The next day Henry and his class embarked in a spaceship in the direction of planet Buton, when they came to Reso the ship was full of lively people but on the return trip the ship was almost empty. Most people were probably sad to have to go back to the small Buton after experiencing Reso.
The only person who was the same as when they came was the school's director who was in a good mood, yesterday he had organized a party for Henry. He wasn't confident that he would take the first place but even the third spot was good for him at that time, now he was the most enthusiastic !
"Henry, how can I thank you ? Our school will once again take the spot of first school on Buton because of you !"
"There is no need, I won for my own future."
Henry didn't try to disguise his words and just told him the truth, he wasn't the type to refuse a reward when given to him but there wasn't anything the high school could give him now, they didn't own any rare item or whatever and even if they did it would probably be worse than what he could make.
"Hahah I see, I'll call your alumni in the Academy and tell him about you. It's better to have someone you can count on in an unknown environment."
"Thanks."
This was a good thing, the competition was big in such schools so having the backing of a teacher was definitely a good thing.
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Late that night Henry was lying down on his bed after a long trip and started falling asleep when a familiar voice that he had not heard for awhile pulled him out of his dozing.
Make a 590 000$ benefit from selling your creations. Time limit : before leaving for planet Reso. Rewards : Native skill : Dimensional communication. Blacksmith experience +150.> Henry blinked fast to focus and thought back to what he had just heard, since he was almost sleeping he wasn't sure if it was an hallucination. 'Hey System, did you just talk about a native skill ?' Now that he had the confirmation he couldn't help but scream ! "Fuck yeah !" BOOM BOOM BOOM "SHUT UP IT'S ALMOST 3 IN THE MORNING !" After three hits on the wall next to him Henry heard his neighbor's voice yelling at him. "I'm sorry..." He had been too enthusiastic and probably woke up lots of his neighbors, however there was a reason to his reaction. Obviously the first one was that until recently he wasn't aware that he had a native skill so he valued them a lot, he had made research about how to counter them because he believed his wasn't of any use, the second reason was the rarity of people with multiple native skills ! Amongst the last 10 champions of the WUC only one was known to have multiple native skills, maybe some where hiding it but that wasn't something you could just guess, on the other hand nobody knew how many people had multiple native skills in the universe but it was said that only 1 out of a billion could be born with multiple native skills. Of course this was a hypothesis which had for basis only the number of people confirmed having multiple native skills, however since Henry didn't have access to such a secretive information he didn't know how much they were, such people were a treasure for the Alliance and it would be a big hit to their forces if the Enemies caught such an information and killed even only one of them. Obtaining a second native skill would make Henry a part of these ultra rare people, although two native skills wasn't the best ever seen it was still more than 99.9% of the universe's population. 'System, why can you give me a second native skill...?' Although he was happy Henry started feeling like the system was way too overpowered. The issue for Henry in this sentence was the word "probably" which meant that even the system didn't know, first he had never heard about a native skill that gave you blueprints and items, second he had never heard about a sentient native skill yet, it must exist amongst the billions of people in the universe but he hadn't met one yet. Third and most important thing was that he had never heard about a skill that gave skills ! There was a thing called human Skill implementation, it had been researched for years and was starting to work quite well but it was still weak. The thing is that the skill given to him by the system was labeled as "native" which meant that Henry was born with that skill and native skills were of course stronger than human implemented skills. 'Sigh... then what can this new native skill do ?' Henry remembered what his teacher had said about dimensional beasts. "Demonic beasts can't be contracted." 'System, by using this skill can I contract a dimensional beast ?' 'Hahahah the teacher was mistaken ! What about Heavenly beasts, can I communicate with them too ?' 'Alright time to sleep ! There is no class during the 16 days of summer so I must end the quest during this time then go to Reso.' As Buton was a lot smaller than Earth, the seasons here were a lot shorter. Henry had 16 days of summer to end the quest then move to Reso for the new students admission, during these 16 days the Academy would hold the "classic" admission test so he didn't have anything to do, he just planned to find an off campus house where he could have his workshop and wouldn't need to rent something.