Chapter 2 Creating First Skill

when I woke up I found myself in the school corridor

The life sucks I am cursing when

Eh? What's this?

In the upper-right corner of my vision, I can see a small icon like a smartphone application notification.

'Did I hit my eyes hard with a handphone?' As I wonder this, a hologram-like status bar appears in front of the teacher, who is currently busy teaching.

[ Name: Chris ]

[ Class: None ]

[ Type: Mage ]

[ Strength: 10 ]

[ Mana: 10 ]

[ Vitality: 10 ]

Unspent Points: ０

[Special Skills]

[ Create Skill ] Beginner Lv 1 - [ SSS ]

Create any skill from your imagination

Skill can be level up to E and F rank (Beginner)

Skill made from Create Skill doesn't require mana.

cooldown : 1 week

'Wow… So I died and came back to life and now I'm seeing hallucinations…'

Wait! I can faintly remember what happened just before I lost consciousness.

-Your body has Awakened.

No! I remember it clearly. This is reality.

I go back home feeling excited and sit down in front of the computer.

Usually, I would use some powerful videos to comfort myself and then study, but today is different!

I feelboth hunger and excitement I never felt in my life before.

I open an internet browser and search up details on my Awakening and my passive skill.

-Awakened Forums-

I look around here and see a lot of information saying that you normally hear a narration about becoming an Awakened and see a status screen at the right-hand side of your vision.

I have confidence.

That this is an opportunity that God has given me, that I am now what I always envied, an 'Awakened'!

I try to calm down; my heart is leaping up and down about to explode. Then I go on the forums again.

I searched about [ Special Skill ] but nothing got my attention but after reading about my special skill I never felt that much exited in my whole life

I searched on the forum about E and F rank elementel Skill that specilise in damay and one skill caught my eye [Flame Manipulation]

I tried to create this Skill from my imagination and after some time I can feel the aura of fire building around me and then I checky my status and I found there my new skill.

[ Name: Chris ]

[ Class: None ]

[ Type: Mage ]

[ Strength: 10 ]

[ Mana: 10 ]

[ Vitality: 10 ]

Unspent Points: ０

[Special Skills]

[ Create Skill ] Beginner Lv 1 - [ SSS ]

Create any skill from your imagination

Skill can be level up to E and F rank (Beginner)

Skill made from Create Skill doesn't require mana.

cooldown: 1 week

[ Fire Manipulation ]

Manipulate Fire around your surrounding and control into any shape

Wanting to test to see if I can at least cast my [ Fire Manipulation ] 5 times that normal F ranked Awakened can cast,

I quickly run out of the house and go to a playground where there were no people.

I want to see my ability with my own eyes.

I already know about how to use skills thanks to my searches

Rent had become increasingly more expensive nowadays, as buildings that had high security where you won't suddenly lose your life were high priced. I had to move quite a distance to get to the barren field before I could begin testing my first skill.

In my mind, I think of the skill name 'Fire Manipulation'

Hyping myself up, I raise my hand in front of me and call out, [Fire Manipulation]

A small spear of flames came to light in front of me, much to my shock and disbelief

Putting my shock aside, I command the fire spear to move forward before it exploded a few meters from me

Like a kid who tasted candy for the first time, I can't resist this excitement.

Three more fire spear were shot and exploded in front of me, increasing the shock and happiness in my heart.

Weirdly enough, I did not feel any less energy in my body...Well, my [ Mana ] stat doesn't go down after using my special skill. so I didn't really feel much.

I focus once more as I cast what is probably my last 'fire manipulation' until I rest for a while before I can cast again.

I hesitantly raised my hand again to see just how many times I could cast [Fire Manipulation]

The more times I cast the skill and more Fire spear flew and exploded in front of me, the more shocked I became

…[Fire Manipulation]...

The shock soon turned into incredulousness, as I had counted more than 50 times fire spear flying from me and exploding

This…

10 times the normal amount of energy an average F rank has?!

Now I understand that much after using my special skill that it's doesn't cost any mana to cast.

Am I actually one of the genius awakanees?

Glancing around and making sure there was nobody around me, I rushed back to my apartment to try and calm my nearly exploding heart

As soon as I was back in my apartment, I took deep breaths and analyzed everything that had happened so far.

I don't feel anything like hunger at this point.

"What I need right now is information… Information…"

I don't feel anything like hunger at this point.

This fucking poverty now I can say goodbye to all of it now. Seriously, goodbye! Say goodbye!

Now that I know about my ability, I need to think about how to level up and how to become rich as fuck.

I go around many Awakened guild forums and collect various information.

I record the date to report in to the Association on my smartphone's calendar app.

-Ttum ttap- Ttum ttum tap- Good morning~ Good morning~

The alarm rings out loudly.

I don't know when I fell asleep.

Now I need to think how to clear dungeons.

As long as I am not braindead, I can easily clear an F and E ranked dungeons, even if I'm alone

D ranked dungeons might be a stretch, as the strength of monsters increase and I would need higher ranked skills besides fireball to take them down

But there's no problem taking things slow. I pull out my phone and look at the remaining balance in my bank account

$5,867

Enough money for rent and food for a few months, and the remainder of my savinngs.

A year ago, in a dungeon break, my parents were disappeared. I was stuck in the bas.e.m.e.nt of my old house asleep and escaped the onslaught of monsters that were taken care of by the government and newly awakened people after a few days.

And now, I was among those people too

The first order of business? Obtain an Awakened License that will allow me to enter dungeons. Without a license, you cannot bypass the security that allows the Awakened to clear dungeons

You can get a license fairly easily, as you just have to be examined and exhibit skills. I was itching to get started as soon as possible, so I grabbed my backpack and rushed downtown.

With the advent of monsters and heroes, many of the populations were condensed onto a few protected cities. Almost everything was close to each other, so the Awaken Center was not too far away

A few minutes and I was already there. On the way, I saw the usual people with sullen faces and occasional awakened individuals rushing about.

The Awakened Center was vibrating with life, as long lines of people visiting shops could be seen, with even more carefully selling monster [Cores] to the authorities

Many people chose to first consume the [Cores] and get stronger themselves, but many more also sold them to the government and other markets as they went for high prices.

[Vitality Core]s and [Strength Core]s went for around a $1000, while [Mana] cores were almost double that price because of their demand

I moved my eyes to another section of the Center, which was dealing in the selling of Skill Books ranging from F to C. Obtaining a C ranked skill book was a dream for many people, as they were extremely rare and went for more than half a million dollars

I don't need to buy any skill from shops, I just need to create and after 1 week I have a new skill in my hand.

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