3 03 - Shop, First Fly and Beginning of Training
I woke up with a grunt for sleeping in the ground with just foliage between me and the hard soil, I got up and walked to the river to drink water and wash my face.
Feeling slightly curious I moved to where the water was calmer and looked at my reflection, what greeted me was the face of a young boy with white skin slightly tanned, with spiky hair that reminded me of a mix between Gohan hair in the Cell games and Goku Super Saiyan, "woo! I look cool hehe."
Walking back to my temporary home I took a piece of meat from the inventory, it was released steam as though it was recently cooked.
"Nice thing the time stop in there too!" I had stored it thinking I would have to eat it cold, it's definitely a bonus, "good thing I stored o lot o meat, this way I will have to cook just from time to time!"
After I had eaten enough I set down and began to think, 'I guess this place is safe after I learn how to fly I'll begin exploring this forest in deep.'
"STATUS" Although I said that I wouldn't say I out loud, I'm alone now so it doesn't matter.
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[STATUS]
NAME: Beat
RACE: SAIYAN
AGE:12
POWER LEVEL: 25
TRAITS:
[LEGENDARY SUPER SAIYAN]
TECHNIQUES:
[KAMEHAMEHA]
[KI CONTROL]
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"I barely did anything and my PL got up 5 points, it must be the LSS doing its thing... hmm this is problematic I don't want to cut my tail but if my power kept increasing while I don't have control over the Ozaru transformation I might and up destroying this planet on accident, I will have to train to control this transformation quickly, the problem is having to wait for a full moon while my power increases without I doing anything if I'm too slow it would be too late." Frowning while thinking of this I soon thought of something that might help me.
"SHOP!"
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[SHOP] (COINS 65/100)
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'Just a couple more coins and I'll unlock the shop.'
"If it turns out as useless at least I will have more meat!" While saying this I sprinted to the forest but not before I made some fire to give myself an easy way to find the way back.
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after five or so hours I was back from killing every single animal I could see in at least a 2 km radius.
"SHOP!"
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[SHOP](538/100)
[CURRENT COINS: 438]
[UNLOCKING SHOP...]
[CONGRATULATIONS! YOU NOW HAVE ACCESS TO THE SHOP]
Ignoring the annoying notifications I quickly opened the SHOP again, this time for real.
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[SHOP]
ITEMS +
TECHNIQUES +
SYSTEM +
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ITEMS ×
Kintoun (Flying Nimbus) [10000 C]
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SENZU BEAN [100000 C]
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Nyoi Bo (Power Pole) [30000 C]
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Ultra Divine Water [15000 C]
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Fruit of Might [5000 C]
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Seed of the Fruit of Might [16000 C]
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Before my eyes hundred of options appeared, I soon chose to pay attention to the most recognizable but not necessarily most important, soon iconic names flashed in my mind together with fond memories of the show that I grew up watching.
'The flying Nimbus I without a doubt will cut it out of possible future purchases, ignoring the fact that with time I would be much faster than it, I also pretty sure that I would not be able to ride it, pure heart and all that.'
'UDW and the fruit of might too are useless to me as I wouldn't need that to increase my power.'
'The only two things that interest me are the senzu bean for obvious reasons and the Power Pole, this just because I think it's cool.'
But looking at the prices I realized that I would have to kill a lot of animals to get the coins, particularly the senzu beans it was a whopping 100k, pricey but understandable, it was a life-saving item after all, forgetting this problem for now, I opened the other taps.
TECHNIQUES ×
KAMEHAMEHA [ 0 C]
KAIOKEN [55000 C]
KIENZAN [2000 C]
GENKI DAMA [100000 C]
MAZENKO [1500 C]
MAKANKOSAPPO [3000C]
GALICKGUN [2000 C]
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Power Ball [800 C]
Instant Transmission [20000 C]
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Again hundreds of TECHNIQUES appeared in front of me, but the most famous was on the top, saying this I began to think, 'The Kamehameha is 0 coins? Must be because I learned it alone, good to know, perhaps if I tried to use it then the price would drop? I'll have to test I out!'
Looking at the other techniques I chose to test it in the power ball exactly the one I was needing, before this thought, I looked to the last option in the shop.
SYSTEM ×
Map [100 C]
"WHAT- that's it!? One thing? And it was cheap as fuck! Is this even useful!?" After thinking about the Map for a while I decided to buy it, I can always hunt some more, and knowledge of where I am is very important, even if it was trash, it wouldn't hurt to give it a chance.
