The sun was shining high in the sky and Michael had just woken up.
As he looked around, he saw a few children leaving their bunk beds and heading towards the main hall.
Michael could feel a little buzzing in his ears, because of the sudden influx of the memories he received. Though it would go away soon.
He got off his bunk bed and walked up to the window, observing the city of Amara from the orphanage.
There were many high rise buildings, they looked way more modern than his previous world. Same with all the other stuff like cars, regular housing, even clothing.
It all looked simple, yet very convenient. that was due to magic being present, and being combined in unison with the already existing technology. The results were something his old world was a couple hundred years away from achieving.
Michael glanced behind him to check if there were any kids left and asked the system a question “I’m up, you going to tell me anything now?”
After a few moments of silence, the system replied.
Go get food first, you are in a child’s body so you need to eat a lot.
The answer made Michael’s brow twitch and he clenched his hands. Seemingly out of anger, but decided to not argue as he was a tiny bit hungry.
He walked out of his room and took the stairs down to the cafeteria. Along the way, he saw many familiar faces, though none of them were his friends. Just people he had come to know due to circumstances.
By this point Michael’s memories were essentially combined, the buzz in his ears had disappeared a few moments ago.
He arrived at the cafeteria and went up to get his breakfast, a woman named Hilda was the chef of this joint, and her food from what he remembers was delicious.
The woman gave him a gentle smile and handed him a plate of food. It was just simple eggs, sausages and bread, however, due to Hilda being a good cook, it was delicious nonetheless.
Michael sat down by the window and ate his food, recalling his memories to see if maybe he knew anyone aside from Hilda.
But by the time he finished his food, the only person he could remember besides Hilda was Rebecca. She was the person who brought Michael in when he was little. She was now the head of the orphanage.
Michael glanced out of the window and murmured quietly “So?”
Host wipe your mouth first. There is a napkin to your right.
“Are you fucking serious” Michael expressed whilst looking around to see if anybody heard him. he quickly took the napkin and wiped his mouth.
He then turned back to the window and quietly whispered “Happy?”
Very much so host. Now then, since your memories seem to be fully back, we can start with leveling you up, and your healing capabilities as well.
Michael didn’t take his eyes away from the window and asked in a confused manner “You really like talking in riddles don’t you? Just tell me what I have to do.”
The system as always didn’t pay any attention to Michael’s rudeness.
Certainly, to level up your skills, you must use them for their purpose. In your case, you have to heal others to receive experience, which in turn will level both your skills and you up, simple right?
Michael nodded and asked “How many times do I have to heal somebody to level up my skills?”
As he said those words the blue hologram appeared and he panned straight to the Heal skill.
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Heal [Level 0 0/100 EXP] [Common] [Active]
# Heal the target / Restore 50 HP
Cost: 25 MP
+–+
Michael noticed that the required amount of experience appeared now. When he checked it earlier, it wasn’t there.
You need to get 100 experience in total to level up your skill to level 1. As I said earlier, heal those who are injured and you will receive experience.
The amount of experience you get is determined by your class and your Heal skill. Normally you would get 10 XP for each injury you heal, though because of your title that increases experience gain, you will get 15 XP.
Michael thought for a little while and asked again “So I get 15 experience when I heal someone and it goes to both my skill and my general level?”
Yes, that is the perk of the Healer class. Most classes have fixed ratios, though that does not apply to Healer as it is considered a difficult class to level up later on.
But then again with your proficiency in weapons and hand to hand combat, you will be able to gain experience from both healing and killing dungeon monsters.
Michael was startled for a moment but quickly composed himself to not look too suspicious to the others in the cafeteria “Dungeon monsters? You mean those nasty things that appear out of nowhere?”
Michael knew a little bit about them. Though just surface knowledge, nothing too in depth, his body was still that of a kid’s after all.
They are called dungeon monsters because they come out of dungeons, but yes they are nasty and most of them deserve to die.
Michael could feel a little malice from the system. It was directed towards the dungeon monsters.
Though he was still just a child. He won’t be battling dungeon monsters for a while.
“Ouch” a sound was heard from behind Michael, it was some kid that fell down and bruised his knee.
The system immediately reacted.
Chop chop host get to healing.
Though Michael hesitated for a moment and asked the system “Won’t it be bad if I am found out to be awakened?”
The awakened referred to those who had obtained their classes.
It’s fine, some younger awakeners detailed that they had caught some kind of cold a couple of days prior to their awakening, and look at the timing, so did you.
Michael thought for a moment and stood up. Walking up to the kid who was holding his bruised knee, which was slightly bleeding.
However as he got closer he remembered something that he might have overlooked “How do I use the Heal skill?”
The system quickly gave a reply.
Just look at the kid and stretch out your hand, then say Heal. The max distance should be around 10 meters or so.
