Kapitel 9: The Exam (1)

Karl's fatigue from moments ago had vanished as he practiced the breathing technique and energy inside him increased with each breath.

When Karl felt that he could no longer increase the energy inside of him he stooped and opened his status which indicated that his mana capacity filled up.

"I don't feel tired anymore and MP is full, the breathing technique is truly amazing." Karl said. Karl noticed a small blue screen beside his status.

[You have new messages]

Karl clicked the screen which in turn changed his status screen to quest, but before he checked his quest tab another message appeared in front of him.

[Congratulation! You have accomplished a great achievement]

[Reward: 10 skill points]

[Due to your action a quest is triggered]

On the quest tab another quest formed below his main quest.

<Reward: 10 skill points,???>

"What does it mean?" Karl wondered seeing the three question mark signs. "Maybe it means that the reward will be something that I need to increase my level."

Karl had played a lot of games but the game he was playing while he inherited the system had same concept in main quests; it mainly showed two rewards for a quest, one being a regular reward and other being a mystery reward that most time was better than the first one.

'Does it mean that the locket just copied the game?' Karl thought 'no, it did more than simply copying the game, it created a system that could actually help me become stronger.' Karl burning desire to get stronger rekindled.

Karl then checked the quest tab for the new quest.

[Quest: Name the breathing technique user created]

[Reward:???]

'Name it?' Karl thought 'and I will get a reward. What should I name it?' Karl thought about possible names for the technique and soon came up with a name.

[You have completed a normal quest]

[Breathing technique: Dragon's Breath]

'Well, according to skills I have thus far it is a good name, I think?' Karl had just gone with the name resembling his other two skills.

[Reward obtained]

[Daily Quest: Do hundred pushup, squat, jumps or run 10 miles using the Dragon's breath technique]

[Reward: 5exp, +1 Mana capacity]

'Another quest' Karl thought 'it does seem like a good reward and I need it to increase my mana capacity.'

Karl wanted to start doing the quest but restrained himself and opened the skill tab and clicked at Dragon's eye skill.

[Do you want to spend 10 skills points on upgrade?]

[Yes/No]

Karl clicked yes which made the skill tab glow and a new description formed below the skill.

[Dragon's Eye Lv.2]

[Dragon's eye can perceive everything that comes across it and with the new level user can observe the mana inside a person's body within 5 meter radius from user's position for a short period of time]

[MP Cost: 5]

'Well, it is not what I expected' Karl signed 'but now I can tell how much mana other people have and with a greater range.' Karl thought that he would get inspect like skill from the upgrade which would help him identify people or objects like in the games he played.

'Maybe it is a little bit unrealistic that a skill can identify objects never seen before, it will take tons of data for something like that but the system I have also seems unrealistic so, maybe it is possible.'

Karl had checked every new message, upgraded his skill and didn't feel tried because of the dragon's Breath technique' thus decided to complete his daily quest before end of the day at 12:00 which was couple of hours away. Karl decided to do pushups, squat, and jumps instead of running 100 miles as he could not run 100 miles in a room and it would take longer.

After hours of exercising, Karl was drenched in sweat and laid on the floor panting from exhaustion. He used the dragon's breath technique during the exercise but after repeated use of the technique, the recovery from exhaustion lessened. Dragon's breath technique stimulated the mana obtained from outside the body to recover for the use of mana inside the body and energy used by the body.

'It fills the mana spend but it can only give body enough energy until it has to recover naturally by food and such' Karl thought. If he could just live off mana, he wouldn't have to eat ever again but ultimately Karl's main source of energy was food and rest.

[Daily quest completed, +1 MC and 5exp obtained]

Karl opened his status to confirm his reward.

<User: Karl locklan>

<Race-Human (Dragon blooded)>

< Level-1 >

< 20/50 exp>

Karl used the dragon's breath to fill up his new mana capacity. "I need to level up and also increase my mana capacity." Karl reminded himself. At that moment the clock hit 12:00 and something inside Karl's pocket lighted up.

Karl noticed that the badge he got at the registration centre had started to glow and a text appeared at the back of the badge. Karl started to read the text but was interrupted as a sharp arrow came toward him and missed him by a hair's distance, slightly cutting his left ear. Karl looked upon the window from where the arrow had came from, another arrow came towards Karl which he barely avoided.

"What is going on? Why is someone attacking me?" Karl said as he ran for the door in panic. Karl touched the door knob when another arrow came running toward Karl's hand, Karl quickly moved his hand but the arrow broke the door knob which closed his escape. Karl turned around looking for a way to protect himself as he couldn't escape from the door and wouldn't always be able to avoid arrows.

Karl ducked down to avoid another arrow from the window. The room Karl was staying for the night had multiple windows thus he went for another window to escape from but another arrow was shot from different window.

"How many people are out there? Or is it just one person using some sought of ability." Karl moved constantly inside his room to avoid arrows and searched for the person attacking him. He caught a glimpse of a shadow outside one of the windows.

Karl pulled on one of sash of the window, when it broke of the window Karl took the sash and placed in front of him to use it as a shield. Karl jumped outside the window where he saw a shadow of a person. Karl landed on the roof of another building and that's when another arrow came towards him which he blocked using part of a window as a shield.

Karl saw a person dressed in all black with a little blue assassin type uniform with a bow. "Oh, there you are" Karl said as he threw the sash of the window of from his hands aimed at the person who attacked him with arrows, it hit the attacker making him stumble. Karl started running toward the attacker and jumped again to reach the same roof as his attacker. Karl picked an arrow fallen to the ground and pointed at his attacker.

"Now tell me, why did you attack me?" Karl said. As Karl was interrogating his attacker, a sword fell towards Karl's back.

KATCHA

"Hi, my name is Austin. Wanna partner up for this exam?"A boy said blocking the sword from another attacker with his own sword.

"What do you mean, Exam?"Karl said. "Oh, they didn't even gave you time for reading the message from the badge. This is the exam for the magic academy" Austin replied.