In My Second Life, I Could See My Skills, so the More I Trained, the More Peerless I Became

Record of Growth

I learned to train with magical powers, and my parents were able to buy me cheap protein, about 1,000 yen per kg of imported protein, which allowed me to train my muscles more efficiently and quickly.

I could get enthusiastic about training. I played with Ichika-chan, and before I knew it, summer vacation was over. I spent the second semester trying to figure out how to use my magical powers to train my muscles while sitting in class.

In addition, I spent my lunch break, after school, and early mornings to train.

Occasionally, I would go to school with Ichika-chan, or play with her after school.

I watched the 9.11 terrorist attacks on the news and had the usual impression that it was shocking, and it pushed me to train harder.

While I was doing these things, the winter break came and went in a snap, and the third semester started.

During spring break, Ichika-chan and I talked about how it would be nice if we were in the same class next year. In my previous life, Ichika-chan and I were only supposed to be in the same class once, in the sixth grade, but somehow we ended up in the same class in the second grade.

I remembered that there was a story about how troubled kids tend to be in the same class with people who are willing to take care of them. 

No, I’m definitely not a problem child.

Albeit not listening to the class, I got perfect scores on all the tests. In fact, I can say that I’m stoic in the way I devote my days to self-discipline. I’m just a little too dedicated to be approachable.

Thanks to her, I never played with any other kids, but I was never accused of being “dorky” for playing with girls, which is typical of elementary school children.

Well, kids today are hard workers. I guess they don’t get involved with strange people. It makes me feel a little sad to say it, but I don’t have a problem with people getting in the way of my training.

The rest of my days are spent doing strength training and running with magic power. It suits my nature to follow a routine, and it goes along with my inherent skills. But anyway, I’m almost done with my second year of school after spending my days without any change.

My status as of spring break was roughly like this.

Name: Yasushi Sashima　

HP: 483/500

Muscle Strength: 400

Magic Power: 1320

Agility: 400 ▲

Level: 1

Occupation: None

Skills:

Appraisal Lv12 ⁘ Enhanced Agility Lv18 ⁘ Enhanced HP Lv23 ⁘ Enhanced Muscle Strength Lv18 ⁘ Super Recovery Lv28 ⁘ Arithmetic Lv9 ⁘ Enhanced Magic Lv42 ⁘ Agriculture Lv7 ⁘ Physical Resistance Lv7 ⁘ Professor Lv6 ⁘ Flexibility Lv11 ⁘ Flame and Heat Resistance Lv4 ⁘ Damage Reduction Lv4 ⁘ Magic Efficiency Enhancement Lv8 ⁘ Swimming Lv15

Special Skills:

Complete Mental Immunity ⁘ Swiftness, Rigidity ⁘ Automatic Stamina Recovery ⁘ Magic Manipulation ⁘ Magic Absorption ⁘ Full Magic Resistance

Unique Skill: Repeated Attempt

First of all, the status is outrageous.

For reference, here is the status of my father (38 years old), a very ordinary salaryman.

Name: Kosuke Sashima

Physical Strength: 62/68

Muscle Strength: 54

Magic Power: 1

Agility: 27 ▲

Level: 1

Occupation: None

Skills:

“Physical Strength Lv5” , “Strength Lv4” , “Swordsmanship Lv3”

The fact that his occupation is “none” took me by surprise, since he is supposed to be a salaryman working for a company, but he doesn’t seem to be a wizard or a warrior, so maybe he doesn’t have any appraisal.

It’s not that I’m not athletic or poor, but my father’s status is like this.

Thirty-eight years old is not young, but it is not old either. He is old enough to call himself an active person.

In spite of this, my strength and agility have already reached 400.

In other words, my muscle strength is more or less eight times greater than that of my father. While my agility is nearly 14 times greater. To put it another way, my strength is roughly equivalent to that of a brown bear or gorilla, and my agility means that I can run as fast as a bullet train.

