"You alright?" The dark haired boy extended his hand to me.
I ignored the hand and got up by myself.
"Thanks." I said, as I started walking away. Even though he was trying to help me, I was too embarrassed to face him.
'How did I trip?'
"Hey, my name is Daniel. And you?" He said as he came up next to me.
Staring at him, he looked to be the same height as me so he was probably also the same age as me. It was embarrassing for him to see me trip and plant my face head first into the ground so I was hesitant whether to respond to him or not.
"Sam." I simply said.
"Sam huh. You wanna be friends?" Daniel said to me.
A friend... I thought he would be disgusted because I had different hair than others in the village.
"You don't mind my hair color?" I asked.
"Haha, I don't support discrimination. Why would I care? Beside, I think your blonde hair suits you!" He said, pointing his thumbs up with a grin on his face.
'Disc-riminat-ion? What was that?' I inwardly thought. He must be really smart to know about these long words.
"Sure, let's be friends." I said.
'Mom, I finally made a friend.'
All the other kids at the village were 2-3 years older than me so it was a bit hard to fit in. Adding the fact that they didn't like my blonde hair, none of them wanted to be close to me.
My family only consisted of my mother and I so it was lonely at times.
—Daniel's PoV—
It has been 5 years since I started practicing Magic Circulation. My father even took it upon himself to start training me in swordsmanship two months ago. Anne was against it at first but after seeing my eager attitude, she had no choice but to allow me.
I hadn't even seen a real sword until I came to this world so of course I would be excited. Right now, I was in the middle of swinging the metallic practice sword.
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
[Ding!]
[Learned: Technique - Imperial Swordsmanship(Common)]
[Ding!]
[System Achievement: Blood, Sweat, and Tears]
[Congratulations host for learning a new technique on your own]
[Unlocking: Coupon Shop]
'Status'
~~~~~~~~~~
Name: Daniel
Race: Human
Class: Locked
System: Crouching Dragon System(Legendary)
Merit Points: 7983
Life Force: 60/60
Physique: Conditioned Physique - Lvl.1
Magic: Mage Apprentice(Beginner) - Lvl.3
Spells: NONE
Techniques: Magic Circulation(Common-Lvl.4), Imperial Swordsmanship(Common-Lvl.1)
Active Skills: Eye of the Dragon(Epic)
Passive Skills: Comprehension of the Argon Language(Common), Dragon's Pride(Epic), Heart of a Dragon(Epic)
Curse: Unnoticed Potential(Legendary)
~~~~~~~~~~
Having practiced controlling magic particles for 5 entire years, my magic realm was raised to the Beginner Mage Apprentice realm. Ever since I reached this realm last year, it looked like I had reached a bottleneck. No matter how much Magic Circulation I did, other than the technique leveling up, I would not breakthrough to the next realm.
My level of Magic Circulation should be pretty good for my current magic realm. Even though I was technically ready for magic spells, the shop did not sell them so I didn't exactly know what to do.
On the other hand, I had more time to learn about the world. There was apparently a Magic Knight Academy at the capital but it was mostly for aristocrats. Though uncommon, Father Davis said that there were commoners who were extremely adept at an art that were accepted. If my hunch was right, they should teach magic spells there as well so entering the Magic Knight Academy should be my first priority.
It was also about time that I figured out what this curse was. I had amassed a hefty sum of Merit Points during the years.
'I have 2 Skill Upgrade Coupons and I need 1 more to upgrade Eye of the Dragon.'
'Open Shop'
~~~~~~~~~~
Skills:
Dragon Skin(Legendary) - 1000 mp
Dragon Transformation(Mythical) - 15000 mp
...
Techniques:
Dragon Fist(Rare) - 50 mp
Swordsmanship(Common) - 10 mp
Marksmanship(Common) - 10 mp
Draconic Swordsmanship(Rare) - 50 mp
Draconic Martial Arts(Rare) - 60 mp
...
Items:
LOCKED
...
Coupons:
Skill Upgrade Coupon - 1000 mp
Skill Evolution Coupon - 5000 mp
System-Type Evolution Coupon - 50000 mp
~~~~~~~~~~
'What is this skill evolution?'
[Skill Evolution Coupon allows the skill to transcend its current abilities and brings it to another level. All skills can only evolve once.]
'Buy a Skill Evolution Coupon and a Skill Upgrade Coupon.'
[Received: Skill Evolution Coupon, Skill Upgrade Coupon]
'How many points do I have left?'
[Merit Points: 1983]
Seeing the numbers drop, I could only scratch my head and watch them disappear.
'I need to find a way to get more points.'
[Beep!]
[Host cannot earn points til the age of 10]
'Upgrade and evolve Eye of the Dragon'
[System Notification: Skill Upgrade Coupon has been consumed]
[System Notification: Skill Evolution Coupon has been consumed]
[Eye of the Dragon(Epic) will now upgrade into Eye of the Dragon(Supreme)]
[Eye of the Dragon(Supreme) will now evolve into True Dragon Eyes(Supreme)]
~~~~~~~~~~
True Dragon Eyes(Supreme)
Peer into the essence of the world.
1. Able to appraise Legendary rarity and below(can appraise anything system related)
2. Appraise other people and objects.
3. SEALED
~~~~~~~~~~