Legendary Traveler: By Earning Progress Points I will Become Supreme!

'The first part is complete, but what now? I mean, should I just start copying all the stuff famous Travelers do, like make a sword of ice or armor…maybe try summoning a blizzard, NO, steady Aoni, we are STEADY, not impulsive.' With his eyes trained on the handful of snow in his palm, Aoni wondered about his next step.

However, there were a few issues with those GRAND ideas he had thought about. For starters, Even with a D-Rank Energia Stat, that didn't necessarily signify that he had a large amount of Energia to draw from.

Now, if we were talking about him having a 100% Elementalization of his Energia, sure, maybe something like that would be possible if not only in short bursts but with only 10%; it was no different from saying, "Hey, I've got 100 pieces of candy, let's have a feast with only 10.

Basically, it was irrational.

That's also factoring out any type of measurement of his Bodies Energia content, which is entirely possible as long as proper tools are used to give a numerical value to his D-Rank.@@novelbin@@

Right now, the best thing he could do was get a rough estimate based on the values hammered into his brain in school.

For example,

In the G Rank, Travelers could expect to have an Energia Value between 1 point and 10.

F = 11 to 50

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D = 101 to 1000

C = 1001 to 5000

As far as Aoni knew, if someone had a B-Rank in their Energia Stat, it would signify over 5000 points, but even that was heavily based on government-controlled statistics.

Givin this fact, it was hard to say for sure if those values were even precise because there were numerous legends and tales about Beings whose Energia numbers broke the norm while having certain Ranked Stats.

It's like someone whose TD shows them having a D-Ranked Energia stat, yet the measurements indicated they had 3000 points. So, while it was fine and dandy to have a unit of measurement, it was difficult to lump people into generic and non-linear values.

What's even more worrisome is that these people, who tended to break the status quo, ended up being uncontrollable, extremely powerful, and, more importantly, constantly targeted by every organization.

That's why each of them earned monikers or titles such as genius, one in a billion, and generational legends. Still, generally, no matter what they were called, each of these individuals was considered a supreme being, an untouchable and invincible existence.

"Why am I getting sidetracked with useless thoughts?" shaking his head and clearing his mind of grandiose visions, Aoni stared intently at the snow in his hand while muttering Snowball repeatedly.

This was the first objective he had come up with; since it was clear envisioning things worked for him, he would build off of it with one of the most simple constructs he could think of.

In his mind's eye, a picture began taking shape of the snow in his hand rising up, compacting, and smoothing into a sphere.

When nothing happened after a full minute, the lad pressed harder with his mind, even going so far as to grip his left wrist tightly with his right hand, as if that little extra effort would help.

And…slowly, VERY slowly, but surely, the snow began trembling.

At first, it was a slight quiver, almost as if a puff of wind had hit it. Outer fringes of the snow collected toward the center of the lad's palm before rising up, and after a full 15 minutes of imagining a snowball, Aoni had one sitting smack dab where there was once a pile.

Unfortunately, right when he finally succeeded, Aoni found himself unable to celebrate as the ground under his feet seemed to shift. Unable to stop his descent, he ended up on his back, staring at the sky, dizzy and feeling like he needed to throw up.

"Really…a single snowball? That's my limit?" Rolling onto his side, the lad curled into the fetal position and waited for the nausea to pass while thinking about why he had exhausted so much Energia.

Luckily, he knew what was happening, and since it was simply the effect of exhausting his Energia, there wasn't anything to worry about, as the sickness would pass in less than an hour. Still, the issue at hand was HOW it had cost so much to manipulate a handful of snow into a snowball.

The answer actually lay in a combination of factors; for starters, Both of his Manipulation skills were only at G-, so while he had plenty of Energia to draw from, he wasn't skilled enough to be efficient with that amount, thus ended up overusing and abusing his available resource.

This was something Aoni would not only have to overcome but also learn from since earning a passive didn't mean he was an overnight expert.

If anything, all a Passive equated to was proof of two things: Theory and Experience. For example, let's take something Like Alchemy; even if the lad somehow stumbled his way into concocting a basic One-Star Health Potion, that didn't mean he was going to earn the corresponding Passive magically.

First, he would need to spend years toiling in a lab, learning tens of thousands of herbs and plants, along with different recipes, and then, he would have to put that knowledge to work, crafting multiple potions, and after years of this, ONLY THEN, would he learn the Passive.

And it was precisely because of this that Colleges on Terra, no matter what country you visited, all had courses tailored to meet this very specific need.

Want to become an Alchemist? Cool, spend a shit ton of money and four years of your life to earn the Passive using their structured course, which is proven effective.

Theory and Experience are what it took to earn a passive, and it was also why Aoni was so amazed when he randomly picked up the Dual Swordsmanship passive.

Apart from playing around in the backyard with his brothers and roughhousing with two sticks, he had never been formally trained in that discipline.

At the same time, earning the Swordsmanship Passive was pretty much guaranteed since most Academies put students through enough training so that they could pick it up given the right circumstances, which, for him, involved actually getting his hands on a real weapon.