NOVEL SIMPLE Volume 1: Chapter 2: Gathering Supplies
{Master, I advise you to check your appraisal result once more, you have acquired three new skills during the magic circuit unsealing process.}
"Okay, please show me."
{Yes, master.}
{Name: Evan Starling
Title: Void Survival, Singularity, Fateless, Reincarnated One, ???.
Race: Mixed - High Human,???,???....
Level: 01 (000/500 Exp)
Age: uncountable
Statistics
Mana - 100
Strength - 2
Dexterity - 2
Endurance - 250
Intelligence - 20
Wisdom - 20
Unique Skills:
All-Omni-Powers (Rank B) - Limitless Potential - talent over everything, Total Control over one’s powers, and Ageless. Others like - Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence, and more are currently sealed.
Wisdom Lord Raphael (Rank EX)
Ever-Evolving (Rank EX) - It allows its user to adapt to any situation, while the user’s bloodline evolves, correcting any part of it that limits their growth, allowing them to evolve endlessly.
Personal Skill:
Charisma (Rank B) - A composite Skill consisting of a person's charm as well as the natural rare talent to command or unify an army or country. Increases the ability of allies during group battles. While having Rank B cannot manage a country, the comrades who share your will hold a firm connection unbroken by death.
Instinct (Rank A) - The ability to instantly identify “the best personal course of action” during combat. With your current of it, it allows for the prediction of trajectory, and it is possible to avoid attacks from firearms.
Racial Skills:
Self Regeneration (C) - Derived from High Human Lineage, allows regeneration of physical damage.
Extra Skills:
None
Arts:
Second True Magic / Kaleidoscope (Rank A)
Magecraft (Rank B)
Resistance:
Magic Resistance (Rank B) - Provides partial protection against magical effects. Differing from the Resistance effect that merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels any C+ Rank or below spells altogether.
Pain Resistance (Rank B) - The ability to endure pain, at current rank it is possible to remain conscious even when fatally wounded.}
"Oh! Now I can use Magecraft!" I exclaimed in excitement.
*Gruuuh~!*
My excitement died down as my stomach growled loudly, demanding food.
"Looks like I am hungry. Let's go."
"Huh?" I noticed my previously sweaty body is now as clean as I am just out of the bath.
"Wait, could it be?" I thought of an explanation, to confirm it I quickly pick-up the shirt that I was wearing before, "This is also clean as new, this means? Let's confirm it. Raphael uses Appraisal on my clothes."
{Shirt (Creator: Akasha) (Contractor: Evan Starling)
Quality: EX / Value: ??? / Abilities: Hardening, Regeneration, Auto-Clean, Shape-shift.
A shirt that’s been infused with the concept of Durendal. It is light and flexible, but as hard as steel. It has dyed with your mana, giving it self-restorative powers. The rate of regeneration improves upon absorbing Mana. Current regeneration rate: 80%
Its shape and design can be changed according to your imagination at the cost of mana.}
{T-Shirt (Creator: Akasha) (Contractor: Evan Starling)
Quality: EX / Value: ??? / Abilities: Hardening, Regeneration, Auto-Clean, Shape-shift.
A t-shirt that’s been infused with the concept of Durendal. It is light and flexible, but as hard as steel. It has dyed with your mana, giving it self-restorative powers. The rate of regeneration improves upon absorbing Mana. Current regeneration rate: 80%
Its shape and design can be changed according to your imagination at the cost of mana.}
{Jeans (Creator: Akasha) (Contractor: Evan Starling)
Quality: EX / Value: ??? / Abilities: Hardening, Regeneration, Auto-Clean, Shape-shift.
Jeans that’s been infused with the concept of Durendal. It is light and flexible, but as hard as steel. It has dyed with your mana, giving it self-restorative powers. The rate of regeneration improves upon absorbing Mana. Current regeneration rate: 80%
Its shape and design can be changed according to your imagination at the cost of mana.}
{Shoes (Creator: Akasha) (Contractor: Evan Starling)
Quality: EX / Value: ??? / Abilities: Hardening, Regeneration, Auto-Clean, Shape-shift.
A pair of Shoes that’s been infused with the concept of Durendal. They are light and flexible, but their sole is as hard as steel. It has dyed with your mana, giving it self-restorative powers. The rate of regeneration improves upon absorbing Mana. Current regeneration rate: 80%
Its shape and design can be changed according to your imagination at the cost of mana.}
Similar results for undergarments like underwear, inner, and socks.
