Chapter 4: A unique skill!

I waited for my clothes for about 15 minutes and they were looking good and even smelling better, the system is truly efficient.

I dress up and decide to follow the next step of my training which is to create a barrier to protect myself from mana corrosion. It's important and I also believe it's better to do it now than later.

With my mana sense, I can feel the abundance of mana in my surroundings and some particular are coming in contact with me, I better start trying to create the barrier before any of it gets in.

I start thinking of energy isolation and how electrical systems conduct energy. I slowly try to move the mana in my body to create a closed system, to prevent Natural mana from coming in. After a bit, the mana in my body starts to react to my commands, and since I have a mana circuit it already has a proper and preset path to follow, so I don't have to worry about that.

With my mana core's help, I can move large amounts of mana in one go saving me some time.

The process feels like cleaning your nasal channel when you have a cold and is very refreshing.

[You have managed to conduct your mana through your body and familiarize yourself with another part of you. This feat has granted you the skill 'Mana manipulation'.]

I was slightly disappointed since I thought it was the barrier that will protect me from the mana corrosion, but it isn't. It's still good that I got this tho.

I continued to conduct my mana through my body while trying to repel the natural mana.

This process went on for hours and hours, I lost count of time and simply continued trying and trying harder, sweat once again covered my body but I couldn't care less, I was focused on completing this step of my training!

-Later-

Sitting on my bed completely soaked in my sweat and with a satisfied smile on my face while looking at the new notification I got.

[You have gone through sweat and more sweat pushing yourself and putting in some effort. In the end, you are rewarded for your persistence, you have learned the skill 'mana corrosion barrier']

"I'm so hungry!... I'll take a bath and then have to find something to eat... I'm also finally tired, really tired..." I complain as the aftermath of pushing myself settles in.

I get up from the bed, but before I go I put my bed in the inventory together with my clothes and ask the system to clean them, then get my towel and head to the bathroom to take my bath.

After my bath, I put on my now clean clothes, then put my bed back in place, as it is now better than when I first arrived. The system truly is a cleaning genius.

Leaving my apartment while tired and hungry in hopes I can get some food. I decide to do something stupid in hopes it somehow goes well, and then go knock on Lucy's door.

*Knock* *Knock*

I heard the sound of rather heavy footsteps and after quite a while waiting the door opens.

"Kaory? What are you doing here?.. Actually, where have you been? You haven't come to the guild in four days after joining." Lucy asked with a very sleepy face while in her pink pajamas, which made me wonder what time it is.

"I was busy with some training and lost track of time, as for what I'm doing here... I'm very hungry... I was so caught up in my training I forgot to eat and I'm currently broke..." I say with the best puppy eyes I can muster.

"YOU IDIOT! How do you forget to eat for four days?! Do you even know what time it is?! It's 4 in the morning!!.... *sigh* dragon slayers really have muscle for brains... Just come in, I think I have some bread, but if you want a real meal you should go to the guild later, and please don't do something this stupid again." Lucy said with flames in her eyes at first but then sighed and seemed rather worried about me.

(.... I didn't expect this to actually work...) I thought to myself while I walked in and closed the door.

Lucy's room looked the same as in the anime and I looked around a bit but didn't touch anything, I even found Natsu and happy sleeping in the bathtub... Does she know he's here now? Maybe it's best if I don't interfere after all it's their thing and none of my business.

"What are you doing there? Here just take it, I won't eat all of it anyway." Lucy said while extending her left hand that's holding a basket with bread in it towards me.

I look at her think for a bit and then take the basket from her hand and say. "Thank you and I found Natsu in your bathtub, see you tomorrow." I say the turnaround and leave before I get caught up in this mess.

Once I reach the door to my room I can already hear them shouting.

"How can you have so little respect for my privacy?! Do you know the meaning of private property?! How many times are you just going to invade my house?" Lucy was shouting but remembering it from the show, I don't think she's really mad.

"Huh! Where am I supposed to sleep then?!" Natsu asked as if he didn't do anything wrong.

They continued but I ignored it and entered my own room, then ate the bread almost in one go and laid on my bed to sleep, I'm very tired...

Being as tired as I was, it didn't take long for me to fall asleep.

-The next day-

I woke up feeling refreshed and went to the bathroom to wash my teeth and take a bath after I put my clothes in the system's godly washing machine inventory.

Once I was done, I put on my clean and fresh clothes and sit on my bed.

