The Magic Of Skill

Chapter 2's

Hile's mother, Rose Strosford, was only 25 years old, but her face looked like a teenager. Hile said that her mother could be so terrible when she was angry, considering that she was a magic teacher, I wouldn't dare mess with her.

Miss Rose asked me how my parents were and who they were. I replied that I don't know, their faces don't even remember. My memories of the world began when I was starving. But somehow I know things like a normal person. Then moments in life? Unfortunately not at all.

“It's weird, there's never been a case like this before.” Said Miss Rose while holding her forehead.

I hesitated to answer, “You do not have to bother thinking about it, just think of me as a mistake.”

Hearing my answer, Miss Rose kicked the table shouting, “Can't! I'm a very curious person. About your memories, maybe it was just amnesia, but what about your skills? It was too special to be said to be a skill.” Seemed a great seriousness from Miss Rose's eyes.

“Before, what skill is it?.. M-Mana..? or magic?”

Miss Rose calmed herself down with a sigh, she answered my question, “From the easiest, where is the level of one's magic capacity, generally an ordinary adventurer has anywhere from 1000 to 2000. Magic itself is a change of concept with mana as its fuel, but the change of concept itself is still limited.” Miss Rose looked at me.

“Dan.. skill is?”

“Skill is not much different from magic, but if magic is still tricked, while the skill is beyond reason. Bringing out fire, splitting the ground, drawing lightning, it was powerful enough for magic. As for the skill, you won't know for sure. Our King, King Loiros has a skill called ‘Complete Order’, where he can send someone without a rebuttal. Fuel skill also use mana.” Continue Miss Rose.

I don't really understand that explanation. If something that is considered reasonable is magic, is it not strange when a person raises fire and is considered ordinary? Fire arises because of combustion, or an increase in temperature, can be due to gas or so on. It makes no sense to make fire with just mana.

Waitie? How do I understand the concept of fire?

“Then.. does Sleeper also include skill?” ask me with other intentions to Miss Rose.

And he seemed to understand that, “I know, you must have said that distinguishing magic and skills is a complicated thing. Simply put, magic is an ability that can be done by many humans, while skills are generally only one or two people.”

“.. I.. understand.”

***

The city is so crowded during the day. The sun is hot, but it does not make the body hot. Smelled of vegetables and fruit around me, also sometimes the aroma of perfume that stings. Humans and some half-human races, such as Elves, fairies, and beautiful ladies with rabbit ears, they all enliven the market.

Hile had a bag full of spinach in his hand, while I was holding a long, warm bun. We were going home after we finished shopping at the market.

Miss Rose let me stay home, no, she even told me to. Money is not a problem, just assume that I am his son. He had a decent enough salary to support seven people at once. That's what he said.

“I'm surprised the Elf race can be that easy to blend in with around, let alone to shop in the market.” I interrupted Hile who was waiting for his order ice cream to a merchant.

Hile took his order, then started licking the ice cream with a feeling of pleasure. “What do you mean? They are like that.” We continued walking home after Hile's desire to eat the ice cream was granted. “Yeah..You know, there are regulations that allow them to stay here.”

“Princess. Lennef?” my many.

“True, princess is very kind, she allows the Elves to-”

“Please!! Help u!! A thief!! The thief took my bag!!” suddenly, there was the sound of screaming from the end of the crowd.

The crowd in front of me suddenly pulled over, as if they were paving the way for someone who was about to cross that path. No, or maybe they panicked? I was sure someone was running towards me, he was carrying a sizable leather bag in his hand.

Everyone including Hile pulled over, I don't understand why they are so afraid of thieves.

The thief ran chaotically towards me, his face was a mess in panic. A woman with fancy jewelry chased after her with a run that was too slow to outdo. Until when the thief passed next to me, I pricked my feet and tripped him.

The thief fell down and dragged his face on the ground, the bag he was carrying was thrown at me.

“You! Damn you!” the thief got up and looked angrily at me.

Oh, my God, I'm carrying a bag of bread and a bag in both my hands. Removing a bag of bread is ridiculous. As for the bag I was holding, I intended to take it off, but the owner was close and I felt bad about dropping it.

As I thought, the thief fought back. He took a knife out of his pants pocket, it was a knife used for mountain camping. Looking at me who could not use both hands, he went forward carrying his knife without hesitation.

Danger, he's obviously gonna stab me.

And remembered one silly idea from my mind..

“Sleeper!”

Just before the tip of the knife touched my chest, the thief I made fell asleep with the magic belonging to Princess Lennef. There was absolutely no resistance, he just fell down and fell into a deep sleep on the ground.

Everyone was watching me, me and the thief were already like two young men putting on a show in the middle of the street.

From a different direction, the woman with the bag came over, I gave her the bag. “Oh, thank you, you saved me, son.” Wearing very fancy jewelry, and very fragrant hair. I know how much money he has. “If you don't mind..” he scraped something out of that bag, “This,

a discount coupon at my clothing store, stop by if you have time.”

I accepted and thanked him. Then the rich woman left.

Now.. Shall I take this thief? Leaving him in the middle of the road was the best, but I was sure that he would get in the way. Judging from the citizens who were so frightened by the thieves, I doubt they would dare to touch it.

When I thought of that, a horse came from the same direction as the rich woman. The horse was ridden by a man wearing a robe, with a long sword linked to the rider's waist.

The horse stopped in front of me, who was riding on it was a peaceful handsome man with attractive black hair. He is exactly like a prince. The prince came down from the horse, and looked at the surrounding state.

“You did this?” the prince pointed to the thief lying on the ground.

“Ya. sorry.”

