「MAYUMI YUKI (Rank A / 2 Star / Tier 3)
Title: Gaea’s Chosen One
Class: Assassin / Support Mage
Passive Abilities: Weapon Master , Demonic Growth , ???
Blessings: Earth Dragon’s Blessing , Gaea’s Authority (3%)
Stats: STR - (A 1S / T9) DEF - (B 5S / T7) SPD - (A 2S / T1) STA - (B 5S / T8)
INT - (A 2S / T1) MP - (A 3S / T5) HP - (A 1S / T3)
Skills: Intelligence Augmentation >
Ancestral Knowledge (Partial)
Housekeeping >
Pressure
Melodic Soul (Lv. 1)
Techniques:
Magic - Elemental Magic >
Class Magic >
Barrier Magic (Lv. 1) >
Mana Manipulation (Lv. 9)
Magical Eyes
Earthen Core (Unknown)
Physical - Dance of the Dragons (Lv. 6) : Earth Dragon (Lv. 4)
Weapon Mastery (4) >
Meditation (Lv. 7) 」
‘This looks completely different. What happened?’
Yuki stared at his profile as he read each line over and over again. Many things had seemed to disappear and were replaced with categories that had no level with them. This, at least, he could come up with a reason as to why such a thing happened.
‘I think the UR compressed skills that were related into one category. Things like my stealth were probably put in with my assassin techniques and that was put together with class techniques.’
He opened the menu for class techniques and found two submenus underneath it. Mentally tapping on the one labeled Assassin, he found a few skills under it that included his stealth skill.
‘And there’s a few new ones.’
One such new one was a technique titled Eloquence. Yuki could assume how he had obtained such a technique based on the events that occurred the last couple months. Another new technique was Magical Subterfuge.
‘I would be a great politician. Presence detection?’
A bit further down the list was another skill, one that seemed the most useful. It seemed that Yuki’s efforts at being constantly aware of his surroundings had proven enough to be deemed a skill. However, it was very low in level.
‘If I practice more, than I could be less reliant on my main senses. And opponents like Firestorm would be easier to face against.’
Next, he moved on to the more confusing of the changes that he noticed. One thing was that there was an entirely new category that had appeared. The blessing part of his profile was never there and never existed even when it was empty. The section for classes was there even when he had none.
‘So blessings are not normal. I thought as much.’
Another thing that perplexed him was the three percent beside a blessing that he never remembered receiving. Gaea’s Authority sounded important but he had no memory of it or what had triggered it. Because of that, he couldn’t even begin to guess as to what the number meant.
‘Maybe it’s a percentage for how far I’ve unlocked it? Or proficiency?’
The other thing that caught his attention was the technique that was named Earthen Core. The label next to it gave no hint as to what it did. Again, much like his second blessing, Yuki couldn’t remember when he ever received this technique. He racked his mind to try and recall any notification but came up with nothing.
‘Oh. It was probably after the fight with Firestorm. I was tired and fainted. It’s possible that I got notifications then but could see them because I wasn’t conscious.’
He opened his eyes and saw Sophie looking at him curiously.
“You seemed really focused on something. Did something happen?” she asked when she saw Yuki’s questioning look.
“I was looking at my UR. Some interesting things happened to it, to say the least,” Yuki replied.
“How so?”
“Well, the first thing is that it underwent some major reorganization. A lot of techniques and skills were compressed together under one subcategory.”
“That happens a lot,” Sophie nodded. “It’s normal. As the UR detects more and more skills and techniques, it’ll look to find ways to better organize it. No one likes massive menus filling up their vision.”
“I gathered as much as this isn’t the first time the UR reorganized my profile,” Yuki said. “But I found new techniques and even a blessing that I didn't know about. I probably wouldn’t have found out about them had I not decided to check my profile.”
“You’re rank A, correct?” Sophie asked, tilting her head.
“Yes.”
“Then you should have been notified about big additions like those.”
