The Chaos of a World of stats

8 Connected

"Yes I know that he is learning quickly, and I understand about how close he is to unlocking a spell but we are also close to learning how to teach other's our spells."

"True, but we must remain diligent, he will quickly grow and surpass us, his aptitude is clearly over 10."

"So we have to work harder than him? You're just proving my point."

"And if he finds out how to teach other's spells?"

"Oh... f*****g hell! We have to get a heads up or it doesn't matter!"

"Exactly!"

"Ok, tomorrow we will meet up and try to teach each other our spells then, does 4pm work for you?"

"Yeah, both my kids of practice that day thanks to the club they got into."

"Ok, see you then at the empty lot."

We ended the call there and I went to my kids to make sure they would, indeed be ok for their two hour practice session if I left.

"Yes dad, we are going to need to focus as much as you do, don't let us distract you, and keep things together."

"Ok, the mac and cheese is prepped in the fridge, you just have to cook it if I'm not home by the end of your practice."

"Got it dad, and thank you."

"No problem."

I say before going and double checking everything for them and myself so I can leave them without worry for the two hours.

-----The Next day, Daniel's perspective-----

"So yeah, I have a couple new things I want to try out, and I want to see if I can learn to teleport."

"And how does that require you to have to walk to work?"

"I need to, to double check my calculations and make sure everything is as I believed and so I can read up on Quantum Mechanics to see if it can help me with teleportation."

"Ok, if that's what it is."

My uncle and I stop talking and I begin to walk to my work focusing on the inside of the main sitting area and imagining simply walking before I begin to speed up, going from a walk to a jog, and finally into an all out sprint my mind completely focused on the interior of the cafe, only to suddenly slam head first into the glass doors, and promptly passing out, teleporting for the first time, only to knock myself out as I arrived and to be taken to the hospital, both missing my shift but also not being reprimanded over being late or faking something to get off.

-----Mr White's perspective-----

Well I didn't think I would walk out of the kitchen to see Daniel faceplant into the doors so hard he knocked himself out, infact I'm surprised the glass didn't shatter.

"Hey Marissa! Call an ambulance! Daniel knocked himself out when he arrived to help open!"

I called out before going around and checking that he still had a pulse and was breathing, He did and was.

Marissa walked out to see me checking him and immediately began talking faster trying to get an ambulance here faster while seeing Daniel knocked out cold on the patio.

It was an eventful morning but once Daniel was in the ambulance and his replacement for the day and Marissa's two replacements arrived, she left and I took care of the kitchen efficiently keeping things together while making sure everyone understood that everything is still ok.

-----At the State Military HQ-----

"So you are telling me, that the youngest ever level 2, is also the first ever magical researcher who can also make system items?"

"That is correct General."

"Ok, I want this man's file in front of me within the hour!"

"Understood sir."

Emily stated to Nevlin before leaving his office and heading to the nearby R&D department wing and tasked them with compiling one Daniel [Redacted]'s life history.

It was efficiently done and his info was gathered within half an hour, compiled and uploaded onto a flash drive before being handed over to Emily, who then rushed back to Nevlin's office to hand him the flash drive so he could look over it and see what Daniel could be persuaded with to help him rise in the ranks.

It took roughly four hours but Nevlin came to a single conclusion from his file, Daniel was a sociopath who wished to live a semi-normal life and struggled to understand why his father acted like he was a disappointment and why his mother had chosen his step-father over him.

"Well the only way we could possibly get him to join us is offer him the ability to live a mostly normal life or give him inside details we could never hope to know."

Nevlin said slightly annoyed before grabbing a cigarette and lighting it up in an attempt to relax.

"Emily, make him an offer of protection and pardon for the next crime he were to commit and see if that gets his interest, if not be prepared to watch him, and do not let Farbin learn about him, we do not need a dead prodigy to clean up."

-----At the empty lot-----

"Hey! Mr. White!"

Gerald called out to me as he arrived and I waved at him before calling back.

"How's your day been Gerald, Daniel knocked himself out cold this morning."

"Pretty good on my end, and while I hope he recovers that is great for us, with a concussion we can get a leg up on him."

"Anyways, do you want to go first.?"

"Sure, focus as hard as you can on holding onto someone as they try to get away, I don't care how you imagine it, but you have to be doing it from a distance."

I nodded and took a moment to prepare myself, activating 'Meditation' and clearing my mind before focusing on holding Gerald in place before calling out.

"Ok, try to move!"

And unfortunately Gerald began to move, then I imagined him trying to take one of my sons, and he froze in place, mid-step and I suddenly felt exhausted but relieved.

"I did it!"

I called out before releasing Gerald as he suddenly coughed hard and took a moment to sit down.

"Holy s**t man, it felt like you were going to crush me if I tried to move."

"Sorry, didn't know I had so much power. To try to use mine, focus on controlling the very energy around you that connects you to everything while also feeling deeply connected to what ever it is you are trying to do."

Gerald looked at me kind of funny before taking a deep breath and trying to do so, to no avail. I told him what I had always wanted to do and how it felt so natural to me and Gerald again looked at me funnily.

"Well, let's try this again."

He said before focusing and attempting to move anything with his heart, suddenly combusting a nearby dry bush into flames.

"Um Gerald I think you are pulling energy instead of feeling it."

I called out as the flames increased in size and power and began to consume the area around Gerald while moving towards him and I focused on the flames before casting 'Elemental Control' grasping the flames and pulling them away from him and straight into the air both breaking Gerald's concentration and saving him from burning himself alive.

"Damn it! I learn 'Kinetic Pull' not 'Elemental Control'."

Gerald stated both winded and hot as he took as seat again all the dried plants around him with a 5 meter range completely burned away.

"At least I was able to control the flames you summoned so you didn't burn yourself."

"Yeah, thank you."

"No problem, same time next week?"

"No, I think I'm going to take the next week off and just take a breather, this is starting to get a bit much for me."

"Ok, want me to stay until you are good to drive?"

"Please?"

Gerald asked before suddenly coughing heavily and bending over slightly before I walked over with some water and focused on the air to cool us both off using 'Elemental Control.' It took a good half hour before Gerald was ready, and I ended up still feeling ok enough to drive back home after splitting ways with Gerald. As I arrived home, around 5:50 pm, my kids had just started their finishing routines for their new club, it was... interesting but it's not something I'm really interested in, but that's ok, as long as they enjoy it, more power to them.

Once they finished practice I smiled while showing them the half finished product of tonight's meal and letting them add the last couple of seasonings as well as whatever kind of cheese they wanted to it. It ended up being a wonderful family meal we had not had in a long time, and we needed one, it was great catching up with my sons and what they had done, and how their ending stuffs in the club helped them relax after some rather tense situations.

Mr. White

120 HP

100 MP

'Elemental Control' Proficiency: Basic

'Hold Person' Proficiency: Basic

Daniel

100 HP

30 SP

140 MP

'Forced Reconsideration' Proficiency: Basic

'Teleportation' Proficiency: N/A