In terms of my actual strength, I weigh only 27 kilograms, so it’s hard to say if I could beat a brown bear that weighed 800 kilograms, but on the other hand, my light weight allows me to run as fast as a bullet train.

It’s not a problem if you take advantage of the 1,320 magic power it has. By the way, this magic power of 1320. It’s more than you can imagine.

In the summer vacation of my first year of elementary school, when I was at level 84 of it, it was strong enough to sit on and was roughly the size of a balance ball, but now it’s more than 15 times that.

It is strong enough to sit on – about the size of a large classroom while maintaining its viscosity.

However, if I deploy magic that hard in a classroom, my classmates will be crushed to death, so the usual range of magic is about the size of a school with the softness of a light. However, it’s not the size of this area that’s amazing.

This magic has mass, and it can be touched. And if I make it roughly as hard as water, I can make it the size of a 25-meter pool. And the magic power that has grown to that size which I can swim in.

It can even make it look as if it is flying.

Well, if I show it to others, they might dissect me, so I can only enjoy it secretly in a desolate place.

I’m looking forward to seeing what more I can do when I have more magic power.

And speaking of tremendous, my status and skills both rose to greater levels.

First of all, the levels of strength, muscle power, agility, and magic power in the “enhancement” system are outrageous. The lowest level of strength and agility is 18, and the lowest level of magic power is 42.

I thought it was supposed to be capped at 10, but I guess not. So will it become a new skill at 100? Or does it not become a new skill, but purely a head start?

I don’t know, but that’s something I need to contemplate about. I guess, I’ll ponder on it once the time comes when I need it.

By the way, the newly added special skills such as Swiftness, Rigidity, Automatic Stamina Recovery, Magic Manipulation, Magic Absorption, Full Magic Resistance, as well as the ordinary Damage Reduction and Magic Power Efficiency Correction are new skills acquired when my level of each of the “Strengthening” skills is increased to a multiple of 10.

I was a little surprised that the reward for Strengthening Lv20 was damage reduction, though.

The other skill I acquired, Complete Mental Immunity, was originally the Mental Resistance. When the Mental Resistance was raised to Lv10, it evolved into that. And the effect seems to be just the same as that of Mental Resistance Lv10.

Incidentally, Flame Heat Resistance is a skill that I gained by getting burned when I was peeling boiled eggs.

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It’s been a year and a half since that summer vacation. 

Since I discovered magic training, the distance I run and the number of times I train have remained the same, and all I have to do is increase the load with magic power.

As I mentioned earlier, the only major events I’ve been involved in are playing with Ichika-chan and helping my grandparents with their farm work.

Supposedly, my skills should be difficult to increase as the level goes up and should be stagnant considering my training. However, they are increasing at an accelerated rate which is definitely the benefit of my unique skill: Repetitive Attempts.

I can’t be sure of this since I have nothing to compare it to. But at least with each muscle training session, I can feel that as I become more proficient at manipulating magic, more wastes in my body are cleansed as I do my usual routine. 

To be honest, after all this training. I don’t know when these things will be useful. But I enjoy the fact that the more I train, the higher my level gets.

I’m just a kid now, and as long as I’m having fun, that’s all that matters. Besides, in the future I might be able to use my magic power to block bullets, and it might be interesting to become a mercenary or something.

I’ve been trying not to think about it too much, but I’m also curious about my level, which is still stuck at 1. Or will it go up if I go out into the battlefield and kill people?

If it does, will I be willing to kill people then?

There’s no limit to the depths to which I can go when I’m worrying. After all, I didn’t really like to think about things.

Muscle training is great for that. The exhaustion and satisfaction blew away all my worries and dislikes I felt.

As usual, I drank some protein to force my damaged muscles to recover from the effects of “Super Recovery” and then ran out to the park with a load of magical power.

I said I would be like a bullet train if I gave it my all, but with the load I was putting on it, it would take me about four minutes to run one kilometer.