“I think I was but I didn’t notice the notifications due to me being unconscious for a day or so. And so I don’t know what this new skill does. Or what this blessing does.”
“Wait. New blessing?” Sophie narrowed her eyes.
“Yes.”
“Not the one that I bestowed on you?”
“No.”
“What’s the name of the blessing?”
“It says Gaea’s Authority. There’s also a percentage next to it for whatever reason,” Yuki replied.
“Gaea’s Authority,” she repeated. “I’ve never heard of that before. The percent I’ve heard about, however. It’s just a number that signifies how much of the blessing you’ve unlocked. More effects will appear as you unlock more of the blessing but I don’t know what type of effects they will be since I don’t know what the blessing is.”
“I figured as much. I’ll just need to see what happens as time goes by,” Yuki said. “I don’t know how I even unlocked three percent of the blessing.”
“Well, it’s something new so that’s exciting. If you discover what it does exactly, please tell me so I can document it.”
“Sure. There’s another thing that was interesting, though,” he said.
“What’s that?”
“Do you know of a skill or technique called earthen core?”
“You have that?” she asked, her eyebrow raising.
“Well, yes. That’s why I’m asking.”
“I know what that skill is. I have it.”
“What does it do? And how did you gain it?”
“How I gained it I can’t say because, frankly, I was born with it,” Sophie said. “Almost every other elemental dragon I know has a skill like that as well.”
“They do?”
“Yes. A lightning dragon would have a lightning core for example. An aero dragon would have a wind core. I’m an earth dragon so I was born with an earthen core.”
“So the core is based on what one’s attribute is?”
“I would seem. I believe that it’s a technique that one develops if they have a good understanding of their main element,” she said.
“What does it do?” Yuki asked.
“From my experiences, it acts like a passive ability of sorts. In my case, since I have an earthen core, I have a certain resistance to other elements that are not earth,” Sophie said. “Along with that, earth based attacks are reduced until they almost do nothing to me.”
“Really? Interesting.”
“Yes. The elemental part of whatever earthen attack is sent to me is nullified due to my earthen core,” she explained. “Only the force of the attack itself will reach me and if the attack was purely magical then it does nothing.”
“Does your skill also have the word unknown next to it?”
“No,” she shook her head. “It does have a tier next to it though. Mine was at around tier seven or eight if I remember correctly.”
“And I take it that the higher the tier, the stronger the effects of the skill.”
“Of course.”
I see. Thank you for the information,” Yuki said.
“I do wonder how you obtained such a technique,” Sophie said. “It’s not an easy one to get from what I’ve seen. Everyone that has such a skill that I know of was born with it.”
“Maybe your blessings played a big role in it.”
“They might have. They are earth orientated blessings. That new blessing, Gaea’s Authority, might be the reason why you have earthen core. I know for sure that my blessing only enhanced your earth magic and growth.”
“Probably. Thank you. I need to be going now,” Yuki announced. He lifted up the books that he was reading. “I’ll be taking these with me as well.”
“Go ahead. Just don’t leave them around for other people to see,” Sophie reminded. “We don’t want your knowledge to be leaked out to the world, now do we?”
“No, we don’t.”
Yuki opened his eyes in the real world and glanced at his watch. Two hours had passed since he had went inside his Ancestral Knowledge. He placed the books that he held in his hand on a drawer beside the bed he was kneeling on.
Standing up, he stretched his body for a bit before heading out into the living room where Erica and Akira were now playing video games. Akira’s ears perked up at his arrival and she turned to him as he walked out of the hallway.
“Hahaha! I win!” Erica exclaimed. Akira’s head whirled back.
“Hey! I was distracted,” she pouted. “You could have at least paused the race.”
“There’s no mercy in games,” Erica grinned. “It’s not my fault you got distracted by Yuki.”
“Grr, rematch then,” Akira declared.
“We can’t do that now,” Erica laughed. “I thought we’re going out?”
