Unexpected Circumstances

"A level ten, twenty-year-old human? And you don't have a single skill?"

The guild clerk spoke up, sounding rather surprised.

Watching the clerk's clearly astonished reaction, Shien's heart sank.

"What's wrong? Did something strange happen?"

Shien feigned calmness as he questioned the clerk, his tone sounding puzzled, as if he hadn't the slightest clue what was going on.

"No, there's nothing strange about it."

The clerk said this while maintaining a smile, but Shien naturally didn't believe it.

Thus, Shien began asking the clerk various questions in a roundabout way, trying his best to gather information without exposing his lack of common knowledge about this world.

It certainly wasn't easy, but Shien had no other choice.

For now, Shien didn't want to reveal that he was different from everyone else.

Common sense, in particular, was something he couldn't afford to be ignorant of; if he truly showed excessive ignorance, it wouldn't just invite mockery, but suspicion as well.

So, after some laborious probing, Shien finally understood what was going on.

According to the clerk, every living being in this world possessed a level, even the gods.

The higher the level, the stronger one's power and abilities became in every aspect. Starting at level one, one's level would gradually rise through growth and training, reaching a maximum of level one hundred.

However, not everyone could reach that limit.

Depending on individual potential and aptitude, some people leveled up slowly while others were fast; some could reach higher levels, while others would stop growing unexpectedly, their levels ceasing to rise.

Given this, in Omnipotens, the higher the level one reached at a young age, the higher their status would be.

Combat was the primary means of leveling up, but since leveling up was a result of growth, it could only be achieved after sufficient fighting and training. If one defeated opponents too easily, the leveling speed would become very slow. Therefore, the best way to level up was to fight opponents of similar strength or those stronger than oneself, with life-or-death battles against monsters being the most effective.

Additionally, exercise and training could also serve the purpose of leveling up, provided one achieved some form of growth.

Thanks to this, people of all races could reach a certain level after reaching adulthood. As long as their aptitude and potential were not problematic, anyone from any race could reach level ten by adulthood.

In other words, by human standards, one should reach level ten by age fifteen. Reaching level ten only at age twenty was a situation that should only occur if one's potential was rather unremarkable.

Of course, this wasn't enough to be surprising.

Among adventurers, there were those who refused to be ordinary. Even with low aptitude and potential, they still wanted to become adventurers, fight monsters, and strive to raise their levels. Therefore, many had seen human adventurers who were only level ten at thirty years old.

However, being level ten and not having a single skill was a bit surprising.

One had to understand that skills were abilities with various effects. As long as one had a certain amount of talent and met the conditions for learning, they could master them and use the Skill Points gained during level-ups to increase their skill levels.

In this world, the only skills that could not be mastered through learning were Unique Skills and Special Skills.

Unique Skills were one-of-a-kind abilities possessed by an individual; no two skills with the same effect existed. Aside from being born with them, some people would suddenly awaken them during their growth. Their effects varied, and even completely useless Unique Skills existed.

Special Skills were those acquired under specific circumstances, and their effects also varied; so-called blessings were categorized under this type.

Both of these types of skills could not be leveled up, and they exerted their maximum effect the moment they were possessed.

Skills that could be leveled up, like an individual's level, depended on one's personal potential and aptitude to determine if they could be learned.

Some people found it easy to learn skills they were good at, while others might never be able to learn certain skills in their entire lives, which was why people from various fields emerged.

In particular, some powerful skills were very demanding of an individual's aptitude and potential. Learning them usually required meeting quite harsh conditions and consuming a significant amount of Skill Points, which showed just how difficult learning them could be.

Fortunately, the Skill Points one could obtain upon leveling up also varied, again determined by one's potential and aptitude.

The higher one's potential and aptitude, the more Skill Points they could gain when leveling up; conversely, the fewer they would get.

Therefore, if one was nearing the limit of their potential, the acquisition of Skill Points would become increasingly scarce. Only by engaging in desperate training and life-or-death battles would the Skill Points gained upon leveling up be much higher than usual, with a maximum of one hundred points.

In other words, neither levels nor skills could be raised equally for everyone like in a game; everything depended on individual potential and aptitude. That was what made it reality.

However, just as there were skills that were hard to learn, there were those that were easy to learn.

Generally speaking, even the most mediocre person should be able to learn some weapon skills after practicing with a weapon for a few years.

Take Shien's Two-Handed Sword skill; an average person might master it after practicing with two-handed weapons for a few years, while someone with outstanding talent might learn it in a few months or even days.

Under such circumstances, logically speaking, even with poor aptitude, one should have mastered at least one or two skills by level ten.

But what about Shien?

He didn't have a single skill.

Because of this, the guild clerk felt surprised.

Only Shien knew that his level was relatively low because he had only been in this world for ten days.

As for the skills, the reason he had none was simply because the Magic Tester hadn't detected them.

Shien didn't lack skills; on the contrary, he possessed a total of seventeen skills. Among them, one was a Unique Skill, one was a Special Skill, and the remaining fifteen were all maxed out at level ten.

In other words, if the clerk was right and the Magic Tester could only detect skills below level seven and couldn't detect Unique or Special Skills, then it was impossible for it to detect any of Shien's skills.

Thanks to this, the Magic Tester couldn't display Shien's skills, leaving him in a situation where he appeared to have none at all.

This began to attract the attention of the surrounding adventurers, causing them to look over.

Shien, having understood the whole sequence of events, couldn't help but fall silent.

Only at this moment did Shien realize just how abnormal his situation truly was.

His low level was excusable—after all, he had only arrived in this world ten days ago.

If anything, being able to reach level ten in ten days was already an incredible feat. If he hadn't killed so many monsters in the forest, he would never have leveled up so quickly.

But regarding his skills, Shien's situation was clearly very abnormal.

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