Chapter 1: The Beginning and Armonis Village
Urak’s POV…
My name is Urak, I was (S) rank adventurer who used to be an adventurer in the capital city Kazakar, I used to go on a quests with my wife Annsia and we were known as the (S) rank due, but right now I live in Armonis village, a village not known to most people since it’s located between the desert of death and the elf’s forest.
Today I have to enter the desert with my wife Annsia to hunt for giant scorpions, since I’m the blacksmith in the village and Annsia is the doctor we have to hunt giant scorpions for the exoskeleton for armor and the poison and internal organs for medicine.
“Annsia are you ready to go? Do you have everything?”
“yes dear everything is ready”
We departed the village before dawn going in the direction of the desert in our wagon pulled by horned horse, the horned horse is a type of monster that can be tamed by people and is two times bigger than normal horses and is the most suitable to pull our wagon on the soft sand since it can use earth magic to harden the ground it walks on to get better grip.
The wagon we are riding right now is made to be as light as possible because we’ll load it full of materials on our way back to the village.
After hunting the second scorpion we decided to take a break but suddenly I noticed a scorpion in the distance fighting something resembled humans.
“dear, what’s wrong? You don’t look well”
“Look over there don’t you see people fighting a giant scorpion!!”
“you are right!!.. we have to help them fast, from the looks of it they are losing!”
“Oou, let’s go”
We rushed as fast as possible but when we arrived one of them was already dead cut in half a man who appears to be in his 20s and the woman is holding something to her chest and laying down protecting it but she had lost her left hand and her right leg and is barely alive.
“This is bad!! She’ll die at this rate, I’ll attack the scorpion you ready some healing magic!!”
“Leave it to me”
I slashed at the scorpion and cut one of the two tails to attract it’s attention, after that the scorpion faced me and slashed at me with its pincers, I dodged the pincer attack and thrust my sword at its head stabbing its brain, and it falls down dead.
I went to check on the women and found her clutching a baby with her remaining hand.
“she has a baby!!.. Oi are you alive?! ..Oi Annsia come over here the women and the baby are still alive!!..cast healing magic on them”
“O Light ease thy pain {Mega Heal}”
The effect of the healing magic was fast the wounds on the woman’s body were closed in no time, the baby had only some minor wounds but they were healed as well.
“what do you think will they survive?”
“the baby will survive but the woman lost too much blood I don’t know if she’ll survive”
“either way lets go back to the village it’s dangerous out here”
“you are right we have to go back to the village to give them proper treatment”
When we arrived at the village one of the villagers was surprised by our early return.
“Urak-san what happened for you to return so early don’t tell me you were injured”
“ no not me we came across people in the desert one of them died and we were able to save the woman but she lost a lot of blood and a baby, it seems they were protecting him”
“This is bad, can I help you with anything?”
“if you can go call Lyara-sama and ask her she can come to our home”
“got it!!”
Nash took off running toward the mayor's mansion to call Armonis Lyara the founder and owner of this village, we took the woman and the baby to our house and after 10 minutes the sound of someone running can be heard.
Knock Knock Knock
“I’m coming in!!.... Nash told me what happened so I came as fast as possible”
“thank you and sorry if I had disturbed you”
“I told you many times don’t talk to me like that we are old friends and I consider both of you as family… Ann, can’t you do something about your husband?”
“It’s impossible you know how stubborn he is!.. but don’t mind that do you know this woman, since it seems they were heading to this village”
“no I don’t know her but why were they heading to this village”
“…a ..agh…R.o…Ryo”
“Ohh you woke up?...don’t worry your son is here, he is safe”
“where…are..we..?”
