Chapter 7:

An exciting tomorrow

I became a god!?


This morning I woke up to a loud crash and then lots of swearing. I sat up in my not-so-nice hay bed, scratched my back, and looked towards the entrance of the tent. But all I could see was a small spring of light peering through. I started to crawl towards the entrance to peek out, on the way there were still a few swear words being thrown around. When I looked out I saw the top of Min-Su's head. She was in the middle of a hole in the ground "Min-Su, I am sorry. I didn't think that you would fall in." Li was squatting on the edge of the hole. "THEN WHY IS THERE A RANDOM HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD" Min-Su was screaming at Li. I could almost see the fumes coming from the top of her head. "I didn't think anybody would fall in. It is for Yuki's next training session." Li helped Min-Su out of the hole. Min-Su sighed loudly. "Okay, if it is for master I won't be too mad, but you owe me." Min-Su glared at Li and then looked towards me and smiled. "Good Morning!" Min-Su walked up to me happily. "Morning" I rubbed my eyes. I was still only wearing underwear. "Let me get dressed." I shut the tent opening and started to get dressed.

When I exited my tent Min-Su was sitting on a wood box behind Li. She was using lightning magic and striking at a target almost two hundred meters away. "Good morning Yuki." Li put her hand on my shoulder. "So what are we doing today?" I turned to Li. "I am going to give you a routine that you can follow to train your powers. I have talked to Min-Su and she will train your darkness powers. But I will help you with your ice powers." I nodded and looked towards Min-Su who had stopped using lightning and started to walk towards us. "So what is the routine?" I looked back at Li. "Well, it is more a daily goal. In the forest that surrounds us, there are a lot of monsters and animals. Every week I will give you a bit harder goal. So for this week, I want you to kill ten normal hedgehogs." Li gesticulated towards the forest. "What is the difference between an animal and a monster?" I looked towards the forest that lined the entire horizon. "Well, monsters are usually animals that are bound to one or more elements. Like hedgehogs for example. There are animal hedgehogs normally called normal hedgehogs. But then there are for example ice hedgehogs that instead of the spikes being organic they are made from ice. There are also monsters that don't have an animal counterpart and those once can not always use magic. They are called monsters because of either their intellect, their nature, or their size. They are other exceptions but that is the base to it." I nodded. There are a lot of confusing things I need to learn about this world."

After today's harsh training in ice magic, Li said that tomorrow we will go to the forest together and after that, I will get a chance to try to hunt those hedgehogs. She also said that she will reward me if I succeed. I wonder how? 

When Li had left Min-Su walked up to me. "Hey, should we train your darkness and army of eternity?" She poked me in the chest with her index finger. "Sure, let's do it." I grabbed her wrist and removed her hand from my coat. "let's start with the darkness element." She took a few steps away from me. "By the way where is Su-Bin?" I had thought about it for a while. I hadn't seen him since when they were sparring outside. "He is studying in another dimension but let us ignore that boring bookworm for now." I quickly nodded. Is she really going to think that casually mentioning that he is in another dimension will make me able to ignore him? She must have noticed my confused face because she followed up on that with "Yes, we have another dimension that technically you created. It is where your soldiers will be held until you realize them and they will start appearing there when you get enough mana storage in your body to make the dimension grow as now it is just a single room filled with books on magic and similar." So she is saying that I created an entire dimension that will host my entire army. WITHOUT REALIZING IT???
Does that just happen? 
'Oh, it happened again.'-Personality 1
'What?'-personality 2
'I accidentally created another dimension... Again...'-personality 1
'AGAIN, isn't this like the third time today!'-personality 2
'Well, it happens.'-personality 1
'IT IS 00:30!'-personality 2

Min-Su looked at me very confused. I realized that during my internal monologue I had quietly stared into space but heavily gesticulated with my hands. "Are you done?" "Yeah... Sorry..." She shook her head and pulled out a light, almost see-through, flat, gray rock slate. "This will show information about you. It will show your level which is a thing created as a thing to know people's power. You increase your level by either killing monsters or by helping people. These levels are then split into what are called stats. These sats are strength (STR), mana capacity (MCA), stamina (STM), agility (AGY), and lastly elemental (EML)."
So it is like a video game... Are we sure Solomon wasn't just a nerd that played video games all the time and got reincarnated as the god of creation... 
"Strength and stamina are pretty self-explanatory. Strength is how much you can carry, how hard you can hit and stamina is how quickly you get tired. You can increase both strength and stamina by doing normal exercise or by fighting. Mana capacity is also kinda self-explanatory, but next to this there are going to be two numbers, it is how much mana your body can handle and how big of a percentile that you have left. Mana capacity can be trained in two ways, first by spending a lot of time meditating. Secondly, you can increase mana capacity by using magic. The best way to increase this is by doing a bit of both. Agility is, again, a bit self-explanatory, it is how well you move and can be trained by, well, moving. It is also how stealthy you are so you can increase it by sneaking around." Min-Su sighed. She looked towards the treetops where the sun was setting. "Sorry, but are we done soon I am quite tired." I took her back from her thoughts. "Yeah sorry one more then I will go, we can check your level tomorrow." I nodded. "But first I am quickly going to explain elemental. Elemental is how well you can control your element. All the elements you have are going to show up on a list and after them a percentile. The average for this is around 70%-80%. And this is by godly standards. For example, humans who aren't gods would only rank around 7%-8% on the god scale. There have been tales where humans manage to be placed on the goldy scale but those still only placed at around 15%-20%." Min-Su yawned. "Tomorrow I will also teach you how to hide your status card so that you easily visit Thule. But that is for tomorrow goodnight." She waved and went into her tent. I turned around and walked into my tent. I am excited about tomorrow.

Ella
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