I’m learning a lot, some stuff I should’ve learned the first day, and I have earned some appreciation that I’m not in school anymore.

The things that will be easy to remember is what the stats mean.

I’ve learned that STR is, and I quote from the ostrich himself, “how hard you can hit something,” who would’ve guessed.

HP is how much ‘life I have’, SPD is stability and motor controls, VIT is how much damage I can usually absorb so my life doesn’t take a hit, MP is a number to show how many skills I can use at one time, and INT is a number to show how well I can use my MP, and it also helps with MP regeneration speed.

The next thing he made me do was sit and stay quiet, which gave me a skill called Meditation LVL 1, it’s just like every stereotypical anime, doubles my HP regen and MP regen, except it’s toggleable and doesn’t impede you in any way.

Meaning I can always have it on, pretty sure that was overlooked, I also learned from the ostrich that this worlds god is apparently lazy.

Then I asked how old he was and he said a ‘young 153 years old’, and that he’s ‘still a spring chicken’.

Spring chickens still have their feathers though, I made sure not to say that thought out loud.

Anyway, skills also have a system, it’s simple, almost every skill has a max of LVL 10, and they can each give you a skill one tier higher once you’ve reached its max LVL.

Theirs 5 tiers, subtracting resistance and nullification tiers, and each tier you can get a skill that is progressively more powerful, like pepper breath, flamethrower, inferno, then the next skill is Greekfire, and according to the ostrich the next skill is Amaterasu-just kidding, it’s conflare, which apparently is what the deity of the flaming forge named the skill.

Skills in tier five have been created and named for the gods in its category, fun fact: the fire god picked up the hobby of forging and then became the deity of flaming forge, he also asked for the skill forge to be made a thing.

Also apparently having gods around is normal for this world, and if I ever see one I run.

But they aren’t really gods, they’re deities, which is lower than the one true god, but are stronger than LVL 300 each, and have been around since nearly the beginning of the world.

I also asked what a Sudo divine beast is, it’s an entity that is strong enough to be a divine beast, but hasn’t challenged the real divine beast yet.

And apparently, to become a divine beast, a sudo divine beast has to defeat a divine beast in a sacred duel.

Learning is fun, isn’t it?

Anyway, that wraps up what I have learned so far, now he’s teaching me about using skills.

“Use Flamethrower… Use Flamethrower… Use Flamethrower…”

Is this how a pokemon feels.

“Don’t you feel bored?”

“Yeah kinda.”

“Then why are you just standing their using flamethrower in the same direction every time.”

“Because you told me too.”

“No, I told you to use flamethrower, not stand around.”

“Okay.”

I used flamethrower while moving, which canceled the skill, but for a second the fire spread in the direction I was walking.

“There you go, now do it for four seconds instead of three.”

I tried again, not doing anything different, and still got three seconds.

“No, no, no, try again, but this time focus.”

I did, focusing more on the flamethrower than moving, which made me trip on a convenient rock.

“No, no, you did it for five seconds, I wanted four.”

This pissed me off, but I did it for four seconds as he wanted, and I focused on my vision as well as the flamethrower.

“Try it again.”

“Why?”

“Because I said so.”

“Your not my mom.”

“According to you, you're my mom.”

“Tu Che.”

“What does that mean.”

I start the flamethrower, but this time, he hit me on my side and knocked me over onto the ground, nearly over to the edge.

“What the heck, why did you do that.”

“I thought you were attacking, if you attack something, be prepared to be attacked, now again.”

There is something I can do, so I go to the middle and activate magic armor, and I enchant it to not be able to move.

“Oh, interesting.”

“What?”

“Enchanting magic armor, both skills are rare, but I’ve never seen an application like that, and it gets rid of the permanent armor enchantment problem like if an armor set was enchanted to never be able to move like you just did, it wouldn’t be able to move from its spot, no matter if it is in the air or the sea, it would never move, meaning you couldn’t move it to wear it either, but now to get rid of the enchantment all you have to do is get rid of the armor, am I wrong?”

I have no idea if he’s wrong, but this works.

I use flamethrower, and he hits me, hard, and it hurts, I didn’t have pain nullification on.

“Even if you did have pain nullification on, this skill that I used does a max of 6000 damage, and it goes through defense, thankfully I lowered it down to 1000, you can’t really stay still on me.”

“Can I really dodge you either?”

“Well no, but it’s better than standing still, now try flamethrower again.”

I get rid of magic armor and then put it back on, then I turned on all my passive skills, I’m going to hit that ostrich if it’s the last thing I do.

I activate Speed up, Buff up, Mind Acceleration, Combustion, Heat Vision, and Reckless Charge, and then I enchant my armor to automatically dodge any attacks that come towards me, lastly activate MP Manipulation, bringing as much MP as I can to hopefully be able to make a dent in the old coots defenses.

If I can’t hit him, I won’t let him hit me.

“Okay then, going all out are we.”

I activate flamethrower at the old coot who has a grin on his face, it shoots out at lightning speed, causing a small shockwave as it first shoots out making my ears ring and I go backwards a little bit, but not enough to make me falter.

The flames, usually red and orange, was now blue and shaped completely like a beam.

I don’t have any stray thoughts, but then a box popped up in my face and scared me.

"Killed Air Dragon LVL 71 Entity #799826469240015184" "Gained 9231 EXP. Activate Copy Entity Number LVL 4?"

Oh good, I thought it was the filolial, that would’ve been bad, yes.

"Activated Skill Copy Entity Number" "Gained 935 HP, Skill: Flight LVL 5 leveled up to 6"

Simple and sweet, wait, where did the filolial go, I think as I’m pushed on my side.

The old coot tried to hit me, but my armor dodged, not a good dodge though, as it didn’t abide for me being straight up and down.