"-" Looking at the appraisal result my mind.exe stopped working as I have no words that can be used to comment on this stuff.
"Let's go", I said to myself to distract myself from the Appraisal result of the clothes I am wearing.
Walking to the rooftop entrance door, I tried to open it but found it locked 🔒.
"..." I stood there not knowing what to do.
"Aah, well let's do it the hard way. Raphael, some assistance will be appreciated ."
{Ready for assistance.}
"Okay, let's see." I recall the basics of 'Projection' and the theory behind it.
Recalling the history of the item I want to project, I attempted my first magecraft.
"Projection" I whispered, imagining the entire process starting with imagining me coming out of the void and meeting Akasha as it is the trigger I decided upon to start my magic circuits, why? Because it came naturally to me.
With my trigger activated my mana fueled my magic circuits, which in turn took the knowledge I have and used it with my desire to create a miracle that in this case is creating a metal key by converting mana into one.
This entire process didn't take much time due to my using Raphael's Parallel Processing sub-skill.
At the end of it, I am left with a key in my hand.
"First step is done, now it's time for the second one." Saying this I put the key into the door locks keyhole.
"Transmutation" I spelled activating Alchemy magecraft that I have knowledge of, my magic circuits came to life once again as shining red circuit-like patterns appeared on my body which are hidden by my clothes.
At this step, Raphael personally assists me in manipulating the shape of the key to push back the lock pins in the door lock.
Three seconds later, with a click, the door lock got unlocked. Taking out the key from the keyhole, I see that its shape has changed as new groves and hills have appeared on it.
Opening the door, and entering the school building, I locked the rooftop entrance and stored the key in my inventory.
From there, I used the Stairs to descend to the first floor. Keeping an eye on my surroundings I reached the walls acting as the parameters of school.
Running some distance to gain speed, I put strength in my legs and performed a high jump marking an arc over the walls and landing on the other side of it outside of the school premises.
"Now I need to find a grocery store that has already closed for the night." Planning my action I left the place.
After fifteen minutes, I reached the shopping district of Fujimi city. Following that, it didn't take me a long time to find a grocery store that had already closed for the night. Finding my target, I first scout out the surroundings as I wait for the nearby shops to close down which didn't take long, only an hour or so as it's already 9 o'clock when I left the school.
"Raphael assist me"
{Yes}
Getting Raphael's assistance, I started preparing to create a 'Bounded Field - Isolation' around the area by engraving a chain of runes around the series of stores that sell groceries, hardware, tech like computers, woki-Toki, clothes, etc.
Half an hour later, I finished the preparation by engraving the last rune encompassing the series of stores in a large circle.
"let's activate it", with that said I channeled my mana into the rune which worked as a turn-on switch for the 'Bounded Field - Isolation'. With its activation, the runes connected to it started to glow indicating the activation of the Isolation field.
In less than ten seconds, the ' Bounded Field - Isolation' was up and running without any problem.
Considering the size of the area it encompasses, the time it took to create was considerably less, ' All the credit goes to Raphael who helped me by increasing the speed of my thought process, and the fact that with every rune I carved out my experience in rune magecraft increased drastically.'
I then walked into the bounded field and made my way toward the grocery store, my primary objective of coming here.
Using my makeshift key and a bit of transmutation I easily entered the store.
Entering the store I took a shopping cart 🛒 and entered the quick snack area, picking up some read to consume stuff like potato chips, juice bottles, etc.
Opening a packet of chips I started eating from it as it will take me some time to collect ingredients and make something to fill my stomach, so I decided to fill my stomach with chips, etc for now and eat a full meal after I am done collecting things.
Eating chips I start walking through every designated area of the store, picking up 30-40 packs of everything that I or Raphael think was necessary for my survival.
I exited the store half an hour later I entered it, with my inventory carrying all the things I picked up.
For the next one and half hours, using the same method I swept out five stores in the area collecting a lot of hardware, furniture, and a lot of electrical stuff, the latter of which was a necessity if I wanted to repair the things that would be damaged by the Gamma-radiation produced by the nuclear bomb that is going to explode in the aerospace of Japan.
