Eiro stood in the library of his mind. He saw that which was around him, or at least that which he imagined to be around him using his ability. It was one that allowed him to rember every part of his past perfectly. So what if he combined this ability with itself to let Eiro rember just one part of his past?
One part that was broken, a part that he had to go through again and again, slowly filling in the gaps by rembering. By forcing himself to rember.
That is what Eiro tried next. He stood in the center of the area that he used to act the different mories out to make use of muscle-mory, and overlapped this ability with itself. Basically, he was trying to combine the aspect of his ability that allowed him to dive into a single mory with the aspect that allowed him to recall all these mories in general.
And that did sothing that ssed Eiro's mind up rather quickly. He forgot most of the things that he did in his life imdiately. Of course, it wasn't to the extent of a sort of Amnesia as he experienced before, but rather, he was now at the level at which other people were able to rember their life.
Mostly, they knew all that they had to know, but they couldn't rember every situation with particular detail. But then again, due to Eiro's rather high Wisdom and Intelligence, his base-ability to morize and rember things was a lot better than that of the average person in the first place.
But to Eiro, it seed as if he had lost all his mories for a mont. Of course he knew that this wasn't the case, but it felt like it for a mont.
Either way, what Eiro was focusing on now was a single mory. A mory that he still fully held, just to test this out. He didn't want to ss himself up imdiately. Every book in the library changed to be the sa book. The sa color and thickness, and even weight. They were all completely identical to each other.
Eiro picked up one of the books, and rembered the situation he narrowed it down to. It was literally just a calming mory of Eiro wandering through the forest back ho. And when he closed the book, he picked up another and opened it up. It was the sa exact mory.
And that showed that it worked out. Eiro felt only that mory coursing through his mind the whole ti. It helped him calm down, actually. His powerful ability was completely focused on this mory, making Eiro's imrsion feel sohow... stronger than before. As if he was currently there in that mont, but also still right where he was. In two places, and in two different tis, both at once.
It was interesting, to say the least.
Slowly, Eiro removed the focus of this exact mory, and quickly returned to normal. He spent a short while focusing on trying to figure out if there were any damages done to Eiro's mories through this just now, but luckily that wasn't the case.
The Demon smiled softly as he went for the next step. He tried to make his focus on a broken mory. One of those that were close to completion, but not just there. Just in case sothing might go wrong with this, Eiro wanted to minimize the damage.
But the mont that Eiro did this, he felt... Weird. As if his body was harder to move, as if it beca heavier or Eiro started walking through a swamp with muddy sludge up to his chin.
That was the part of Eiro that was currently inside of the broken mory, completely imrsed in it. Because the mory was incomplete, Eiro wasn't able to truly go through it. The mory was pushing him away, keeping him in place in the part that he rember most, which really wasn't a lot to begin with.
But slowly, as Eiro tried to fully imrse himself in only this broken mory by moving around like he did within it as well, the Demon was able to proceed. Much quicker than he was able to before, and it seed like the right scraps were falling from the dark ceiling of this room.
With a smile on his face, Eiro continued, and was able to quickly finish the mory. The mont he did so, Eiro's mind cleared up and instead of his body feeling like he was trapped in a muddy swamp, the Demon felt light and able to move around however he wanted to.
And then, Eiro tried it with the next mory. And then the next. Not only was this a lot quicker than before, but it was also far less exhausting. Since Eiro was focusing on only one thing, his mind was practically freed from everything else, which made this job extrely simple to him.
Eiro smiled lightly and proceeded to start trying to do the sa for other mories that he had. There were still aspects of his mories missing for so of them, but again, he would figure out what sort of aspects they were later and complete them afterward. It was only about a tenth of the mories that had a small portion of parts that were influenced by that aspect of mories.
That ant that Eiro was able to finish up more than 90% of his work by the end of his day, nearly a full day earlier than he had thought.
With a broad smile on his face, Eiro stepped out of his library and looked at Lognir, "Couldn't you have told about this sort of thing a bit earlier? That would have made everythina lot easier."
"How was I supposed to know you would be able to master this step so easily? Really, you're quite talented with these things. Getting new skills or abilities must be in your actual 'talents' sohow."
"Are you sure about that?" Eiro asked with a wry smile, "Actually, I don't think so."
Lognir turned toward Eiro with his brows raised curiously, "What do you an?"
