8 Sophronia Mall

I stood in the field of training dummies that were sliced into multiple pieces. In a second, all of them turned into light particles and respawned again, waiting for my command to start again.

But I had enough, as I finally mastered how to perfectly wield the Urumi and successfully created some techniques for matching this body.

"With my past ten years of experience and with this awakened body, I finally mastered it in 3 hours." I already mastered Urmi in my past life, so I only need to adjust it and remaster it for this body.

'Now, it's time to learn sword skills.' Taking out the sword, I started swinging it. In the human world, I learned kenjutsu, and because I have a swordmaster occupation, I mastered the way the sword moves in one hour. Since I don't need to learn techniques from my previous world that were created by normal people and can't be used in awakened fighting, I only needed to learn how a sword works.

"Now onto the next step, create low ranked skills." I have some skills in my mind, but what I'm going to create today is a sensory type of skill. I got this idea when I accidentally used the ability of my eye artifact.

"Gyrokinesis" I activated my innate skill. Upon activation, I felt the gravity around me start to shift and twist, and I felt clear control over it.

Since I'm in the VR world, I don't have to worry about damaged mana veins. Changing my settings to unlimited mana and stamina and increasing my body's gravity to the fullest, I smashed the ground.

Boom!

The ground trembled as the force struck, gouging out a massive crater and sending chunks of earth and debris flying in all directions. "Angela, tell me the approximate diameter of the crater I created," I asked the system, whose programmed name is Angela, an artificial intelligence that controls all of the academy's technologies.

[Approximately, the diameter is 50 meters and the depth is 10 meters.]

"Calculate the strength I displayed and tell which rank could demonstrate this much destruction via strength."

[Calculating…an average C+ ranker could cause this much destruction only using strength] The system said

"As I thought, if I go all out and burn mana to the absolute limit, I can display the strength of a C+ ranker... The skill is really a game changer if my mana veins aren't damaged."

"Angela, prepare the training dummies, and set pain sensitivity at 3%; also decrease my senses by 80%."

[Initiating… Request granted]

As my request was granted, I felt my eyes blurring and a gradual decrease in my sense of hearing and smell. After my senses decreased, I created a 1-meter-radius gravitational field.

"Active the training dummies and activate the unlimited health setting."

[Request granted… The training dummies will start in 3, 2, 1, 0.]

Closing my eyes, I stayed there, waiting for the first dummy to arrive. As the first dummy set foot in the gravity field, I sensed it through the gravity field, but I couldn't pinpoint the exact location where the dummy was going to attack. And that's the exact thing I need to find out.

The skill worked like this: it would create a 1-meter-radius gravity field around me, making me its core. If anyone enters the gravity field, it will push my skin. If someone attacks my face, there will be a pushing sensation on that side of the face, which helps me pinpoint the exact location where they are going to hit, so I can avoid that attack. That is also the reason I decreased my senses, so it could develop quickly.

Slightly increasing the gravity around my skin, I waited for the next attack. When I was attacked again, I felt a pushing sensation on the right side of my face, but I couldn't dodge the attack, and it landed perfectly on me.

It continued for 8 hours straight without taking any breaks.

"Stop Angela. That's it for this time. Log out"

[Initiating logout on 10, 9, 8... 2, 1, 0]

Sweesh!

The VR door opened, pushing out the air inside it. Getting out of the VR capsule, I walked out of the training ground, straightly heading to the entrance gate.

Upon seeing me approaching the gate, the guards opened a side gate that only one person can enter or get out at a time, and the big gate is only open at class time.

"Come before curfew," one of the guards said.

"Okay," I nodded.

"H-huh." As I answered and tried to walk away, I heard a baffled sound from the guard. "Are okay. Did you hurt your head really badly?" The guards asked in surprise.

Turning around, I put on an irritated expression. "I'm okay, you old man. Just do your fucking job." imitating Jadel, I calmly said that and walked away.

"Hoo. You don't have problems in your head; that's a pity." Though the guard said that, he didn't mean it in a bad way. It's just a friendly conversation between them.

"Fuck" cursing I walked away. Jadel developed a weird trait after he was kicked out of his house. That is cussing; he always cusses. He sometimes even cussed the instructor's 'Sigh. After coming to this body, I also started cursing unknowingly'

I took out a mini motorcycle from my academy watch and placed it on the ground. After 5 seconds, it became a big, rideable bike.

"Whoa, he did have quite a taste in motorcycles." The hoverbike has a sleek, futuristic design; its body is painted raven black with smooth, aerodynamic lines. Blue neon lights run along its edges, casting a cool glow that contrasts sharply with the dark finish.

