『Status』
[Name: Cyrus]
[Race: Human]
[Class: Water Magician]
[Level: 16/25] (91/100) XP Needed
[HP: 35/35 MP: 10/10 SP: 15/15] - Normal Human
[Strength: 5] - Normal Human
[Defense: 3] - Normal Human
[Magic: 13] - Normal Human
[Speed: 3] - Normal Human
[Aether: 5] - Non Human
[Skills: [Tidal Strike] [Water Magic] [Water Ring] [Poison Murky Water] [Mana Control]
[Aetheric Infusion]
[Runic Skills: [Fingers: Water Strings]
[Passive Skills: [Water Body] [Trait: Lightning]
[Master of Mana: [None]
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"This is great and all... but I'm kind of confused,"
As I looked at the previous panels, I fully understood what it meant… but that also meant this world was severely underdeveloped.
Their knowledge could almost be considered primitive with how they are only aware of such a thing as status without anything else.
Yes, they have a very high-tech understanding of the world, but if they aren't aware of forces outside of the system… then they're in their infantry stage.
"I never really looked for it in books because I thought it was common knowledge, but it seems I really have to pay more attention… ugh…." I groaned lightly before strings of water came seeping out of my fingertips and stretching across the borders of this cave.
It wasn't long before I found the switch, which was pressed ever so lightly, opening up the ground beneath us and causing us to fall straight into a sandy pit.
The sand was like jumping into a corn silo--we fell straight through its soft interior and nearly choked on the sand.
If it didn't stop right at our shoulders, we all would've definitely suffocated from the amount of dust entering our lungs.
"Now, if my understanding is correct, this floor is a test. A complete test which we must pass no matter what…." I announced before feeling the mini-boss slither around my body, the soft sand molding to its almost jelly-like body.
"S-Seal… what is that?" Asger asked, slightly panicking as I assumed the mini-boss had wormed its way over to Asger's side.
I attempted to calm him down, but he was still just a kid, so even if he didn't internally panic, his body shook rapidly, with beads of sweat rolling down his forehead.
Dammit… faster…
My strings of water wriggled through the sand, eventually reaching Asger just as his face tightened and his mouth opened.
"ARGHHHHH!"
It was a blood-curdling scream as if he had just seen his parents die before him or as if he had just felt his legs had been cut off.
FWIP
With a snap of my arm, the water strings wrapped around Asger's body, cutting the mini-boss in the process, but as it began to secrete a slippery substance, I activated [Aetheric Infusion].
This not only strengthened the slick and sharp texture of these strings but also burned the monster as it attempted to bite Asger again and again.
Soon, the monster died with slight ease and the extremely soft sand dissipated into the floor below us, allowing all three of us to run up to the crying kid.
"S-Seal! It hurts!" Asger cried out, holding his stomach as blood began to rush out from the double puncture wounds.
"Tch… God dammit," I muttered before setting down my sack of items and pulling out a few bandages that I quickly wrapped around his torso and applied as much pressure as possible.
The wounds weren't very wide, but stitches or staples would've been useful as of now-
"Wait… I muttered as an idea faded through my mind and tickled the back of my brain.
The strings of water that leaked from my fingers slowly reverted to their normal blue color as the aether left their thing bodies.
I reeled them to where I could bunch them up into a ball and felt the very tip of it, causing the tip of my finger to draw a drop of blood.
"Perfect," I lightly smiled to myself, and as I looked toward Mari, her eyes darted to my bleeding finger and the tip of the water string.
Her head swiftly nodded before she lay Asger's head in her lap, and she covered his eyes, slightly calming him as she simultaneously stroked her hair.
"Petra, I'm gonna need you to hold his hands since his knee-jerk reaction will be to grab the needle," I ordered the white-haired girl next to me, and with a determined expression, she replied.
"Y-Yes!"
Her hands wrapped around his wrists and held them to his chest, all while I removed his shirt and unraveled the soaked bandages.
The mini-boss, which lay not too far from us, was a snake-type monster who had sandy-tan scales and pitch-black eyes that almost seemed to try and suck you into them at just a moment's glance.
Most snake type monsters are very venoumous, but this one has extra big fangs which I guess balances out its lack of a venom gland or glands.
Some snake-type monsters have like five venom glands stretching all the way down to the bottom of their neck.
"Okay… now, just stay calm," I consoled the little boy once more before taking the end of the watery strings and slipping them through the wound, slowly sealing it closed with each penetration of his skin.
He, of course, tried to hit back at me with his arms, but Petra just barely managed to keep him away for just long enough that I could tie a knot and allow him to sit up violently.
I quickly backed away as Mari uncovered his eyes, but to my surprise, he didn't unleash his energy with a tantrum of adrenaline and anger… but he just hugged Mari and cried and cried until he was exhausted.
"I-I wanna leave!" Asger shouted with tears rolling down his cheeks.
"Unfortunately, that is not possible," I muttered, but a wave of emotions flooded through me as Asger glared at me with the harshest eyes he could muster.
Should I really have put them through this while they were so young?
"I-I hate you!" Asger shouted at the top of his lungs, saliva spraying my face as he cried out again and again until he slumped into Mari's arms.