《Seed of evolution》 Prologue: an history lesson In a classroom, the history teacher is teaching: During the year 2025 of the previous era, an unprecedented energy crisis happened. Despite the news energy sources, the use of petroleum and its derived products spiked during the preceding few years resulting in the drying of all known oil pits the year before. During that time when a single liter of fuel was more expensive than a private jet, an earthquake unveiled an unprecedented big oil depots in the center of Siberia. Despite long negotiations, during which some countries wanted to buy the fuel and others wanting to have the precious liquid made as a public property, in the end, all negotiations broke down and the Third World War began. After three months of war, of the three most powerful countries of that time who were the USA, the European Union and China, the USA, who was know as both the most powerful and the most oil dependent, retired from the war supposedly due to not having anymore fuel to supply its army, leaving the two other factions fighting each other but in fact planned to re-enter the battle when both sides tired each other. But unfortunately for it, the European Union found his plan and decided to ally himself with China to destroy the schemer first. After five full years of war, the USA surrendered but China discovered that it didn¡¯t have anymore fuel to fight the European Union. And was such forced unto an unfair treaty with the European Union. During the 20 years of quasi monopoly of the world¡¯s fuel, the European Union experienced an unprecedented economic growth but the unequal distribution of fuel among the various countries of the Union caused a strong internal discord causing the collapse of the Union. Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.Using that opportunity, China, who was already discontent with the previous treaty, decided to use that opportunity to avenge itself and launched their nuclear arsenals on Europe who, due to being in the middle of fighting each other, became unable to defend themselves. The USA, who wanted to return to its time of glory, used China¡¯s use of the atomic bomb as a pretext to declare war on the Chinese and launched its own nuclear warhead. In less than a week, both countries collapsed leaving Siberia ownerless and making all the others countries as well as Russia who was forcefully deprived of his territory to want to obtain it, causing the biggest battle royale ever, lasting 50 full years until the gods, seeing that if the war continued, would cause the extinction of humanity, decided to interfere, as such, the 31 December 2099, an uncounted numbers of gods, among with Athena is probably the most famous currently, having partially petrified the entire humanity, making them unable to continue to fight. Then, the gods decided to erase all current radiation, most radioactive material, as well as all remaining petroleum from the earth. After that, they resurrected some of the dead as well as some extinct species of the time, introduced others new species and finally gave the seeds of evolution to people. chapter 1 In the year 2500, near what is currently known as the northern wolf river, a river whose rapid flow stops it from freezing despite traversing one of the coldest regions in the current world, a group of teenagers wearing school uniforms are surrounding and kicking around a young girl. ¡°You worm, you think you¡¯re so great Hun¡± one of the people kicking me, Kyle Lee said. Kyle Lee, the head of this group of rich young masters say ¡°¡­¡±(Young girl) ¡°Say something you bastard¡± say Kae Billy James Kyle¡¯s best friend ¡°¡­¡± ¡°Boring! Hey guys, what shall we do about this trash¡± Kae ¡°Got a good idea. Open her mouth¡± kyleThe author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. When kae force the girl¡¯s mouth open, kyle took a red pearl looking thing from his pocket and watch the despair written on her face Seeing that, the two remaining member¡¯s faces grow pale and seeing as how Poppy Denise Dallas, the youngest of the group want to butt in, Tillie Michaela Davie, the oldest of the group stop her and murmur at her ear: ¡°you sould stop, I know that it is too much but bear with it, unless you want to end like her. For people like us, our only way to escape poverty is to follow these rich young masters During the time when the two girls discussed, kyle forced the girl to eat the pearl while saying: ¡°I heard that you didn¡¯t eat any seeds yet,right. So, this lord will be generous and not only give you one, but will directly give you an attributed one¡± ¡®generous, horrible yeah. Everybody know that the first seed must be the neutral one; any other is deadly¡¯(the girls) A few seconds later, the girl became red like a tomato while rolling on the ground, obviously in pain then, while they watched, the girl rolled until the border of the river and fell unto the water. chapter 2 In the place once known as the Everest mountain, now lie one of humanity¡¯s forbidden ground. The place once know as one of the highest mountains in the world (AN: fun fact, Everest is not the highest mountain of the world, but the hardest to climb one), is now an ice and fire wasteland. From this land, an enormous amount of ice melt everyday. This water became the source of the new longest river of earth passing tough China, Mongolia and Russia before going straight westward following the giant fissure created by the 2025¡¯s earthquake until going out to the sea near Finland. This became the northern wolf river. Evidently, despite its insanely fast currents, it became the center of northern Asia¡¯s maritime trade. As such, it has quite a few cities following it, like the seaport, where the river and the sea join, the northern capital, the biggest city of Asia., situated right in the