I did dodge though, and I still have flamethrower on, so I aim it at him.

The beam curves towards him, threatening to cut the mountain as well, but I don’t let that happen, he dodges easily, but I keep turning the beam.

He seems more nervous, he keeps trying to approach, but can’t because he can’t hit me and if he’s not careful the beam will hit and will hurt.

“Stop…. Kwehzalcoatl….”

I guess he’s done, but I’m not, I activate Outer MP manipulation and quickly add a little MP in front of me, but I didn’t think it through.

The beam bursts, causing a huge shockwave, scaring me and stopping me from using flamethrower.

I’m immune to fire, so I don’t get burned, but the mountain area around me is charred black.

"You have killed 23 Wicked Crows LVL 10-49 Entity #'s... EXP 3165" "You have killed 27 Light Doves LVL 11-45 Entity #'s... EXP 3421" "You have killed 1 Aqua Seal LVL 19 Entity #845194028247203682, EXP 215" "You have leveled up to LVL 54" "Would you like to use Copy Entity Number LVL 4."

That’s a little bad, and why a seal, also how a seal, also yes.

But before I could check what I got, I was interrupted.

“What happened!?!?! What was that beam, did a divine beast show up?!?! Where is it?!?! Should I run?!?!?!”

Invisibrat came back from hunting, shook from our battle of seconds.

“No sorry, I got a little competitive.”

“You did that!?!? It looked like it went for miles!?!?!”

“How did you do that, blue fire comes from LVL 4 and up fire skills, and that explosion, MP boiled their for a second and then it burst, how did that happen.”

“Mp manipulation, used a lot of it.”

“What is your INT?”

“I don’t know let me check?”

"Target: Adolescent War Demon Chocobo LVL 54, Name: Kwehzalcoatl" "Title(s): Memory Keeper, Kill Stealer, Friend of the Suvunktah's, Damsel in distress, Pride, Puff’s friend, Dungeon Explorer: Cyko, Cyko Dungeon Dojo Disciple" "Skills: Analysis LVL 8, Copy Entity Number LVL 4, Mind Acceleration LVL 10, Dragon beak LVL 1, Night Vision LVL 10, Foul resistance LVL 4, Magic Armor LVL 10, Recovery Magic LVL 10, Pain Immunity LVL 10, Heat vision LVL 10, Pepper Breath LVL 10, Shadow manipulation LVL 10, MP manipulation LVL 10, Fire Immunity LVL 10, Telepathy LVL 3, Life Steal Touch LVL 1, Telekinesis LVL 10, Punting LVL 10, Flamethrower LVL 10, Water Gun LVL 10, Flight LVL 9, Hide Status, Rulers Orders LVL 2, Reckless Charge LVL 10, Press LVL 10, Earth removal LVL 10, Buff up LVL 10, Speed up LVL 10, Enchant LVL 10, Forge LVL 10, Inferno LVL 1, Tidal Wave LVL 1, Outer MP Manipulation LVL 1, 3D Shadow manipulation LVL 1, Future Sight LVL 2, Combustion LVL 2, Beam Digging LVL 1, Strategic Charge LVL 1, Monster Summoning LVL 1, Peck LVL 6, Cursed Wing LVL 4, Shine LVL 4." "Stats: HP: 3901, STR: 3822, SPD: 2597, VIT: 3057, MP: 3372, INT: 2855"

“Almost 3000.”

“Almost… 3000, Why is it almost 3000, that’s almost 10000 away from me, after evolving six times, that’s not possible.”

“My starter skill is really good.”

“What does it do, give you a small portion of the stats of every monster you kill?”

“And a random skill from it, also if I have 100 percent trust it also gives me that.”

“Why!?”

“I don’t know, I can’t help it if I’m born with it.”

“You choose it before birth, what the **** has that lazy god done, he bothers to make a skill once in a while, but he can’t ever test them unless a deity requests it of course, oh those arrogant pricks, if we were the same LVL I would show them who could beat who?”

“So, what are we going to do next.”

He looked at me, looked away, then looked at me again.

“How much of that was trial and error?”

“All of it.”

“You lucky duck, you get to learn how each skill reacts with each other.”

“Yay, Chemistry.”

20 days later

I’m in the forest heading North, the mountains are very visible in front of me, but the sounds of goblins laughing like hyenas everywhere is a dead giveaway that I’m in the right place.

There are only ten of them, I guess this is what the old coot meant by how the goblins will counter my skill, it doesn’t really matter until the divine beast.

Speaking of it, I see him, he’s a green speck, but I still see him on one of the mountain’s peaks.

The main one, also the one he is standing on, it somehow has three peaks, the middle one going straight up, the other two are cones and come out at different points in the middle of the main mountain.

The others surrounding it make it like an impenetrable fortress, all taller than the old coot's mountain, but otherwise there's nothing special about them.

The goblin yells and somehow I hear it, must be a skill, it’s the one with worse grammar, “Stupid birdy, me kill you.”

“No we won’t, he will die before he even gets to us, but we still want a good fight, don’t we.”

“Yes, yes me do Dunga.”

“So let's give him a little motivation, I know you can’t see, but we have multiple people from the long-legged tribe up here, every hour I will drop one of them from this peak and they will die, starting now. That is all.”

“Hehehe, stupid birdy.”

Didn’t he say he would only harm them if I didn’t show up, no, they’re just trying to provoke me, like the old coot sad, I’ll have to kill them even if they aren’t there so it doesn’t matter.

Well then, with that settled the goblins show themselves.

I’m prepared as well, I widen my stance and get ready to activate inferno to kill them all quickly, but then a giant roar came from behind me.

“HAHAHAHA, I see you don’t have your master here to protect you, time for my revenge!!!”