After resting for two hours, the corpses of the slimes around us start shining and disappearing.
In their place, beautiful sparkly stones remain.
"Soul stones!" Elise declared happily upon noticing the glimmer of light penetrating one of them reflecting close to her.
"The monsters vanished?" I ask surprised as I notice the shining stones on the ground close by.
"Yes! Slimes in specific since they are fully made of mana are completely absorbed by the soul stones!" Elise explained with passion filling confidence in her knowledge.
"That's interesting," Aurora added calmly with an expressionless face.
"Other creatures we have to dissect or dismantle them and find the soul stones, and we can use some of their parts to sell too."
'Dissecting or dismantling? Sounds like something that'd give me more disgrace.'
"Are those names you mentioned skills?" I ask curiously as I have much to learn from this world and Elise seems like someone who enjoys explaining.
"Yes, they're skills used by some adventurers there're even people who specialize in it, as the better the corpse parts the more money they can earn with it."
"If the goods aren't damaged it makes sense the crafter would be able to do a better job with the materials."
"Exactly! Blacksmiths even use these soul stones to craft all kinds of equipment some adventurers save the good ones for that purpose."
Aurora starts collecting them and placing them inside the bag as I drink some water.
"You want some?" I ask since mother always tells me that sharing is caring and well she's a good girl.
"I'm good thank you Iris," Elise replied smiling.
'She seems really happy being around us, I check status.'
10 mana has been deducted.
Status:
Level: 1 | Experience 80/100
Fame: 60 | Disgrace: 4270
Class: Witch | Rank 1 | Experience 80/2000
Race: Human | Name: Iris | 8 Years old
Health: 300/460 | Mana: 162/830
Status Points:0
Strength: 133 | Stamina: 46 | Agility: 85 | Dexterity: 107 | Intelligence: 71 | Wisdom: 81(+2)
Attack: 10 | Magic Attack:0 | Defense:0 | Magic Defense: 0
Soul: 1950
Titles: Reincarnated+(S), Mana(S), Mana Exhaust(S), Health(S), Beginner Reader(S), Purchase(E), Wisdom(F), Reader Series(D), Body Training(B), Animal Slayer(S), Intermediate Reader(S), Cooked Fish(S), Preyed Upon(F), Cheater (S), Heritage(S), Amalgam(S), Ice(S), Cooked Bird(F), Cooking Series (E), Slayer Series(F), Sale(E), Advanced Reader(C), Soul-bound(S), Element(F), Contracted(S), Peasant (F), Class(C), Monster Slayer(F), Slime Slayer(F), Skill Mastery(F).
Completed Series: Fishing(S), Farming(S).
Skill Points: 1
Actives: Status level 40(D), System Library level 20(E), Mana Coat level 5(F), Mana Wave level 1(F), Ice Bind level 1(F).
Passives: Bleeding Resistance level 10(F), Swordsmanship level 20(E), Sword Mastery level 10(F), Mana Control level 20(E), Ice Control level 10(F), Slight Wisdom Boost level 2(F), Slight Mana Recovery level 2(F), Acid Resistance level 1(F).
Unique: Appraisal level 2.
Cursed: Unidentified Skill.
Rare Element: Ice.
Cursed Soul-bound(Grimoire Rank F: 7/100)
'10 attack from using mother sword, not that it helps against slimes due to the physical immunity, but its good to have in case we run into something else.'
'Seems like I won a skill point from one of the titles, we killed 7 slimes in total and slime slayer is still at its lowest I wonder how many we need to defeat, those things were strong.'
'If I had mana I would've appraised them to see what kind of information I'd get, even though, I'm not sure appraisal can be used in living beings.'
'Since it is a unique skill I suspect it can, it is a grade above S after all, otherwise, it wouldn't show in a different place than the rest of the things, that is if skills are similar to titles in terms of ranking which I hope they are, this world is a little too complex in something's.'
"Iris, Aurora, would you two like to go lunch at my place?" She asks curiously as she looks at me looking at something invisible.
"Sure, we'd be happy to!" I reply with a smile without taking my eyes of the status.
"Let's go then!" She starts walking towards the village happily.
"Sister, did you receive any title from all this?" I ask her with a quiet voice.
"Not really."
"So killing things doesn't work either..." I say with a disappointed tone that matches Aurora's one.
She shrugs.
"I guess we'll have to fill the grimoire rank and see what it does, perhaps the result from it will give you enough statuses to keep up the title difference."
"Perhaps," she sighs which makes me imagine a grimoire sneezing.