middle of the fissure, and angle, a city situated right where the river begins to go eastward. A thousand or so kilometers westward from that last city, there is a medium sized town, named frostmansion, due to the fact that a few kilometers westward from the town is an enormous mansion. The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. Today, the owner of this mansion, like at his habit, after waking up late, walked to the river¡¯s border and dipped his feet on the water. Surprisly, the water, famous both for being cold and for being violent, not only became calm, but began to heat and look like a hot spring. After making himself comfortable, he took a blue seed and when he planned to eat it, from the corner of his perception, he suddenly felt a presence on the water. Sensing something strange, he became curious and turning where he felt the presence, the water in there rise up and shown him an unconscious girl. ¡®Like I thought, she directly ate a fire seed as her first seed. Is she crazy? Well, seeing as you survived until here, let me reward you.¡¯ Saying that, he threw the seed in his and into the girl¡¯s mouth. Then, he said: ¡°I already gave you the opportunity; the rest lie in the hand of lady luck¡± before taking another seed and eating it chapter 3 Coming up, the first thing on the girl¡¯s mind was if she was dead. Then, feeling the pain all over her body, she understood that she somehow survived. Still groggy, she tried to understand what happened when: ¡°seem that you woke up¡±(???) Hearing that low voice, the girl woke up completely and turning around, what she see scare her out of her mind. The reason is simple: he has light blue hair. ¡°a f-f-fac-faction leader¡± after being dazed, she hurriedly stood up while saying: ¡°f-forgive my rudeness. I didn¡¯t intend to disrespect you¡± ¡°it¡¯s fine. Only weaklings care about formalities and such. For truly strong people, ranks doesn¡¯t matter anymore¡± Hearing that, the girl finally calmed down and dropped to the ground. ¡°why the hell did you eat an elemental seed as your first seed? There are less painful ways to die you know?¡± Then, the girl explained her circumstances, how her father, during a casual health check, was discovered as having a rare case where it is nearly impossible ( nearly one in a trillion chance) to have children, how, hearing that, her father decided that rather than rely on that impossible probability, it is better to quit her mother so as letting her have a family while at the same time he travelled searching a means to have children, how, unknown to both, her mother was already pregnant of me and when she discovered her pregnancy, her father was already gone and un-contactable, how her mother being pretty rich bought her alone, how when she was nearly six, her mother fell ill and passed away, how her so called relatives appeared and took everything, leaving her nothing but an old building whose sole reason it is still standing was due to the fact that the land was worthless and the cost of demolishing it was bigger than anything that could be done with the land, how she barely lived day by day doing odd jobs for anybody who was kind enough or heartless enough to hire a six year old, among witch was an old retired teacher who taught her and where she learnt most of what she know, how, before he died, he told her to attend school because most of the schools are created by factions to search for outstanding people to work for them and many of them reward the best student of the year with a seed. so, at twelve, she enrolled at one of the factions schools. Once at school, mostly due to the old man¡¯s teaching, her hard work and self studying and despite being weak at pratical training due to never having eaten a seed, she ended becoming first place during the end of the first schoolwide evaluation ( the schooling system greatly changed since the great war, while the class are similar, the exam contents use subjects from all years going from the simplest and gradually becoming harder so as to know what year is the best for each individuals as well as the fact that most of the rich ones, who provides the most funds to the school have their children tutored and so, the more you know beyond the curriculum, the higher your score). Unfortunately, second just behind her was kyle lee, youngest and only son of jae quincy lee, the leader of the lee faction, the biggest faction of the town and faction patron of the school, so, furious by having been beaten, kyle lee ambushed her on my way to my part time job and forced her to eat a fire seed and she ended falling unto the river ¡°and that¡¯s how I ended here. In fact, how did I survive despite having eaten a fire seed as my first seed?¡± ¡°that¡¯s simple, when someone absorb a seed, the intensity is generally lower during the beginning and gradually become stronger as the absorbtion progress, so, at the beginning, during it¡¯s milder time, the freezing water stopped your body from being roasted and after I found you, I gave you a water seed that countered the fire seed and saving you¡± ¡°wait, isn¡¯t absorbing two seeds simultaneously during a skill creating step deadly?¡± ¡°normally yes, but under some specual circumstances, it is possibles. You see, there exist a gamble called dual awakening. When eating two seeds, both seeds must be of opposite elements or both being neutrals. Then, four things can happen depending on your luck: Also, a warning, for people like you who won the gamble, your body adapted to using opposites seeds and while it doesn¡¯t have any danger anymore, all yours seeds must be eaten in opposite pairs or both neutrals, if not, it will not count and you will just waste your seed¡±This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. ¡°thank you very much for saving my life, I will work hard to reimburse your seed the fastest time possible¡± ¡°no need, it¡¯s just a seed anyway¡± ¡°really? To obtain one, you need to be close to a faction leader or buy it at an auction you know?