02 - Useful Eyes!

Feeling a weak pain through my body, I was a little scared as I woke up; still with a slow head from sleep.

The sensation of pain I was feeling was as if I had done an intense workout at the gym to exercise every muscle in my body the previous night.

'Why am I feeling this pain?' I mentally asked myself still confused.

With some difficulty, I got out of bed and went to the bathroom to look at myself in the mirror.

As it was a hot night, I had slept without a shirt on, so when I turned on the bathroom light and looked in the mirror I was shocked.

My belly had shrunk!

Only yesterday I was thinking how great it would be if mana could help me get more defined, but who knew it really helped?!

Sure, I had a demarcated belly, but my abdomen lost at least 10% of its previous fat.

Pushing my finger through my belly, I could feel some muscle that wasn't there before.

Curious, I grabbed the scale from under the bathroom sink and weighed myself.

Yesterday I was weighing 80 kg (176 Pounds) and after weighing myself now again my weight had dropped to 76 kg (167 Pounds)! In just one night of sleep I lost 4 kg!

But after weighing myself I started to feel my stomach growl.

'Looks like the fat wasn't burned by magic, but was probably used to replenish my energy overnight.' I tried to guess why.

Seeing that it was already 05:00 I decided to just make breakfast instead of going back to sleep.

I was famished, and seeing that the muscles in my arms had also grown a little, I figured what I needed most now was protein.

The simplest way to deal with this is to make a typical Bacon Eggs.

As I made the eggs, I was going to activate my eyes, but I realized that was weird.

"Treating this ability as just 'my eyes' is weird, maybe I can give it a name… like what?" I wondered aloud.

My creativity for names has never been this good, so after a few minutes of thinking I just gave up and decided to call it S-Eyes, as an obvious reference in the eyes of the U family of that one anime.

With that decided I activated my S-Eyes and started analyzing my body.

A pleasant surprise was that with the S-Eyes activated I could see in great detail how well cooked the eggs was even though it was still in the shell in the hot water!

'Will I finally be able to cook something delicious?' I wondered excitedly.

Since I moved to live alone the only time I ate something delicious was when I bought food from some restaurant or went to someone else's house to eat, my own food was terrible!

But now with S-Eyes I will finally be able to cook the food to the ideal point.

Looking at my body I was surprised at the amount of Mana I had circulating through the thousands of lines in my body.

If yesterday I thought that I only had 50 Units of Mana in total, now I have found that to be totally wrong! In fact, after comparing what I remembered with my Mana from yesterday I found that I was probably around 100 Mana Units!

That was enough to teleport at least 10 meters!

Finally knowing how much Mana I had in my body, I was able to calculate that my activated S-Eyes consumed around 2 Mana Units per minute, so if I kept the S-Eyes activated for 50 minutes I would already be depleted of Mana, that Regardless of how tired I got low on Mana yesterday, maybe I shouldn't leave S-Eyes on for more than 30 minutes, as apparently I only started feeling tired yesterday when my Mana reached 20% of what I have today.

In addition to the Mana level that grew, I also found why I lost so much weight while sleeping and why my muscles grew overnight.

The Mana that flowed through these thousands of lines was slowly leaking throughout my body, and that energy was actually nourishing my body.

When the protein in my muscles comes in contact with the Mana that has leaked through these lines, the protein breaks down a bit and ignites, which causes my body to consume fat to replace it, causing more muscle to grow in its place.

But unlike someone who trains at the gym for an hour or two during the day, my muscles stayed up all night getting this kind of stimulation, which resulted in a much better result!

'It's a good thing Mana isn't destructive, because if this stimulus was as intense as the one in the gym I probably wouldn't even be able to get out of bed today, or maybe my muscles were really destroyed while I slept and I could never get up again!' I was scared for a few seconds.

After 5 minutes with S-Eyes activated, I deactivated it. My total amount of Mana had decreased by 10%, and now I wanted to see how long it would take to recover.

I waited another 5 minutes and activated my S-Eyes again to observe my body. From what I understand, during those 5 minutes that I waited my body recovered 5 Mana Units, so I understood that I was recovering 1 Unit per minute.

'That's a good rate of recovery with my current amount of Mana, but what if I increase my Mana in the future, will that regeneration also increase?' I started to think of some problems I could have.

