[Taming]
[You can tame a beast following some requirements]
[Requirements: 1 soul point, ideology, Evolution line ]
Neuman was puzzled by the brief explanation, but he managed to grasp the key points. He thought that there might be an in-depth outline of taming, yet what he found was a single-line explanation.
He understood the requirements of taming, 1 soul point, and the ideology factor. However, the "evolution line" was still unclear to him. He thought to check this later on when he had more information about it.
He then decided to explore other options instead.
He then checked the other option and clicked on [Blacksmith]. It was a direct transaction - repairing his weapons and armor in return for soul points.
Next was the [Alchemy].
The alchemy section was different from the blacksmith, as in the alchemy section he had the option to create potions. He would have been much happier if it weren't for the fact that there was only one option in the potion list available and that was the energy recovery potion. Everything except that was unavailable at that moment.
Sighing, he clicked on the Energy Recovery Potion and thought of creating one. After he clicked on it, he was stuck on another point.
[Insufficient Alchemy points]
Huh! Now what's that?
After he checked in the section, he came to know how to get these alchemy points, and that is by processing different kinds of herbs. For now he didn't have any herbs and couldn't perform any of the potion-creating actions and gave up on that idea.
As he looked at the last option, he knew what it would have, and opening the [Market] section at the top, there was the number of soul points he currently had, which showed 110. Below that, he saw a large number of things displayed. As he kept scrolling down, he saw many more options, but for now, most of the things were dark and had question marks on them.
There were only quite a few things on it, such as weapons, skills, food, potions, and even some miscellaneous items like a water bottle, plate, blanket, and others, which he ignored as he didn't need them for now.
After some thinking, he decided to check the skill list since it was the only thing that might increase his combat power for now. Looking at the skill section, he noticed that there were around ten skills on the list, of which five were weapon-related ones. Since he already had two skills, he looked at the remaining ones and saw that they were related to magic.
Seeing the magic skills, he became much more interested and checked them.
[Fireball (50 soul points)]
[Creates a ball of fire and power depends on the amount of magic used]
[Earth Spike (50 soul points)]
[A spike comes out of the ground]
[Flame Control (100 soul points)]
[Provides ability to manipulate fire]
[Water Control (100 soul points)]
[Provides ability to manipulate water]
[Ice Control (250 soul points)]
[Provides ability to manipulate ice]
Neuman's eyes gleamed with excitement, as until now he only had weapon-related skills and when he heard of some people in the camp that could use magic, he also had thought of using it.
As his magic stat increased, this desire became stronger. He tried to use it, but he obviously failed. He didn't know what to do and didn't have any path he could follow nor could he ask for guidance from the people around him.
Now looking at these skills, Neuman wanted to buy all the element control-related skills but he didn't have that many soul points at that moment. Thinking about the necessity for now, he decided to go with the fire control skill at that moment, as he previously had visibility problems in the underground passage; with this skill, it could become much easier.
Not only that, but he could even use it to attack other beasts rather than using water control, as fire will be more efficient in dealing more damage, and since he doesn't have many soul points to buy the ice control skill, it is much better.
[100 soul points used]
[Skill: Fire Control acquired]
Neuman didn't even look at the notification as he had his eyes closed; he was immersed in a different feeling. He slowly started to feel some hot air moving around him, and it was quite gentle, like bathing in the sun in winter.
The heat slowly swirled around him, and Neuman realized that he could control this heat moving around him. With a simple thought, the heat started to compress on a single point just above Neman's index finger, and slowly a small ball of fire appeared above it; it was as small as a nail.
Seeing this Neuman became happy; it was his first time seeing something like this and he became quite fond of it and started to make the fire jump around on his finger and even twirl in between his fingers.
But slowly the ball of fire started to become smaller and smaller, and in just a few minutes it was completely extinguished.
Currently, Neuman was just trying the use of magic power for the first time so he used half of his magic power in just a few minutes, which caused him great discomfort.
He then tried with the remaining half magic power but he slowly started to feel the emptiness in him increasing. He then stopped providing the magic power, causing the ball of fire to extinguish again.
He then closed his eyes and started to feel the magic power inside him again and noticed that after he got the skill, he could feel the magic power inside him; it was like a small water reserve that was constantly getting refilled but very slowly. From the looks of it, it will take around an hour for him to recover his full magic power.
Suddenly a thought came to his mind and he opened the stats menu and looked at the magic stat and then at the stat points. He then tried to add those stat points into magic stats, and he was successful, and his magic stat increased by 10 points. With this, he started to use the magic again.