《to reach the pinnacle: Etheria》Chapter 50; school days, I guess.
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Name: Able Drake STR: 9 INT: 20 Race: Homeo-sapien AGI: 5 CHA: 10 Contracts: *Erebus* *Bob* *Essence harvester* VIT: 5 LCK: 21 Hp 350/350 .5/s END: 7 Skill point(s) : 0 Mp 400/400 1.7/s WIS: 17 Essence: 60275
Skills: Inspect E lvl 5 72%/100%. Begginer QCQ E lvl 6 32%/100% - Novice Golaith style C lvl 4 88%/100%. Drake training B+ lvl 4 37%/100%. Inspector's record E lvl 1 73%/100%. Mana architect S- lvl 1 23%/100%. Arcane Throwing B lvl 9 23%/100%. Arcane dual-swordmanship B+ lvl 5 45%/100% - Gliding arcana B lvl 10 78%/100% - Arcane smite B lvl 4 42%/100%. Arcane butchering C lvl 5 38%/100%. Talented blacksmithing C lvl 9 48%/100%. Talented carpentry C lvl 5 99%/100%. Primitive Mana bolt B lvl 7 32%/100%. Basic Pottery lvl 7 29%/100%. Basic dagger mastery E lvl 7 29%/100%. Charging arcane archery B+ lvl 6 35%/100%. Oculltism A+ lvl 4 53%/100%. Darkness theory EX lvl 1 2%/100%. Slave appraisal C+ lvl 6 25%/100%. Rudimentary teaching E lvl 2 39%/100%. Rudimentary learning E+ lvl 4 37%/100%.
I hate magic circles without knowledge about how they work, I hate them so much, so much.
I think Isla, I mean Luna had done the thing I told her too... I think. I was too busy thinking about magic circles to listen to her properly, though I made sure she understood that she needed to refer to herself as 'Luna' instead of 'Isla'. I then ignored her existance, then told her to not tell anyone about my magic circle transgressions and war crimes, if I ever had any, also not talking about magic circles.
I don't know how much time passed, I don't, I really don't. I just know the sun was up and I needed sleep urgently, I would do it in the carraige.
And that is what I did, a nice sleep without nightmares, I guess. I could do it pretty much daily, also, I got my hands on the water!
Mana infused water;
Water infused with mana that is dirrectionless, with some sort of body or skill you could absorb the mana. But without it you'd be lucky to even feel it after ingestion.
For me it's a mana potion, a bad one. Ten mp per small bottle, I used glass with the great technique of 'Give me glass bottles loser'. It wasn't the average 'round bottle' potion thing, it was the more unique 'Cube on it's pointy end' potion bottle. Pretty easy to understand, right? No? I don't care. Still it is also a health potion, I think?
I had a nice rest and did nothing of importance, except mana stuff. I finnally re-engaged in on old poject; 'Muscle strengthening', no clue what I called it before, maybe 'Mana enchancement' Mana can also be muscle, but I don't really care.
I also really liked this carraige since it took a lot longer to arrive it had space shit on it, bigger on the inside, just like my room. I'll get rid of all the extra shit plastered on and make a beautiful normal carraige made with a few golden flurishes for elitism, since I still need to flex on the poor for noble honor.
After my examinations of evil I heard the clashing of swords after my carraige stopped, time to act like a true heir. I put on new clothes, and got all my weapons on my belt.
I kicked open the carraige door and jumped off the leveraged floor I stood on, I looked around. there were two other carraiges behind mine, I quickly asked Erebus {What was the gender of the two other people in carraiges?}
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[Female.] The tracking expert Erebus said, I looked inbetween them and saw the two forces around the carraiges fighting. I frowned and got angry, I walked to the fight in progress and kicked one of the soldiers in the stomache and in the 'private' area simultaniously while jumping. If I used my CQC skill I'd have them killed in seconds, I notice now that I'm way stronger than I should. I also now notice that I'm larger than other children my age, not in the fat way, no, just larger, it's as if I was 8 instead of 7, weird. I'm a seven year old that has had their size increased to that of a eight year old.
