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Chapter 13
Murkuro and Kain stood before Nagato, waiting for him to finish the work he was currently on. As he did so, he spoke. "What can I help you two with today?"
"Murkuro has something to show you, and then we wanted to ask how it can affect the clan," Kain replied, gesturing to Murkuro.
Murkuro made sure that he wasn't near anything flammable before summoning flames across his fingertips.
"Interesting, when did you start studying that, Murkuro?" asked Nagato.
"Today, thanks to our very own member, The Gamer," Murkuro replied, grinning.
Noticing the confused look on Nagato's face, Kain elaborated. "We were training, so Murkuro was in my party. I handed him a skill book to study later on since he wanted to learn fire, but my ability kind of expanded to him. Since he was in my party, he was able to treat it like a skill book and learn it immediately."
Understanding dawned on Nagato's face. "So you want to know how you can help the clan by making everybody stronger?"
"Yes," Kain said, excited.
"Okay, this is an extremely large discovery. I'll call a meeting really quickly, come with me."
Within minutes, Nagato had managed to get every member on the property to surround the building they were previously in. The three of them stood on top of the building.
"I bet you're all wondering why I summoned you here. While most of you know, we recently added a new member to our clan, one who had a Shinin rank ability. That member is this young man next to me, Kain Rockbear." Nagato gestured to Kain, who felt awkward being in the center of attention. "He recently discovered something special about his ability. He knew that by buying books that contained spells or techniques, he could learn those techniques immediately by touching them. Some of us have noticed this ourselves." He nodded towards Mira.
"So that's what happened to my book..." Gun muttered under his breath, but still noticed by Kain, who lightly smirked.
"Today, he discovered with another member of our clan, Murkuro, that this ability could be expanded to others. Murkuro, who had no knowledge of how to manipulate fire, took one of Kain's skill books with the intention of learning it the normal way, and he was suddenly prompted to learn the skill." To demonstrate, Murkuro brought fire around his hand.
"Kain wants to help his clan. So I've decided that today will be the first show of that. You all know the website for the Abyss Auction. Some of you are currently studying books right now. You all have one hour to return with skill books. If you do so, Kain will add you to his party, giving you the ability to learn them immediately. This is a very rare opportunity, so bring a lot. The hour starts...now!" Nagato gestured for everyone to be dismissed.
Upon hearing that, the crowd immediately dispersed. Those who had the Abyss Auction app on their phone simply pulled out their phone and typed quickly.
"So I guess we just stand around for an hour and when people come up to me, I add them to my party?" Kain said.
"That's the plan. I might as well participate, too." Nagato winked and suddenly disappeared.
Within the next twenty minutes, a line had started to form. Kain quickly looked at their name and invited them to his party, and then he dismissed them. They would go off to a corner and start pulling out books, learning as much as they could. Nagato was in the line himself, with only a single book. When he got to the front of the line, he spoke to Kain. "I've been trying to learn this skill for years, so this ability really is a blessing to me. Thank you, Kain. You're helping the whole clan grow."
Embarrassed, Kain just nodded. Murkuro was in the line as well, and he held three books. "What do you got, Murkuro?" asked Kain.
"Well, I remember asking you to eventually teach me that Crimson Rain Martial Arts Technique," Murkuro replied, winking. "So I figured I should learn those three martial arts that make it."
Kain grinned at that and quickly invited him. Roughly an hour later, everyone was finally in his party. Kain lied down. "That was kind of tiring."
New Title Discovered: Army Man
Conditions: Have over 50 people in a party at once
Grants: 10% Boost to Exp while in a party
"Oh, that's nice! I'll have to equip that next time I train with Murkuro."
After about fifteen more minutes had passed, everyone had finished learning their books. A few people had been disappointed on several of them, discovering that they had not had the stats to learn the skill immediately. Overall, however, everyone had gained a lot of new skills.
"I'll call you all again when we decide to do it next time, but don't rely on it!" Nagato addressed the crowd of members. "You're all dismissed."
Kain ended the party. "Okay, it's time to get back to my training for the day."
"I'll come with you." Murkuro walked up to him. "I'll have to train these new martial arts a bit, plus I still have to work with my fire techniques."
"Sure," Kain smiled. "Let's go then." They walked off to return to the area they were at. Kain summoned a 3x time barrier and then summoned an Ogre ID. "We'll raise the difficulty a bit."
Before fighting, Kain equipped the new title he got. Then, they tried out their new skills. Kain continued to test his gravity technique. It had a similar effect on the ogres. They were heavier, so the effect was greater on them. However, they usually didn't die immediately from it.
Kain wanted to expand on the uses for his gravity. "Maybe I can change it the other way, so there's less gravity." He started focusing across his body and his body alone. He changed the gravity affecting his body to near nothing. He jumped up, and his body kept going up for a long time before Kain recognized the danger and released the spell. He quickly fell back down.
Weight Manipulation (Active) Lv 1
Changes weight of the user's body according to what the user wishes using gravity.
