(3) The ultimate battle of the world
After dinner, I could not sleep for long. I keep on thinking about the Story of the World told by Tuner. Was this story true? We have not only Currian God but also many others. I have not asked anyone till now, but I was already more than 17 years old. On 18 birthday, I will get blessing Skills from God-Goddess. What will be my blessings? And thinking so, I fall asleep.
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The next morning, I show as Rena was working in the Kitchen, and Pata was practicing with the staff. Pata called me to join him. After some practice, we went to for cleaning to the bathhouse.
While returning home from the bathhouse, I show a girl indicating for me to stop. After telling Pata about staying a bit longer, I walked to the girl.
"Why have not you contacted me if you are okay. You know that I can not meet you in public, and your conditions were worrying me."
"It looks like we know each other. Sorry, but I have lost my memory about what happened to me before the accident. So, you have to re-introduce your self."
"How can you be so heartless to joke so to me. You want to run away from the responsibility of talking to my father for my hand." Saying, so the girl runs away while crying.
While still perturbed by this unusual encounter, I entered home.
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Today, I was watering the fields, and Pata went to herbs fields for removing the wild grass in it. in the afternoon, Rena came with lunch and
While eating lunch, Rena asked, "I heard today you meet Zuya. How was it? "
"Ohh! So, her name is Zuya. How was my relationship with her? She just came to me, and said I am running away from my responsibility of asking for her hand to her father." (Me)
"My foolish boy, why did not you told her about your memory loss." (Rena)
"I think this is for the best. You both have to understand no matter what, we are not a rich family, and Zuya's father is rich and has big ambition. So, stop dreaming about having a future together. This relationship will bring nothing but pain and sorrow to all. Your only chance is that she gets zero divine mercy skills like your mother and me." (Pata)
After this, no one spoke again, and Rena left with utensils. Pata and I examined the traps and found three hares. We went to the home in the evening.
After cleaning my self, Pata asked me to sell all the rabbit/hare furs to Tuner. So, I went to meet, Tuner.
"Kola, Why are you here today? Was yesterday's story not enough?"
"Tuner, I wanted to ask more questions and also sell these furs to you."
"Hahaha. It looks like after your accident, I am the only one who is benefited. Come in and give this old man, your company for the evening."
After inviting me to the guest hall, Tuner went inside his home and came with a glass of water and wine bottle and glass.
"Tell me, boy, what do you want to ask?"
"How will these new rules set by High God-goddess, will prevent from ultimate war? As any God-Goddess can give powerful magic after 18 years to their heroes."
"Good question! It looks like I can not make you live with the half-finished story of yesterday. There are more rules than I mentioned,
1. No being will be given more than five divine mercy skills.
2. Even magic was not unrestraint like before, but will follow fixed templet, for example, level-0 element conjuring, level-1 elemental bullet, level-2 elemental wall, level-3 elemental missile, and so on.
3. The highest level that can exist in this world was limited to level-10, unlike previous no limit.
And many such limits and rules were put forward. The upper limit for Indus is level-5. I have only heard that earth dragons are the only known level-5 entity on this continent. These Earth Dragons love Rocky and mountain area and hence, live in the grief mountains. Rumer is that no one returns from there alive, giving grief to their family."
"Tuner, My father told me that he does not have divine mercy skills. Do God really not give everyone divine-mercy skill?"
"It is sad, but not only your mother and father, but the majority of beings do not get skills gifted by gods after that meeting of gods. Actually, there is no mention of this phenomenon of not giving divine skill in the churches' story.
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Many scholars think that High-god gives divine-mercy skills each god-goddess only equal to the number of their followers turning 18 years old that year. In turn, this forces them to decide between giving everyone the same number of skills or prefer giving select a few more skills than others. While the first approach is known to be followed in the case of plants, animals, and monsters. But the second approach is known to apply for Human, Demi-humans, and Devils."
Tuner takes a few sips of wine and asks.
"Do you know how someone becomes noblemen or royalty?"
"I think they are noblemen or royalty by birth."
"You are right, but that is only half the story. You remember how I just told you about God, preferring a few over others. This idea has made people believe that people with high divine skills are gods chosen one. Hence, if someone gets four or more skills, then noblemen or royalty will usually integrate them into their family to strengthen them and maintain this ideology that Noblemen and Royalties are God favored ones. "
Then he stood up and went to the fireplace. In this world, the candles were a luxury item, and we use the firewood for both light, heat, and cooking. I know that Tuner was not there to rekindle the fire but was deep in thoughts about some distanced memories. After some time, he started telling the story from there.