¡± ¡°it¡¯s fine. If you want, you can work here. I need people to take care of my mansion, and your salary will be one seed per day¡± ¡°I accept, when do we begin?¡± ¡°once you¡¯re healed. So before we forgot and it become too akward to ask it: I¡¯m Wolf, Frost Wolf, Frost being the family name, and you?¡± ¡°Suzu Haname, with haname being the family name¡± ¡°Haname! Like, Shinji Haname?¡± ¡°you know my father?¡± ¡°wait here a minute¡± and then he disappeared from the water border where he was all this time to instantly appearing near her with a strange looking gauntlet and said:¡± wear it¡± Seeing her new boss so serious despite having been casual for all this time, she didn¡¯t have the courage to refuse and the instant she wore it on her left hand, it emitted a blinding light before disappearing ¡°so, you had a daughter, hun¡± ¡°mr Frost, sorry, I don¡¯t know what happened but the gauntlet disappeared¡± ¡°don¡¯t worry, the fact that it disappeared prove that you¡¯re really that bastard¡¯s child, may he rest in peace. Also, you can call me frost, brother frost, or even uncle frost if you want, after all, even if we fought all the time, that bastard was still considered as one of my best friend¡± ¡°ok, by the way, how was he?¡± ¡°if we describe him in two words, it will be genius idiot. You should know that during the war, there was some peoples that fled the earth during the great war, do you?¡± ¡°evidently, it is common knowledge.¡± ¡°If so, before I tell you about your father, tell me what you know about it¡± ¡°England, due to it¡¯s ambiguous position in the European union, it not sharing currency together with a big fight with the others nations of the union, about the repartition of fuel, during witch England, being the strongest of the closest country to America, ended being a battleground and due to that received the most damage of the entire union; yet, after their victory, only receveid the same amount of fuel as china who lost the war and ended having only a little bit of fuel due to the treaty and when protesting, ended chased from the union and having his part shared among the remaining countries. Historians says that it was a plot of the others countries of the union so as to have more fuel for themselves, with the severely weakened England being unable to defend itself; and it was also the spark causing the downfall of the union, with having succeeded once, was born the desire to obtain more parts with the parts belonging to the others nations. At the same times, china, despite losing the war and signing an unfair treaty, due to not completely losing, still succeeded to obtain a meager quantity of fuel from the treaty and using it, oppressed the surrounding rich countries to pay exorbitant taxes so as to pay the various reparations as well as strengthening itself. Seeing that, as fellow sufferers, they became closer and discovered that if things continued, like that, another war will break and in the worst case scenario, a nuclear war of witch the radiations will attain them who are the neighbours of the two parties. So, by taking drastic measures, they entered an state of urgence, stopped their monetary system, in favor of a daily ration, dismounted all their nuclear plants and transformed them unto reusable nuclear powered spaceships, and even used all electricity to separate hydrogen and oxygen from the seas to use both as a fuel as liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen were used as main spaceship fuel since the beginning if spatial conquest; as oxygen and water sources. Then, as the great war began, these countries launched, they were already ready and launched the entirety of their populations, as well as specimens of all animals and plants existing on their territory to the moon and not wanting to see their previous home being destroyed, ended settling on the hidden side of the moon, where they lived until the divine descent. When the gods descended, they complimented the wisdom of the then people of the moon but at the same time, they were troubled because many moon gods didn¡¯t appreciate the moon being overpopulated. So, they let the mortals choose: living on terraformed mars and having the artifact ability, or living on floating islands on the breathable height on venus and having a personal ability As such, everyone choose witch planet they want to go and the gods made the lunar gate, three gates, who since the settlement on mercury became four situated on the moon enabling people to travel from one planet to the other.¡± ¡°good, now, if we talk about your father, first is that he was of mixed blood having a parent martian and another Venusian, not only that, but he not only obtained a powerful personal ability, but also possessed an easily upgradable artifact, becoming a level nine artifact wielder ,that is until he received a powerful attack and died. And before dying, he asked me to give his artifact to the love of his life. How the hell did he expect me to find that so called love of his life, that I heard for the first time that day, without a single clue, not even a name, when he never talked about his life before being a wanderer. In the end, after searching in vain for some times, I gave up and returned to one of my mansions that I didn¡¯t inhabit for at least fifty years. Who knew that his last will would have been completed that way¡± chapter 4 Morning Since my encounter with brother wolf, a week passed. Currently, I¡¯m in a king sized, even if I think that calling a bed bigger than a soccer field king sized is wrong, bed. After an entire week doing nothing but lying on this bed, I¡¯m finally healed and can finally move