The Insider System

Chapter 28: The God of Light

Chapter 28: The God of Light

Lake got out of the Bed they had given him last night and looked at the sundial-like thing on the table beside him and saw it had only been a little over 3 hours since he had gone to bed. Lake was confused he had been so tired he had gone to bed as soon as he saw it. Why did he get up already? Then he remembered Refreshed. He had kind of written it off in his mind because it didn't really help him fight, but now that he thought about it this could save him 4 hours on average a day.

Ready to get his day started, Lake hoped the Light temple got up early. He did have something he needed to do before he did anything though, switching to Dark Mage Lake looked at his stats.

Race: Human Lv.2 ( 5/10 )

Job: Dark Mage Lv.5 (136 / 160)

Special: The Insider Lv.0 ( 3/5 )

Stats

Health 20

Stamina 20

Mana 20

Strength 10

Endurance 10

Agility 19

Dexterity 24

Perception 19

Intelligence 30

Charisma 6

Free stat points: 2

"Nice now I can get some real thinking done." Lake thought it would be funny to say the last dumb thing he would in his life in celebration of becoming a genius. Moving on to his new jobs, Lake felt like it had to be tampered with because 5 levels had given him so many stat points.

Dark Mage (R) Lv.5/10 (136/160)

On level up:

Intelligence 4

Exp conditions:

Kills

Bonus Exp conditions:

X3 Dark Magic Kills

Skills from job:

Dark Control (R) Lv.1

Dark Destruction (E) Lv.1

"Oh Nice more letters other than U and C." Lake knew this meant rarity but he didn't really know how many there were or what they meant. He felt this was one of those questions people would look down on him for asking, and with him being so smart he couldn't abide being treated like he was dumb.

He had thought this job would synergize with Thief and therefor be tampered with, but oh well the ones before him probably had their reasons to leave this job alone. Moving on to the new skills Lake read them carefully because he had so much time.

Dark Control (R) Lv.1

Increases affinity for Dark to Low.

Dark Destruction (E) Lv.1

Makes it easier to Learn Dark attack spells.

"Seems pretty good." Lake then went to the job that allowed him to be here.

Light Mage (U) Lv.1

On level up:

Intelligence 4

Exp conditions:

Kills

Protecting Holy Magic Users

Bonus Exp conditions:

X3 Light Magic Kills

X3 Protecting Holy Magic Users

Skills from job:

Lake was kind of surprised to see a U that wasn't golden. He assumed that anything with a U was from the Insider but he guessed it meant any job that had been tampered with because instead of gold it was a light blue. "Light." This was a weak association but it was the best answer he had.

The Protecting Holy Magic Users part was also in Light blue which increased the odds. If it had something to do with the God of Light he could probably ask the temple head. Lake had already seen Impersonate in the list but he hadn't read it because he wanted to save it for last, because it was from the Insider and he bet it was going to be good.

Impersonate (U) Lv.1

steal targets identity and add it to your collection.

(Uses targets core.)

"Does it change my face?" Lake had always dreamed about killing everyone who was more handsome than him, and if this skill did what he thought it did he would make it a reality. He wasn't bad looking, so anyone better was taking it too far. In the future he would make a grand collection. Getting lost in his fantasies, Lake didn't notice someone was looking into his room.

"Hello." Lake looked up to see someone he didn't know was looking into his room without knocking. "Sorry. I thought I heard someone speaking. I didn't know another guest had come to stay here. I've been the only one using these rooms for the last few months, so I was surprised to hear someone down here.

Lake liked it when people apologized to him so he decided to let this slide; it wasn't like he was changing. "Hey, do you know if they have any extra clothes I can change into?" Lake blew past whatever this person had said to him he was tired of wearing these rags and this person was wearing what seemed to be temple robes, and they said they were also a guest, so maybe they gave out free clothes. "Yeah there's a supply closet for guests. Come with me, I'll show you."

