I looked at the exploding terrorist, "I hope you go to hell so you can burn some more"
I cursed under my breath. I couldn't help but smile sadistically.
I stretched a bit before I ran towards where I came from; I looked down at the guards I had knocked down earlier. If not for that they were unconscious already, I wouldn't have felt any empathy for them and maybe break or cut off a limb or two.
I sprinted towards my room and looked inside just for security's sake. I then drove myself farther into the hallway, I then saw that the door was slightly open.
I opened it and to my surprise, I didn't find Elaine, there were several marks on the floor from what I guessed to be fire and the air was cool. What I guessed to be Elaine's wand was on the floor.
"I don't think she had time to retrieve her wand before the enemy came. Conjurers are weak without their wands or staff's before they reach a certain level." Ariel mentioned
I went over to "where I had spotted the burn mark, "Ariel can you analyze this, and tell me what could have made this"
"Well, I suppose that this was made by lightning magic the sub ability of fire. There are a few mana traces. I think I can track it back to the attacker, and there is no doubt Elaine used wind magic" she answered with a hint of pride in her AI voice.
I touched the burn mark a few more times, it was slightly warm. Why would someone want to kidnap Elaine, she maybe was from a powerful family I didn't doubt that. The ability to use necromancy was probably a rare ability.
"Ariel, could you tell me more about this world and the ability's," I asked
"Hmm, well you see there are three types of abilities. Mana or magic, Ki and Aure, let's start with mana. Mana is around everyone. And the magic ability has two categories in it. Elemental and non-elemental, the elemental magic art's is fire, air, earth, and water. And these elements have sub-ability's in them, as for fire that is lightning and smoke, the air is vortex, for earth is metal and magma and water is ice."
I already knew that from before, but Ariel's version was a better explanation. "So what about the non-elementals," I asked
"Well the non-elemental are affinity's can actually be anything, as long as it is not elemental. An example is maybe smoke magic or chain magic. But non-elemental magic craves more mana from the user's reserves. There are only elemental mana particles around us so the non-elemental users will have to absorb the elemental particles and refine them pure In their mana center. It is also possible to absorb pure-mana particles but there are more of the elemental particle's in the air" the AI explained
[Valuable knowledge learned: Intelligence has increased by 50]
"Can I become a mage now?"
There was a moment of silence between us before Ariel finally spoke "That will be hard considering the situation. Awakening should flow naturally"
"Can I awaken naturally? according to the countless novels and comics, I have been reading. There was no such thing as an outsider from another world awakens naturally. Probably because I'm not a special human like them, I don't have their natural awakening body instinct or whatever"
And again there was a moment of silence between us before she said "Well...you are right, but If I were to help you awaken..."
Ariel stopped at mid-sentence before she said "Imagine a round bowl of water and a tree plank that you are gonna place and push down in the water for the water to rise to the top without overflowing. And the bowl of water is your mana-core, and the plank is me forcing mana into you. To do this I would need a full system restart and some time to collect the nesscascery data"
I looked around the room and soon spotted that the window was broken, and shards of glass were on the bed. I went over and touched the remaining shard's, "Ariel can you use your analysis to see if there are mana traces around here"
"On it" the AI answered,
I couldn't help but smile "Well hello danger" It's blake's big rescue mission to retrieve Lady Elaine, from the proud lionheart family. "Analysis is done, If you jump down from the window, you might catch the intruder faster, while you are mid-air I can use analysis to detect him. With your durability and strength, you have a 90% chance of surviving. And he must have used magic to land, I doubt 99.99% that he is a "System holder" like you are. I haven't seen him so I can't tell yet" Ariel said with a hint of pride in her tone.
Well I climbed on the bed and looked down at it "Ariel what more can you use analysis on" I said as I searched on Elaine's bed to at least find a straw of hair " Can you analyze things like hair or blood, and find the owner" I asked
"Well... I can, but I can only tell you the owner and things like the owner, blood type, what abilities they have. I can't tell you the exact location as I could If I had enough mana traces or something similar" she answered
I opened my status window and looked at it for a while before I asked "Ariel, Agility means speed but I feel more flexible and I can jump super high. It's not like I have a category called 'flexibility or anything similar"
"Well if there were to be a category for every single thing the status window would look ugly and unprofessional. And would you like to see countless categories shoved in your face, if you click on a category there would be other minor categories under" she answered
I had to admit that she was right, but I chose 'Intelligence' and as I tapped on intelligence I saw my rating. The category's opened under Intelligence had a slightly smaller font.
[Intelligence: 65]:
[Dexterity: 32.5]
[Insight (Understanding for thing's): 32.5]
"The categories under are half of the one over them, with that dexterity you might be able to learn mana faster than the most" she mocked
"shut up, Ariel" I shot back, "I forgot to say that the under categories can increase themselves without increasing intelligence"
I just nodded in response, I then stood up facing the broken window "Well, Hello danger"
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