I remember only being above average in this aspect a week ago, what new have I done? Mana stones, or constant dreaming. I can't be having a growth spurt already, right? That'd be a bit too pronouced
"I don't habe the patience to listen to your reasons, I was just asleep, and now you people woke me up. Shut up or I will break your legs, ok? If not then let my snap you neck too! Just do your dumb compitition quietly, or else both of you will both die." I said frustrated at this shit, I then smiled "I'm the judge and the jury! Guess I should also be the executioner too, don't you agree?"
I picked up the two bodyguards I abused and put them down together, I took out my sword and infused arcana. I sliced down and killed both, when I saw my essence stores go up I nodded to myself and re-entered my carraige. Nice and relaxing quiet, my carraige was pulled and driven by a clan member that understood the sentence 'Strike while the iron is hot.', pushing up my prestige to a higher level in the eyes of all that was involved in that interaction. Not like I had prestige beyond 'The grand duke's heir.', so I had to build a personal prestige.
It was good they shut up from it too, I relaxed and got nice and comfy. Of course I made a few lights and saw what happens, no infrasound since I need to keep myself in top evil condition. Then I entered the mansion reserved for me, it had some space shit goin' on, but not as extreme as da real home of mine. There were a bunch of of servants around, I dissmissed them right away the moment I fell into magic circle hell inside of my carraige and backyard. The carraige had become my work shop since I could lock it and if one destroys it from outside everything inside would be crunched up, including the evidence.
There were more than a hundred failsafes in case a human was inside though, so I didn't need to be too scared while inside. But I'd still rather not stay inside it for too long, so it's my workshop from now on. I was acceptant of the standards of living and had nice magic circle nightmares while awake, I also made a few less 'excited' explosives, now you actually needs to break the bottle to have some 'randomly generated art', I even inspected it!
Unstable mana water;
Water infused with water in a chaotic manner from many different sources, causing high reactivity to all stimuli in an explosive way.
Pretty impessive if I say so myself, and I do. I'm calling it 'water bomb', my naming sense is perfect! I'm going to (ab)use this so much! Such value! Such cheapness!
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I had a nice rest for the night, then walked around for an hour in interest for the capital.
There was the cathedral, where I had the ritual. Pretty fun, I didn't like the saintess, she was a total attention whore. The moment I showed her no interest her entire way of speaking and tone changed in to a darker version of the original, I met her another time after that after my charisma stat had increased and she was nicer, superficial dog shit, no, Chihuahua shit. Stuff's worse than normal dog shit if I do say so myself, which again, I do.
But superficial people are nice, since you easily know how to please them and manipulate them. So I'm obviously going to make friends with the saintess with a few empty compliments, her unable to discern the my lies from the tone of a moral lesson, yes. I am going to talk about her beauty as if it was a moral duty to appreciate it.
As I did, I walked inside and walked to the saintess just sitting there with a servant. It's literally all most of her job, she's like the face of the church hiding the bad shit. So she needs to do some work as a 'front priest', the people with actual morals. She doesn't have these morals naturally, but she fakes it for beauty.
I gave her a 'tithe', for the 'sins' I've commited that I may not know about. Then made some small talk, which is weird since I'm 7. She even talked to me seriously, maybe she has a thing for small children? No, she only to began to talk like talking to a teenager instead of a todler was when I complimented her beauty. She has no problem doing it with younger people as long as they compliment her, go to know, good to know if I ever choose to get another identity. Maybe a few drops of my maturity that I find to annoying to hide caused a bit of it too, not that it really mattered.
