Chapter 8: My Skills
I was ready to learn all the skills I saw in magic books but then father mentioned skill points and now I was conflicted. I have to choose the best ones that would suit my skill and I also had to consider about what kind of combat style I would have to develop. I read all 5 of the books from fathers office and I gained some important knowledge about it.
So basically I could learn all the skills I wanted, but only use a few at a time. It said that a person can learn 2 rank B skill, 4 rank C skill, 4 rank D skill, and 6 rank F skills at level 1 to 5. It was the most basic skill-set. ( Skill you were born with was not involved in it.) After that at level 5 to 10 you could either learn [2 B rank skills] or [2 C rank skills and 1 F rank skill] or [3 D rank skill] or another [5 new F rank skills]. Only one of them or you could mix it up like 1 B rank, 1 D rank and 1 F rank. It seems like every time you increase 5 levels you get 10 skill points. B rank skill seems equal to 5 skill points, C rank skill is equal to 4 skill points, D rank skill is 3 skill points and F rank skill is equal to 2 skill points.
So that means right now I have 50 skill points. In all the books that I read it only gives you a name of skill, a little explanation on how it works and most important the conditions to acquire it. The skills that I wanted to learn and had made a list of had more than 100 skills on it. So I chose the most useful to me kind of skills. First of all the low level basic skills,
{ No. - Skill - Explanation - Rank - Condition }
[ (1) - Jump - Can jump up to 2 meters - F - Jump 1000 times at your basic capacity ]
[ (2) - Block - Can block attacks made with physical strength - F - Block an attack or an object with your hands 500 times ]
[ (3) - Sprint - Can run as fast as 60kmh for 10 minutes - F - Run 1 km for 30 days continuously. OR run 30 km without stopping ]
[ (4) - Attack - Attack with hands or weapon damage is x2 the strength of user - F - Attack a target for 1000 times ]
[ (5) - Craft - makes user's crafting talent x3 - F - Make any one complex structure with anything everyday for 6 months ]
[ (6) - Side Step - a lightning fast side step so you can dodge any attack at last moment - F - Do a side step motion for 10,000 times ]
I also wanted to learn Float – which you can use to jump twice in mid air. And Swordbound – Which lets you call back your thrown weapon like Thor's hammer. But I wouldn't be able to use them so I left them for later to learn. Once chosen you can only use those skills in combat but you could also exchange them from all the learned skills in your repository. There was no limit to how much you could learn but there was a limit to how many you could use. If you wanted to change one of your main skill with one from the repository you could but it would come with a cost of deduction on your levels. One F and D rank skill change required half the level at any point of your level standing even at 5 or 50. It would be the same as half. So beginners could change and master I guess !!? This system or game or whatever it was… it really was quite fair and equal for everyone. Hereditary skills were a huge advantage but that was just one skill. No matter how good a skill one could always beat it if he knows its patterns and prepares better. Now my choices in D rank skills….
{ No. - Skill - Explanation - Rank - Condition }
[ (1) - Master control - User can use two Rank C and lower skills at once - D - Chant two same spells back to back with 3 second difference for 200 times ]
[ (2) - Crosshair - Aiming x2 - D - Aim at the same target and attack for 500 times. ]
[ (3) - Phase X - User can save 5 shape of earth manipulation for instant use - D - Manipulate earth 5 times a day for 1 month continuously. ]
[ (4) - Flyhigh - User can use wind to jump higher (4 meters) : Wind affinity user exclusive. - D - Use wind magic for 500 times ]
I also wanted to learn Smith - Can make shapes of weapon 3x better, Shadow - User can hide in shadow places ( can be detected by various skills ) and Boost - Every stats of user boosted x2 for 10 minutes. Boost was something that i wanted the most but the condition for it was to exhaust yourself until your stamina, vitality and magicules reach 10% then fight opponent and defeat in heavenly duel. And heavenly duel was not possible until level 7 so i chose Flyhigh instead. Now rank C skills….