“in Armonis village across the death desert we saved you two when you were attacked by a giant scorpion, sorry but when we arrived the man was already…”
“no, thank you for saving me and my son’s life…”
“can you please tell us what happened for you to enter the desert, you knew that the desert was dangerous”
“the man…Marx my husband is an adventurer and I’m Cel a seamstress working ..from our house one week ago I gave birth to Ryo our son …three days ago we used the {Check} magic on him….we found that he has three….. skills ….two days ago ….Ryo got….fever so we took him to the church to find someone who can use healing magic …..but on our way home we were attacked by the church solders…..and demanded we hand Ryo to them so we escaped …..but even the lord of the town joined the church…..and demanded we hand Ryo to them so……we had no choice but to escape …to…..the..desert….}
Craaaaaaaaaak
“those basterds!!?”
“Calm down dear you’ll scare the baby!”
“Sorry I lost my temper…. I broke the table..”
“to think tried to take a newborn baby from his mother by force…”
“Ann check her condition she looks so pale”
“This is bad she lost too much blood she might die soon”
“can’t you do something to help her?”
“Sorry I can’t, I don’t know any magic or medicine that can restore this much blood…”
All we could do is watch as the women…Cel dies slowly living her son behind…..
Ryo’s POV….
When I woke up the first thing I saw was the backs of three people one big man with black hair and a bulky build and two women one is a blond woman and the other one is a black-haired woman with a slender body.
“…oh no..she died..”
The blond woman said, who died I wanted to ask but I couldn’t talk all I could do is produce some sound from my throat, what happened to my voice? Why can’t I talk?...
..
… I remember how I’m a baby now so it’s natural I can’t talk.
“oh you woke up Ryo-Kun”
“he is a strong child not crying and all”
“Ann check on him if he is alright”
“he is alright don’t worry about him”
“So what’ll we do about him now?”
“Mmm…. I decided we’ll take him in… I’ll adopt him as my son!!”
“good going dear we’ll make sure to rise him to be a good man fufufu”
“will not that but more load on you two I can take him in if you want?!”
“no Lyara-sama hove it hard as is, and I have already decided to take him in”
“In that case, I’ll help you two with his education on arithmetic and politics and you two teach him on sword arts and blacksmithing from Urak and medicine and magic and alchemy from Ann”
“that’ll be too much load on him but we’ll have to do it so he can protect himself when it’s necessary since he has three skill’s he’ll be targeted by the church and the noble and royal families and we can’t protect him forever”
“you two are right but I’ll try not to but too much load on him, I’ll feel sorry for the poor kid”
“Ann you are always nice to children”
“you are the last one I want to hear that from dear”
“I see, hahahahahahha”
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Ryo 1 month old.
One month has passed since being reincarnated in this world, from what I understood from my first day in this world is that the church discovered that I have three skills and tried to take by force from my dad and mom but they refused and decided to escape from the church but the noble in charge of the town they lived in was informed by the church and started chasing them planning to kill them and take me, but they ran into the desert planning to reach this village but got attacked by monsters in the middle of the desert and my dad was killed but there were two of the villagers an ex-adventuress couple saved my heavily injured mom and me who was protected by her, but she died from blood loss shortly after.
I was adopted by the couple that saved me, they have been so nice to me like I was there real son, and from what I understood is that they liked children a lot but they were not blessed with any so they took care of me like I was their son.
And I was able to understand more about magic, in this world exists two types of magic one is a common thing in everyone in this world and it’s called active magic or simply magic, the second type is so rare to the point that you can mostly find it in some of the noble and royal families and it’s called passive magic or skills, the skills are so rare to find someone with two skills leave alone three.
And I have three skills, it’s possible to see your skills by chanting {Check}, this magic shows you the skills you have if you have any and you can use it on children under 3 years old to see what are the skills they have, I tried using it but I couldn’t use it since I can’t talk yet so I can’t chant.
The man named Urak is my foster father right now, he is a blacksmith and is so skilled with the sword and I can see him every day swinging his sword up and down and sometimes mix in some horizontal slashes and compo attacks.
His wife a woman named Annsia the doctor of the village and is a skilled alchemist and mage and she is quite the studious type and I can see her compounding potions all the time and read books in her free time.
Ryo 1 year old.
I’m finally able to say some simple words like Urak and Annsia and food and water..etc.
“Ann..si.a”
“whhaat??!... Ann come over here Ryo said his first word!!..it was your name!!”
