小嫂子的味道

The morning of a new day arrived, I woke up and so did Anya. We did the usual things like brushing our teeth, breakfast and stuff.

The toothpaste here was the worst one out of all I have ever tasted; it was made by using some herbs and potions, and to create the semi-solid paste-like texture a special species of slimes is used.

This was interesting so I did a bit of research on that and found out that this special species is a rare one that's found in labyrinths; this special species of slimes are called "Hamigakiko slimes".

The bodies of Hamigakiko slimes are not poisonous and even carry a bit of magical energy in them so they are used to create that texture for toothpaste.

Though it still doesn't change the fact the taste is similar to expired cough syrup.

Well, that was that, I am grateful enough that I still get to brush my teeth. And for now, I was busy with other things.

After breakfast, currently, I was in the bathroom, taking a shower. Showers are a new thing I discovered, by the way, it was a mechanical shower made with metal pipes and use of water pressure.

Back in my home we only had tap water and used that to bathe so this was new for me. This was a fantasy world but it seeing things the way they are, I can say that this world is slowly but surely, on its way to modernization.

Anyway, I was not just in the bathroom to take a bath; that was a part of it but not the whole reason.

I came here because I wanted to do some experiments with my elemental magic since this is the only place I can use it without getting noticed by anyone.

I turned the valve of the shower and stopped the water, then, I said that one word.

"Status!"

And then a holographic white screen appeared before my eyes.

====STATUS====

Name: Zero Blanks

Rank: B

Mana capacity: C

Strength: C

Agility: C

,m Stamina: C

Skills-->

- [Foresight (Level 1)]

User can see 0.1 seconds into the future.

==============

"Hah, just like I thought," I mumbled.

My rank or even none of my attributes gave gone up since the last breakthrough.

This reminds me, I still haven't found out why my rank is one level up than the rest of the attributes.

Hmm, I'll need to keep that in mind. I better focus on what I came here to do.

Hence, I closed my eyes and started concentrating, I focused on the experiment I wanted to do.

What I wanted to do was to check if I can create other things just like ice and other basic elements.

This time I was going to try with gold, why? Because I remember its chemical properties that I was taught in school, also, if I successfully created it then money will not be the least of my problems.

Now, now, I can't get too excited here. I have to collect my thoughts and concentrate, just like did when the first time I used magic.

"Breathe~"

Now, let's start by imagining the atomic structure of gold.

It has 79 protons in its shell hence its atomic number is 79, its atomic weight is approximately 196, its melting point is 1063 degrees Celsius and its boiling point is 2966 degrees Celsius.

Its electronic configuration is [Xe]4f^14 5d^10 6s^1.

The arrangement of atoms in gold follows what's called a "face-centered cubic" (fcc) structure. Put simply, the atoms in gold form cubes, with an atom at each of the corners, and another atom in the center of each of the faces

This much will be enough I think. Now, I have to visualize all this and bring my imagination into reality.

I stretched out my right hand and since I was used to this process—by using elemental magic over and over again—I was able to control my mana more or less.

So I just did that and imagined my mana flowing through my right hand, starting from the shoulder and going all the way to the tip of my fingers.

Then I opened my eyes, if everything worked as it does usually then right now, a brick of gold should be floating in front of my palm.

But sadly, there was nothing like that; the magic didn't work.

"Well, I figured that much," I muttered.

I knew from the start that the chances of this experiment turning into a failure were high, but then why I did this?

There were two reasons.

First was because of course, the chances of failure were high but not a hundred percent and so there was still a possibility that it might actually work.

The second reason was that I wanted to confirm something and that something was now confirmed.

It was that the magic I am using is really "Elemental magic". Yes, this was a thing I was not sure of. After all, I started calling it elemental magic on a whim because it gave me elemental powers; as simple as that.

But now it was confirmed that it truly is elemental magic, not some sort of creation magic. Because if it was, then I should've been able to create anything with it and that includes gold also.

I also understood the nature of this elemental magic to some extent, and it was like this.

This magic gives me the ability to use the elements that are connected with nature.

I have tried all the combinations and concluded that there are three main elements; Fire, Water, and Earth.

And one sub-element is Ice; this was an offspring of water and I can access it by controlling the water element.

Water element allows me to fully manipulate water and that also means I can freeze it and create ice.

When I was new to this, it took a lot of time because I had to first summon water and then freeze it, but as I did it over and over again it gradually turned into sub-element ice and since then, I am able to summon ice just like the other three elements.

I also tried to create lava by mixing earth and fire elements but sadly it was a failure.

So there are only four elements I can control by using elemental magic.

There are only four I can control them freely right? Wrong!

As of now, I don't know if it's because of my inexperience but there are some limits on what I can do.

I can create things to use as a weapon with the elements, that much is true. But I can't go into detail creation; like what happened when I tried to create a bed last night.

Right now I can only create basic things like spears, spikes, shards, maybe a bow and arrow with fire elements and that's all.

Whenever I tried creating stuff that was a bit complicated like a sword, chest plate armor, and stuff like utensils, it didn't work.

Creating an ice castle is completely out of the question.

I thought it can be because I don't have enough mana to create detailed stuff but now that doesn't seem to be the case.

I mean come on, I have the mana capacity of C; that's in the higher ranks according to this world.

Hence, I marked it off as a thing I should work on and try to improve. Maybe I was missing something and that's why I am ending up with a failure every time.

But that's why... I am going to the magic academy; to learn the things I can't on my own.

That was decided and now I was done with my experiment.

I better not stay in the bathroom for too long otherwise who knows; maybe Anya will get the wrong idea.

So I picked up that towel and started wiping my body with it.

Yes I was standing naked all this time.