Shadow Author

As I shut the door to the classroom and made my way to my destination a buzz shook my arm. A smile broke out on my face as I knew what it indicated.

While walking I unlocked the screen to see the messages.

[You've caused the attention of a professor.]

[+10 SP]

[Evelyn will remember your name.]

[+5 SP]

Glad that my plan worked. It brought me closer to the grand reveal. Not only had I gotten some SP from walking about but now I was beginning to create a reputation.

Just as I finished my self-analysis I reached my destination. It was a large room full of all kinds of equipment and weapons. However unlike the classroom where the trios class took place the room was made especially and only for the 9th-grade class.

Each grade got its own training rooms and they got better each year. But the most significant part of it was the individual rooms.

There were only a couple of these rooms so it was first come first served. Another reason I left the dungeon safety class was for this reason. Staying there would have brought more harm than good.

By leaving I got SP, and became known as someone who didn't care about lessons, could train without interruptions, and wouldn't have to waste time on information I already knew. It was a win, win, win, win!

I quickly made my way into an individual training room and locked the door so that there would be any interruptions. These rooms were almost always in use and someone like the current me would never in a million years be able to gain access. The reason being was that there was a monopoly.

The strongest in the class always got priority and they held the vacant rooms even if no one was playing to use them. By doing this they would force the weaker students to pay credits to use them.

Although it was cruel, it was the way the world worked. The strong get stronger while the weak get weaker. If the weak wanted a chance they would have to go into debt to get access.

I don't know how Lucas managed to spend three hundred thousand credits but I assumed a good bit of it was in the training room.

I was pissed off at this because I was now in debt over something meaningless. If the previous Lucas was smart enough he could have gotten the rooms for free if he just skipped classes. It wasn't like he wasn't used to it because when I transmigrated I was in an open field when I should have been in class.

So the question was, just what was the last Lucas doing with all that free time?

But I didn't have time to find out the reasons. I had to become stronger and one of the fastest ways to do it was to train.

Right after locking the door to the training room, a message appeared outside the door to anyone who might be strolling around that it was occupied.

But this message was practically useless because there was a setting that allowed the room to be blocked from the outside.

Everyone always had this feature active because they wouldn't want anyone watching them and possibly finding out about their weaknesses. Due to this the feature was actually automatically turned on. But instead of it being a good thing, this was bad for my plans.

I turned to my left where a 3d screen was projected on the wall next to the door. Tapping on a couple of menus it took a while to find what I wanted. Once I found the button that made it so no one outside to look in I switched it from active to inactive.

No change happened in the room due to the glass being one-way. This meant that I could see out but no one could see in. However, after disabling the feature the glass became two-way. This made no difference to my vision so I had to believe that the technology was working correctly and people could see me.

With everything set up in the room, I had to do one last thing before I began and it was the most important piece as well as the reason I made the glass two ways.

Tapping on my smartwatch I first unlocked it before checking on the amount of SP I had.

[SP: 587]

The amount was extremely low and it slightly terrified me because if something were to happen I wouldn't have much to spend.

But I became even more worried when I realized I would be spending practically all of it on my next creation.

Leaving the SP sea toon I went into the information one to ask how much SP costs to create a skill.

[Skills range from 10 to 2500 SP.]

I was shocked by this discovery as it was much less broad than I anticipated. But the more I thought about it the more sense it made.

Cleaning skills were nowhere near as important as skills like Mr. Vankay's hearing.

Butlers and maids could develop cleaning skills and although they would be practical for serving their master combat skills were much more respected.

If the lowest amount of SP for a skill was ten, which would make sense for skills like cleaning, ones that were around two thousand SP had to be incredibly powerful.

Also because skills weren't as powerful as Gifts it made sense for them to cost less.

With everything ready I began to imagine the type of skill I wanted to create. After having a rough idea I thought about it expecting to get a notification as I had with the Gift but instead, nothing happened.

Confused by this, I asked if there was something different about creating a skill.

[All skills range from 10 to 2500 SP. You cannot create a skill stronger or weaker than within the restrictions.]

Realizing my mistake I must have envisioned a skill that was worth more than 2500 SP. So I began to add conditions and restrictions but even then no messages appeared.

Now knowing that I was attempting to create something impossible I dumbed it down and made it as precise as possible. Only then did a message appear in front of me.

[Mana Breath: By breathing in mana for a minute straight, magic will increase by 0.01]

[Do you wish to create this Gift for 2500 SP?]

Although this was exactly what I wanted, the cost was too high and I couldn't afford it. So I began adding more conditions to get it closer to my price range.

[Mana Breath: Only by being in a mana-rich environment and having lowered all-natural defenses will this skill take effect. By breathing in mana for a minute straight, magic will increase by 0.001]

[Do you wish to create this skill for 1250 SP?]

Unfortunately, even with this, it was too expensive. Worried that it wouldn't be worth creating the skill I asked Information if there was anything I could do.

[Gifts, skills, and stat points can be converted back into SP. However, there will be a 10% loss upon return and all knowledge and experience gained from Gifts and skills will be permanently lost.]

Surprised by this new valuable bit of information I asked how much one stat point would return.

[900 SP]

I didn't know if it was a good trade or not so I decided to also see how much I could get from my first Gift.

[750 SP]

Judging by the fact that the price was lower and that a Gift wouldn't give more than a stat point I decided to go with the latter.

[Are you sure you wish to revert Sharp Sword (Beginner-7) to 750 SP? Warning: all knowledge and skill will be permanently deleted!]

"Yes."

Immediately after my mind began to get fuzzy and hazy. Although I had never gotten drunk before, what I was going through felt like the best way to describe it.

A few moments later when I gathered myself I checked the amount of SP I had.

[SP: 1337]

Glad that it worked, I went back to the mana breath skill.

[Do you wish to create this skill for 1250 SP?]

"Yes."

Immediately after, the skill appeared on my status screen and I began to get to work.