3 Chapter 3- Getting Used to it

After exiting his now newly owned house, Dante looks around for a bit to assess the area where his house is once again, because before he was too concentrated on the house. At first, Dante thought nothing was different as he can't see anything weird other than the no plants and trees near his house, so moves away from the house goes to the border where the grassland end what he saw surprised him. He saw small animals like squirrels avoiding this region as if they can't see it and soon realized, "I see there must be a barrier or some magic at work here which hides this place. This way I can avoid unwanted attention when I am training especially in the future when my magic power increases, I just hope that this place can mask my magic power when I grow stronger. Now that I think about it, it was made by that figure so it should be strong.".

After thinking for another while, Dante decided to stay in the barrier to first get used to his new body and some of his power, so in case he encounters a wild animal he can easily deal with it. So, Dante got back but a little further from his house just in case if he can't control his power and damage his only comfort on this island. The first thing Dante got to do is, get used to his body because even though he is three years old the power of his body is definitely a lot stronger from his past adult self, because shocking but understandable at the same time as the body is so special. Hence, to test his physical capabilities he first decides to do a simple test of push-ups, so he quickly gets into the proper position and starts his pushups. Dante's counts slowly increase from 10 to 20, which quickly increase to 40 and then 80, this increases till 267 when he starts to feel pain and stress in his small arms, but he still wants to continue, so he pushes himself to at least reach 300. After a bitter struggle, he reaches 300 but lies flat on the ground while panting like crazy.

However his astonishments aren't stopping there, within just a few minutes he stopped panting, not only that, he even feels that his fatigue in his arms is completely gone and his strength has definitely increased a little. "Th...This is amazing I can improve so quickly if this continues, in ten years if I just work on my physical strength, I might not even need magic to beat my opponents but I shouldn't be conceded because it would be tragic if I die early after having a chance to such an awesome life with superpowers", though Dante while staring at his hands in amazement. So, without wasting his time further Dante wanted to see how long he can do this and started a cycle of pushups, recovery, and pushups, and to be honest, the results amazed him a lot, after 2 hours he can already do around 2,500 pushups with ease now, and this is his 7th cycle, but he can feel it that although his power is increasing as it increases the rate of improvement decreases too. But Dante had read many mangas and seen many animes, and perfectly knows how to increase his training efficiency, and luckily one of his abilities is the answer.

But Dante wanted to check a lot of things, so he stopped his pushups cycle and moved to get used to his movements so he starts to first jump, and without being surprised anymore by jumping 3 meters high at his age, he does other simple exercises like slow running, simple sprints, side jumps, back running for another three hours. All this just get used to body speed and luckily he asked for Monkey King's physique because he adapted quickly to his physical body but not without crashing and falling a couple of times head first. Which fortunately or unfortunately confirmed his high durability, all while amazed at the hardness of the ground. The next thing that Dante wanted to get used to is his senses because they can save your lives so many times, especially when you need to survive. So Dante quickly focused on his eyes and wanted to see how good his vision and without a surprise, he could see pretty, he could even see the ants at the border of his region marching towards the border and suddenly turning around in another direction as if avoiding something.

Then Dante closed his eyes and focused on his hearing, and experienced something he has never because of his human senses in his previous life he could clearly see the difference in this section. As soon as he focused on hearing, he could the movement and the direction of the wind, the sound of the wings of small insects, the footsteps of other animals around him, and his heartbeat which was surprisingly slow. It was as if he trained it enough he could see with his ears, he knows he sounds stupid but he can't explain it in any other way. So he quickly focused on his smell, and although he could smell and differentiate a lot of smells because he never experienced this or minded the smells in his previous life he would have to train and learn different kinds of smells of things and animals.

Finally, Dante tried to focus his senses on his skin to feel better but he discovered something amazing, he could definitely feel better in fact it feels like he can feel two to three centimeters around his skin, which he is sure could be improved. But the amazing discovery was the fact that he could feel different forms of energy around him and how quickly he is absorbing them. He could even feel different energies nourishing his body after the round of exercises he did, which he could tell making him stronger, although he can't yet differentiate between these energies he is sure, one of them is magic. For the other two to three hours, he tried to get used to his senses, because now he has to focus to observe the change but he feels that it should be natural, but to his surprise senses were difficult to improve. He could now somewhat use his five senses together but their effectiveness has decreased a lot, he can't feel those previous two or three centimeters away from his skin but he still feels better that he can be in this state naturally.

The next thing on Dante's things to get used to are his abilities, although they are a lot Dante wants to first focus on a few those to increase his strength overall, such as gravity manipulation to increase his training's effectiveness. And other forces such as velocity, friction, telekinesis, and a few others can life-saving when used properly and also help in his training. Although, Dante has all the information on how to use his abilities he can also feel how weak his command are on these abilities, which is not surprising as just a few hours ago he was just a human, now he has abilities that can manipulate laws which he didn't understand at the first place. So, Dante first wanted to see how effective his abilities are, hence he started with the ability that he feels he has the most understanding and control over, which was friction manipulation, and what he did was decrease friction between his feet and ground. Although he can't completely remove friction for now he can see it's difficult for him to balance himself as that hard looking ground feels like a slippery surface on which he could slip any moment.

But Dante could still walk although, with difficulties, this gave him an understanding of how effective his abilities will be for now. He didn't try weak force or strong force because he has almost not understood him but he can feel that slowly his sage's wisdom is assimilating with his current mind. So he is sure that he can understand those things with time, so for now he tried things that he feels he understand and will effective in combat, such as gravity manipulation because he can't use his abilities away from his body like on a target but he is sure with time it will be solved because he also felt that his understanding on friction increased a little when he used it. So, he applied gravity magic on his body, he first increased gravity on his body as much as he could, and he felt a sudden heaviness at first but the effect was so small his body quickly adapted to it.

However, this was enough for him to understand his gravity control, as he can feel the gravity was increased by .2 or .3 times on his body which negligible for his adaptive body but could hinder a normal human a little. So, instead, he tried to decrease gravity on him, which he could use in combat for now, and he wasn't disappointed because he could already feel himself lighter and so he again dashed, luckily this area around his house is empty otherwise he would definitely have smashed into a tree. "This is quite the difference, is it because I didn't control my power but I was definitely surprised with that sudden increase if I am not careful in a fight it could cost me my life", thought Dante while balancing his body. So, after trying to get used to his light body of himself, he used another ability which was telekinesis on a small rock but he was disappointed so he closed the distance between himself and the rock and kept trying to move it or life. After he got within two meters of rock he could move a little so he got even close and of course when he was one meter away he could lift.

Although, Dante was an adult in his previous life, and he has already tried different abilities just now but he couldn't help but feel the excitement within himself because which anime man didn't want an ability like telekinesis, Dante is sure a lot of anime fans must have tried to lift or move an object around them thinking that it might be possible and now he can. So, he played with it a little while, before realizing the lack of light around him and soon he realized that he was too absorbed testing his abilities, it will soon get dark and he still hasn't arranged for food. So after, dusting his little ragged clothed which even after those falls against this hard rough ground seem fine but just a little worn out, which could either mean that clothes in this world are more durable or these specific clothes are special.

But without wasting, any more time Dante moves towards the forest hoping to catch a small animal like rabbit for his dinner for today. And as soon as he steps outside, he felt a sudden change in the density and quality of energy around him, which was when he realized that within this barrier there seems to be more concentration of high-quality energies. Thinking that this would help in his training, so he looked back at the area and thanked that figure once again because he has helped him more than he could hope for, and turned back towards the forest and move on to his first hunting trip.

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