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Brutus awakens in a new world. Level 1 infant. Brutus checks his surroundings, on the edge of his vision is this phrase at the top, and on the bottom center is a red bar, on the right is a green bar and the left is a blue bar. On the top right there is the word sleepy. Someone walks in the room. They acknowledge that Brutus is sleepy and the leave. Brutus goes to sleep. The next day, sleepy is gone and replaced with hungry. A woman walks into the room and waves their hand at Brutus and states that he is hungry and gets food. This cycle goes on for a few days. When Brutus is not thinking, the bars and the words disappear. A few more days later, Brutus is now a level 2 infant. The same woman who has been coming most frequently is happy that Brutus has reached level 2. It must be faster than normal progress. In a few months, Brutus is at level 32 infant. He hasn't been doing anything too special, but apparently this is a big deal. People are coming to see him every few days to check on him. Brutus is 8 months old and a level 48 infant. An important looking person comes in and is followed by several people. They place their hand in-front of Brutus and say some words, then look shocked. They talk for a while with the people in the room. Everyone must be excited. Brutus is now being watched more closely than before the person came. Brutus is taking his first few steps now, and trying to communicate. 9 months and Brutus has reached level 73 infant. Someone is trying to speak to Brutus, and they are telling him how to check his own status. It seems that by saying menu in your own head, information will come to you with things about yourself. Brutus tries this and after a few attempts gets a menu to appear. Items, Spells, Player, Job, Perks, Status. These are the catagories of the menu. Brutus decides to check Items first. Baby cloths are the only item listed. Brutus then goes to Spells. It is empty. Brutus then goes to Player. It seems there are a few stats here, HP-20, MP-50, STR-27, DEF-7, MAG-74, SPD-11, INT-46, and then two bars, DR-100% MR-10%. Brutus does not know much about this world, but these stats must be high for an infant. In the Job list, two are available, infant and child. There is an arrow pointing from infant to child, and child is grayed out while infant is in color. It must be a progressive system. Under the perks list, there is Increased Strength, Increased Health Regeneration, Increased Stamina Regeneration, Increased Mana Regeneration and Disease Resistance. Brutus then checks status but it is the same as the top right of his vision. In the next few months, Brutus has moved from infant to child. Brutus is now able to walk partially, and able to talk in small amounts, but this body is difficult to move. The house Brutus is in is large. At least two stories. From what Brutus has gathered, the house residents include his mother and a maid. From time to time, women in the village he lives in will come to visit him in groups, and every so often a certain man will come and check his status. Brutus has reached one year old and level 13 child. Brutus is getting better at walking, but still not quite where he wants to be. The day of his first birthday, a new group of people came by. Three men and two women, but they were very rowdy. The men each had impressive swords and battle axes and armor, and the women had large robes. The picked up Brutus and showed him their magic. The women were making flames at their fingertips. Brutus's mother quickly came in the room and chased them out though. That must be Brutus's father and his gang of adventurers. He is gone for years at a time, but he made sure to come back for his son's first birthday. Brutus progressed though child levels slower than infant levels. At two years old, Brutus was only level 43 child. Still not bad though. Now Brutus was able to move around the way he wanted, and he was even talking with his mother and the maid. Brutus checks his Player information every so often, right now he is at HP-80, MP-170, STR-62, DEF-23, MAG-232, SPD-22, INT-84. He doesn't have any more perks though. Brutus is 3 years old and a level 96 child. This must be a record. Because of his high INT and MAG, Brutus's mother has begun teaching him magic. Magic is learned by reading from a book and then the spell is naturally able to be cast just by thinking about it. Brutus has learned two spells, emit light and project light. When Brutus read the books to these spells, it was as if information was being directly uploaded into his brain, and then the words in the book were gone. Magic books must cost a lot of money if they are so easy to learn. Brutus wants to read more books, but there are not many in the house. Just a few on medicine and cooking. There is one map hanging on a wall with many red circles written on it. Brutus is now 4 years old. He has been a level 100 child for quite some time and is going to start school soon. Normally a child would wait until they reach 5 years old, but because Brutus has leveled so fast he is going to start early. It is Brutus's first time leaving the house. On the outside, it is indeed only 2 stories. Brutus's mother is taking him down the road of a small town. There are people in the street and vendors on the side of the street selling food. Some of the people are dressed in regular cloths and some have armor on and weapons with them. There are only a few with robes like the mages in Brutus's father's party. The school is a sword school. Brutus already has high