> Quote:Hello people! I am back since it is the Christmas holidays. I am sorry for my readers because I kinda almost failed my course thus I had to focus on not failing it hahaha... Well anyways I will continue this fanfic for now but each chapter will be shorter than before mainly about 1500 words. BTW really like the new look on the site kinda miss the old one. O well change is how we move forward in life.
I re-read the skills a second time to memorize the important active skills because I have yet to use them for combat, only observe was used a lot for observing the weapons from before. Some skills that interested me were Mind Sponge, the Iga Clan specialty, and the new Elven Healing skill.
“No wonder why I was able to absorb so much information from the twins in such a short time because usually it takes me a lot more time to soak in words from a biology textbook… Man I wish I could read textbooks in this game but then again, why would anyone combine school reading with a game that is suppose to take you away from reality. Still Mind Sponge is already at intermediate stage which meant that the twins must have crammed at least months of information into my head.”
No one has told Silvia that the amount of training and information that was given by the twins were equal to at least 2-3 months of training, but because the twins were in a hurry they had to act fast and just did their best to teach her.
“Mind Sponge is good for taking in information and when combined with the Adaptability passive effect I can take in new information and process it calmly allowing faster judgement in tough situations. What is more interesting is this new Elven Healing skill, I wonder how I got this skill in the first place since it says here that it requires the teachings of an Elf mage. Still I have to consider this lucky because now I can heal myself without potions and my mana regen is 1mp/s so that is 5hp/s. The bad thing is, the active skills that would be very helpful take a lot of my mp such as Sharp Eyes cost 50mp and Acrobatics cost 100 mp plus Lightning Reflexes another 30 mp totaling 180/220 leaving me with just 40mp left.”
I began thinking about which skills I need in battle and which I need for emergencies but then I notice that I have yet to develop special active attack skills such as a power strike or mana bolt. I have yet to choose what profession to get because of all this training. According to the tutorial job/profession selection will begin after level 10 but there are special cases such as hidden professions that will appear after a player matches the requirements.
“Let’s forget the professions for now since I am still under beginners arrest for the next few months. Now the most interesting skill and the one full of mysteries is the Iga Clan specialty since I cannot learn it without a proper instructor” I whisper while putting my hands on top of my head excitedly “So this is why people say humans are always curious. I can’t wait to find what this clan skill is and I won’t stop until I get it just hope it isn’t something that will take a sacrifice of something like in some animes.” Smiling and accidently let out a funny laugh
Just then the twins moved a bit and took me out of my thinking and back into the carriage. I sigh and tell myself to stop thinking and just go where this road is taking me and how far it will lead me until it stops (meaning until I get bored). I look down towards the sleeping twins on my laps and smile and decide to also close my eyes and sleep until we reach Iga castle where I will perform my duties.
“This is my story. This is my new road. Where will it lead and when will it end” Those were my last thoughts as I went to sleep.
It felt like my eyes only closed for a little while before I started hearing voices coming from the people outside the carriage and thought that I made it to Iga castle. However what I thought and what I heard were different because the sound from outside did not sound like normal people but sound like people who were in danger yelling out things such as “help” or “over there”. My eyes open looking around in confusion and saw that the twins were no longer sleeping on my lap so I open the curtains of the window and saw that the guards were fighting someone outside. I knew at once that something was wrong and decide to open the door to help the guards or at least help with something. I only opened a crack until a body flew towards the door shutting the door once again and even wobbled the carriage a bit. I fell off the seat and onto my back stunned by what just happened but due to the passive skills I regained my posture and attempted to open the door again. This time no one came flying so I was able to walk outside, the moment I stepped out of the carriage someone jumped into the air and attacked me with a Katana but the man got intercepted by a small shadow. The shadow kicks the man away and then ran up towards me, it turns out to be Saya.
“Silvi-nee I’m glad to see you have awoken, but it is too bad we aren’t in a good position right now for happy talks. Do you think you can go back into the carriage for safety? We don’t have extra weapons for you and with your level of skill right now you won’t be able to do much to these guys” says Saya
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“Who are these people? And why attack us?” I ask as I began my retreat towards the carriage understanding the situation. I was able to match half of Saya’s full strength in combat during training only because she was not using her dominant hand and she was going easy on me while also wearing those tight Kimonos. Sayo then appears beside me answering
“These people are Mercenary warriors. They are called Ronins, samurai warriors without a lord to serve and will fight for money. Why they are attacking us is something we would like to know maybe it is only for money who knows. I will show them not to mess with the Iga clan” After saying that she rushed towards an enemy and I returned back into the carriage understanding that I was useless at a lv 1 even though I was able to max my stats limited to lv 1’s.
I sat in the carriage while watching the fight between the two groups and decided to activate Sharp Eyes to train it. Once I got my mp back I deactivate the skill and re-activate it, this continued for the entire duration of the small battle which was about 1-h. I gained enough points to get Sharp Eyes to B-5(10%) from using the skill about 70 times since I lost count after focusing on the battle.
Sharp Eyes (A) (B-5(10%))
Temporarily grants the ability to locate an enemy's weak spot to deal fatal damage to that enemy. Increase in duration as the user level's the stage and increase in sight.
Passive effect: Increase range of sight by 7%
Active effect: Double Critical rate increase: 4%, eyes that can see weak points for 5 min
When the fighting stopped I called the sisters and asked them if it was indeed safe to walk outside. They confirmed that there were no more enemies around and answered back.
I open the door and ran towards the group of people who were fighting and saw that out of the 15 people who were with them at the beginning 3 were badly injured and the rest were lightly wounded. It was pretty amazing that only 3 were heavily injuries since judging by the amount of bodies around the area the enemy had 2x the amount of fighters. I ran towards the sisters worried that they may be badly injured.
When I got near Sayo shouted “over here Silvi-nee” with a small smile, maybe because she almost lost 3 people but was happy to see me running over.
I was happy at first but then I saw a lot of blood on them and asked if they were alright.
“It’s only the enemies blood Silvi-nee. Don’t worry about it we are very good night fighters unlike these low level bandits.” Saya answers with Sayo nodding.
“So this is just a simple raid by bandits?” I ask
“Who knows. Just because there is a shogun doesn’t mean everyone in this country accepts him or her” Saya says
“We have enemies of our own but don’t worry about them much right now because they are weak. Now let’s begin moving again shall we and don’t worry about the bandit bodies they will turn disappear into life energy in a few minutes” Sayo adds while walking back towards the carriage
“ ???” I wonder what kind of enemies they were to go up against one of the shogun’s allies. A chill ran down my spine as I felt someone watching us from far away. The night was about to come to an end so my buff has weaken since the moon is no long up high but I still felt a cold stare. It was not towards me but towards everyone around the area. I then felt a cold wind blow pass my face and decided that it must have been my imagination after thinking about potential enemies and decided to let it slide and walked back into the carriage to fall asleep again.
In the cool dark trees about 200m away from the battle ground 2 pairs of cold eyes were focused at the victors of the small fight.
“ooo man.” one says softly
“I hope we aren’t responsible for this because we did warn them that sending out weak and untrained people will get them all killed” the other person adds
“Yea . But I don’t think the Ronin general would just send them and ignore our warning. I mean 6th rate men vs 3rd rate and 4th rate men. Even if they had quantity they lack quality.” The first person chuckles
*This is how these two rate/rank people who fights. The higher the number the weaker the person is*
“Who do you think I am!” A voice yelling towards them
“I really wanted to test their fighting potential before attacking them. Never under estimate your opponents that is what I learnt after that failure that caused me to lose my lord. Let us begin our negotiation now that I know what kind of people I will be dealing against” The voice added with a smile