I slept for about two days. The sleep was satisfactory. I woke up completely reenergised. The sleep was sweet and worth I for I was even back to my original state.
"Do people always heal up that first? Or I it just an effect of now having man within my body?"
Mana and magic was new to him so he didn't have any ground to base his thoughts on. Sure he heard about it in stories told by his mother but the stories were many and the mana usage in each was different. He didn't even know how it worked unless the part where he had already experienced first-hand. He didn't get the chance to.
Anyways,I quickly got out of bed. I had no time to think of trivial thoughts that would come later. Even if I wanted to rest,this type of world would not allow for such luxuries easily. I love to laze around but I needed to gain something satisfactory before doing so.
My mother aways told me that the world always rewards hardwork by one's own hands,however how small.
This was the life I signed up for when entering this world.
But first things first,I had to plan how I could prevent their death. This was a very troubling matter for me right now.
Their life was going to end two days after their capture so I had to stop that future from happening here.
I called upon my skills in my head,"Partner,can you help me for a sec?"
It answered instantaneously,appearing as a medium sized soccer ball in my mind as it shrunk down to a palm size as it started to form around my body,like a satellite or moon round a planet."Affirmative."
"I wanted to ask this,so because you are a skill that helps with my thoughts,memories and you are even stored in my head,you can increase my thought processing speed or something like that,can't you?"
The skill was silent. It did not to answer the question.
This wasn't something that I though of all of a sudden. I've been curious to find out ever since I first heard about it. Curiosity is just my specialty,I guess.
"So the silence I'll take it as a yes. So can you hurry up and do it now? I have to lot of thinking need to do right now."
The skill responded as it gave me the accelerated thought process.
It didn't have the ability of facial expression so it was even harder to know what it was thinking. The only thing that could hint at its emotion,if it even had one,was the silence felt after it had responded.
I didn't know what it meant but I did know the time somehow felt unsteadily long as I received my new skill.
I guess you could call it a sub skill.
A subskill was like a branch tree from the main tree. It was a small skill part of what made the complete thing.
At once I was able to think about ten times my normal speed. The world around me suddenly felt slowed down. But I knew it was not that it had slowed down. It was just that the information of the world around me came rushing at a faster speed than normal. It didn't take long to process what I saw and felt which made it seem slower to the untrained eye but wasn't.
"So this is thought acceleration. Everything is looking much slower and easier to predict now,"I said as I looked at a fly passing by near my face. It was extremely slow,"I think I might get addicted to it if I'm not careful.
As he was about to move on to something else,he turned to his skill saying,"We are going to be partners for a while so I advice that you don't keep things hidden from me. I am going to need you as much as you need me so we are better off just cooperating."
The skill didn't answer yet again. It shrunk as it shot itself at the back of his head as he turned away.
With this,I had got what I needed. This was enough to enable me to create a sufficient plan. I quickly got to work. For a part of the day,I trained on my strength and agility,while the other part I experimented with my mana and magic while also preparing the plan. From what I saw in the future the group that came to capture the demibeasts were very skilled and powerful enough to decimate all of us,so I need to at least ensure my survival by getting as strong as I can in the time remaining.
After that, a total of fifteen days had passed. Thanks to my skill thought acceleration, I was able to get an ample amount of time although my body speed and reaction was not up to par. Accelerating the mind processing was a trivial task but the same could not be said about the rest of the body. It needed time to be perfectly in sync with each other. It was frustrating that I had to wait but it wouldn't be helped as this was a skill I knew I needed if I were to accidentally confront them.
Patience was a virtue that would be rewarded in due time. All that mattered was perseverance. Hardwork would show its fruits the longer it is planted.
Deciding to relax for a bit,I took a stall around the village. It looked deserted and the people nowhere to be seen at but in their huts.
"What lonely and loathsome lives they must have lived,"I exclaimed.
Their lives must have been a terrible one like mine.
Scratching my head,I thought to myself,"Huh,it's weird. Why don't l remember much about my childhood?Or maybe it's just memories that I didn't want resurfaced. I mean that I don't remember having many good memories of back then except for when I was with my sister hearing stories from mu mother."
I paused as if remembering something,"Oh right,I remember now that one story that I used to like hearing.The King of the World,was it? I used to like it so much that I was addicted but look at me now,I can't recall it clearly. I wonder how much the passage of time can change someone. Of all the stories I could have forgotten,it just so happens to be my favourite one."
My heart ached at the thought.
"I was once told that if want something,I have to say it then go for it but this is a story so I'll tell the tales to whoever wants to truly lend me their ear and willing to listen. Who knows,maybe one day I'll tell a story about my life that I worth telling."
It was a good story with a good plot to boast but now I had other matters to attend to. This was one of the few times I will rest that easily. I was given a second chance and I don't want to end up wasting it like I did my previous life.
Growing up in a humble background,I bitterly experienced the harshness of a short human life;the lack of food,health,clothing and even shelter. I even died in a mere age of fourteen years while ordinary humans ar supposed to live for a hundred years or so. Knowing this,how can I even think of slowing down from now on?I'll strive for strength in this world.
But first thing first before dreaming for ahead,I needed to a weapon,preferably a sword. I have always wanted one of them. Just the thought of holding one made my heart boil over. I wanted to be like the heroes who used to fight with the antagonist with both of their lives on the line. It was always thrilling to hear.
The problem was that I did not have a sword or someone who can teach me how to use it. I couldn't ask my skill because their specialty was in magic and the mind so I doubt that even if they could do it,they would do it properly.
Further more,I was a complete newbie. All I have done was training my body for only half a month. I hadn't even gotten the chance to test it out in actual combat yet. This was truly going to be an issue if I would not solve it soon.
There were going to be a lot of problem in front of me but I had no intention of turning back. This was my new life and it was time to move forward with all that I had with this new choice. It is now time to go to my new life ahead!