Chapter 198: What Did I Receive?
Chapter 198: What Did I Receive?
What had transferred from that man? I checked.『Lost Life Transmission Technique Sword Technique 6 Spear Technique 1 Fighting Technique 4 Bow 4 Healthy Legs 4 Quick Legs 3 Fire 2 Light 1 Water 2 Stealth 6 Concealment 6 Appraisal 2 Detection 4 Purity 3 Deception 2 Sexual Technique 2 Mana Bag 4 Poison Vision 4 Berserker 2 Strength 2 Mental Magic Resistance 6 Calculation 3 Mental Magic 3 Cooking 2』
Hmm? What increased? I thought that if a skill was the same as or lower than one I already had, it wouldn’t change and would only display if it was new or higher. So what was it... looking carefully, what increased was... ah, Cooking 2... Cooking 2... What came from this guy lying at my feet was Cooking. My shoulders slumped at the sheer unexpectedness. No — Cooking isn’t bad. It’s very good! It’s just that what arrived was in a completely different direction from what I had been hoping for. From now on, martial skills will probably be hard to increase, won’t they? So that’s why skills from such an off-kilter direction arrive? Fighting someone from whom a martial skill would transfer would mean fighting someone much stronger than me, so I feel like I don’t need any more of those. More important than receiving skills is the three of us escaping safely.
Anyway, let’s advance. As long as we’re moving, they shouldn’t catch up so easily. The one who marked Lily doesn’t seem to possess fighting power. That’s why he guides the attackers to us and then runs away himself. No matter what, he shouldn’t follow us all the way across the border.
It was finally around the time night had broken, so we had dried meat taken out of the mana bag and walked while eating. Since it was dried meat, the Cooking skill had nothing to do with it...
I wanted to advance at a light jog, but considering Lily’s body I didn’t want to force her. I glanced at Lily’s face from time to time; she wore a composed expression, so it didn’t seem particularly hard for her at the moment. Perhaps after sleeping the effects had disappeared.
We advanced through the forest. Until now it felt as if we were progressing steadily without incident. I didn’t think we would get lost in the forest and go around in circles in the same place, as one often hears.
And at last we found the edge of the forest. Through the trees a grassland came into view. Just as we left the forest we encountered a party of three knights approaching from the left. Stevie had already noticed them coming. But because we could tell they were approaching with zero caution, we deliberately decided to meet them.
They were startled when they saw us coming out of the forest. A child in the lead with two women following. No matter how one looked at it we were suspicious characters. Even if we had come out of the forest, we shouldn’t look like woodcutters or hunters.
I knew they were knights because they wore the knight-order uniforms I was used to seeing at the Royal Palace. One was mounted; the other two appeared to be attendants. Because we were not mounted, from their perspective we looked like nothing more than commoners.
"Who are you people! Where have you come from and where are you going!"
At the knight’s challenge Lily stepped firmly forward and declared,
"This is Lord Robin Marie. He is the Eleventh Prince of the Marie Kingdom! Yesterday, while heading for the Mainz Kingdom, we were attacked by ruffians, fled from them, and entered the forest. After entering the forest we lost the road and arrived here. I take you for a member of the Marie Kingdom Knight Order. Would you be able to guide us to the border checkpoint with the Mainz Kingdom?"
When she stated this fluently, the mounted knight showed a look of delight, dismounted, and asked,
"Pardon me, but I would like to confirm your identity. Do you possess something that shows your status?"
He was not doubting, but wanted confirmation. I found the careful response favorable!
Thereupon I took the royal crest out of my mana bag. When the knight approached and tried to take it in his hand I pulled the crest back. After being pulled he seemed to realize he had done something improper and said,