A New Beginning...

~Omni Pov, Early the next day...~

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Akira opened his eyes...

He felt a little more, empowered than before. His senses felt slightly sharper, and his instincts were heightened further than he was normally comfortable with...

He slowly blinked his eyes once more, remembering what he did last night and reminiscing all the events, he then remembered that he kept the curse mark active throughout the night.

'Urgghh...'. He thought with a hint of annoyance.

He got up slowly off his head, sitting up. Checking his status, he saw his curse mark ability... Rather, its new and improved boost.

His new curse mark multiplier had been increased to a solid 0.033x his base.

'Not bad at all, it's going to take a while to become useful though... but it should be worth the wait.' Akira thought, smiling to himself.

Before he got up, he looked over to the side to see Rivera still fast asleep.

'Should I test 'it' a bit... I still have an hour left...' Akira thought, but after weighing the pros and the cons... 'It shouldn't be too bad... I'll just use it for a second.' He declared.

He went into his inventory to use the new seals he had gotten before...

'How do I use these things though?' Akira thought. They didn't come with any instructions either.

Still, he figured he should put them on at least.

The seals didn't look like much, they were essentially all black fitting wrist and leg bands that had a kanji written onto them that wrote, 'power'.

Since he had four of them, he placed each on his wrists and legs.

'Now what?' Akira thought.

Thinking for a bit. He went back into the description of the resistant seals. He saw the power restriction component and movement aspect...

'Maybe...' Akira thought of a simple solution.

"Movement resistance level 1 activate?" Akira said to himself.

'I guess that didn't wor-' Immediately Akira felt a warm yet tightening sensation around his ligaments, bones, and muscles...

"Holy, shit!... It did work!" Akira said.

He moved his arms, only to find that it took some effort on his part...

However, he understood the concept of what the seal did.

'It isn't that it literally made my movements stiffer. It's just that it takes 2-10 times the effort to move any part of my body... I can still look normal while doing my everyday chores and training, it'll just take twice as much energy/stamina as before...' Akira figured.

"Still... If I want maximum benefits... I'll need to go higher... Movement resistance level 10 activate!" Akira said. He knew this was reckless, but with the six eyes active, the stamina consumption was palpable, if he was correct...

In the next second, he felt the warmth and tightness envelope him again, this time, it was unbelievably higher than before.

*Vooom~*

He tried moving, but it was actually taking massive amounts of effort to do... He was actually getting a little worn from this, but his natural stamina regeneration was high, coupled with the six eyes.

"S-SH-SHIT! This is fricking hard!" Akira said, he found moving normally as before was taking serious amounts of mental gymnastics to pull off. He knew it would take a little while before he could properly adapt to this level of change...

And for the first... he somehow found his limit in stamina or its limit in recuperation...

Still, Akira found that it was almost maddening with the amount of fine-tuning he was doing with his simple walking, talking and even blinking...

"Why do I do this to myself..." Akira pondered.

'I haven't even used the 'power restriction' aspect yet...' He begrudgingly thought.

*DING!*

[Due to continuous mental strain, the ability 'Adaptive thinking' has been created...]

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[Due to constant physical and mental strain, the passive 'Insanity resistance' has been created...]

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Hearing the two notifications popping up, Akira felt his mind cool off a little in combination with the new abilities he had gotten.

Akira now found it a little easier to adapt to the changes he was burdened with, but it was minuscule at best, and he felt the gnawing feeling in the back of his mind dissipating...

'To think I was actually losing my mind with this thing active... The system really wasn't joking...' Akira thought.

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[Insanity resistance and Adaptive thinking have both leveled up to level 2...]

[Insanity resistance and Adaptive thinking have both leveled up to level 3...]

[Insanity resistance and Adaptive thinking have both leveled up to level 4...]

[Insanity resistance and Adaptive thinking have both leveled up to level 5...]

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[Insanity resistance and Adaptive thinking have both leveled up to level 12...]

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While Akira was getting ready for school, both his new skills had leveled up crazily, but it slowed down a lot, he then left and made his way out...

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~ Omni Pov, At school... ~

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'That took way too much of my energy... I even got both my skills up to level 20... For fuck sake. The things I do for power...' Akira thought to himself.

He felt normal as of now. He also didn't feel that constant nagging sensation in his mind to keep himself calm consistently. His mind and body coordination had skyrocketed too.

And even more impressively, he was gaining points for his strength and vitality, so he was doing alright, at the moment...

'Skills are hella op. Especially if they're passive.' Akira noted mentally.

Making his way to class he saw his teacher and greeted her, as well as his classmates. He also saw Chiba which he gave a quick knowing nod.

He then took his seat beside Ryuuko...

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~ 2 hours later... ~

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"Hey, wolfy... remember that convo we had a couple of days back? I kinda need yer' help..." Ryuuko asked, with a nervous smile on her face.

Not wanting her to feel uncomfortable, Akira answered curtly.

"Hmm, sure. Why not. I can help you, but what do you need?" Akira asked.

"Well... you probably know this, but I'm not doin' too well on my tests, s-" Ryuuko was cut off.

"You need my help, right? Sure, I don't see why I wouldn't. I did promise to help you " Akira said, smiling gently.

'It would be hella dumb to not to ask for my help, no one else really wants to get to know her... Plus. I'm the smartest guy in the school, and potentially the planet...' Akira thought nervously to himself.

Ryuuko hearing his response then looked up to see the sun itself smiling at her...

'I think not droolin' after him is gonna be a far harder challenge than studying...' Ryuuko noted.

"Then let's see the areas where you are lacking in..." Akira questioned both himself and her.

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~ 1 hour of lacking later... ~

"Okay... So basically everything... This is going to be tough..." Akira said, chuckling to himself.

"WOOOW. Yer' no need to fucking laugh at me. I'm already... Insecure as it is..." Ryuuko said, whispering the last part.

Akira hearing with his already acute senses, smiled even wider.

"Trust me, you'll learn quickly. Don't beat yourself up." Akira cheered a little.

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[After repeated teaching, the ability 'Tutoring' has been created...]

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END