Standing up Lake could feel his pants dying; they were definitely on their last legs. "My name's Lake I'll be here for the next few days so if you hear me talking, know it's to myself not you." Lake didn't want her poking her nose in his important business, because if she was here she was probably trouble.

"I'm Mimi. Sorry again about staring at you. I was just thinking you didn't really look like a Holy Magic user." Lake had a bad feeling like he was about to be pulled into some dumb side story about this girls tragic fate. I mean just look at her name it was like the gods chose it to make him feel pity towards her. It wasn't like he was unwilling; he just needed to be sure to gain benefits in some way if he was forced to help with something. Not to mention the boost his ego would get if everyone thought he was some hero.

"You're right I'm not here because I'm a holy magic user. I'm just a light magic user but I made the Assassins guild mad." Mimi looked sad as she asked, "Have they gone after your family yet?" Lake giggled on the inside. This next line was going to make him seem like some tragic hero in the making, and in the future if he ever did something cool in front of her Mimi would think of this moment. He put a complicated look on his face and said, "I don't have a family."

Lake almost laughed when he saw his line shake Mimi's heart. He could tell she wanted to ask about his past, and just like that he became a mysterious enigma she would spend her free time thinking about. "The robes are in here." Before Lake grabbed anything he asked, "When does the day start around here? I'm up kind of early and I'm not sure what I should do with my time."

"Most people here use all their free time to meditate. It's a lot easier to get in touch with the Light element here, so if I was you I'd give it a try." This made Lake remember a question he wanted to ask last night after he used a spell and it had not cost mana. "Last night was the first time I used magic. Why didn't it use my mana?"

"It would have if you were in an environment where there wasn't the element you needed. For example if you tried to use a dark spell in here it would affect your mana while a light spell wouldn't and would actually get a power boost." So the environment played a role in combat. He would need to remember this in the future so he didn't accidently use all his mana. Since he had all elemental affinities he could always match his spells to the environment and leave his mana to use his skills.

"Are there skills other than spells that use mana?" Lake felt It would make sense for Mage skills to use mana instead of stamina. "Those are called magic skills; they're spells you can only get from leveling up. they can't be learned through regular meditation like most spells."

Lake felt Mimi seemed pretty informed about the temple and magic so he asked, "Why does my Light Mage job have blue writing in it?" To his relief Mimi didn't show a shocked reaction. He had been afraid it was going to be like the Alchemist guild all over again and they were going to beg him to join, or not let him leave.

"The Light God blessed his jobs to empower Light magic users. He was afraid the Demon worshipers would overpower the Temple while he was gone looking for the betrayer so he used one of his artifacts to give them a way to grow faster. Since the temple is protecting us." Mimi looked like she wasn't supposed to admit she was a Holy magic user, and tried to cover up what she just said. "Since the Temple is protecting Holy Magic users Light Magic users gets a passive source of Exp as long as they're members of the Temple." Lake pretended not to notice. He was pretty sure he could also use Holy Magic to if he tried, so it wasnt a big deal to him. He would try next time he was alone, because all this stuff had made him curious.

Lake was done asking questions, and wanted Mimi to go away so he said, "Alright I'm going to change now." Lake watched as Mimi walked away, and thought. "If it's a secret they should make it less obvious." Lake could see slightly golden mana swirl around Mimi; he wondered if it was just him and others couldn't see it so clearly, but ether way there wasn't a reason for her to try and hide it.

Grabbing a robe, Lake started to change; he wasn't too sure how to wear it so he just twirled it around himself. He also noticed there were no underwear so he just kept the ones he had been born in.

After changing Lake walked back to his room and started to meditate. "Man she wasn't kidding." Lake watched as a massive amount of Light mana gathered around him. With this much Lake bet he could make some crazy spells but not wanting to destroy his room he decided to start with defense.

After a while Lake found trying to control this massive amount of Mana was almost impossible. "I wonder if it's because I'm a Level zero Light Mage." Lake switched to trying to do something with less mana he probably got ahead of himself, this was a lot harder than he was expecting.