The Skill Collector

There was a collection of unusual noodles on the first floor of the inn.

They all called themselves, but it's unexpected that no one said no.

"Do you mind thinking that the purpose of today's meeting is to clarify the cause of your skills?

The first person to utter his voice was a man with a stern face on his burning red short hair.

The way he talks is like an old man when he says he's a warrior-style outfit from the war and even feels seemingly crude.

"Instead of trying to figure out the cause, let's study our skills again,"

Ruio is stained with the way he spoke when he was an old sage.

Initially he seemed to be struggling to punch a young man, but these days he completely reopened and settled into his present state.

My granddaughter hasn't even found out, so she doesn't have any problems.

"You're an unusual face. Aria, I don't know why Aria's here."

Automata, the legacy of ancient civilization, transformed into a woman in maid rather than true appearance - Ariaria is leaning her little neck.

Definitely the oldest of these, probably more familiar with their skills than anyone else. There's no way I wouldn't call her that.

"I've been having trouble with my neck since this morning. Did I sleep wrong?"

Red spots and stains are noticeable on a plain shaded dress, but that's her blood, not a pattern.

My complexion is still blue and white today, and my blonde hair should be beautiful if I take care of it is bouncing everywhere.

"Mr. Cuyoli. There's a knife stuck in your neck. Why didn't you notice?"

The knife used in the meal remained stuck in the neck muscle, so I pulled it out softly as I held it down with a handkerchief to keep the blood from erupting.

The handkerchief stains bright red with blood, but the bleeding stops immediately.

I didn't see the wound that was supposed to be there when I gently removed the handkerchief. That's the resilience of immortality.

Luio is the only one with a slight eye opening to a different sight, but he is silent without saying anything.

"Always take care of"

"I won't tell you that, I promise."

After the classic rhetoric, she moves behind her sitting in a chair and combs her hair with a twist, as usual.

Kuyoli is too indifferent about himself. Let the person in question say, "I've been throwing away thoughts that have never bothered me about familiarity more than a hundred years ago".

He looks only in his early twenties, but is the second oldest in this member. Immortality is not Dada.

"I brought you a drink"

Sumire, the innkeeper, brought the tea.

Her loosely rocking long hair is different and lustrous from cuyoli, and the red ribbon that holds her hair together suits her well.

"Oh, you know. I know that Luio is a regular, but do these two know each other as collectors?"

I was just checking with Aria and Cuyoli on the side, and she said that to me.

I seem particularly concerned about her combing her hair, holding the basin to her chest and watching it over and over again.

"Didn't you know Mr. Ariaria? I should have been in it before when I opened a cooking class. You were next to Mr. Therapy."

"Collector. I was in disguise then."

Right. You were wearing a suspicious disguise, not a human figure, as you are now.

"Ah, I was next to that big breasted guy... Are you from the mask and hat? Sorry, don't notice."

I bow my head and apologize, but it is impossible to match this figure with that dressed figure.

"Never mind. I bet you didn't see that chest very well in the way."

Though my therapy chest is full, I don't think it's big enough to cover up and hide what people look like.

Does Aria often rattle her breasts, but do you think even she, the doll, is jealous or something? She looks like a woman, but I'm interested to see what's going on inside.

"So, uh, that's you."

"She is Mr. Cuyoli. It's an old familiar face."

"Um, they're taking care of me"

Kuyoli nodded on my remarks and when he stood up, he tangled his own arm in my arm and deposited his head on his shoulder.

In response to the words and actions, Sumire presses her mouth, and she leaves after relaxing.

"Please take your time -!

Rarely did he raise his voice and run away when he turned his back.

Apparently, they misunderstood me.

"Did you tease me too much? We'll apologize later."

"He's a pure kid, on his way. Misunderstood, you'd be in trouble too."

Trying to unwind her arm back to her seat, the wind burst and 'Intuition' gently jumped to the side as she told her danger.

Kuyoli's fist is sticking out where he was just now.

"Collectors should learn more about women's minds"

"I totally agree"

"If you don't take care of women, you're gonna look like a weasel."

Immortality, Automata and a former old man stuck me in.

When I was younger, I was interested in a lot of women and I tried, but at this age, I came to the conclusion that nature is the best, so I don't care if they say so.

Cuyoli has never been jealous before, but lately she's getting more emotional. Is this a good trend?

"The story's derailed, but I'll get back to it. What brought you together was to deepen your understanding of skills."

Excellent knowledge, wisdom and foresight as far as I can tell.

Ruio reads most of this country's books and remembers them all.

