Ben ignored her and looked at her card, reading what it had to say. If he was reading it right there were 10 types of magic, and she had particularly good affinities with water and life magic, as well as skills that looked like they would help her with work as a priest.
After comparing the two cards and content that they seemed identical other than that one was blank, he handed hers back and made a small knick on his arm, smearing blood in it. The card sucked it up and letters suddenly appeared on it, revealing the information that could apparently be found in his soul. He took some time to read it over carefully and try and understand what he was seeing.
Name: Ben Heph
Race: Human
Titles: None
Jobs: None
Attributes:
Vitality: 153
Vitality recovery rate: 1/hr
Mana: 84Mana recovery rate: 5/min
Strength: 90
Agility: 84
Stamina: 550
Intelligence: 185
Affinities:
Light: 3Life: 2Fire: 4Water: 3Air: 4Earth: 2Death: 3Dark: 1Space: 4Time: 5
Resistances:
Light: 68Life: 72Fire: 75Water: 69Air: 66Earth: 81Death: 78Dark: 85Space: 63Time: 61
Blessed skills:
Crafting lv1Enchanting lv1Focus lv0
Passive skills:
World speak+
Active skills:
What immediately caught his eye was the affinities and resistance levels. Compared to Lehies, whose water and life magics were in their 40's and nothing else was below 10, his were abysmal. On the other hand his resistances dwarfed hers; while she was again in a range from five to twenty, he didn't have any below sixty. The only problem was that he lacked the context to know what that meant. Other than that there was the matter of skills. If passive skills were abilities that were always in use and world speak+ was what let him understand her, then presumably active skills were skills that needed intent, like magic. But what were blessed skills? And when he had looked at her card it had life magic listed as a blessed skill and water magic as an active one, what did that mean? Seeing no point in keeping these thoughts to himself so he asked for an explanation and she was happy to share.
He had been right about the active skills and passive skills, but blessed skills were apparently something special that the world itself provided anyone who was born (or in his case summoned) there, as a skill's power increased it would eventually evolve into the advanced form of the skill, but while in some cases that evolution would also produce a second bonus skill, like if water magic evolved into high water magic it may also result in an additional skill such as water breathing, in the case of blessed skills that would always happen, and on top of that the blessed skill would be around fifty percent more powerful than its unblessed version.
"If that's the case can you take a look at my stats and let me know how I compare?"
"Of course!" she said, finally happy that things were progressing. It was as soon as she started reading it that her expression took another negative turn.
That doesn't seem good.
"I'm sure it's good for priests to be honest, but that doesn't mean you should keep your feelings on your sleeves all the time." He joked to lighten the mood.
Surprised she looked up and tried to explain herself. "Wait, I wasn't- there's nothing wrong… sorry." She took a breath and collected herself. "To give an honest assessment your status is just unbalanced is all. While your mana recovery rate is well above average your affinities for magic are the worst I've ever seen. Usually you would have at least one in the twenties at worst. On the other hand your resistances are all unusually high. Neither of these things are bad, they could be perfectly fine if you were a fighter of some sort, but the world grants blessed skills based on what you have the best aptitude for, yours are skills for craftsmen, and to get enchanting as a skill when you probably won't be able to learn any magic is just unusual, although I'm not too well versed in how it works myself so maybe it will have its uses. As for the attributes, yours are about average. You would expect an average hominid type around your age to be in the 100 to 150 range, so while your intelligence is above average and your stamina is shockingly good, your strength and agility are both lacking."
He sat and listened to what she had to say and it didn't sound great, especially that it didn't seem like he could use magic, but there was nothing he could do about it. All he could do was try and live in this world with the hand he was dealt and figure things out as he went.
"Okay well, it is what it is. Can you tell me about my blessed skills then?"
"Sure but I may not be too much help unfortunately. Like I said, for enchanting as far as I know it's pretty reliant on adding magic effects you possess to items, but I think you can do it for skills too. Your biggest problem right now is that you only have your blessed skills so there isn't too much you would be able to do with it at the moment. Crafting is what it sounds like, the process of making something with a physical item being the final result. This means that it covers other things like blacksmithing, alchemy, masonry, and probably some others I'm not aware of. The main flaw is that it's a jack of all trades, master of none type skill. While you will be able to use all of the abilities of various other crafting skills it will take longer to level up, and let's say you and a blacksmith were to make the same item while at the same level. It would be expected that the blacksmith's item would be better because they would be more specialized. Finally for focus, it's a skill that improves your concentration when working on something, helping you to ignore distractions."
Ben listened to her explanation carefully and couldn't help but grimace. "None of this really sounds good, I have no magic potential, a broad but weak crafting skill, the ability to pay attention, and more or less average aptitudes. All I have going for me are my resistances and I don't have much to do with them, is that about right?"
"You're right, but don't give up. Your stats are average now for someone your age but most people would be on their second or third job by now, you still have room to grow. After dinner I'll take you to the library and you can read up more on your skills before bed so you can get a better idea of what you can do with them."
"Okay works for me then, something to read sounds like it would be nice either way."
"Excellent, and there's only one last thing we need to talk about."
"Oh god what now."
"You don't need to treat everything I say like bad news you know." She said with a pout.
"Okay, sorry. What is it."
"Tomorrow you will be meeting the representatives of various nations or Gods as they make you their offers for training under them and fighting in their specific forces. The following day you'll leave with whatever nation agrees to take you."
"...That kind of feels like bad news."
"It will be fine."
"Pretty quick though considering we just got here."
"It's literally the world at stake. Now come on, let's get you some dinner."