{ No. - Skill - Explanation - Rank - Condition }
[ (1) - Fire ball - Football size balls of fire : can use up to 3 at level one if fire is your affinity. - C - Chant a fire magic spell for 1000 times creating and shaping ball size fire. ]
[ (2) - Sky strike - Bolts of lightning that can be thrown from hands : Two at once if lightning is your affinity. - C - Chant a lightning magic spell for 1000 times creating and shaping lightning in arrow shape]
[ (3) - Third eye - Can detect any monster in 100m area. Uses different colors to show threat level - C - Meditate for total of 30,000 minutes ]
[ (4) - Flash memory - User can store 20 any memories he chooses at level 1 - C - Create any one kind of shape using any magic for 1000 times ]
C rank skills were hardest to choose. I also wanted Air slash – user could throw thin cutting blades of air, Rock bullet – user could throw rocks the size of football at high speed, Instant memory – user could remember anything written that he sees once. At level one only 100000 words, Growth – User could study any literature 2x times. But in the end I chose these 4. The most amazing one for me was Flash memory. According to the opinions of the authors of these books it was the most useless skill only used by old people with memory problems. But for me it was a broken skill. All those huge creations of mine that took 2-3 months to create now I could just make one and then remember it. It was almost like cheating. Though there was an issue of magicules I can't give that much magicules to create something that big in one go but it was possible if I continuously absorb and create like medium of magicules. I loved this skill so much that I even sacrificed Air slash and Rock bullet like cool skills for it. And now finally most powerful ones B rank skills,
{ No. - Skill - Explanation - Rank - Condition }
[ (1) - Inferno - A literal fire tornado that destroys everything in its path : power 2x if fire affinity. - B - Chant a same fire spell rank B for 500 times ]
[ (2) - The wall - A defensive earth wall that reduces damage dealt by any attack rank A or higher by 40% at level one. Blocks lower level attacks completely. (only 50% efficiency without earth affinity) - B - Create any shape from manipulating earth exactly the same for 500 times.]
B Rank skills had the highest attacking and defensive capabilities. I chose The wall over Thunder rain and Wind walk. ( Thunder rain – huge bolts of lightning descended from sky for 30 seconds And wind walk – a huge ball of high speed rotating wind surrounds your body and you can walk with it to your opponent it works as defensive and offensive at the same time. ) The wall had a 100% chance to stop attacks from B rank and lower which was what sold me to it after all no matter how cool sounding Wind walk was, this was not a game. It was a question of life and death in moments of emergency.
That mimicry skill from father's later was also cool but well it just wasn't possible to acquire for me. Father suspected me for having a skill explaining my growth in study. So I decided to fake it. I opened my stats and clicked on edit. I could change the details of my skill but I couldn't change the name. But I could add and write details about fake skills. Once you acquire all the skills it shows under skills part of your stats window I knew that from books. So I added a fake entry called professor literature – User can learn any language from minimum reference and translation, new words with meaning to them would come naturally to the user as they read more and more. Now I have covered it perfectly. I even explained my mixing of words from English. I also edited my Ahura mazda skill hoping that those kids would not remember details. As Ahura Mazda – User could create any weapon from any material. Could also create an armour at any given moment made of anything. I could make armour from anything. I had made a sample after reading about it in the books. Though I only made breastplate, helmet and shoes… I didn't know much about armour to begin with.
I had to do it because my skill could be used very badly if people knew about it. I trusted my family but you never know right? And there was another reason for it also. Our Waccar family had a special trait as well. Members of our main family had only five skills in rotation as hereditary (1) Black fire (2) Sword god (3) Doll dance (4) Beastling V. Phoenix and a one another skill which was secret even to our own family members – only thing written about it was that whenever anyone faced this user of skill in sword fight the opponent always loses his or her will to fight. My skill resembled Doll dance in which you could create living armours and stuff to fight like controlling puppets but with mind, It really was a powerful skill but mine was better. With the details I wrote people will think about my skill as an inferior version of Doll dance.
My father had broken the family tradition of marrying cousins and relatives that my family had and married my mother who comes from hereditary skill user Trisk House. So their kids won't have those five same hereditary skills. It was a pretty simple explanation.
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