He brought this bike with every wealth he had, as its price is 100 million acro. Acro and bacro are the names of the money in this world; 1 acro is equivalent to 100 bacro. Meaning this bike price is equivalent to the SS rank artifact starting price range.

"Active" The engine only starts at my command; that's not the only feature it has; it can shrink and get big; it also phases through objects and living beings. It has a protective shield that can even tank A+rank attacks.

These features were created through the runes, and only a few rune masters could create this type of rune. That's why it's expensive. Taking out the helmet from the spatial watch, I put it on my head.

Wrom! Wroom!

"Truly marvellous. I can't even imagine riding a motorcycle like this in my old world." Marking my destination on my watch, I ride the bike. My destination is Sophronia, a big shopping mall that sells everything. A mall owned by the Lukostrelec family.

I ride the bike slowly, picking up speed. Although it can phase through, that doesn't mean I can ride whatever way I want.

It only took three minutes to reach my destination, and I didn't even enjoy the scenery because of how fast I rode the bike. On the way, I even phased through some vehicles and buildings as I couldn't properly control the speed of my bike.

'I hope someone won't complain to the police. '

Getting off my bike I pressed the shrinking button and stored my bike after it shrank.

'I don't want someone to steal my bike in the parking lot.' I walked up to the entrance door. Upon entering, I walked straight to the artifact store. I wanted to sell some artifacts that Jadel has, as he doesn't have much money to buy the things I want.

Upon entering the artifact shop, I was welcomed by the employee. "Hello, sir, how may I help you?" the employee asked with a business smile.

"I need to sell some used artifacts."

"Very well," the employee guided me.

"Can you show me the items?"

"Yes." I took out the artifacts and placed them on the desk.

"Mmm, three 3 C ranks, four E ranks, and one F rank. All of them are buff types," the employee appraised the item and stated his observation.

"Yes, and how much will I get?" I asked.

"Mmm, you will get 3,399,514 acro."

'Fair price' "Deal" I don't have to do any bargaining as the price is fair. Even if I want to bargain, I don't have the necessary skills for it.

I showed my watch for the transaction. The employee scanned and sent me the money.

I left the store and went to another store where monster carapace and cores sell.

"How may I help you?" the employee employee in this store asked

"I need monster cores with 1 E rank and 1 A rank."

"That will be 3,050,420."

"I'll buy it."

"Anything else"

"No" 'I don't have money for that'

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I entered my room ready to create the skill I had practiced earlier. I brought some low-ranking mana potion and healing potion. If the skill you're going to create is higher-ranked than you, then it will become a burden on your mind.

"Time to create it." Taking out the E rank mana core, I injected information with my mana regarding the skill I learned in the VR world.

After five seconds, my head started to ache, and as time passed, it became a strong headache as someone hitting my head. I sometimes drank a healing potion to ease my head and concentrate on injecting information. It continued for five minutes, and after five minutes, the core started to glow faintly.

"Haa-haa, finally, I can now learn it." If you successfully create a skill with a core, it will become a skill orb, and you can just absorb the orb. After absorbing the skill, I checked my status.

"Status"

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===] Skills [===

Passive Skill: Bloodlust

Description: Increases damage dealt to enemies. The more intense the user's bloodlust, the stronger their attacks become. This skill amplifies in response to the user's desire to kill, enhancing combat effectiveness as the user's aggression grows.

Active Skills:

Shadow Dome (B)

Description: Creates a dome of shadow that disrupts opponents' mana control, making it difficult for them to cast spells. It also reduces their movement speed. The caster can move through and hide within the shadows of the dome, providing tactical advantages and stealth capabilities.

Shit (E)

Description: Create a 1-meter-radius gravity field around the user. The user can feel it if something enters this field.

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"SHIT!" I cursed out loud.

"Just how dirty this fucker mind is that I unknowingly named it 'Shit' "

"Sigh, Good thing only I can see the status screen, or else people might start laughing at me. Sigh—forget it; let's train with this skill.

Changing my clothes, I walked to the VR facility one more time.

"Angela, make it unlimited mana, health, and stamina." I smiled slightly. If you are given an opportunity, then abuse the opportunity and make full use of it. Find any loopholes that can be exploited. That's how I'm going to use it to increase my battle experience.

"Prepare 500 training dummies with F rank strength," I asked Angela.

"Hehe. I don't know if anyone would be trained like this, but this is the best way to accumulate experience." Taking out the urumi, I readied myself.

"Start"

[The training dummies will start in 3, 2, 1, 0].

"Let's dance, shall we?"