I had a nice conversation with that saintess, don't know her name, something like Aria maybe? I'll find out if I ever need her for something more than just not having her fuck with me, not drawing her ire is enough for me. That's what the 'tithe' was for, bribing her out of her anger at me not finding her attractive. Bribery, the premier way to solve social tensions! I wonder why I haven't gotten a skill for it yet, is it something about morality? Probably not, 'pick pocketing' is a skill, maybe its since I do it as if a way of life?
That is pretty probable, free time and something I don't want or need? Bribe someone who would give the most benifit for this object, this is my most probable course of action. I pondered on my life and heritage of bribery, I remember my dad bribing people to get some leeway from child protective services after I reported him for abuse, and he did it so naturally as if he did it on a daily basis. Huh? I guess bribery isn't common at all, weird. I've done it since I was 10, I... Had a tragic childhood, didn't I?
-'Bribery' E has been obtained!
-'Bribery' E has evolved due to special circumstances by being seen as a nothing 'skill worthy' for an entire life time into 'Naturalistic bribery' D
-'Naturalistic bribery' D has evolved due to special circumstances by having contact, communicating and involving yourself with the dark side of society into 'Underworld etiquette' C
Eh? There are even more notifications? I guess I'm just that talented, naa. but Why am I so used to this? Oh yeah, the weird dreams!
-'Underworld etiquette' C has evolved due to special circumstances by having bribery be a lifestyle into 'Dark civility' B
-'Dark civility' B has evolved due to special circumstances by bribing and walking the path of the dark civilian in high society without getting caught even once for decades into 'True high society' A+
-'True high society' A+ has been downgraded due to not being of sufficient age into 'Child in true high society' A+ -Error
-Error
-Met conditions for the skill 'Old devil in true high society' A+ XVII by being 80+ years old, mastering 'True high society', and partaking in 'True high society' for multiple decades.
-Age; 7&1/2, but also; 94&5/8
-Proccessing...
-'Child in true high society' A+ has been dictated to change into 'Child prodegy in true high society' S-.
Heh... Heheh.... Hehehehehehhahahaha! It's beautiful! Past life exploitation is so nice, it's a shame that the other me in that hero summoning couldn't recieve these juicy benifits! Mhahahahaha! Though there aren't any bonuses, it's predestined that I gain them. But what's a dark civilian? I came about from bribery, so doing something illegal while still being seen as a legal citizen? Maybe it's doing things that technically aren't allowed but them not being bad enough for the government to do anything, because influence and money are a thing. Let's not ponder on these things.
The first day of school... It was easy, just walk around calmly and don't be a total asshole too my 'talented noble class'. It was called 'Class-S' in accordance with the framework's ways, apparently anyone could get into it, but that is pretty much bullshit. Though getting into it from commoner status through extreme talent is a real 'Otome' thing to do, though there wasn't any commoner in the class. Since otome central chose to have the talent lash out in her teens, I think. That lackey wasn't really interested in the royal academy's drama, what's a commoner got to do with a mob boss?
All the basic nessecities of etiquette like not shaming someone's family if they're not 3 official ranks of nobility below me, not shaming one's ancestors if they're a noble. Most importantly, no having someone under your skin without a lot of build up, no murder, no talking down to people of the earl and duke rank. My official rank is 'Duke', but I'm really a level higher than a duke as a 'Grand duke'. Which let's me be a bad person without almost any repercussions, in any territory. Though I have to be a 'above average person' towards the prince, which I spent a few bronze to a commoner student that was pretty high ranked to tell me about.
I seems the prince closest to me currently is two years above me, so I won't need to worry much about him. He's also known as a debaucher so bribery will work well, though how a nine year old is considered a debaucher is beyond me. So I asked about that, it seems he likes boobs a lot. Nothing like rape or the like, sexual shit ain't happenin' with this kid. He's too busy enjoying life to actually go to school, he already has a group of friends. And it seems he didn't care for the new generation of grand duke of spring, a few of the grand dukes have huge families like me, or small interconected ones like the snake one. There's one inbetween but that's the lion one, where the average 'Inner, outer family dynamic.'
