Heart.
After Zilla and Nu left to their own dorm rooms, Ivan picked up his RC which was tossed on the bed before he opened his [Stats] option.
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Stats:
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[Strength]: 0.0 [Allocate]
[Agility]: 0.0 [Allocate]
[Dexterity]: 0.0 [Allocate]
[Stamina]: 0.0 [+0.25] [Allocate]
[Tenacity]: 0.0 [+0.25] [Allocate]
[Intelligence]: 0.0 [+0.25] [Allocate]
[Will Power]: 0.0 [Allocate]
[Adaptation]: 0.0 [Allocate]
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[Stat points] or [SP] – 1
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[HP – 0/0] [Allocate]
[MP – 0/0] [Allocate]
[Fate – ---]
[Experience points – 1001.28] [+10.0128]
[Ri] – 0
[Gold – 0]
[Silver – 0]
[Bronze – 0]
[Steel coins – 0]
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He clicked on [Allocate] next to the adaptation after noticing he had a free stat point.
[Adaptation]: 0.0 [Use SP] [Use Exp points]
He clicked on [Use SP] and gazed at the notification pop up.
[[Adaptation] stat increased by 1]
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Stats:
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[Strength]: 0.00001 [Allocate]
[Agility]: 0.00001 [Allocate]
[Dexterity]: 0.00001 [Allocate]
[Stamina]: 0.00001 [+0.25] [Allocate]
[Tenacity]: 0.00001 [+0.25] [Allocate]
[Intelligence]: 0.00001 [+0.25] [Allocate]
[Will Power]: 0.00001 [Allocate]
[Adaptation]: 0.00001 [Allocate]
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[Stat points] or [SP] – 0
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[HP – 0/0.00001] [Allocate]
[MP – 0/0.00001] [Allocate]
[Fate – ---]
[Experience points – 1001.28] [+10.0128]
[Ri] – 0
[Gold – 0]
[Silver – 0]
[Bronze – 0]
[Steel coins – 0]
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"Wha-"
SNAP-!
FHUMP-!
Before he could understand what was going, feeling the seal on him loosening, which brought a pin tip sized gap amidst of the shackled seals, he lost consciousness as his violent magic power seeped back to where it belong.
[[MP] stat increased by 1]
[[MP] stat increased by 1]
[[MP] stat increased by 1]
...
....
Ivan's body twitched whenever a pop up appeared on his [Catholic-RC], which stopped after 10 continuous pop ups. Meaning Ivan's [MP] stat had increased by 10.
And;
Now, his stats looked something like this:
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Stats:
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[Strength]: 0.00010 [Allocate]
[Agility]: 0.00010 [Allocate]
[Dexterity]: 0.00010 [Allocate]
[Stamina]: 0.00010 [+0.25] [Allocate]
[Tenacity]: 0.00010 [+0.25] [Allocate]
[Intelligence]: 0.00010 [+0.25] [Allocate]
[Will Power]: 0.00010 [Allocate]
[Adaptation]: 0.00010 [Allocate]
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[Stat points] or [SP] – 0
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[HP – 0/0.00010] [Allocate]
[MP – 0/0.00010] [Allocate]
[Fate – ---]
[Experience points – 1001.28] [+10.0128]
[Ri] – 0
[Gold – 0]
[Silver – 0]
[Bronze – 0]
[Steel coins – 0]
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The reason for his stats acting strange was due him being a one whole being; instead of existence being a combination of a mind, body, and soul. The existence named Ivan was merely a blob of energy had taken a physical form of a mortal, which meant that his numbered and differentiated stats held no actual meaning; and as for why his stats were 0.00010 when it was supposed to be 10 were concerns for the future.
And why are the forcibly increased stats, [+0.25], not included and increased like the stats when [Allocate]d?
For that, you can them like "extra" or "forced stat increases" instead of the stats gained by SPs and Exp points.
The first thing his magic power did upon returning to his powerless body was creating their pathways. Blood veins, arteries, capillaries, aura nodes, magic power nodes, aura veins, and magic power veins, every vein through which power of the absolute could cruise through was created in his body and at the centre of his chest, blinked the most of his concentrated magic power.
With a blinding yet dull glimmering wisp of his greenish black magic power, a heart, a Dragon's heart to be precise, was "drawn," before the wisp and the drawn heart blinked violently and calmed down till the blinks began to resemble the speed of a regular heartbeat and then,
Something Ivan hadn't felt in a long time.
Something Ivan thought to have lost.
Something Ivan was familiar with but had become unfamiliar with, was felt.
A rhythmic sounds of a pleasant heart's beat sounded in the room.
BA-THUMP.... BA-THUMP.... BA-THUMP....
And,
GASP-!
With a loud gasp, Ivan jolted awake while his eyes' sclera got dyed pitch-black colour, before miniature, blinding white irises with vertically dilated black pupils materialized all around his greenish black irises that had bright white vertically stretched pupils dilated to the extremes.
Tens of white irises manifested around his greenish black irises, filling his sclera as his brows narrowed while he clenched his robed chest and collapsed on the bed with his eyes closed.
His body jolted violently and abruptly stopped with Ivan sleeping soundly on his bed.
And the man didn't wake up for 24 hours straight.
*
BEEP-BEEP!
"....." Ivan opened his eyes which had returned to normal with his parakeet green eyes.
'I have regained a heart....' Ivan muttered in his mind and a small smile crept up on his face as he pushed himself and sat straight on the bed.
Picking up his [Catholic-RC] that was tossed aside on his bed, he noticed that there was a notification, upon clicking which
[Notification: All the [Trainees] are to gather at the academy's auditorium in an hour.]
It was the notification that was said to arrive an hour before the opening ceremony after which they could get used to the academy and rest for a few days to get adjusted to the world's time before the academy officially starts.
As his thoughts wandered on what he would wear, he got up from the bed,
At least he tried to, but
"...Hmmmm....." With his brows furrowed, Ivan's body slightly leaned forward in pain as his magical heart palpitated intensely.
A wave of dense magic flooded his body, feeling the scorching heat cruising through his entire body and veins, Ivan almost immediately understood what was happening.
'Blood..... Magic blood....' The so-called magic-blood flooded in his body, pumped through his magical-heart. After an immediate analysis, Ivan understood that the nature of his blood was extremely poisonous and acidic.
After he became a "God," his blood, veins, tissues, muscles, organs, and bones, everything turned into magic and this was the first time in a long while that he was hearing his heartbeat and feeling his blood's warmth in his body; though it was an artificial and magically made ethereal heart of a dragon that pumped pure magic-blood.
Hence, he was slightly delighted but it wasn't long before that feeling faded.
"..... I could be considered an alchemic treasure...." Ivan muttered.
With the knowledge of Drayce, who "had" to learn almost "everything" about magic and other powers which were naturally unique to other unique and different races as the "Crown Prince" of the race called as "Knowledge Hoarders;" Ivan also naturally knew about alchemy.
He had even tinkered with many spells related to alchemy as he played with magic, blood, organs, and other "materials" at free times, gruesomely, fully knowing they were considered to be a "Taboo;" so he knew how precious of a treasure his magic-blood was.
His ethereal-heart was also something many alchemists longed to create, as it made one semi-immortal as long as it was supplied with magic constantly; of course, the ethereal-heart holder would be killed if it's destroyed.
'I wonder if there is anything new that I can learn.....' Ivan thought as he remembered all the experimental results of his alchemy, potionry, black smithing, refining, craftsmanship, transmutation, spell bending, amplification, and many more.
"I should learn something new. Something," Ivan mumbled as his eyes darkened as he continued.
"..... something other than combat...."