It had been a year and 10 months since Allen reincarnated into this world . He will be 2 years old in 2 months time . Being blessed with good parents, he was growing quickly . While they were certainly poor, these days, he was starting to find happiness in it as well .
As his parents are serfs, Allen was also a serf . From his general knowledge of the real world, Allen had thought that there are two main restraining factors to being a serf .
You donât have the freedom to select your occupation You canât own any land
He had several other theories as well but these two were the main ones . Itâs a system which was adopted by a great number of people till the 19th century in the real world . There were countries which still had similar systems .
During this month, Allen came to know that in this world, the calendar also had similarities with the real world . 12 months make a year, 30 days make a month . However, the difference was that 6 days makes a week here . He slowly learnt more and more about this world .
Moreover, there are also 4 seasons here, spring, summer, autumn and winter . And in winter, it snows a lot . Since their house is directly built into the ground, his second winter here was very cold .
Like a revolving lantern, he looked at his memories and events of these past 10 months .
Right now, the message function on the grimoireâs cover is making that happen . Although the cover of the grimoire is jet black normally, when Allen summons something or his status changes, it displays messages like a log .
And this log is generally in silver but this time it was amber . And from hereafter, thereâs no doubt that this color would be the color of happiness to Allen .
«âCreateâ skill experience reached 1000/1000 . Level increased to 2 . âSummonâ level increased to 2 . In addition, âSynthesisâ skill acquired . âExtensionâ skill acquired . Memo function added to the grimoire . »
âWhooooooaaaaa!!!â
It was the moment which is the most rewarding to gamers . Meals or the cold, these things became inconsequential . The time being in the middle of autumn, Theresia and Rodan were working in the fields . Thanks to that, he could comfortably let out a warcry .
(H-holy shit, I am curious about a lotta things but first, letâs check the status . )
And indeed, there were many things which caught his attention in the log but first, he checked the status .
There were so many things he was curious about that his mind went blank . 15 minutes went by as he just sat there, grasping the grimoire tightly with his small hands .
(C-calm down . It seems âCreateâ level increased, as well as âSummonâ level, and I can summon G rank beasts now? Is it that the number of summon-able beasts increases if the rank increases?)
He surmised that the Summon and Create level increased and a new summon-able beast was added .
(For now, I would like to summon the new added beast but I donât have enough mana yet so I guess Iâll have to check out the rest of the stuff . )
He looked at the âSynthesisâ . He guessed it would probably allow him to synthesize the summoned beasts . It probably means that he can now synthesize the cards since these beasts can be stored in card format .
It would seem that G âCreateâ and Synthesis required mana so he went on to look at the other stats . His level went up as he just used up his mana .
(Even still, 10,000? Why do I need to gain 10000 EXP to level up now?)
At this pace, even if he were to âcreateâ 3 times a day, it would take 4 and a half years . At this rate, it would always take a long period of time . Allenâs level itself was still only 1 and so he thought he must think of a way to increase his max mana .
(Next is the extended functionality of the grimoire but⊠oh! The holder space for cards⊠umm, it has gone up to 20! In other words, I will be able to stock up 20 cards . In other, other words, I will have twice the divine protection!! Uhyooo!!!)
Since the stock limit increased from 10 to 20, he could now stock double the amount of cards . As he got divine protection for each beast he made into a card, he would get double the protection now .
(Umm, and what was that about the memo at the end? Oh? There are 10 pages titled âMemoâ!! Oohh! I can make memos of stuff just by thinking! Yess!!)
Just as the name suggested, the memo function allowed him to make memos at the end of the grimoire on the blank pages . 10 blank pages for memos . The grimoire itself was as thick as a dictionary so he could possibly make memos of anything he wanted . And it was automatic . Quite convenient .
(Now then, since my mana is 0 at the moment, I guess I will have to take a nap and then check out the rest later . )
Knowing that the blessings he received due to leveling up was quite a lot, the 1 year old Allen happily went back to his nap .
Rodan and Theresia came back to the house . They left the farm tools in the dirt floor room and washed off the dirt from their limbs with the water jug, and then appeased their thirst . The water in the water jug is filled by Rodan every morning from the well . With this water, they also cook and wipe Allenâs body .
âAllen, have you been a good boy? I will make dinner real quick, just wait a bit, alright?â
âYes, mama . â
Theresiaâs baby language had decreased quite a lot . It seems to be for the childâs growth after the lactation period . In the Rodan house, they didnât season the food much and so they just needed to boil or roast the food and itâs complete . It was Rodanâs job to mash vegetables, beans, potatoes and the like for Allen .
Without a âItadakimasuâ or any prayer of gratitude for the food, their meal time had begun . As it was inside a closed off village, their conversations werenât really anything new .
âThat reminds me, our neighbors are quite troubled as Kurena is a tomboy . Gelda was asking for a playmate . â
âEh?â
(Ah, right, we had a neighbor . I havenât met them since the great boarâs dissection, though . )
He recalled the pink-haired baby Gelda was carrying .
This reclaimed village had quite a lot of fields inside it and so it was quite big . Although they are his neighbors, a baby who isnât even 2 years old shouldnât go outside, said Theresia and so Allen abided . And as such, thereâs really not many opportunities for them to meet .
âRight, she might become your bride in the future so you have to get along with her . â
Theresia, who was about 20 years old now, seems to like such conversations . She happily participated in the conversation . The world is a small place, they say . His parents also knew each other and were of the same age . Itâs normal for serfs to find marriage partners like this . They canât go outside so it can be said that thereâs no other way .
âEh? I can go outside?â
âHmm~ I would say itâs a no until youâre 3 years old . â
Although they are his neighbors, the restriction will continue until heâs 3 years old .
The family happy circle time had also come to an end and he returned to the childâs room .
(Fufufu, my mana has replenished . I guess I have no choice now, huh? What shall I do~ G âCreateâ or âSynthesis~? I guess I will try out the new skill, âSynthesisâ, for now . )
The grimoire appeared . Probably because he thought of âsynthesisâ, it auto flipped through the pages .
(Oh, a new page appeared in the grimoire! Thereâs only 2 hollow cut-outs in the middle . Oh! It seems thereâs only 1 on the next page . Does this mean that 2 summoned beasts are made into one? I donât really know the conditions for synthesis so I guess I will try synthesizing two H rank beasts for now . )
He inserted two H cards into the hollow space .
(Alright, âsynthesisâ!)
However, the 2 cards remained the same and nothing changed .
(Eh? Did I mess up somewhere?)
He checked the grimoire coverâs log . This is quite a useful reference . Messages were coming in .
«Not enough mana for âSynthesisâ 1 . »
âWha! Not enough!!â
âOopsâ he went, realizing he let out a loud voice just then . It seems his max mana, 2, was not enough for synthesis .
G
(Eh? Is this perhaps, checkmate? I canât synthesize âcause my max mana is too low? Then, what about the G rank creation?)
He came to the conclusion that he couldnât perform synthesis as he didnât have enough mana .
And so, he challenged G rank âcreateâ . He didnât quite know what « â » is, and so he tried creating that .
(Beast rank G, âcreateâ!)
However, still nothing happened . Thinking that this is also because of the same reason, he looked at the cover again .
«Not enough mana for G rank âcreateâ . »
(N-no way, youâre telling me I canât synthesize or create G rank beasts with my current mana? Is my max mana just too low?)
He was puzzled . It would seem that even though he leveled up, there are still many things he couldnât do .