“Haha! Why apologize? I just wanted to thank you.” The prince smiled at me very kindly. He turned towards me and showed me his hand. With a hint of hesitation, I welcomed his hand, we shook hands. “I am Thomas von Neressy, the swordsman. My title is Royal Knight. Thank you for helping me with my work.”

You sure, buddy? Shaking hands with me doesn't seem like a good thing.

“Meffery Walter.. my degree. loser.”.

Are all knights so? Neressy despite having a handsome face and a very crazy strength, he was still being nice to strangers like me. It seemed that madness continued to me, as Miss Rose had said that my skill was automatically activated.

And because of this skill, surely I got the full power of the Royal Knights.

***

At home, while Hile and I were peeling the fruit, I accidentally told Hile about the handshake. And his reaction was surprising.

“H-Huh?!” Hile yelled very loudly, surprised by my confession. “You touched Mr Neressy? Are you crazy?” he made sure I got back what I said before.

I said that I got the strength of that knight, I could feel from his energy and strength all over my body. “Yes, I don't know what surprised you so much.”

“You are this. The knight is a very special figure. Neither magic nor physical strength, all of them were trained from childhood. And you copied all that power in seconds? I'm afraid your body can't hold it.” Hile explained with a fickle mimicry.

I asked, “What do you mean?”

“Look at your body, just like before, right? Your muscles don't grow, and your expression doesn't show a man full of authority. I just suspected that your body might not be able to withstand the power of knights.”

If you think about it, it makes sense. Neressy was definitely not an ordinary person, even when shaking hands he was like gripping me because his hands were so strong. As for me, my body is not the same as Neressy, but I am sure that the skill is copied.

Is my ability really not at risk?

Maybe I should ask Miss Rose.

“Hile, let's go to your mother, I have something to tell her.” My speech.

“How to? Mom works at a magic academy, it takes a whole day on foot to get there.” Hile did not answer seriously because the apple in his mouth was still chewing.

“Skill owned by Neressy, Dimension Teleport seems to make me move from one place to another easily. In fact..it seems like that person can go to any room he wants.”

As if in disbelief, Hile looked at me cynically, “Good, you stole such a great skill.”

We proceeded to meet Miss Rose.

A skill capable of cutting through space was really useful. I held Hile's hand, then focused on where to use it. The place I imagined was where Miss Rose was. When the skill is ready, you will immediately know because there is a button that is ready to be pressed at any time.

I activated it, and we moved.

I closed my eyes as our room moved, Hile next to me was screaming hysterically at the sudden change. Is this what teleportation is? It felt nauseous as the temperature and pressure suffocated me.

When I opened my eyes, how surprising. It turns out this is a class.

Classes with students sitting at tables are arranged uphill like a ladder. I was standing right in front of all the students, our position was like a teacher.

“.. Hile? You it?” there was a voice next to us, it belonged to Miss Rose. On his face was a thousand questions posed to the two of us. Despite greeting her son, the main thing Miss Rose noticed was me, she approached and asked, “How could you appear here all of a sudden?” while whispering.

“I accidentally touched the Royal Knight Thomas von Neressy.

“Hah?!! Are you crazy?!” Miss Rose shouted loudly, surprised by my statement just like her son just a moment ago. Knowing that she was attracting attention, Miss Rose spontaneously closed her mouth.

His students who were still confused by my appearance asked, “Is there a problem, Mom?”

“No, no, everything is fine.” Miss Rose racked her brain to answer that, no, she racked her brain to think about the next sentence, “I'm having some business, can you guys learn by yourself for the next few minutes?”

“So.. alright.” Answer some of them.

Then Miss Rose dragged me out of the classroom. Hile's coming behind me.

She kept dragging me down the hallway, whether to be taken where I was by Mom with this dark green hair.

With my hand still being pulled by Miss Rose, I noticed every corner of the academy. There were many classrooms, large hallways, and mana activations from all directions. Is this the magic academy? Had I touched all the disciples here, what would have happened?

A few minutes walking, Miss Rose took my hand off, then she forced me into a room with a wooden door that was twice my height. The three of us got into it. It turned out to be a research laboratory.

“This is my laboratory, usually I make potions here. Take it easy, no one will come in. Sit there while I make tea, Hile too. And remember, don't touch anything!” two seconds ago, he sat me down?

There is a long table with strange objects on it, call it a glass container in which there is a colorful liquid. I sat on a wooden bench facing the table.

In this room also surrounded by bookshelves, there was no empty space on the shelf, everything was full of thick books.

“So... What are you trying to talk about? I'm sorry, I'm busy too, I'd be so happy if we didn't have much to mince words.” Miss Rose started the conversation while she was still making tea.

“This is actually just a little warning from Hile. Immediately, I want to ask you, is my body capable of withstanding the strength of a knight? Apart from that Touch Drive is indeed a power to copy power. But still.. is my body ready?” my question, Hile noticed.

Miss Rose sighed, she started stirring the tea in the cup she was holding. Then he came back to me and gave me the tea. “Korrent if you have any doubts.” Miss Rose sat down in front of her child, and I started to sip tea. “You want me to check you?”

“For an academy supervisor. I think, yes.”

Miss Rose thought for a moment before confirming. “Alright, I understand. But I want you to come help me too.”

“What should I do?”

“You know, it's a little risky, Walter. Failing just a little then your life will be a bet, are you sure of that?” Miss Rose warned me earlier.

Losing lives? I seem familiar with the words just now. But, I think an answer as important as this should be as soon as I can get it. Yes, yes, no, no. “I'm ready, we just need to avoid that failure.”

“If that's what you want, fine. I want you to show me all the power you have.”