Shadow Monarch: Multiverse Ascendance

"Ah… okay."

She watched her continuing to do the pushups with the same three fingers. with her head tilted.

'Huh. To think that there'd be a day where oppa woke up before I did.'

And Was oppa always this tall?  Was his body always like that when he came in?

It was not that Jinwoo was lazy, but Jinah was a diligent student who often got up at the crack of dawn for school, so it was a rare sight for her to see her brother in the morning like this.

'Now that I think about it…'

Her brother's shoulders were a bit wider than she'd remembered.

'Eh, I must be mistaken.'

Human bodies were not rubber bands.  They don't stretch like that in just a few days.

….. 

Jinwoo Pov. 

Let's use Casaka's Venom Gland. After all, it won't be affecting me since I do have the 'COURAGE OF THE WEAK' that I got as soon As I got the system. 

SECRET QUEST 

SECRET QUEST: COURAGE OF THE WEAK'

-GREAT SPELLCASTER KANDIARU'S BLESSING: THE GREAT SPELLCASTER KANDIARU HAS GIFTED A SPECIAL SPELL TO YOU. KANDIARU'S BLESSING WILL ENSURE THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE STRONG AND HEALTHY DURING YOUR LIFETIME.

IT'S ALSO THANKS TO THIS QUEST'S REWARD THAT THE LEG I LOST LAST TIME WAS REGENERATED.

QUEST REWARD

-TEMPORARY EFFECT WILL TO REHABILITATE: ANY DISMEMBERED BODY PARTS ARE RESTORED.

-PERMANENT EFFECT LONGEVITY:

ALL DISEASES, POISONS, AND STATUS EFFECTS ARE HEALED, AND SLEEPING WILL EXPLOSIVELY INCREASE REGENERATION ABILITY.

And I no more likely Jinwoo got the skill as soon as he came out of the double gate dungeon. 

It's also thanks to this quest's reward that the leg I lost last time was regenerated.

So without any thought, I took out the pouch.

[ITEM: RASAKA'S VENOM]

ITEM CLASS: A TYPE: POTION

A POUCH THAT CONTAINS RASAKA'S PURIFIED VENOM. OBTAINABLE BY DEFEATING RASAKA UNLIKELY DROP RATE. DRINKING IT WILL GIVE YOU HARDENED SKIN BUT WILL WEAKEN YOUR STRENGTH.

-EFFECT "RASAKA'S STEEL SCALES': -20%

PHYSICAL DAMAGE TAKEN

-DEBUFF WEAKENED MUSCLES: 35 STRENGTH

There's no reason to think. And it's a pretty OP ability that will be pretty useful against many enemies.  But it is also a bummer I won't be able to enjoy alcohol. 

So after again reading the description I drank it in one go. It tasted like shit but I didn't let even a single drop spill out. 

And once I drank it I started to feel weak...

[A HARMFUL SUBSTANCE HAS BEEN DETECTED IN YOUR BODY.)

[3, 2, 1... CURE POISON HAS BEEN COMPLETED.]

[ITEM: RASAKA'S VENOM'S EFFECT WEAKENED MUSCLES IS FADING.]

It's just as I thought. Just like the story. I am going to miss using this ability. I thought as many ideas started to pop up in my mind how to make this ability even greater.

[PHYSICAL DAMAGE REDUCTION: 20%

ACTIVATING]

Great now on to the next point. 

Regeneration Or HP Regeneration Or Hp Regen for me. 

Stamina Recovery or Stamina Regeneration

Mana Regeneration Or Mana Regen for me

Mana Manipulation 

Mana Breathing

These are the five skills that I needed the most. I do have automatic HP and MP regen but they are pretty slow and I am aware that the higher my level is faster they will regenerate.  

But if I learn those skills now I will become invincible on later levels as My HP will recover faster than the enemy could inflict damage upon me. 

My will wounds heal faster than they can inflict on me. 

I will become like Krito during episode 4 when he fights with the mobs of Rosalia. 

And there is a reason why heroes like Logan and Deadpool are so stronger.  In fact his 

Regeneration is what allowed him to kill marvel universe two times and Logan killed every hero on Earth during the Old Man Logan story.  

So it's a must-have ability plus it slows my aging.  

