Hello, I’m Shu Shikure. 17 years old Male and right now, I’m heading toward the library.
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To begin with, let’s start talking a little bit about this world from what I heard from Shinon-chan.
This kingdom, Athene, is one of the biggest human kingdom on the continent, and sadly it is now one of the 3 remaining cities left. The war had been dragging on for only 5 years, and the human is already at the brink of extinction – Quite ironic.
The problem would be the enemy. The word ‘demon’ is too vague. I have no idea what or who they’re fighting at all. If there’s information about them, that would be helpful. And at the same time, I would want to learn more about this world’s residents such as elf, beast men, mermaid, fairies and many more.
Hohohoho~ I can’t wait.
Anyway, let’s move to this kingdom’s situation. Since the situation is pretty dire and the neighbor country is currently fighting with the demon, King and second Prince had gone to aid the neighbor country’s war. And so, first Princess and third prince stay behind in the kingdom.
There is a strange tradition for royal bloodline in this kingdom. Princes and Princesses are to compete for the right to be the successor. Once they turn 18, they will have to gather ally to side with them. Well to be exact, it’s about gathering political forces and military forces. The more forces they have, the likely they can become the successor. And then in every 3 months, they would have a tournament to test their leadership and charisma.
The Princess Mariona and Prince Phillip has been fighting in this tournament for 2 years. And Princess Mariona has been losing all the tournament, but she hasn’t given up on it yet. Prince Phillip wasn’t able to complete overpower her as well. Since Princess Mariona has more powerful political force, while Prince Philip has more powerful military force.
Since the tournament was in a form of mini size war. Military force play an important role, and that’s why Prince Phillip was able to win every time. Prince Philip has the force of 37 imperial knights, while princess only has 3 imperial knights left with many magicians.
Oh, by the way, imperial knight is a general who control over 1000-2000 soldier. And in this case, they are used like a currency in this tournament. Princess used to have 15 at first, but after losing several times, she was down to the last 3. Prince’s faction grew bigger and bigger as well from winning the tournament, and two more fights, Princess would completely lost the right to fight any longer.
Oh, I found it strange for the second Prince who didn’t join this fight. I tried asking Shinon-chan, and it turned out that Second Prince was a genius amongst genius. He was born with a never seen before class. And he surrendered the right to be the successor. This cause an uproar, but the king didn’t stop the Prince at all. The reason why he did that remain a mystery.
While thinking, I finally come to a room. There’s word written in a language I don’t know, but in my head, I knew that it means library. Strange, is this the influence of the system?
I opened the room and entered. It was really a standard library where column of shelves filled with books are organized in rows. Since it was world with magic, I was expecting a terminal where you can search Books and it appeared magically. So, I was a bit disappointed with this. However, at least there’s large amount of books here, so that I don’t have to go information-hunting.
“You’re here too? Guess you can’t take their training as well huh?”
Suddenly a book speak to me – no, it’s the one who’s behind a wall of book. I was shocked for a second there when suddenly there’s voice coming from books, but I was relieved to see who was talking to me. He was one of my sisters’ friends, the quite guy who’s always tilting his glass observing the situation.
Intrigued by what he said earlier, I asked him with dumbfounded expression.
“Training? Everyone is training?”
“Hard being a left out, huh? Well, not that I’m the one to say anything. There, look”
He pointed to the window, and then I heard shouts from sword practice and explosion from magic practice. Amazing! I really wanted to join them.
Hero-kun practices swing and stances. Does he belong to Kendo club or something? His stance is firm and strong, even his swing are perfect. It’s good
“Good-”
It seems that I blurt that out without restraint. Class_Rep-kun also came to practice with Hero-kun. However, why is he naked? Wait, he’s not entirely naked, he only got his pant on, but why did he have to be naked?
Hero-kun and Class_Rep-kun seem to be talking about something, and suddenly Hero-kun swung his sword at Class_Rep-kun bare chest without restraint. That swung, let alone its’ scary power that was able to break someone bone, Hero-kun seem to use all of his strange into that attack. However, contrary to my expectation, the sword bounced off. There wasn’t even a mark on Class_Rep-kun’s body. Even Class_Rep-kun’s defense is pretty good, not getting even a mark after that swung is too absurd. Well, hero existence is already an absurd existence.
“His class is ‘Holy Crusader’”
Racking my head to think why or how the sword bounce off, the guy next to me answer.
“They belong in defensive class with healing capability. And ‘Holy Crusader’ is a specialty where their defense are absolute and regenerating speed is considered a monster.”
“So basically, he’s a tanker.”
“To be exact, he’s a masochist.”
This guy rebut made me speechless, and his word are pretty harsh too. Just so that he’s a tanker, that’s doesn’t mean he’s a masochist, you know! I wanted to rebut him and guard Class_Rep-kun, but I refrain from doing that since Class_Rep-kun is smiling despite taking blows from Hero-kun. This guy, could he possibly be- no! no! no! I don’t have to think about that. Oh yeah, I don’t know this guy name yet.
“I’m Shu. I believe that I don’t know your name yet.”
“It’s Yashi”
Again with his short answer and tilting his glasses. This guy, he’s not provoking me, right?
