Chapter 12 - Raust’s Past I (1/2)

—Raust—

Skill, it was said to be an ability that people had innately.

For example, if you had a skill related to physical ability, you would be able to do some move which was impossible to imitate by the people who had no skills; or if you had magic strengthening skill, you could manipulate paranormal phenomena called magic.

And with those skills dictated how one’s fight, a classification of occupation were made.

And so, Skill was said to be an embodiment of human talent.

… But that was not entirely correct.

After all, skills only strengthened human ability.

A person with only 1 talent, even if the skill doubled it, it would only become 2.

In other words, no matter how many skills you had, you wouldn’t able to win against someone who originally had 3 talents.

Without skills, you wouldn’t be able to use magic, or your physical strength wouldn’t be strong enough, such was the common sense currently.

But, that was just presumption.

After all, people could still use magic even without skills, and you could strengthen your physical strength by daily training.

「Skills are just indicators.」

Magic power and ki, those were two concepts that were taught by the top-notch adventurer who I studied from by chance.

Those were the things that gave me the potential to become strong as long as I struggled hard enough despite my handicap of being a healer that could only cast 《Heal》.

That person taught me the concept of magic power and ki and how to use them which enabled me to do things which normal people would need to rely on skills to do the same.

I had studied under that person for several months.

That alone wouldn’t let me use the two powers perfectly.

Even still, I worked hard to get those powers and improving it by combining the insufficient parts.

Finally, I was able to get to the lower-layer which was the mark of first-class adventurers.

It was necessary to have a bloody training before I could get the power to go this far.

Certainly, I was more skillful than other people and was able to quickly learned how to handle magic power and ki.

However, not only I had a hard time learning it, I needed to improve it before I could use it.

Still, I didn’t give up and kept pursuing that ability.

I was ridiculed by other adventurers who never approved myself no matter how hard I tried, even so, I still kept going, all because of the one girl I met in the past…

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Skills had the effect that strengthened talent, but it was not the talent itself.

I properly understood that now.

…… However, there was no way I fully understood that when I became an adventurer.