2 Chapter 2: Leveling Up (Reupload)

'Spiritual Sense? What does that-' Suddenly, as if it was magic, Mizuiro saw a ghost in the dining room.

'So that's what it means...' He sighed, before taking his attention back to the hologram.

[Daily Quest: Preparations to become strong (Unread)]

He opened the message and a list of tasks appeared in front of him.

[Daily Quest: Preparations to become strong

Pushups, 100 times: Incomplete (0/100)

Situps, 100 times: Incomplete (0/100)

Squats, 100 times: Incomplete (0/100)

Run, 10km: Incomplete (0/10km)]

[Caution: If daily quest is not completed within 4 hours, penality will be given!]

[Time left: 3Hrs 59Mins 54Secs]

'Uh oh... do I have time?' Mizuiro thought. At the pace the Kurosaki family was going, dinner wouldn't be complete for about 20 minutes, and dinner itself takes about 30 minutes minimum.

'Maybe if I start now?' Mizuira stood up and went in a pushup position.

He went down, and then up

'Huh? Why is it still 0?' He then tried again, this time touching the floor with his chest

[Pushups, 100 times: Incomplete (1/100)]

'Great...' He groaned in agony of having to do 100 legitimate pushups with his frail body.

'I mean, my strength improved by 2.5x, so it should be easier than before' 

He then did as many as he could within 20 minutes.

[Pushups, 100 times: Incomplete (72/100)]

"Haaa...Haaa..." He breathed heavily.

"Uhm... are you okay?" Yuzu asked worriedly whilst carrying the food onto the table.

"Yeah... haaa.... Just doing a bit of exercise after laying in bed for so long" He replied, getting himself up off the floor and getting a towel to wipe his sweat before sitting back down.

"Okay!" She cheerfully said before announcing "DINNER'S READY!!" 

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"Thanks for the food, and the bed, see you guys!" Mizuiro said goodbye as he left the Kurosaki household.

[Time Limit: 2Hrs 47Mins 21Secs]

'Time to get my steps in' He jogged home.

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Arriving home, Mizuiro did not waste any time as he started to finish his daily quest, not wanting to find out what the 'penalty quest' is.

He started by finishing his pushups, which didn't take long fortunately as he refueled himself with the dinner at Ichigo's house.

He then went on to the squats. These took quite a long time as his legs were quite weak compared to his arms, but fortunately he ended up finishing all 100 anyway.

With an hour and a half left, Mizuiro speed-blitzed through situps as his core was quite good fortunately.

And last, but certainly not least, the run, arguably the worst one.

With over an hour left, Mizuiro left the house and went on a jog around Karakura Town.

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"Haaa...Haaa... Water..." Mizuiro walked over to the fridge and engulfed a water bottle in a few seconds.

[You've completely 'Daily Quest: Preparations to become Strong']

[Completion Rewards have arrived:

1. Status Recovery

2. 3 Stat Points

3. Random Mystery Box]

[Claim All? (Y/N)]

Instantly, Mizuiro pressed Y.

[Status Recovery Used] 

A familiar beam of light covered Mizuiro, making his energy come back to him.

A mystery box appeared in front of him and opened it to get some bandaids, which he put in the cabinet.

And the stat points appeared in his status.

[Name: Mizuiro Kojima

Level: 2

Job: None

Title: None

HP: 110

MP: 11

Strength: 11

Vitality: 11

Agility: 11

Intelligence: 11

Sense: 11

Available Stat Points: 3]

[Skills]

Active Skills: 

- Dash Lv.1

Passive Skills:

- Spiritual Sense Lv. MAX

- Tenacity Lv. 1

These skills, except Spiritual Sense, were things he gained after doing the daily quest. 

In addition to these skills, another reward message appeared in front of Mizuiro:

[Kandiaru's Blessing - As long as you have this blessing, you will always be healthy and strong.]

[Permanent Effect: Longevity - Immunity to all diseases, poisonous substances, and any abnormalities in your status. Regeneration will be increased with sleep]

'Wow... that's OP' He thought happily.

He then checked out his new skills

[Skill: Dash Lv. 1]

[Active Skill. Mana to activate: 5]

[When activated, speed will increase by 30%. While activated, 1 MP used every minute]

[Skill: Tenacity Lv.1]

[Passive Skill. No mana needed to activate]

[When health drops below 30%, skill is automatically activated and reduces all damage received by 50%]

'Nice. I'll save my stat points for now' He thought strategically.

He then went up to his room and called it a night as he went to sleep.

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'Fortunately, we now have a week off school thanks to the half-term ending' Mizuiro decided to isolate himself and spend time with the system and himself.

'I wonder what the others would think'

And so, 4 Days had already passed.

"Hooo..." Mizuiro breathed out as he was doing his situps effortlessly.

Within only 4 days, Mizuiro had changed quite a bit.

He had grown about an inch and a half since the incident, and his body began to expose his muscles.

His black hair was messy and his jawline had improved. [A/N: Looks like Drip Woo after killing the snake boss in E rank key dungeon]

Other than his physical appearance, nothing really changed. Obviously he did his daily quests 4 times (Including today) and so he gained 12 stat points, making it 15 now.

The only other difference is...

"Finally, I got something other than band-aids and socks from the box" He said enthusiastically as he held a key.

[Item: Dungeon Key]

[Difficulty: E]

[Type: Key]

[This key enables you to enter an instant dungeon. Location to use: Karakura Train Station Underground]

And so, Mizuiro activated his Dash skill and arrived at the destination in a few minutes.

'Time to use this bad boy' Holding the key up, he twisted it and a blue portal appeared in front of the station.

'Let's not risk it and raise my strength a little bit'

[Strength: 11 -> 20]

[Stat Points: 15 -> 6]

Walking forward, a notification dinged

[You have entered an Instant Dungeon]

[The only way to escape is by defeating the Boss Monster or using a Teleportation Stone]

As the notification closed, a red wolf with a steel fang appeared in front of Mizuiro.

[Steel-Fanged Lycan] The name was red.

"Grrr" The wolf growled as it approached Mizuiro.

'It's a lot more intimidating the closer you get...' He thought, slightly worried.

'I've got this!' He slapped both his cheeks to motivate himself and opened his inventory.

[Item: Steel Pipe]

[Type: Blunt Weapon]

[Attack +5]

He gripped the pipe tightly and waited for the wolf to leap at him.

"HAAA!" Shouting to pump himself up some more, Mizuiro swung the pipe with his full strength and aimed at the top of the wolf's head.

*BAM*

A loud collision was made between the pipe and the wolf's skull, instantly killing it.

[You have levelled up!]

He then walked to the wolf's corpse and saw a fang on top of it and picked it up.

[Item: Wolf's fang]

[Can be stored in inventory or sold in store]

Deciding to sell it, Mizuiro saw he now had 20 gold in the system shop.

'Time to hunt some wolves' He was motivated by the levelling up notification and went on a killing spree.

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[Title gained: Wolf Slayer]

[Increases all damage attacks on wolf-type monsters by 40%]

Mizuiro had this title equipped as he held a dagger which he got from a drop from one of the lycans.

"Haa... This is getting tiring... Fortunately there's no more by the looks of things" Mizuiro inhaled and exhaled slowly as he took a rest.

He gained a few fangs, a teleportation stone, a spare dagger and a cloak from drops.

Another thing is that over time, the lycan's name would change colour from red, to orange, and finally white.

It appeared that a red name meant the opponent was significantly stronger, orange means it's around the same level, and white means it's weaker.

'Status'

[Name: Mizuiro Kojima

Level: 2 -> 15

Job: None

Title: Wolf Slayer

HP: 255 -> 1620 (Now Calculated by: 1 level = 100hp + 1VIT = 5hp)

MP: 11 -> 198 (Now Calculated by: 1 level = 10MP + 1INT = 2MP)

Strength: 20 -> 33

Vitality: 11 -> 24

Agility: 11 -> 24

Intelligence: 11 -> 24

Sense: 11 -> 24

Available Stat Points: 6]

Content with his stats, and his break, Mizuiro stood up and walked over to a set of stairs heading down.

*Ominous~*

Mizuiro had a bad feeling, thanks to his Sense stats, at the monster which was most likely the boss that was downstairs.

'Let's start by swapping daggers to a full durability one' He swapped them.

'I'll keep the stat points for now and only use them if need be, after all, I still have my Status Recovery as a back up anyway' He thought.

Finishing with his game plan, Mizuiro walked down the stairs with his guard up in case of any sneak attacks.

- Meanwhile -

"Hey, Keigo, have you seen Mizuiro?" Ichigo asked a brown haired boy.

"Nah, he usually walks with you" Keigo replied.

"Strange... he's not the type to miss school, let alone the first day back" Ichigo said aloud.

"I'm sure he's fine, Mizuiro ain't the type to get in trouble"

- Back to the dungeon -

"Well damn... haa...." Mizuiro, who had blood running down his head, panted "This snake bastard is stronger than I thought"

"Hisssssss"

"I guess it makes sense why you're the boss. Unfortunately for you though," He stood up and used his Status Recovery

"I know your attack pattern now!"

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"Heh... I guess I got a little bit stronger, 

Right?" 

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