A black orb from Teveraz's bosom.
It was one of the objects that appeared in the first Winter War.
Also known as Skill Beads.
The official name is the Skill Sealing Stone.
'I never thought this would come out of here!!'
Pelas was barely holding back what he almost screamed.
As the name suggests, the Skill Sealing Stone was a stone with skills sealed.
On the outside, it's just a pretty stone.
It was nothing more and nothing less.
However, if you swallow it, it was a ridiculous item that could be acquired by choosing one of three randomly selected skills.
25 years ago, when the first part of Winter War came out, it was the first game in the Winter War series, so the balance of the game was not very good.
'Valvung items such as skill sealing stones also played a role.'
The reason Pelas recognized it late was also because this skill sealing stone only appeared in the first Winter War 25 years ago.
From Winter War 2, it was a skill sealing stone that completely disappeared in the name of balance adjustment.
Pelas quickly put it into his bosom.
For this moment, Pelas' hands were faster than his eyes.
Pelas, who had taken care of the skill sealing stone, now turned his attention to Edan.
Ethan shivered in a crouching position next to Teveraz's body, which was cooling down.
It seemed that the will to fight had long since disappeared.
Pelas crouched down in front of him.
"Haa...what should I do with you?"
"Tongue, brother..."
Pelas pretended to run his fingers across Ethan's shoulders and knees.
"Let's see...Cut one here, cut one here too. Then won't you get a backache?"
"Brother! Help me! I will live quietly for the rest of my life without making a sound of breathing!!"
"Uh huh. Why do you do this to make people's hearts weak? Then why are you doing something you can't handle? I'm sorry for the people who wrote it."
"Sorry, brother!! Please! Please!!"
"Hey. Do I look good enough to believe that?"
Ethan screamed at the cold voice of Pelas.
"Tongue, brother!!"
"It seems like he was still trying to stab me in the back of the head."
"Oh no!"
"Fuck. Answer me straight. Before even the little bit of mercy disappears."
Ethan hesitantly pointed to the corpse of Tiberaz and shouted.
"Yes, yes. That, that's it, Tiberaz tricked me into assassinating my older brother at dawn... I didn't know it, stop it..."
"You dare to aim for my neck? Ha, you man. Did you call that bastard even after knowing where he belonged?"
Pelas points to the corpse of Tiberaz and asks.
"That, what do you mean by that...I just, help me..."
Ethan's eyes trembled.
Pelas looked him straight in the eye.
Eyes full of fear.
It didn't seem like a lie.
Pelas looked back at Havertz and Aria.
Havertz, who has lived as an Assassin, and Aria, who hates lies.
Both were not perfect, but they had the ability to distinguish lies to some extent.
But they too shook their heads.
Pelas was dumbfounded and looked at Ethan.
"It sounds like you brought it into the family without knowing who it is."
"I'm sorry!! I committed a mortal sin!"
"Then you must die."
"yes?"
"You said you committed a mortal sin? Then you should die."
"Big brother! That's not it... please, big brother...!"
Ethan is already covered with tears and runny nose and is crying relentlessly.
Of course, Pelas couldn't kill him.
Even if he was kicked out, Ethan was also the son of Count Egor.
If Ethan was killed, Pelas wouldn't have a good opinion either.
That's why it was so thoroughly and terribly frightening.
to never happen again.
To never live as a madman again.
Don't even think about it again.
Pelas stood up from his crouching position and looked down at Ethan.
"Ethan..."
"Yes! Yes! Brother."
"I'll give you just one more chance."
"Are you sure?"
"Uh. But let's cut off one right thumb instead."
At Pelas' words, Ethan's face became contemplative.
"Tongue, older brother!! Then the sword for the rest of my life..."
Ethan hesitated.
Then Pelas, as if he had nothing to regret, tried to raise his body from the squat.
"Really? If you don't like it, cut off your arms, legs, and neck."
Ethan grabs Felas by the crotch of his trousers as he urgently tries to stand up.
"Ah, no! Thumb is good enough! That's enough! That's enough! And I'll take it to heart while looking at Thumb, and I'll never fight against you again! Really!"
"It has to be true. Next time I'm going to cut off my head, not my fingers."
"Yes! Yes! I see!"
While Edan answered, Pelas swung his sword.
Chow!!
"Keuk!!"
Ethan struggles to endure pain.
Pelas looked down at him and bluffed.
"Look at your fingers and always remember. That I saved your life. I won't tell my father that you didn't accept the test results. If you tell me that, you'll be executed immediately. I heard that you have a hometown with your mother's family. Stay there and live quietly."
"Thank you! Thank you so much!"