strength skills, so he does not know why he has to go to school, but it must be to get job levels. Brutus picks up a sword for the first time in the school, though it is just a practice wooden sword, the job Swordsman opens up. In his class, Brutus is not alone. There 4 other sword users, 2 with maces, and 4 with axes. It must be a standard for boys to learn melee combat, because there are no girls in the class. Brutus wonders why anyone would become a swordsman if learning to use magic was so easy. Brutus has not used a sword for 4 years, but he has been using a sword for much longer before that, so his level should increase very fast. Brutus swings the sword a few times and sees his level go up to 2. The teacher comes by to check everyone's status and stops at Brutus for a while, then moves on. They are writing notes of it on a paper in their hand the whole time. For the first day, the students are just swinging their weapons around in front of them. They are just getting the feel for them. The students with the maces and axes have the job warrior. At the end of the day, the class members are tired. They must not have the same STR stat as Brutus. The teacher is speaking with Brutus's mother who has come to get him along with some other others and a few fathers. Some of the mother and fathers might be servants though. At the end of the day, Brutus is told that he has stats much higher than the other children, and that they would try to get him into a bigger city's sword training school. Does not go back to that school again. He can practically feel the other children laughing at him for dropping out after one day. Two weeks later a letter arrives for Brutus's mother. According to testimony from a certain doctor, Brutus would be allowed to take the entrance test to determine if he would be allowed entrance. This was a special circumstance seeing how Brutus was only 4 years old and most admitted were at least 6. Brutus went with another person to a large town a few days travel away. After a few days of travel, Brutus and the other person are at the large town. It has large walls surrounding it and guards at the gates. The guards let them in without checking them though. The first thing Brutus and other person do is visit the adventurer's guild. The other person sells some things from the back of the wagon they were in and then they go to the swordsman school. The headmaster checks Brutus's stats with a detect status spell and agrees that they are high. He ask Brutus what spells he knows and Brutus tells him he knows emit light and project light. They are both cheap spells. Brutus is given free admission and a room to stay in with the other trainees. Brutus is taken to his room by the headmaster and then he leaves. Brutus checks his stats himself. They are high, and his job is level 4 swordsman. A few hours later, Brutus is visited by a worker for the school. They show Brutus around the rest of the school, most of it is in two buildings. Left building has the living space, bathrooms, and a dining area. The right building is an indoor training area. Between the buildings is an outdoor training area. There are many swords in the indoor training area that are locked up tight. Brutus is taken back to the dining area for dinner and before the worker leaves he gives Brutus a book. A flame spell. The food was not very good. Almost everyone at the school is bigger than Brutus. The next day Brutus goes to sword training. There are 37 students other than Brutus. They all are using swords. Brutus is introduced to everyone, and in the introduction the master includes warning that even though Brutus is a low age, he has very high stats. While training, Brutus can feel his level going up very fast. Brutus made friends with most of the people in the school, except a few of the older students. They were already 9 years old and about to leave thinking they were big shots. In a few weeks Brutus was at level 20 swordsman. It was astonishing growth compared to the others. On the school wide rankings, Brutus was already ahead of some students who had been at the school for a year. At 4 years and 2 months of age, Brutus was a higher level than some 6 year old's. Though he was still growing quick. Brutus knew three spells now, flame; emit light; project light. Brutus checked his jobs again and saw two new jobs apart from swordsman. Black mage and gray mage. Brutus checked the job information and it showed Black mages could use magic to fight with and the gray mage could use utility magic. Though flame might be considered utility to light a stove or campfire, it was considered fighting magic. Though Brutus had the swordsman job, he was still able to use magic though, but it would be more powerful if he had the correct job for it. Magic used without the right job is limited at something like 10% efficiency. Meaning it uses the full mana cost of a regular cast and only has 10% the effect. Brutus asked what kind of job the headmaster had, and was told he was Bureaucrat. They were good with numbers and organization and could use inspection magic. Every month an inspection would be done by the headmaster to show what people's stats were at and their job level. A month later, Brutus had passed even more people and was a level 32 swordsman. Higher levels were getting harder to obtain without practice on real opponents. While Brutus was walking around town one day he saw the adventurer's guild. Brutus went in and looked around. He went to a counter and asked to be registered. The lady at the test called someone over who was a