"Even though you're plenty strong as you are right now."
"1 out of 1 million of my original strength," she says coldly while reminiscing about the past.
'Just how strong was she in our past life? Was her strength the reason why they had to seal her since they couldn't fight her directly?'
We followed Elise to her home to lunch there and then we headed to the adventurers guild.
4 hours later we arrive at the guild.
"Leonorrrrrrr," I shout from the entrance grabbing everyone's attention.
Upon hearing that the receptionist chuckles and smiles waving at us.
We head there ignoring the adventurers around us.
Once we arrive Leonor speaks, "Hello Iris how are you? Didn't know you had a twin."
'I don't remember registering her at the guild, must've been a different colleague of mine.'
"I'm doing well, she's Aurora we just came from the farming fields, we took a break after fighting 6 clear slimes and a blue slime for the quest."
"Nice to meet you Aurora, and a blue slime? That's an advanced species with an element, it must've evolved after consuming mana and water from somewhere!"
"Isn't it normal for slimes to have colors?"
"It's pretty normal for them to be immune to some elements and even having a certain color that shows it off, but it's far from their usual territory."
"They have a... base?" I ask confused as I've never of that from my parents before.
"Yes, all monsters and beasts have a... sort of a nest we could say."
"Why doesn't the guild destroy the nest so that you don't have more problems with slimes?"
The moment I finish my question an adventurer starts laughing behind us.
"If only it was that easy, those nests are filled with very strong monsters, after all this time I've never heard of anyone successfully going inside a nest and come back alive."
"Are they really that dangerous? Not even the past heroes were able to clean them?"
"Well the heroes were a great help, but they're not invincible so they would die too, swarmed by monsters."
"Then isn't there a chance that a swarm of monsters comes running to this village destroying everything?"
"Yes, but monsters are usually fighting other monsters or beasts, so the leftovers usually roam to human territories where we dispatch adventurers or the army to deal with them and slimes come from the south territory so these that you fought today are the very weakest of their species."
"I understand, thank you for the explanation sir, by the way, Elise here a healer would like to register as a member of the guild," I pull her closer to Leonor.
"Hello, Leonor!" She says with an excited face while grabbing her fingers crossed into each other hands.
"Welcome Elise, we usually hold an exam for newcomers, this applies to people under 16 except support classes such as yourself."
"So I can become an adventurer just like that?"
"Yes, as long as you're older than the minimum age which is 10," she stares at me.
I look away knowing I got in being younger.
"I'm 11, so I can join!"
"Very well follow me so we can get you a card."
After a while, she returns with it.
"Keep in mind that due to you being under 15 you can only do quests if you're in a party."
"I can't do any alone?"
"It's too dangerous for a healer class or any of the support type to do them alone, plus you're underage so that's the condition."
"I understand..."
"Since we all have a card and we all did the same quest I'd like to exchange these soul stones for this quest."
We all give Leonor the card and the bag with them.
"I'll update the quest, but the quest hasn't been cleared as there's three times the size of the slimes you mentioned you killed."
"Sure!" I say with the expectation of finishing it in the future.
"Also Elise, whenever you need a party just talk to me and I'll enlist you in one, it is one of the jobs we receptionists do."
"Alright I will, thank you!" She smiles.
"Here you go 35 copper for each of you and 14 points from the 7 slimes."
"Thank you, Leonor," me and Elise say in unison.
"You're very welcome, so what did you think about one of the weakest monsters miss underaged that became an adventurer?"
"They were a little tough, and well the numbers were also troublesome."
"You girls got lucky it was only 7 slimes that you fought, but imagine the whole gang that the quest mentioned was there, how would it be?"
"We'd kill the ones we could and then run away!"
Leonor starts laughing," yes, survival above everything else, it is a wise way to go about it, and don't you ever forget to preserve your lives no matter what!"
"Yes ma'am!" We shout in unison happily aside from Aurora who just observes everything and everyone around us with her icy blue eyes.
'Her twin sister Aurora is so quiet, for twins they couldn't be more different, and her eyes look cold and have a different color than Iris's, how intriguing... it's rare to see a blonde girl and also eyes like theirs...'
"What eye and hair color do your parents have Iris?"
"Hum? My dad is brown both, and my mother is blonde with brown eyes."
"Yet their daughters turned out with green and blue eyes, that's unusual..."
"I guess? I don't really know much about eye colors..."
"Ah, don't worry, there's nothing wrong about it, their just a rare color in Lumen kingdom along with the red and blonde hair, that is almost extinct..."