around. Without waiting, I stood up, and said:¡± go to closet¡±, and instantly arrived on a house sized wardrobe. Really, this place is too impressive. From what I¡¯ve learned, the inside of the entire mansion is a subspace and is bigger on the inside than the outside. Not only that but even inside, each room have its own subspace. Luckily, every significant area is named and so long as your authorization is enough, you can simply say where to go to be teleported there. So, after he gave me this room, I can teleport anywhere inside this room at will while other people must first receive my or his authorization or go with me. After changing clothes, i got to my room¡¯s door, exit, and said: ¡° go to frost wolf¡± ¡°¡­¡± ¡°go to frost wolf¡± ¡°¡­¡± ¡®w-what happened??? Why can¡¯t I go to him??? Don¡¯t tell me that I broke it??? What to do??? What to do??? ¡­ wait! Calm down, panicking will not help. First off, let¡¯s try searching around¡¯Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. A few hour later ¡°I can¡¯t take it anymore. This place is a veritable maze. Endless corridors and endless doors. Was this place made to make people lost or what?¡± ¡°Yeah, it was made with that goal¡±??? ¡°???¡±There behind her stood frost wolf. When seeing him, what people see first is his spicked light blue hair, proof that he passed the fifth level, then his slit yellow eyes, seemingly piercing your soul and reminding people of savages beasts, and finally, his mismatched clothes, matching together a grey fur mantle and a wolf headed silver cane with a t-shirt, short and sandals. Flop ¡°What, so scared that your legs gave up?¡± wolf ¡°I¡¯m fine, since when where you there?¡± ¡°Since thirty minutes or so ago.¡± ¡°Why did you just watch? You could have at least called¡± ¡°Sorry. Seeing you panic was pretty funny¡± *sigh* ¡°and why the hell was I unable to go to you?¡± ¡°Sorry about that. I completely forgot that you don¡¯t have access to my room¡± ¡°So, why did you tell me to go to you today?¡± ¡°Ah! Right. Today, I planned to start your training¡± That¡¯s right; my training will begin today, with brother wolf as my instructor. Even if he admit himself that it¡¯s just to pass his time. It seem that he¡¯s bored and that in the first place, since the mansion have a self-cleaning function, there was no need for servants and he just wanted to make the mansion more lively. Also, he said that since I¡¯m shinji¡¯s daughter, he cannot take me as his servant. In the end, I became a freeloader. He also decided to teach me from time to time. chapter 5 Once they teleported to a training room, frost wolf told her ? Firstly, let¡¯s see your skill. Normally, you instinctively understand how to use your skill when you obtain it but since you were unconscious, you probably don¡¯t know it so let¡¯s use the other methods. To begin with, sit on the ground and turn your back to me.¡± After she sat down and seeing her so tense, he continued: ¡°Calm down. I¡¯ll just use my own energy to poke your core and you¡¯ll use it¡¯s reaction to try to enter in focus on it. Once it¡¯s done, you¡¯ll instinctively understand it¡¯s basic uses¡± Suzu¡¯s pov After I calmed down, he placed his hand on my back and gently injected a stream of power on my body. Then, this energy slowly entered my body, and when attaining the right side of my hearth, I felt a poking. Strange feeling, I felt as if a finger poked me from the inside. Concentrating where I felt the poking, I suddently appeared on an empty space. In that space, I didtinctly saw two pearls rotating around each others. I immediately understood that these are my skills cores. Then, when I entered in contact with the red one, I instantly understood how to use it, as if I¡¯ve always know and just recalled it. Opening my eyes, I bought my hand before me and a small flame appeared on my palm. That¡¯s my first ability. ¡°So, that¡¯s your skill?¡± wolf ¡°Fire clad. Like its name suggest, it enable me to clad objects or people with flames. And I can choose to burn that object or not.¡± suzu ¡°And the other?¡± wolf ¡°Wait a minute. ¡­ There is it¡± suzu And then, a small pearl appeared on my hand before a crude ice sword appeared from it ¡°I don¡¯t really understand but it seem that I can create ice equipment using that pearl.¡± suzu ¡°good. Now, that you know about your skills and as such can upgrade it, let¡¯s begin from the most important subjects: how long do you take to absorb a seed. Here, take these seeds and absorb them¡± wolf Saying that, he gave me two seeds, one ice and another fire. He gave me these two seeds because except during the level changing, we can¡¯t absorb seeds of others elements than those we have. Also, since I¡¯m a dual skill user, I must eat two opposite seeds at the same time. Then, after eating the two seeds, i guided its energy to my skill core and waited.Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings. ¡°Since we have time when waiting for the core to be completely absorbed, let¡¯s begin your training. Firstly, here.¡± Wolf Saying that, he gave me another pearl looking thing. Except, it isn¡¯t a seed, but a beast core ¡°You see, that is an hibernating slime. And a rare one at that¡± Wolf A slime. The new favorite pet together with cats and dogs. It¡¯s said that when a slime find itself in a place without food, it can enter a deep hibernation until there¡¯s food again. ¡°That slime is a flour slime, also called dough slime. Among the various slimes, it only eat grain flour and water, making it very rare. Also, while its intelligence is below that of a mimic slime, it¡¯s fighting ability is comparable. So, let¡¯s begin to wake it up¡°wolf Saying that, he took a bag of flour and after I dropped a drop of my blood on the core (slimes are the sole beings that can be tamed by anybody that way) and placing it on the flour, brother wolf summoned a ball of water and dropped it inside. Then, all the flour and water concentrated together to form a ball of dough. And so, my first slime is born. ¡°Now, let¡¯s multiply it. So, if a few of them die during your sparring sessions, you won¡¯t lose too much.