Putting the rusted bread knife back into his inventory, Alan sat down as he held the baseball bat in his hands and then slowly lifted his hand to try and interact with the blue aura surrounding it.
'Could I use the observe skill on it now?' Alan thought to himself as he instantly tried it out a moment after.
'Observe' He thought as he gazed at the light blue sheen covering the baseball bat.
[ Observe Skill has been used. ]
[ Basic Baseball Bat. ]
[ A basic item created out of mana upon purchase of the user in the system. ]
'It doesn't tell me about it specifically but the description changed, it actually did, my theory was correct, the system uses mana to create stuff, just like the straw dummies, now the question isn't how its creating matter anymore, the question is how is it getting this mana and from where is it getting it from.' Alan thought to himself as he got one step closer and yet at the same time he was still so very far away from gaining actual deeper insight into the workings of the system that had taken over his life and even changed him so much in just two short days.
'I mean… I could try, It's not like I'll lose anything.' Alan thought as an idea hit him.
He had seen old chinese movies before about how cultivation worked and about chi, and all those kinds of superpowers, even had read some manga from the local Forks library quite a long time ago that had shown mana and similar concepts.
'Maybe if i can just feel it, and somehow will it to move?' Alan thought as he quickly tried perceiving the mana of the baseball bat in his hands.
For a few moment, he didn't notice anything and neither did he perceive anything at all.
Time passed slowly as his thoughts slowly cleared out, leaving him with only that singular objective, something he had quite quickly adapted to do after what felt like his impossible run of defeating the Straw Dummies whilst utterly exhausted physically.
Having closed his eyes, his sight was gone. His mind had fully cleared out aswell, leaving only the singular thought and will of trying to perceive anything besides the wooden texture of the baseball bat.
One minute turned into two, and then into five and ten.
Half an hour later, finally something changed in his perception.
It was soft at first, barely noticeable, a small soft substance, it was like water that was moving around his hand and yet it wasnt touching it , it was all around his hands where the were gripping the basic wooden baseball bat.
Slowly but surely the feeling grew stronger and stronger and at that very moment, a thought appeared on his mind as he tried to actually grab a hold of the mana.
[ Ding! ]
Instantly, a notification bell like sound rang inside his mind, breaking his concentration completely as his eyes snapped open and the feeling of having perceived and almost touched the mana disappearing once more entirely.
[ User has managed to fully perceive mana and has thus created a skill! ]
[ Mana Perception ] [ Level 1 ]
[ Grants the user the ability to perceive mana upon usage. ]
'Mana perception?' Alan thought as instantly he felt it, the same water like consistency returning around his arms, this time he wasn't clear minded, and neither had he removed his sight, looking down at the baseball bat that he was holding, the aura around it that before was barely noticeable was now clearly more defined, it was like a soft slightly tinted clear bubble around the weapon.
'Right… well that removes the process of me having to master this quite a lot easier.' Alan thought to himself however he had to stop as he heard the notification like sound ring once more.
[ Ding! ]
[ User has used a mana based skill. ]
[ User has unlocked his Mana Pool. ]
'My mana pool?' Alan thought excitedly instantly as he pulled up his status menu, there he didn't see just a single change, he saw two, one that he hadn't expected to be there.
[ Status ]
[ Name: Alan Walker ]
[ Age: 18 ]
[ Race: Human 88%, Elf 12% ]
[ Gender: Male ]
[ Level: 5 ] [ Xp: 0/320XP ]
[ MP : 240/244 ] [ -4 Mp per minute due to activation of 'Mana Perception' ]
[ S.P.E.C.I.A.L ]
[ S: 3 ]
[ P: 5* ] [ +2 Equipment Boost Active ]
[ E: 6 ]
[ C: 10 ]
[ I: 10 ]
[ A: 7 ]
[ L: 10 ]
[ Abilities: ]
[ Talents: Faint Nature Attunement ( Level 1 ) ]
[ Perks: Elf ]
[ Coins: 25 Bronze Coin ]
[ Normal Stats ]
[ Strength: 50/150 ]
[ Perception: 0/150 ]
[ Endurance: 15/300 ]
[ Charisma: 5/500 ]
[ Intelligence: 10/500 ]
[ Agility: 0/350 ]
[ Luck: 0/500 ]
[ Normal Stat Points Left: 40 ]
[ Skills: Observation, Mana Perception. ]
Looking at his status menu, his eyes first fell upon the change that had been done to his race, it was a two percent difference from before but it was still one of if not the most alarming this in the entire holographic status panel before him.
'I'm more elf now? How did that… right, when i got the perk, it was clearly a elf related perk, and the pain that went through my body, I guess that explains that, my very dna got changed once again.' Alan thought as he released a soft sigh, closing his eyes for a moment in exasperation before opening them and looking further bellow at the new line, his mana pool.
'Two hundred and forty four… that's a bit of an odd number, usually its like one hundred… if one hundred is the base and i have an intelligence of ten which is double the average of a human then it would be two hundred, but im also part elf twelve percent to be exact so could it be that an average elf has two hundred mana pool? But because of my really high special intelligence stat, that also got boosted, and for twelve percent which should have just been twenty two points, i instead got forty four?' Alans mind instantly analysed the change as he quickly came up with a basic theory.
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