"I should continue my training, I've already completed step 2 which means time to strengthen my body with mana." I say while thinking that this is also a fairly common thing in anime and so, I'm actually a little familiar with it.

From what I remember all I have to do is focus the mana in my internal organs, muscles, skin, and bones then let them absorb to use as foul to strengthen themselves.

Going into mediation again, my mana slowly entered each part of my body with higher intensity than when it was just circulating and I could feel all of my body slowly heat up. My temperature was steadily increasing and it was getting to the point of unbearable.

"Aaaggrrrrhh!" I moaned in pain as I did my best to contain it and not lose my focus.

The process continued and bulging veins were visible all over my body, as I clenched my teeth and held on the best I could. Things only got worse as crimson lines fell from my facial orifices.

I want to scream in pain! To just let go and never try this again! But I don't let myself! Since I've decided to do this ill follow through even if it's hard!

I muster the little strength I still have in me and continue, my body starts to swollen and a few budges here and there, until.

Crack!

The pain intensifies as I feel my whole body tremble as it starts cracking all over the place! A pool of blood and some black liquid fall from my bed onto the floor.

My trembling body continues to contort and cause me immense pain, but it eventually stops and I start losing consciousness.

[You have not only managed to strengthen your body by nurturing it with your mana directly but you also didn't lose consciousness through the whole process! This feat has granted you the skills 'Will of Determination' and 'Mental fortitude']

I couldn't make out what the notification said before I passed out.

.....

Inside the Fairy tail's guild, there is the usual bar atmosphere with everyone doing their own. Lucy sat on one of the many tables with Natsu and Happy on the opposite side eating.

(Where is Kaory? Didn't he say he would come here to eat? Did he forgot to eat again?... Seriously, what goes through some people's heads?...) Lucy thought to herself while at the ceiling.

"Natsu, let's go see if Kaory's ok." Lucy got up as she said so.

"Who?" Natsu looked at her confused.

"The guy who stole Lucy's keys a few days ago, you don't remember?" Happy said while flying around.

"When did that happen?!" Natsu asks even more confused.

"The other dragon slayer that joined Fairy tail... You challenged him for a fight." Lucy explained trying to help Natsu remember.

"OH! The guy that's going to be sick for a year! What an unlucky guy." Natsu exclaimed finally remembering.

"That's how you remember him?!" Both Happy and Lucy asked seeing what Natsu remembered.

After getting that over with, both of them headed out of the guild.

....

Inside my room, I slowly woke up and looked around before grabbing my head because of the lingering pain, then I slowly remembered what happened.

"This training is being much more intense than I thought it would be... System, show me my status."

[Status]

[

Name: Kaory Gluttonics

Gender: Male(?)

Age: 13 years old

Race: Void half-dragon(Humanoid)

Class: Guild mage(Fairy Tail)

Physique: Gluttony void dragon(Awoken, incomplete)

Magic: Gluttony Dragon slayer

Mana control physiques: Type-1(mana circuit), Type-2(Mana core), Type-3(Non-personal)

Magic efficiency: 50%(Speed 50%, output 50%)

NMC(natural mana corrosion):0%

Affinity: Null, Void

Status: Very hungry and tired.

Title: None

Rank: E+

HP: 35/35 |Ethernano(mp):20

Attack:2.5

Defense:3.5

Intelligence:3.0

Speed:2.5

Skills:

Active: Will of Determination

Passive: Language comprehension, Mana sense, mana manipulation, mana corrosion barrier, Mental fortitude

Resistances: Pain tolerance, Physical attack Tolerance, Magic tolerance, Natural elements tolerance, Status abnormality immunity, Disease/sickness immunity, hybrid attack tolerance, Holy and Demonic Attack tolerance, Spiritual attack tolerance, Temperature tolerance, Mental attack tolerance, Rot tolerance

Magic:

Basic spells:

Gluttony Dragon's roar(Null), Gluttony Dragon's claw(Null), Gluttony Dragon's devouring fist(Void), Gluttony Dragon's hunger(Void), Gluttony Dragon's vacuum(Void), Gluttony Dragon's stomach(Void).

Advanced spells: Unknown]

"Hm... Where did all the resistances come from?!" I inquired in obvious shock.

