Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Eon’s POV: ]

The simplest way to explain the strange situation I was in was the word ‘Dislike’. And the most complicated way to explain this fascinating situation was through the word ‘jealousy’.

“Skills are simply special powers of energy beasts that they possessed during their lifetimes or, if we are talking about a personal skill that an individual had created, then a created skill would be the power that that individual understood completely.”

Every skill is like a special enchantment that, in the process of acquiring the skill through the skill stone or the object or individual possessing that skill, gets engraved on the Physical body of that individual.

“We know how skills make their unique marks on a certain body part or the entire organs of the body, however, every skill does something more than settling in that part.”

My body was still shining with lights even though the sun had sat down the horizon and it was night time already.

The strange thing was still ongoing and it didn’t seem like it was going to stop anytime soon.

“Skills are a part of the original possessors, the ones that originally had these skills, these abilities since their birth.”

They aren’t just some simple kind of power but something that was a part of that creature or individual until the moment they passed away.

It’s pretty difficult to put into words, but one can understand it as having the ability to do a certain thing that humans or other kinds would need a very long time and complex method for.

“Skills are, in a sense, fragments of the lives those creatures have lived themselves.

So, when someone else obtains the skill these beings left behind at the end of their lives, they are ultimately obtaining a part of the lives of those beings.”

Normally, there is a limit to how many skills an individual could possess.

Their mental and physical bodies are some of the commonly known factors that might be influencing elements of this limitation.

But it’s still uncertain and unproven.

No one actually knows what is the limitation and just why one could not hold more than a certain number of skills, but, the limitation exists.

And, it’s quite logical as well.

“A mortal physical body can not withstand the summed up strength of multiple skills, so just like every individual is different and has different abilities, the skill limitations that varies from person to person and the strength of the skills, seem pretty right.”

Skills are a natural concept.

Everyone knows about them and it is believed that the world already knows everything about the concept of skills.

‘But looking at a living lightbulb might change that certain point of view.’

My skills were clashing with one another after I obtained the {Resonance} skill, and even though the process of obtaining a skill, the process of the skill getting engraved on one’s body is sometimes painful, what was happening with me didn’t affect me even a little.

“So, aside from some mythical mental skills that are engraved on one’s soul directly, or the innate skills one is born with, all skills that one obtains through various means become part of one’s physical body.”

The headmaster was scanning through some of his old documents from his shelf while Rein and presidents had gone to the personal training grounds next door.

The room was quiet after a long and boring debate on what exactly was happening with me and the three of them had fun making fun of me.

‘I was practically a magical light that would most definitely attract little children from all over the world.’

Those bastards were arguing who would love a lightbulb as cute as me, the children or their mothers. And because of some weird reasoning that I still cannot wrap my head around, they ended up with the conclusion that my current state would be most attractive to young pregnant women.

Which is strange and absurd, I already know that much.

“And since you possess the heaven blessed constitution of the Kromet tribe, that body of yours is something that not only protects you from things like the clash of these skills, it is capable enough to even handle the mental capabilities of your unique head.”

-Tap.

It seemed like he had found what he was looking for so aside from that one thin book, he placed all the mess he had made in his good looking office back into that absurd magical shelf.

‘After our tower library, this was my first time seeing a single shelf holding hundreds of books as thick as a magic tome.’

There were many books littered all around this place right now and still, of the hundreds of books he took out, the one he ended up keeping was a thin book with nothing attractive about it.

Though, that ‘nothing’ only applied to its looks.

“And then there’s your unique skill that circulates energy throughout that unique body of yours and creates a harmonious environment of a perfect homoeostasis.

You keep yourself under control passively and, since you have a unique upbringing, you also stay alert and under control actively.

This in turn creates an environment where the elements of your body, including the skills you possess can communicate with one another and work as one single unit… just like the divine beasts or the higher power divinities.”

The book he had in his hands was a personal diary handwritten in a handwriting so attractive that I do not think I will reach that level of finesse anytime soon.

‘It was a work of art…’

And in addition to its uniqueness, the things that were written in that thin notebook was something I couldn’t believe I was seeing with my own eyes right now.

“My master, the previous headmaster of this academy, had witnessed a similar case as you in his early days. And after hundreds of years, I’m the fortunate one to witness something even he failed to understand.”

There was a smile of excitement and curiosity in his eyes. The book he was holding contained detailed records of a unique kind of physical body, and vividly detailed illustrations of skill structures and patterns on the physical body and effects they produced.

“Can I read that?”

“Hmm? Sure. As long as I can do a few tests on you, that is.”

That small book was perhaps a one of a kind record of one of the greatest Runekeepers that ever existed among humankind.

The previous headmaster… Lord Gregory. Every book that has any mention of him has ‘a one of a kind genius’ adjective attached to it.

‘He was a great person that raised a transcendental archmage. And the headmaster isn’t the only one alive that had studied under him.’

He raised some of history’s greatest with his own hands.

He nurtured heroes, saints, leaders that built their own countries, men that went down in history, and powerful ladies that ruled over the world unlike many others in the history of this world.

‘Even Emperor August’s great grandparents were his students.’

In the entire history of Roxana empire, Emperor August was the youngest to ever come up to the throne as an usual emperor on the throne held their position for at least a few hundred years.

‘Their bloodline also possessed a blessed body, and just like them, I inherited a unique body from both my parents.’

The Heliox has been a blessed bloodline even before the empire came to be, while my dad’s side…

“Possessing a unique heavenly constitution is perhaps one of the requirements for a phenomenon like this one.

However, since the trigger that set your skills off was different from the one recorded here, I believe there are other factors in play here as well.”

The headmaster was genuinely interested in this unique reaction to my skills.

‘A trial was going on among those skills, from what I can tell.’

It started right after I obtained {Resonance}.

The rest of the skills on my body, not the Origin skills but the ones that I had obtained thanks to mom, started reacting to its presence.

‘They were testing the new skill of a new origin, seeing for themselves if it was safe for me to have it or not.’

Perhaps having this skill would be dangerous for me, or in the long run, this skill might have a clashing effect with the other skills I have.

‘I now have a number of unique and powerful skills, like the card skill, so this might just be because of that.’

But whatever was happening with the skill was not affecting me personally.

And this wasn’t the same as what the other target the previous headmaster had had shown.

“Master had to put the child in a vegetative state since it couldn’t handle the kind of pain they were feeling.

It was unreasonably unbearable for them, as he writes it.

You having no problems even though you are practically a source of light now might just mean you have something that limits the interaction of the skills and yourself.

And, as far as I understand, it’s definitely an effect of your unique physique.”

He had a theory of his own, just like what the previous headmaster had when he met a student with a glowing body that had conflict between their skills.

‘The only difference was that the individual under the previous headmaster couldn’t live past the week since it was presented with these symptoms.’

I can tell that person was in constant pain and even with holy medicine, healing, and support from the headmaster himself, he must not have been able to save that person.

“Haaaa. What should I do, headmaster?”

Classes will start from tomorrow and though I can mask my appearance with Ceres’ skill, hiding something that was happening with my very body wasn’t going to be an easy task.

And I have no idea when the skills will come to terms with one another.

“Haha, I knew you would be interested in this mystery as well~.”

I wasn’t even tad bit interested in this, but under the circumstances, I had no choice in this matter.

I didn’t want to go to sleep while all shiny and glowing like this, so… we had to solve this case quickly.

The classes will start in a few hours, so we didn’t have much time on our hands.