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."
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…
What the hell?
"Haaaa. I wanted it to be a surprise."
She signed once again, tapped on her wrist, and took out a certain attractive looking long box from her unique storage.
"Eon darling…"
Then, she placed both her hands on the attractive looking blue sapphire box that I can tell was made of the special material which was usually only used to contain highly sensitive materials that are conducive to Mana.
"Ever since you awakened your Mana nucleus, and your origin skill, I had been waiting for the moment you have your origin awakening since they say only after an origin awakens its true form could it actually receive the true powers meant for their possessors."
She had a helpless expression as she said that.
'She wanted this to be a surprise and see my stunned reaction to it or something, and if not for dad, the suspense would have definitely been greater.'
But he really destroyed everything with that little information of his…
"I had been waiting for you to awaken your origin, and have a body reformation thing that the origin skill possessors usually go through and become better than your cute younger self, but my dream remained dreams after that incident."
And now, she was sad after thinking back about what had happened to me and the things I went through.
"Mom. It wasn't-"
"I know, sweety. I know."
All of that was in the past now and though not completely, she was over the fact that I had to go through all that.
She wasn't crying at the very least, so this was at least good.
"When you were back and told us how you still did not have your origin awakening, I was worried at the start, but then again, you have never been the same as the regular children.
You have been special, different from everyone else. And, since you already have a number of skills when you came back, I waited for the time when you have your origin awakening and can finally choose the skills that you actually want."
She carefully opened the box with her hands, inside the attractive looking box, as I had already guessed, sat colourful Crystals. Pretty colourful crystals, all of them one of a kind.
"I collected them over the years in hope that you will have an easier time choosing the skills that you will actually need over the ones you had no choice but to use.
These are the best and most special of them all."
The skill stones handcrafted into a crystal form by a master craftsman sat inside the long box, attractive crystals with skills that were all (Blue) rank or above.
"Wow mom, these-"
"Haaaaa… I wanted to see a stunned expression, a genuine surprise that I can remember for the longest time, but that bastard husband of mine ruined everything."
She was sad. She wasn't crying but she was sad and there was nothing that was going to cure that sadness of hers but an apology from dad.
He will have to work hard on the mess that he had created here, and I know it won't be easy for him. She will do everything to make it uneasy for him.
"Haaaaa. Anyway, it seems like you like them."
"Like? These are amazing, mom!"
Since raw high grade skill stones were mostly quite large in size, moving them from one place to the other without special means like the box mom was using was quite difficult.
The box itself was necessary, but if one did not have it, and the individual have to store and carry the skill stones for a longer period of time, then there was a chance the skill stones might lose their effectiveness or by being in the contact of the environmental Mana, skill might just get marked onto the body of the one carrying them.
'That's why with the larger and higher grade Mana stores, they took a safety measure and not only did they convert the raw skill stones into special crystal forms, they also coated them in unique materials that would prevent the leak of any Mana of the skill stone.'
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?!
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