“reaallyy??!!... Ryo say it again please say my name again!!...An..n..sia~”
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“Ann..sia~…Annsia”
“yes that’s right Annsia…kyaaa he is so cute!!”
“me next …me next…. I tell you…Ryo say my name …U..rak”
“U..kak….U..rak…Urak”
“Ooohh… you did good Ryo… today we have to celebrate”
“L..Ly..Lya..ra….Lyara”
“oi oi she is been away from the village for 5 months now and you still remember her??!”
“she would dote on him in every chance she got when she was here, I bet she’ll be very happy when she hears about today”
“you are right”
After that, they started drinking and celebrating even though it was still in the afternoon and went to sleep that day.
“{Che..ck}”
{Analyze: enables you to analyze anything you see or feel or imagine and understand it completely}
{Create: enables you to create anything if you have a good image and understanding of the thing you want to create if you have the material needed}
{Control: enables you to completely control anything and everything that’s not human}
Ooh, I did it…wait wha..??!
That’s absurd!!...what are those broken skills?
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Ryo 5 years old.
I have been practicing how to use my skills can do and can’t do and also studying swordsmanship and blacksmithing from uncle Urak in the morning till the sun reach the middle of the sky and after that, I go to auntie Lyara to teach me math and etiquette and politics and sometimes I’ll spend that time reading in the library when she’s busy, it’s so useful because she have a huge collection of book about variety of topics the only problem is that she is so eccentric and she is so touchy with me she would ask me to set on her lap when while teaching me and she would try to hug and kiss me at every chance she has, after that after the sun starts to set I go back home to learn about magic and alchemy from auntie Ann till it’s time to sleep.
After Urak and Ann sleep I start my secret training, using my three skills and skills in programming I was able to make new skills and engrave them in myself.
“{Check}”
{Analyze: enables you to analyze anything you see or feel or imagine and understand it completely}
{Create: enables you to create anything if you have a good image and understanding of the thing you want to create if you have the material needed}
{Control: enables you to completely control anything and everything that’s not human}
{Hide Skills: enables you to hide any skill you want from the magic {Check Skill}}
{Absorb: enables you to absorb the mana in the atmosphere to replenish yours}
{Efficiency: enables you to be extremely efficient with magic}
{Outer Mana Use: enables you to use the mana in the surrounding air instead of your own mana for any spell that use more than 5% of your mana pool}
{Auto Heal: enables you to heal any and all wounds you have on your body automatically and quickly}
{No Chant: enables you to use any magic without chanting}
{Status Immunity: prevents all status effects}
{All Attributes Affinity: enables you to use all magic affinities without any exemption}
{Kenjutsu Arts: gives you complete mastery over katanas}
{Mana Manipulation: enables you to control mana directly}
{Regeneration: enables you to regenerate any lost part of yourself}
{Storage: enables you to store an infinite amount of stuff inside interdimensional space}
{Telekinesis: enables you to move objects without touching them}
{Flash Step: enables your body and mind at a speed faster than the speed of sound}
{Teleport: enables to teleport to any place you have been to before}
{Intake: enables you to take in the cores of monsters and take their abilities for yourself}
{Transform: enables you to transform yourself or part of your body into a monster you have used intake on}
{Shadow Manipulation: enables you to control the shadows and hide inside them and move from shadow to another}
{Aura: enables you to release an aura with an effect you choose}
{Fear: enables you to release intimidation pressure with images to specified targets}
{Gift: enables you to give skills to other people or objects}
{Presence Detection: enables you to detect the presence of living creature or objects}
You might think that this is a lot of skills but that’s not the case, I have a goal right now that is to protect the village from any harm, the problem is that this village is special since humans and elfs and beastmen and even demonkin lives in this village and it’s the only place in the world where you can find all these races in one place living in harmony, those people gathered under Armonis Lyara because of her dream to build a country where all races lives peacefully.
