Daily Life

For the past 6 days, Michael seemed to have gotten into a comfortable yet full of suffering schedule.

In the morning, he would wake up, have breakfast with his mom and talk with her about whatever random topic entered his brain that day, this ranges from talks about the weather to talks about organic chemistry and biology, truly very random.

Ever since he was young, he would talk with his parents about random topics all the time, it was one of the quirks that his parents adored, but his cousins despised. They saw him getting all smart with their parents, which would lead to him hogging all attention. Albeit he never meant for this to happen.

After saying his goodbyes to his mom, he would go to the swimming stadium and do his daily quota of missions, consisting of 5km, 150 sit-ups, and 15 pull-ups. The second day of missions for Michael was absolute hell, his muscles were already sore, battered, and beaten. So to do these missions was almost impossible, Almost.

Thankfully, his body seemed to have started to adapt and evolve, as each day after the second seemed just a bit easier than the last. Which gave Michael even more motivation to keep pushing forward.

He would come home at about noon, make himself a nice meal consisting of 7 scrambled eggs, and then take a nap for an hour.

He would wake up to begrudgingly begin studying, with his only motivation being that he'll only have to study for less than a week. After that, he promised himself to not touch another textbook again.

Michael would then be left sore and bored for the rest of the day, so he would usually either visit his mother at her factory and help her out with whatever mundane task she needed help with, although he was limited in what he could do, as he had no clue about sewing and designing clothes, but he wanted to help his mother with whatever he could.

Or he would meet up with Kai, sometimes if he's feeling extroverted enough he would also meet with mutual friends. They all seemed... cool, It seems Kai had a good group of friends.

He would always be so depressed and frustrated because he wasn't doing well in swimming, that he wouldn't pay attention to anyone else, It took Kai being the extrovert he is, practically forcing Michael to become friends with him. Otherwise, Michael would've had no friends at all.

Maybe now with the system, he could afford to not be so depressed all the time, and hang out with other people.. Maybe.

After finishing up everything, Michael would lay in the bed and do his nightly stretches. This was probably the most relaxing time for Michael, stretching somehow felt.. incredible, as if his shoulders were somehow stiff and chained up for his entire life, and they finally got freed.

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(7 days since getting the system)

Michael could be seen swimming in the pool, he was currently staring at thin air.

'Yes! I finally completed the first task' Michael was currently looking at his system prompt.

[TASK 1 COMPLETE (35/35km)]

Michael felt very excited, and his sore body suddenly got a burst of energy, he felt as if he could swim forever. So as celebration, Michael started to swim just for fun, something he hadn't done in a long time.

He swam all the different types of strokes, but suddenly just before he finished celebrating.

[DING]

['Backstroke technique' HAS LEVELED-UP TO LEVEL 2]

[CONGRATULATIONS FOR GETTING YOUR FIRST LEVEL UP SINCE HAVING THE SYSTEM]

[CALCULATING REWARD...]

[10 'Sport points' HAVE BEEN ADDED TO YOUR ACCOUNT]

[REWARD FOR MISSION 'Preparation to become a decent swimmer' HAS BEEN INCREASED]

['C-grade constitution enhancing elixir' HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 'B-grade constitution enhancing elixir']

[DESCRIPTION: Massively increases constitution, moderately increases other stats, has a slight chance to give a constitution ability]

'...' Michael was speechless. He didn't realize this system was that strong!

'A constitution ability? Does that mean superpowers?' Michael felt his heart race just from thinking about the possibilities.

'Super regeneration, high stam-' Michael cut his thought process off.

'The system only said its a slight chance, I shouldn't get excited just to get my hopes crushed. It doesn't matter If I get an ability or not, I will keep working hard and get to the top.' Michael's rational mind started to calm him down, he decided to just ignore the description. He won't allow himself to get excited until the elixir is inside his stomach.

Quickly finishing the dry-land exercise, Michael could see himself stronger! he could now do 7 pull-ups in one set.

'All that's left is the stretches.' Michael thought to himself, despite his attempt to stay calm, his anticipation was rapidly building up.

Michael quickly went home. He finished his studying first, then took a nap. Despite his excitement, after the adrenaline faded, he felt like a zombie with barely working muscles. He napped for 2 hours like a log.

After waking up and eating a good lunch, Michael started doing his stretches.

[DING]

After finishing all his stretches, Michael heard a familiar ding that made him shiver in excitement.

[MISSION COMPLETE]

[CONGRATULATIONS FOR COMPLETING YOUR FIRST MISSION]

['B-grade constitution enhancing elixir' WILL BE PLACED ON YOUR NIGHTSTAND]

[CAUTION: CONSUMING THE 'B-grade constitution elixir' WILL RESULT IN TERRIBLE PAIN]