The situation started to calm down a bit after the verdict was reached that Blake was a Rune wonder despite having no way to prove it.
Ragna was resting after the battle and he was done with all the explanation, his runic energy had practically run out and he was eating various types of food that he took from his small backpack.
Blake had been a little surprised at the sheer number of dishes Ragna kept consuming, but after some questioning, he had an idea as to why.
One of the main things that Blake had learned about runic energy was that once it was expended through the use of special abilities, magic, runic abilities, etc; it could recover by resting or with special items, but the main thing was consuming food.
Ragna had explained that since his runic energy had run out, he was eating too much to get it back, and that was exactly what made Blake strange, he remembered that he just needed a simple apple juice to get back almost all his runic energy, but Ragna already ate five different plates full of food and he seemed to not stop.
Maybe this wasn't normal for Blake, but unlike what he believed, the reality was very different. It was true that runic energy can be recovered by consuming food, but the amount someone regenerates depend entirely on the quality of said food.
Common food didn't have much of an effect and only helped to regenerate a little bit of this energy, it would take the use of ingredients with high runic energy for the effects to be strong and show a better result.
But in Blake's case, the food he normally prepared and ate was affected by the system, making the result several times more potent than a regular meal.
Blake could understand this after thinking about it for a bit, and at the same time, it seemed like he was concentrating on staring at nothing, but that wasn't really the case since he was quite busy at the moment digesting everything he was hearing in his head.
[Short sword skill, Increased.]
[Combat skill, increase…]
[Dark skill…]
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A long list of notifications had hit him directly indicating that various skills had leveled up, after so long it was no longer strange to him, but he still thought it was annoying when he heard them all at once.
Blake was attentive to each one of them in case a new ability appeared, but seeing that they were all known to him, he was going to return his attention to the real world, but before he did that, he heard the last notifications that this time was quite interesting.
[Do you want to learn the runic ability "Leeksword"?]
[Do you want to learn the runic ability "Overvitality"?]
Blake wondered why those notifications had appeared until this moment, but still he was sure that he wouldn't have time to really understand them during the fight, so he didn't think too much and just nodded to the familiar question from the system.
As a matter of course, his mind was overwhelmed by the information and the moves that made up those abilities, Blake had been standing still absorbing all of it since he was learning two abilities at the same time, which was enough to draw everyone else's attention at seeing him in that state.
"Don't tell me he's doing it again?" Sakuya was the first to see what Blake was doing, it wasn't the first time she was witnessing it, so she realized that Blake was already stealing the abilities that Ragna had displayed.
"Ufufu, that seems to be the case, I think he couldn't contain himself." Shino was aware that Blake had lost the battle, but the defeat had been accompanied by a juicy reward.
Both Mei and Ragna did not understand what the mother and daughter duo meant, so they had to satisfy their curiosity.
"What is the boy doing, did he expend too much runic energy?" It was the only thing that Mei could think of after the battle that took place between Blake and Ragna, she thought that Blake had overexerted himself and needed some time to rest even though he looked good before.
"Oh, I think this is the first time for you, master. Don't worry, you'll soon see something unique. Ragna, can you lend me one of your leeks for a moment?"
"Ah, right, here you go, older sister." Ragna had no problem as he took out of his small backpack and put a leek not unlike the ones before in Shino's hands at the same time that way of calling her that came out of his mouth, and it made Shino very happy for some reason.
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Blake opened his eyes after a few seconds, he had already fully understood those two abilities and he had to say that they were really interesting, he was only able to predict what they did, but once all the information was in his head, he couldn't help but be surprised at how deep they were.
'I should try them some other time.' And as if called by his thoughts, a leek had appeared in front of him. Blake's gaze had gone to the person who was giving it to him to instantly realize that it was Shino.
Blake didn't ask a single question, he understood that his master already knew what he just did, and he didn't waste any more time.
Shino had returned with the rest of the group after doing that, her smile indicated that she was having fun and, seeing this, Mei was having strange thoughts that, in her opinion, were simply impossible.
But only a second passed before both she and Ragna were utterly petrified at the sight in front of them.
Blake was still standing in the same place as before, the small breeze was blowing his figure making his hair move a little with it, on his face was a look of satisfaction, and in his hands, the leek from before was being covered with that pink aura at the same time as the image of a sword fully materialized.