" Well, before I say what I wanted you to do, can you list out the names of your ability, and their special traits on top of it? " Mark exclaimed, wanted to know what's the hidden cards of levi were to begin with.
Though the skills along with her blessings had been clearly memorised by him, the abilities were a different concept to begin with.
They were the things which were not present on one's information card to begin with. The hidden abilities, which were able to mask themselves from being appraised by mark.
Though he had systems interface, which enables him to see through, almost everything, with a limitation of certain restrictions.
If an hidden ability of her was capable enough to aid him, he could very well clear this third division faster and may even proceed to the fourth part of the test track sooner than the case where he could do it by himself.
" My abilities... " Levi was a bit hesitant to exclaim out the list of her hidden abilities as they were her hidden cards to begin with.
If it weren't for the present conditions, which were forcing her to reveal her cards, she may seldom divulge it to her family, much less mark who was just a potential ally in her eyes that may be beneficial to her in future.
" Spatial cover... and Dark matter! " She exclaimed at an low tone, and her words were a bit hesitant to begin with.
" Spatial cover! " By its name mark was able to guess that it was some kind of defensive ability, but his eyes shined with anxiety, after listening to its details.
Since her cards are going to be revealed, and to formulate a perfect plan against the silver puppet, she shouldn't have to hide things from mark. So she started descending her abilities in brief. " The former one, spatial cover provides me with an indestructible armour. It can shield attacks from the peak cultivators of king class experts at ease, and also enables me to recieve few direct hits from weaker emperor class experts.
Though may sound like a life saving defensive ability, it has some serious draw backs. It could only be activated thrice a day, and each time it is activated it lasts around for a couple of minutes before its invisible protective coat dissipates in thin air, leaving me behind with a state of weakness lasting around for few minutes from then. "
" A perfect shield to begin with! " Mark reasoned inside, he was naturally excited after listening to it's properties.
This ability could help her at blocking the blows from the silver puppet head on but the problem of mana still remained a factor, which may drastically decrease the time before this ability loses its effect to become inactivated.
She then continued " The other one being called the dark matter. It is my signature ability!
Though by its name people tends to mistake it for an ability belonging to the darkness law but it's origins are truly derived from the laws of space itself!
Its main function is attraction!
It's effect is played predominant on the targets, to mutually attract them to each other by mass.
Can even attract the target towards my position or even help me at imposing unrealistic gravitational effect on targets.
At times it could create an inseparable adhesive force, binding the targets tightly as place, provided that they had a cultivation lower than that of my own.
The major flaws of the ability is in its limit, as it could only be used just once a day. Using it beyond its limit may cause internal injuries and bring more harm than good to its user. "
Though the limit of dark matter could be extended, beyond a one time use. Its just that the practitioner had to adapt himself well to the technique and increase his proficiency in using it.
Levi had just unlocked this ability of her, few years ago, and her proficiency in this skill was too shallow to let her perform this dark matter for a second time in a day.
Unlike before where she had exclaimed both her abilities freely. She waited for a couple of seconds, relaxing herself before exclaiming out an ability that made her embarrass a little.
" My last hidden ability is shadow swap. An ability which I obtained after unlocking the darkness law itself! "
" As the name suggests the position of the user gets swaps with the position of the target, presumably a live target, prerequisite that both the shadows need to make a cross over, to complete the requirements for this ability to work. "
The embarrassing part of the ability later came to his notice, though both the user and the target may exchange their positions, they could possibly bring along their clothes to begin with, during this swapping.
" Most of the times, the user finds himself being cross dressed into the cloths of his target, along side the valuables on his body. The artifacts and weapons which may be stored in the storage pouch and gets swapped along with it.
Unskilled users probably finds themselves being swapped naked, along side their target after the activating the skill.
This Levi had never practiced this skill until today, and could be considered unskilled in it. So it's better to refrain the use of this skill in our plan to deal with that puppet later. "
Nodding his head mark recollected the names of the abilities levi had. " Spacial cover! Dark matter! Shadow swap! One skill more interesting and complicated than the other.
Though this levi is not making use of her ability shadow swap, if pondered for a while it is the strongest hidden ability, she had unlocked with her darkness law.
If the enemy had pinned her down, pointing their blade over her neck, she could simply make use of this ability and turn the tides towards her favor. As she would be the one who would be pinning the blade over her enemies neck, as they did earlier, and emerge out a big winner out their fight.
Though the drawbacks are few, they are negligible in face of death, as she could be the last one standing in a long arduous battle between experts.
Though he came to knew her abilities, he had yet to form stratergise a plan that could let them win over the silver puppet.
Mark had a rough idea to deal against those puppets, but couldn't ensure its efficiency, so he decided to take systems advice, even if it ain't gonna be satisfactory, he isn't loosing much to begin with.
" System! Is there a way to defeat that silver coloured puppet, effectively! " Mark exclaimed internally.
" Ding! Responding to host, a way to defeat that puppet had been formulated, host has to pay an appropriate price to obtain that information! "
" A price! " Mark agaped internally in surprise.
" Ding! To strike a decisive deal, an appropriate price had to be met for it. host wish to pay the price! "
" Price... what could it be? " Mark questioned.
" Ding! Responding to host, system is user friendly and willing to help the host. Becoming a third order slayer will enable the system to support host more efficiently, so don't run away from the scene, if you were to met with a mutant in future, as this system would not be there to witness the scene! "
" Why does it sound like its the system who's winning this deal. " Mark reasoned internally. But since a method was out there, which could help him at present situation. Refusing this deal after listening to its contents would make him a cowards in name of mutants, and since it was only a verbal promise to begin with, which he's about to make with the system, mark quickly agrees with her to strike the deal.
Author's notes:
Spatial cover, dark matter and body swap. these abilities would be discussed in brief, the comming chapters. Just that one is defensive, one is supportive, while the other is a decisive one in close combat.