bureaucrat job and took the status of Brutus. They got his stats, his job level and his age. The adventurer's guild does not stop people from being members for reasons other than being a criminal, so they let him join. Brutus received a guild card. Name: Brutus, Age: 4, Job: Swordsman, Level: 35, Party: , Rank: F. Brutus looked for a quest that he could do, but most of them were for monsters to be killed. Brutus was not sure if using his current equipment he would be able to kill the monsters of the easiest quest, but if he used certain abilities and perks he had he might be able to. Brutus took a quest to kill 10 lesser rabbits. Brutus went outside the city and went to the farm of the person who gave the quest to the guild. There farm was being attacked by the rabbits and they wanted them killed. Brutus was happy to oblige. Brutus walked around the farm for a little bit and saw a small rabbit. From it's size, it was very normal. Very lesser. Brutus did not have a sword with him, but he did have an ability from a long time ago, ground enhancing. Ground enhancing was the ability to manipulate anything that came from the ground. Brutus pressed his foot against the ground and thought of spikes coming up an piercing the rabbit. A spike came from he ground and went right through the rabbit. Brutus put the rabbit in a sack he had and looked for more rabbits. Once Brutus killed 10, he checked his level, but it did not change. Looks like using ground enhancing will not effect levels. Brutus went back to the guild with the rabbits and received the quest reward. There was no limit to how many quest Brutus could take in a day and there was no limit to what rank he could choose from, though choosing within one level of one's rank is recommended. For 10 rabbits, Brutus got enough money to buy a meal from a street vendor and a small knife. But with ground enhancing, Brutus did not need these things. Just to be safe though, Brutus bought the cheapest blade he could get. All he needed was the iron or steel. Brutus took a quest to kill some goblins and went into a nearby forest. When he was out of range of the town, Brutus held the knife in his hand and used ground enhancing to make the blade long and thin. It still wasn't the size of a real sword, but Brutus was barely 4 and a half years old, so it would have to do. A little bit into the forest Brutus found some goblins. They were gross looking and had their teeth sticking out of their mouth. Brutus took a few steps towards the goblins and they turned to face him. After a few more steps the goblins began to charge at him. Brutus swung his pseudo-sword at a goblin and dodged the rest. The goblin was hurt but not dead. But kept at it though and eventually killed all the goblins. Brutus was a little tired and saw that his green bar had gone down a little bit. But so did his red bar, even though he didn't think he was hit. Brutus collected the goblin heads and went looking for more. Brutus finished killing the required goblins and checked his level. Level 45 swordsman. Brutus turned in the goblin heads at the adventurer's guild and received a bigger payment than from the rabbits. With this, Brutus left like he had started on the path of an adventurer. Brutus's fifth birthday. This is typically when a child must choose what they will be doing in the world, if they will be studying a trade, or become a warrior of some sorts, or if they choose magic paths. Brutus chose when he was 4 though, so he was staying in the same place. His father met him in the bigger town, and dropped off some monster loot at the adventurer's guild. There was a different person in the party now, and one person was missing. They were probably killed and replaced. Such is life as an adventurer. Brutus had been taking quest at the guild every few days and was now a rank E adventurer, and had quite the amount of pocket change. Brutus was using the money to pay the cooks at the school for better meals, and saved some of it for magic books. Brutus already bought a new spell book, Frost. In addition to this new spell, Brutus used the flame spell while slaying monsters and received new job, Paladin. Brutus was only a level 73 swordsman though, so he would have to wait to change to Paladin. Brutus was truly celebrated in the town. It was becoming well known that a genius unlike any seen in hundreds of years was staying at the town's swordsman school. To be a level 73 swordsman he must be training every hour of every day, some people thought. A good adventurer would be above level 50, a great adventurer would be over level 75, and a master would be 100. The teacher at the school was level 99, and the headmaster was level 100. The last level for each job, except for infant and child, was the hardest of them all. The last level took mastering a move on their own to accomplish and using it in practical application. In his items category of the menu, Brutus had many things. His carry weight scales with his STR stat, and for a 5 year old child it was very large. Heck, for a 10 year old child it would be pretty good. Brutus was going to be leaving the school soon because there was not much left that could be taught to him. If his mother had to pay in advance for all 5 years, it would have been a big waste. Brutus was going to spend one more month at the school and then leave. One month later. Brutus bought a good amount of food and water to last him until he reached home and set off. For a level 82 swordsman, Brutus was very young. He might even level up to 100 over the week long journey. It would be taking