[item na: Holy branch
Item rank: dium (rare)
Item description:
A branch of a holy tree, it has acted as a dium of faith and prayers towards a certain god for hundreds of years.
Item effects:
While holding it-
mana recovery 20%,
Wisdom 50,
Increased mana control,
Nature’s path spells 30 % efficiency.]
"Oh, this?
It’s a gift I received from soone, today’s my birthday"
"Birthday? Do you celebrate birthdays?"
"Yeah we do"
"Alright, but still… that seems to be a bit too much for a birthday gift"
"Mh… indeed, I saved this person from trouble a few tis"
"That already makes more sense"
"Why did you have such a strong reaction though?"
"It’s because of the holy power that branch holds, it seems like it has been used as a dium for a really long ti.
It’s similar to the ice altar we had at the temple of the winter goddess, and it’s incredibly rare."
"Why? What use does it have?"
"Well, if you’re a believer or an apostle, it allows you to communicate or hear the god’s prophecies without any dangers and difficulties"
"Dangers? How would a god’s prophecy translate into dangers?"
"Most of the ti, the things gods talk about hold heavy secrets, and the fact that they are telling those secrets to you almost counts as them interfering with the world of the mortals.
For that reason, what we call "Fate" intervenes, these breaches of the laws are usually not that bad, and not heavy enough to punish a god, so "Fate" punishes soone dear to them, in this case, the apostles and the believers, however, using an item as a dium greatly reduces the penalty inflicted to the person."
"Mh… does that an I would be able to et a god with this thing?"
"et a god? I an, maybe, but if that were to happen, the power of "Fate" would be too much even for the dium and the item would probably break, the left punishnt would even backlash onto you…
Already hearing a god’s words is sothing most of the strongest beings do not have the honor of doing, so do not be too greedy…
Also, when talking about this, it is obvious I am implying a god has to want to speak to or see you, you can’t just go and find a god, you wouldn’t be able to find any of them anyway."
"Mh… then, one last question, you said the power of "Fate" punishes whoever hears information that should not be revealed to mortals, wouldn’t that an a god could just kill any of us by talking about things we aren’t supposed to hear?"
"Uh…
That…. I’m not so sure myself, but I suppose "Fate" would punish the god in that case, since the whole idea is to punish the god slightly by punishing soone who is dear or important to them."
"I see…"
"I’ve answered your questions, so could you answer one of mine?"
"What is it?"
"If people where you live don’t know things like this, and gods aren’t publicly announced, then why did she gift you such a thing?"
"Probably to use it as a staff"
"A staff?"
"Mh, I’m not sure about how it works since I’ve never used one myself, but we use staves to increase our magic output and casting ti, other than many other things."
"Mh… so you use them as catalysts"
"Not exactly, more like double catalysts, because we usually tie a catalyst to the staves, and that increases the effects exponentially."
"Wow, that’s… smart.
Are you sure mages only appeared a decade ago on this planet?"
"Yeah, they probably figured out thanks to mathematics of sothing, kind of like multiplying a number two tis instead of one, first with the actual staff, and then with the catalyst tied to it"
"I can not understand what you have just said even if the aning is directly imprinted in my brain"
"…."
"Whatever, I’ll have to go and ask the old man if he can make a full-fledged staff, and for now, I’ll just use it as it is."
"Who is this old man? An artifact refiner?"
"Yeah, sothing like that"
….
Hans talked with Caelan for more than an hour and then spent the rest of the night sleeping, since ditating did not provide him any extra wisdom stat anymore.
The following day, Hans was walking towards his office, which was in the main building, just a couple of ters and a floor away from his class.
’I asked Caelan about it yesterday night… about how irregular gates are created, of course, we had already talked about it, and I had already understood that it was the work of soone, more precisely, it was their work… the work of those people who both I and Caleb suspect to be attacking my world, and have already turned his into ruins.
The only question was… why?
Why would they create such portals instead of simply creating normal gates?
The only thing we concluded was that they do that when taking care of creatures they don’t want to take care of…
Initially, that seed to be strange to , since, even if at the ti I struggled facing them, the bests I t in those gates would probably be nothing more than ants in the eyes of those monstrous beings.
However, after doing a more in-depth analysis of the irregular gates I explored, we discovered sothing that confird the first hypothesis:
Caelan himself was a threat they had already failed to beat, so they probably bonded him to a gate in order to let us Hearthlings kill him and wash their hands of him, as for the other two irregular gates I’ve been to…
Only the {Polar Gate} where I fought the Ice Dragon king and the {Snake’s Den Gate} where I fought the Moonlight Phyton were irregular, all the other difficult gates I ca across simply hadn’t been asured correctly, and the beasts that were inside those gate had sothing in common…’
"It’s probably because they’re descendants of mythical beasts, that’s what I like to call them at least"
"Mythical beasts?"
"Yeah, the goddess told there are beasts who possess powers on par with those of gods, and have a physical body to use them, They live tens of thousands of years, and when they eventually die, all their powers will be passed down to one of their descendants, because of that, they all treasure their own kin, and that’s why no one ever touches their descendants."
"I… killed them…"
"Sigh…"
….
Or at least that’s what he told … indeed, after killing the dragon I did get cursed, even though it was hidden under the skill I acquired when I ate the dragon’s heart:
{Dragon’s Nesis (C-Rank)
Description: As a human who has ingested a drop of dragon’s blood, you are now destined to fight against them.
Effect: Any dragon encountering you will be enraged, 10% to all stats while facing a dragon, 30% boost to all stats when facing dragonoids]
But strangely enough, that did not happen when I killed the snake… I’m sure Caelan told that there’s a high chance the Moon Python could be one of the distant descendants of the snake mythic beast, so how co I haven’t been affected?
Maybe it’s because I’m raising Ember…
Well… for whatever reason, it’s better like this, I’ve already enranged the dragons so it’s better if I don’t also get the snakes on my bad side.’
By the ti Hans had wrapped up his thoughts, he had arrived at his office.
After waiting a few minutes inside, a knocking sound ca from outside the door.
"Please co in"
The young man said.
Entering the room was a girl, specifically, it was Marisol Hinton, a girl who attended Hans’s first class.
Despite her having plenty of talent and even a decent learning capability, she did not have the ntality required to continue attending this academy and beco a hunter in the future.
The world needed hunters… the country needed hunters, but it was certainly not their right to force an awakened to beco one.
"So you’ve decided to do it in the end"
Hans comnted when he saw the timid girl sitting down in front of him"
"Yes, I.… Decided to quit"
"Sigh…"
"I’m sorry teach, it’s not because of you, or because of the Academy, it’s who’s in the wrong.
I am not made for this, everything I do won’t be of any help…
While seeing monsters for the first ti, most awakened are scared, I was traumatized, and not only the first ti, but the second, the third, and fourth too…
I tremble whenever I am faced with danger, and now that I’ve reached the peak of the second rank, it is ti for to accept the reality, even staying here has beco tiring, seeing my friends improve while I’m stuck at the sa level because of my cowardice… certainly doesn’t feel good.
Thank you for everything, I will be leaving tomorrow"
"Marisol…"
Hans was about to speak, but he closed his mouth once before opening it again:
"It’s okay, not everyone was born to be a hunter, you can co back here anyti you want… I’m sure your classmates will like it"
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