It was a great first day, until a dumb little knight got some ideas "I challenge you to a duel!"
I continued walking as if I didn't hear it, I didn't believe someone was stupid enough to challenge me to a duel, on the first day no less. I had already gotten in contact with all the grand duke children, this voice didn't match any of them. It was also female, it was probably a duke child getting offended by a playboy grand duke "Hey! Don't run away from me!" Man that playboy must really not have a back bone.
Until a piece of filth dared to touch me on the shoulder, I right away turned around and put my hand on my sword. I looked at the girl "How dare you run away from a duel! You're a shame to nobility!"
I was highly offended, by her touching me with her filthy hands. You need to be a grand duke at the least to have any kind of touch on my body, even if seperated by cloth "Who are you?" I looked completely confused, then I seemed to get angry "What kind of idiot would issue a duel to someone that had done nothing?! I thought you were after some playboy grand duke as a duke! But appearantly a dumb little knight didn't know the difference between a grand duke and a regular noble, truely dumb. I'm not nobility! I'm on the line between royalty and nobility, I'm psuedo-royalty! Me a shame to nobility? Ha! Great joke! Maybe a noble should be saying that? At least a duke if you wish to do anything meaningful with those words."
I looked at her clothes, knight families have insignia on them at all times telling which child it is. She was full with red hair too, weird, but who cares? At least she was silent "Okay! You'll have your little duel, for a price! Bet something of worth to me, and I'll let you waste some of my time." She seemed to start talking back, but I interupted her gaining the upper ground "Yes! I know, I'm so benevolent! Anyone else would have you executed for even daring to compare yourself to them if they were in my position! Such a good person, I know! A mere fourth child knight daring to challenge the heir of a duke, a grand duke no less! To a duel! And that grand duke letting them live to tell the tale! Even I can't believe how benevolent I'm being right now!"
I turned around and walked a step, I turned around my rat "Now scurry away to your little hole, rat." I didn't like her, a stupid little child. Filth if you ask me, if she hasn't trained since birth or is far more talented than everybody else, she'd just break like a plastic toy without me perposely making sure not to kill her. And her red hair, I don't know much about the physique of it, but it was highly emotional for sure.
"I'll give you my body, no our bodies if you fight both of us!" I raise my eyebrow, two of these trash exist? They may have great talent I guess, I do have the need for some lackeys. I don't feel like fighting losers like this after this, a lackey or two would be great. I paused for a moment and looked at the red hair shit girl "Who's the other? I hope they aren't as trashy as you." Just make sure to diss the red head.
"I am, Able!" I turned my head and said with a monotone voice "Maybe you should tell me who you are? Sigh, I guess you too are born from the trash stream." I smiled to myself and wispered under my breath "Heh, a river might flow north for thirty years and then south once again for another few decades, don't look down on the poor young, poor adult, and poor senile. For one day karma will beat you dead cold."
This girl had dark blond hair, it seems to have some concept behind it since the eyes were a bit too light of a brown color "I am the daughter of the merchant guild's guild master, your father ruined us! You will pay the price!" Hmmm, vengeful, are we?
Let's diss for prestige "Eh, he did? He actually did that? Man, that's funny. My off-hand comment when I was younger made such an impact? How fragile, you aren't worthy of standing on top of the finacial world." I sneered at her, when standing on top of the financial world you must fight against the government for extreme profit, and be able to adapt and change to any ledgistrature at any moment. Trash, true trash. Not a trash stream ring expert honorer, but concentrated trash extract.
"Shut up, fight us now! I will have my revenge!" I don't even know their names, but their strength should be large enough for a lackey position. They should be happy, real happy that I didn't kill them.
"Yea, make sure to make an oath on that for me!" I said mockingly, the duo seemed enraged "Are you doubting our promise?!" I again gained a dull tone "Yes, why else would I ask for an oath? What are you? a trust worthy trash fragement? Don't think to highly of yourself."
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