The Absolute Speed of a Certain Comic 118

Title: Skill Ten Years of Sharpening a Sword

Moving the bench and sitting in front of Loki, Hoshiharu removed his dusty top, revealing his white back, which caused Loki’s previously relaxed expression to suddenly freeze.

“Ahem... let’s get started!”

Loki took a needle from the debris beside the bed, pricked the pad of her index finger, and after drawing blood, she pressed the blood on Hoshiharu’s back, then traced some sort of ritual mark back and forth.

Ripples, like water, spread across Hoshiharu’s back. The Sacred Text gradually faded, and then new Ability Values appeared.

Loki only glanced at the basic abilities and focused on the skill column.

Soon after, her expression slightly froze.

As expected, new Sacred Text appeared in the skill column.

But it seemed not quite what she had anticipated.

“We need to wait a bit longer.”

She silently guessed in her heart.

“Okay, here you go.”

Loki translated the Ability Values into the common language, then printed them and handed them to Hoshiharu.

Hoshiharu took it and looked into the large mirror in front of Loki’s bed. The Sacred Text on his back could be seen in the mirror.

His eyes flickered slightly, then he calmly looked at the parchment.

...

Nangou Hoshiharu

Power: I (0) > I (31)

Endurance: I (0) > I (27)

Dexterity: I (0) > I (48)

Agility: I (0) > I (55)

Magic Power: I (0) > I (4)

Magic:

Skill:
【Ten Years of Sharpening a Sword】
· Unyielding, able to continue fighting even when severely injured.
· Go to extremes and fight with the sword to maximize potential as a swordsman.

...

“You must have reached quite deep floors, right?”

“Spent one day on the 10th Floor.”

“No wonder, people in the mortal world experience rapid progress when they first become adventurers. On average, they can reach around H within half a month. But that’s when people are still beginners, you are a professional, and you have reached such a level. It’s normal to enter deep floors, but it might slow down later!”

The essence of divine blessing is to convert the history you experience into nutrients for growth. In other words, the more you experience, the faster you grow.

In other words, as long as you keep fighting and gaining enough experience points, you can keep developing.

Eventually getting closer to God.

“By the way, did you know, kid? Skills are mostly related to one’s nature or interests.”

Loki showed a sly smile like a fox, “It seems you used to nearly die often, right? And your magic power is also very intriguing. You obviously don’t have magic, but it actually increased.”

There is no regularity in the triggering time of a skill, but after thousands of years of observation, the gods have understood the conditions for the appearance of skills.

The emergence of a skill, in addition to the tendency of one’s own experience points, is also related to one’s own nature and interests, whatever the nature, a skill close to that nature may emerge.

Hoshiharu’s skill must refer to the nearly ten years he spent honing his sword, and the skill 【Ten Years of Sharpening a Sword】 clearly refers to his continuous near-death experiences.

Not only that, in Loki’s eyes, Hoshiharu’s magic power increase was even stranger.

Ability Values must be increased through corresponding training.

Take Endurance, for example. As long as you keep getting beaten, whether by humans or monsters, you must train this aspect to increase your endurance value.

Conversely, if you don’t receive any blows, your endurance won’t increase at all.

Similarly, only if magic power is used, the magic power project will increase.

However, magic power is a type of spiritual energy used only when using magic. In other words, magic power only increases after using magic.

Hoshiharu doesn’t have magic, but his magic power increased independently. This means there must be a secret about magic power within him.

In other words, there is innate magic within him.

Hoshiharu said nothing, agreeing.

“Well, although I’m very curious, if you don’t want to tell me, I won’t force you to. Everyone has secrets.”

Loki shook her head and swirled the bottle nonchalantly.

“Thank you.”

Hoshiharu nodded and thanked her.

The atmosphere of the Loki Familia was indeed good.

Although nice, he had just joined this Familia, and his relationship with the people here wasn’t that good yet. If the secret of <<Absolute Speed>> was exposed and attracted some unnecessary dirty business, it would be troublesome.

If one day, he found out that the members of this Familia could trust him unconditionally like Touka, it wouldn’t be too late.

“But, what’s up with my skill?”

Hoshiharu looked down and saw the skill column at the bottom of the parchment, somewhat puzzled.

The skill seemed to have two effects that could be considered very strong. The first effect was easy to understand as “continued battle.”

But the second effect was harder to grasp.

Maximize your potential as a swordsman. What does that potential mean?

“This often happens. The explanation of blessings is like guessing riddles. You can understand it after experimenting yourself.”

Loki waved her hand, swirling the wine bottle in her arms, with a crazy smile on her face, “Hurry back, I’m going to have fun with this little one!”

“One more thing, if I want to make an appointment later, how many days in advance should I inform you?”

“Huh? Oh, yes, there’s also this issue...”

Loki made an eight with one hand, propped her chin, and thought seriously for a moment.

“You’re still a newbie, so you need more attention, but updating every day would be too bothersome for me... How about updating every three days?”

“Every three days... That’s fine.”

Hoshiharu thought for a moment, but he didn’t feel disappointed.

Everything has its pros and cons. If he joined a top Familia like the Loki Familia, he would definitely lose something in other aspects. Although it’s not timely to update every day, every three days is almost enough.

Hoshiharu put on his clothes, turned around, and left Loki’s room.

After he left, Loki didn’t immediately open the bottle, and the impatient expression on her face slowly faded, revealing an expression of wisdom that was completely different from her usual indifferent demeanor.

She was very interested in Hoshiharu.

Hoshiharu not only had a charm that even the gods couldn’t match but also had many other secrets. He was indeed a very intriguing human.

If other gods found out, they would certainly pester him endlessly.

But since he had already joined her Familia, there was no need to rush for the time being. Loki wouldn’t act like other impatient gods chasing something new when they found something new.

And—

“Familia is Family... Ouranos really knows some beautiful words.”

Loki walked to the window and looked at the majestic Pantheon in the northwest street in the distance.

Gods must treat the children of their Familia as their own family.

This is a rule that has been followed in the lower realm of the gods for thousands of years.

Thanks to that, Loki’s character changed a lot.

For her Familia’s sake, she wouldn’t trigger a war as she did in heaven. Once she did it easily, her Familia would surely be dragged into the water, causing her children to become street rats.

“Well, it’s not too late for him to say what he wants to say~”

The serious expression on her face disappeared, and Loki happily took the wine bottle, aimed it at her mouth, and started drinking from it.

“Pfft! So happy~!”