longer than one week though because he was walking. Along the way Brutus encountered monsters he had seen and killed before, so it was nothing special. Along the way though, Brutus was bit by a bug. It would not have been a big deal if it was not for the status effect it gave him. Poison. Brutus did not have any antidote with him and so he was stuck with the poison's effects. The poison slowly withered down his health until he had almost nothing left. Brutus had an increased health regeneration perk from birth though, so it should heal up in a few minutes if nothing is done. But at that moment Brutus heard a scream in the trees to the side of the road. Brutus rushed to see what it was and saw a group of children being attacked by trolls. Trolls are the larger, lankier, and much hairier version of goblins. Brutus took out his sword and cast a flame spell at the trolls, which turned the attention to Brutus. The trolls came at Brutus and hit him squarely, but only his health was hurt. The red bar went down as Brutus swung his sword to kill one of the trolls. Brutus had to dodge the other trolls while taking them on one at a time and occasionally hitting the others with a small jab. As Brutus took down the last one, he looked at the children who were being attacked by the trolls. Brutus put the troll heads into his inventory and went to speak to the children. They were between the ages of 5 and 10 and were heading to the town Brutus had just left when the trolls chased them off the road. They though having a few people in their grounp would be good enough. They were wrong, but luckely no body was hurt too bad. Even they had health that could be used on injuries. Brutus traveled with the group back to the town and then Brutus left again. He had lost almost a whole day thanks to helping those kids, but now he was going to travel at double speed at make it home soon. Brutus ran quickly which used up stamina. Brutus was now level 84 and 10 estimated days until he reached his hometown. The next day was uneventful. The day after, some particularly difficult monsters stopped him, but they were quickly killed. Brutus quickly made his way home with the next few days passing in the same fashion. Once Brutus arrived home, he informed his mother about him reaching over level 80 swordsman and that he was going to travel the world. Brutus was quickly shut down. Even though his stats were amazing, he was not old enough to travel the world. Brutus was now a level 91 swordsman and was sure that a long journey would help him with the last few levels. But Brutus stayed in the town, and waited for something to happen. He knew that eventually fate would turn his way. His father was an adventurer after all, and Brutus already had a stockpile of money, he just needed to find a place with more spell books to learn more magic. And Brutus was interested in other jobs too. While in the village, Brutus changed his job to Black mage. Under this job, Flame and Frost were more powerful. With his current stats, Brutus could cast Flame for a long time. He was certainly something special. Brutus went around his village looking for more people that could use magic, and he found something like a club. Wizards and Witches and whatever else. Brutus found the club in someone's basement and went to check it out. It looked like a cave under someone's house had been renovated into magical laboratory. There was 3 people in the bottom room practicing magic. They all had the flame spell. Brutus introduced himself to them. The 3 people were the leader, the one whose parent's owned the house the cave was under. Another was the builder who's father agreed to block off the bottom of the cave so that monsters that lived in it would not come up, and then the last was their friend who didn't have a role in making the club cave. All three used Flame, but the builder, she knew Fire Ball as well. Brutus showed then he could use Flame and Frost, as well as emit light and project light. The others could also use emit light, it must be a common spell. Brutus saw a new status effect on him, underground. It was lowering the rate of increase of his mana. Why would anyone make a magic clubhouse in a place that restricts mana regeneration Brutus did not know. Brutus asked them why they didn't make the base in the forest, but it was because they could not fight monsters with their little strength. Brutus told them he could fight monsters and had killed a bunch while traveling and they were all impressed. These kids did not know any spell to inspect the stats of Brutus so they did not know his high swordsman level or his STR stat. Brutus and the three went to the forest nearby. Brutus told them to cast flame on a goblin that showed up, and if they couldn't do it he would be able to fight the goblin in stead. They did and were able to defeat it themselves. They must have a moderate black mage level then. They found a tree on the outside of the forest and declared it to be their new fort. The builder went home to get some tools and the other two stayed with Brutus and fought more goblins. They were raising levels all the while. Brutus was also using this time to practice by hitting goblins with his frost spell. It seemed like the flame spell was more effective though. For the next few days, the 4 members of Wizards and Witches and whatever else worked on building a tree house. This tree house would serve as base of operations for the exploration into the forest. Although it was dangerous to use flame spells in the forest, Brutus knew Frost and could put out