"Isn't this the only human kingdom that exists? Yet the color is rare?"
"Yes... There may exist some noble families that still preserve the blonde and red color, but since the church is more interested in black hair due to the heroes and the goddess Aria..."
"I see, it ends up affecting what others want for their children, is that it?" Aurora says hitting right in the point.
"Yes, pretty much, you're wise for a kid."
She laughs and says, "thank you."
"Miss Leonor, I'd like for you to check different parties that require a healer, I'm okay with any rank."
"Certainly, and you might be okay with any rank but 2 above and 2 below is the max, but since you're a healer I'll try to find a D party so that you can learn and grow up stronger faster," she smiled at Elise.
I look at my friend Elise confused who was so happy partying with us earlier today.
She looks at me noticing my face and says, "I'll party with you whenever you need my help, but I want to become stronger fast and learn what I can from experienced adventurers."
'So that was it... for a moment I thought she didn't want to party with us anymore...'
I smile at her resolution," sure! Hope you can become strong fast Elise"
We then split up and head to our homes stopping near the fountain on the way.
An hour passes after we talk a bit with Elise by the fountain and we then arrive at home.
"We're home!" I say loudly so that my parents can hear me.
"Welcome home Iris, mother told me everything, you look awful, heal"
Notice: Health has been completely recovered.
"That's a strong heal dad!" I say with a surprised face.
"Been using it for decades, I'd be disappointed if it wasn't! Dad laughed.
Dad waved his hand at Aurora looking serious while smiling and said "light smite."
"Darkness barrier," she said in a cold tone while raising her hand while looking ominous.
The light pierced her barrier burning her hand for a while, once it started hurting her a lot dad closed his hand, then opened it again and cast heal.
Aurora tilted her head in confusion afterward without moaning in pain or saying anything enduring everything as if she was used to it while thinking about what had happened, 'so that was the unique light element my nemesis,' she thought.
"What was that dad!?" I shout confused.
"A little test, was checking how strong Aurora is," in his mind, he thought, 'and also if she'd attack me back, but all she did was defend herself despite being harmed.'
"Come let's talk the three of us," dad turns around and when he does I whisper to Aurora.
"I'm sorry sister, I didn't expect that."
Her cold gaze meets my kind one and says, "it's alright, I kind of get what's on his mind."
After resting for two hours, the corpses of the slimes around us start shining and disappearing.
In their place, beautiful sparkly stones remain.
"Soul stones!" Elise declared happily upon noticing the glimmer of light penetrating one of them reflecting close to her.
"The monsters vanished?" I ask surprised as I notice the shining stones on the ground close by.
"Yes! Slimes in specific since they are fully made of mana are completely absorbed by the soul stones!" Elise explained with passion filling confidence in her knowledge.
"That's interesting," Aurora added calmly with an expressionless face.
"Other creatures we have to dissect or dismantle them and find the soul stones, and we can use some of their parts to sell too."
'Dissecting or dismantling? Sounds like something that'd give me more disgrace.'
"Are those names you mentioned skills?" I ask curiously as I have much to learn from this world and Elise seems like someone who enjoys explaining.
"Yes, they're skills used by some adventurers there're even people who specialize in it, as the better the corpse parts the more money they can earn with it."
"If the goods aren't damaged it makes sense the crafter would be able to do a better job with the materials."
"Exactly! Blacksmiths even use these soul stones to craft all kinds of equipment some adventurers save the good ones for that purpose."
Aurora starts collecting them and placing them inside the bag as I drink some water.
"You want some?" I ask since mother always tells me that sharing is caring and well she's a good girl.
"I'm good thank you Iris," Elise replied smiling.
'She seems really happy being around us, I check status.'
10 mana has been deducted.
Status:
Level: 1 | Experience 80/100
Fame: 60 | Disgrace: 4270
Class: Witch | Rank 1 | Experience 80/2000
Race: Human | Name: Iris | 8 Years old
Health: 300/460 | Mana: 162/830
Status Points:0
Strength: 133 | Stamina: 46 | Agility: 85 | Dexterity: 107 | Intelligence: 71 | Wisdom: 81(+2)
Attack: 10 | Magic Attack:0 | Defense:0 | Magic Defense: 0
Soul: 1950
Titles: Reincarnated+(S), Mana(S), Mana Exhaust(S), Health(S), Beginner Reader(S), Purchase(E), Wisdom(F), Reader Series(D), Body Training(B), Animal Slayer(S), Intermediate Reader(S), Cooked Fish(S), Preyed Upon(F), Cheater (S), Heritage(S), Amalgam(S), Ice(S), Cooked Bird(F), Cooking Series (E), Slayer Series(F), Sale(E), Advanced Reader(C), Soul-bound(S), Element(F), Contracted(S), Peasant (F), Class(C), Monster Slayer(F), Slime Slayer(F), Skill Mastery(F).