¡± Wolf Saying that, he took other floors bags and water and gave them to the slime. Before long, the slime divided itself a few times ¡°now, then, to begin witch, fight one of your slimes¡± Then, preparing myself, I faced one of the slimes. Then, I summoned ny crude ice sword with look more like a stick, clad it with my fire and slashed at the slime with my full power. Then, my sword missed and broke while striking the flour. The good news is that I discovered that I discovered that the fires of my skill can transfers on contact and will continue to burn so long as I don¡¯t stop it. The bad news is that the slime transformed into a humanoid form vaguely looking like me and slashed at me with a crude sword cloaked with flames. Scared, I closed my eyes and wafer waiting a little and not feeling any pain, I opened my eyes only to find myself near brother wolf and with the slime calmly standing where we sparred. ¡°Now that you experienced it for yourself, you should have understood but floor slimes fight similarly to mimic slimes. Except that while mimic slimes copy all abilities of being that it absorbs and can only use the abilities of the being absorbed, flour slimes, unlike its name and lifestyles suggest, can copy skills that they¡¯ve once seen or experienced, but it can use skills of different beings without the need to transform beforehand and he can become better as time pass. Also, as it becomes stronger, it will be able to copy stronger skills but currently, it can only copy weak skills like yours. Also, like mimic, while copying a body, it function like that body, so, cutting it¡¯s head will defeat it and making it unables to fight for some times, but it will regenerate after somes times since it¡¯s core isn¡¯t destroyed. Now, fight it again.¡± Wolf And that¡¯s how I trained with a slime until my seed was completely absorbed. Also, it took me approximatively two hours twenty five minutes to absorb a seed so, I can absorb 10 seeds per days. chapter 6 A few weeks passed since i began my training and it¡¯s now the end of the month. Currently, I¡¯m not in my usual training room but rather on an arena together with six of my slimes and is preparing for battle. Why? Simply because the second day of my training, brother wolf told me that he has something to do and that I must train by myself and after that, he told me that he will test me when he¡¯s back. Then, today morning, before I even began my training, he appeared before me and told me to follow him and to bring six slimes. Then, after leading me to this arena, he said: ¡°Your test will be a team battle. You and your six slimes against these seven level three ice golems.¡± Right, before me stood seven human sized ice statues. From their equipment and numbers, I think all seven main positions are present. These positions are the tanker, the damage dealer, the controller, the support, the mage, the ranger and the balanced with only exist on a team of seven members or more. These are also called battle styles. Their characteristics are: Evidently, peoples rarely purely focus on a single style but rather master a few of them. Back to topic, I made my slimes transform and enter in formation. In front, facing the two enemy vanguards, stood three slimes wearing an ice full body armor and lifting a tower shield each. Behind me, stood the three other slimes, this time only holding an ice bow and ices arrows. Good thing that I took the time to understand my abilities. I discovered that I can make weapons having the propriety of others materials, like how these bows have all specifications of others bows despite its materials. On the other hand, if its core is destroyed, it reverts to ordinary ices. Not only that but while creating or modifying these cores consume a pretty big quantity of energy, once they¡¯re made, their usages cost little energy and not only that, I can give them to people to use or store them inside me for later uses. Once ready, brother wolf appeared before us and said: ¡°Now, let me explain the rules. Currently, you¡¯ll fight the type of team fight called head hunting. Each team will chose a member who will be the head and the team whose head is defeated lose the match. Also, suzu, you¡¯ll be the head of your team. And for your opponent¡¯s head, it will be ¡­ this one, the support. So now, ready! Begin!¡± and he disappeared.This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. The match starting, my three vanguards ignited their shields in fire and charged unto the enemies. At the same times, the opponent tank, also charged but ended blocked by one of mines, making it a tank vs tank battle. Meanwhile, their controllers summoned a few ice pillars from the ground, trapping my others tanks between them. Due to the fact that earthlings those below lv 5 cannot use true aoe skills, the enemy can only summon a few of such pillars, and used them all to trap my tanks. During that time, their damage dealers ran past my tanks but before attaining us, was forced to retreat by my three rearguard¡¯s flaming arrows. Meanwhile, I ran to the front to and charged to their supports, with seem to be able to use cold air to repair the others golems as well as giving them additional energy, with was the main reason their controller was able to create enough pillars to trap my tanks. Unfortunately, their ranger and balanced blocked my path until their mage finished preparing its attack. Seeing the human sized ice ball flying to me, I decided to evade but their balanced grappled me. At that time, with the sound of glass breaking, the enemy was thrown away and while being unable to evade the ice ball, I didn¡¯t panic and continued to run forward and when the ball touched me, together with the sound of glass breaking, it simply bounced back toward the mage, destroying it. Continuing my run toward the support/head, the ranged interposed before me while continuing its attacks but in an instant, I appeared behind the head and with an ice hammer, destroyed it. ¡°Battle end! Suzu win. Now, you impressed me. I would have never thought that your two seconds abilities will be teleportation and reflection. These are pretty good abilities.