I can hear the sound of rattling armour and a handful of horses leaving now.

The fight seems to have ended.

I heard so many different and new fantasy-like sounds that it's hard to make out what actually transpired.

Halfway through all the commotion, I sort of lost interest and just started looking at my status like a child playing with his phone during a funeral.

(Eh?)
Did Alcazar actually lose?

(That old pervert with the powerful-looking status…?)
Did they simply overwhelm him with numbers or something?

If something in my status was somehow related to him, I could check…

(Now what do I do…?)
There’s nothing but sky and the roof of Alcazar’s tower in my sight-

(Ah.)

I focused on Alcazar’s tower and slightly different information came to mind.

(He died.)

(I wonder if Julia will come to pick me up…)

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I’m not sure how much time has passed since the battle ended.

I could at least tell that all the fires in my surroundings had finally fizzled out.
I was getting a little worried the fire would spread to me at some point.

(I’m probably made out of something flammable…)

Alcazar’s tower collapsed at some point. Now all I can see is the sky.

The only sounds that remained now was that of the dark day birds.
They’re not near me but they’re probably pecking away at the corpses…

(I'm kind of glad I fell over now…)
I’d rather not have to look at the decaying corpses that I’m probably surrounded by right now.

Though, I’m surprised the men in armour that came to pick up Alcazar didn’t take their fallen comrades back with them. Are the birds pecking away at something else?

(There’s like more than 10 of them or something, but they sound far away?)
I kind of want to use my mental ability right now~.
Hitting more than 10 of those vile birds at the same time would probably feel really good~.

Unfortunately, and I hate to admit it, I’m pretty sure the range of my mental ability is barely something like 1 meter.

I can somewhat tell how many targets I’m hitting when I use the ability.
When I used it on the now departed dirt after he slapped Julia, I could tell that I only hit 1 person.

(H- Hmmm?)
Wasn’t Julia closer to me when I used it actually?

Does that mean I only hit Julia with my “GO DIE!!!” mental assault?

(S- surely not… ha ha haa….)
As I’m nervously laughing to myself, the all too familiar sound of flapping wings approaches me.

Oh! I think the nearby birds have set their sights on the garden!

(…)

I have no idea what’s going on. Someone, please pick me up.

I recognise the sound of the birds destroying the crescent seeds, this would probably be a good time to use mental right? There are several birds.
I won’t have any MP left after this though… What if I’m attacked…

Whilst I’m busy worrying about all kinds of things, I begin to hear one of the birds pecking away at my potion that’s still half-buried in the garden.

(LEAVE!!)

*Don~*

(7?!)

Turns out I was surrounded by a bunch of weaklings. I was hoping to get another extra reward or something.

Oh yes~ I’m getting quite fond of this feeling~

I focus and my status appears.

Huh? My MP didn’t go up?

(Uwaah… stingy…)

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Fortunately, no more birds showed up today…

It’s night time right now, and I’ve been theorising what my levelling up will look like in the future based on my 3 level ups so far.

And in short:
I think inanimate objects aren’t actually supposed to have mana.

When I unlocked the mental ability, it mentioned I got 1 MP.

(It seemed like that was added because I needed the bare minimum to obtain or use the ability in the first place?)

It’s almost like the world auto-corrected itself by giving me a single point of mana. What an odd phenomenon.

Anyway, enough of the depressing thoughts!! It’s time to return to my plan!

I think I’ll have to give up on recovering my health by getting someone to install new arms for now.
Instead! Since I don’t have to sleep, tonight I will be moving on to the second item of my action plan!

I usually just daydream about my life back on earth or zone out staring at the numbers in my status since it’s too dark to look at anything after midnight.

But I’m a MAGIC scarecrow now!

Yes! That’s right! It’s finally time to start experimenting with magic.

When I use my mental ability I can feel my singular mana point drain from my body and morph into a sphere shape that encompasses my surroundings.

(Julia’s water beam originated from her palm…)

I’m feeling pretty confident that with enough effort and practice… I’ll be able to shoot water soon enough!
And when I’ve got that mastered I’ll be shooting fireballs at all those nasty birds in due time! Haha!

I enthusiastically start trying to sense my mana point whilst dreaming about all the cool magic I’ll be using in the near future~

(H- hmmm… )

(I can’t feel anything at all…)

Confused after only a couple of minutes of training, I focus on the important bit in my status.

(…)

I forgot to wait for my mana to regenerate.

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Unnamed magic scarecrow here~

I’ve been obsessively tracking my mana point for the past 3 hours now I think?
It’s honestly really hard to tell the time, I’m trying to look at the position of this world’s moon as a reference point, but I’ve honestly got no clue what I’m doing.

Anyway, it’s finally my time!!

It’s pitch black out here right now, and my mana point is back!

My magic training arc begins now!!

 

I gather my left over excitement that was dispersed a couple of hours ago and begin to do some form of introspective meditation again.
It’s similar to the technique I’ve been using to look at my status, but instead of looking at my whole being, I try to focus on the spot that my mental ability seems to use as it’s power source.

Oh! There’s something there!
I think I got it!

(…)

(Ah!)

It disappeared.

Well, I didn’t expect it to be easy anyway! If learning magic was this easy, everyone would’ve been running around shooting fireballs all over the place back on earth.

(Grrr… )

There’s nothing there now?

I focus on my MP again.

(…)