To the Forest

The middle aged man returned to his office when he remembered an important thing..

"Ah! I forgot to enroll him in the guild. I also don't know his name." He perceived his mistake. He sat on his chair and sent a sound transmission to the receptionist. "Gabriella. You interrupted me and I didn't sign up the boy. Prepare a form for him to fill in and an adventurer token." He said as if everything were the truth.

Gabriella "..."

'This idiot keeps being shameless. I clearly waited for him to attend to the boy before I appeared.' She swore at her mind.

'No wonder he is known as the hard face.' She smiled.

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Luke finished going up the stairs. He saw a large room full of books and an old man sitting behind a table.

Luke Walked to him and placed the token at the table.

The old man picked the token, Observed the token and pointed to a specific part of the room "The rank 2 abilities are placed there." He said indifferently.

"Thank you." Luke bowed to the old man and started to go to the books with his eyes full of emotion.

When he saw the books they were organized by elements. He started to search for the Ice elements one and quickie found.

There were many books. Before he started to look for a book Luke started to think about what kind of book he wasn't.

First of all. He will cultivate all of the 4 rank systems. Body, soul, Ki and Mana.

The most important are the Ki and Mana, and the body and soul can be strengthened by Ki or Mana. Ki and Mana are the energy that can bring miracles and change the reality by yourself essence or by the world essence. Does not exist stronger, in the end all that makes differences are the comprehension of laws.

Luke decided to choose first a Ki and Mana cultivation technique, he will get the body and soul later. Now he needs to decide what kind of cultivation technique, without taking into account the ice element. He grabbed the status stone from his space ring and started to see his unique abilities descriptions once more to choose cultivation techniques based on them.

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Ice constitution: The body and soul are created to cultivate the ice element. This ability increases the comprehension and power of the ice element.

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Spear heart: The comprehension about the spear is increased.

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Born to fight: When in a fight the instincts and capacity of comprehension is increased.

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To his cultivation techniques he will want something based in: Spear, fights, and strong interaction with the ice element. He nodded his head and started to look for abilities that filled his requisite.

He looked at dozens of cultivation abilities, and in the final he found 3 that fills his requisite. He found little little the amount of abilities, but he couldn't do nothing about this, after all was rare abilities of a specific rare element, is amazing that the adventurer guild have so many ability, but it is hundreds years of cumulation along the time, worthy to be one of the largest organizations of the continent.

In the abilities one was to Ki and two to Mana.

The abilities was:

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Blizzard heart: Your heart is made by storms. Facing hard situations will increase the progress and results. The Ki will be difficult to control. Recommended for a person with very strong affinity with Ice.

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Ice lord: You will rule the Ice element. The greater the ice affinity the bigger will be the progress speed and the results, depending on certain factors is possible to control the ice of others.

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Ice fog: You will freeze everything. Your Mana will be cold according to your mana affinity. The attacks can be involved by a cold aura that increases the power.

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He liked all of these abilities. For the Ki cultivation technique he chose the Blizzard heart that he thinks will be a good combination with Born to fight and Ice constitution.

In the final, to the Mana cultivation technique he ended up choosing Ice lord. The Ice fog technique was good, if combined with his strong Ice affinity he will gain a massive power, but is only that. But the other skill will have a power depending on his affinity capacity too and can increase his progress speed, besides that he will probably be able to control others ice element that is a big advantage since he will probably fight against many beasts and monsters with Ice elements will be good if he has some advantage against them.

Luke picked the two books and walked to the old man with a large smile in his face. He will finally learn cultivation techniques.

He dropped the two books above the table and waited for the old man to hand him the books.

When the old man saw the Ice lord technique he nodded his head, it was a good technique. But when he saw the blizzard heart he frowned.

He pointed to the book and said to Luke "Young, you don't want to change this book?"

Luke retracted his smile and asked the old man with a worried face "Is This technique weak?"

"No. This technique is very strong, and if it weren't for the difficulty of controlling the mana it would be an epic ability rank 3. But for this same motive, the comprehension needed to practice this ability is equivalent to an epic ability and even if you fortunately understand something about this technique you will not be able to control your Mana correctly, that will harm yourself when you cultivate a body or soul cultivation technique."

Luke was surprised with the old man's explanation, but Instead be disappointed about the technique he grew more excited about.

"I don't wanna change," He answered and returned to smile, but with a much bigger smile than before.

The old man shook his head and gave the two books to Luke.

Luke kept the books on his space ring and thanked the man, he turned, going to the first floor.

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When Luke tried to leave the building, he heard a woman calling him from the reception.

"Hey! Young man with white hair come here!" Gabriella said.

Luke was confused about why someone would call him, but he started to walk to the woman without thinking much about this, waiting for the woman to talk first.

When he arrived at the front table the woman gave him a paper sheet, a pencil and a needle.

"Fill this form to finish your inscription at the adventurer guild, if you don't want to fill something you can just let it blank. After filling the form you will need to put a single drop of blood on the paper. " She said kindly.

Luke remembered that he didn't enter the guild, he only took the abilities books. He found it strange but, he thought that should be normal to take the abilities first and join the guild later. He affirmed these thoughts and started to fill the form.

He didn't took a long time, he only filled his name, age, affinity and body statement. He put a drop of blood on the paper and it started to shine. After 10 seconds it returned to normal.

The woman recovered the form and entered a room behind her. Five minutes later she returned with a necklace. The necklace had a gray stone in.

She gave the necklace to Luke and said "Put a drop of blood in."

Luke did exactly what she said, he used the needle to pierce his thumb and put a prop or blood. The stone shone briefly before stopping.

"Great! Now you are a genuine adventurer. If you have any questions you can ask me." She said smiling.

"Do you know where I can buy weapons?" Luke asked her, while putting the necklace.

"Yes. You can find a good weapon store on street number 8, the name is Steel and Hammer." (Gabriella)

"Thank you." Luke thanked the woman and started to walk to street number 8 looking for the store with a big smile.

Few minutes later he found the shop, which was not far from the guild.

He saw a medium store with a board saying: Steel and Hammer.

He entered the store and saw an amazing vision of magnificent weapons on all sides.

He held his admiration about the magnificent weapons and went to the reception where a middle aged man with a long beard was.

When the man saw Luke he asked him "What are you looking young?"

"A good spear for 100 gold." Luke said quickly, anxious to cultivate.

The man nodded and went to pick a spear in a weapon stand.

The spear was dark-brown in the body and black on the spearhead, with a simple design.

"This spear is made from iron wood and the spear head is made from black steel. Is simple but the high resistance is what made the spear special." The man described the spear to Luke and then gave it to Luke to see what he thinks about the spear. .

Luke falls in love with the spear. Was a simple spar but, when he held the spear he felt that he could pierce everything with the spear.

Without thinking much about it, Luke removed 100 gold coins from his space ring and gave them to the man. His eyes stuck on the spear.

"The spear is yours now. If you need a new weapon in the future you can come here. "The man nodded his head to Luke's decision.

Luke put the spear in his space ring and then left the store, his next stop was the forest in the west that stays 6 hours walking from the town.

Luke talked with his father about where he should go after joining the adventurer guild and he said the river forest is a big forest that is separated in two halves by a giant river. That forest was huge, and the part that Luke is going to is the outermost parts of the forest, that only have mortal beasts.

Luke left the town and started a long walk to his destination. Where his adventure will start.

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