It was morning when Cheng Hua woke up, he once again could only see his sister, however this time she seemed preoccupied reading something.
He looked at the girl as he remembered something, and he used [Appraisal] on his sister.
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TITLE: NONE
RACE: Human
NAME: Cheng Xue
HEALTH: 100 / 100
MANA: 40/40
STATUS: Normal
Strength: 7
Agility: 12
Vitality: 10
Dexterity: 8
Intelligence: 4
Wisdom: 4
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Cheng Hua looked at his sister's name as he concluded
However until then Cheng Hua shall be his name. As he thought it all over, the girl turned to look at him and smiled, then she started reading aloud, Cheng Hua swore sneakily as he was forced into learning the gruesome language.
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7 months have passed, Cheng Hua has already grown accustomed to his new name as he did not seem bothered by it anymore, in this period he got to see his parent's stats too, they were:
Mother:
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TITLE: NONE
RACE: Human
NAME: Cheng Ying
HEALTH: 150 / 150
MANA: 200/200
STATUS: Normal
Strength: 8
Agility: 9
Vitality: 15
Dexterity: 10
Intelligence: 20
Wisdom: 14
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Father:
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TITLE: NONE
RACE: Human
NAME: Cheng Tian
HEALTH: 240 / 240
MANA: 100/100
STATUS: Normal
Strength: 15
Agility: 10
Vitality: 15
Dexterity: 14
Intelligence: 10
Wisdom: 12
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Cheng Hua was slightly shocked as he thought about how strong will his future opponents be if his parents already seemed quite strong.
In this 7 month period, Cheng Hua got used to his body as he started walking, everyone looked at him while feeling proud, he couldn't help but feel so himself when he thought about how happy he must've made his parents.
He also started to somewhat understand what they were saying, however, he was not able to speak just yet.
He would occasionally try to read together with his sister as they grew really close these days. He could already discern the different hieroglyphs and started to remember them one by one.
As he slowly got used to this kind of life, one day he was looking out of some hole that served as a window, he saw a fight break outside, between a young man with long and colorful robes, and a middle-aged beefy man with a bared chest and a deep tan.
They seemed to have some sort of dispute and are getting giddy for a fight.
"Strength rules, eh?"
As they both took fighting stances, the young man's feet started glowing green as Cheng Hua used [Appraisal] on him
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TITLE: NONE
RACE: Human
NAME: Fu Yao
HEALTH: 270 / 270
MANA: 390/390
STATUS: Normal
Strength: 18
Agility: 22
Vitality: 27
Dexterity: 25
Intelligence: 39
Wisdom: 21
CURRENTLY USED SKILLS:
[Wind's Blessing];
[Feather Boots] """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Cheng Hua was slightly shocked to see new information appear on the status panel of the young mage, Cheng Hua concentrated on the skill [Wind's Blessing] as the two people already started to exchange blows
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SKILL NAME: Wind's Blessing
TYPE: Passive
LEVEL: 1
DESCRIPTION: Granted to the followers of the wind goddess, these individuals have received bonus sensitivity towards wind attribute qi and a slight increase in the gathering speed of qi of all types.
EFFECT: +10% increase in wind attribute attack and defensive skills, +2% movement speed, +1% qi gathering speed
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Cheng Hua was flabbergasted as he looked at the skill's description, to him that seemed like a godly skill, as on earth, even being a millisecond faster would help one in a fight. He couldn't wait for the day when he will be able to fight on par with these people.
As his raised brows returned to normal a system notification startled Cheng Hua even more.
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SKILL NAME: Wind's Blessing
STATUS: Available
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Would you wish to start absorbing this skill?
Y/N
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Cheng Hua was so shocked even he could not express his emotions, however, he quickly calmed himself down and hastily clicked Yes.