[You have finally awakened your dragon slayer magic together with your physique, and as a gluttony dragon slayer you must be able to consume/devour anything and be somewhat resistant to anything to survive in any environment and as such. So you have all those tolerances, which aren't much considering it's the weakest type of resistance-type skills, it goes tolerance< resistance< immunity< nullification/cancellation. The two immunities you have are there as mentioned before because you need to be able to devour everything. How will you devour everything if you're not even immune to poison and so on?]

I wanted to say something but the system does make a good point and even if it didn't, I'm not about to complain about benefits.

Moving on, my satisfaction with the overall improvements in my stats was quite high and I might be on the right track to becoming stronger, but if I look at the bigger picture, I still have a long way to go, cause if I remember correctly Natsu and his team except for Erza who was already at rank S, the others were at rank B around this part of the story, so I'm still behind by a lot.

I then put my bed and clothes in the inventory wash and took another bath, it seems I'll be repeating this a lot.

Once I was out of my bath, someone knocked on my door.

*Knock* *Knock*

First I put my once again clean clothes on, then I went to open the door slightly being careful not to let the blood on the floor of my room come to view, and found Natsu, happy, and Lucy on the other side.

Why are they here?... Is it because of earlier in the morning? Did Lucy decide to bill me for the bread?! Damn it! I knew that there's no such thing as a free meal, but I thought I would at least have time to make money before it came back to bite me, my luck is truly horrible.

Silence fills the place.

"Hi... Can I do anything for you?" I ask while trying to think of a good way of leaving Magnolia to join Blue pegasus instead, yeah, I'm pretty they won't be able to find me there at least for a while.

"Why didn't you come to the guild? Don't tell me you forgot to eat again?" Lucy asked with a serious expression.

"How do you even forget to eat? What kind of idiot are you?" Seeing Natsu say that made me inadvertently squint my eyes as if he's one to talk!

"Natsu, can you even say that?" Happy spoke.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Natsu responded and they began discussing.

"Oh yeah, I lost track of time again. But you're right, I should eat something." I decide to just go with them, since I'm really hungry anyway.

Lucy then lectures me and we all leave to the guild, and on the way, Natsu comes to me.

"Your room smelled a lot like blood, what were you doing there?" Natsu asks with a serious expression.

"I'll tell you if you promise not to tell Lucy." I say calmly.

Natsu looked at me with a shocked face and then said. "Were you... Making a blood sacrifice to Lucy?! I won't tell her, but that's really creepy."

How did you come to that conclusion?!

I sigh and correct him.

"Of course not! I was training, if you tell her she'll be worried and won't let me train in peace."

"Ohh!! I get it. What kind crazy training is that? I wanna try!!" Natsu was excited about it.

Are you a masochist?! I could help but wonder.

"I'll tell you when I get better." I give the answer I believe will make him leave me alone faster.

Our conversation went on for a bit and I convinced him to wait.

A while later we got to the guild and I once again stuffed myself with food, it was rather good and I felt much better even though I was still tired. Also, during this Lucy asked Mirajane where master Makarov is, to which she asked that he's in a reunion with other guild masters.

This is the start of the Eisenwald arc of Fairy Tail and once Erza gets here things will finally start.

Mirajane went on to explain that there are two types of guilds, official guilds, and dark guilds. The difference is that official guilds work under the council which is the law enforcement agency of this world, while Dark guilds are outlaw groups of criminals that work in the infamous 'underworld' at least in Fairy tail's version of it.

"Hey, you're the new kid, Kaory right?" A man in underwear with dark blue hair come to talk to me.

I first sallow the food in my mouth then answer his question. "Yes, that's me. And you are?" I asked despite knowing the answer.

"I'm Gray, I heard you're a dragon slayer like that flame head over there." Gray said as he pointed at Natsu.

I just nod and kept eating.

"Who are you calling flame head?! you shameless perv!" Natsu Instantly responded and they began fighting.

I just finish my food without minding the fight that Just kept getting bigger as more people joined in.

I got up from my seat and left the place after saying goodbye to Lucy and returned to my apartment.

Once at home I put my bed back in its place and go to sleep without thinking too much about it.

-The next day-

I woke up feeling much better and ready to take the next step in my training.

Now that I have done all the other things, I only need to realise my magic. It sounds simple and I hope it is, as I don't want to repeat the same painful process from the other times.

From my knowledge void consists of the emptiness of space and its vacuum, being a rather unique element with high power, while null is both the non-elemental and ani-magic making it the perfect magic counter. These are dangerous and powerful, so I have to be careful when using them.