“Yes we are,” Yuki said. “But I can wait, I don’t mind.”
“Yes! One more round.”
“I’ll rather not,” Erica replied. She stretched her arms up and stood. “I’m rather hungry, aren’t you?”
“You just want to run away, huh?”
“I already won~.”
“But it was close! I could have won if I was more focused.”
“You just don’t want to pay, don’t you~?”
“Oh, it was a wager?” Yuki butted in. “On what?”
“The loser buys the other dessert,” Erica said. “So now Akira has to buy me a nice fluffy chocolate cake.”
“And I can’t even eat a tiny piece of it,” Akira added, pouting.
“Well you made a bet, Akira. You can’t change the outcome now,” Yuki shrugged. “Are you all ready to go?”
“Yup,” Erica nodded. “Time to get my cake~.”
“Can’t I have a little piece of it?” Akira asked her, pushing herself up from the couch. “I won’t eat a lot of it. Besides, isn’t a whole cake too big for you to eat?”
“Who said I’ll eat all today?”
“So you’re planning to torture me then?”
They walked out the door of the apartment and Yuki locked the door behind him as he left. Then as he walked a little behind the two chatting girls, he put his hand to his ear.
“Uriel, lock everything that hasn’t been locked yet inside the apartment,” he said. “And tell me anything that you find abnormal around the premise to around a hundred yard radius.”
“Sure,” she replied. “Is there anything in particular you want to me to look out for? Expecting something?”
“It’s just to be safe,” he replied. “My name is out there. I can’t move around as if I’m still unknown.”
“Have fun with your outing,” Uriel said. “I’ll make sure nothing happens.”
“Thank you.” He let his hand fall back down and the line went dead.
“Yuki! Hurry up,” Erica called out a few yards ahead.
‘I can’t let anything that I can prevent happen to them or me again,’ he thought as he hurried his pace to catch up with them. ‘I can’t make the same mistakes.’
“So where do you want to go?” he asked.
「MAYUMI YUKI (Rank A / 2 Star / Tier 3)
Title: Gaea’s Chosen One
Class: Assassin / Support Mage
Passive Abilities: Weapon Master , Demonic Growth , ???
Blessings: Earth Dragon’s Blessing , Gaea’s Authority (3%)
Stats: STR - (A 1S / T9) DEF - (B 5S / T7) SPD - (A 2S / T1) STA - (B 5S / T8)
INT - (A 2S / T1) MP - (A 3S / T5) HP - (A 1S / T3)
Skills: Intelligence Augmentation >
Ancestral Knowledge (Partial)
Housekeeping >
Pressure
Melodic Soul (Lv. 1)
Techniques:
Magic - Elemental Magic >
Class Magic >
Barrier Magic (Lv. 1) >
Mana Manipulation (Lv. 9)
Magical Eyes
Earthen Core (Unknown)
Physical - Dance of the Dragons (Lv. 6) : Earth Dragon (Lv. 4)
Weapon Mastery (4) >
Meditation (Lv. 7) 」
‘This looks completely different. What happened?’
Yuki stared at his profile as he read each line over and over again. Many things had seemed to disappear and were replaced with categories that had no level with them. This, at least, he could come up with a reason as to why such a thing happened.
‘I think the UR compressed skills that were related into one category. Things like my stealth were probably put in with my assassin techniques and that was put together with class techniques.’
He opened the menu for class techniques and found two submenus underneath it. Mentally tapping on the one labeled Assassin, he found a few skills under it that included his stealth skill.
‘And there’s a few new ones.’
One such new one was a technique titled Eloquence. Yuki could assume how he had obtained such a technique based on the events that occurred the last couple months. Another new technique was Magical Subterfuge.
‘I would be a great politician. Presence detection?’
A bit further down the list was another skill, one that seemed the most useful. It seemed that Yuki’s efforts at being constantly aware of his surroundings had proven enough to be deemed a skill. However, it was very low in level.
