Chapter 82
“The human kingdom.” Part 3.
Kalysto smiled sideways, satisfied to see that what her boss had taught her really worked.
Meanwhile, Erlhas’ laughter could be heard throughout the room. However, the rest of the heroes began to whisper, confused at what was happening.
“I thought the error in your system had been fixed,” Milo commented.
“Well, it seems it hasn’t done yet,” Kalysto responded, trying hard to hide the satisfied smile from her face. Out of the corner of her eye she observed the strange reaction of the old man, who from the way he was looking at her seemed to know what she had done, but curiously, he did not give her away.
After the rest of the heroes were examined, Milo asked them to take a seat, and Kalysto sat at one of the desks in the front and right wing, near the exit.
“Open your skills screen. To do this, you just have to say status window and at the top you will see a section with the title skills, touch it to show you the skills that the goddess Mhiralla system has granted you according to your class” everyone did it as he indicated.
Kalysto instead frowned, remembering that she had opened the map without invoking the status window while she was talking to the queen.
Skills window! She thought. And the two windows opened before her. She concentrated on the violet one.
“Hang on a minute! Did you say gods? How in plural? Are they the same as Greek culture?” Edward objected.
“I have no idea what kind of gods exist in the world you come from, but all the races in this world...” Milo couldn’t finish his sentence, as Edward interrupted him again.
“Are there several intelligent races or are you referring to different species? Like sharks and elephants and stuff?”
“Stop interrupting my class! And if you want to know more about the seven ancient gods or their descendants, go to the library! “I will inform the guards that all of you have permission to go there in your free time,” he growled in annoyance, sensing that this young man could try out the little patience he had.
For her part, Kalysto smiled excitedly at the news that they had free access to their library. Excellent! She thought, remembering that she was to study the geography of the continent and compare it with the map she had.
Milo cleared his throat several times, drawing the heroes’ attention.
“As I was saying before being so rudely interrupted,” Milo commented, glaring daggers at Edward, who was too distracted by his system window to notice it. “Since most of you are warriors, archers or mages, you should have a skill called ‘Mana Manipulation’, which is probably at level 1 and is what allows you to imbue your mana into an item. We will not enter into the discussion about what manna is, but we will take the definition of the magicians of antiquity, who assured that manna was the unfolding of a part of the vital energy of every living being. This ability to have mana and be able to use it for warriors will become their aura, allowing them to become sword masters when they can create an aura sword. For archers, it will allow them to make their arrows much stronger and can pierce the skin of the toughest monsters. For mages and Wizards, things vary a little since we can not only harden our weapon, but we can go further in the use of our mana, which makes it easier for us to create spells.
“ I don't have that ability!” complained Koden, who looked to his companions for support, but none of them said anything.
" That's because you're a tank, not a warrior," Milo replied. “You'll have to learn it on your own.”
" That's not fair! Aren't tanks also a type of warrior?”
" Anyone would think so, but apparently this goddess doesn't," muttered Kalysto, noticing another flaw in the copy that the goddess Mhiralla had made in her attempt to steal the fairy system. I find more and more flaws in the blue system. Another reason not to keep anything important in it. Then she remembered that Caranthir was already a wizard before he got the violet system. That means I can learn the same skills or elemental magic as him on my own, will I also be able to learn skills from other classes? She found the idea interesting and glanced sideways at Katia and Gabriel, who had awakened as archers.
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" Don't insult the goddess! "Milo scolded her.
" And what's she going to do? Come down from the heavens and give me a reprimand?" Kalysto scoffed. Making the rest of the heroes laugh with her.
"And this goddess Mireya, is she pretty? Is she hot?" Gabriel's twin asked curiously.
Milo looked like he was about to throw the book he was holding at him. But before he could rebuke him, the others began to speak.
" First they kidnap us, then they force us to fight in a war that is not ours, and now it turns out that we must also worship their gods? the blond bearded hero muttered, crossing his muscular arms in annoyance at such audacity.
" But I'm an atheist," muttered a young man dressed in black who turned out to be a mage.
"My family is Catholic. If they find out that I prayed to another god, they'll kill me," muttered a young blonde girl, whose class was also a mage.
"But I'm a Christian!" complained Katia's mother, the only one of them who woke up a system but didn't get a class. Then she turned to her daughter and scolded her, "And don't you dare start praying to false gods, young lady, or I'll tell your father!
And how are you supposed to get in touch with your ex-husband when we are in another world and because of you everyone else's cell phones were taken away? Kalysto thought. She understood why the woman had joined the other father in the group in her attempt to pull out their cell phones and call the police after the king threatened them, but it was obvious that these people weren't going to stand idly by after seeing them pull out something that could have been an otherworldly weapon.
Worst of all, she had to be requisitioned. Thank goodness I have my cell phone and purse in my inventory.
But strangest of all was the silence of Persephone. Although she was touched against her will during the search, ‘she’ did not even utter a derogatory comment. In fact, after the destruction of that city, Kalysto had never felt her presence or heard ‘her’ again.
And something inside her told her that wasn't a good sign. And although she didn't consider herself the most intuitive person on the planet, when she had a hunch, she was never wrong.
The insistent noise her index fingernail made as it tapped the wooden table while she thought went unnoticed by her.
What is the reason for this discomfort? she wondered.
" Do we have to pray to them?" Another hero was indignant, "I am not going to stop believing in the Virgin of Guadalupe!”
"Silence!” Milo shouted, using magic to reinforce the power of his voice. "I don't care what gods were in your world or which ones you believe in and which ones you don't! But while you are here you would do well not to insult ours or the people of the temple will rise up against you and I won't be able to protect you," they all kept silent when they heard that, remembering very well that it was thanks to this man's intervention that the king allowed them to eat something before sending them to that hellish training.
He had even assured them that if they cooperated, he himself would see to it that they could each have their own room instead of being sent back to the cold prison.
Not wanting to have to go hungry and cold again, the others watched in silence.
"Continuing with today's class..." he looked each of them in the eye, making sure no one else interrupted him. “Those of you who are mages will also have another ability called 'Mana Control'. Thanks to which you will be able to control the flow of your inner mana and it is indispensable for the creation of mana circles. Normally when a hero arrives from another world, he or she acquires 100 MP, even if they are not a mage," and to the anxious look of the only mother inside the group, he added: "or if they don't have a class. But thanks to this skill, a mage can absorb a part of the mana that is in the air and join it to the one inside his own body thanks to meditation and breathing exercises. Once a mage harbors 1,000 MP, he reaches the limit that every human body has to store mana. So it is recommended that from now on you start to familiarize yourselves with the breathing and meditation techniques needed to store a greater amount of mana, which will give all of you an extra advantage during any fight. Even for those who are not mages, knowing these techniques will help you to more easily convert your mana into aura and increase the duration of your aura sword, or in the case of archers, how many arrows you can imbue with mana. But I warn you now that it will not be easy.
Kalysto immediately checked her statistics, noting that her MP was 1.146.
She swallowed.
"What happens in the event that a person exceeds 1,000 MP? And how can you tell if someone has a circle of mana? " Kalysto asked and could feel the attentive gaze of the old man staring at her, almost as if he knew beforehand that she had more mana than the rest of the heroes, and wondered how she was still alive.
"There is no such thing as a person with more than 1,000 MP without a mana circle, Miss Luna," Milo objected, and Kalysto was about to refute when he continued. "Should a human being reach such an amount of MP without a mana circle around his heart, his body would begin to reject the excess mana and this would cause great damage to his internal organs, leading to certain death.