บท 9: Puppet Skill
At this time Alice's and Kana dizziness already gone as she finishes absorbing the knowledge that she got from the skill. They finish almost simultaneously even tough Alice start first.
"What are you guys talking about? Have you choose your skill already" Alice asked
"I have not. I know you'll be pissed if I choose it without you."
"So what is it about status being a root or something?" Kana cut joining the conversation
I ended up explaining things that I just discussed with James to both of the girls while they listen and try to learn to the best they could.
"So, in conclusion, the status is what determining factor that can affect everything should be careful about distributing it. It's like a foundation of a building if you build a skewed foundation than it would not be strong enough to deal with the wind that blows."
"Ok, so you're saying I should keep my 1 free stats and distributed it once I sure what stats I should raise next, right?"
"For now yes. Now let see what are my potential skills are and goes straight home after I choose it. I don't want to hear my mom nag about how that we're not helping her preparing feast for dad."
- Sound Reverberation ( Int 10, Dex 7, Wis 5)
- Mental Assault (Int 12, Wis 8)
- Bow-mastery (Str 3, Dex 6, End 2)
- Puppet (RARE) (Dex 10 Int 8 Wis 5)
All of us are looking at my potential skill list and I can see a pity look from Kana and James holding his laugh not to hurt my feeling.
"Oh, you also got a rare skill. Are you going to take that?" Alice asked excitedly
"The only useful one you can take with your current stats are that rare puppet skill. Bow-mastery would be useless as you already have Instrument Mastery and on top of that I can't imagine someone in your state would shot an arrow then ran to another position. " James adding some salt to my wound
"Why does he have to move to another position after shooting an arrow? Can he just shoot one after another until the enemy died or something?" with a confused look kana look at me waiting for an explanation.
"Well usually in RPG games people that use bow and arrow are a scout and they would have to shoot an enemy vital point. The bow and arrow lack a power compared to other weapons so you have to position yourself to always aim at the enemy weak point. You can't expect the enemy would just stand there and let you shoot them right? So people who use bow and arrow have to continuously move to get a better position and stuff."
"Too bad it was a bow mastery if it was a gun mastery or something I would pick it so that I can have an offensive option but bow it just too complicated for me. And that puppet skill seems to fit me really well so I guess it's not that bad. Well here goes nothing I guess"
I use 2 of my free stats and raise my int to meet the requirement to learn puppet skill. I stopped for a second before learning the skill to ready myself to receive the dizziness that would come along with it but it never came. I got all the information about the skill in only 5 seconds, not even a bit nauseousness or dizziness coming my way. I'm all guchi and ready to go.
"It finishes already? How come there's no nauseousness that both of you talk about when learning the skill?"
"Is it because of rare skill? But I learn a very rare one and not only I get a headache. It also took me longer than Kana"
"Maybe it's different each skill depends on how complex the information that the skill has. For example, if we follow game concept as we have so far, Kana's Heal must have a little bit magic concept that doesn't belong in the norm in it so I assume it has to be a little complex. As for Alice her skill also have a concept that doesn't belong in the norm if the skill name suggests as it was."
"Yeah, my skill have knowledge on how to control life essence to help me heal people and some stuff like that. What information do you learn from that skill of yours? Can you make a puppet or something and use it to fight?"
"No, I only learn about basic control of the puppet and how to improve my puppet. It said that the puppet is alive and I can summon them went I want to. It has its own stats and it can grow stronger and can level up together with the owner. It feels more like a pet rather than a puppet and It said here in my skill tab I get a snake as a puppet."
"SNAKE????!!!!!"Both girls scream at the same time causing Kana's mom taken aback
"What happened? Why are you girls screaming? Is anybody hurt?"
I scratch my head while James explaining what happened and he even goes further and tells her all about the experiment. She takes all the information and sighs her relief at the end of it. From her reaction, I take as she knew about the experiment but she doesn't know the details about it. She holds Kana's hand and asks her a lot of questions about her experience. We end up spending half an hour chatting with Kana's mom and told her all about our experience. I asked her about what does she know about the experiment because she seems not so surprised about this and she said that she'll explain it tomorrow after my father coming back. I look at the clock and decided it was time to go home.
"Wait aren't you going to show us the snake that you got?"
"You want to see it? I thought you're scared of it"
"I'm not scared of it but the thought of it give me a bit of a creep."
"Sure I'll summon it I guess."
I make a hand gesture and a white snake about 1 meter long appear coiling in my hand with its head on my shoulder. She appears to be asleep and when I successfully summon her. A new notification appears on my comlink and I look at my comlink and see my status tab appear to be highlighted. I open the tab while everyone still focusing on the snake that suddenly appears on my hand. Alice is hiding behind James and only her head can be seen, Kana is holding her mom hand with both of her hands, James look at the snake curiously and I can tell that he wants to poke it but because of Alice holding him back he can't do it, Katherine (Kana's Mom) observe the snake but didn't seem surprised about it.
Name: Albert Ward(UNDETERMINED)
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Level: 1
Class: Minstrel ( +2 Dex, +1 Int, 2 Free)
Traits: Sound Comand
HP:41/70
MP:100/100
Stamina:45/45
Weight Limit: 1
Str 1
Vit 8
End 2
Dex 10
Int 8
Wis 8
Free Point: 0
Skills:
-Instrument Mastery(0%)
-Puppet(Snake) (0%)
Name: -
Age: 0
Gender: Female
Race: Snake
Level: 1
Affinity: 0
Class: Puppet ( 5 Free)
Traits: Devour
HP:85/85
MP:45/45
Stamina:70/70
Weight Limit: 1
Str 7
Vit 6
End 5
Dex 9
Int 6
Wis 3
Free Point: 5
Skills:
-
-
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