-Ding -Dong!
"Coming!"
Hurriedly putting on my pants, I made my way towards the door.
Opening the door, a man with a blue jacket held onto a large package.
"Rank 1750, Ren Dover, package delivery."
Handing over the large package, the man held out his tablet and I swiftly signed it.
-Clack!
Closing the door, I curiously pulled the tape off the box.
The first thing I saw was a white letter that was neatly nested on top of the other items.
Opening the letter I quickly went through the contents
===
Hi Ren!
How is school? Have you made any friends yet? When are you coming back home?
Come visit us often, your little sister is waiting for you.
By the way, I sent some things that you might need.
Kiss, Kiss your one and only beautiful mother.
P.S
Daddy also misses you, so work hard! [heart emoji][Heart emoji][Heart emoji]
===
Ah.
Yes, I in fact did reincarnate to overly protective parents.
During the time I was in Clayton ridge, I would occasionally receive texts from them, and whenever I texted back, the response would always come within seconds.
Most of the time they would just randomly text me the weirdest thing or nag about how I should train more so that I would one day take over the guild.
I can't say I hated this feeling though.
As my family left me early in my previous life, I had long lost familial warmth. Now that I have it back, I don't want to part ways with it.
Opening the box, I quickly separated things into two piles.
Useless and Useful.
Although I have only known my family for a week, I can already tell from what I've seen so far that they've definitely sent junk.
And I was exactly right.
The first thing I pulled was a large shirt that said 'Mama's boy' on it.
Like hell, I'm wearing this!
Throwing the shirt at the useless pile, I quickly checked the rest of the content.
There were many things packed inside, from bags to clothes and other useful things that could be of use to me later on.
Slowly I separated the useful and useless stuff, that my mom sent.
"Phew... That should be it"
Wiping off the sweat that had accumulated on my forehead, I stood up and lazily stretched my arms.
"Huh"
Just as I was about to leave, I caught a glimpse of something inside the box from the corner of my eye.
"A book?"
Looking at the last thing inside of the box, I couldn't help but be confused. It was a red book with no cover or illustration on the front.
From what I've observed so far, whomever Ren Dover was before I took over, was definitely not a book lover.
In fact, it seemed that he hated reading, as my new mother seemed to have been really surprised when I asked her for some books.
She wanted to send me a congratulatory gift for managing to enroll in the lock, and as I don't necessarily know them that well I only asked them for a couple of books as a gift.
Flipping through the book, I was left speechless as there was nothing written in the book. It was completely blank.
"Perhaps it's a diary"
I thought as I threw the book into the useless pile.
Makes more sense now.
Glancing around the room, I checked the time. It was around six in the afternoon.
-Gurgle.
"I guess I'll head to the canteen first, and then I'll go to the gym after that"
Seeing how my stomach was growling in hunger, I decided to go to the canteen to eat some food before heading to the gym.
Packing up my bag, I took the keys and swiftly left the room.
-Click.
With a click, the door closed, and I left for the canteen.
As I left, inside of the room, engravings started to appear on an inconspicuous red book that sat on top of a pile of junk in the corner of the room.
'The luminescent swordsman'
...
I gotta say, the food in the canteen was amazing.
I only spent 15 U and I got a meal that would've made it into the Michelin list back in my world.
It was that good.
After indulging myself a bit more, I quickly made my way towards the training ground.
As I arrived at the training grounds, I couldn't help but once again be impressed by the facility. Even though I had already been here today, because I was too tired, I didn't really have a good look at the facility.
"Just how much did they spend on this?"
I couldn't even fathom how much money was poured into creating this facility. The amount of money needed to create such an environment would be well over a couple of billion U.
The gravity room itself cost around 50 million U, and here they have a whopping 5 of them.
In hindsight, it is sort of understandable as to why they would invest so much in this facility. Although they were teenagers, they were all future pillars that would help protect humanity from the demon invasion. Why wouldn't humanity invest in them?
If they wanted to maximize their speed of progress, such a facility was needed.
It was around 19:00 and the facility was mostly empty.
But just because the facility was empty, it didn't mean that it was always going to be like this.
In the future, there will be lots more people using the training facility. It was just because today was the first day that barely anyone was present in the facility. Most of them were hanging out with their new buddies they made today or were just too tired to train.