"There is also another theory. Some scholars think that these skills come from our bloodlines. The number of skills depends on the body as a vessel for these skills of the bloodline. The more the number of skills a person has better, his lineage and body are vessels. This theory is said to be why noblemen and royalties seek out a high divine-skill person to join the family and improve the bloodline."
"Therefore, the moment you get your divine mercy skills, your class in the society is decided as 5-royalty, 4-noble, 3,2-officials, 1- commoners, and people with no sacred skills are treated with no rights. People with no right best shot at having a peaceful life leave the cities and towns for villages like this. "
This was very troubling information for me. Now, I know my father's plight when he told me that we are not wealthy people. He wanted to say that nobody would wish to associate with us as we are the bottom feeders of society. Love is what will have no meaning in front of the interest of prominent and influential families.
This explanation tells me that any child can change their parents' fate as long as they get better and more divine skills.
"Tuner, if you do not mind, can I ask you a personal question?"
"Ohh, Boy! Now you are scared shitless by me. Hahaha, ask plebian. What question you have about this great me? Hahaha"
Tuner lightens the heavy atmosphere created by this story with his lough. I will not lie; I was under pressure after knowing that I have interacted with Tuner without caring for anything. If he wished we could have punished or put to trials my family and me. I even perspired on my back.
"Tuner, Thank you for being kind and telling me all the things. I thank God that I asked only you what I asked. The way thing you have told me till now. I might have got my family and myself killed."
"You can bet with me on that. But worry not, your father knows that, so he brought you to my home yesterday. And Do not be this naïve to ask anything without knowing about the person next time, okay. Now ask the question you want to ask?"
"Tuner, Thank you! I will be care full next time. I wanted to know how many skills you have and why are you here in this village?"
"That is quite a personal question. I will only tell you I have three skills and I am here as I do not fit in the cities and towns. No more any personal question."
"Tuner, How does anyone level up? how do people earn skills?"
"These are the questions I was waiting for you to ask by collecting God-Goddess blessings, and before you ask anything about how to collect blessings and whatnot. Let me proceed.
You remember how I told you that new Gods-Goddesses filled the world with their power as soon as they come into existence. So, the whole world is still filled with it. But the amount we can have within our body is decided by our skill level and how often we use our skills.
Even learning new non-magical craft or skill is done by repeating the action under the watchful eyes of a person with said skill. Since our body is always taking in and out blessings related to our skills and crafts. So, we create an environment of favorable blessings around us. If you learn under a person with skill and craft you want to know, then there is a 1-100% more chance that you will learn the skill depending on the trainer's skill level. But even then, it takes more than ten years for learning a new skill. So, learning skills without any guidance is out of the question. Note that children of age less than 18 years can not learn a skill, no matter how hard they are trained.
As for leveling, You get the blessing by killing the other species living beings. But the portion of blessings you get is decided by the level difference in yours's and being destroyed."
"How does this blessing from the kill is decided and would not farmers be of very high level as they cut/kill tens of thousands of plants each year?"
"It means that if you have a different level, then the being you kill, you may get less or more according to some rules. You get 1/10,000th of the stored experience in the body of being killed if there is no level difference between both killed and killer. In case there is a difference in level, then the blessing you receive from killing is enhanced or diminished by a factor of '10' to the power level-difference than you get without a level difference.
A farmer of level-0 will get after cutting 10,000 plants for the first time '1' blessings and level up to level-1. Next year, as a level-1 farmer, he will get only '0.1' blessings, while he needs '10' blessings to level up to level-2 and would need about 100 such 10,000 plant cuttings. In short, he will barely manage to level up to level-2 in his whole life.
Therefore, even if this continent has an upper limit of level-5, it is scarce to encounter 1 or 2 level-5 beings in whole life. Unless you actively seek them."
"Tuner, are you a level-5 adventurer protecting out village?"
"No, hell no. I am merely a level-3 old adventurer. Who is enjoying his peaceful retirement here."
"Tuner, You can always tell me. I will keep it a secret."
After saying this, I started to run away from, Tuner, for the home as it was dinner time.
"This boy. If I were a level-5, then you would be the last guy I will tell this. You lose mouth, boy."
I really am becoming lonely in my old age. To think I look forward to the visits of a lousy boy.
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