In front of me there is a boy, no more than 13 years old, he has beautiful red fiery hair and crimson eyes, has clothes made with a luxurious looking silk, he is so beautiful that if he were to be in a street in earth in less than 3 minutes he probably would be intercepted by a producer to be an actor.

[You know the outcome by only seeing his looks?, who were you before?]

It was only an exaggeration, what matters is the paper with chinese letters on his face and the fact that he is crawling like a baby, but first I need to go to my room, we can talk while we go.

[Alright remember to not let someone see you, still, how you did that?]

Don't worry about my skills, is near impossible to be found and to your question, is my cheat.

[Cheat?]

You know what is a cheat?

[Yes, so how is a cheat the cause of this? In real life very few things can be considered a cheat since all counts, so, how?]

This cheat is of the game I was, playing Martial Era and it was carried here.

[Then, what it is?]

Well first, Jin Chen wasn't the only character that I had, I created an Onmyoji character when I was in need to a rest for the endless boredom that the repetitive quests given to Jin Chen. It was so fun that I went and maxed its level, his name was Lowrtax.

[What a strange name]

Try to create a new character in a game that was active for 2 years with a cool and original name, all the cool ones were taken already!, if I didn't create Jin Chen at the beginning of the game she would have a strange name too!

[...Anyway what kind of skills did that Lowrtax character had?]

All the type of mystic arts that an Onmyouji could have.

[That sounds amazing]

It is, Martial Era is not the average cellphone game, it was more complicated and more varied, each sect has his separation of specialties, fire arts, water arts, earth arts, wind arts, lightning arts, holy arts and dark arts, an Onmyoji character can choose one and be a master of it.

The same with the other sects, for example, the Samurai sect may be called Samurai, but all types of eastern type blades are there with different styles, the ninja can be a master of poisons or of kunias and more, Lowrtax was originally a master of the dark arts.

[You mean that a character normally only can master one type of branch?]

Yes and no, except for the sacred beasts sect, only one branch is available for free in all sects, for the others branches one need to pay with spirit coins, that can be obtained in-game events or by buying them, I did both with Lowrtax and Jin Chen, my ring have all the items of both that I bought before coming here, clothes, customs, equipment, weapons, accessories, money, food, potions, books, furniture, artifacts, music instruments, craft materials, talismans, etc, close to 8000 of the blocks of my spatial ring has all my items there, the rest is empty.

[How much could you have bought, I don't know how things work in your world, but I know that your parents would scold you if you bought so much useless stuff unless...by chance you were wealthy?]

Yes, I was, on a level that I would be called filthy rich, but that doesn't matter now. As I said, a character could learn of other branches with spirit coins, well more like the path becomes available with spirit coins and to unlock the skills one needs skill manuals and to upgrade the skills you need skill scrolls. Skill manuals and skill scrolls can be obtained with the branch quests that are only available with the first branch, another way is in a roulette that can be spun once per day without spirit coins and the last way to get them is by buying them with spirit coins. So yeah, I bought my way to master all branches of the Onmyoji sect.

[That seems wasteful]

It is, but for me it never was, since Martial era is a cellphone game the list of quick actions is limited to 12 in rows of three, making the players think in what is needed to have in the 12 slots for each quest or fight. In Martial Era a normal player has 20 active skills and 10 passive skills and since it is a game, it needs to have some balance, that's why only some of the skills of all sects have really big differences, in the Onmyoji sect all of their branches have at least one debuff/buff type (is up to the arts), barrier type, AOE type, ball type, long range, middle range and short range type skills, 6 active skills and 4 passive skills for the basic type skills of the game and the rest are the branches type skills.

That isn't bad, but then there is the crest system, with that, the effects of the original branch of the character's skills are double, the cost is reduced, casting and cooldown time are reduced too. If anyone compares one player that mastered all the branches with 7 players that mastered one each, you will choose the 7 since the effects of their skills are stronger, but I was a solo player and since there was an elemental damage with certain types of monsters I decided to do it no matter how wasteful it was.

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[I understand all that, but I still have some questions]

Feel free to ask.

[What are the basic type and branch type skills and how can a skill be upgraded?]

The basic skills are skills that all characters have since their creation, an example can be the counter-attack skill, is a skill that you activate before being hit, instead of the hit hurting you, the skill makes so that it can counter the hit and the damage goes to your enemy. The branch type skills are, as the name implies, the skills of each sect branch, an example is the Sacred Beasts sect, Jin Chen as a member of the sacred beasts, of the Seiryu branch have a passive skill that reduce the damage of the water elements to some degree, side note, at max level its reduction damage go to 90% each hit, all players that belong to the Seiryu branch have that skill, but the trick is that to upgrade skills one needed to reach a certain level, and as you know the Sacred beast sect has a big penalty in that regard, thanks to that I forget almost all of my skills I have until the last levels.

