Chapter 67: Chapter 67 - Heavy Costs
In my hand I see a small but large enough pole that is 15 inches long and what looked like a light stick.
I carefully try to give it more mana so that it becomes solid enough to make sure that it stays like that and doesn\'t shatter in to a million pieces.
After doing that I slowly try to move it around to see if it would actually stay like that or not. As I keep moving it around some of the light flashes comes a little slower and keeps on trailing behind the pole making it look more flashier.
Looking at the flashiness a idea comes to my mind as I try to use a sword stance and slash at the air like there were enemies and kill them.
I wasn\'t actually practicing, what I was doing was having fun with the small pole. I never had anything like this before so It felt like I needed to do this for my inner geek.
As I was doing weird things with the pole as I slashed, I saw Clawdia looking at me with a confused look as she asked \'Master, what are you doing? Are you okay?\'
I stop my weirdness and become embarrassed seeing that Clawdia saw me doing weird stuff but I feel a relief as I hear what she says and tell her "No there is nothing wrong Clawdia. I was just... slashing in the air at my enemy."
At hearing the word \'Enemy\' Clawdia jumped up from the floor and looked vigilantly towards left and right as she said \'Enemy! Where master? I can\'t see it, Is it invisible? If it is then point me towards it and I will shred it to pieces.\'
"No no Clawdia there isn\'t any enemies here. I was just practicing and I slashed at the air while thinking about a enemy."
\'Why are you practicing, master?\'
"Aah... To get strong, I think" I answer her.
\'But master you already have Clawdia, then why are you trying to get stronger. Clawdia is already strong, you can tell her and she will kill any enemy for you.\'
Hearing Clawdia I didn\'t know how to respond back as she made a compelling sentence.
After thinking for a moment, I answer Clawdia.
"You see, it\'s not that I don\'t need you or that you can take care of most of my enemies... It\'s any person\'s goal to be more stronger than his previous self and It\'s my goal too. I also want to be independent and for me to be one, I need to get way more stronger than I already am so that I don\'t bring you down as well Clawdia.... you get what I\'m saying right?"
Clawdia nodded her head like a sage for a few times before she said to me.
\'Ohhh! I get it now Master... Master wants to get stronger so that he can do more cool stuff.\' I nodded hearing her. \'Master wants to get stronger so that he can get a mate.\'
I deadpanned hearing her last sentence \'Is that the only thing you got from all that. And I didn\'t even say I wanted a mat- Girl... It\'s not like I don\'t want a girl, it\'s that getting a girl is just the side mission... Who am I kidding! It always has and always will be my main mission.\'
Forgetting about Clawdia I open the stats panel to see how much it cost to make that pole.
[ Mana : 4974 ]
So it cost me a whopping 15 mana to just make one small pole. Again it may not be much because I have mana potions. My bodies main mana capacity in only 25 mana. But what if there comes a situation where I won\'t be able to use the mana potions, what then?\'
\'I won\'t be even able to fight good enough to defeat my opponents and I don\'t even know any kind of fighting skills that would help me in situations like that and even if I di-\' I wasn\'t able to finish my thoughts as a searing pain went through my head stopping me from doing so.
\'What is this sudden pain I am starting to feel in my head?\'
\'Don\'t tell me that the pain is from just using that little amount of skill.\'
I laughed deprecatingly as I said "Wow... I can\'t even use so little skill that it\'s making my head spin and even if I did then it will cost me more than half of my original mana capacity. Man just my luck... which is already rotten."
As I think about life\'s circumstances my eyes slowly looked towards a corner as I say "Wait... Wasn\'t there something I heard before that could help me with this."
"What was it again? What was it?... Damn my stupid brain for not remembering stuff that actually are important and only remembering the sizes of different melo-" As I was cursing at myself, my eyes suddenly shot up as I say while shouting towards Clawdia "SPELLS!"
Clawdia suddenly hearing a shout from me jumped backwards in fright. But I grabbed on to her and kissed her a few times on the cheek in happiness for remembering.
"If I\'m right then, spells are the ones I am looking for. Because making a pole or a sword or anything which has a distinctive shape falls upon the spells category."
"And not just making weapons like that but also many things fall under it, yes almost everything falls under the spells."
"Making fireballs, lightning blasts, mana bombs, death beams and even bringing back the dead back to living realm as well, thinking about it the possibilities are Endless!"
\'Okay let\'s open the system shop and see what spells I will be able to use\'
Opening the shop I click on the filter and change the category to \'Spells\' and click enter.
Hundreds of spells were being shown to me as I looked at them with saliva dropping from my mouth.
[ Level 01 - Fireball - Spell - Fire - Common - Cost ( 1 Bronze ) ]
[ Level 01 - Water Whip Slash - Spell - Water - Common - Cost ( 2 Bronze ) ]
[ Level 01 - Air Shot - Spell - Air - Common - Cost ( 1 Bronze ) ]
[ Level 01 - Stone Wall - Spell - Earth - Uncommon - Cost ( 7 Bronze ) ]
[ Level 01 - Healing Fire - Spell - Fire - Rare - Cost ( 11 Bronze ) ]
There weren\'t just only these five affinities but there were a whole lot more and as I scrolled through the spell category I couldn\'t even count out the numbers anymore but I was kinda sure that there was more than a hundred affinities at the very least or maybe even more than that.
It felt like a whole bright new world opened up for me and as I kept looking at all the different types of spells there were I couldn\'t help but exclaim.
"Now this is what I\'m talking about."