Chapter 19

Finding peace in my current position, I continue meditating under the tree, even with my eyes closed my eyes can perceive the world through mana, the tree emanating an enormous quantity, filled with light green mana that made me calm while looking at me, an immortal being that can resist even the hardest hits.

After returning to the mansion I had decided to spend some time meditating mostly to calm my nerves, the fact that someone knew I was able to use mana and I had summoned a familiar didn't pass over my head, but from what they had wrote they seemed friendly enough to not kill me when I had 100 HP so I didn't worry much.

My mediation started taking a turn when my eyes realized that the trees were using their mana to strengthen their body, putting it through a process of contraction and expansion to create more and more layers of defence against nature and society.

Trying to copy the process, I first tried to understand what the green mana being emanated from the tree was, asking it to come towards me and help me, I understood that mana had a will of its own, and unless already angered, it preferred calmness and kindness when being handled.

From inside my mana pool Obsidian, the name of my familiar, made a small roar with its tiny mouth, sounding very cute to my ears, but for some reason the green mana reacted differently, quickly going towards my hand coiling all around my arm as if trying to protect itself from a ravenous beast.

'Thanks Ob, I will reward you later with tons of cuddles and food.' I told my familiar, who understood what I said and smiled widely with its sharp teeth and continued its swim.

The mana felt my familiar relaxing and proceeding to ignore it, but didn't budge away from my arm, seemingly finding relaxing touching it.

Once again relaxing my mind, I tried to understand the mana and its functions, during my walk back home, I had discovered that the mana people produce is based on their emotions, red for anger and fire, yellow for happiness and lightining, brown for greed and earth, and several others, none though seemed to produce pure blue mana, color that only I was able to produce, most likely being realeted to my emotions constantly being under control.

But this light green mana felt different, trying to make my mana change to it, I felt my whole body relax and gain a new state of calmness, the air going inside my lungs making my body feel full of energy, the smell of the grass and trees relaxed me, the mana coiled around my arm started moving upwards towards my head, nestling near my chin and just above my chest forming a circle, slowly being absorbed by my body.

And finally my mind snapped into place, what I had just absorbed was nature mana, usually created only by nature itself, plants, trees, flowers, but thanks to my gamer powers I had just gained something that shouldn't have been accessible to me.

Inside my mana pool I felt a sudden shift, from the previous blue lake half of it turned the same color of nature mana, creating a calm whirlpool with my normal mana, causing a scene that if made into a painting it would have been sold for hundreds of dollars.

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Meditating Lv.15=>17

You have learnt how to use Nature Mana, thus unlocking a new category of spells previously locked, learn how to control other types of mana to create special spells.

New Perk: Nature's Chosen

Nature's Chosen

Effect: Your connection to mana has attracted nature, seeing your nature, you were allowed to generate and manipulate nature mana, use it wisely, or there will be consequences.

New Spell: Nature's Mend Lv.1/5

Nature's Mend Lv.1/5

Effect: Changed the nature of your mana to help regenerate your HP and SP, can be used on yourself or people

Cost: 5MP/s

Limit: How much HP and SP are regenerated, and on how many people it can be used at the same time, increases with levels.

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Opening my eyes, I felt my body filled with energy, the sound of leaves being moved by the wind resembling music to my ears, while the ground under my feet seemed to wish to be in contact with me.

Seeing no was still around, I decided to continue grinding, having a quest still needing to be completed and just two days to do so.

Removing my shoes and socks, I felt the grass under my feet create something like a small platform for them to not injure my feet while walking barefooted.

Focusing on the task at hand, I imagined fighting Logan, thinking back to his teachings on how to move to not get hit, how to receive a punch, but most importantly how to hit things, hard.

Continuing shifting position and training my footwork, I felt my SP draining under the strain, so started using Nature's Mend to fight the loss, my SP regen receiving a 10% boost didn't help much, but surely helped.

'If I move like this, I will get hit, if I try to evade, he can take a step forwards and punch my liver, to the side and I get punched in the head, other side and he can punch my stomach, but if I...'

Slowly my mind continued becoming sharper, more focused, the sound of the wind and the smell of grass turning my mind into a machine fueled by pure willpower to grow stronger.

I continued moving, punching, evading, moving, punching, evading, moving, punching, evading, until I hit Logan for the first time, I grazed him, it was only my imagination of how he fights, it might have been my mind playing tricks on me, but I had hit him.

And my body fell to the ground in exhaustion, and a headache was making way inside my mind.

'Fucking hell.' I thought, while panting, making a few pieces of apple and a water appear inside my mouth to restore some SP and MP and help regenerating them.

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New Skill: Focus Lv1 (Per) (Using everything you have to focus only on one task, improving the growth speed of that task by (Sk. Lv)%)

Focus Lv.1=>4

Physical Form Lv.9=>11

Boxing Lv.9=>15

Str 7=>10

End 10=>12

Dex 13=>15

Quest Complete (How to Fight for Dummies)

Reward:100 XP, +1 Str/Dex/End, Promising Boxer perk

Promising Boxer 

Effect: Improves the effect given by Boxing and its growth by 15%

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My smile didn't widen at the new perk and broken skill, the stats gain being the cream on top of the cake.

Sensing my happiness, Obsidian began producing sound happiness, making my heart warm at its innocence.

Meditating for 5 minutes, I was back up to manageable levels of Stamina and Mana, so I got up and headed to the mansion, quite sure the others were about to come back if they already hadn't.

But something stopped me, a feeling of something new near my neck, it felt like something hot had touched my skin and it had just begun cooling.

Taking a mirror from my inventory, because yes I have a mirror in it, don't judge me, I store my shirt and looked at my body.

After days of training, a visible change had begun to become visible in my body, something that would have required other people months was happening to my body in days, the shadow of muscles slowly becoming present on my ever growing body, for now I looked just like a very fit twig, but still very fit.

But what caught my attention was a tattoo... I HAVE A TATTOO? SINCE WHEN? WHAT THE FUCK?

Near my heart, a circle with a tree inside of it had appeared, made with light green ink, it seemed to be constantly expelling nature mana, surrounding all my body with it, the same way the blue mana does, but that one comes from my head.

'... If gaining a tattoo from learning how to use nature mana didn't sound so cool, I would be angry I got a tattoo without my consent... nope, still very cool.'

Sighing, I heard steps coming from behind me. I didn't turn, but I stored the mirror and put on my shirt. Considering the notification, I might have been a step too late.

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Seduction Lv.3=>4

Cha 8=>9

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Turning to the person approaching me, I saw Rogue looking at the ground, her cheeks red and a hand over her mouth.

" No one ever taught you how to knock?" I told her to try and not let her think how I was half naked.

"We are outside." She said while smiling, the red in her face slowly disappearing, her eyes moved from the ground back to my face.

"Good manners are still good manners, what if it was the other way around?" Please say I can show you.

'Bad mind, no horny, go to horny jail.'

She shook her head, the red on her face returning for just a second. An idea went through her mind, but it lasted only for that second.

" Well, the others are waiting for you. We wanted to make sure you were okay after what happened with Mystique this morning. We also heard that you used the Danger Room."

" Yeah, it was sick," I told her quickly, not really in the mood to relive my unaliving of a seemingly thinking species without any remorse.

Silence fell again between us, it was awkward, but Kitty arrived, calling both our names, which broke the weirdness.

'Thank you Kitty, I will remove you from the hate list for stealing my bacon.'

When we finally were close enough to her, she circled her arm around my neck and whispered to my ear.

 Did you kiss?

'Back she goes.'