any fires they made. Needless to say, the ground around the tree house became black very soon, and slowly the entire forest floor followed. Brutus learned more about the members of the Wizards and Witches and whatever else. The leader's name was James. James was the leader only because everyone met at his house to use the cave under it. Everyone in the club was actually equal and didn't pay any kind of fee to be a member. The build was Sarah, and she was the daughter of a carpenter. That's why she had so many woodworking tools. How she got the fireball spell though, it was her father wanting her to be a magician unlike her brothers that were going to be carpenters like him. Looks like it worked. The last is Mike. He likes to be showy when using his magic. Like dancing while shooting out flames. He actually has the most mana of the three. A few months after joining the club, Brutus was a level 14 black mage. It was going much slower than he thought. However, Sarah told him to level up in the mage jobs, one has to use many spells. Brutus only knew two spells, and both were beginner level. Sarah knew a medium level spell so she leveled faster than the others, but Mike had more mana and could use spells longer so it evened out. James was the slowest to level up. Brutus made a plan with the three of them, that they should all become adventurers so they could learn more magic. They liked the idea for a second, but they could not leave the village. It was too important to them, and all the experience they had was from fighting the goblins. Brutus wanted to be an adventurer. Brutus went home and tried to convince his mother that he should be allowed to be an adventurer, he even showed her the coins he had from completing quest. But being an adventurer was different from completing quest. Adventurers travel from town to town. Questers stay in a town and complete jobs outside the town. There was one other type like those, the dungeon diver. They completed jobs inside dungeons underground. Brutus was 5 and a half when he wrote a letter and placed it on the table. The letter said Brutus was leaving to be a strong adventurer like his father and become the greatest dungeon diver ever. Brutus looked at the map with red circls on it before he left. Brutus was headed for a city nearby that was larger than the town he had gone to sword school in. Hopefully there would be more quest or even a dungeon nearby it. Brutus checked his stats. HP-348, MP-759, STR-370, DEF-68, MAG-510, SPD-104, INT-230. His MAG was very high, but is DEF was lacking. Maybe because he is only human. When Brutus on the road h changed his job back to swordsman. He would need more spells to level black mage quickly. The road to the bigger city was worse than the one to the town. Probably because the city was 3 times further away so less people went there. Everything went well for a few days and Brutus was able to kill the monsters he encountered easily, but on the 6th day some people came. They were wearing clothes made from monster furs and had weapons at their waste. The one leading them was in real armor and had a huge hammer on his back. As they approached Brutus they asked him were he was going. Brutus was going to the city. As they talked to Brutus, one of them hit Brutus with something and he fell down. Brutus saw on the top right corner of his vision he had been inflicted with paralyze. The effect would only last another 30 seconds. The kidnappers laughed about a stupid kid being alone on the road and that it served him right. Should have stayed home. They then put some shackles on Brutus and took him into the forest. They stopped a little bit into the forest so that the road was just visible. The paralysis worn off but Brutus was feeling tired. The shackles were inflicting him with Drain Stamina and it was getting hard to move. The shackles were made from iron however, so Brutus was able to use ground enhancing on them. Brutus made them into a sword and still had the Drain Stamina effect on as he attacked the bandits. The bandits were taken aback when Brutus started to stack them and they drew their swords too. Brutus had already taken one down at this point though. Brutus also used Flame to keep them at a distance, though it was not very powerful. The first two bandits went down easily. With the second one taken out, Brutus took their sword and the Drain Stamina effect disappeared. Nobody in the group had a spell to detect Brutus's level so they must have thought he was just a wannbe adventurer kid. In a few minutes Brutus was able to take out the bandits and all that was left was the leader. The leader was quick and Brutus had dodge his big hammer, but after the bandit leader let down a large swing, his helmet came off a little and Brutus took his chance. Using groud enhancing on the blade Brutus extended it into the bandit leader's neck. Brutus checked what the Bandits had with them, a few more of the shackles, rope and some bottles with Inflict Paralysis written on them. These bandits were kidnappers alright, and maybe even slave traders. There were not any slaves in Brutus's village or the town he lived in for a while, or maybe he just didn't see them. Brutus also gained a large amount of money and gear from the bandits that he would be able to sell. The bandit leader had an enchanted item with him too, Increase Heavy Weapon Damage 20%. Bracers. It might sell for a lot. The rest of the journey Brutus did not see any more bandits, but when he saw people they told him to be careful about bandits on the road. Too late for that.