Chapter 8 - (8) Problems With A Name (1/2)
”Pretty!” Melody yelled and reached for it
He promptly pulled another one out of his pouch and handed it to her. It didn't last long in her hands and was crushed almost instantly. She really didn't know how to be easy.
Michelle was inspecting the one that he'd given her when she heard Melody yell and point, ”Mommy! Book!”
She glanced over at her daughter, then back at Taylor. ”Well, I guess Albus is real, but you're still insane. What would have happened if you'd blown yourself up?”
”I would have died.” He said while shrugging. ”Now go ahead and crush that core so that you can get used to things.”
She just looked at him and sighed while doing what she was told. ”I'm going to blow you up myself if you don't start caring more about yourself.” She muttered.
They walked along in silence for a while. Taylor noticed that she continually made gestures in the air, or moved her eyes like she was reading pages. Melody had tried chasing her Grimoire around more than once and he had to keep catching he as she pulled too far away.
”Hey, what do you think I should do?” She asked after a while.
He frowned a bit and replied, ”It isn't for me to say. Even though I can make suggestions, whatever you choose is going to change how you live from now on. Your decisions will also affect the passive Talents that you're offered, which can dramatically change the way that you take on enemies, or protect the children.”
She nodded and thought for a while about what he'd said before making a decision. ”I'll just go with what I'm comfortable with then. As much as magic interests me, based on what you said, it will be complicated until there's already some collective information floating around. I'll add my points to Strength and Agility to make sure we can kill things quickly.”
He nodded at her choice, it was a smart move. She already had an idea of how to play a melee fighter roll in a party from the games they used to play. Even though this was real, he imagined that groups would be built similarly, and the same strategies would be applied the majority of the time.
”Very well.” He pulled out all of the Level 2 cores that he'd found and gave her enough to Level 4. This left him with 29. He didn't want her to get to Level 5 right away, her Grimoire needed to know which talents would best suit the way she thought while she was fighting.
'Albus, is there any type of party system?' He asked while she was crushing the cores.
:Yes, your Inventory page can toggle between the Inventory and what you would call a ”friend list”. It's a bit more complicated than that, however. The process actually links Grimoires in a way that lets them know you're friendly. Different abilities that can apply to multiple targets are affected by the link. You wouldn't want to cast a large scale curse and kill your friends, so to speak: