Absorbing Spiritual Qi

After arriving into town the next day, the man went to the medicine shack at the edge of town first. "How much for my mom's medicine?" he said to the medicine keeper. "Oh, Axel. I'm surprised to see you here, how's your mom doing?" "I didn't know your name was Axel." 'You never asked for it' "Aaaaaah, you're totally right. I never did ask for it, agh, I'm such a clutz!" 'Hehe it's okay I forgive you' "What... really... awe I have such a nice person to be a system too!" "She's not doing to good old Toa, it seems like her health is starting to deteriorate which is why I'm here to buy the medicine for her!" "Okay one moment then, let me just prepare the medicine here for her." After about 20 minutes pass, old Toa finally finishes making the medicine. "Okay, there we go. That'll be... 107 bronze coins my boy." 'So expensive' we both thought. Axel Paid for the medicine and then got directions from old Toa on how to give it to his mom. "So give one of these packets of medicine to your mom by mixing it in some water and making sure she drinks every last drop 3 times a day for a full 7 days... it is important that you do NOT miss a day. You paid a lot of hard earned money for this medicine and I just happened to have enough ingredients to make it. I won't have enough ingredients to make it again, understood. So do not miss a single day!" "Gulp... I understand old Toa, thank you for making this for her. I'll see you around." Axel then left the medicine shack and started on his way home after getting some rice, meat, and vegetables for a good dinner tonight. Then trouble showed up on the way home. "Well... well... well... what do we have here boys. A little maggot decided to hatch from its egg and explore dangerous territory." "Be careful Axel, I sense very malicious intent from the 3 of them." 'Right, thanks Silvia. I'll try to be careful.' "Get ready to fight them by strength alone." 'Right...' thought Axel. "What are you spacing out for little maggot, I'm right beside you!" "Look out Axel, to your right!" Axel managed to dodge thanks to my warning but still, it was a close call. The the rest of the goons decided to gang up on Axel all together. Axel took the beating while protecting the medicine and food, after the goons had there fun they left a battered up Axel on the ground in pain. "Oh man Axel, I wish I could help you in some way but I can't. I'm so useless." Silvia said as she started to cry a little. "No, just you being by my side is already helping me out. I'm not lonely while taking the beating so I'm at least a little happy with you here." "Are you a masochist, like really but thank you for saying that even though it sounded a little odd. I'll be by your side till the day you die, so don't worry about me ever leaving. I'm pretty sure you'll get tired of me after a while anyway. Haha." "Haha maybe one day anyway, lets get back home" Once Axel arrives home, he gets to work to give his mom the medicine. After he makes sure she drank it all, he went on to make some break fast. Axel fed his mom, then himself and relaxed for a moment afterwards. "Remember to keep up with the training every day for strengthening your body." 'Ah, right. I still have to keep that up.' "HEY, No one said training was easy." "Okay, just let me rest for a moment, I did work my butt off to complete that demonic training." "Fine but a small rest, Got it!" "Got it." After resting for a little bit, I was able to create a new mission for Axel.

*Ding*

Mission 2:

- Successfully Absorb Spiritual Qi

- Learn One Hundred Soul Swords Manuel

Time Limit: 5 Days

Rewards upon success...

- 236 bronze coin

- Skill: Heavenly sense

-????

Upon failure...

- Your meridians will be destroyed

"What the hell is with this mission Silvia!" Silvia started whistling in the background since she knew that he would be unhappy about this mission. "There is no way I'm letting you turn into a lazy cultivator! So buck up Axel because things are about to get crazy up in here. So before you begin, do you remember what you got during your last mission for rewards?" "Yeah the manual and the pill if I remember correctly well along with other things but why do you ask Silvia?" "Because you're going to need those in a bit after successfully sensing spiritual qi. Usually you need more than 5 days to do this but we have a cheat and that is the pill that you got. I must warn you though, you will feel immense pain from taking that pill, so take extra precaution." "Is it really that bad of a pill?" "It's worse than you think. It would be better to do this at night under the moonlight. So do you're training and take care of you're mom for the time being." "Alright, I'll do as you say." After Axel trains for a bit he then does the medicine for his mom in the afternoon and makes lunch. Axel then rests a bit, goes back to training and repeats the process till nightfall. "Okay, are you all set Axel. I'll be here to protect you're mind from any mind damaging attacks from the pill. So if you're all set then let's begin." "Yeah I just fed my mom the medicine and some food, so she's taken care of till morning." "Okay, then lets begin. Take the pill out and swallow it." "Right, here goes nothing." Axel takes the pill out of his side bag and swallows it. After 5 minutes of waiting for something to happen... "What's going on, do you feel anything out of ordinary Axel?" "No, I don't feel anything. Was it a fake pill?" "HEY, what do you take my system as, some phony! I'll have you know that my system only give the best of the best not some crap off the streets. Humph!" "Agh, I didn't mean it like that, I'm sorry. Please don't be angry... I promise I wont doubt you're amazing system again." "Humph, you better not!" Then I felt a spark in his mind. 'Wait a minute, what was that?' Silvia thought. So Silvia closed her eyes and imagined his body to figure out where the attack came from. "There was an attack to your mind from the pit of you're stomach, try to get in a meditating position and focus on the pit of you're stomach to gather spiritual qi. If you don't you're body will explode due to excessive amount of qi gathered." When Axel did just that, an explosion of spiritual qi came out of his body. Axel then began to focus on absorbing it all with difficulty. "Axel, make sure you focus on you're breathing as well." Axel then began to focus on his breathing which made the process of absorbing qi easier and a little less painful. "That's it Axel, keep going just like that!" It took Axel all night to absorb all the spiritual qi into his body. When Axel opened his eyes, I congratulated him on his successful absorption of qi. " Now tend to you're mom and lets get to work on the next step of the mission.

mission 2:

- Successfully absorb spiritual qi ✓

- Learn One Hundred Soul Swords Manual

Time Limit: 5 Days

Rewards upon success:

- 236 bronze coins

- Skill: Heavenly sense

-????

Upon failure...

- You're meridians will be destroyed