C007 – Frederick

C007 – Frederick

[Ascension]

[Solstreus Magic Academy: Principal's Office]

In the principal's office, a man that looked like in his thirties sits in the sofa, holding an envelope in his hand.

Frederick Revior Erstalt, Human race, Lv8 Sage, the principal of Solstreus Magic Academy.

Even though he looked like he was in his thirties, his actual age was much older. This year, he had reached the age of 85, but thanks to absorbing the energy from Sage's Stone, his body was rejuvenated and his appearance changed to his current self.

; ; Name: Sage's Stone Type: Misc - Jobclass Promotion Item Rarity: Durability: 50/50 Crafter: Unknown Effect: Increases the lifespan of the one who absorbs the energy of this stone. (No effect for Players)

Unknown effect #1

Unknown effect #2

Jobclass Promotion Item: Sage

When absorbed by a Lv99 Scholar, promote the person's level and

Jobclass to Lv1 Sage.

Description: A mysterious stone contains tremendous life energy.

It's rumored that it can transmute matter into gold.

Not only that, his Jobclass had also advanced from Scholar to Sage.

"Yes, this is undoubtedly Mr. Dalmagna's handwriting."

After confirming the handwritten of his old friend, Frederick opened the envelope and took a letter out of it.

The letter itself looked like a piece of blank paper at first, but then, he used an unknown spell to the paper. But since the spell was performed without chant, there was no way of knowing what the spell itself was except for the caster.

This was due to his passive skill, Mind Chant, belonged only to Scholar and its advancement Jobclasses. It was a skill that allowed people to chant incantations mentally rather than verbally, thus rendering their opponent unaware of what type of spell had been cast.

; ; Skill Name: Mind Chant Requirements: Scholar, ??? Type: Passive Effect: Allows the user to perform the chanting process, as well as triggering the spell activation in the mind.

This skill did not affect the cast time of the spell.

Spells that was chanted non-verbally will have a penalty of higher MP consumption and reduced effect up to 50%.

Increasing the level of this skill will reduce the penalty by 5% per lvl.

Shortly after he cast the spell, the paper absorbed his mana and then, the mana formed into words in Neberl language, the unified language of the Human race in Ascension.

It turns out that the letter was actually a secret letter!

Frederick reads the letter in his hand with great interest.

'Hou, Skill Resonation...? Interesting.'

He put the letter out and then looked at the girl sitting in the other sofa in front of him.UppTodated from nô/v/e/lb(i)n.c(o)/m

This girl seemed to be asking the security guard about Frederick's information, saying that she had a letter to personally deliver to him. The security guard informed him with a communication artifact, and in return he ordered that the girl be ushered into this room.

Thus the current situation.

From what the secret letter says, it seems that this girl has accidentally found a new concept, called Skill Resonation.

No, calling it new would be incorrect, as this concept has existed in the past, especially in the era of the ancient Arcadia Empire. It's just that nobody bother to give it a definite name.

"Hecate, is it? Can you show me the skill information? The one called Mysticallurgy."

"...Okay."

He then asked the girl to show her the skill mentioned in the letter.

The girl, Hecate just simply nodded and showed him the skill information window.

; ; Skill Name: Mysticallurgy Requirements: Metallurgy + Magicallurgy Type: Passive Effect: Inherits Metallurgy and Magicallurgy effect.

Allows the user to process any mystical and magical object (< 7).

Allows the user to imbue the user's craft with magic.

Description: A skill developed by Archwitch Hecate by combining the skill Metallurgy and Magicallurgy.

The fusion of these two skills also grants other abilities to the user.

'Archwitch's Magicallurgy and Blacksmith's Metallurgy. Resonated and transformed into a brand new skill...'

Seeing the information window with his own eyes, Frederick was deep in thought.

"No, that's not it."

The tuition to study in this academy is about

90000 per month, and of course it is expensive from Natives' point of view.

This expensive tuition fee is due to offset the high cost of maintaining artifacts at the academy, as well as a watershed to monopolize knowledge from the commoners. After all, knowledge is more valuable when it is monopolized.

But it seems this amount is nothing in front of Players.

"Ah, I see! Speaking of Players, I noticed that most of you prefer dangerous exploration... ahem, I mean practical activities over studying in class. Do you know about Palama Labyrinth in the east district of this city?"

The Palama Labyrinth is actually the former residence of Palama Snorchilde, a mad Sage who lived about 300 years ago.

It was said that something went wrong during his experiments and caused a huge explosion that destroyed an area of about a 20km radius with over 10,000 fatalities. And the center of that explosion, his residence was transformed into a dungeon in that disaster.

A labyrinth-type dungeon filled with construct-type monsters that nobody was able to conquer yet.

"Well, of course. But I heard that to enter that labyrinth, a special permit is needed. Oh, I see..."

Hecate seemed to notice something and paused for a moment. Seeing her understanding expression, Frederick just let out a gentle smile. This girl is really smart and quick to understand.

"I think I can guess the direction of this conversation."

"Yes, it's precisely as you think. If you join our academy, you will also gain the permit to explore not only Palama Labyrinth, but every dungeon under the management of this empire. Now, are you interested?"

This time, Hecate didn't immediately refuse, but closed her eyes thought about it deeply.

After a few moments, she opened her eyes and said.

"Your offer is very attractive, Frederick principal. I'm very interested, but... I still had one more problem."

"Oh? Please say it."

"My nationality is in the Rosenheim Kingdom and I am already affiliated with one of the guilds there. I can't stay long because I only applied for a week's leave to deliver this letter. Once I finish my business here I plan to return to my guild."

"What?! Guild? So are you going to the battlefield?"

"Yes... So, once again, I'm sorry but I have to refuse this offer."

STAB!!

Once again, Frederick forgot that this girl was a Player. His sense of value as a Native cannot be applied to her.

Frederick realized that the guild Hecate was talking about wasn't the kind of guild like the Adventurer's Guild or Tailor's Guild, but a Player guild that wasn't too different from a bunch of suicide squads. They were actively entering monster nests, reclaiming land, and conquering dungeons without regard for their safety.

Usually girls her age(?) should still play and learn happily with her friends, growing up steadily in a safe environment, away from battlefields or other life-threatening situations. But she was a Player, the resident of a higher world who possessed immortality, she doesn't need such things. The danger in the eyes of the Natives was no danger in her eyes.

However, Frederick didn't want to give up recruiting her, especially since he saw a clue towards the truth on her.

"In that case, it would be simple."

Although this looked a bit forced, he could only raise the benefits again.

Legend = Native's term for any existence who has reached Lv100 Tier-3 (Players never use this term).

Skill Resonation(?)

Natives didn't know about the existence of Skill Assimilation Orb.

Glory Points Exchange is accessible to Natives, but no Native has managed to collect 1000 Glory Points.

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