From last chapter

“So how did I do Gilbert?”

“You seemed rushed. Like you were trying to keep my attention. Slow down next time so that I can hear you more clearly. Also you should practise in a mirror once or twice you make weird faces when you do a sermon.”

“Thanks Gilbert! The sermon testing is coming up in three weeks so I really want to be ready!”

“Brother?”

“Yes?”

“Can you teach me how to read?”

“Sure I can do that! We can start tomorrow when I find you an easy book to read!”

“Good. Also how many days are in a year?”

“400 I thought you knew that, since Divine Souls are Reincarnates of this world...”

“Well you see in my previous life I was born into a uncivilized back water and only lived in civilization near the end of my life...”

Just then we here mom yelling from the kitchen

“Marcus can you bring Gilbert over here? Its time for us to head out!”

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“Sure mom be their in a minute!”

My brother then cleans my hand of blood and then brings me out to the kitchen to my mother.

“Ready to go dear?”

“Yup, see Lola!”

“Well isn't my little genius a little prince already running to her side!”

Mom you seriously need to get out more. She then picks me up and brings me to the neighbours. We enter and my mom puts me down in the living room with Lola and Ivo. Ivo is currently poking the very annoyed Lola. Seeing as how he can chase after me Ivo decides to do so. I again run away until he gets tired then approach Lola.

“You know your going to be pretty useless if you never learn to talk, walk, or other things right?”

“...ya so?”

“So if start exercising like Ivo you can walk sooner.”

“Well look at you telling me what to do when you crawl around like a bug.”

“...”

Well that settles that time to try walking! Its a good thing this room is soft room. I get onto my knees and easily push myself up onto my legs and then stand. Since I am standing I feel pretty good. Crawling gives me rug burn anyways. I take my first step. Which to be honest is really wobbly. I seriously need to learn balance.

Ding* you gain Balance skill.

Hmm seems self explanatory I’ll check it out later.

Ding* exercise level up

It would seem walking takes up a lot more stamina then crawling. I continue walking around the room. Getting re-accustomed to walking after not doing so for over a earth year. Gravity feels to heavy however. I think this world may have a stronger gravitational pull. (yes it does about 1.3 times more) I level up balance a couple of times and can walk semi normally. (every once in a while I need to stop or spread out my arms.)

Ding* exercise level up you now use 4 % less stamina to move

but it doesn't matter much I'm exhausted. The whole time I was walking Lola had been crawling around building up her petty stamina. I sit down exhausted near where she is resting.

“So you get the exercise skill?”

“yup level 2 already! How is walking?”

“A little Rocky at first but I've got it down now.”

(If your wondering their weren't any parents in the room.)

“Must be nice”

“Yup it is”

Lola then crawls over to me and leans her head against my shoulder. Mind you she only put a small portion of her weight behind it. Her head is still huge compared to her body as she is a toddler. We rest their for several minutes.

Ding* Stamina increased by 10

Lola's aunt walks into the room and upon seeing a sleeping Ivo and Lola she slowly creeps back out. Better to leave the sleeping lions asleep right? So what am I supposed to do for now? I can't level up healing or immune to death skills. I don't know any dark spells... wait that's it!

'Soft cotton?'

'Yes?'

'do you know any dark magic you can teach me?'

'Well I could teach you possession but their are some drawbacks'

'Such as?'

'Since your possessing someone else your soul technically leaves your body so you have no control over your own body anymore which is kind of a no brainer since your possessing someone else. You can be kicked out of someones body when they push you out. Possession costs mana equivalent to the total stats of the other person with intelligence counting as 5 per stat and leadership as 0 per stat. So if someone has 10 in each stat you need to maintain 90 mana a minute to possess them. I would recommend testing it out on the boy as his intelligence is most likely very low. If your body is killed while you are possessing someone you can take over full control of their body if you have more then three times the intelligence. I would not recommend it however simply due to your ability which is incredibly rare.'

'What happens if you fail to possess someone?'

'Well its incredibly painful the rebound is not worth trying it out'

'okay I'll try it then'

I look at Ivo and imagine myself as him. Several minutes later its still not working. So I try thinking as if he was a doll attached to strings with me moving them. Needless to say even 10 minutes later nothing happened.