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Absorbing of skill [Wind's Blessing] in progress
Status: 1%
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Cheng Hua looked at the system window and couldn't help but laugh seeing the status change to 12% but just as he was intently laughing, he noticed the status stop growing,
As he looked back at the fighting mage, the skill absorption continued,
Cheng Hua was slightly disappointed as he realized that he needs to keep looking at the person that he is absorbing a skill from, he couldn't help but be shocked at how overpowered this skill was, it was beyond comprehension even after the nerf of having to watch the target use the skill.
He couldn't help but think about how he should get himself some sunglasses so no one will see where he is looking and he could absorb everyone's skills.
But alas he expected that in this world there is no such thing as sunglasses, he could at most get a straw hat or some sort of mask that covered his face so that no one will notice his gaze.
Just as he thought about the many things he could do now with his newfound ability, he was overjoyed to see the status of the absorbing procedure reach 99%, and after a moment, a new screen popped up in front of him, that made him even more excited.
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Skill [Wind's Blessing] was Successfully absorbed, please check the status window for more details.
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Cheng Hua immediately re-Appraised the young man as he started the absorption of the second skill he was using, without even reading what the skill does.
Cheng Hua looked expectantly at the screen as it reaches 100% and the expected system window popped up.
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Skill [Feather Boots] was Successfully absorbed, please check the status window for more details.
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Cheng Hua was extremely happy to have gotten 2 new skills while doing nothing and as he wanted to open his stats to see the new changes, he decided against that as the two fighters were already injured and the fight seemed close to stopping, Cheng Hua was of course not happy to see this as he had still not absorbed anything from the bare-chested man.
He first appraised the fighter, only to be met with the following window:
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TITLE: NONE
RACE: Human
NAME: Ming Han
HEALTH: 200 / 480
MANA: 120/150
STATUS: injured lightly
Strength: 36
Agility: 27
Vitality: 48
Dexterity: 28
Intelligence: 15
Wisdom: 18 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Cheng Hua did not expect such an outcome as he reappraised the man, however aside from the still dropping health, the no currently used skills part did not appear.
He accepted the fact that the man did not have, or did not use any skill as he got a similar window when he inspected his family.
Then concluding that there was nothing else to learn from the fight, Cheng Hua turned away from the window as he laid on the bed and opened his status.
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TITLE: NONE
RACE: Human
NAME: Cheng Hua
HEALTH: 80 / 80
MANA: 2100 / 2100
STATUS: Normal
Strength: 5
Agility: 11
Vitality: 8
Dexterity: 8
Intelligence: 210
Wisdom: 100
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Cheng Hua was happy to see his new stats as he opened the skills window:
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SKILLS:
[Appraisal], Lv.Max
[Wind's Blessing], Passive, Lv.1
[Feather Boots], Active, Lv.1
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As he already knew what the wind's blessing did, Cheng Hua inspected the [Feather Boots] skill
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SKILL NAME: Feather Boots
TYPE: Active
LEVEL: 1
DESCRIPTION: skill available to those blessed by the wind, it requires diligence and hard work to master
EFFECT: Increases movement speed by 15% for 60 seconds.
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Cheng Hua thought this was a decent skill, especially since it synergizes combined with [Wind's Blessing], his movement speed would be 17% higher than it was before he got those skills, it may not seem like a significant increase, however in the later levels, every point in stats counted as he would fight extreme battles.
4 more months have passed, Cheng Hua now started to talk, although he could only pronounce some basic words like mother, father, eat, and what is, people were already regarding him as a genius never seen before in their family's lineage.
Cheng Hua often helped his mother around the house by bringing her some light tools, and sometimes even went outside with his father.
The outside world looked slightly like what Cheng Hua remembered ancient China to look like in movies and textbooks. Houses with pointed roofs, oxen, fields, but that was all for the rich, the houses of most of the villagers were only occasionally better than theirs, this made him satisfied.
Cheng Hua really liked following his father as he expected that Cheng Tian will teach him many useful things, of course, he hoped to see some strong fighter around so that he can steal their techniques, no one would be suspicious of a child just because he looks at you, right?