Because of my relatively low ranking, not a lot of people wanted to associate with me, hence why I have nothing better to do than just train.
Well, I couldn't complain, as I liked being by myself.
-Clang! -Clang! -Clang!
As I was stretching, In the corner of the room I could hear the sound of metal clashing against metal.
Without even needing to look I knew who it was
"Kevin"
Like all protagonists, he was a training fanatic and trained more than 8 hours a day.
Just seeing his work ethic, made me speechless. How in the world am I gonna catch up to him when he's constantly training every day.
Letting out a sigh I took out my katana and started practicing.
Swish! Swish!
...
Walking along the corridor Donna checked the time on her tablet.
She just got off a meeting and was quite tired. Thinking back at the meeting that she had just attended, Donna couldn't help but slightly curse at those old foxes for continuously wasting her time with those pointless meetings.
Most of the meeting time was wasted in discussions regarding the budget allocation and which subject should have their budget increased and which one should have it lowered.
After one hour of pointless arguing, Donna couldn't take it anymore and excused herself.
As she was walking, she briefly glanced at the window which directly faced the training ground.
The first thing that caught her sight was the figure of a handsome boy gracefully sparring against one of the training dolls.
It was truly a mesmerizing sight.
Even Donna got lost in the sight for a couple of seconds before snapping out of it.
"How interesting"
She couldn't explain why, but whenever she saw that boy's swordplay she would occasionally get mesmerized.
Since the first time she laid eyes on him, she started paying close attention to him. She could tell from a glance that he was going to make it big in the future.
Swiping the card that led to the training facility, she entered.
It was only after she entered the training facility that she noticed another student practicing his swings.
At first, she was delighted.
As a teacher who doesn't like it when their student works hard?
But as she saw his weird movements, she was reminded of the boy she saw at the training session today.
"He's still wasting time doing that nonsense?"
Shaking her head, she moved to where Kevin was.
"I have to say, whenever I see your swordsmanship I can't help but get mesmerized by it"
Startled, Kevin stopped what he was doing and looked at the enchanting figure that was gracefully walking towards his direction.
"Miss Donna? Why are you here?"
"Why can't I be here?"
Tilting her head sideways, she teasingly looked at Kevin who was sweating all over.
"You know, it's good that you're practicing against the dolls, but you should stop that for now."
"Sorry?"
Looking at Donna in confusion, Kevin lowered his sword.
"From what I observed your body can't keep up with your brain."
Taking out her tablet, she quickly swiped up and a holographic image of the dummy appeared before her.
"When you were sparring, I observed, that your body has a hard time following where your eyes look. Here have a look at this."
Using her tablet she quickly tapped on the practice dummy before her, instantly several red spots appeared on the holographic image, with numbers hovering above them.
"These dummies not only are extremely durable but they also have state-of-the-art technology installed in them. They can measure the amount of strength you exert, how fast your blows are, and how accurate they are. Truly an amazing piece of engineering!"
Pointing directly at the numbers above the red dots, Donna looked at Kevin.
"You see this? This number tells you how accurate your blows are. Right now your highest number is 85%. Although the 15% you missed may be as small as a millimeter, it could dictate whether you kill your enemy or not."
Swiping to the right, a small detailed table appeared in front of Kevin. Several numbers were displayed before him revealing how much power he used when he attacked the dummy, and how consistent he was every time.
"Using state-of-the-art eye-tracking software, we can directly predict where you will hit. Not only does it take your line of sight into consideration, but it also reads your body language such as which direction your body is facing, the angle at which you are swinging and many other considerable factors that can accurately determine where you will hit. The numbers that are currently displayed measure the level of accuracy your hits have when taking into account all those factors previously mentioned"
Staring at the table for a while, Kevin let out a long breath and looked at Donna.
"Than what should I do?"
"What should you do? It's actually not that difficult of a problem"
Pointing at the Gravity room on the other side of the training facility she said
"I recommend you tamper your body inside of the gravity room so that your body can keep up with your brain."
"Understood!"
Wiping off the sweat that had accumulated on his body, he thanked Donna for her advice and quickly made his way towards the gravity room.
