Chapter 7

After the battle with the goblins, Benedict approached Nick along with the healer.

"Young master, you did well. But you shouldn't face 4 goblins yet. Now you need to rest and get yourself in order for dinner. The whole family will be watching the recording of your fight today and you can be sure that they will be as proud of you as I am."

When Benedict finished talking, the healer had already dealt with all his wounds, the man bowed quietly and left. Nick and Benedict went to the mansion, on the way Nick thought that he did very well. He defeated 6 goblins and three of them together, pride was pouring out of him as he walked. But Nick could not compare himself to an ordinary person, since he did not know how many characteristics an ordinary person had, so he asked Benedict about it.

"Benedict, how many characteristics does an average person have?"

"Hm, good question sir. Common people have the [Uncommon] race, it gives 11 characteristics per level. For common people, the race increases the level due to the skills acquired, time and kil. For each year, a person gains one level on average. Then, up to 15 years old, people acquire many characteristics due to the skill of minor adaptation of characteristics, on average, this is 35 characteristics in each point. Common people also mainly get the [Common] class after 15 years. But we will count with the [Uncommon] class. The [Uncommon] class gives a maximum of 20 characteristics per level. And so a 20-year-old person with the [Uncommon] class will have an average of 125 characteristics in each indicator. But this honestly does not say much. If it is some kind of combat classer, his level will be higher accordingly, or if a person has two [Uncommon] classes, his characteristics will be about 200 in each indicator. It is difficult to estimate how many characteristics person can have, and this is not the main thing. Goblins had characteristics of about 70 in physical indicators and they couldn't even beat you in yours. We evaluate people mainly by their classes. If it's a certain famous class, then everyone knows their skills roughly. [Special] class is basically the pinnacle that an ordinary person can reach after many years of experience. The higher the rarity of the class, the harder it is to level up. Although young master I wouldn't even say that considering that you are level 8 in the race."

"What? You can see what level I am? How?"

"Young master, it's no secret that you develop your skills by sitting by a tree. And your training began earlier than our patriarch, because of your level. Today, you will have to tell your father how you got such a high level in the race. And how much skill training you needed to do it."

Benedict's last words did not sound good. Did Nick do something wrong? He thought that his development went unnoticed, but he should have guessed that there were evaluation skills in the world. He really fucked up about it.

Arriving at the mansion, he went to take a shower, completely immersed in his thoughts. Afterwards, he decided to skip lunch and go to the tree. He sat for a long time and thought about how to explain to his father the number of his skills. Each subsequent level that he raised was more and more difficult for him. And now, after killing creatures that were formally stronger than him, he received only 1 level. And even then he thought that he would get another level relatively soon. When evening came, Nick collected his thoughts and went to dinner with his family. This time when he came, the children and Rayon's wife were not there. His father, mother, Rayon and Benedict were sitting there.

"Have a seat, young master."

"Thank you Benedict"

When he sat down at the table, a lump still formed in his throat; after finishing the meal, everyone began to wait for what he would say.

"Ahem, I have been developing the skills of mana sense, meditation, and mana manipulation for a long time." His statement caused absolute silence at the table. Everyone was very surprised.

"And how are you feeling, son? Is everything okay, do you have any weakness, or maybe you are constantly upset about something?" His mother asked with great concern.

"No, of course not. Why should I feel bad?"

"My son, people cannot have many skills. Skills are stored in our soul and the stronger and more skills, the greater the burden on the soul. This can cause various pains, disorientation, general weakness, changes in personality, expenditure of vitality and so on. It is very dangerous to have three skills at such a young age. People 20 years old have an average of 6 skills, and exceptional people of the same age can have 12 skills. Soul power is a very important thing, of course it can be increased in various ways and over time it certainly increases on its own..." Varion paused with a heavy expression on his face and looked at Limia, having waited for her quiet permission, he continued. "We admit to you, we know that you have greater soul power than ordinary people and we also know that you are a Reincarnator."

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An even more eerie silence hung over the table. Nick did not begin to imagine that he would soon inevitably die, it was clear to him that if they wanted him dead, it would have happened a long time ago.

"So why didn't you tell me before?"

