In a quite dimly lit room there sits a young boy 4 years of age in a tub filled with medicinal liquid. He has crossed legs and closed eyes, you might have guessed it by now but that boy is me.
Right behind me there is also my tor- I mean teacher, guiding all of the spiritual items effects so I can have my body in that "perfect" configuration. Really that makes no sense for me, but it is a world where one can survive a nuke given you have a high enough cultivation rank.
It still hurts as hell but I'm getting used to it, even my head can stay clear during the process. I take these baths regularly, not every day there is no rush after all I'm still only 4. At the very least I can feel I'm getting stronger, at first I thought this "godmaking" is more like pain generating.
But the results are clear as day, teacher isn't exactly pleased he doesn't see my muscles growing in any way that would suggest it's from our training. However I am definitely getting stronger, I can feel my bloodlines also getting more bountiful and pure. The hero's bloodline definitely does its job with the physical strength increase, the ice phoenix empress bloodline isn't exactly possible to asses without any cultivation base.
My mecha designing skills also increase bit by bit, I'm already close to getting to the second rank. For reaching the first rank I got 25 points from the system points, and if I reach the second rank I would get 50 points.
The only other changes are to my appearance, I'm steadily growing in height, my body isn't exactly thin or thick just right, my hair starts to grow longer too, it's mostly black though the light blue parts are barely visible. If I had to rate my over all look I would describe it as cute, incredibly so in fact.
It may sound like boasting but I specifically designed myself to be as good looking as I could think off.
After talking for so long it seems the process is about to be finished , and sure enough after a short while it ended.
"You can go now, it's finished for today" my teacher said as he threw a towel to me.
"Yes, teacher" I say to him.
Honestly I don't like him really, I don't think anyone would if they had to go through what I do. So I just treat what I'm doing here as a necessary evil.
I pick up my clothes and start dressing up, after finishing I'm heading back home without any stops.
"Mother, Father I'm back" I call out to them. Similarly as with my teacher our relationship isn't exactly great, I couldn't really connect with them much they try their best to mend that but it isn't exactly working out. However it did become part of my routine to eat with them after my training, so I do that.
After finishing up dinner I go straight to my room, and today is the same. My room is simple in itself, there is a bed in a corner, a desk next to it, a bookshelf on one side of the room with a wardrobe right next to it. Next to the door there is chest full of paper and tools for drawing, and a carpet in the middle of my room.
I use it to train my mecha designing skills as you might have guessed, it's part of my daily routine to study up about mecha designing, and to practice my drawing skills. Thankfully the information I bought from the system is quite bountiful it should be enough for up to my 4th rank in mecha designing.
Today I will actually attempt to make a breakthrough to the second rank, so I will draw a design using some more advanced techniques this time. I go up to my chest and take a decent sized sheet of paper, a few pencils of different types, and a ruler.
I turn to my desk place the sheet of paper on it and sit on my legs( you know like when you place your legs on the ground up to your knees and then sit on that part of legs you placed). I will attempt to draw a design for a piece of a mecha, its hand to be exact.
I calm myself down and start paying attention only to the task at hand. I take a pencil in my left hand and the ruler in the right one, I'm actually left handed so it's easier for me that way. With my entire focus dedicated to the sheet of paper I place the ruler on it and start drawing.
Line after line appears on the paper, and soon a general shape of a mechas hand is created. I took a deep breath and continued drawing, with each second more details appeared. I put my utmost care in each part of the drawing, soon I started adding the placement of soul circuits inside of it, locations of weapons and joints were becoming clear and understandable to anyone briefly knowledgeable about mecha designs.
After 20 minutes of work I was finally adding the final touches to it and soon enough I moved my pencil for the last time. I took a deep breath and started to asses my drawing, it wasn't exactly tasking but mentally draining and that took a toll on me but looking at my piece made me incredibly delighted.
It was definitely my best design as of yet, the hand piece was beautiful in my eyes and I put utmost care in it so the mecha maker would definitely know what I wanted to do without having to consult it with me before hand. And thankfully the system agrees with me.
<Mission complete!>
<Reward Received: 50 System points>
<New Mission Received!>
<Objective: Reach the 3rd rank in mecha designing>
<Reward: 75 System Points>
I make sigh of relief, honestly I was quite nervous if it didn't work out but I'm happy with my result. Now I have 75 system points, and a step closer to my current goal it's nothing much really I will share it with you later.
Normally I would have went on to do some physical training, but after cultivating the congenital method, and making a breakthrough in my mecha designing I'm quite drained, so I will just directly go to bed.
Thinking so I throw myself onto the bed and give in to the exhaustion.
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[The third chapter and still no awakening of the martial soul, this time I managed to finish the chapter faster, honestly I am quite scared with how will people take what I'm going to do after a few chapters, I actually though I have a genius idea only after I started writing I realized it's "shortcomings" . It's not exactly that bad there is just a small chance of that actually being possible, so I'm just gonna play it as if it was thoroughly calculated and totally not plot armour... Well that's all from me for today. Remember to give me some feedback about this chapter it would greatly help that's for sure, or over all just comment your thoughts. The sole action of commenting raises my determination to levels I never knew I could reach, mostly because it means It gets some attention. Just seeing the view count and the collection count go up gives me such a surge of raw emotions, anyway that's all from me.]
Anyone heared the new sabaton song? It's fire I listened to it through the entire time I wrote this chapter