Seeing how determined Kevin was, Donna couldn't help but let out a satisfied smile.
"Now it's the problem child's turn"
Turning her head, her sight quickly drifted towards the boy who was mindlessly sheathing and unsheathing his katana.
"Hey, you!"
Seeing how he was mindlessly doing the same thing, Donna couldn't take it anymore and made her way towards him.
"?"
Tilting his head sideways, the young boy looked in the direction of where the voice came.
Immediately his whole body froze, as beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Looking at him, Donna actually found the scene rather funny.
Glancing at the boy up and down, Donna scrutinized the boy before her. Jet black hair, crystal blue eyes, and well-defined features. His body was on the skinnier side, but he was definitely not ugly.
Well, as she looked at him, she couldn't help but recall Jin and Kevin which made her bitterly smile.
There was simply no comparison.
"Tell me what you're doing?"
"Miss Donna, I am practicing"
"You call that practicing?"
Sighing, she looked at the boy and said in an annoyed tone
"Look, mindlessly sheathing and unsheathing the sword like that is utterly stupid. What can you hope to achieve by doing that?"
Scratching his head embarrassedly, the boy's eyes shifted to the side as he spoke in a barely audible voice.
"You see, whenever I try to pull out my katana it would always get stuck inside my scabbard, and it happens quite often so..."
As Donna was a superhuman blessed with mana, it wasn't hard for her to make out what the boy was saying. But when she heard what he said, she wished she hadn't.
Sword stuck inside of the scabbard?
How can you make such a stupid mistake?
No. In the first place, how can someone who can't even pull out a katana from the scabbard be able to enroll in the lock?
Millions of questions emerged in her mind as she speechlessly looked at the boy before her.
"Haaa. Just get a better scabbard or change sword. Stop wasting your time like this okay?"
"Okay"
Feeling like she would get a massive headache if she stayed any longer, she turned around and left.
Just as she was about to leave the facility, she took a quick peek behind her.
She was left speechless once again.
"Is he deaf or something?"
The same boy she just talked to was doing the same thing again! It was like her advice never entered his ears!
"Fine suit yourself, if that's how you want to play I'm fine with it"
It's not like it was her duty to personally supervise him. He was already 16 years old, his life was his responsibility. She had already taken her time off work to give him advice, but he decided to ignore it. Her job was to guide students, and if those students ignored her guidance it was up to them not her.
As she left, she directly put Ren on her blacklist.
Staring at Donna's departing figure, I bitterly smiled.
"I probably got blacklisted"
As the author of the novel, I knew Donna's personality the best. Her likes and dislikes, I knew them all.
For example, although she tries to hide it, she loves sweets. Especially ice cream, with hazelnut being her favorite flavor.
She also hates a lot of things, such as annoying men, typically the ones that look at her with lustful eyes, and lazy or stubborn people.
I had already noticed Donna by the time she was talking to Kevin, but in order not to gather any attention on myself, I feigned ignorance and pretended to be surprised by her sudden appearance.
"She probably thinks I'm a stubborn student who doesn't listen to advice"
I pretended to be flustered and made her impression of me as low as possible. The excuse I used about my sword being stuck in the scabbard was a lie, but it was the best way to make her think I was incompetent.
Although she's not the type of person that would snitch, if someone were to find out that I was practicing the 5-star module [Keiki style], I would definitely attract a lot of unnecessary attention.
Simply put, I don't want that.
The more attention I get, the more the likelihood of me and the main characters interacting.
Moreover, if people were to find out I was practicing a 5-star module my safety would be in jeopardy as a 5-star module was something that was highly coveted.
Thinking thus far I decided that since I was reborn as a mob I may as well use the only privilege given to a mob and live a nice and peaceful life. I'll become strong enough to defend my family from the third cataclysm, and patiently wait for the protagonist to solve everything. Then I will find myself a stable job and get myself a wife.
Such was my plan.
Don't get me wrong, I also thought about using my advantage as an author to help myself reach the peak.
But I can't afford to do that. If I were to somehow or accidentally change the course of the story, then the ending of the story might change too.
Wait...
Hold on.
It seemed like I forgot something extremely crucial
I just remembered...I didn't write an ending to the story
I died before I could even finish the novel
"Oh no no no..."