[Interesthing and what is the crest of an Onmyoji of the dark arts branch?]

It is a lotus flower, I researched that in the eastern culture the lotus flower is a flower deeply related to the spirit and the Onmyoji sect is focused on the intangible energy of Martial era world aka spiritual power, different colors of lotus flower for each branch was the crest of the Onmyoji sect, there were new lotus flowers in that world with their own meaning, mine is black or grayish dark more or less, that represents the impurities of the soul.

[Is that s-wait a second!?, why I am so immersed in information that I could easily know by reading your mind!?, argh!.....I'm tired of my own stupidity, anyway what is the cheat?]

Don't be so harsh with yourself, One time when the talk was interesting I forgot that I needed to go to the restroom, I almost peed myself.

[Pfff...Just...a moment...]

…...Anyway, the cheat is that Jin Chen has all the things that Lowrtax had, skills, crests, stats, etc....Oh!, we arrived, room sweet room~.

[Imposible, how that can happen?]

I know right?, it happened when an update appeared suddenly, the next time I logged on Martial era Jin Chen was my only character again and Lowrtax was nowhere to be seen. Then I play with Jin Chen while cursing that I was going go again with boring quests, but when I was checking my stats they were higher than I remember, there were more skills and my spatial ring had more items too.

[That sure is a cheat]

Yes, but now I need to think what to do with this dumb as a baby, boy.

[One more question, I can see your status, exactly how much the overall stats are of a normal character?]

It is 1,500,000, if you are wondering why the overall stats are less than 3,000,000 I dunno maybe it is because they added the stats Lowrtax had when the update happened, I was in the middle of a fight 4 vs 1 and the other players used cash items to debuff me, I know since I bought them too, that was a terrible situation...more questions?

[One last question, what was the skill you used before?, The one that made this kid have the mind of a baby?]

Damn, I forgot about this kid, for your question the skill is called Fǔbài, that is translated to corruption, if I remember correctly this skill is a debuff skill that reduces wisdom and Intelligence depending of your skill level, but I don't understand what happened, I only wanted him to make a fool of himself when he is with the king, not a baby, what is worse is that the time effect of the skill should be over by now, but he is still crawling like a newborn baby.

[I would try to inspect him but that is your doing, so it is up to you to fix it, have fun searching an answer~]

You sly goddess!, what we do with this brainless baby!?

[Kill it and bury it in a flower garden?]

You sure don't have respect for human lives...wait a minute why I am wasting so much time here. first I need to hid......I know the answer!

[That was fast]

It is simple, who would want a brainless 13 years old kid?

[No one]

Exactly and for that, I am going to go along with your plan!

[Come on I know you can think something better than what I suggest]

Yes, I can, but I don't want to.

[Why?]

………............

[Wanted or not I'm going in!]

What?...!...What was that chill I felt!?...are you?...are you in my head!?...get out!

[Now, what was that idea that you had~?, that spark that lit a few moments ago~?......found!...it?......Oh my]

That's why I really wanted to go with your plan….And get out of my head!

[I already did and I can see why now, it is really troublesome but you need to face them sooner or later]

We really need to go?, in the first place, can I even go?

[Yes, anytime you want actually]

As I feared, my best option is going to that place, since how things are right now, this type of skill is very convenient, but to have to face them so early, I feel my stomach revolt, my heart throbbing faster than ever and my legs are trembling like no tomorrow.

“Huí jiā de lù”

Reciting the chant while sending spiritual energy to my crest I opened a dimensional rift, in that rift I could see a vast plain, in that plain farther away than I was, a big mountain where ancient chinese like buildings are situated, with the sight of this body I can see with clarity what was there, a little group of people, mostly older people, doing chores, but then they notice the rift and started to bow.

[I wish you good luck]

Why you are not coming?

[Are you crazy?, the four sacred beasts would kill me; 4 gods vs 1 goddess is like suicide, at least with you they will be more lenient and if I go with you they surely are going to threaten me to hand you over them, I have my countermeasures about them doing so, but it is still scary. As a side note, remember that you gave yourself to me, I have the highest authority in any matter that means your freedom, in other words, whatever you do to be free I still have the last word, so don't try anything funny.]

Don't worry I know what I was giving when I begged, no need to remind me and you are treating me good, so I have no reason to do so.

[......Okay, again good luck there.]

Thanks, well here I go.

“Long time without coming, I'm back Sacred beasts sect headquarters”