements Daniel got up and took his staff off of the ground.

"SIR, NO SIR !" He shouted while bumping his chest with his right arm wincing in the process, holding his fist at his heart, Johan scoffed and glared at the sweaty youth.

"If there will ever be, another one of these antics, you will regret it greatly, soldier." Johan stared Daniel in the eye and confirmed that the fire has reappeared within, nodding he he looked at the staff and sighed, taking another long staff out from his pouch he threw the other ones away.

"Lets go again !" Johan stated and rushed towards Daniel, who looked determined as ever.

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Daniel was smiling awkwardly while limping towards the bathroom, after today's events he wanted to relax a bit and start putting all of his skills into categories, else he will get overwhelmed quickly, fortunately he wasn't unconscious today so it was a good chance to try and exhaust all his mana before sleeping.

Arriving at the bathroom a few maids were waiting for him but he dismissed them.

"I am not disabled, there is no need to help me undress, thank you." He entered the room and undressed, wincing in pain he slowly lowered himself down the wooden tub, slowly every pain has disappeared, thanks to the herbs that have been put into the bath they slowly started to regenerate every fiber of his damaged muscles and fractured bones.

Thinking a bit he decided to glance at his status a bit, looking at the skills will make it easier to visualize how he will do the whole thing, hopefully he can succeed today.

[Beep !]

[Sparring, exp gained 500, loss deduction -50%, higher enemy lvl multiplier: +200%, total exp gained = 750.

[Status]

-Name: Rodin Pirkos, [Daniel Morn]

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

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

Level: 11 (3750/21,000) ^^^

HP: /3,740 MP: 3,650/3,650

STM: 2,322/3,960

Ailments: Cursed, Crippled, Incarnate Takeover.

[Physical Stats]

-STR: 27 (-10) = 23 + 4 = 27

-AGI: 26 (-10) = 22 + 7 = 29

-VIT: 25 (-10) = 21 + 13 = 34

-DEX: 26 (-10) = 22 + 2 = 24

-END: 25 (-10) = 21 + 15 = 36

[Mental Stats]

-INT: 9 + [10] = 25 + 8 = 33

-WIS: 10 + [15] = 31 + 5 = 36

-WIL: 12+ [8] = 26 + 3 = 29

-PRC: 6 + [6] = 18 + 2 = 20

SP: 50

[Skills]

Basic Sneaking: lvl 0 (83%) [Novice] *

Basic Magic Damage Reduction: lvl 3 (8%) [Novice] 3+ ^

Basic Body Conditioning: lvl 4 (9%) [ Novice] 4+ ^

Basic Observe: lvl 3 (33%) [Novice] 3+ ^

Basic Analyze: lvl 3 (99%) [Novice] 3+ ^

Basic Reasoning: lvl 2 (8%) [Novice] 2+ ^

Basic Concentration: lvl 3 (34%) [Novice] 3+ ^

Basic Landing: lvl 1 (%22) [Novice] 1+ ^

Basic Physical Damage Reduction: lvl 4 (43%) [Novice] 4+ ^

Basic Dashing: lvl 3 (25%) [Novice] 3+ ^

Basic Jumping: lvl 2 (76%) [Novice] 2+ ^

Basic Meditation: lvl 3 (6%) [Novice] 2+^

Basic Running: lvl 2 (32%) [Novice] 1+^

Looking at his skills he was pretty proud, after all he has been training hours upon hours to the point of fainting, seeing his growth for the first time in a week actually made him ecstatic, on earth he was pretty sure that seeing the levels of his own hard work has never been shown, making him doubt whether or not he was improving at something, this time, it made him hungry, hungry for more, more power.