The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Chapter 11: My journey of four years (3)

Magic Cores are very useful, not just for increasing EXP or getting skills. They are used in equipment production, alchemy, etc... So I am going to save them for my future use but not all of them.

Even though it was said 10%, for some it would be more than 10% success. I returned 20 magic cores and stored the remaining 178 cores for later use. I did that so that my family would recognize me as a good talent but not too good to be considered a genius.

Only by showing that you are capable, you can get resources. The more capable you are, the more resources are allocated. Being a genius would attract unwanted attention and would put a mark on me, so to get good resources, I just needed to show that I was good but not too good.

Moreover, the reason why I didn't return the remaining cores is that these cores didn't just have Evade and Dodge skills, there are other skills too. I stored them for later usage.

They would be very well useful for my adventure that would start in a week.

If I had absorbed them and gained them, then the entire family would have known about it. During the training period, we have to show the trainers the skill levels. They can see everything regarding the details and I didn't believe that even Captain Domer would keep them a secret if he saw that I gained more skills.

Even though he sympathized with me for becoming a sacrifice of family politics, he was still bound to the family. He would report everything that happened with my training. Luckily for me, skills are the only thing that they concentrate on. If they had seen my attributes, I don't know what would have happened.

Coming to My class skill, which is called Shadow Bolt. There is no level as it would be at level max. There is only one method to gain Class Skills and that is to rank up. Every time time you rank up you would be rewarded in class skills and the number of skills you get ranges between one to three.

I just hope that I get two class skills. After all, I have two affinities and when I rank up I need to show a shadow-related skill. If only one skill shows up, I can manage but it would be quite a hassle or a waste depending on the skill that I get.

In addition to Class and Acquired skills, there are also Created Skills and Refined Skills.

Created Skills are something that you created yourself and something that didn't exist in this world before. Refined Skills are skills that are obtained from tweaking the already existing skills.

For example, I have been thinking about my class skills. Shadow Bolt is a single-target skill. If I can tweak it and make it a multi-target skill it would be a Refined skill.

The Created SKills and Refined Skills belong only to the person but that doesn't mean others couldn't create using it as an inspiration. The only way to stop that would be to share these skills with the World System. In return, you would get something else based on the skill you shared.

Once you share a skill, the world can give it to anyone who fits the profile. The skill may even burst from a dungeon.

Most may share a low-level skill but no one would be willing to share a high-level one. They keep them for their families to inherit.

It could be done by using an Inheritance Stone. The problem was only one can inherit at a time. Unless that person is dead, no other can get the inheritance.

This is also an issue that is affecting my family at the moment.

My great-grandfather, who inherited the ancestor's gift to the family is about to expire. It was not due to age, but due to an old injury. If not for that he would still have survived a century or two.

The thing is with him expiring, someone from my generation would inherit the knowledge and power. This one would most likely overrule the first child of the current noble title holder to become the next noble title holder. This is why everyone is trying to constrict each other and have their bloodlines promoted.

If their branch member becomes the next viscount, it means that they become the main branch, which gets the best resources and has more power when compared to other branch members.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with me. From my father, it would be either Eritrea, my first sister, or Rudius, my first brother that would compete for that. My bet is mostly on my sister. I have seen her beating the shit out of him when I was young and when they were still in the academy.

Coming to my talent, that was the only thing that I couldn't do anything about for now. I can't use it here where anyone can see or feel what you were doing. A ritual would certain drag the elders eyes towards me. Rituals use a lot of magic and it can easily be sensed by others, so I can't use it here, but I have plans for it.

In a week, when I go on for an adventure, I can finally use my talent.

I already studied everything that I could about the rituals and prepared well for it. Now I hope luck is on my side, as read, ritual summonings are not a guranteed event and it can even blow. It would be quite dangerous but I feel like I should dare, as it would change eveything.

I don't whether it could change my life for better or worse. I can only speculate for now.

For now, I should prepare for my upcoing adventure.