[PURCHASE COMPLETE]
[-100 C]
[CURRENT COINS:338]
[ACTUALIZATION OF THE SYSTEM IN PROGRESS...]
[THE SYSTEM WILL BECOME INOPERABLE UNTIL THE COMPLETION OF THE ACTUALIZATION]
[REMAINING TIME TO COMPLETION: 23H59M56S]
'Inventory?'
"..."
"MY FOOD! NOOOO!"I tried to open the inventory to no avail, crying tears of indignation I dragged my feet to the forest yet again.
After having a 'small' lunch I sat cross-legged closed my eyes and began trying to feel my ki yet again, this time with the feeling that I had while using the Kamehameha, to my surprise it was super easy, right after, I relaxed my body then I concentrated the energy inside of me in all my body, then I began to mold and will this energy to became calmer and lighter, then with the relaxed body I tried to imagine myself leaving the ground, then slowly I felt the ground below me have less and less pressure over my legs and butt, I stayed this way with my eyes still closed, trying to memorize this feeling of being weightless, after about 5 minutes I opened my eyes, just to see myself flouting at least two meters above the ground.
I slowly willed to came down, right after I was again stepping on the ground, wiping the sweat off my forehead I let out a deep breath, "huuuh...that went good." With a happy tooth smile on my face and a shining glint of excitement in my eyes, I began to remember the feeling of flying, I felt like I could have moved how I wanted while in the air.
To see if it was not just a fluke I quickly pushed the sensation of fly back up, soon I rapidly begin to float, feeling the same as before I became bolder looking at the sky I began flying up and slowly but surely increasing my speed until I was feeling the rapid wind blowing into my face, stopping mid-air, I looked around the seemingly vast expansion that I had seen from the ground in the first day ended abruptly giving place to the huge blue sea, all around me was the same,' So this place is an island.' I stood there, basking in this beautiful sight, soon I let out a happy sigh and begin going down.
When I touched the ground I quickly sat down, I was shaking, 'a couple more practice flying and hopefully, I'll completely lose the fear of heights.'
After that I began flowing the ki around my body to get more used to it, I spent the day doing it, right before sunset I hunted some animals and roasted it. As night came I was full and rapidly fell asleep, this time with expectation for beginning my training for real.
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*thud*
While I was at 10 meters in the air I let the gravity pull me down, I touched the beach's cold sand with my right knee down, left foot on the ground, and one hand to balance myself, in a perfect superhero landing
"Nailed it in the first try hahaha!" I said while I stood watching the waves come and go, then suddenly I said "let's get started!"
"I watched DBZ more than one time but it was a long time ago, what I remember perfectly is the most recent events of the series, let's see what know is that the power ball is a ki construct that simulates an artificial moon of some sort, while in contact with the atmosphere of a planet it can generate that bullshit waves who trigger the transformation in the Saiyans who look at it, the same way of a real moon..." I murmured most to remember to myself and see if I could get something else from the vagueness of the show, now that I was inside of it I had to try to understand how those strange techniques worked if I wanted to replicate them.
I put my hand in front of me, palm to the sky, and formed a ki ball in my hand, soon a blue sphere the size of a basketball formed In my hand, I tried to change the color to white, concentrating on the energy in my hand I wiled it to change, it worked slightly but soon I became a bit tired so I dispersed it the ki while letting out a sigh I thought 'This is the first step, I'm in unexplored waters here, I'll try things and see if it work.'
Thinking of my strength I said 'I am weak right now, just to use create a slightly complex ki technique I quick exhaust my reserves, it will be a time-consuming process.'
"But what I have right now is time so I'll not stop until I get it all done!" I said while standing up and trying again to change the color of my ki ball in the hope to simulate the light of the moon, I wasn't worried that it would transform because the size was just too small, the amount of energy generated for it wouldn't be enough to trigger the transformation.
"HELL YEAH!" After one day of training with pauses to rest and eat and lots of errors I finally got it right, a white ball rested in my right hand, I knew I was on the right path because of the strange sensation I felt coming from my tail every time I looked at the sphere in my hand, it was like I was putting my tail close to the fire, it a phantom heat beginning at my tail, the heat was trying to spread to my body but, it was too weak to succeed.
"So this is the feeling?" I said while dispersing the ki ball and sitting down to rest a bit, after less than twenty minutes I stood up and flew back to the shelter while munching some meat and drinking coconut water that I had found while flying closer to the beach, after making a bonfire to keep a light in the dark night I opened the system.
'System'
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