Chapter 65 - Revelation

"Ha?" 

"What's the use of vessel then?"

"I did gain the skill but still, I don't know what's their use."

"Why would I use the skill from them when I gain the skill for myself?", Shin asked himself in a low voice while walking towards Aella.

For some random curiosity, he took a look at her stats. And out of all her stats, the MP picked his interest.

[ MP: 20/23 || Max. MP: 50 ]

Everything was the same as the previous time he checked except the MP stat. Three MPs were missing.

Shin then found out what the system actually wanted to say.

*gulp*

'I get it now...'

'I can use her skills at the cost of her MP!'

He realized that when he took a look at Aella's MP. Of course, the cost for MPs was never written probably because it wasn't necessary or probably because the system wasn't modified.

Whatever the case, Shin realized this after looking at Aella.

This meant that if Shin was out of MP, he could still use the skills of his vessel at the cost of the vessel's MP.

That would mean that he would never run out of skills! While he would use the vessel's MP, his own MP would restore and when he will use his own, his vessel's would restore during that interval!

It would be a loop of an unlimited supply of MP. Basically, he understood that now.

He thought about copying all of Aella's skills while she was asleep. It was absolutely clear that more skills would give more options and different patterns for attacks or escapes.

Therefore, Shin wanted to grab all the chances that he got and now was one of those few chances.

He walked fifty meters and then tried to use all the skills to copy them. But unfortunately, he could copy only one more skill!

'Ding'

[ You have gained an active skill 'Aero Slash' Lv.1 ]

[ Aero Slash  -> A piercing slash of wind emerging from the sharp claws/nails in the paw.

-> Gives critical damage if the target is twice the level of the user.]

He did get a skill but more than rejoicing, he frowned because he couldn't use the passive skill.

He was interested in that because of the unknown level that was mentioned. He only later found out from the system that he couldn't copy nor use the 'Passive' based skills.

'Ding'

[ The 'Passive' skills or the titles of the vessel will have no effect on the host ]

[ The host will neither be able to use nor copy the Vessel's 'Passive' skills ]

Right after that notification, he understood. Regardless, it wasn't much of a thing anyway because he could develop such skills sometime later if he wanted to, at least that's what he thought.

He waited for five whole hours after which Aella woke up. 

*sniff sniff*

Aella could smell something that ended up causing her stomach to grumble. Probably the hunger was the reason that caused her to wake up.

"Master?", she found Shin sitting next to her while trying to do something.

Shin was startled because Aella called him so suddenly. He turned almost immediately towards her.

"Master?", Aella ended up getting surprised when she saw Shin because there was a small fish in his mouth.

*tear*

*chew chew*

*gulp*

"Aella, you finally woke up!"

"Here you go!", Shin threw a fish towards Aella after grabbing it in his mouth.

The fish fell right before Aella on the grass bed. She was totally awed to see such a creature, It was probably her first time seeing it.

She could see Shin eating it so without wasting any time, she too started to eat it.

*prick*

All of sudden a pointy edge of one of the many bones prick her mouth.

"Keuk!"

She spat it almost immediately. Right away she started bleeding.

Shin turned towards her and saw the little drops of blood that were dripping down her mouth.

"Wait, did a bone prick your tongue?", Shin asked.

Aella nodded her head while trying to cover the pain. Pricking the tongue is definitely painful, especially for animals like wolves who have extra-s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e tongues.

"Look out for the bones, they might end up choking you...", Shin said this while using the skill Heal on her.

"Yes...", Aella nodded her head.

She then carefully removed the small bones and then started eating the fish. It was a bit of a hassle and tool sometimes, but it was better than getting injured.

Aella finished eating the fish and was probably full. Though, she wanted to eat more because of the taste. she controlled herself after seeing that Shin too had only one fish. Well, in reality, Shin had already finished ten fishes when he was near the stream.

"Is there a stream nearby?", Aella asked to which Shin nodded.

He continued eating and finished the one and only fish which he had been eating for a long. Well, he was trying to chew the bones but all he had were sharp canines and hardly any teeth to grind the bones. Also, his canines were not too long or sharp. He was a pup after all!

"Ah, by the way, I wanted to ask you something...", Shin moved a bit closer to Aella after finishing the fish.

The smell still persisted but it didn't matter. All the blood from fishes was licked away with their own tongues.

"Yes, Master?"

"I want to know, what had actually happened that caused such a fire to appear..."

"What happened to everyone?"

"And, Is Kira really dead? What about Siara?", Shin was a bit anxious.

He didn't have much to think but he was indeed grateful for being a part of the clan. Although it was only for two to three days, he enjoyed the stay.

Especially the happy faces that he got to see after he healed them touched his heart because of which he wanted to at least know what had happened to them.

Somewhere in his heart, he was feeling a little bit of pain, but he didn't realize it. 

The atmosphere suddenly changed. Aella had a serious expression on her face and so did Shin.

"Yes Master, we were betrayed..."

"My father was betrayed by them..."

"That time..."

And then she started narrating what she had seen and heard others shouting.

To be continued...