Nothing more than a flesh wound

When I open my eyes I find myself inside my room, missing my left arm. This wasn't a major issues as I'm ambidextrous, but it's still a shame because I don't have anything to grow the arm back yet.

I take my phone and look at the time, it was the 8 am of the 28th. When I get up I see that no one was around, meaning Bianca had gone to a school or left for good. But considering the fact she picked me up it was probably school.

I get out of bed and start trying out some basic movement with one arm and magic. After around 5 hours of practice I could efficiently use wind to pick objects up like I still had an arm. I had also cultivated my body to silver core level.

The changes weren't that noticeable. My body was stronger and lighter, but my weight distribution was still weird, I wasn't used to a missing limb. When the clock hits 3:20 Bianca and Marcia walk inside the shop, Marcia looks extremely shocked while Bianca just walks behind the counter and takes a HHG. While she stands there stunned, I decide to look over the news to find multiple news cases of missing influential people, no doubt my fault.

After a few minutes she finally talks.

"Was it you?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about." After I say that she pulls a gun on me.

"Really?"

"Really." I cast a magic circle behind her and slam her head into the counter knocking her out.

After I put her on the bed, Bianca walks over. We just look at each other for a few seconds, I mean how would start a conversation in this situation.

"Thanks" She just nods and takes out an HHG and starts playing Titanium Cog Flacid. I start cultivating again and trying to make something like a bullet using magic.

After a bit of experimentation I'm still not getting a result I'm stratified with. I have something that shoots a bullet, but it takes a good bit of mana and takes awhile to get ready, though the peirceing power is ridiculous. The nearby alley wall can testify.

While I'm cultivating I realize I have a few things I could be doing instead, mainly a gacha spin and eating the Mana heart advancement pill. A better Mana heart meant more Mana storage and processing meaning I'm using less Mana and getting more total mana.

I take the pill, it looks like a small ball. It would be a miracle if this got past my gag reflex that always kept me from swallowing the headache relievers.

I pop it in my mouth and it disappears. After the feeling of it disappears I feel an immense pain in my heart. This was probably the reason it wasn't a epic or higher item, it was forcibly reconstructing my heart, and it was damn painful.

After what feels like 20 but was actually 2 minutes pass, the pain disapates and I feel more energized and to test I start playing a match of Iron fist. It would normally take around a twentieth of my energy, but now I didn't even feel like I was using any more than a regular arm. With this new spells were open to me and I could probably fake me still having an arm, so I start working on that.

Just like that the night passes and I manage to make something of a fake arm, it looked like a prosthetic but it was just a coating of colored dirt surrounded by a outline of an arm made of wind. No one could touch it, but I could now hide my magic by using my hand. It was constantly draining energy and I could only use it for around 3 hours before I would run out of energy.

It was now 7 am on the 29th of March. I go flick Marcia's head and she bolts up. She looks at me funny and I just show her the time, this causes her to take a uniform out of the bag she brought with her.

"Why do you even have that with you" She just looks back at me smugly.

It looks like she was planning on crashing here anyways apparently, so I just walk out of the room and start making myself breakfast while I'm also looking into solutions for my arm. After looking through the pill recepies I had gotten, I had a few options. One was a combination of a wound opening powder and a healing pill, a limb regeneration pill or planet hopping to get a mechanical arm and become a cyborg.

One was alot cooler than the others, but I still couldn't hop planets and I still had a protagonist to find. Speaking of that whole mess, I really needed more knowledge on the soul, so it was time to gamble.

[1 Anatomy of a soul, 2 mechanical leg, 4 spatial stones, 1 steel dagger, 2 sets of kitchen utensils]

I still had no idea what the spatial stones do but that mechanical leg felt like a kick to shins. I mean the anatomy of a soul was really helpful for my protagonist cleansing, but the legs still had me frustrated. I could've been a cyborg and that would have been really cool. After lamenting for a few more minutes, I realized these were the best thing I got from the spin, as they were the perfect gift for Amelia. Damn, I feel like an ass.

While thinking of that I look at the spatial stones trying to find out their secret. I look at in normally, upside down, while it's being thrown, in water, through a window, while putting Mana or Qi into it. I finally try looking at it in the mirror and find my earring has a groove that would perfectly fit the stone.

I take the earring off and put the stone in, when I do the dark blue stone glows a light blue light for a few seconds before turning dark. I then try putting in some Qi, and to my surprise I find myself looking inside a dark space, but I can instinctively tell it's a limited space. But the weirdest part is the fact I'm still able to interact and see everything outside. I try thinking about putting the knife inside the void and then a knife appears in the same hand for my void counterpart.

It was pretty obvious I had gotten a spatial treasure, but of what grade or if grades even existed was beyond me. I start trying to put things inside and removing things in experiments and I had come to basic conclusion on how it worked. My consciousness would split and act as a gateway for the dimensional space, and I had to be touching something while the counterparts corresponding hand was empty, but something like a shirt would be put on immediately instead of being put in my hands.

After that I go back to cultivating. Time waits for no man.