But the human countries look down on all other races and the church hunt and kill the other races in the name of their god so when I thought about it I came to the conclusion that the enemies were a lot, not only the humans but also the other races who don’t like the humans because of what the humans have done and also the demons who use the weakness of the hearts of all the races not only the humans, so I need more power to protect my family and my village.
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Ryo 8 years old.
I’m 8 years old now so I can take more practical training from Urak and Ann on hand to hand fights and swordsmanship and magic, I have also asked Nash the elf to teach me about spirit magic but…
“you can’t?”
“sorry Ryo only are capable to use spirit magic”
“I see..”
“if you want I can teach you plant magic and forest magic”
“yes I want!!...please teach me sensei!!”
“Okay come with me”
I also asked the demonkins the vampire couple Dan and Rime to teach me dark magic and ash magic…
“Are you sure kid!...the humans will hate you if you learn this magic that us demonkin use!!”
“I’m prepared to do anything to protect everyone in this village since I consider everyone here family for me”
“kyaaa!!....Dan this kid is so cute….let’s teach him what he wants”
“I understand!!....so please stop hugging me in front of the kid!”
From what I saw this village is so small and only 5 families
Lives in this village Urak and Ann, Nash and Celeca his cat beastmen wife, Dan and Rime the vampires, old man Nos the giant, Armonis Lyara and her husband Lars and the weird maid Sal she’s weird because she’ll try to but girls clothes on me every time we meet.
By the way, Lyara and Lars have a daughter but she lives in the holy theocracy with Lyara’s friend to protect her in case any one of the nobles and royalty that discover the village and she’s going to attend the royal academe where the royals and nobles attend but it seems anyone can attend if they have the money to and it cost 100 gold coins for one year.
The money system in this world is simple, 10 copper coins = 1 silver coin, 10 silver coins = 1 gold, 10 gold coins = 1 platinum coin but the platinum is rarely used since it’s so expensive.
“oi Ryo lets go”
“yes I’m coming”
Today we are going to hunt giant scorpions for medicine ingredients and some parts of the scorpion body for armor and weapons and tools and building materials.
“Ryo when you see the scorpion don’t be afraid and let your guard down”
“don’t worry uncle I will not …and I know that the giant scorpion is different from goblins and blood ligers”
“that’s a good answer Ryo hahahahaha”
When we found the first scorpion it decided that they’ll fight it alone and I would watch and learn from how they fight it.
Urak was the first to act and Ann started chanting her magic from the chant it seems to be the fire spell {Burning Smoke}, Urak start by attacking one of the two tails and cut it, the scorpion is surprised and angrily face and slash at Urak with its pincers but Ann’s magic act first and hit its eyes blinding it and inflict a burning damage to its eyes, Urak not letting this chance go to waste and stab his two-handed sword in its head killing it.
“so Ryo did you see that!!... hahahahahaha”
“let’s review the fight right now ….what did you understand from Ryo?”
“The first attack by uncle was to draw the scorpion attention to himself while auntie chant her magic to blind it and give chance to uncle to kill it”
“w.wow …that’s correct…Ryo you really are genius!!”
“so …..how about you take Ann’s place and blind the next one?”
“Okay”
We found our next target and the same as before Urak cut the tail and I use the water spell {Acid Javelin} and focus it to the middle of the eyes and fire it blinding the scorpions and Urak kills it.
“that was very good Ryo and you made it so the damage is only to the eyes and nothing else not damaging the other parts”
“so let’s try the opposite next, you will take my place and attack it with your sword”
“okay”
I was able to kill the next scorpion without any problems and I asked them to let me kill the next one alone…
“Are you sure?...those scorpions are (A) rank monsters you know, isn’t it dangerous to fight it alone?”
“Ann let him try and we’ll intervene if it gets bad”
“Are you alright with that Ryo?”
“yes!!.., please help me if it looks bad”
“Leave it to us”
I ready the sword in my right hand and my secret weapon in my left hand, and I attack the tail cutting it and when the scorpion faces me I throw the spikes in my hand stabbing each and every eye blinding it and finish it off with my sword.
“wow that was amazing!!....what did you throw at its eyes?”