*Boom*
Suddenly, we heard a loud booming sound, we turned and we saw Ojou-chan grasping for her breath holding a wooden staff with a red round orb – or should I say magic stone? Since this is magic world, that had to be one, right? As I believe, her class is Mage. So she’s trying hard, despite being a tsundere.
“That girl’s intelligence is about 900 and she has affinity with most of the basic element.”
HO~ this guy know a lot.
“Is that what’s shown in the core affinity? But what does that mean anyway?”
“See that staff that she is holding, at the top, there’s a red orb. That’s the magic stone-the second rate of magic core. There’re 3 types of magic core classified so far. Magic dust, Magic stone, and Magic crystal. The purest and strongest one is the Magic crystal. Magic core are used as catalyzed for magic. That Red one has core affinity for fire, if you don’t have affinity with fire, you’ll need that to use fire based magic.”
“Which mean if you have fire affinity, you wouldn’t need a staff to cast fire-based magic, right? If Ojou-chan already has affinity with it, does she even need to use that staff?”
“Well, let’s just think that using a staff with same affinity as your own core boost your attack. And the way she’s using it is like a child who found a new toy to play and show off.”
Don’t go ‘let’s just think that’! Do you even have anything to back that up? And the last sentence is true though, Ojou-chan is pretty curious about magic. So get to use it is pretty exciting for her.
This guy even gestured as if saying ‘see-’.
And then we saw Ojou-chan cheering and jumping in happiness. Did she really happy about being able to use that?
“It seems that she is able to gain a new skill.”
Yashi said as he looked uninterested. Seeing her gaining a new skill like that, I wanted some confirmation from him.
“Is this system where you repeatedly doing something and eventually got a skill form it?”
“Yeah, and not only that, you can also acquire it from book.”
“Skill book?”
“Not necessary. Theoretical book is also fine. But the important thing is your understand and imagination.”
“How long do I have to repeat doing the same action to acquire a skill?”
I asked him for more detail information. I ate poison meat from before, and I immediately got a passive skill from it. However seeing Ojou-chan who was grasping for her breath. She seemed to have been doing it for quite some times.
“There’s not clear answer for it. One might made it in first try, and other might not even be able to make it at all. Some other factors and conditions have to be met. However, the only golden rule is the understanding and imagination. If you have strong foundation on that, you’ll might even succeed in your first try.”
This guy know a lot! He’s just like this world Wikipedia! Ok, let’s call him Wiki-kun.
So that might explain my case, but I don’t think that I have strong understand of that posion. Well, I do know from tasting it since it felt like it was made from poison gland of volcanic Alvid Toad combined with dew from purplish Ranskera flower –Wait!!! Where the hell did I get that name form?! That’s strange, I don’t remember anything of those thing, but I seems to have clear image of what they look like.
Did I get those information from game I play or something?! However, this is too strange! The more I think of it, the more vivid it became. I even know how to deal with them so that I could cultivate their resource without killing them. Gaming didn’t have this much information, right?! I don’t remember playing game with such detail. And I’m sure that I won’t remember their name since names is the only thing I can’t remember well. Take my 4 years of study for example, I don’t remember anyone’s name. The heck! I don’t even remember what they look like.
This is too strange, and I have a bad feeling about this. Suddenly to have information poured in to your mind like this, there’s high chance of me being mind-controlled and fed false information. If that’s the case, then it would be too scary.
Calm down and analyze this situation. First, I don’t remember all of these information. Second, the names and pictures of those beast are certainly not from my world. Third, those information poured in me when I thought about the poison. However, I can’t link this clue to other. Fourth, my passive skill is also related to that poison. If the information is related to the skill I acquire, then maybe it is related to this world system. If that’s true, then-
*Ting*
New stat has been unlocked.
You have acquire new skills. Active Skill ‘Analysis’ acquired.
Something related to this world system really happened to me!
“Full Status Open”
NameShu ShikureRaceHumanAge17GenderMaleTitleOnii-chan of Twin, HeroClassTamerLevel1HP2950/5950MP12250/12250Strength600Defense650Endurance570Vitality300Agility700Dexterity700Intelligence1500Wisdom1500Luck0Charm50World Knowledge0%&%*^$^######%*&^&$######$%@%$######Core’s AffinityNatureCurrent StatusFirst Princess’s blessing
Something changed! I know that I remember that I have 4 unreadable slots before, but now, there’s only three. And I gained a new stat ‘World Knowledge’. However, unlike other which show numerical value, this one show percentage.
“World Knowledge details”
*Ting*
Unique Stat : (Tamer only)
World Knowledge : 0%
World knowledge is the knowledge accumulate all around this world. It provide user the knowledge about the world and everything is it. This stat will be shown in percentage to measure how much user understand the world. With higher percentage, the better understanding it grant user.
After reaching 25% or higher, with new information acquired, various stats bonus will be granted to user. (1-200 bonus per each)
After reaching 50% or higher, User began to know the past and future information related to a specific object.
After reaching 75% or complete understanding of core’s nature, User will be granted highest affinity with that core.
After reaching 90% or higher, User will be able to learn any kind of magic or skill without restriction. (Class-Related is also obtainable)
Current knowledge : 0%
Beast Archive : 0.00001%
Plant Archive : 0.00001%
Poison Archive : 0.00001%
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