I focus my mana in my right hand and think of the void then slowly realise it in the atmosphere making sure to not put too much force. A force comes from my right hand and my clothes and matters start lightly and slowly gravitating towards it. A silvery glow that has a dark and ominous outline to it appeared in my hand even too bright, it felt quite strong.

I decided to experiment a bit and reduce it as much as I can without stopping it then increase it back to the initial state slowly getting used to it. Once I feel safe about it, I slowly increase it and then stop for a bit to get familiar as I don't want to make mistakes.

After a while, I discover full output, and I can currently move the bed for a bit, but it's still heavy.

I wanted to try out Null but I was feeling out of breath and noticed, I don't have much mp left.

[Status]

Ethernano(mp):0.7]

Seeing this, I start meditating to get my mp back faster. Unlike the last time, I can calmly and easily do it and after a few minutes, my mp is full again.

I then try Null on my left hand, since I already got a bit familiar with the process, it was much easier and I released it from my left hand. I could feel a suppressive pressure and as if I was growing weaker, but it was just a feeling. From this, I confirmed that its effects are to weaken magic users. There was a semi-translucent glow on my left hand while I used Null. Following that, I use one element in each hand at the same time and it works just fine, the consumption of mp is higher but that's expected.

It didn't take as much as before to finish, so I decided to try and use both on the same hand at the same time, I know I can do it In different parts at the same time, so now I need to test this.

As I try to do so, my hand is attacked by great pain and pressure so I stop and it goes away. That led to me giving up on it at least for now as it seems the elements don't mix well or I can't mix them yet.

I go through meditation to recover again and then do some more experimentation for the next 4 hours or so.

In the end, I found out that if I maintain it stable and don't increase the output too much, I can last about 40 minutes with one element and 20 minutes with both one in each hand. Also using the same elements in multiple parts of the body at the same time doesn't increase the cost too much, and I also have to get used to both elements so, I don't accidentally mix them or it would be a real problem.

"System what time is it?" I ask since I think of going outside.

[It's 9 am]

It's earlier than I thought, does this mean I woke up at 4 am or something?! I really lost track of time.

Following that, I meditate to recover mp again and then go outside. I walk through the streets of Magnolia until I reach the forest, then I go a bit deeper in just to make sure I don't cause any commotion.

"It's time to test my dragon slayer spells! I can now use my magic fairly well, so I have to test the spells next." I say before choosing one of the trees nearby as the target.

If I remember correctly, two of my spells were associated with Null and the rest with void in my updated status.

"Gluttony Dragon's roar!" I chant as I let a semi-translucent energy beam out of my mouth.

*Boom!*

It hits the tree and creates a wave of energy that quickly disperses, on the tree's trunk is now a rather deep hole that doesn't fully go through the tree.

"I'm only rank E+ so, I can't expect too much." I say slightly disappointed at the low firepower. Then I move on to the next spell.

[You have acquired an associated skill duo to the properties of your spell, you have gained the skill 'Magic suppression aura'.]

I assume this is because of my Null element, but is this really necessary?

"Gluttony Dragon's claw!" The same type of semi-translucent energy from before accumulated in my nail as I claw at the tree with both arms.

Ten scratch marks are left on the tree. Next.

"Gluttony Dragon's devouring fist" The silvery aura with a dark outline covers my first and I attack the tree with a straight punch. During that, I felt that my magic was trying to pull the target towards my fist, but since it was a tree it didn't budge, besides I'm not that strong yet so maybe in the future it will have an effect on it.

[You have acquired an associated skill duo to the properties of your spell, you have gained the skill 'Void attraction']

Will I just keep getting skills like this? I mean, I'm not complaining.

Next.

"Gluttony Dragon's hunger!" When I use this spell my mouth starts letting out the silvery aura with a dark outline and I feel that my stomach's empty. I don't quite understand but after a bit, it stops happening and the feeling goes away.

[You have acquired an associated skill duo to the properties of your spell, you have gained the skill 'Devour']

I'm starting to like this a lot!

Next.

"Gluttony Dragon's vacuum!" Once again my mouth is covered by the void aura but this time, it starts sucking everything in the surroundings! Small and medium-sized rocks, as well as some twigs and tree branches all, get sucked in at a high speed. Once it's done, I feel less hungry than before.

[You have acquired an associated skill duo to the properties of your spell, you have gained the skill 'eat-recovery(All/any)'.]