¡± While sitting due to fatigue, I replied ¡°To tell the truth, you¡¯re wrong. The one looking like a teleportation was a charge type ability and the other was a defensive one who can block, disperse or reflect a single attack. Not only that but when I tried to upgrade them, the seeds weren¡¯t absorbed and just remained inside me until they became wasted.¡± ¡°Wait! You were unable to absorb neutral seeds to upgrade them? Wait. Activate your skill that I test it.¡± ¡°I cannot. Contrary to my first two skills, these the defensive ability consume a staggering amount of energy per use. For example, while I obtained it at lv 2, I could only use it when I passed lv 3 and even now, I can only use it twice. As for the charge one, while its requirements are lower, but the cost is proportional to the distance. And that time when I used it, the enemy was just before my maximum range when using it. So, I¡¯m completely out.¡± ¡°If so, you should rest and tell me when you¡¯re restored. If my guess is right, you¡¯ve stuck the jackpot.¡± A week later After an entire week testing and experimenting on my abilities, during with even my others skills were tested, it¡¯s confirmed: I really stuck the jackpot. The Venusians, despite the fact that their abilities are the sole not naturally possessing levels, possess the greatest variations of abilities. So, they ended creating various means of quantifying theirs abilities, some of these like the one to quantify their levels remained not used outside Venus but others like the ability quantifications ended up used even outside. Since then, abilities were categorized unto levels: Amongst them, it seems that to be called absolute, an ability must either be able to copy or usurp other skills like that of my slimes, or on the contrary possessing skills having absolute attributes, like my charge, possessing the ignore defenses attributes, as well as my defense, possessing the impenetrable attribute. chapter 7 Now that these test were finished, brother wolf told me to go back to school. His reasoning was that nobody will become a powerhouse without having experienced various things. So, my first task today is to renew my status plate. Contrary to the various novels out there, having a status plate here don¡¯t automatically show your stats. Rather, you go to the territory lord, tell them your level and the level of your skills and finally do a demonstration of your skills. While you can lie about your abilities, as the status plate serve as an id, as well as a proof of status ( the better your stats on the plate, the stronger your status) and delimit the criteria for enrollments to school as well as for work, due to that, people generally renew their status once per levels. This morning, while driving an energy car (new types of cars made after the Great War and using the user¡¯s energy, seeds or beast cores in place of fuel) that was given to me by brother wolf yesterday as a means of travelling to town ( Well, even if due to advancement in technology almost all vehicles are in auto-pilot, making it so that even kids can drive and making driver¡¯s licenses obsoletes, a poor girl like me obviously never rode a private car so i took most of yesterday learning how to use it), I arrived at the territory lord¡¯s office. The territory lord. The highest position in the entire region. It¡¯s said that to become one, the minimum requirements is to be at lv7. Well, that have nothing to do with me, as while this place is called the territory lord¡¯s office, my task is just a common one, needing a clerk at most. So, after paying the money necessary to renew my status plate, I entered the testing room. There, a clerk sat on a desk and I gave her my previous plate and told her my current stats. Hearing my odd stats, the clerk seemed surprised for a moment before calming down. After finishing that, I walked to the last room, not minding the fact that the clerk secretly quitted the room. After all, brother wolf already gave me a faction emblem (an emblem that prove that you¡¯re a member of a certain faction) as such, anybody who dare cause trouble to me must first weight if it¡¯s worth antagonizing my backing. That¡¯s why brother wolf told me that there¡¯s no need to hide anything. So, I entered the room for practical test. Meanwhile on the territory lord¡¯s room Toc toc toc ¡°Enter¡± territory lord (tl) The door opening, a butler entered followed by the clerk that recorded suzu¡¯s abilities. ¡°My lord, we encountered a strange case during a status plate renewal¡± butler (btl) ¡°What would be so strange as to alarm you¡± tl ¡°Well, there¡¯s one girl, she made a status renewal, and despite the previous plate being empty and dated of last year, she currently is lv3¡± btl ¡°Well, that isn¡¯t so rare. The first few levels are more a question of wealth rather than talents. See my youngest son, despite his talents, he still attained level 3 by making him have as much seeds as his talent can use.