"Wouldn't I be able to use that for training, too?" Kain thought. He slowly added weight to his body, nearly tripling what it was before. He walked around for a bit. "Oh, I definitely could train my strength with this." Kain grinned.
Then a thought came into his mind. He had an affinity with wind as well. If he lowered his weight considerably, couldn't he...fly? Kain made his weight one-tenth of what it was before. He would have to focus on using the wind to carry him. By jumping, he has no control, since the difference in weight. He began to control the air around him. He slowly was able to lift himself up. "Okay, now let's try moving around." He began pushing the air around him so he could travel in directions of his choice.
Flight (Active) Lv 1
Using Weight Manipulation and wind affinity, The Gamer created a flight technique
It was slow at first, but after it had leveled up several times, it had grown easier. It was hard on his mana at first, but soon it was just a slight burden.
"Now let's use it in combat!" Kain flew towards an ogre. He flew right above it. It didn't notice him. He angled himself down and changed the weight manipulation to x10 weight. He flew down at an incredible speed. Upon impact, he destroyed the ogre instantly, going straight through it.
"Damn, you just keep thinking up new things, don't you?" yelled out Murkuro, who had been practicing the technique Kain had made earlier, Fire Fist.
"You've made a few things yourself, I noticed that big wall of flame you made," remarked Kain. Murkuro had been getting really proficient in using fire. Kain could probably do it, too, but he was focusing more on the gravity power at the moment.
"You know, your ability really is amazing. Our clan is gonna have to keep secret that you can teach others abilities immediately. You'd be in more trouble than you are now." Murkuro grimaced at that. "We obviously don't want that."
"At least I stand a better chance than I used to," replied Kain, who was flying not far away from Murkuro. "There's really no point stressing about it. If it happens, there's not much we can do to prevent it. I'll just have to get strong enough to hold my own against the hunters."
"I'll be right there to back you up," Murkuro stated, bringing out fire onto his hand, his aura growing around him.
"I'm glad you will," Kain said, grinning. "Let's train a bit longer."
Kain and Murkuro both leveled up once and Kain was able to level up his gravity techniques and flight quite a bit. Near the end of his training, he got another notification.
Gravitational Affinity has raised to 2
"Oh, I didn't know my affinities had a number, too. I guess it makes sense, though." Kain decided to see if it had affected his Gravity Field at all. He flew over to a stray ogre, one of the few that were remaining. As soon as he activated the technique, the ogre was destroyed by the pressure. "Oh," Kain stated simply. "That definitely got stronger."
They left the illusion barriers for the day. Kain and Murkuro said their good byes for the day, and Kain decided to spend the rest of the day with Mira, creating potions. He was able to raise his crafting some more, and he was able to make some basic healing potions as well.
Before he fell asleep for the day, he got a text from his mom saying that his dad was coming home tomorrow, so Kain should try to be there to greet him. Kain smiled, he hadn't seen his dad in forever. He was a serious guy usually, but he noticeably cared about their family.
The Next Day
Kain had walked home after saying good bye to Murkuro and Nagato, saying he'd be back as soon as he could. When he reached home, he saw his mom waiting outside. "Waiting for dad, mom?"
"You know it, honey. I haven't seen him just as long as you haven't. I can't wait," she smiled to him. "Wanna sit with me?"
"Sure," Kain replied. He sat down in a nearby chair. "So how has your week been?"
"Oh, same old, same old. I just worked and then I hung out with some of the girls. How was your week with Murkuro?"
"Pretty good. We mostly just stayed around his property," Kain said with a slight smile on his face.
"Well, you seem a bunch better than you did not long ago." A couple seconds passed and then his mom spoke again. "Find a girlfriend yet?"
"What?" Kain said, surprised. "No."
"And why not? I'm sure if you tried hard enough you could get yourself a cute one. You're a nice guy."
"Quit it, mom," Kain said, embarrassed.
"I'm just teasing," his mom said, laughing lightly. "Oh, he's here!"
Sure enough, when she said that, a car was pulling in. They both ran up to it, excited to see Kain's father. The door opened up slowly, and inside Kain could hear his voice. "Honey, I'm home," his dad said in a joking manner. A second later, he was visible. He was immediately tackled into a hug by Kain's mom. "Guessing you missed me, huh?" He kissed the top of her head. "Where's Kain at?" He didn't get a response from anyone, so he just glanced around until he saw his son. "Hey, how have you been?"
"G...good." Kain said slowly. He was having trouble getting words out, but it wasn't because of his dad finally returning. Looking upwards, he saw something above his father's head.
Himamura Rockbear Lv ?
The Illusionist of the Abyss
The Gamer of Crimson Rain
Kain Rockbear Lv 32 Exp 0.88%
Health: 1700/1700 (+340/340)
Mana: 1190/1190 (+59/59)
Vit: 50 + 26% + 38%
Str: 65 + 26% + 38%
Dex: 50 + 26% + 38% + 21% + 12%
Int: 64 + 26%
Wis: 31 + 26% + 6%
Luk: 22
Points: 30
Money: 6,983,500 Won