Even after Pelas finished speaking, Ethan was banging his head on the ground and shouting thanks.
Ethan had never bowed his head once, living an upright life.
However, in the face of a life-threatening crisis, his true nature had no choice but to come out.
Pelas looked down at Ethan and said to Havertz.
"Habertz. Attach someone to this guy and keep an eye on him. Don't take your eyes off him even for a moment. If the guy you put on takes his eyes off you even for a second, I'll kill him as well."
"Yes. Master."
"Okay. Let's go back now. Withdraw."
"All right."
"yep!"
after everyone has gone
Ethan was left alone on the spot.
He muttered in the direction where Pelas had disappeared, almost lost.
"Thank you...Thank you, big brother...Thank you...Thank you, big brother..."
* * *
Fellas returned safely to his room.
After defeating everyone and sitting on the bed alone, he took out the skill sealing stone from his chest.
Round and round.
Pelas looking around at it.
'Unlike the game, it's not an item that disappeared in reality...'
Pelas stared at the skill sealing stone.
It seemed that the pitch-black light mysteriously drew people into it.
'If swallowed, three random skills. Wasn't it a way to choose one of them?'
Pelas recalled the memory of the first Winter War.
Anyway, Fellas knew all the skills.
No, it would be impossible to find an unknown skill.
Unless it's a skill that didn't exist in the game, like penetrating eyes.
If so, even if he swallowed the Skill Sealing Stone right now, there would be no problem in filtering out good skills and inefficient skills.
'Then, there's no reason to procrastinate.'
It's the same as when you eat it, a random skill pops up.
Even if swallowed at level 1, a 100-level skill could come out, and even if swallowed at level 100, a 1-level skill could come out.
Of course, thanks to this, the balance of the first Winter War was shaken, but in reality, things as good as this were rare.
Pelas stopped thinking and threw the skill sealing stone into his mouth.
gulp!
...
Maybe a minute has passed?
situation with no reaction.
Pelas was a little taken aback.
"What, what?"
But the embarrassment didn't last long.
In his field of vision, a skill option was finally emerging.
"All right!"
Pelas' pupils rose toward the skill options in the air.
* * *
first skill.
[jump]
Pelas sighed.
'okay. Jumping was also a skill in Winter War 1.'
Level 1 skill.
Of course, at the time, it was a very important skill.
It wasn't that the skill was strong or anything like that.
Because it was literally a real jump.
At the time of Winter War 1, the character was basically unable to jump.
The jump skill at that time was a skill that allowed you to pass through unreachable paths and to eat hidden items.
However, in the current situation of Pelas, jumping was a useless skill.
Even if you don't learn, why do you learn what you can do?
pass of course.
second skill.
[counter slash]
Pelas tore his hair out.
"Why is this!!"
He probably would have danced before he got the Silver Moon Ring.
Counter slash was a skill that could not be learned unless it was the main character, Leonil.
For other skills, there was even a route to save if you broke the quest or were lucky.
However, Counter Slash was an impossible skill.
Because of this, it was Pellas who rushed with all his might when he was looking for the Silver Moon Ring.
However, it was Pellas who already had a counter slash through the Silver Moon Ring.
Now, Counter Slash is, in fact, an existence worse than a gieruk.
"ruined..."
Pelas swallowed dryly and turned his gaze to the last skill.
third skill.
[Berserker]
"Ah-san. My luck is like that... What?! Berserker?!!!"
Fellas, who was disappointed with the first and second skills in a row, was surprised to get annoyed with the third skill without knowing it.
The Berserker skill was a skill that Fellas often missed.
Of course, the penetrating eye was very useful, but in battle, the Berserker skill was much more effective.
Berserker mode that instantly boosts all stats by 50%, even if it's for a short time.
Because the merits it had were truly negligible.
Pelas' choice naturally went to the third skill.
"This is unconditional!"
As he put his hand toward the empty Berserker skill, a light flashed in front of his eyes.
Pelas frowned at the brightness.
As the flashing light faded, Felas felt a warm aura around his heart.
"Oh oh..."
He knew instinctively.
That the Berserker skill was established within him.
This was a huge achievement.
Even if it was Leonil, it was difficult to have two skills at such an early timing.
If this was an achievement, it was a result that was full of garage.
But isn't human greed infinite?
'This, if you shake off the Shadow Union guys once, you might find something useful again, right? For now, I'll rob the elves' land first with my Berserker skill, and then it's here!'
Pelas licked her lips lightly.
It was Pelas, who was making an expression like a villain.
Even his expression was very natural.
Well, he was originally a villain.
< Episode 38. Berserker. >end