25 How Strong?

Two hours later,

"I think that's all for today," Marylin said as she looked at me.

"Yeah, thanks for your hard work." I was satisfied with today's lesson; I got to learn a lot about Mana and Mana cores.

 

"Well, I think you should return before Mary wakes up." Marylin suggests as she walks towards the door, indicating me to leave. I told her that I didn't want to cause any further trouble for Mary because of our strained relationship, and Marylin seems to understand and respect my decision.

"Yea," I stood up from my spot and walked towards the door and left the room quietly.

Step step

 

We both descended the stairs and came to the corridor, and Marylin came to see me off.

"Then I'll take my leave, and I'll thank you again for your time." Having said this, I left Marylin's house.

 

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"I am home." I entered my house saying this: "I think Mom and Dad should be awake by now since it's almost time when dad goes to his shop." Mom has a habit of waking up early in the morning so she can prepare for breakfast. I left the house before any of them were awake.

"Welcome back."   Mom's cheerful voice echoed through the house; maybe she is in the kitchen.

 

I made my way towards the living room; we have our kitchen and living room combined, so it's a bit modern. I entered the living room and saw my father reading a book while sitting on the sofa, and mom was working in the kitchen.

"Good morning."  I greeted my father and made my way towards the kitchen.

 

"Good morning, how was your new teacher?" Mom asked, and she seems interested in today's lecture with Marilyn.

 

"That was great." I said,

 

"That's good then." "You know Marylin is one of the greatest mages I've ever seen in my life, so make sure you learn as much as possible." Mom was right: Marylin was no ordinary mage that you'd expect her to be; she has a deep insight into the Mana arts.

 

"Yeah, I'll do that." I said, 

After that, I had breakfast and went back to my room.

...

"Hey,you awake?"   I asked.  I am right now in my bedroom, laying on my bed. Blaze was awfully silent, so I asked him if he was awake, but there was no response at all, so I decided to ask again.

 

"Hey Blaze, answer me." I asked, and soon a smokey cloud flowed out of my chest and formed a will-o'-the-wisp.

 

"I was sleeping a little to charge myself." Blaze said as he looked at me with his slightly drowsy eyes. He said he was charging himself, which meant that he was absorbing mana from my mana core to maintain his form.

 

"Then why did you call me?" Blaze asked,

 

"I wanted to ask about the island that you mentioned yesterday; tell me everything that you know about it." I said that yesterday Blaze made an outrageous statement saying that I can change my bloodline—not increase bloodline potential but change the whole frickin' bloodline.

Yesterday, I showed him a map of this world. The map depicts a continent with a large chunk of land in its northern hemisphere and a vast sea in its southern hemisphere with nothing but water in it. The most dangerous place on the map is "No Man's Land," where there are no people in this land and it has a huge barrier all around it. There are three kingdoms that share borders with this land: the Kingdom of Reva, the Empire of Hestia, and the Kingdom of Elishia. These four countries and no man's land cover the whole continent and have a peace treaty with each other.

 

This was all there was to that map, but according to Blaze, there are places that haven't been shown on the map at all. At first, I didn't believe him since there was no mention of the place that he told me about, including that mysterious island where I can change my bloodline, so I decided to ask him before I set off on a weird journey where I didn't know where I was headed to.

 

"Then listen, Crooked Island is a place that was very popular in my era." The reason was simple: "There resides the deepest dungeon that ever existed on the face of this world." Blaze said, He has a faraway look in his eyes as he tells me all this,

 

"And how can that place help me replace my bloodline?" I asked—this was the biggest question—how can something that's impossible by nature be possible.

 

"On the tenth floor of the dungeon, there is an artifact that can help you," Blaze said,

 

"How many floors does this dungeon have?" I asked: "It's normal for a dungeon to have hundreds of floors, but this one has an artifact that can change bloodlines on just the tenth floor." That made me wonder how many floors there are.

 

"I don't know, or to say nobody knows, because no one was able to fully explore that creepy place; I was only able to get to the tenth floor because the difficulty level of that place was beyond our capabilities, and the person who owned me at that time died there." Blaze said, and when he described that the place was so dangerous, only one question popped into my mind:

 

"Hey Smokeball, if I were to go there right now at this moment, how long could I survive there?" I asked as I stared at him in the eye. Right now, I am not as strong as Mary or Adam, but I am definitely stronger than any other kid in town.

 

"Princess, you have a strong mind, but your body is too frail for that place." That's why I'll keep it as short and as real as possible. Blaze took a meaningful pause there.

"You'll die the moment you step in there." saying this, he stared down at me to see what kind of response he could get.

 

"That's great then," I was beyond excited, perhaps sensing my emotions, Blaze said, "you are a weird human."

 

"System." I muttered these words, and a transparent blue slate appeared in front of me afloat in the air.

 

 

1. Ren Hilton

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Ren Hilton.

 

Age:15

 

Race:human

 

 

Strength:9/100

 

Mana:5/100

 

Intelligence:9/10

 

Attributes:- 

 

Fire (10/1000)

 

Spirits: None

 

Skills:-

1) body strengthening

2)Fire ball

 

Bloodline:- Human.

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The panel simply displays my current stats,

 

"Then how much stronger do I have to get?" I asked, "getting strong is no big deal; it can be achieved with hard work and opportunism." But the main question was: how much? How strong do I have to be to survive?

Blaze looked at the system panel for a second and then turned his gaze towards me and said, "You have to be a lot stronger than this to survive."

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[A/N: I am soooooo sorry for late updates,]