Strange skill

Strange skill

'I was already going to explore the place anyways but now I am even getting paid to do it? Fuck yeah!' I did a little celebration as I thought this much to Gaia's amusement. "Alright Gaia lets head back to the cave at the bottom of the mountain for the night , I want to be rested up for when we head in here tomorrow." I said and she nodded in agreement. As we headed down the mountain I couldn't help but fantasize about what sort of goodies I might find in that cave. Evolution stones , legendary pokemon fossils , you name it and it was all a possibility.-Fôll0w current novÊls on n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(co/m)

Obviously I was aware that I wasn't likely to randomly discover actually valuable stuff like a legendary fossil but I could hope damnit. Once back at the cave we currently lived in I had to collect some more dry sticks and pine needles for the fire. I even had Gaia bust up a nearby fallen tree into small logs and stored them near the back of the cave to dry out in the heat of the fire. While I was at it I also collected some pine sap crystals to make a torch because unlike how they were shown in the game most caves were dark as hell.-

Gaia went out to hunt for tonight's dinner while I winged it and tried to grind out a bowl for my sap crystals. The only reason I even knew about how flammable this stuff was was because a couple years back I had this obsession about forest fires and this fact stuck with me. I wasn't a pyro or anything but I was simply curious why everyone always made a big deal about them and kinda got engrossed in the information I found.-

Anyways long story short I learned that pine resin which is basically crystalized sap was flammable as all hell and if melted down could be used to make a torch. The tick was to melt it with exposing it to fire or you would only have a bunch of burning resin. I basically found a decent size rock near the cave(there is a lot of them) and started to hit it with another rock until it split down the middle. Once that was done I had two nice semi spheres that I agonizingly ground another rock against to hollow out into a rough bowl.-

While waiting for the food to cook I took out my other two rewards from the completed quest and tore the skill ticket immediately. I watched as the wheel of skills spun round and round for about a minute before slowing down and stopping on a skill I wasn't familiar with , aura. (A/N:I shit you not this was what the randomizer wheel landed on.) I closed my eyes as a massive amount of foreign and strange information on the subject entered my head.-

What I learned stunned and confused me greatly all things considered. See according to this new information aura was the sort of vital force/spiritual energy of a living thing. It was esoteric as fuck to say the least but apparently with the right mindset , training and techniques it was possible for literally any living thing to tap into and manipulate their aura. The aura skill I just got was basically a training guide to mastering this energy which gives some frankly broken abilities in my opinion. For example if you have enough aura and skill it's possible for a human like me to directly fight a pokemon , moves and all.-

The full list of things a master of the skill was capable of included reading the intentions and actions of others ,the ability to sense of auras and ones surroundings even with a blindfold on , projection of ones aura in a barrier , attack or transfer it to others which can be fatal if pushed too far. Literal telepathy , seeing and speaking to the dead , and if one has enough mastery and volume of aura even using pokemon moves. As I said this skill is seriously busted when mastered unfortunately the information I received said I was lucky to even be able to sense or project a tiny amount of aura after training for a month.-

Any faster than that and I was either really talented at it or was naturally born with a large amount of aura which apparently massively helps at the start of the skill. Helpless that I had yet another skill that I couldn't really use at the moment I went back to focusing on the food. Not going to lie the aroma coming off these birds was making me drool a little and Gaia was glaring at them as if willing them to cook faster.