¡± TlThis book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. ¡°That¡¯s not the important part but rather that she possess six skills among with two are absolutes¡± btl ¡°What! Two absolutes! What faction is she from¡± tl Embarrassed, the clerk respond: ¡°I don¡¯t know. After hearing about her from this clerk, I watched her practical test but while she possessed a faction emblem, I didn¡¯t recognize it. And thinking that maybe it¡¯s a neighborhood emblem, I did a little research but found nothing. Then, thinking about the fact that she didn¡¯t appear worried about showing so much, I thought that she may be a member of a powerful faction so I did my research about a powerful faction having a similar emblem but none of the know powerful factions had a remotely similar emblem. In fact, the emblem depict a wolf head and it seems that there¡¯s currently no know factions having a wolf themed emblem in the entire northern continent as the emblem of the continental master is a wolf and as such, since nobody ever saw his emblem, whenever a new faction have a wolf themed emblem, the surrounding factions warn it to change the emblem just in case it overlap with his in with case will cause problems. So, my guess is that she¡¯s most certainly the member of a new faction made by a new faction leader ranked. That explain why I didn¡¯t found anything about it. Also, he¡¯s probably a low ranked one to not know the troubles of making his emblem a wolf. And either an idiot one that don¡¯t understand the dangers of showing off or somebody that use her as a tool to attract our attention¡± btl ¡°Like always, you¡¯re excellent.¡± Tl ¡°Thank for the praise, my lord¡± btl ¡°Since that¡¯s the case, let¡¯s greet that girl.¡± Tl ¡°Before that, I have a few clarifications¡±??? Surprised, she shouted ¡°who¡¯s that!¡± while turning and preparing to attack but stopped net, or rather was forced to stop net because while she turned around, she was frozen in place. Evidently, the butler as well as the clerk didn¡¯t dare attack. After all, the trespasser just defeated their leader in an instant. Then, the ice shattered and while terrified, the territory lord asked: ¡°w-who are you?¡± ¡°Me, I¡¯m just the faction leader of the girl that you just discussed. And seeing as you¡¯ve made erroneous guess about me, I decided to show up to resolve the misunderstanding. Firstly, I¡¯m not a fool that doesn¡¯t know the dangers of showing off nor do I sue her as a tool to attract the attention of weaklings like you. Rather, I¡¯m confident that no matter what happen, nothing will happen to her. Secondly, it¡¯s not that I don¡¯t know about the unwritten rule about making a wolf one¡¯s emblem. After all, that rule came because I made my emblem a wolf in the first place. And after I told you that much, I think you should understand who I am¡± powerful guy While stunned, she ended blurting: ¡°t-the c-continental master!!! Why would somebody as esteemed as you come to this backwater place¡± and only regained her senses when the butler pulled her to prostrate on the ground. (and the scared clerk hurriedly follow suite despite being completely lost about the situation) ¡°Well, as the territory lord, you should have received instructions from your predecessors, no?¡± continental master ¡®All he told me is to never offend the lord of frost mansion. Saying that it¡¯s the house of the area¡¯s first territory lord and even if he broke thought long ago, he still live there from times to times. Master, you should have told me that the owner of that mansion is the continental master.¡¯ Tl ¡°Seems that you understand. Now, weren¡¯t you on your way to do something?¡± cm ¡°Yes, right away¡± and while saying that, they scuttled out of the room. Once outside of the room, the trio collapsed to the ground. ¡°I thought I was going to die¡± tl ¡°Me too¡± btl ¡°Who the hell was that guy? He¡¯s too powerful¡± clerk ¡°He¡¯s one of the continental masters. He¡¯s somebody that someone like us cannot even deign to fathom. So, as he¡¯s said, we still have work to do¡± tl ¡°You still intend to go meet that girl?¡± btl ¡°Does I have any other choice, he clearly told us to go to that girl. And I¡¯m not stupid enough to refuse. Also, that may be an opportunity to cling to powerful tight¡± tl chapter 8 After i finished updating my status plate, i exited the room when i encountered an unexpected trio. Heading the group, stood a gorgeous middle aged woman that everybody in the region know: Jay Quincy Lee, the region¡¯s territory lord. In her right, stood her right hand man, even if I don¡¯t know his name. And behind them, making a strange expression, stood the clerk that was with me during the first part of renewing my status plates. ¡°Hello, little girl, I¡¯m Jay Quincy Lee, the territory lord. And you?¡± jay ¡°I¡¯m fine, but before anything else, I must warn you that I¡¯ve got no intents to change factions.¡±suzu ¡°Evidently, we¡¯re not here to poach you. As a territory lord, I¡¯m just here to see the region¡¯s future. As you are a talented younger generation, evidently that I want to help you grow. So, if you have some needs, you can always call for my help.¡± jay ¡°Thanks, but no thanks.¡± ¡®As far as I know, like my mother¡¯s so called friend, people like these consider others as an investments. so long as they obtain benefices, they¡¯ll be best friend but once we¡¯ll be in difficulty, you¡¯ll be the first to turn your back to us¡¯ suzu Before I finished walking away, she panicked before quickly restraining me and said: ¡°wait.¡± And after a few seconds thinking about what to say next, she continued:¡± you can tell your conditions. What do you want, we¡¯ll do our best to make it true¡± jay ¡°And what¡¯s the catch?¡± suzu ¡°Nothing. So long as you just don¡¯t consider us as your enemies, I¡¯ll be satisfied.¡± Jay ¡°Well, I¡¯ll think about it¡± suzu Saying that, I walked to the exit. After walking for some times, I just reached the exit when I encountered poppy denise dallas, one of the four that attacked me. Or rather, she was the first that saw me and decided to slam me to a wall. Just when I prepared to counterattack, I heard her say : ¡°Don¡¯t move. Unless you want them to find you.