Chapter 1664 Menaka's Mesh & Skills

Chapter 1664 Menaka's Mesh & Skills

"What is your name?"

Asked Clauria while maintaining her distance from the man with broken Labhi. By this point, the demonic circle had vanished into thin air, leaving the abandoned city square to assume its former desolation.

Of course, it was desolated if one could ignore the fact that it was hosting a bunch of witches and demonic beings surrounding a seemingly foreign man.

"Eren," the man gave his name without any fear or trepidation. It was odd that the man who did not even have Menaka's Blessing on him to be this calm. "My name is Eren Elijah Idril," the man said while looking around him, observing the stances of people who had him pinned to his position.

'I was hoping for a peaceful landing. But I guess, like always, luck isn't on my side,' Eren sighed internally and thought to himself as he looked at the people surrounding him.n./O(-v-/e()L..b-/I/.n

[ Skill: Truth Seeker ]

All of a sudden, Eren's body was coated in an ethereal energy. It seeped into his body and even tried to touch his soul, which was a kind of intrusion he evaded successfully using his Spiritual Force.

'So these are the skills from Labh Salem,' Eren thought to himself as he concluded. 'They are quite different from spells I'm used to casting in Anfang,' the butcher concluded as he let someone's skill do an initial inspection on him and what he had just said.

Eren had collected a lot of information about Labh Salem from Hettie, Eliza, Layla, and Leela. It was them who had told them that the way people in Labh Salem used magic was quite different from the practices of Anfang.

Eren had then asked the witches about the common Skills and how they worked in Labh Salem. Truth Seeker was one of the most fundamental Skills found in Labh Salem. From the looks of it, things hadn't changed much when it came to these fundamentals.

This was the term the denizens of Labh Salem used to describe this intangible web. Skills were a shortcut to casting magic. A shortcut that was exclusive to the worlds that were covered with Menaka's Mesh.

The Skill use was instantaneous and its effects were very potent when compared against what Eren would get by casting spells in Labh Salem. The Skills themselves were near limitless in numbers with a myriad of effects, allowing the denizens of Labh Salem to wield magic as freely as they wished.

Thanks to his interrogation and data collection, Eren knew that Skills worked a lot like Abilities back in Anfang. After all, Skills and Abilities didn't have casting time lag or incantation requirement. Both of them were very easy to cast and used a minimal amount of mana.

However, unlike the case with Rankers with their Abilities, the denizens of Labh Salem didn't have to work hard or achieve a profound level of mastery in their respective fields to obtain Skills.

One could technically get as many Skills as they want through a special medium known as Menaka's Blessing. Of course, they also needed to pay using special means to get those Skills.

Eren had to say that Skills had a definitive advantage over spells because of the restrictions in spellcasting he felt. He felt that his A-Rank mana core would have to face some stress just for him to cast a simple and non-threatening Fireball.

'All the spells I learned in Anfang are useless now. All my hard work in learning them. All the time spent in honing them. All my Elemental Attainments. They are all useless.

People in Anfang were happy with casting spells using their free will and based on their own efforts. They never adopted this approach. And I guess now I have to pay the price for that.'

Eren clicked his tongue and thought to himself. He felt that someone had robbed him of his major advantages he had over the others.

'Thankfully, the Abilities are still working more or less in the same manner,'

The butcher thought to himself and smiled as he looked at a tiny green flame dancing over the tip of his index finger. He felt relieved when his Abilities weren't affected by Menaka's Mesh for the most part.