Pacing around the training ground, I frantically started thinking of solutions.
This is a big problem.
I stopped writing right before the MC would clash against the Demon king. The plan was, MC fights boss, MC wins by hair breath, MC becomes a hero.
Simple right?
Well, now we have a problem and a huge one at that. Because I was too caught up with the [Seed of limit] and the [Keiki style] I completely forgot about the inconclusive ending!
Glancing at Kevin who was now training in the gravity room, I let out a long sigh.
"I guess I have no choice then"
It seems that I will have to discard my previous plan.
It seems that I will have to become as strong as the MC, or at least close to his level. Of course if possible I will try not to interact with him and the main characters, at least not until the story is near the end. But if in case the MC does not defeat the last boss, only then will I step in and help him.
'This is really troublesome.'
Thinking thus far, using a towel I wiped the sweat accumulated on my forehead.
Thinking about all of this has made me lose my motivation to train.
"I guess I'll just take a shower and go think of solutions"
This was truly annoying.
Arriving in my room, I quickly hopped on the shower.
Class starts at 8:00 am, so after I finished washing I hopped on the bed and started thinking about my future course of action.
First things first, I obviously needed to get stronger.
But how was I supposed to do that?
I can't be too greedy and steal too much from the protagonist, as that would directly change the flow of the story. Moreover, I already feel guilty about taking the [Seed of limit], I can't be taking more than I should be taking.
Since I can't take any cheat items, I must go a different path.
"But what would that path be..."
Stroking my chin, many ideas came into my mind.
"Perhaps I could go hunting for beasts in the outskirts of Ashton city."
Shaking my head, I quickly discard the thought. It was simply too dangerous as I have never battled before, it would be a suicidal idea to go fight against beasts.
"A way to help me increase my training speed without exposing myself to dangerous situations"
"Ah!"
How come I didn't think about it before.
I was so engrossed in acquiring cheat items that I completely forgot the fact that there was a much simpler solution.
Stocks.
Since I am the author of the novel, all the future events that would take place in the near future were already in my head.
If I could utilize my advantage carefully I could quickly rack in some cash, which would help supplement my training.
There were a lot of steroid-like potions available on the market. If I managed to earn enough money for myself through stocks, I could supplement my training by consuming those potions. For example, if I were to consume a [Stamina recovery potion] coupled with a [Muscle recovery potion] I could train double the normal amount without the risk of being injured. That would definitely help me catch up with the rest.
[Strength enhancement potion], [Mana enhancement potion], [Agility enhancement potion], [Stamina recovery potion], [Muscle recovery potion] all sorts of incredible potions were available in the market.
How could I have not thought about it before?
Not even a second-generation young master could afford to do this kind of training, as the price of each potion was simply too expensive. A low-quality [Strength enhancement potion] went for 20,000U on the market which goes to show how expensive this type of training was. But if I were to utilize my knowledge correctly, making a couple of millions shouldn't pose a problem. Heck if it weren't for the fact that I didn't want to risk a market crash, I could've easily made billions.
In any case, I don't really need to make that much as I secretly know of a way to purchase high-quality potions below the market value. Moreover, the source was quite close too. If not for the fact that I didn't want to interact with that person I would've already purchased a couple of potions.
Ahhh it feels so good to be omniscient.
Alright since I know what to do, I quickly went to grab a pen.
I need to write down all the events that will happen in the future before I forget.
"Where did I leave the diary?"
Looking left and right, I looked around the room for the diary that my mom left behind.
"Should be in the useless pile over here"
Looking through a big pile of items in the corner of the room, I quickly found the red book and picked it up.
"!"
-Thud
My mind momentarily blanked as the book slipped from my hand.
Regaining myself, I hurriedly picked up the book and looked at the cover where three words were deeply engraved on the leather front of the book.
'The luminescent swordman'
With trembling hands, I slowly opened the diary.
Restlessly flipping page after page of the book, I look through the contents of the book in a state of bewilderment.
"H-how is this p-possible..."
Only 10 pages were filled while the subsequent pages were all empty.
But...
===
"Huuu...That was tough"
Exiting the gravity room Kevin took a deep breath. He was fairly exhausted as he had just used the gravity room at 2g of gravity. Because it was his first time trying the gravity room he only decided to go set the gravity room at 2g.