Isn't that what all dragon slayers do? Eat their element and recover... It says all or any, do I should be able to eat anything to recover... Isn't that broken?! Well, I've seen much more broken in some novels online so, I guess it's not too bad.

Next.

"Gluttony Dragon's stomach!" This time the void aura covers my whole body and I can manipulate its form and make it move as far as 10m. I shape a part of it into an arm and try to grab one of the trees nearby, then the tree gets sucked into the void arm and even gets pulled out of the ground leaving only a crater behind.

After the spell is over, I can feel the existence of the tree sp I try to call it out and it gets thrown out of my hand hitting another.

*Boom!*

[You have acquired an associated skill duo to the properties of your spell, you have gained the skills 'Store' and 'Isolation']

(Gosh! That's dangerous!) I couldn't help but think looking at the two damaged trees. So, aside from the inventory, I can store stuff like this... What if I...

"System, can you connect the inventory with my Gluttony stomach?" I had what I believe to be a great idea, of course, I can take stuff out of the inventory easily, but I can launch it like with the Gluttony stomach, so connecting the two will allow me to do some crazy things! Hahaha! Just imagine if the inventory can store something as big as a mountain then I propel it at the enemy, it's pure evil!

[It is possible, but it will require time. Estimated time: 7 months. Would you like to proceed? Y/N]

"Why is it so long?" I ask disappointed at the reality.

[Because it is the connection between to private pocket dimensions, with strong restrictions. So the process will be forceful and long.]

"Yes, proceed." I say not wanting to give up the dream of one-day throwing mountains at people with no effort involved.

[Inicitioning process.... Diverting power to operation.... Efficiency temporarily reduced... Placing process as secondary.... Complete. Time left until completion of operation: 6 months, 29 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes, and 56 seconds. Notice: during this period it is advised you don't use Gluttony stomach as it will slow down the process, you can still use the inventory, however.]

"This is for a dream, a dream where I can throw mountains at people and maybe one whole countries or continents... Planets even... For that, a mere 7 months is nothing." With my objective set in my mind, I don't mind not being able to use one spell for a while, besides I still have the inventory.

[You have acquired many skills related to the path of Gluttony, as such you are given the chance to merge these skills into one to obtain a more powerful skill. Do you wish to do so? Y/N. Note: All the skills used in this process will be lost.]

Yes! I didn't hesitate much since even without the skills I have my spells, so getting a better skill sounds way better.

[The skills 'eat-recovery(All/any)', 'Devour', 'Void attraction', 'Store', 'Isolation', 'mental fortitude', 'Will of determination', and 'Magic suppression aura' have all been merged to form the Unique skill 'Gluttonous Void Devourer']

"Sweat! One-stop closer to becoming stronger. Status!" I say as I call out my status.

[Status]

[

Name: Kaory Gluttonics

Gender: Male(?)

Age: 13 years old

Race: Void half-dragon(Humanoid)

Class: Guild mage(Fairy Tail)

Physique: Gluttony void dragon(Awoken, incomplete)

Magic: Gluttony Dragon slayer

Mana control physiques: Type-1(mana circuit), Type-2(Mana core), Type-3(Non-personal)

Magic efficiency: 50%(Speed 50%, output 50%)

NMC(natural mana corrosion):0%

Affinity: Null, Void

Status: Excited

Title: None

Rank: E+

HP: 35/35 |Ethernano(mp):20

Attack:2.5

Defense:3.5

Intelligence:3.0

Speed:2.5

Unique skills: Gluttonous Void Devourer

Skills:

Active:

Passive: Language comprehension, Mana sense, mana manipulation, mana corrosion barrier

Resistances: Pain tolerance, Physical attack Tolerance, Magic tolerance, Natural elements tolerance, Status abnormality immunity, Disease/sickness immunity, hybrid attack tolerance, Holy and Demonic Attack tolerance, Spiritual attack tolerance, Temperature tolerance, Mental attack tolerance, Rot tolerance

Magic:

Basic spells:

Gluttony Dragon's roar(Null), Gluttony Dragon's claw(Null), Gluttony Dragon's devouring fist(Void), Gluttony Dragon's hunger(Void), Gluttony Dragon's vacuum(Void), Gluttony Dragon's stomach(Void).

Advanced spells: Unknown]

"Good, I should go visit Nullus again, and then I can go to the guild to get some missions to make money, in three months my rent won't pay itself." I say as go back to my apartment.