Aria Aria is an automata that has existed since the time of ancient civilization. Apparently, the former lord was also a leader in cultivating demons and studying skills.

Cuyoli seems to have spared him eternal time, wandering around for a time, a living witness who actually saw and heard his skills.... The question is, do you still remember that time?

Everyone seems to be riding, nodding small and encouraging ahead.

"Let's start with the basics. Skills are also referred to as God-given blessings, benefits. Its powers range from extraordinary powers, which are not normally gained, to things that affect emotions, physical strengthening, etc."

"If you supplement, the number of skills you can have depends on the number of skill slots you have. Those whose skill slots do not exist are called incompetents and cannot benefit from lifelong skills."

Now I snorted at Luio's explanation.

Without skill slots, skills cannot be used.

Just because a person is incompetent no matter how hard they try doesn't make it possible to remember their skills.

"In addition, there is value or rank in skills. Normal skills commonly referred to as skills. Higher-level skills with better abilities than normal skills. Rare skills that only exist in that era. Original ability to give only one person in an even rarer world, only-skills"

"Now Ariaria will supplement it. Higher skill is the majority of skills that have evolved by increasing the level of normal. Those with stringent conditions, such as raising the level of more than one skill even for higher skill levels, may gain special abilities among higher skill levels. Where famous, is it 'alchemy'?"

"Additionally, very few people are born because high skill is basically something you remember acquired. Many skills do not evolve into higher-level skills even if they increase their level of skills slightly. Some of the skills I possess are quite high, but they never evolved."

Some Cuyoli's skills have reached dozens of levels.

The higher the level, basically, the harder it becomes to rise. A world called masterclass, depending on your skills, if you have level 10.

"Next is rare skill though. Only one skill holder exists at a time with exceptions. It's still unclear what the rationale is, but when the owner dies, someone with rare skills appears anew somewhere in the world."

"They did think it was rare skill, but a few have existed around the world during the same period, and few have been demoted from rare skill,"

"That's just great, Mr. Ruio. Exactly. Demoted skills can be called rare skills or something. God will be the only one who has information about the rest of the world, so if I thought it was rare skills, it was actually different. There are many patterns."

Even if someone possesses the same skills on the edge and edge of the continent, there is no way to know it.

Now it's time for books gathering skills from the past and clergy appraising skills to share information, and less misdiscerning skills, but it used to seem awful.

"You used to be festived that having 'appraisal' skills was a rebirth of God, saying it was a peripheral village. I miss it."

I remember and miss when Cuyoli was traveling.

Big towns are still better, but their own culture and common sense exist when it's a village that interacts less with others, and it's not once or twice that I've been badly hit.

If I were just a businessman, how many times would I have lost my life?

"By the way, collector. What is the exception to rare skills? Aria doesn't have that information in her memory."

"Uh. Rare skills show up to someone else if the owner dies, as I explained earlier. Actually, this is the blind spot. What do you think would happen if you gave up that rare skill to someone, sealed it in something, or bought it away?

When I give that back to Ariaria I've been asking, I'm putting my index fingers on my temples with both hands and doing a roundabout. Apparently, he's going to be thinking about it, but he doesn't look serious because he's faceless.

"You'll never show up to anyone again?

"Normally you think so, don't you? But the truth is, when a former owner who lost his rare skills dies, a new rare skill appears to someone else. God only knows how it works."

In fact, I've discovered rare skills I bought from someone else. That's not once or twice either. Many rare skills are powerful, so owners inevitably become famous and often have a name in history.

When you try to make contact with such people, there are rare skills that you have bought in the past.

So rare skills are not exactly one at a time. However, unless this special method is used, there is only one.

"Rare skills are hard to get up to, but it's not like they don't. So if you buy only one level, you can grow."

This method presupposes the use of 'trading', so no one else can do it.

Using my sister's 'robbery' skills makes it possible to take it away, but there's no way to give it away, so I just stay on my own.

"And onlyskill, which is rare during only one rarity in the world. There is no record of that skill being present in the past, so the only way to know what kind of ability an only-skilled is to self-declare it or make sure with this eye"

"Collector's" Buy and Sell. "That's my" Immortality. "

Ruio's eyebrows move picklessly at the words Cuyoli uttered. There doesn't seem to be any change in Aria's expression, but I can't read her emotions because that face is always faceless in the first place.

"Did the skill of" immortality "exist? I've heard rumors that there's such a thing, but I'm willing to live long enough to see it happen."

"You're the youngest here, though. By the way, Ariaria is the oldest, so respect me."