“that’s right what was that?”
“it was this…the thorns I got when we harvested materials from the other scorpions”
“that was a very good idea indeed since they are very strong”
“and your throwing skill was very good… did you learn from someone?”
“yes from Nash and Dan”
“those two huh…I see now”
“they are very good at hunting with this type of weapons”
After that tried hunting more monsters for meat and hide and scales.
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Ryo 10 years old.
I’m 10 years old now, I continued to hunt monsters with Urak and Ann and learn new fighting techniques from the other villagers.
Lyara returned from the holy theocracy one week ago after one year she left, she would go to stay with her daughter for one year and would come back to the village and stay here for one year but this time she came with a troubled look on her face, the reason is that the royal family started to suspect that the Armonis family is hiding something, and it seems that the village will be discovered in a couple of years.
Good thing that I was ready for that and I even created new skills.
{Enchant: enables you to attach skills and magic to an object}
{ Status Inflection: enables you to inflict any status effect to your targets}
{Soul Techniques: enables you to attach an object to the soul of the target}
{Telepathy: enables you to talk to the mind of a target over infinite distance}
{Hide Presence: enables you to completely hide your presence and appearance and sound}
I need to create more skills and I need better sword since the sword I have been using till now is a one-handed double-edged straight sword I made with Urak, but to use my skills I need to make a new sword enchanted with my skills so I tried to use {Analyze} on the image of a katana in my head and was able to come up with the design I need.
But before that, I decided to till Urak and Ann and Lyara because they have raised me to this point I want to thank them properly and tell them about my goal of protecting the village, and I want to give them some of my skills, so I asked the three of them to meet me together.
“Ryo-Kun why did you ask us to come together like this?...don’t tell me something happened to you!!”
“Lyara-sama calm down he is alright don’t worry about him”
“Lya-chan you really love Ryo so much fufufufu”
“I asked you three to assemble together like this to tell you something important ….but before that, I have a question for you, all three of you can use {Check Skill} right?”
“yes, I can use it~”
“me too I can use it”
“fumu, me too”
“So did any of you use it on me?”
“no, because of those skills you lost your parents, so we tried not to touch on that matter”
“yeah we agreed to not use it on you”
“that’s right”
“then can you use it on me now and check my skills”
“Are you sure? …you don’t have to go that far we’ll still help you with anything you want”
“yes please check my skills, since the thing I want your help with is improving my way of using the skills”
“Okay here we go”
{{{Check Skill}}}
{Analyze: enables you to analyze anything you see or feel or imagine and understand it completely}
{Create: enables you to create anything if you have a good image and understanding of the thing you want to create if you have the material needed}
{Control: enables you to completely control anything and everything that’s not human}
“!-!”
“wh-!”
“eeehhh!!?”
“so what do you think?”
“t.this is so good to be true right…am I dreaming?!”
“This must be a dream….this is so amazing to be true”
“but it’s the truth no matter you how much deny that”
“so basically you can make anything you want as long you have the right image and the right materials, right?”
“so I had a question in the past,(does this rule apply to magic and skills?) so I want to hear your opinion on that idea”
“thinking about it like that…mhmmm. It’s really interesting”
“that’s right!!...if you were able to use like that you will become the world strongest”
“Ummu”
“then can I ask you to use that spell on me one more time?”
“..mm?”
“why?”