Completed Series: Fishing(S), Farming(S).
Skill Points: 1
Actives: Status level 40(D), System Library level 20(E), Mana Coat level 5(F), Mana Wave level 1(F), Ice Bind level 1(F).
Passives: Bleeding Resistance level 10(F), Swordsmanship level 20(E), Sword Mastery level 10(F), Mana Control level 20(E), Ice Control level 10(F), Slight Wisdom Boost level 2(F), Slight Mana Recovery level 2(F), Acid Resistance level 1(F).
Unique: Appraisal level 2.
Cursed: Unidentified Skill.
Rare Element: Ice.
Cursed Soul-bound(Grimoire Rank F: 7/100)
'10 attack from using mother sword, not that it helps against slimes due to the physical immunity, but its good to have in case we run into something else.'
'Seems like I won a skill point from one of the titles, we killed 7 slimes in total and slime slayer is still at its lowest I wonder how many we need to defeat, those things were strong.'
'If I had mana I would've appraised them to see what kind of information I'd get, even though, I'm not sure appraisal can be used in living beings.'
'Since it is a unique skill I suspect it can, it is a grade above S after all, otherwise, it wouldn't show in a different place than the rest of the things, that is if skills are similar to titles in terms of ranking which I hope they are, this world is a little too complex in something's.'
"Iris, Aurora, would you two like to go lunch at my place?" She asks curiously as she looks at me looking at something invisible.
"Sure, we'd be happy to!" I reply with a smile without taking my eyes of the status.
"Let's go then!" She starts walking towards the village happily.
"Sister, did you receive any title from all this?" I ask her with a quiet voice.
"Not really."
"So killing things doesn't work either..." I say with a disappointed tone that matches Aurora's one.
She shrugs.
"I guess we'll have to fill the grimoire rank and see what it does, perhaps the result from it will give you enough statuses to keep up the title difference."
"Perhaps," she sighs which makes me imagine a grimoire sneezing.
"Even though you're plenty strong as you are right now."
"1 out of 1 million of my original strength," she says coldly while reminiscing about the past.
'Just how strong was she in our past life? Was her strength the reason why they had to seal her since they couldn't fight her directly?'
We followed Elise to her home to lunch there and then we headed to the adventurers guild.
4 hours later we arrive at the guild.
"Leonorrrrrrr," I shout from the entrance grabbing everyone's attention.
Upon hearing that the receptionist chuckles and smiles waving at us.
We head there ignoring the adventurers around us.
Once we arrive Leonor speaks, "Hello Iris how are you? Didn't know you had a twin."
'I don't remember registering her at the guild, must've been a different colleague of mine.'
"I'm doing well, she's Aurora we just came from the farming fields, we took a break after fighting 6 clear slimes and a blue slime for the quest."
"Nice to meet you Aurora, and a blue slime? That's an advanced species with an element, it must've evolved after consuming mana and water from somewhere!"
"Isn't it normal for slimes to have colors?"
"It's pretty normal for them to be immune to some elements and even having a certain color that shows it off, but it's far from their usual territory."
"They have a... base?" I ask confused as I've never of that from my parents before.
"Yes, all monsters and beasts have a... sort of a nest we could say."
"Why doesn't the guild destroy the nest so that you don't have more problems with slimes?"
The moment I finish my question an adventurer starts laughing behind us.
"If only it was that easy, those nests are filled with very strong monsters, after all this time I've never heard of anyone successfully going inside a nest and come back alive."
"Are they really that dangerous? Not even the past heroes were able to clean them?"
"Well the heroes were a great help, but they're not invincible so they would die too, swarmed by monsters."
"Then isn't there a chance that a swarm of monsters comes running to this village destroying everything?"
"Yes, but monsters are usually fighting other monsters or beasts, so the leftovers usually roam to human territories where we dispatch adventurers or the army to deal with them and slimes come from the south territory so these that you fought today are the very weakest of their species."
"I understand, thank you for the explanation sir, by the way, Elise here a healer would like to register as a member of the guild," I pull her closer to Leonor.
"Hello, Leonor!" She says with an excited face while grabbing her fingers crossed into each other hands.
"Welcome Elise, we usually hold an exam for newcomers, this applies to people under 16 except support classes such as yourself."
