I got home by 545, havihe dungeht round 5.

  “Hey, Im home” I say, walking through the door.

  “Oh, wele home” Aria said, being the only one in the living rht now. “Anthem is at his wht now” she told me.

  “So it’s just us for dinner?” I ask her.

  “Yeah, I think so” she told me.

  “Do you have anything you want?” I ask her.

  “Pizza” she said, fidently.

  “So, one of the only things I don’t have to spend time making. Sure, sounds great” I say, not really wanting to focus on that right now.

  I quickly got a pizza from our freezer. I am fully capable of making pizza from scratch, but we don’t normally buy stuff for it outside of special occasions, and it's a much more involved process.

  Setting our oven to preheat, I finish up what I o dht now i.

  “Hey, I have some news” I tell Aria, as I walk back to the living room.

  “What's up?”

  “I got MP growth today” I tell her, super excited.

  “Really, that's great” she said. “So, how does it work?”

  “No clue yet. I have not tested anythi” I tell her.

  “Well, make something with your skill, or use magic to see what happens”

  I quickly open up my absolute creation menu and create a basic health potion, using all of my mp at once.

  “So, I don’t have any MP now, but my max is still just 10” I say fused.

  “Well, maybe wait for it to recharge and then see if there are any ges” Aria suggests.

  “Sure, why not” I say, then start an hour timer on my phone.

  After that, Aria and I spend some time together while dinner cooks. We pyed a few games and talked about our days.

  She didn’t do much today, but was really ied in my pns for the few days.

  As dinner finishes, I head bato the kit and pull it out of our oven.

  “Aria, dinners ready” I say, pulling out a few ptes and cutting the pizza.

  “Thank you for making dinner” she tells me and sits down.

  “I mean, you could have made it yourself” I tell her.

  “But it taste so much better when you make it” she says, with a huge smile on her face.

  “I don’t think thats true” I tell her.

  “It is”

  “Well, anyway” I say, and start eating the pizza.

  And while we are eating, she asks me. “Are you sure you want to finish off those hiddes? Its just going to waste time before you start growing faster”.

  “I think so. I mean, what if it does something cool?” I say i.

  “It’s just, if you started leveling up, we could eventually hunt together”

  “I know, but it's just…” I start.

  “Your curious about what could happen”

  “Yeah” I say, embarrassed.

  “Its fih. Do what you want”

  While we ate, and around when we were about done, my phone arm goes off.

  “Oh, well, lets see what happened” I say.

  I then open up my status and check my MP.

  MP:11/11

  “Hey, it went up by one” I told Aria.

  “Ok, so it grows as you use the MP. That's pretty good” She tells me.

  “Yeah, but is it one every time it fully recharges, or something else?”

  “Your the only person who has the skill, yoing to o figure it out”

  “Well, let's make another potion and drain my mp again” I say, “And if I leave o, maybe I won’t get another point”.

  This made sense if it was based on fully recharging, but if it was something else, I might get a bonus here.

  I recharge 1 mp about every 5 and a half minutes, so I set the timer to 55 minutes.

  “Well, while we're waiting, let's go py mames” Aria said.

  The game she wao py was a cartoon fighting game that she really enjoys. She is quite good at it, eveer than I am.

  “Alright” I say.

  And 55 mier, and three losses for me, I checked my mp again.

  Mp:12/12

  “OK, I think it might be based on how much gets recharged” I told Aria, “It went up again”.

  “Awesome. And you didn’t use it all this time?”

  “Yeah, just 10. So, it recharged 10 this time, a up by 1. So maybe everytime it recharges 10 points, it goes up by one?”

  “That makes sense. So try it again. This time it should only take…”

  “Exactly 50 minutes” I say, answering the math question.

  “I could have gotten there” She said, kind of annoyed I answered the question. “Well, let me beat you a few more times while we wait.

  ?

  That is how we spent the rest of ht. We kept testing the Mp growth, and fully nded on this clusion.

  Every 10 MP points recharged, I gain +1 Mp permaly.

  It was really good, but required a det amount to start. It takes 7 and a quarter hours to gain the first 10, which is when it speeds up super quickly.

  Since I started around 6, I got to the point where I had 20 MP, at 3:15 am, and made a total of 10 potions, to get there.

  I made my pn to use magic all day tomorrow, hoping to increase this even further.

  I yed in my bed very te at night, making my pns for the day.

  ?

  Aria sat in her room thinking about Zenith.

  “He seems to be doing really well retly. It's probably hunting” she says, thinking out lound.

  It was only about a month ago that she was worried about him almost every day. He hadn’t talked about getting a text from Mana in a long time as well.

  “I mean, its good, but I miss being able to fort him all the time” she said, annoyed. “He also has new friends, with Nyx, though she has e up retly too”.

  This was true. Nyx was not being brought up in the versations she had with him. She khey were talking still, since she was still cheg his texts. He was just ning it up.

  “Maybe I shouldn’t worry about him anymore, maybe he is actually going to be fine now” she said depressingly.

  She was happy that Zenith was happy, but sad he might not need her that much.

  “I just o make sure he still needs me in his life going forward” she said. “But how? He doesn;t need money anymore, and he’s emotionally better. And has friends…”.

  While she was trying to make pns, she was getting stuck.

  She had gotteo him being depe on others, mainly her.

  And if that ges with him, she wasn’t sure what to do.

  ?

  The m, I headed out around 8, like I did every m. I po head back to the wolves den, and start to grind with intelligence boost today, as well as the magics I use.

  If I do everything correctly, I could get a lot closer to the hiddes being fioday. With some basic math, I just needed somewhere around 4500ish points in intelligence boost, based around when I fihe quest for the other stats.

  And Speed boost just required a lot of running.

  As I left my house though, I was stopped pretty quickly.

  “Zenith”

  It was Mia. She was waiting right in front of my house.

  “Mia, what are you doing here?” I ask her, fused about why she had e here.

  She looked bad, like really bad.

  Her hair was messy, to the point where I could see knots in it. She had massive bags under her eyes.

  And the most ing, a bruise fading on her check.

  “You weren’t responding to my texts, and I o talk to you”

  NamelessAlter