‘If I practice more, than I could be less reliant on my main senses. And opponents like Firestorm would be easier to face against.’
Next, he moved on to the more confusing of the changes that he noticed. One thing was that there was an entirely new category that had appeared. The blessing part of his profile was never there and never existed even when it was empty. The section for classes was there even when he had none.
‘So blessings are not normal. I thought as much.’
Another thing that perplexed him was the three percent beside a blessing that he never remembered receiving. Gaea’s Authority sounded important but he had no memory of it or what had triggered it. Because of that, he couldn’t even begin to guess as to what the number meant.
‘Maybe it’s a percentage for how far I’ve unlocked it? Or proficiency?’
The other thing that caught his attention was the technique that was named Earthen Core. The label next to it gave no hint as to what it did. Again, much like his second blessing, Yuki couldn’t remember when he ever received this technique. He racked his mind to try and recall any notification but came up with nothing.
‘Oh. It was probably after the fight with Firestorm. I was tired and fainted. It’s possible that I got notifications then but could see them because I wasn’t conscious.’
He opened his eyes and saw Sophie looking at him curiously.
“You seemed really focused on something. Did something happen?” she asked when she saw Yuki’s questioning look.
“I was looking at my UR. Some interesting things happened to it, to say the least,” Yuki replied.
“How so?”
“Well, the first thing is that it underwent some major reorganization. A lot of techniques and skills were compressed together under one subcategory.”
“That happens a lot,” Sophie nodded. “It’s normal. As the UR detects more and more skills and techniques, it’ll look to find ways to better organize it. No one likes massive menus filling up their vision.”
“I gathered as much as this isn’t the first time the UR reorganized my profile,” Yuki said. “But I found new techniques and even a blessing that I didn't know about. I probably wouldn’t have found out about them had I not decided to check my profile.”
“You’re rank A, correct?” Sophie asked, tilting her head.
“Yes.”
“Then you should have been notified about big additions like those.”
“I think I was but I didn’t notice the notifications due to me being unconscious for a day or so. And so I don’t know what this new skill does. Or what this blessing does.”
“Wait. New blessing?” Sophie narrowed her eyes.
“Yes.”
“Not the one that I bestowed on you?”
“No.”
“What’s the name of the blessing?”
“It says Gaea’s Authority. There’s also a percentage next to it for whatever reason,” Yuki replied.
“Gaea’s Authority,” she repeated. “I’ve never heard of that before. The percent I’ve heard about, however. It’s just a number that signifies how much of the blessing you’ve unlocked. More effects will appear as you unlock more of the blessing but I don’t know what type of effects they will be since I don’t know what the blessing is.”
“I figured as much. I’ll just need to see what happens as time goes by,” Yuki said. “I don’t know how I even unlocked three percent of the blessing.”
“Well, it’s something new so that’s exciting. If you discover what it does exactly, please tell me so I can document it.”
“Sure. There’s another thing that was interesting, though,” he said.
“What’s that?”
“Do you know of a skill or technique called earthen core?”
“You have that?” she asked, her eyebrow raising.
“Well, yes. That’s why I’m asking.”
“I know what that skill is. I have it.”
“What does it do? And how did you gain it?”
“How I gained it I can’t say because, frankly, I was born with it,” Sophie said. “Almost every other elemental dragon I know has a skill like that as well.”
“They do?”
“Yes. A lightning dragon would have a lightning core for example. An aero dragon would have a wind core. I’m an earth dragon so I was born with an earthen core.”
“So the core is based on what one’s attribute is?”
“I would seem. I believe that it’s a technique that one develops if they have a good understanding of their main element,” she said.
“What does it do?” Yuki asked.
“From my experiences, it acts like a passive ability of sorts. In my case, since I have an earthen core, I have a certain resistance to other elements that are not earth,” Sophie said. “Along with that, earth based attacks are reduced until they almost do nothing to me.”