¡± Poppy And just after, the three others appeared from the corner and passed by them, seemingly not noticing them. After they passed thought, poppy pulled her hand to the exit and said: ¡°let¡¯s go. Are you crazy? I don¡¯t know how you survived but of all places you could have gone, why are you here? Don¡¯t you know that kyle sama is the territory lord¡¯s son? You¡¯re lucky that they saw a super rare car on the parking lot and decided to waste time admiring it as well as the fact that I¡¯ve gone ahead to the toilets. Now, go run away, fast, the farther the better.¡± Poppy ¡°I didn¡¯t know. Thanks. I¡¯ll take my car and go¡± suzu Arriving on the parking lot, I planned to enter my car when poppy exclaimed: ¡°What! That¡¯s your car? Impossible. It¡¯s the eternal ghost 777, made using a lv 7 ghost type monster as a base material and not only can it run at 777 km/h on straight road without affecting it¡¯s passengers but the car itself have some hidden proprieties depending on the ghost used as base material. It¡¯s said that the manufacturer only produce one a year approximately and each one are directly auctioned with one million seed as the base price. In fact, it¡¯s the car that kyle sama and the two others gawked, and I would have done the same if not for going to the toilet¡± PoppyDid you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator. ¡°I didn¡¯t know. I received it as a gift¡± suzu ¡°What kind of monster can afford to give such an expensive gift?¡± poppy ¡°I never asked about his strength. All I know is that he¡¯s at least a faction leader, and that he knew my father.¡± Suzu ¡°In that case, go on fast. I must still go to the toilet and come back to them before anybody wonder why I take so much time.¡± Poppy ¡°I think that it¡¯s unnecessary.¡±??? Turning around, we saw the kyle lee and his two companions standing behind us. ¡°To think that you dared to hide such a neat trick in your bag. Unfortunately for you, kae can detect all hidden things.¡± Kyle ¡°Run! I¡¯ll block them for you¡± poppy ¡°And for you?¡± suzu ¡°Contrarily to you, as a member of that faction, no matter if I run or not, I¡¯ll be considered a traitor of the faction and if I run, there¡¯ll be bounty on my head. Go! When you¡¯ll be far enough, I¡¯ll escape by myself. And even if I die, at least, I¡¯ll die following what my heart tells me.¡± Poppy ¡°Or we can defeat them quickly and escape before the guards come.¡±suzu ¡°Are you crazy, they¡¯re three amongst with two are lv3. I may have a pseudo absolute ability but in the end I¡¯m just a lv1.¡± Poppy ¡°Two lv3? That¡¯s fine¡± suzu Saying that, a full body armor made of ice appeared on me, surprising the four other peoples. ¡°So what if she possess an ice abilities. At most, she¡¯ll be lv2¡± kae Ignoring their surprised expressions, I asked poppy: ¡°What position are you?¡± Pulled out of her surprise, she replied: ¡°Control, damage dealer and mage. And you?¡± ¡°Balanced. As I¡¯m higher leveled, I¡¯ll lead.¡± Suzu ¡°Go to the back, I count on you to control them well¡± suzu At the same times, I walked before her and a sword and shield appeared in my hands, then, my entire body On the other sides, the trio also took their positions, with kyle to the front, kae summoning stone statues in the middle and Tillie charging an attack in the back. Obviously, she¡¯s a mage. Seeing as they¡¯re not yet attacking, they¡¯re certainly opting for a defensive strategy, where the mage prepare her attacks while the tank stop other from harming her. ¡°aaaaahhhhh¡± With that cute war cry of poppy, a powerful sound wave travelled in the air, evaded me, and struck the opposite trio. Unfortunately, only kae ended fainting, with two cubic barriers surrounding kyle and Tillie. Then, Tillie said: ¡°hoi, joso, ketsu¡± Instantly, numerous green spears appeared in the air and empaled us. Well, poppy was literally crucified while mine missed, simply because while she wanted to attack me, I already used my absolute charge to enter kyle¡¯s barrier, making her strike my previous location. While I was on my way to strike him with my sword, a black spherical fire tornado appeared from him and destroyed my sword. But when it touched me, it lost it¡¯s form with the sound of glass breaking, creating a strong black blaze inside the barrier. That¡¯s the dispersion effect of my absolute barrier, with unlike the reflection effect, who reflect the attack to the attacker or reflect the strength of the attack to damage it, or the blocking effect, who simply stop the attack without damaging it, make the attack disperse, or explose in the opposite direction. ¡°kyle!!!¡± Tillie Once the fire died down, they saw me with another set of ice armor and kyle, half dead on the ground and mysteriously surrounded by a golden flame. ¡°Release your barrier, if not, he¡¯ll die¡± suzu At that time, even if Tillie didn¡¯t know if kyle was still alive or not, she didn¡¯t dare refuse. ¡°You should know that currently, it¡¯s only my fire that maintain him alive, so, if you don¡¯t want him to die, it¡¯s best to follow my orders.¡± suzu Finally, after making her free poppy and transporting the entire group in the car, I ran at top speed to the mansion. Third person pov In the building, jay is prostrating before frost wolf: ¡°I¡¯ve done as you¡¯ve ordered, and forbade anyone from interfering¡± jay ¡°Good. Now, I want the entire town to know of that event by the end of the day.¡± Wolf ¡°a-also¡­¡± jay ¡°mmh?¡± wolf ¡°Please, I implore you, despite my son¡¯s disrespect, please let your anger end by punishing us two. Please, leave my daughters a chance to live.¡± Jay ¡°pff, don¡¯t worry. Suzu need servants anyway¡± wolf ¡°well, now, I want you to follow my orders to the letter¡± wolf