Levels

Regal opened his eyes, and he saw a system panel.

[You slept well. HP and MP recovered]

"Right… I finished the run" He turned his head to look at the window and a subtle light seeped through the gaps in the curtains, casting a gentle glow in the room "It's day, How much did I sleep" as he raised from his bed a bit and his back pressed on the back of the bed. "Status"

[Missed notifications: 

You leveled up.

You leveled up.

You leveled up.

You leveled up.

You leveled up.

You leveled up.

You leveled up.

You leveled up.

You got a new title Ultra-Runner.

Your vitality reached 50 you got skill: Regeneration.]

[Regeneration: (Passive) Max:

You can regenerate 1% of HP per minute]

[Title Ultra-Runner: 

Effect: +20pt vitality, +10pt agility

[Status: 

Name: Regal Asura

Job: Gamer

Gender: Male 

Status: Unemployed 

Level: 11. Next Level: 2%

Age: 23

Race: Human

Title: Ultra-Runner

HP: 1580/1580

MP: 320/320

Strength: 41

Vitality: 59 + 20

Agility: 40 + 10

Intelligence: 32

Wisdom: 15

Luck: 9

Points: 45]

"The mission is already claimed? I have 45 points now. I'll put them in intelligence but not now I have something to try." Regal got up and stretched a bit, he took a quick shower before going to the buffet to eat breakfast.

"This food is not bad." Commented Regal. "Hello mister" He heard a voice coming from his right.

Regal turned to see a man in his 20s wearing casual clothes looking at him. "Hi" responded Regal. "Sorry to bother you but are you this person?" the man showed Regal his phone, which was a Galaxy S3. But what surprised him was the photo the man showed, it was a photo of him running on the highway in the middle of the desert.

The photo was clearly taken by a camera because phone cameras are not yet great. Regal was speechless. Although he knew his run would not go unnoticed, he saw that the post had over 200k likes which was extremely rare these times.

"It looks like me how can I help you?" when the man heard the answer his eyes lit up. "Did you really run from Batna to here?" asked the man. "Facebook might be misleading, I ran from Algier to here," Regal Responded proudly.

"That's crazy man," the man noticed that Regal was still eating "I won't bother you anymore here is my business card my family is in the gold industry you can call me if you need some haha."

"Thanks." Replied politely. 'This might be useful later.'

After finishing his meal Regal went back to his room thinking about what to do next. "My money is running low; I have splurged too much." 

Regal had a few ideas but they were not very feasible not very legal. 'Like using inventory to cross the border with goodies… wtf I'm thinking I should take it easy.' "I'll take a bus back to the house and stop spending on the hotel."

He put his things in the inventory, checked out of the hotel, and went to the bus station.

The trip was more than a day Regal either slept or meditated. He put 20 points in intelligence so he would get Mana buff skill.

[Mana affinity: (Passive) Max:

A technique that allows the user to become more sensitive to mana and handle it better]

Now he can feel the mana in his body, he's eager to try many things but he held back till he got home.

When Regal went home it was already 1 pm after a quick lunch, he took the rest of his money from the house and went to the bank to open an account.

Living in a third-world country cons started to show up, they kept wanting more papers and more papers. Go do this go do that, what do you work, why you want to open an account blah blah blah. Regal tried to reduce difficulty when he told them he was going to do his master's degree abroad, which proved to be useful.

When he got home, he went to his computer, he opened a PayPal account with the bank account he just opened. "Dropshipping isn't as competitive as 2023 it should be easy to make a few hundred dollars."

He planned to do some dropshipping on eBay for some quick money. With this, the money problem will be solved even if it's in the short term.

Regal worked on that till night, then he directly went to sleep.

The next morning Regal had breakfast then he sat down in a meditative pose, today he's determined to experiment with mana.

"Since there is no mana in the air where does my gamer body get his mana from? When I concentrate, I can feel the mana in all my body, I don't have Dantian or something like that. Doesn't that mean it's bad to limit myself to the "meridians" that don't exist?" Regal had a lot of questions but no answers.

"Since I can't do breathing exercises, I'll try to output mana like aura" Regal closed his eyes and controlled his mana to get out of his body, well not really, it's just as if he has been suppressing it naturally, now it's unleashed. It's still his mana, it's just a few centimeters out of his body.

Regal opened his eyes and tried to maintain this state, he saw the MP bar barely moving. "So, it's still under my control" when he tried to widen the "aura" the MP bar started dropping fast. Regal quickly retracted his mana.

[You created a new skill you can give it a name]

"Looks like it worked" smiled Regal. [Do you want to name the skill "looks like it worked"?]

"No, name it Magic Aura" [Do you want to name the skill Magic Aura?]

"Yes"

[Magic Aura: (Active) Level 1

You can project your mana to the outside world to see your power. It provides slight attack and defensive attributes, more effective on non-physical beings.

It has an intimidating effect on weaker beings.

It grows as your mana grows]

AN: Guys I'm having a crisis rn the mechanics of the gamer system are a bit messed up like the relation between INT and MP I'm doing 10MP for 1INT, but Jihan in the Manhwa had 65.5 points and 900MP the next chapter it became 2000MP like wtf. Then the author abandons the MP system and just makes the MC have infinite mana. If you have any ideas, please let me know in the comments.