Reincarnated With A Glitched System: Why Is My MP Not Running Out?

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A giant Phoenix materialized, surprising Ruby and well, most of the people in the airport. Some outright panicked and started running away. Her presence and appearance alone were intimidating enough to sent shivers down the spine of anybody that was too weak.

”W-Woaaah!” she gasped. ”I-Is that a real Phoenix?!”

”I sure am, little girl,” giggled Phoenix. ”I am the Familiar of Sylphy’s father. The man you disrespected the other day.”

”A-Ah…” Ruby gave a step back. ”I’m sorry-”

”No need to be sorry, that man needs to be disrespected every now and then,” nodded Pheonix. ”Always using me as his transporter and luggage carrier, me, a Phoenix! Hah… Oh well, you may now travel over my back. Fear not, my flames cannot burn… if I don’t want them to burn.”

”Huh…” Ruby nodded, slightly nervously, but stepped forward, quickly sitting over Phoenix. ”Woah, your back’s so wide, and fluffy and soft…”

”S-Stop caressing me!” Phoenix complained. ”Anyways, let’s go!”

After we climbed over her, she quickly carried us amidst the snowy lands, snow was falling in large quantities outside, but her fiery aura easily protected us from cold, until we reached the house sitting in a nearby mountain.

”Is that the house where Felicia lives?!” Ruby wondered. ”No wonder nobody can go met her, she lives in a completely inaccessible area!”

”Not completely… I mean, you can get there through flight, no?” I asked.

”Not everyone can fly so easily…” Ruby sighed. ”But this is amazing, to be so high! I-I’m a bit scared…”

”Don’t worry, not like you’ll fall or something,” Celeste laughed.

”D-Don’t say it like that or it might become true!” Ruby cried even more.

Once we landed on the house’s rooftop, we opened a door leading to the top floor and entered through that entrance. Once inside, Ruby glanced at the old-looking, yet very clean interior with fascination.

”Wow, such an old looking house,” she said. ”It makes me wonder how it is even standing in the middle of a snowy mountain.”

”Me too, honestly,” said Celeste.

”Yeah, it’s because it is Master’s Familiar! The whole house is like a huge golem,” said Celica.

”E-Eh? Really?” Ruby wondered.

”Yes, she said she made it like this out of convenience, so the house can re-generate naturally,” I said. ”I don’t know how she even did that, to turn something into a golem is not exactly the easiest thing out there…”

”I can do it easily!” said Celica.

”Well that’s because you’re very talented in that very specific thing, little Celica,” I said, petting her head. ”Anyways, I guess it’s going to be lunch time soon. Let’s go greet my dad at least. I want to introduce you to him. Also I would like you to… well, apologize to him too, if possible?”

I didn’t really mind if she wouldn’t had apologized to me, but when it comes to my friends or my family, I would prefer if she did.

”Of course, I’ll go with you,” Ruby nodded. ”Where can I leave all the luggage though?”

”Glutton is carrying it for now so don’t worry,” I said. ”We’ll pick one of the empty rooms for you, one close to ours preferably.”

We walked downstairs after telling Ruby that, meeting my dad that was already cooking lunch for us.

”Well, you’re back! How was it- Huh?” his eyes widened as he noticed the new member of the party. ”Wait, is that the girl from before, the smithy right?”

”Yeah! We brought her over!” I nodded. ”Surprise, surprise! Her name’s Ruby, and yeah she’s also a blessed and all of that. We managed to get along and… Well, she was in a very difficult position, like, living on her smithy and sleeping on the floor, so we offered her to live here…”

”Nice to met you,” said Ruby. ”And… I’m very sorry for what I said or did back then… I-I know there’s no excuse for how I treated you before but… I’ve been gone through a lot of stuff in my life and… it is hard to even articulate words sometimes.”

”Hmm, I see,” my father nodded. ”Well! I’m a bit angry at Sylphy because she told you that you could stay here and all when she had yet to even ask the owner of the house, Felicia!”

”Aw, come on dad, not like she’ll say no to having another talented disciple! Right?” I said.

”Still, it’s disrespectful, you don’t own the house, my daughter,” my father reprimanded me.

”O-Okay… sorry…”

He’s acting like mom, something a bit surprising. I guess he needs to take her role now, huh?

Well, yeah, what I did was a bit disrespectful, but we didn’t have any other option, I wanted Ruby to be in a safe place.

I’ll negotiate with Felicia until I can convince her no matter what.

”I’m sorry, I-I didn’t knew that Sylphy had not talked about that yet with her master…” Ruby felt flustered, glancing at me with a bit of confusion.

”It’s not your fault,” my father sighed. ”Well, what’s done is done. I’ll try to help her convince Felicia as well if possible. Sorry about that, Ruby, didn’t meant to scare you. Anyways, do you like meat stew with lots of potatoes and carrot?”

”Oh, yes!” nodded Ruby. ”It has been a long while since I’ve had some of that…”

”Nice, we’re having that for lunch. Also there’ll be some pizza I’m preparing…” my father said. ”Some roasted Giant Salamander meat, and also some fried fish, do you want some too?”

”S-So many food?! I’ll get fat like that… I’ve been making sure I don’t grow fat, it’s hard to control my metabolism, dwarves and Onis both develop huge bodies and accumulate a lot of fat so-”

”Okay, I get it, haha,” laughed my father. ”Sorry, sorry, I’m too used to feed monsters here, me included.”

”Monsters?” Ruby was even more confused.

”You see, the stronger we grow through Physique Cultivation, the more our bodies require a lot of energy to work. Once you get pretty strong, getting fat will never really be a problem again, Ruby,” I said with a wink. ”What’s your Physique Tier so far? You’re stronger than most average people at least, right?”

”Yeah… I mean, I’m just Tier 2, Rank… 5? I think,” she said. ”My Magic Circle is more developed at Tier 3 Rank 1… It grows on its own whenever I craft stuff.”

”Interesting…”

Suddenly, we heard someone else’s voice.

A blue haired witch walked downstairs.

”What do we have here, hm? A truly unexpected visit! Isn’t this the young grumpy blacksmith lady?”

It was master Felicia, who smiled after she saw Ruby.

”Grumpy…” Ruby groaned, feeling guilty. ”Yes, it is me Lady Felicia. I-I apologize for what I did before, it wasn’t my intention-”

”I’m glad you’re here, girl. I was thinking of making you my disciple back then… a pity you were so aggressive! Did Sylphy finally convinced you to come? Welcome. If you want to stay, stay as much as you want,” Felicia said, patting her shoulders.

Her usual awkward personality of sometimes being very silent and expressionless, looking gloomy and even lazy and then being suddenly assertive and loud was sure shocking to Ruby.

Yep, that’s our master, she got a few screws loose, I’ve learned that much.

With great power comes… being a bit insane.

But maybe that’s part of her charm.

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