And it's the easiest ability to get.  I just had to inflict the most damage on myself. Then let it heal either naturally or by learning a healing spell or hiring a high-rank healer.  

I can also heal my position from the system shop or from outside. 

But the problem comes with the fact that I am broke and I can't create and learn to heal as I had to learn Mana 

them we could do this all day and you

would not be any closer to hitting me Mana Manipulation before that.  So only one option is using daily status recovery that I get from daily quests. 

It's a shame that I can't stack them up as I can only have one recovery. And I have to save that as stat recovery has saved Jinwoo many times so using it as soon as I got will be stupid.  

So I have to save it until the next day, complete the daily quest then inflict as much damage as I could on myself, then use the stat recovery of yesterday.  And then claim the reward of the daily quest of the present.  

But I could only do this once a day which could take much longer to learn the skill. Of course, I could inflict small wounds on myself and then let them heal neutrally which could give this a small boost.  

So I will go with this method until I have enough money… 

Next is Stamina Recovery.  And now truth be told I have no idea how to develop this skill.  

Does it work like regeneration? I have to use it until I am out of stamina then let it regenerate neutrally. Again I have no idea.  

Mana Regeneration, which I am sure will work with the skills like Mana Flow, Mana Breathing, and Mana Manipulation so these skills are interconnected.  

There are a few more skills and titles that can allow me to manage so efficiently that it would look like I have unlimited mana.  They could be from boasting the power of my spells, increasing damage and the radius, to reducing the amount of mana a spell uses.  

If I learn even one of them it will make it much easier to learn the other once... 

And the most important skill of these three is Mana Manipulation. It's nothing much, it's the manipulation of pure mana. 

But if I learn this skill, becoming a mage creating and learning spells is much easier. And I won't have to bash my head on the books and try out theories. I thought while looking at the chart that I have just created it's to better plan the future.  

Even though My intelligence stat is high I still learn ways to understand magic.  What I have is just theories and information from all the fictional stories I read in my past life.  

Even though I know the rules were the same rules that humans have written but still the authors never gave a deep explanation of magic.  

I closed my eyes and started to meditate. 

There are two types of magic.  

One is normal magic that could be used by everyone.  Such as Fire Ball, Barrie,  Mana Arrow, Acid Rain, and so on.  

The second type is unique magic that is specialized by someone like a Pyromancer or Chronomancer. It's related to their calls or normal people's specialization. 

Unique magic' is a single type of magic that each mage can learn,

Which is more specialized and powerful. And you need deep understanding to work this out.  

On the other hand,

'Common magic isn't that deep or powerful. 

But it has an overwhelmingly wide variation of applications regardless of attributes or its target.

In this world, there has been no mention of common magic though. How did I use it…?

No matter how talented Lenoch is, there shouldn't be any manner to use a concept that doesn't exist though…

I have even more questions now and have gained close to no new information.

Magicians can grow.  

Similarly to how martial artists  train intermediate-rank swordsmanship to hone their proficiency in basic  swordsmanship increases,

Mages can attain higher levels by gaining a better understanding of the calculation formulas of magic or mana. 

In most realities of the Omniverse, mana is basically and most commonly portrayed as the magical aspect of life force (i.e. magical life energy, or 'magical energy with life force'). Hence, it can be found on a universal scale, as the life force is fundamental to existence. Magical entities are able to control mana. They can harness this type of energy from not only their own selves but also the ambiance, since everything that exists possesses vitality, as aforesaid. Rare users can create new mana from nothing.

Via mana manipulation, a mage can achieve various feats. Mana users can control the magic locomotion as mana is a form of magical energy. Aside from utilization for spellcasting, they can channel, re-route, or twist mana that is already used for something. This could lead to counter-spelling, unraveling magical effects, or re-directing mana in use for other purposes. Mana manipulators may also be able to destroy mana entirely, leading to anti-magic effects. It may also be possible for a user to find alternate and more efficient ways to use mana.

Since mana is a life force combined with magical energy, it may have various sentience-based effects. It may act as a singular entity, granting life to the magic it manifests. Or it may cooperate with its users as a summoned unit with sentience.

There are three basic rules to magic.

CREATION' TO MAKE NEW MAGIC.