"It's simple, we didn't want to pressure you with this. By giving you the illusion security, we protected you more than if we had admitted what we knew. I'll tell you why you reincarnated. The gods who lived in our world long ago learned of the danger that awaited it. We call the world Ramiast in honor of the god who discovered it. We humans, elves, dwarves, beastmen conquered this world. Previously, it was inhabited exclusively by monsters and we won a piece of it for ourselves. The world is under the protection of the [Guardians of the World], we do not know how many guardians there are and we do not know where they are all, but they exist. The gods cannot intervene and stop the threat in the person of the Archdemon, so they collected souls from your old world and reincarnated them, but this process did not go very well. The first souls they wanted to reincarnate disappeared. The gods carefully chose people who would suit them for this matter and the loss of souls to an unknown destination was a great blow to them. Therefore, the gods contacted with strong enough people and offered them offspring in the form of reincarnators. Your mother and I could not have children, this is because I received a soul wound, which I barely survived. This cannot be healed except by a [Guardian of the World], or a god. But instead of a complete healing, the Goddess put your soul into the vessel of my blood son, who would never have been born. I am 150 years old, I am a holder of the [Epic] class and because of the soul wound, I could not have children, all my children were dead at birth, they cannot form a soul. Therefore, you were our divine gift. Which must serve a higher purpose. The gods do not know whether to interfere with [Guardians of the World] and therefore count on reincarnators. Liam is also a reincarnator and we know this, our families have been friends for many years, and to be honest, he did a bad job of pretending." Varion finished.

This had to be thought through, Nick was right about it being his divine purpose. But the fact that the gods managed to lose the souls of the reincarnators was just ridiculous.

"Dylan, I want to tell you something too. You were 25 in your past life and we know that you can't be raised from scratch, but rest assured, you will always be my son and I will always love you. For me and your father, you will always be a child no matter your age." Limia said.

Nick realized what his mother had said, but he didn't know how to respond to it, he sat for a few seconds thinking about it and decided to change the subject.

"Okay, but how do I increase my soul power and gain the skill of evaluating people?"

"Hahaha, okay, we won't talk about it any further. All people get identification when they turn 15. This is a common skill that all people get at some point. And people mainly increase their soul power with titles. There are a couple of easy titles that everyone can get. For example, [Giant Slayer], to get this title you need to kill someone alone, 10 levels higher than you with the same rarity in race or in the highest class, then 25 levels, then 50, 100, 200, 500. Or earn a mastery rank. Classes are made not only by level, rarity, but also by mastery. In our case, it is the art of the sword. To become a disciple of swordsmanship, you need to have an [Uncommon] skill, then you become an adept of the sword with a [Rare] skill, then everything is divided into styles. You can be an Elite of the sword [Special] or an Elite of the sword [Epic]. I have a class [Supreme Elite Phantom Swordsman Lv. 400] [Epic] and have an epic title. The same goes for mages. Mage's Apprentice gives an [Uncommon] title, Mage gives a [Rare] title, Great Mage gives a [Special] or [Epic] title, and Archmage gives a [Legendary] title, as well as like [Sword Master]."

Nick was pleasantly surprised that the title gave so many bonuses. And the fact that the identification skill was so widespread both upset and pleased him.

"Okay, that's simple enough."

"Of course, but we will also find you a better appraisal skill, because we can give people skills, and you will also need a status change skill so as not to cause various problems later."

Nick was very surprised that someone could be given a skill.

"But how can you give someone a skill? It's horrible!"

"Haha, of course you can. But this has many limitations. Of course, you can even give out mastery skills, or any other, but they will be more difficult to develop, they may not take root in the soul and there are a lot of problems. But skills up to the [Rare] level can be easily given away. Of course, no one can give away mastery skills, or it takes a really long time to develop their full potential. In general, you will receive two rare skills and alchemical mixtures that increase the strength of your soul. I think you can also be given mixtures that increase your other attributes.

"And magical characteristics too?" Nick asked hopefully.

"Of course, but remember that our agreement remains in force."

"Fine!"

"Now you can run to bed, good night."

Afterwards Nick said goodbye to the whole family and really ran off to bed. Today had been a busy day, and he didn't even remember how he wanted to brag about the recording of the fight with the goblins.