An Unexpected Situation

"A twenty-year-old human at level ten? And not a single skill?"

The guild employee spoke up in surprise.

Seeing the guild employee's rather surprised reaction, Shien's heart sank.

"What is it? Did something strange happen?"

Shien asked the guild employee while pretending to remain calm, his tone deliberately puzzled, as though he had no idea what was going on.

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

The guild employee said this with a smile still on his face, but Shien naturally did not believe him.

So, Shien disguised his questions and asked the guild employee all sorts of things, doing his best to gather information through indirect probing without revealing his lack of common knowledge about this world.

It certainly was not easy, but Shien had no choice.

For now, Shien did not want to expose the fact that he was different from ordinary people.

Especially when it came to common sense. If he showed excessive ignorance, what he would receive would not merely be ridicule, but suspicion as well.

Thus, after much painstaking probing, Shien finally understood what was going on.

According to the guild employee, every living being in this world possessed a level, not even gods being exceptions.

The higher one's level, the stronger one's powers and abilities in every respect. Starting from level one, one's level gradually rose with personal growth and training, reaching a maximum of level one hundred.

However, not everyone could reach that limit.

Depending on a person's potential and aptitude, some leveled up slowly, some quickly; some could reach higher levels, while others unknowingly stopped growing, their levels never rising again.

Because of this, in Omnipotens, the higher a person's level at a young age, the higher their status would be.

Battle was the primary means of leveling up, but leveling up came from gaining growth. Therefore, one could only level up after sufficient combat and training. If one defeated opponents too easily, the rate of leveling would become extremely slow. Thus, the best way to level up was to fight opponents of similar strength or stronger opponents. In particular, life-and-death battles with monsters were most beneficial for leveling up.

Additionally, exercise and training could also lead to leveling up. As long as one achieved growth, leveling up was possible.

Thanks to this, members of every race could reach a certain level after coming of age. So long as there were no issues with their aptitude or potential, members of any race could reach level ten as adults.

In other words, by human standards, one should reach level ten by the age of fifteen. Reaching level ten only at twenty indicated relatively unimpressive potential.

Of course, that alone was not surprising.

There were also adventurers unwilling to live ordinary lives. Even with poor talent and potential, they still wanted to become adventurers, fight monsters, and strive to raise their levels. Therefore, many had seen human adventurers who only reached level ten at thirty.

But being level ten without even a single skill was somewhat surprising.

After all, skills were abilities with all sorts of effects. As long as one possessed a certain degree of talent and met the requirements for learning them, one could master them, then use the Skill Points gained upon leveling up to raise their skill levels.

The only skills in this world that could not be learned were Unique Skills and Special Skills.

Unique Skills were one-of-a-kind skills possessed by individuals. No second skill with the same effect existed. Besides being born with them, some people suddenly awakened them during their growth. Their effects varied greatly, and there were even completely useless Unique Skills.

Special Skills were skills acquired under special circumstances, and their effects also varied. So-called blessings were classified under this category.

Both types of skills could not be leveled up and displayed their maximum effects as soon as they were acquired.

Skills that could be leveled up, like personal levels, depended on one's potential and aptitude to determine whether they could be learned.

Some people could easily learn skills they were good at, while some skills remained beyond a person's grasp for their entire life. This was why people of all kinds emerged in various fields.

In particular, skills with powerful effects placed great demands on one's aptitude and potential. Learning them usually required meeting extremely harsh conditions, as well as consuming a considerable number of Skill Points, which showed just how difficult they were to learn.

Fortunately, the number of Skill Points each person received upon leveling up also differed, likewise depending on their potential and aptitude.

The higher one's potential and aptitude, the more Skill Points one received upon leveling up; the lower they were, the fewer one received.

Therefore, when one was close to exhausting their potential, the Skill Points gained would become fewer and fewer. Only leveling up after desperate training and life-or-death battles would yield far more Skill Points than usual, with a maximum of one hundred points.

In other words, neither levels nor skills could be raised equally by everyone as they could in a game. Both depended on personal potential and aptitude. That was reality.

Still, where there were difficult-to-learn skills, there were easy-to-learn ones.

Normally, even someone with utterly mediocre talent should be able to learn some weapon skills after practicing with a weapon for several years.

For example, Shien's Two-Handed Sword skill could generally be learned by someone who practiced swordsmanship with a two-handed sword-type weapon for several years. Those with exceptional talent could learn it in mere months or even days.

Under such circumstances, even someone with poor aptitude who had reached level ten should have mastered one or two skills.

But Shien?

He did not have a single skill.

That was why the guild employee was surprised.

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

As for why he had no skills, it was simply because the Magic Tester had failed to detect them.

Not only did Shien have skills, he possessed a full seventeen of them. Among them was one Unique Skill, one Special Skill, and the remaining fifteen were all level-ten, max-level skills.

In other words, if, as the guild employee had said, the Magic Tester could only detect skills below level seven and could not detect Unique Skills or Special Skills, then it simply could not detect any of Shien's skills.

As a result, the Magic Tester could not display Shien's skills, making it seem as though he possessed none at all.

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

Shien, having understood the entire chain of events, could not help falling silent.

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

His low level was still understandable. After all, he had only arrived in this world ten days ago.

Rather, reaching level ten in ten days was already something unbelievable. If he had not killed so many monsters in the forest, he definitely could not have leveled up so quickly, right?

But when it came to skills, Shien's situation was clearly highly abnormal.

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