Dave woke up with cold sweat on his forehead.
'Damn, nightmares!'
Nightmares started haunting him when the apocalypse had descended on the planet. At first, they were more or less bearable, but as he continued to survive, more nightmares followed him in his sleep.
Seeing how Brian and Adam were still sleeping, Dave smiled slightly chasing away his worries.
'I think it is ti to use knowledge from a past life.'
After a brief sleep, Dave felt refreshed and energized. He crossed his legs and sat on the ground entering a ditation state.
Increasing spirit points wasn't the only way to obtain mana.
In his past life, survivors later learned that they can attract mana from the surroundings, but most of the people still added free points to spirit stat since it was too difficult to increase mana through ditation.
Dave knew that spirit stat was more about soul power than mana. The increase in mana was just a byproduct of strengthening a soul.
Dave had trained diligently over his past life picking up several tricks to strengthen himself, so he was able to learn ditation, though he spent lots of ti learning it.
After 15 minutes of ditation, Dave sensed blue particles around him drifting in the air. They were concentrated clusters of mana.
He concentrated his mind on one of them, attracting it to his body. As another 10 minutes had passed, the blue particle moved close enough to his body.
When he finally absorbed his first particle of mana, a system notification appeared before his eyes.
[You have learned ditation (LVL 1)]
[Regression is reacting towards your new skill]
[ditation (LVL 1) have turned into ditation (LVL 3)]
Dave was shocked by the consecutive system notifications. He never thought that his Regression would still hide more surprises for him.
'Can it transfer my experience from past life to the current one to level up my skills?' Dave thought that it was a reasonable idea since his ditation had leveled up to the level from his previous life.
Still excited from his discovery, he decided to leave the ditative state and try another skill from his past life.
He paced his breathing to force his heart to pump the blood faster through the blood vessels. As his heartbeat faster than before, his body started heating up.
Dave felt as strength surged through his body. However, right when he got at the last mont, he felt a sharp pain from his heart as it was going to explode.
Gasping for air, Dave convulsed on the floor, his hands on his heart.
He gritted his teeth as he tried to bear with the pain. It felt like all his body was being shredded as his heart was going to explode.
Fortunately, after several minutes the pain decreased slightly as he tried to stand up from the floor.
'It seems that I should wait until my stamina reached the requirents.' Dave groaned painfully as he thought till that point.
Dave was ready for the backlash right from the beginning. Usually, to learn a skill he wanted to acquire, people should have 10 points in stamina.
However, he hoped that Regression would help him with learning it, even though he had only 9 points, 1 point short from the 10.
'It ans that I can't overco the basic requirents to learn the skill' Making conclusions in his head, Dave started planning on how to use his innate ability.
'I learned lots of main and miscellaneous skills in my past life, but most of them have requirents I have yet to fulfill.' Thinking up to this point, Dave renewed his ditation.
He couldn't help but notice that he entered a ditative state much faster than before. At the sa ti, he absorbed blue particles of light much faster than a full 10 minutes. The ti had gone down by 2 and a half minutes.
As he was imrsed in his ditation, ti flew by. At so point, Brian and Adam woke up from their sleep.
The first thing they noticed after waking up was Dave who sat cross-legged. It was hard not to see a person who was sitting strangely on the floor as though he was a monk.
"Dave, what are you doing?"
When Brian saw how Dave was ditating, he couldn't help but exclaim surprisedly. Both he and Adam were surprised to see Dave waking up early than them, not to say, ditating next to the wall.
Interrupted by Brian, Dave left a ditative state. He decided to teach them more about mana covering it by the premise of sudden discovery.
"I woke up a bit earlier than you, and I decided to do so experints. I discovered that we can increase our mana reserves through ditation and learn to control it with our will.
Putting it into simpler words, if we take mana as water and spirit as a suction force, then ditation is an effective way to apply force to gather more water"
Dave tried to explain the theory behind mana as simple as possible. Brian seed to be in a daze trying to understand his words, while Adam looked like he got a gist of what he wanted to say.
"Should we also try it?"
Adam was the first one to propose it. Even though Dave implied it in his words, Adam showed a willingness to get stronger.
When Adam proposed to ditate with him, Brian chipped in. Both of them wanted to grow stronger since the world was no more a safe place to live.
"Adam, if you want it, you can try ditating. As for you Brian, I want you to learn how to control your innate ability."
Dave didn't have high hopes that Adam would learn ditation imdiately, but it was better to start learning it now.
As for Brian, their survival depended on his Life Pulse. The faster he learns how to control the range of his innate ability, the more chances they will have to survive.
"But I already tried it before. I have no idea how to do it."
Brian tried to retort his words, but Dave was unwavering.
"Don't be too hasty. At first, you may try to direct your Life Pulse in one direction. It is your ability and only you know how to use it. I won't be much of a help."
Dave was sincere here. Even though he knew that it was possible to control an innate ability, he never had one in his past life. Hence, the help he could provide was limited.
Occasionally sharing his insights with them, Dave wanted to plan their next step. But at first, he wanted to check how much mana he had gathered since he had no ti to check it before his ditation was interrupted by Brian.
'Status'
[David Murckly
Level: 3
Class: None
Survival coins: 12
Mana: 5/5
Strength: 16
Agility: 10
Stamina: 9
Intelligence: 11
Spirit: 0
Free points: 0
Innate ability: Regression
Skills: Elentary Cooking (LVL 2), Gaming (LVL 8), Mathematics (LVL 7), Leadership (LVL 1), ditation (LVL 3)]
'I had increased my mana by 5 points in just 5 hours which would have taken a day worth of ti if not for Regression. However, the higher it goes, the harder it will be to increase my mana pool in the future'
As Dave thought, his Regression was amazing. Not only it had sent him back in ti, but it was also able to transfer his experience from the past to this life.
People couldn't just level up their skills even if they had enough understanding of it. It leveled up depending on two factors.
First was understanding of their skills to move it to the next level. For example, a person can't have a higher level of Math if a user didn't have knowledge corresponding to the next level.
The second depended on how often it was used. More often you use it, the more adept you will beco in it and the faster it will level up.
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