Thanks to the advice he had gotten from Donna today, it felt as if a new road had opened up to him.
Although it was only his first time training in the gravity room, he already felt some results. When swinging the sword he could feel his swings becoming faster and more precise as he practiced against the dummies.
"Good"
Satisfied, Kevin looked at his watch. It was about 9:00 pm, which meant that the canteen would close soon. Thus he quickly changed...
===
From the 10th page onwards words started appearing inside of the book filling the remaining pages. What's even weirder was the fact that the words inside of the book looked handwritten, as they had a unique cursive style to them.
Although the words were shocking...what really troubled me was not how words were magically appearing inside of the book but the title of the cover.
'The luminescent swordman'
That was the title of the novel that I created and now reincarnated in.
As I held the diary in my hands, I couldn't help but shiver. From pages, one to ten everything was exactly as I had written in the novel. It starts with Kevin taking the entrance exams and shocking everyone with his talent to where he is now training in the gravity room.
As I stared at the diary in my hands, a sudden thought struck me.
"Can I change it?"
Instantly I took out a pencil and tried erasing the last few words 'Thus he quickly changed and made his way towa...'
"!"
It worked!
I could actually erase the contents of the book!
"Huh?"
5 seconds after I had erased the words, the words which I had erased magically reappeared again.
Seeing the words reappearing in front of me, I tried erasing another section of the book.
The result was the same. Exactly five seconds after the words were erased from the book they would reappear as if nothing happened.
After trying the same thing a couple of times, frowning, I fell into deep thought. It seems like I could erase the words inside of the book but exactly five seconds after erasing those words they would magically reappear again making it seem as if nothing had happened. Then a thought suddenly struck me.
If I could erase them...then could I perhaps change them too?
"Hmmm, let's try something simple first"
Using the end of the pencil I quickly rub out '2g' and replaced it with '4g'.
"Let's see if anything happens."
1 second
2 seconds
3 seconds
4 seconds
Exactly 5 seconds after I changed the words, the book magically glowed.
Suddenly like a vacuum, I felt most of the energy within my body get drained by the book.
"Ugh! What's going on?"
Caught off-guard my legs slacked and I fell on one knee. As I breathed roughly I glanced at the book in my hands.
===
"Hu, Hu, Hu, Damm it!"
Exiting the gravity room Kevin slumped on the floor. He was extremely exhausted as he just used the gravity room at 4g of gravity. He had severely overestimated his own capabilities and directly put the gravity room setting to 4g thinking that he was good enough for it.
Exactly 30 minutes after he entered the gravity room he called it quits and left the room. It was too much for him at the moment.
As he laid on the floor exhausted, he smiled.
Thanks to the advice he had gotten from Donna today, it felt as if a new road had opened up to him.
Although he was completely worn out, he could feel his body slowly changing. He could already feel the benefits of tampering with his body inside of the gravity room.
"Good"
Satisfied, Kevin looked at his watch. It was about 9:00 pm, which meant that the canteen would close soon. Thus he quickly changed and made his way towards the cafeteria. He had previously heard that the cafeteria closed at...
===
"Oh my god!"
The book changed!
I could actually change what was written inside of the book!
This was a heaven-defying opportunity for me. With this, I could know exactly what the MC was doing and secretly help him when he's in trouble without the need of me showing up.
Although this book was indeed a cheat item, I couldn't help but frown the more I looked at it.
First off, there were definitely limitations on how I could use the book. This could be seen by how almost all of my mana was depleted by changing '2g' into '4g' which means that as of right now the changes I can make are severely limited.
Second off, this whole book is sketchy. Although the book was inside of the box that my parents in this world sent me, I was sure that they weren't the ones who put the book there.
This raises some questions. Who put the book in there and what's their purpose? Was it perhaps the person that reincarnated me? Or was it someone else?
"Mhmm, this is really vexing"
Whoever it was that reincarnated me definitely had a motive in doing so. I don't know what they want from me, but I sure hope it's not something that would require me to fight a god or anything like that.
Right?
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Let's not do that okay?
Please...
Well since I can't think of a reason as to why I was summoned here, I might as well play with the book a bit more.
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