Chapter 726 Box of crystal
?[Eon's POV: ]
Thanks to dad playing that suicidal trick, whatever surprise mom had in mind was blown. And, though the others found it funny how he did that courageous thing, they kept their laughing brief.
This was a surprise she prepared for me. So, she was going to be the only person to present me with it.
'She left my room, requested Rein to stay with them or go down and play with her friends, and told them we would be back by dinner.'
Then she dragged me to her room, and since then, she had been sitting on her chair, before the usual chair with the same window before her and the same special room on the left side of her room.
A few things were moved here or there but all in all, things were pretty much the same as they had been the last time I was here.
The desk was also the same.
"Haaaa..."
"And that's your sixth sigh, mom. You don't have to do it if you are uncomfortable now-"
"I want to kill your dad, darling."
She had serious anger in her eyes right now. Like, the serious kind of serious anger.
"Please don't do that. He'll die."
I had to be concerned at this moment. She was angry! Like, really angry!
And when she said she wanted to kill him, I knew she did not mean it literally.
'She would either torture him to the point he will faint with too much pleasure, or, in worst case scenario, if she feeds him some food she cooks herself, there was a chance he would quite literally pass away!'
She was exceptionally good when it came to handling money... and she was also horrible when it came to even the most basic kind of cooking!
We even called her cooking 'cursed food' that was deadlier than some of the deadliest poisons a normal person could find at an apothecary.
"If he dies, you won't have anyone to play with, right...?"
What dad did certainly was too bold to be something he would usually do, but some dungeons did have that kind of weird effect on individuals.
They made the entirety of one's mental state unstable, some dungeons were so bad they could make anyone with a weak mentality permanently unstable.
Dungeons made many who entered them go crazy. Him showing behaviour like that should not be that surprising since the dungeon he was in, was in no way anything normal.
"Thinking about it, you're right darling. If he's gone, who will give me my doses of... yeah. Let's keep him alive then. Bastard." Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m
This was a perfectly normal kind of conversation we usually have. A perfectly normal kind with my own dad being the centre of topic this time... though, it wasn't fun this time.
"Can we get to the point now?"
"What point?"
"The gift, mom. The gift."
"Right, the gift. Fuck that father of yours. He ruined everything! That bastard!"
Now she is angry once again...
This sustained their effectiveness, and along with a container as good as this, the skills would remain in top condition even after a long time had passed.
"There are three special skills from (Purple) rank creatures, one from a special (Indigo) rank and one from that certain (Indigo) water species!
The remaining four are (Blue) ranks but every single one of them are some of the rarest skills that one can find in the creatures of nature!
They are all amazing, mom!"
A skill to replace my [Quick steps] movement skill, one skill to replace my [Talisman paper dummies), and one overall combat effectiveness skill... of the nine skills present in this long box, I can already tell which one I was going to use immediately or what I had no need of anymore.
They were all special skills, and, there was one that even I had never heard of among this bunch.
'Three eyes.'
There was a certain yellowish crystal among them with a mark inside it resembling a rune. It was quite unique for a (Blue) ranked creaturs's skill, but
I couldn't tell what the skill was just from the identification mark of the skill.
"Oh, are you interested in that one as well? I knew you would be interested in this one~! Hehe, we found it by chance in a small place far into the northwest.
We know it's a skill from a lost species but we couldn't ever have the real appraisal of this skill.
I was hoping you-... hmmm? Eon?"
"This... mom... this is..."
This was unbelievable. Like, in all honesty, I wasn't expecting this...
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[Name: Cascade of Ark] ★ ★ ★ ★
Effects:
—-> You can draw one card from the cascade during each activation.
—-> The selected card will consume 10 percent of available Mana and give the effects associated with that card to them.
—-> Skills possessed by one of nature's offspring that met their end somewhere others could not see or perceive them.
—-> The effects granted by the skill are primary and not related to any of the spells cast on the individual or their own skills.
—-> Skill cooldown will vary depending on the card that comes up and the intensity at which the card activates.
Conclusion:
—-> This is, once again, the most fucked up thing we had ever observed in this short lifespan we have existed.
—-> Just the fact that it is before you means you are going to have it despite its uncertain origin.
—-> This is just fucked up...
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This was damn good, ok?
A boost skill that overlaps over all the spells and other support skills.
How amazing do you think this was?!