Ch.15 You're Finally Here, Status Screen-San

The grassland in the first area was chosen as the place to practice appraisal, which was called a study session.

Certainly, we won't need permission to appraise anything here.

"Now, I will teach you about appraisal magic. If there is anything you don't understand, please feel free to ask me."

The study session led by the Grandpa Sensei has begun.

Well, I use it frequently in games, or rather, I use it all the time, so I know how to use it.

However, just knowing about it doesn't mean I can use it.

So I'll participate seriously.

"First of all, how many of you can sense the magic within yourself?"

Of the 14 people participating in the study group, only one raised their hand. It was me.

"Hmm, so the others will have start from there. It will take a while to sense the magical power, so I will first teach that fairy over there the next step."

The next step is to have a strong desire to learn more about it.

The point is to keep looking at the grass growing everywhere, wanting to know more about it.

After teaching me this, Grandpa Sensei talks to the other players about how to feel magical power.

"To use magic, you need to use your own magical power, but magical power is actually generated from an organ called the magic organ..."

I ignored the explanation I already knew and started to look at the grass.

That being said, all I'm doing is just watching and it's boring, but this is an important step.

To begin with, I am now a fairy. I am a mass of magical power itself. It is easy for me to sense the flow of magical power.

I struggled in the first game just like the other players here, but I started off by asking myself, "What's magic organs?"

Unlike in the game, there are no such organs in real life, so I had to start by understanding where the magic organ is, how magical power flows through the body, and what happens to magical power when I cast a spell. If I didn't know that, I wouldn't be able to use magic in the first place.

That's why this first step is the most difficult. Once they've mastered it, learning magic is easy.

It goes without saying that it's more difficult than other games where you can use magic right away.

"That's about it. Now, take this plant and open your heart. Let your desire to know flow."

It seems that some time had passed, and before I knew it, Sensei was standing next to me and handing me the grass.

Now the final step, the mind's eye.

It means focusing your desire to know on one point and applying all your strength to it. It's pretty much the same as the previous step.

If I do the same thing to the grass I was given, I will learn the appraisal magic.

Here, I will explain why just knowing about it is not enough to use it.

In this game world, almost all magic, sorcery, and skills can be used by having someone teach you how.

The most important thing to be able to use something is to have learned it.

So, for example, let's say your current character can use fire magic, but for some reason you create a new character and start over.

This time, you remember the feeling you had learned with your previous character and begins practicing on your own.

However, since your new character have not been taught or learned the magic from someone, you cannot use them no matter how much you practice on your own.

Learn, understand, and practice. If you can do this, you can master it if you have the luck to succeed.

"...Huh? One more time..."

Like this...

"Yeah, I can't feel it yet. Hmm..."

Like this...

[You have acquired <Magic: Appraisal>.]

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[Material Item: Medicinal Herb]

★☆☆☆☆

A herb with healing properties, often used to make potions.

The stem has broken, and some of the healing ingredients inside have flown out.

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A translucent window suddenly appeared in front of me.

I got it on the third try. My luck is pretty good.

By the way, the people who can teach these stuff are also a living being, so when they have something to do or it's time to go home, they just go home.

Therefore, if you are unable to learn by that time, you will have to pay to learn again at a later date.

If you don't like that, I think it's best to just buy a spellbook and learn on your own from the start.

Read every page, understand it thoroughly, and then practice what is written. That is, if you don't think it's too much trouble.

But it's been a while, Status Screen-san. I kept calling out to you over and over, not giving up, wondering if it would come out or not.

You didn't even try to call me (obviously).

Anyway, with this, I have learned the appraisal magic.

This doesn't quite achieve my goal... so let's get a reading to find out more about who I am now.

To use the appraisal magic, I need to specify what I want to know and say the word appraise.