"I think, rather, I don't have any talents at all." The Demon said, and Lognir let out a deep sigh, "That's clearly not-"
"But I don't have anything holding back either." Eiro interrupted. The Dragon looked back at Eiro for a few monts in confusion, not sure what he was trying to say. But then, he understood.
"You think that because you were an artificial creation, you are not limited by things such as 'talents' or 'boundaries'?"
Imdiately, Eiro nodded his head, "That's exactly it. None of my skills level up particularly faster or slower than others. And if they do, it's because of their rarity rather than talents. When I do magic-talent tests, it only shows the 'affinity' for elents that I already absorbed sohow. It doesn't show the possibility of other elents, but I can rather easily gain any elent I wish as long as I have access to a pure form of the magic in question. I don't have any talent toward particular branches of magic either."
"...That would not be possible, child. If I understood correctly, your creation is similar to the creation of Spirits, is it not? Creating sothing without any talents or boundaries is impossible for the Planet itself, so how would the Monster King be able to do so?"
Eiro slowly turned his head to the side, looking directly at Nelli, who nodded her head in response. Lognir was an incredibly old being, and he was directly connected to truth, while obviously being insanely knowledgeable about many things that Eiro never even heard about.
Maybe... Lognir knew about this.
Eiro looked into the Dragon's eyes and took a deep breath, "Have you heard of... Soone being given Stat Points every ti they level up that they can freely assign to their stats?" Eiro asked. Imdiately, Lognir ripped his eyes open wide, confused at what the Demon was hinting at.
"There... There is no way..." Lognir muttered quietly as he took a step back confused, "What are you?"
Eiro looked back at Lognir, just as confused as he was. He didn't think that such a question would shock him that much... Of course, it was nothing normal, Eiro knew that, but was it really anything worth freaking out about this much? And it wasn't just that Lognir was surprised at the possibility, but rather... That he was scared of Eiro. Or at least, he was anxious. Extrely so.
But a few monts later, Lognir cald himself down, "No, there's no way... Eiro, are you sure that you understand the implications of what you just said?"
"Of course I don't, that's why I asked. It seed natural to for the longest ti, until Nelli told that it absolutely was anything but natural. You seem to know sothing about this, though."
"...Indeed I do. But first, could you show how this... ability works?"
Eiro slowly nodded as he took out a small notebook from his treasury together with a pen, quickly sketching out what his status looks like.
"The rest of your status is the sa as normal, but that line underneath your stats is not. And then how do you 'assign' these stats?"
Eiro looked at the piece of paper and explained, "I simply think of the stat I want to give a point to, and then it's added. That's it."
"You can choose any stat you wish?" Lognir asked with a slight frown, before Eiro nodded again, "Yes. So... Do you know of sothing like this?"
"I know of sothing similar, at least. But seeing how your ability works still makes wonder about so certain things." The Dragon looked at Eiro with a deep frown, his golden-white eyes sparking up for just a second.
Eiro could see a notification appear in front of Lognir's eyes. It said sothing in a language that Eiro didn't know, so he couldn't read it, but it seed quite important, at least judging from Lognir's reaction.
"Ah, so that's it... That would explain it, to an extent at least." Lognir explained, "You see, there are a certain few beings in this world with assigned 'roles'. One of them must exist at any point in ti. Those beings are, for example, the Monster King and the Hero. There are different ones as well, less well-known and certainly less powerful at tis. All of these beings were created through the sa 'energy' of the universe. That energy crystalized at the dawn of this world, and shattered into pieces at one point. Each shard of that energy held imnse power. So were taken by God-like beings and turned into artifacts. These are referred to as 'Shards'. And then, other parts fused with the souls of the living and beca the System we all see. These are referred to as 'Fragnts'." Lognir explained.
"And then, there are those that hold extrely pure and powerful parts of that primordial energy. Those are those special beings. These parts are called 'Splinters'. At so point, those splinters gathered in one place in one way or another. So gathered and beca 'Clusters' that turned them into a part of the world. The Hero and the Monster King are such beings."
Eiro listened to Lognir, although he felt sothing rather eery creep up on him in the back of his mind as he heard the word 'Splinter'. And then, Lognir explained the point of this 'lesson'.
"Those that hold these 'Clusters' within them have the ability to control the distribution of 'stat points' being added to their stats."
Reviews
All reviews (0)