“just do it and you’ll understand”
{{{Check Skill}}}
{Analyze: enables you to analyze anything you see or feel or imagine and understand it completely}
{Create: enables you to create anything if you have a good image and understanding of the thing you want to create if you have the material needed}
{Control: enables you to completely control anything and everything that’s not human}
{Hide Skills: enables you to hide any skill you want from the magic {Check Skill}}
{Absorb: enables you to absorb the mana in the atmosphere to replenish yours}
{Efficiency: enables you to be extremely efficient with magic}
{Outer Mana Use: enables you to use the mana in the surrounding air instead of your own mana for any spell that use more than 5% of your mana pool}
{Auto Heal: enables you to heal any and all wounds you have on your body automatically and quickly}
{No Chant: enables you to use any magic without chanting}
{Status Immunity: prevents all status effects}
{All Attributes Affinity: enables you to use all magic affinities without any exemption}
{Kenjutsu Arts: gives you complete mastery over katanas}
{Mana Manipulation: enables you to control mana directly}
{Regeneration: enables you to regenerate any lost part of yourself}
{Storage: enables you to store an infinite amount of stuff inside interdimensional space}
{Telekinesis: enables you to move objects without touching them}
{Flash Step: enables your body and mind at a speed faster than the speed of sound}
{Teleport: enables to teleport to any place you have been to before}
{Intake: enables you to take in the cores of monsters and take their abilities for yourself}
{Transform: enables you to transform yourself or part of your body into a monster you have used intake on}
{Shadow Manipulation: enables you to control the shadows and hide inside them and move from shadow to another}
{Aura: enables you to release an aura with an effect you choose}
{Fear: enables you to release intimidation pressure with images to specified targets}
{Gift: enables you to give skills to other people or objects}
{Presence Detection: enables you to detect the presence of living creature or objects}
{Enchant: enables you to attach skills and magic to an object}
{ Status Infliction: enables you to inflict any status effect to your targets}
{Soul Techniques: enables you to attach an object to the soul of the target}
{Telepathy: enables you to talk to the mind of a target over infinite distance}
{Hide Presence: enables you to completely hide your presence and appearance and sound}
“whaaaat?!!!”x3
“this many skills!!...how in the world??”
I told them everything about me, about my past life, and about me remembering what happened to my parents and about how I was able to use my skills to make many new magic spells and how to use them.
“so that’s how it was….you are really amazing Ryo”
“that’s our boy for you hahahahahahh”
“that’s right fufufufufufu”
“But you said you want to talk to us about something. Right?”
“I wanted to talk to you about my goal ….I want to protect this village forever and I need you to help me with some staff”
“Ryo-kun you don’t have to waste your talent in this village, with those skills you can make it big in the world you know!!”
“my dream is to make a place where all races can live in harmony so this village is my dream even if it's small right now we can make it bigger so more people can live in it and I want you guys to help me with that”
“Ryo-kun you really are a good kid..*sniffle*…”
“if that’s the case we’ll help you with anything you want!!”
“Just tell me what you want and I’ll do it”
“thank you everyone…..the first thing I want your help with is making a special sword enchanted with a lot of skills and magic effects and for that, I’ll use {Gift} to give each of you some of my skills and if you have skills in mind I can create it and give it to you”
“in that case, I’ll help you with the forging of the sword and I have the perfect metal for that…here you go 5 ingots of Hihi'irokane we can use it to make the sword!!”
“I’ll help too… Ryo-kun come with me and I’ll give you 5 ingots of Mithril you can melt it down with the Hihi'irokane to make better alloy!!”
“me too I have some dragon scales and hide for the coating the sword and to make the handle of the sword and to make some dragon leather armor!!”
“is it really alright to give me those expensive staff?”
“of course it is!!....we can let only Ryo-kun work hard for the village”
“that’s right”
“Ummu”
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Ryo 15 years old.
It took us 3 years to make the perfect katana and armor using the materials we had, the biggest hurdle was to muster the skills we were using to make the katana and dragon armor enchanted with my skills and magic.
The final product was a katana with scarlet blade edge and jet black ridge and black and greenish silver guard and black and red handle with a jet black scabbard with scarlet inscriptions.
And the armor was black and scarlet leather armor with shoulder and knee and elbow pads made from black dragon scales with scarlet inscriptions and black hood and metal lined boots.
And after that it took me 2 more years to muster using my new gear by training with Urak and Dan and Nash and fighting the desert monsters, I have become strong enough to fight more than 30 (S) rank monsters at the same time, so it’s time for the next step that is to make my name known to the world by being an adventurer and raise my rank to (SS) the highest rank possible even now there are only 3 (SS) rank adventurers in the world two demonkin and one giant, so I plan to start my journey next month.