"Appraise myself"

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Name: Vester

Age: 0 years 3 months

Species: Blood-rotten Tree Fairy

Main Job : None

Sub Job : None

MP : 95/100

STR : 8

VIT : 9

AGI : 15

DEX : 12

LUK : 11

<Magic>

・Appraisal

<Species-specific Skills>

・Blood-Rotten Tree Powder Lv.1

<Equipment List>

Head: None

Body: None

Arms: None

Waist: None

Legs: None

Accessories︰Magic Bag

Title: None

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After appraising myself, I realized that I was indeed naked.

You might be wondering why that was the first thing that bothered me, but since it did bother me, there's nothing I can do about it.

Although I managed to not make a loud noise, I think I still made a strange face. I'm glad the other players weren't looking at me during the study session.

Turning my eyes away from the fact that I'm naked, there's a name. So I have a name, huh. I wonder who gave it to me.

I didn't name it myself, so ... Is it the God (AI)? Or my mother tree?

I might be able tell who named me by whether I was born from year 0 or 1, probably?

Next, age is exactly what it is, so let's skip to my race.

This is it. I think it's because I sucked up the liquid that came out from that pitiful Cern.

I certainly looked rotten. The black color was just too obvious.

I didn't want to suck it, but it was impossible to stop sucking it. It had soaked into the surrounding soil, so when the soil replenished its moisture it got absorbed into the soil.

The result is a race called the Blood-rotten Tree...

What's a Blood-rotten Tree? I don't know how to read it. Please put it on the status screen. If I read it as it is, it becomes "Rotten Blood Tree" which is kind of annoying.

I have no choice but to think up a reading of it myself. Yes, "Stinky Blood Tree." It's getting a bit difficult to read.

(TL : I'm sorry, it's hard to translate when they're talking about how to read kanjis, so please bear with me here)

There is no indication that I have HP. At first I was confused, but I think I know the reason why.

This is because I have a magical body. I think magical body would have no HP.

This body may look like a flesh and blood body, but in reality it is merely a collection of magical powers that have taken shape. It is a body, yet not a body.

In other words, since it is not flesh and blood body, there is no indication of HP, but instead, MP are responsible for that role. Is that why I have so many of them compared to the others?

Thinking about it, I discovered a problem when using magic.

Normally, when using magic, one only uses MP, but in my case, it could be said that I use both MP and HP, so using magic ends up draining my body.

If I receive further attacks, it will decrease in the same way.

It seems that without realizing it, I got a masochistic body.

Even if my MP would run out and this body were to disappear, it would be easy to recreate it, but since I would be forced to return to the main body in the fairy forest, it would be more troublesome to have to move from there again. My Magic Bag would also be left behind where my body disappeared.

In order to avoid this kind of hassle, I need to know how much MP the spell I'm about to use will consume.

So again,

"Appraise myself"

Yeah, it's down by 5. Wait, my MP just increased. Look, there it is again.

For some reason, my MP recovers 1 point per second.

Could it be that this is related to the magical power flowing from the main body connected to this body?

It's like an automatic recovery.

But honestly, it only recovers 1 point at a time, so it's a bit questionable as a sustain. fighting while avoiding enemy attacks seems like a good style for me. I wonder if I can be that dexterous though.

So, I'll go hunt some monsters nearby to get some practical practice.

When I appraised the strange racial skill, it looked like an attack skill.

"Seld-san, I was able to learn the appraisal magic without any problems. Thank you for your guidance."

"That's good. Please continue to use it with a good mind's eye."

I thanked the Grandpa Sensei who taught me and left the study group before the other student players.

I'm now flying over the grasslands in search of monsters.

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〘Magic System〙

In this game world, magical power is as essential as oxygen or blood.

Races and monsters that can use magic have an organ called the magic organ, where magical energy is generated and circulates throughout the body.

There is no human being who does not have magical powers.

〘Rarity〙

All items have a rarity.

They are rated from 1 to 5 stars, and occasionally if they are really bad they can get 0 stars.

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