Level Eater Chapter 7

The two of them decided on what happens next in this different world, but an immediate problem arose.

"While we are here, we need food, living, and money."

"Food... I have some sweets..."

She took out some candy, chocolates, mini potato chips, and a few other sweets from his little shoulder bag. Also, She took out a 500 ml plastic bottle.

"I know that you always have some candies on you but why do you have so many?"

"So that I can eat it when I'm hungry, or when I feel like I want to."

"Oh. Oh, I have two onigiris and a bottle of tea."

He took out the plastic bag of the convenience store from his backpack. In Tatsuro's house, his parents would return very late two to three times a week so on those days, he would just buy something from the convenient store to eat on at home.

"Ah, speaking of which this is from the convenience store on the way home. If I knew this would happen to us I would've bought so much more."

"Well, you wouldn't have known that. We have to deal with what we have for now."

"Yeah. But we don't even have any place to live, the amount of money that is shown in the system is zero, and the most important problem we have to face is how to get out of this forest."

"Oh, speaking of that we've only been using the map and 'help' to find out everything recently."

Then, Ai pointed her fingers to whatever seemed like a path that drifted into darkness and suggested that Tatsuro.

"Yes. Apparently walking on this road down the river seems to lead to a town of some sorts called Obsul."

"Hm. By the way, how much time would it take for us to get to Obsul?"

"Ah... apparently it takes three days on foot..."

"THREE DAYS???"

"Yeah, it's two days walking along the river and one more day to get to the town."

"Oh...."

Both of them looked at each other with some stressed facial expression. To make two modern kids walk for three straight days with little food, this is a natural reaction. But there was a bright topic. Tatsuro tried to change the tense atmosphere and quickly took out his hand.

"Okay, we can't just do nothing. Let's change the topic."

"To?"

"I want to learn some magic."

"Magic!!"

As Ai heard that, her eyes sparkled with admiration and romance as Tatsuro activated the system.

"Um, right now I have 62 SP right now, so I'll take Lvl. 1 for light, darkness, fire, water, life, and earth attributes all at once."

"Oh, six at a time. But they're all lvl. 1 is that ok?"

"About that, I just want to try some of them and concentrate on those which I think would be easier to use."

"I see. I think it would be very interesting to see all of those various attributes. That's should be fine."

"Mhm, then I let me get all of those."

With the acknowledgement of Ai, Tatsuro first opened the skill column and selected "Light Magic Lvl. 1, using up 11 SP.

"Hm?"

Then he was caught in a mysterious, but unbelievable feeling that had somehow changed him.

"What's happening?"

While tilting his head and wondering how to describe it to Ai, the feeling left Tatsuro. It wasn't a particularly bad feeling, so Tatsuro just said it was "nothing."

Then after some time to think of what happened, he decided to continue and select "Darkness Magic Lv. 1," this time costing 22 SP. If he took light and darkness later, the worst-case scenario, the magics would cost him 132 SP to obtain and this made him a bit relieved.

At this point, he wondered if that strange feeling would come again, but this time there was nothing in particular.

After that, he acquired fire, water, life, and earth as planned with 11 SP remaining.

"Okay, this should do it."

"I can finally see magic!"

While holding back their urge to departure, Tatusuro first checked his stats to make sure that he was getting the correct things.

Name: Tatsuro Hasami

Cla.s.s: Light magician

Level: 3

Power: 10

Magic power: 116

Strength: 10

Endurance: 10

Speed: 5

Magic power: 36

Magic resistance: 36

Magic control power: 31

◆ Acquired skills ◆

《Level Eater》 《Light Magic Lv.1》 《Dark Magic Lv.1》

< fire="" magic="" lv.1="">> < water="" magic="" lv.1="">> < life="" magic="" lv.1="">>《Earth Magic Lv.1》

◆ System skills ◆

《Map function》

Remaining skill points: 11

◆ t.i.tle ◆

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"Okay okay, I got it right. Oh, my cla.s.s has become a light magician and my stats have leaned more towards magic. Was that what the feeling was?"

"That feeling...?"

"Ah, I got a feeling that's kind of hard to explain, but I think Ai didn't get it since you master in martial arts from the beginning."

"Hmm, I don't really understand but will it be a problem?"

"There is nothing abnormal."

"Then let's quickly go."

"Okay!"

Saying so, Tatsuro kept a little distance from Ai. He searched how to use the magic with 'help' first so that he doesn't disappoint his girlfriend. According to it, when using magic for the first time, it's good to just be aware of the spell and leave it to the subconscious body. He then learned how to manipulate, release, and shape the magic. He learned how to control the magic so that it was close to what he imagined.

First, he tried《Light Magic Lv. 1》. He then realized that he could feel the magic inside of himself. Then, his body moved as if it were working from memory. With a push of his fingers in his right hand, he felt the magic circling around his body.

The magical power gathered on his right palm and slowly released outside his body. The emitted energy then took shape, eventually to a bullet the size of an apple.

"Something is coming out! That's so cool!!"

"So this is magic..."

Tatsuro was so impressed that he couldn't even reply to Ai. He kept thinking about how amazing that he was the one who created this ball of light. The sensation of magic around his body, the sensation of something being released, and the way it is formed. Everything feels so fresh and inexhaustible.

It was like a feeling of having a new sixth sense.

Then, in this moment of immersed excitement, he continued on without forgetting this feeling and took on the skills of darkness, fire, water, life, and earth, one after another, emitting each magic.

But, how to change and use these magics...

Apparently, it appeared as a sphere of that attribute on the palm of his hand. Although it was very fun and exciting for the person using the magic, Ai, who was just seeing a ball change colour, quickly became less intrigued. It seemed to be no more than just a colour-changing lightbulb.

"Hey Tatsuro, is there anything else?"

"Eh? anything else? Oh, my bad. I feel like I will be able to catch something in just a little bit. Please just bear with me for a bit more."

"Sure, if you say so, I'll wait. But just saying that we should get going or else we'll just always be in a forest."

"Right! You're right."

At last, he finally remembered that they were in a forest, so he wrapped up his practice, and they started walking downstream.