In the blink of an eye, more than a month had hurried past, and during that time, Aibo’s life had settled into a routine.
He began each morning with a glass of milk and some morning training, practiced and tested various skills at home in the morning, went to the guild right on time for lunch, spent the afternoon at the guild seeking guidance in magic, occasionally helped out with waitstaff duties, played with his friends for a while after dinner to grow closer to them, then returned to his home in Little Garden to write and update his novel and meditate.
He was always in bed before eleven sharp, never carrying fatigue over into the next day.
Everyone in the guild said Aibo was a normal kid.
His self-disciplined life kept Aibo in a good mood for a long time, and naturally, the rewards were substantial.
First came his magic studies.
Aibo learned Lightning Magic from Laxus, asked the Master to teach him Light Magic and Giant Magic, learned Transformation Magic from Big Sister Elo, and sought out the other uncles in the guild to learn Water Magic, Sand Magic, and Shadow Magic.
Of course, he had only learned them, not mastered them.
Most of the magics had not even reached LV1, and Aibo had no plans to spend inspiration points to level them up for now—he was just staking out a spot for later.
Then came the most important gain: the magic he learned from a young man named Mest—Teleportation Magic.
This magic could also be called instantaneous movement.
It was extremely cool and flashy, and most importantly, Aibo learned it at incredible speed, mastering it in a single day.
Not only that, but when Aibo filled Teleportation Magic’s experience to the full 1000 points, the two skills [Requip Magic LV1, 2139/10000] and [Teleportation Magic LV0, 1000/1000] vanished at the same time, and what appeared afterward was a brand-new magic—
[Spatial Magic LV1, 6979/10000]
Aibo was quite surprised.
The system actually had a little surprise hidden away.
For magics of the same type, if the skill was not raised by infusing inspiration points but instead by learning until it reached 1000 experience points, that experience would be returned twofold to the higher-tier skill.
After obtaining Spatial Magic LV1, he could still use the Requip and Teleportation magic he had already learned, and Spatial Magic would soon be able to reach LV2.
At the same time, Aibo reached a conclusion: among the many types of magic, the one with the best compatibility with him was precisely spatial magic.
Requip Magic could only spatially transfer inorganic objects such as clothing, whereas Teleportation Magic could move his entire person.
However, Teleportation Magic consumed a fair amount of magic power, and it could not be cast instantly—but these were minor problems.
After he leveled it up, everything would surely improve.
And Aibo was thinking that later he could develop skills of his own, like… [Flash] and [Flying Thunder God]?
His gains in magic had been considerable, and now Aibo’s base stats had become:
[Vigor: 25/25]
[Stamina: 20/20]
[Magic Power: 401/404]
Everything had improved overall, and his magic power had broken past the 400 mark.
Then there were the magics he had already learned:
[Telepathy Magic LV4, 20086/10000000]
[Spatial Magic LV1, 6979/10000]
[Meditation LV1, 3456/10000]
[Letter Magic LV1, 3364/10000], [Solid Script Magic LV0, 207/1000]
[Molding Magic LV1, 1959/10000]
[Fire Magic LV1, 404/10000]
[Crush Magic LV1, 33/10000]
These were the magics he’d known before.
Spatial Magic was about to reach LV2, while Meditation and Letter Magic, which he used regularly, were advancing in tandem.
As for the newly acquired magics:
[Light Magic LV1: 1111/10000]
[Lightning Magic LV1: 888/10000]
[Water Magic LV1: 678/10000]
[Enhancement Magic LV1: 168/10000]
[Ice Magic LV1: 66/10000]
[Transformation Magic LV1: 50/10000]
These elemental magics were not too difficult to learn, so Aibo lit them all up.
Among them, Light Magic, which was progressing the fastest, was—apart from Spatial Magic—the magic with the highest compatibility with Aibo.
As for Enhancement Magic, it was actually a magical application that amplified physical abilities through magic power.
This magic had not originally existed; like the Magic Control skill, it was something Aibo had unlocked using inspiration points.
Using Enhancement Magic, he could easily lift objects weighing many times as much as he did.
But Aibo did not normally participate in guild brawls, and nobody took him along to fights, so he did not use this skill much—only when moving things.
Transformation Magic was the most recent one he had learned, but LV1 Transformation Magic could only turn Aibo into a child with a different appearance; it could not even change his build by much, which left him slightly disappointed.
Aside from these already-learned magics, there was still a whole pile of LV0 magics he had not learned, but he could not be bothered to list them one by one.
Aibo now also understood why the mages of this world basically all specialized in only one or two types of magic.
Learning too much meant he simply could not keep up with it all—bite off more than you can chew.
Aibo had already decided that from now on, he would specialize in Spatial Magic.
Space-time magic was top-tier, and since he had talent in this area, he naturally had to carry it forward.
Besides these magic-type skills, there were also several “life-type” skills:
[Writing LV1, 1587/10000]
[Drawing LV1, 104/10000]
[Body Tempering LV0, 509/1000]
[Cooking LV0, 250/1000]
[Singing and Instrument LV0, 9/1000]
Well, basically no change.
The only one he cared about was the fitness skill “Body Tempering”—it felt as though it should be useful.
But he was still too young, and his progress in practicing it was slow.
All he could say was that the future looked promising.
During this period, Aibo had basically never used his inspiration points, hoarding them like a little miser.
Now he already had:
[Inspiration Points: 29686]
Nearly thirty thousand inspiration points!
Enough to learn more than twenty small skills, or to raise three skills to LV2.
But Aibo still had no intention of using these inspiration points, because simply watching the number continue to rise gave him a pleasant sense of satisfaction.
Anyway, there was nothing he urgently needed them for right now, so he would just save them for later.
And that was all because this crappy system was too lousy: its skill infusion actually left his foundation unstable, so to fully master a skill he still had to rely on his own training.
Disappointing.
Even without using the system to cheat, Aibo’s learning speed was astonishing, and he was already widely recognized as a little genius.
He would save more surprises for his guildmates in the future.
Having covered magic, now let’s talk about making money.
The novel *Naruto* had already been serialized in the otherworld’s newspaper for over a month.
The Land of Waves arc had just ended, and reader feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
The cultural shock from another world still packed some punch.
This novel had already gained some fame in the Fiore Kingdom.
Not long ago, with the Master’s help, Aibo had reached further cooperation agreements with Kingdom Daily and Sosara Magazine.
One was the release of the first novel as a standalone volume, and the other was a new serialization of the *Naruto* manga in Sosara Weekly.
The manga serialization had originally also been under discussion with Kingdom Daily, but Sosara entered the picture halfway through, and what they offered was simply too much.
No one can exactly turn their back on money, so in the end, it turned out like this.
As for drawing the manga… naturally, Lidas was the lead artist, while Aibo handled the authorization and provided the basic character design sketches.
Before long, Aibo would be able to lie back and make money.
A happy prospect.
Nothing major worth noting had happened during this time either.
The guild was still as noisy and rowdy as ever, Gildarts still had not come back, and Aibo was enjoying a rare and precious “childhood” with his friends.
He had thought today would be another ordinary, uneventful day…
A little girl in tattered clothes, covered in wounds and filthy from head to toe, arrived at the guild entrance.
“…Fairy Tail… Grandpa Rob said… is this the place?”