Another question came to my mind. 'If I spend 2 Units of Mana with S-Eyes activated, maybe the consumption that this has is 3 Units of Mana per minute, but as I recover 1 Unit per minute automatically this cost drops to only 2 Units!'

'If I can figure out a way to increase my Mana regeneration to 3 Units per second I could theoretically keep my S-Eyes activated at all times!' A bold idea came to my mind!

Thinking about how cool it would be to have infinite Mana I got really excited, so that was set as one of my goals for the future. Unfortunately I still had no idea what to do to increase my Mana regeneration.

'And how can I increase my total amount of Mana?' I started to wonder.

Looking at my muscles I had an idea. 'I can test common training, I will use my Mana several times during the day and see if at the end of the day the total amount has increased.'

The food I made actually tasted so much better, the egg was cooked to the perfect temperature, while the bacon was perfectly fried with no burnt parts.

Having finished breakfast I washed the dishes I soiled and opened one of my drawers.

In that drawer I kept my sunglasses.

As I intended to spend my Mana during the day, instead of using teleportation which would attract a lot of attention and would be more likely to go wrong, if I wore sunglasses while activating S-Eyes it would be safer.

I didn't have many sunglasses, only five, but among those five was a steampunk model. It was round and the edges of it were pulled back slightly, which would cover my eyes from other people even if they were next to me, while the dark lens would cover the front!

To test whether or not it was possible to discern my eye color through the glasses I activated the S-Eyes and took a selfie with my cell phone, in addition to recording a video with the camera in max quality.

After all the tests it was confirmed that my red pupils were not visible through the glasses and that the glasses didn't stop my S-Eyes from seeing the Mana lines on my body, I finished getting ready and went out for work.

The fees of my University were too high for my parents, so in addition to studying I also needed a job to cope.

As I study Business Administration, I got a job as a manager in an Adidas store in a shopping mall near my University.

The salary was enough for me to support myself, in addition to being able to buy clothes from the store at cost price, which already saved me a lot of money, the environment was also quite nice.

All the employees were young, the customers were young, and best of all, it was okay if I wore sunglasses while working, as normally in stores of this type, the more stylish the employees are, the more customers will come in to purchase products.

As the temperature was hot, I just wore a black shirt with a large white Adidas logo on the chest, gray cargo pants and white Streetchecks.

As my hair was black, both the white sneaker and the Adidas logo on the chest were very prominent, which was great for someone who worked at Adidas, and even better for someone who wanted to draw attention away from their own eyes.

[A reference image of his appearance is in the server. Link: .gg/ky35Kv7GHr or at the end of the chapter and in the comments.]

Normally I wake up at 06:00 and go to work at 07:00, and since it took me an hour to have breakfast and get ready, but it was 06:00 now, and the store wouldn't open until 08:00, meaning I still had one hour to spare.

'Can I play a game in this free time?' I thought with a wicked smile on my face.

Sitting down in front of my computer, I was quick to open Fortnite.

This is a game I really enjoy hanging out with, but I have to admit that I'm really not very good at playing it. In terms of both my building speed and the accuracy of my aim, I was not an amazing player to say the least.

But it isn't as if I'm a terrible player, I'd say I'm just a little below average, out of every 20 games I win at least one.

But with S-Eyes for the first time I felt like a really good player!

When the game started I activated my S-Eyes. Games last an average of 10-15 minutes, so I didn't have to worry about my Mana consumption.

Playing Fortnite with those eyes was like using a Hack. When someone appeared in front of me it was like everything was in slow motion and I had a lot more time to build and more time to control my aim towards the opponent.

Even if the opponent appeared in just a few small pixels at the corner of the screen, I could still see them and go towards that person.

In just 10 minutes I got 18 kills and ended the game with a win.

I was shocked by this, I had never killed so many people in a single game!

When the game was over I deactivated my S-Eyes and rested a bit to recover some Mana, then I played again and got another win!

Two wins in two games, this has only happened to me once before, and I was playing squads with some friends.

'Hehe, it seems that even in my daily life I can use S-Eyes to get some perks, I already know I can use it for cooking, now I found out that playing games is also a cheat, what else can that be useful?' I asked myself quite excitedly.