Software update

[Updating software…]

[Supreme Skill obtained…]

[Emergency shutdown lifted in 3…2…1…]

Michael regained his senses, and the first thing he noticed was the crushing weight on his chest. It felt like his ribcage was about to cave in.

Am I dying again?

"Oh, Michael! What happened to you?!"

For a moment, Michael thought he was going to meet God again—just five years after his reincarnation. But the sobbing voice of his mother brought him back to reality.

Slowly, he opened his eyes, the sensation eerily similar to the first time he was born into this world five years ago.

"Mom?"

Lylia clung to him, her head resting on his chest, her arms wrapped around him in such a tight embrace that even death itself wouldn't be able to pry her little boy away from her arms. She was the reason why his heart felt so heavy.

"Oh, Michael. You're awake!" Lylia's teary eyes brightened up once she saw her dear boy open his eyes. She immediately cupped her hands around his face, almost suffocating him into another hug.

"Lylia, it's not a good idea to smother the boy after he just woke up."

Michael recognized the voice, Seberus, but he couldn't see the old man, courtesy of his mother.

"Hpmh! This is your fault, old man! We leave him in your care for half a day, and you already made him pass out! We're never returning to this place ever again," Lylia hissed at the revered 8-star Wizard like he was nothing more than an unwanted fly in the room.

"Please, honey. Even if he was your master, you cannot speak to a Tower Master like this." Bart tried to talk some sense into his wife, but she was far too shaken after hearing about Michael's sudden collapse.

"No, it's alright," said Seberus, admitting his fault. "I didn't know he would pass out after making contact with the Magic Library. I have never heard of this phenomenon before, and for that, I apologize."

Michael himself didn't know what happened. The last thing he remembered was the overwhelming feeling of his entire body heating up, like an intense fever had overcome his entire being.

He felt his head swell up as if he had been doing a handstand for an hour and pooling all the blood into his brain, making him feel like his head was about to explode.

But after that? He remembered nothing.

Hey ChatJK1, what happened to me after I touched the Magic Library?

[Greetings, Michael.]

Immediately, something was weird. ChatJK1 never addressed him by his name before, only by 'you' or 'user. '

What's happening?

[Making contact with the Magic Library allowed all its contents to be downloaded into this network. However, the amount of information contained in those nodes far surpassed the capacity of your adolescent brain. To prevent further damage, the emergency shutdown of your body was initiated.]

[While you were unconscious, I used the entire contents of the Magic Library to upgrade this software.]

[Greetings, Michael. I am ChatJK2, your personal AI assistant, knowledgeable in the mystic arts.]

Michael had expected that something would happen once he touched the network of the Magic Library, but he would have never expected that it would lead to an upgraded version of ChatJK1.

Knowledgeable in the mystic arts? Does that mean that you know a lot about magic and spells?

[Yes, Michael. The Magic Library consists of tremendous basic knowledge about the magic that was gathered in the entire 893 years of history of the Kingsbridge Magic Tower.]

Cool. What can you do with all of that?

[Using the current understanding of magic in this world, I was able to compile your magical abilities into an easy system for you to understand. Would you like to see it?]

Of course, Michael said yes. 

And the moment he did, he saw words and graph tables floating in front of him like a screen.

He immediately recognized this to be a system, just like the ones he had seen in anime and fantasy books. But unlike other systems, Michael's looked simple, clean and efficient. 

[Michael Von Vanderbilt]

[Magic Talent: SSS+ class]

[Element Mastery: N/A]

[Magic Purity: 99.99%]

[Mana Quantity: N/A]

[Realm: 2-star Novice Magician]

Michael looked at the contents of his system and couldn't help but complain about the incomplete data. His mastery and mana quantity were written down as N/A, meaning not applicable.

He didn't understand it.

[The current method for gauging a mage's Element Mastery does not apply to you. It was not designed to account for a single mage to have the talent and mastery in every mana element in existence.]

Oh… it's good then. This is probably one of the talents that God gave me when I was reincarnated. I'm just talented in all magic, I guess.

If the Tower Master had heard Michael's thoughts, he would have passed out from shock.

What about my Magic Quantity? Why doesn't it have a number?

[The method to measure the mana gathered in the core is not applicable to your current situation.]

Why not?

[The mana gathering technique that you are currently using is optimized exclusively for the Earth mana. Since you are talented in all the elements, it is inadvisable to continue using this mana gathering for the other elements in your body.]

[The Magic Library contains other mana-gathering techniques that are specialized for the different mana elements. However, it is highly inefficient to use a different meditation technique for each elemental mana.]

[Using the newly acquired mystic art knowledge from the Magic Library, a new, synthesized version of all mana-gathering techniques has been created during the software update.]

Michael watched as a few words appeared in his vision, with their font and style evoking a sense of grandiosity, along with the golden aura surrounding each letter.

[Supreme Skill: Unity Gathering]

Woah… a Supreme Skill… that sounds… well, supreme…

[Supreme Skill: Unity Gathering will allow you to gather any and all forms of mana directly from your surroundings, bypassing the need to store them in your cores.]

[Your mana quantity is virtually limitless.]

[You possess a unique awareness for the mana around you, with no spell to obscure or block you from seeing mana anywhere.]

[You have mastery over all mana, whether it might exist freely in nature or is contained within any vessel.]

Those last words evoked a jolt from Michael once he realized the full potential of his Supreme Skill.