Chapter 69: Weakness Perception Part 1

A/N: For those who keep on saying that the novel seems to be missing chapters, please read mg author's note at the end of every chapter. I already announced it many times. If the chapter doesn't connect to the next chap, then that means you have arrived in the latest revised chapter. Please read the author's note guys.

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The sun has completely hidden on the horizon and the night sky accompanied by the darkness envelopes the whole place. On our side, the light coming from the bonfire keeps the darkness from completely invading our visions.

The girl who is still tied up already stopped struggling. She must be tired of trying to take the bindings off on her body which seems to be not giving her a chance to do so. She is just behaving right now and I already know that she is already tired of struggling.

Meanwhile, since I have to keep my eyes on the hostage, I don't want to sleep tonight so I decided to check the chat group. As usual, the banter around the channel is chaotic. But I noticed a few pings in my messages. Since having a ping in this chat group means someone mentioned your name or your username, I decided to search for it. Since this chat group did not implement the @everyone command, it was quite straightforward if you get pings. It's either you are being mentioned on the chat or someone seems to be trying to get you to respond immediately.

When I searched it, it was all the messages of Titan, Godou's account.

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Titan: Kazuma! We have gone up ahead because we are not able to bring you with us. We are sorry about this.

Titan: You fine now Kazuma? I heard that there is a second batch on the trainees. Maybe you should join them. But I think you need to form a team.

Titan: Be careful on the side you will be teleporting with. Beasts are much more hostile than the enemies we are facing right now. Don't be hasty with your decisions and keep a cool head.

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All of his messages are about the dangers and how I should do this and that. I appreciate the concern but I think I get the gist of this place. However, he was indeed right when he said that the monsters are all dangerous. There are many of them that I can't beat up using my magic skills alone. Beating them up with bare hands takes a long time to finish and it will guarantee a kill if I combine them together with my familiars.

I really need to deal with them and my solution is decided. Learn magic.

"Blue, I need a good magic skill that would be helpful to me in surviving this forest. It seems like I won't be able to fend off enemies with just these abilities of mine."

"I keep on telling you that I am not an AI like SIRI! I am the proud soul of this app! I am not solely the one who needs to do that job! You can do it by yourself!" Blue protested.

"I am a busy man and I am always full of things to do. On top of that, I don't think you are busy, in fact, you are very idle. That means you are perfect for the job!" I reasoned.

"Oh? I see so that is how you see me. Indeed, I am the perfect candidate for the job-- not! Do you take me for a fool?! I am a soul! Not an AI, can't you understand the word?! The spelling is already different and you still can't differentiate me to them?! This is outrageous!"

"Just do it, you will have a better use if you become one."

"F*ck you…" Blue said before the channel for the magic skills appeared on the screen. I grinned on this one because Blue is always something that gets pissed easily despite being an AI though I am starting to doubt that she is an AI. She is too intelligent for that…

"I am intelligent and don't compare me to AI programs because I am not designed and made for this kind of madness! Also, you should have known that I can read your mind! So don't start mumbling like that like you are retelling some stories!"

Damn, I forgot that Blue can read my mind. I can't believe she has a function like this. Oh well, I have to do something to avoid me falling asleep while keeping that tied up girl on guard against monsters lurking in the dark.

I browsed around when I saw one magic skill that was just posted a while ago or more specifically, just a minute ago. Also, it seems like it is not a skill, it is like a passive one and in need to awaken it to fully utilize the skill.

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"Weakness Perception

A passive ability that can perceive the weakness of the target. Depending on the mastery of the user, the weakness displayed will vary and the lesser your mastery, the weaker version of the weakness will be displayed while the better version will be activated if you are well versed and good at using this one. Just like other spells, it varies whether you can awaken the skill or not.

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There are other skills that look interesting too that are being posted by the same user which is named "The Oracle". The spells that are being posted almost came from this user. Maybe he or she is the one who gets to have priority to use this channel and give out spells?

The new ones are all elementals and one is nature control. But the Weakness Perception really hit me with curiosity. This is a unique and good skill. Being able to learn the weakness of the enemy is something that will be useful especially if you are in a foreign land where danger and enemies lurk on every corner. Having at least this kind of ability can guarantee you to fight back.

I was about to try the procedure when the girl that I tied up earlier looked at me with curiosity.

"What are you looking at?" I asked the girl.

"Are you trying to learn a magic skill?"

"Ah yeah. If I want to survive the wilderness, I have to get new skills. Also, this is a method to quickly get me to earn skills as fast as I can. With not so many disturbance around, this is the perfect time to binge learn the skills."

"Are you insane? Did you know that skills can be easily learned for consuming Skill Genomes rather than manually learning which can take you to 1 month to years!"

[ol][li data-annotation-id="eafd7fac-ca81-5bc3-e506-d83071cff7a6"]This is inspired from Ryougi Shiki's ability in Kara No Kyoukai which is Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. To those who are interested, it was an anime series named Kara no Kyoukai: Garden of Sinners[/ol]