“Really? Interesting.”
“Yes. The elemental part of whatever earthen attack is sent to me is nullified due to my earthen core,” she explained. “Only the force of the attack itself will reach me and if the attack was purely magical then it does nothing.”
“Does your skill also have the word unknown next to it?”
“No,” she shook her head. “It does have a tier next to it though. Mine was at around tier seven or eight if I remember correctly.”
“And I take it that the higher the tier, the stronger the effects of the skill.”
“Of course.”
I see. Thank you for the information,” Yuki said.
“I do wonder how you obtained such a technique,” Sophie said. “It’s not an easy one to get from what I’ve seen. Everyone that has such a skill that I know of was born with it.”
“Maybe your blessings played a big role in it.”
“They might have. They are earth orientated blessings. That new blessing, Gaea’s Authority, might be the reason why you have earthen core. I know for sure that my blessing only enhanced your earth magic and growth.”
“Probably. Thank you. I need to be going now,” Yuki announced. He lifted up the books that he was reading. “I’ll be taking these with me as well.”
“Go ahead. Just don’t leave them around for other people to see,” Sophie reminded. “We don’t want your knowledge to be leaked out to the world, now do we?”
“No, we don’t.”
Yuki opened his eyes in the real world and glanced at his watch. Two hours had passed since he had went inside his Ancestral Knowledge. He placed the books that he held in his hand on a drawer beside the bed he was kneeling on.
Standing up, he stretched his body for a bit before heading out into the living room where Erica and Akira were now playing video games. Akira’s ears perked up at his arrival and she turned to him as he walked out of the hallway.
“Hahaha! I win!” Erica exclaimed. Akira’s head whirled back.
“Hey! I was distracted,” she pouted. “You could have at least paused the race.”
“There’s no mercy in games,” Erica grinned. “It’s not my fault you got distracted by Yuki.”
“Grr, rematch then,” Akira declared.
“We can’t do that now,” Erica laughed. “I thought we’re going out?”
“Yes we are,” Yuki said. “But I can wait, I don’t mind.”
“Yes! One more round.”
“I’ll rather not,” Erica replied. She stretched her arms up and stood. “I’m rather hungry, aren’t you?”
“You just want to run away, huh?”
“I already won~.”
“But it was close! I could have won if I was more focused.”
“You just don’t want to pay, don’t you~?”
“Oh, it was a wager?” Yuki butted in. “On what?”
“The loser buys the other dessert,” Erica said. “So now Akira has to buy me a nice fluffy chocolate cake.”
“And I can’t even eat a tiny piece of it,” Akira added, pouting.
“Well you made a bet, Akira. You can’t change the outcome now,” Yuki shrugged. “Are you all ready to go?”
“Yup,” Erica nodded. “Time to get my cake~.”
“Can’t I have a little piece of it?” Akira asked her, pushing herself up from the couch. “I won’t eat a lot of it. Besides, isn’t a whole cake too big for you to eat?”
“Who said I’ll eat all today?”
“So you’re planning to torture me then?”
They walked out the door of the apartment and Yuki locked the door behind him as he left. Then as he walked a little behind the two chatting girls, he put his hand to his ear.
“Uriel, lock everything that hasn’t been locked yet inside the apartment,” he said. “And tell me anything that you find abnormal around the premise to around a hundred yard radius.”
“Sure,” she replied. “Is there anything in particular you want to me to look out for? Expecting something?”
“It’s just to be safe,” he replied. “My name is out there. I can’t move around as if I’m still unknown.”
“Have fun with your outing,” Uriel said. “I’ll make sure nothing happens.”
“Thank you.” He let his hand fall back down and the line went dead.
“Yuki! Hurry up,” Erica called out a few yards ahead.
‘I can’t let anything that I can prevent happen to them or me again,’ he thought as he hurried his pace to catch up with them. ‘I can’t make the same mistakes.’
“So where do you want to go?” he asked.