DESTRUCTION TO RULE OUT AND REMOVE MAGIC

'AMPLIFICATION' TO REINFORCE MAGIC.

And just that I spent hours comparing rules thinking of new ways and trying to learn them in a way that would work. 

But after many hours passed and I started to feel like I would reach nowhere. I started to think about my ways and my choices. 

And even a few hours later when I started to feel hopeless and I gave up. 

And just like that days passed away for me I spent my time either training trying to learn the skills of reading or trying to find some more dungeons that the hunter association didn't have eyes on. 

Or going into areas where dungeon breaks would happen Places like Jeju Island or entering into wild animal areas trying to figure out if I can gain exp by killing normal animals.

Which I totally can but the exp was so small that I would have eradicated thousands just to level up a signal time. 

While I continue to do my daily quest and the training to gain regeneration pain resistance training which means hurting my lf a lot.

I also joined five teams of assholes to clear the dungeon of lower as a weight lifter or mine worker. 

After I would enter the dungeon I would use my speed and sprint and disappear from their line of sight and won't even look where I have after all no one cares about the weakest hunter. 

Once out I started to kill monsters and collect magic crystals. After killing Boss I would make my exit and disappear.

And with this, I got one more strong dead body of a D+ -rank monster. 

So I didn't do it.. as days flew by and the day, when Jinwoo met Jin-hoo arrived and I was just waiting for the call. 

After the meeting, my true power leveling will begin. 

I was still holding the Rune stone that I got from Grimhand. It was the skill I wanted but before that, I was trying to grasp the concept of mana. 

As I was in meditation mode repeating the knowledge I had learned these days. 

Lately, I've been running calculations to increase my understanding of the Mana Magic but all the results have been poor at best. Or even worse as I am still waiting for the ding. 

Let's see,

'WHAT IS MAGIC?'

What do you think is the most important talent when it comes to learning magic?

KNOWLEDGE!

Hard work! After all, you have to study magic your entire life!

The most important talent when it comes to learning magic…

IS 'INSIGHT'.

Hmm... is there anyone here that doesn't know doesn't know what 1+1 IS?

Who wouldn't know that? it's obviously 2!

Hehe.

Then can someone explain to me why it's 2?

It's not something you could simply answer. 

That strange feeling you have right now is what's known as 'insight'.

There was a time when people didn't know that 1+1 equaled 2.

A lot of academics worked hard to prove it.

But despite not having any concrete evidence or proof, we are able to under- stand that 1+1=2. right?

That's because it's a law that's always existed in the world.

That's why we don't need to learn it, for we are able to feel and accept the concept.

Because magic is also a law that existed in the world from the start,

We are able to feel and accept it whole through insight,

That's why insight is more accurate than knowledge and faster than hard work.

Magic is acting outside of common sense.

Another way to explain it is that it's 'A mental operation that explores the truth of reality'.

An irrational reality, but maybe because of that,

Is it actually closer to the truth?

WHEN A MAGICIAN FOCUSES, THEIR MIND WILL BECOME SENSITIVE ENOUGH TO SENSE EVERYTHING IN THEIR SURROUNDINGS.

THE

'MENTAL CONDITION OF

EXTREME SENSITIVITY',

A MAGICIAN BECOMES AWARE OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD IN A SUPERNATURAL CAPACITY,

AND IS ABLE TO DOMINATE REALITY IN THE END.

IT'S NOT DEFINING IT, BUT SENSING IT.

SLOWLY ONE BY ONE, ERASE THE THINGS I FEEL ARE ME.

As I continued to add the new knowledge that I got from the inside of a higher D-Rank dungeon.

Ding!*

[Your understanding of Derivations has increased.]

Ding!*

[The user's magic efficiency has increased by 5%.]

Ding!*

[You have started to gain a deep understanding of Mana/Magic, You have done this on your own, and to value your efforts, You have gained a Master Runestone. But now don't get overconfident there is still a long way ahead of you.]

Ding!*

[Due to your deep understanding of magic your intelligence increased by 5]

Ding!*

[You have gained a Title- Genius]

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Fun Fact.

"Dungeon Break": A reminder, a Gate undergoes full opening after 7 days, then a Dungeon Break occurs. The magic beasts that were normally confined to the inside of the Gate can now leave the Gate, causing destruction and mayhem outside.

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