You wouldn't believe this conversation even if a third party heard it because Louio looks the oldest if it just looked like him.

"It's that only-skilled, but it basically has a lot of special abilities. The same goes for my 'trafficking' and Cuyoli's 'immortality', but there are other things that when you die, the time returns to 'death'. 'imitation' imitating the opponent's skills. 'Transparency' where surrounding objects become colorless and transparent. You had a lot of other unique skills."

"That's a lot of first-ear skills. I'll put it in the free space."

"It's a valuable piece of information that you're sayin ', but it's going to be ecstatic if you talk to the scholars who are looking into your skills. I would have been inspired by curiosity back in the day."

"Really? I don't care. I don't want to bury my memory with that."

Distinctive reactions returned.

There are still many mysteries when it comes to only-skills, and if the owner dies without anyone knowing that skill, it disappears unnoticed by its existence.

I'm sure there must have been only-skills that disappeared before and without anyone knowing they existed.

"After that, they say that the only skills are level one fixed and that they will never rise. Me and Cuyoli do, but after years of use, the level remains one."

I've spent dozens or hundreds of them but never got a level higher. How many more times and how many more years will you continue to use it and will you increase your level?

I could stay like this for the rest of my life. But I won't stop trying. Because I believe that strengthening the skills of 'trading' will be the trump card to settle with my sister.

If you want to add anything else about Onlyskill, it's only my business, but I can't buy and sell it.

"It's that simple question. Collector, can I ask you a question?

"Yes, what is it, Mr. Ariaria?"

I've always raised my hand and asked for a say, so I call her by her name like a school teacher.

"Of all the skills you have, which skills do collectors rely on the most? Just wondering."

Luio and Cuyoli seem interested, too, and their gaze is focused on me.

Skills I rely on the most...... That's a tough question to ask.

I take care of my combat-based skills, and I have skills that I keep in my skill slots all the time.

Without 'immortality' I had to be deluded with 'young making' and 'longevity'.

'Intuition' has helped me many times.

"Psychology" is also a treasure.

I can't even let go of "State Abnormal Tolerance".

'Appraisal' is mandatory for buying and selling skills.

Um, I can't squeeze it off when it's the best. Best of all, without this, the skills that bother my heart are......

"Uh, there was." Control. "

"" "Control?

I am surprised that everyone has missed their expectations, with their voices together.

"Yes, because I can't replace it with a skill slot without this. Besides, when you buy negative skills, once you have a vacancy in the skill slot, you will enter the skill slot, but without 'control' you will be affected by the skill."

In the past, I didn't fully understand how it worked in an era where I still didn't have 'control' skills, so I adjusted the buyout so that the skill slots wouldn't be filled and considered not to take negative skills.

Ever since I got this, I've been making it easier by being more efficient.

"If the memory of the eagle is certain, 'control' was not given much importance. I was talking about being able to adjust my level, but I don't need to lower my skill level. Skills that are not worth using if you do not possess negative skills. It was a perception that... but I think I need to change my mind"

"Sounds like that's what they think. In fact, even when I bought it, the owner sold it for a low price without knowing its value."

One of the problems is that 'control' is pretty hard to get up to, and for years of use, the level is pretty low.

But it has the advantage of far outweighing such shortcomings. The key point of this skill is that you have level control.

My ability to 'buy and sell' is involved here.

- 'Buying and selling' can only buy or sell their skills -

In other words, if your opponent's skill level is 10, you can only buy an entire skill level of 10. If your "swordsmanship" is level 50 when you sell it, you can only sell "swordsmanship" level 50.

All thanks to 'control' skills, you can now adjust the level and buy and sell in splits. I've understood since I got this, but my sister definitely owns a 'control' skill too.

This skill goes well with skills such as' trafficking 'and' robbery '. Conversely, without these skills, the treasure is rotten.

"Then, if you sell me control, you will erase the effects of immortality."

"That can't be done in two ways. First of all, it is impossible to remove the only skill or adjust the level. The other doesn't matter how 'control' sells. I've tried it several times, and when I try to sell 'control', my ability to 'buy and sell' is out of control. I guess this is also a skill trait."

Furthermore, "control" in the skill slot is no longer removable and the level adjustment of "control" itself is not possible.

"Well, you mean things don't work out."

"Unfortunately"

There have always been cases where selling 'control' would solve it lightly. But God in this world doesn't seem kind, and he doesn't forgive me for it.

The word control includes the meaning of keeping it as you wish and operating it.

Then I wanted a cautionary note saying 'but if God admits it' when I appraised it.