Level 3

An amazing skill at a first try !! I really was lucky. A storage type skill hm… it could help me a lot with my original skill. I could store all the comfortable stuff from my secret lair in it and use it anytime I want. On a long journey it was almost a kill worthy skill. But my skill points are all used up. I will have to quickly reach level 5 to receive more skill points. I stuffed the scroll in my bag and erased the other vest like leather thing. Selling it would be a much profitable but I couldn't sell it in towns and soldiers or guards will most likely tell father or mother. Besides, I could make gold anytime I wanted. Money was never an issue for me. Though I couldn't make genuine coins so I would have to sell it to some goldsmith or some merchant. I could easily fake it though and even the goldsmith won't know the difference because it would be genuine gold just a random serial number ! Fake number but who's gonna check all the numbers right ?

I moved on after gathering my loot from monsters. Monsters were made of pure magical energy so when they die they just turn to particles and go back to nature. If you wanted some specific parts of a monster like claws or skin you had to kill them with light magic. Or cut that part off before killing it. Direwolf and other monster's skins and claws were used for all kinds of things. There was a legend about how a dragon's heart could give you infinite magicules or R ranked skill etc. But killing a dragon in itself was a huge question mark ! ripping his heart out while it was alive !!… not possible. Dragons were rare monsters, one of few who had intelligence to them. Some of them even formed a group or something to live together. They often avoided humans even though they were totally capable of hunting them as prey.

I was walking through top of the forest when I detected 10 green dots north of me. I instantly ran towards them, they were a pack or goblins. I could use my blades but I could only target accurately with only 5 of them at a time so I released my B rank skill inferno at them. In an instant a huge tornado of fire enveloped all the goblins and even surrounding trees. Gheez this was the first time I had used it after doing conditional chants. A fire affinity bonus was definitely not something to take lightly. I had to use water and dirt to remove unnecessary fire. Even all the stuff they dropped burned to crisp. It was a big mistake. Inferno was definitely a no go without a good reason.

I continued my search to find monsters and exterminate them. Evening came and I went back to my tunnel. I had defeated 20 Ogres, 12 direwolves, almost 50 something goblins and I had levelled up from 2 to 3. I had already accumulated quite an experience from training, It was not fair measuring of level. So I was not sure how experience and stuff from monsters worked yet, I had gone from level 1 to 2 in just the first 15 days of my training. From here on I think I can calculate an estimated value for experience gained from different races of monsters. And of course how much I needed to level up further. It was double the exp. every time from the last level right ? As I fought I had seen a steady increase of my stats but they were not fully reached their level capacity which means leveling up by defeating monsters did not depend on stats values.

I went back to my sealed room and erased the door sized wall. And was going through hallways when I heard some guards talking about something on the corner,

" I am telling he tortured them. And after getting all the information he executed them… " one of them said.

" Idiot I had heard from Zeke that they were jaang-ju bastards, no way they were ever gonna talk. " other one replied.

It was obvious they were talking about father's newly captured prisoners. Everyone in palace was recently talking about them. Even I didn't knew what happened to them. Father never told me about anything at all. But that jaang ju thing was new. Jaang ju were people from purisrar. They had some special physical traits but I didn't know what they were. All I knew was that they all had dark affinity. Dark magic was not evil magic it was just a one form of magic everyone could perform. I didn't pay the gossip much mind and went to my room to freshen up. I had built bathtub for myself. They used a stone built small swimming pool type thing for a bath. There were fire magic formula written iron pipes connected to it, on the other side of the pipes was a rectangular stone box-like thing with a crystal in the middle. When you give some of your magicules at start it automatically generates water for 30 to 50 minutes. Pipes made it reasonably hot and you had nice open bath. For me bathtub was much more comfortable so I had extended the end of iron pipe and connected it to my bath-tub.

At the dinner table Zhira was almost bursting with happiness and looking at me with taunting eyes. She was 8 now so she was visiting town for few days. Of course with her entourage of four guards. If i told her i am leveling up she would go crazy. But town hm...maybe i could pay a visit in secret ? Most exceptional feature that could stand out of mine other than the fact that I am 4 and half years old was my mismatching eyes. They might not recognize me but they will not forget me either. And watching something unusual may make common people of town a little uncomfortable. Maybe i could cover my eyes ? but wouldn't that attract even more attention to me…?

In the middle of my deep thoughts, my father had arrived and we started eating. After eating in peace for a while father said,

" Neff, we are going to hold a revealing ceremony for you the day after tomorrow. "

Ahh he had said we would do it soon. But what even is a revealing ceremony ? Do I have to do something in it ?

" What am I supposed to do that day ? " I asked.

" Nothing much, your stats screen will be analyzed in the morning by one of the Sekhmet sisters from light hearth. And translated by night when we will have a small gathering of friends. " explained my mother. I didn't knew it until a few days ago when I noticed that her belly was a little swollen. So I asked and as i had guessed she was pregnant. Even three children were not enough for them huh !! My parents sure has a lot of energy !!

I didn't know much about faith and beliefs, so from what I figured light hearth was like a church in every Important town in all of west. Their religion or faith, whatever was called Sekhmet – Vahalla. They even had their own army called Lightswords.

" Will Rahil come too ? " I asked.

" Aww you are friends now ? " mother always had something to add.

" Kind of. I gave him a book last time. " I replied.

" I can use my skill after that right ? " I came back to the topic.

" Yes... " Said father like a question and then he said,

" You are already using it aren't you ? "