Michael’s fists once again clenched as he looked up to seemingly no one “So you are telling me I could have just healed him from my seat, thank you system” The sarcasm was palpable.
It’s too late to go back anyways everyone is already looking at you, just man up and do it already.
Michael arrived by the kid and crouched down. He couldn’t remember the child’s name, though that did not matter.
Stretching out his hand Michael looked focused “Heal”
Once he said those words, a yellow energy momentarily enveloped the child, and the bruise on his knee disappeared like it had never even been there in the first place.
[Heal +15 EXP]
A silent ding could be heard in his head as he saw the blue hologram appear in front of him, stating that he had increased his experience.
However that was not the only thing silent, as the entire cafeteria was as well.
Most kids didn’t know what happened, they knew what magic was and what the awakened were, however, most of them had never seen one use their skills before.
However that was not the case for the adults present, as Hilda got out from her post in the kitchen and walked towards Michael.
Her past gentle smile had been replaced by a serious look as Hilda instructed “Come with me Michael, we are going to see Rebecca.”
Michael didn’t think he would meet Rebecca again until his birthday, though it was still a couple of months away.
But the chance had presented itself. The affection that Michael felt was similar to what he felt when he remembered his mother.
And now he was going to meet his mother figure in this world, Michael looked up at Hilda and nodded “Okay.”
Navigating the halls in silence, they eventually arrived in front of a door that had the words ‘Rebecca’ written over it.
Hilda proceeded to walk to the door and open it abruptly, once she did, Michael was able to see Rebecca.
She was sitting at her desk, with a stack of papers in front of her. Though if you looked closely, you could tell she wasn’t actually awake, but sleeping whilst sitting at her desk.
Hilda walked up to the desk and slammed down her hand.
Bang
It startled Rebecca as she waved her hands around and knocked all the documents down to the ground.
Michael was left speechless, from his memories he always saw Rebecca as someone without flaws, a complete professional. However it appears that was not the case.
Rebecca looked at Hilda with a red face, embarrassed “H-Hilda.. what are you doing here?”
She then turned towards Michael and her embarrassed expression grew further “Michael…”
All the while Michael was still standing stunned.
Hilda interrupted Rebecca’s self pity and regret act that she was about to start pulling off and pointed towards Michael “The boy awakened.”
Those simple words were enough to snap Rebecca back to her professional self. She quickly composed herself and looked towards Michael.
Michael’s heart was beating fast, He was excited to see Rebecca as she was like a mother to him, and they were not able to see each other frequently due to her being the head of the orphanage.
Rebecca glanced at Michael, then back to Hilda and asked in a serious voice “Is that the truth?”
Hilda nodded and turned towards Michael “Show her boy.”
Michael didn’t know if his abilities would work even if the target was not injured, but he tried nonetheless “Heal”
The Heal was directed towards Rebecca, though as she was not injured in the slightest, he didn’t gain any experience.
But that was beside the point, as the yellow light from before still appeared and enveloped Rebecca, before completely disappearing into nothingness.
Rebecca widened her eyes and then started scrambling for something in her drawer. Pulling out some sort of crystal and handing it to Michael “Place your hands on this and use your skill again.”
Michael nodded and did as he was told, then out of nowhere a hologram appeared, similar to his, but this time it was visible to everyone.
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Name: Michael
Age: 8
Class: Healer
Level 0
-+-
It displayed a fraction of the information that he was privy to.
The system’s voice suddenly resounded in Michael’s mind.
That’s a mana stone embedded with inspection magic.
Michael nodded and looked back at Rebecca and Hilda, they were both wearing shocked expressions.
That was until Rebecca got out of her seat and walked towards Michael, suddenly hugging him “Congratulations, Michael.”
Michael had the instinctive urge to hug her back, and so he did.
The hug lasted for a couple of seconds before both of them departed from one another. Rebecca then started explaining a few things to Michael “Since you are now an awakened, once you turn 12 you will be admitted into the Awakeners academy. Until then you are with us” Rebecca finished off with a warm smile.
Michael smiled softly and looked at both Hilda and Rebecca before saying “Thank you.”
Rebecca nodded happily and said “You can go back now Michael, we will help you develop your skills in a better suited environment” She then picked up a piece of paper from the shelf next to her and stamped her seal on it.
Michael was slightly puzzled by her actions, but awaited patiently, and after a few seconds, Rebecca gave the stamped paper to Michael.
She went down to pick up the documents she dropped earlier. But not before telling Michael “Take that to the orphanage’s recovery center, you will become one of the healers and from there you can develop your skills further.”
Michael was going to say thank you, but he felt like he said that enough, so he just simply nodded and walked out of Rebecca’s office.
His direction being, the orphanage’s recovery center..