"So I can become an adventurer just like that?"
"Yes, as long as you're older than the minimum age which is 10," she stares at me.
I look away knowing I got in being younger.
"I'm 11, so I can join!"
"Very well follow me so we can get you a card."
After a while, she returns with it.
"Keep in mind that due to you being under 15 you can only do quests if you're in a party."
"I can't do any alone?"
"It's too dangerous for a healer class or any of the support type to do them alone, plus you're underage so that's the condition."
"I understand..."
"Since we all have a card and we all did the same quest I'd like to exchange these soul stones for this quest."
We all give Leonor the card and the bag with them.
"I'll update the quest, but the quest hasn't been cleared as there's three times the size of the slimes you mentioned you killed."
"Sure!" I say with the expectation of finishing it in the future.
"Also Elise, whenever you need a party just talk to me and I'll enlist you in one, it is one of the jobs we receptionists do."
"Alright I will, thank you!" She smiles.
"Here you go 35 copper for each of you and 14 points from the 7 slimes."
"Thank you, Leonor," me and Elise say in unison.
"You're very welcome, so what did you think about one of the weakest monsters miss underaged that became an adventurer?"
"They were a little tough, and well the numbers were also troublesome."
"You girls got lucky it was only 7 slimes that you fought, but imagine the whole gang that the quest mentioned was there, how would it be?"
"We'd kill the ones we could and then run away!"
Leonor starts laughing," yes, survival above everything else, it is a wise way to go about it, and don't you ever forget to preserve your lives no matter what!"
"Yes ma'am!" We shout in unison happily aside from Aurora who just observes everything and everyone around us with her icy blue eyes.
'Her twin sister Aurora is so quiet, for twins they couldn't be more different, and her eyes look cold and have a different color than Iris's, how intriguing... it's rare to see a blonde girl and also eyes like theirs...'
"What eye and hair color do your parents have Iris?"
"Hum? My dad is brown both, and my mother is blonde with brown eyes."
"Yet their daughters turned out with green and blue eyes, that's unusual..."
"I guess? I don't really know much about eye colors..."
"Ah, don't worry, there's nothing wrong about it, their just a rare color in Lumen kingdom along with the red and blonde hair, that is almost extinct..."
"Isn't this the only human kingdom that exists? Yet the color is rare?"
"Yes... There may exist some noble families that still preserve the blonde and red color, but since the church is more interested in black hair due to the heroes and the goddess Aria..."
"I see, it ends up affecting what others want for their children, is that it?" Aurora says hitting right in the point.
"Yes, pretty much, you're wise for a kid."
She laughs and says, "thank you."
"Miss Leonor, I'd like for you to check different parties that require a healer, I'm okay with any rank."
"Certainly, and you might be okay with any rank but 2 above and 2 below is the max, but since you're a healer I'll try to find a D party so that you can learn and grow up stronger faster," she smiled at Elise.
I look at my friend Elise confused who was so happy partying with us earlier today.
She looks at me noticing my face and says, "I'll party with you whenever you need my help, but I want to become stronger fast and learn what I can from experienced adventurers."
'So that was it... for a moment I thought she didn't want to party with us anymore...'
I smile at her resolution," sure! Hope you can become strong fast Elise"
We then split up and head to our homes stopping near the fountain on the way.
An hour passes after we talk a bit with Elise by the fountain and we then arrive at home.
"We're home!" I say loudly so that my parents can hear me.
"Welcome home Iris, mother told me everything, you look awful, heal"
Notice: Health has been completely recovered.
"That's a strong heal dad!" I say with a surprised face.
"Been using it for decades, I'd be disappointed if it wasn't! Dad laughed.
Dad waved his hand at Aurora looking serious while smiling and said "light smite."
"Darkness barrier," she said in a cold tone while raising her hand while looking ominous.
The light pierced her barrier burning her hand for a while, once it started hurting her a lot dad closed his hand, then opened it again and cast heal.
Aurora tilted her head in confusion afterward without moaning in pain or saying anything enduring everything as if she was used to it while thinking about what had happened, 'so that was the unique light element my nemesis,' she thought.
"What was that dad!?" I shout confused.
"A little test, was checking how strong Aurora is," in his mind, he thought, 'and also if she'd attack me back, but all she did was defend herself despite being harmed.'
"Come let's talk the three of us," dad turns around and when he does I whisper to Aurora.
"I'm sorry sister, I didn't expect that."
Her cold gaze meets my kind one and says, "it's alright, I kind of get what's on his mind."