'Soft cotton'

'Yes?'

'Can you show me how?'

'Sure I'll posses Ivo first then you can go at it'

I intently watch the air and look at Ivo. As I look at him I feel something slip out of my nose. I look at it its a black mist like thing. It then drifts over to Ivo. I see it enter Ivo's nose. Ivo then uprights himself from his nap and opens his eyes. They are pure black in colour.

“[email protected][email protected]” (Ivo/Soft Cotton)

“What?”

Ivo then moves his head back down to the ground and the black mist exits from his nostrils. The mist moves back over to me and enters my nose.

'Soft cotton?'

'Yes?'

'Did you have a body at some point?'

'no never did'

'Then what language did you speak?'

'The language of the dead I think'

'I want to learn it'

'That's kind of hard to do since I don't have a body. Try using possession now'

'Okay'

I imagine a mist coming out of my nose. After about a minute I can feel my conscience slipping. Like my brain is being moved out of my head. My eyesight and senses slowly leave my body. After a whole minute of this I am outside my body. I am no longer able to see. I simply 'sense' the living things close to me. Which are some bugs, Ivo and Lola. The distance I can feel around me is around a meter. I try to move towards Ivo. But I simply don't know how to. I can feel my body moving. It moves towards me. Seconds later I am back in my body. But this time I feel incredibly sluggish.

'Gilbert!?! you okay master?'

'Yes just feeling drained'

'That's because you started leaking mana when you turned into spirit form.'

'Is that a skill?'

'No anyone can do that. But you let your soul spread out to a huge amount. I had to eat part of you to get you back inside your body.'

'So you took of my body while I was floating around'

'Ya its easy as all your intelligence stat and wisdom stat disappears'

'Oh'

'I think you learned a new skill, I'm gonna try and recreate it myself'

I then feel something slipping out of my nose again. This time however it greatly thins and expands until its almost invisible. However one part is still a thick dark blob. I grab it.

'Thanks master. Almost disappeared in spirit form from that'

'No problem you did the same for me.'

I then decide to check If I got any new stats from this little 'misadventure'

MC- Gilbert Rommel

Status WindowName:GilbertClass 1:???Level:1 (0)Class 2:??Race:HumanGender:MaleTitlesyou have noneHealth:710 / 710Health Regen:1.4 / secMana:870 / 870Mana Regen:8.7 / minStamina:310/ 310Stamina Regen:6 / min-Strenght:21Agility:25Intelligence:37Wisdom:19Leadership:1Vitality:21-Elemental AffinityFire:0%Water:0%Wind:0%Earth:0%Electricity:0%Light:100%Darkness:100%-

AbilitiesFull RegenerationAllows for any body part torn off or broken to be full healed and repaired back to its original form.

SkillsObserve lv2 (75%)The ability to watch people data and objects and notice small discrepanciesAxe To Grind lv2 (20%)There is a fire in your heart that can't be quenched. And it makes you stronger +1 Strength per levelExercise lv8 (12%)you exercise early and often. 1% less stamina used every 2 levelsLight magician lv1 (13%)Can use light magic + 1 intelligence per level.Healing light lv3 (5%)How effective your healing is. Currently at 9% + 1 intelligence per level and 2 % a level

cost 100 mana per castImmune to Death lv2 (2%)What are you, king Zog of Albania? Walking away with gunshots to your dinner? (real life person) + 1 vitality per levelBalance lv3 (6%)How well you can balance. Higher levels will allow you to balance on paper thin footings. Agility + 1 every 5 levelsSpirit sense lv1 (0%)Allows for your Mana to sense living things around you. Range 1 meter in spirit form. 20 centimetres in a body. +1 intelligence per level and 10 cm increase in spirit form range per level.

LackeysSoft CottonGilbert's most Trusted and Helpful Lackey

'You get a skill soft cotton?'

'Yup I got the skill spirit sense you?'

'Ya me to same skill'

'I'm going to train this skill all the time so I have more mana to possess people'

'Sounds good I'll try to level mine up to increase my mana pool as well'

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