Volume 1 Chapter 11 Radar Scan
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
I keep my Searching skill active all the time, except when I’m asleep.
Maybe that’s why it’s leveling up fast, and I’m about to reach a new evolution.
Skills in this world are pretty straightforward if you’ve ever played an RPG.
You change jobs, get new skills, and grow them by using them to gain experience.
By the way, magic is also just a skill.
It’s basically a term for particularly strong skills, but there’s no clear classification for it.
Skills become stronger as they develop, but it’s known that new skills can evolve when certain conditions are met.
If you have the same job, you start with the same skills, but how you grow them can create big differences.
Not everyone can develop their skills well.
If you try to grow them in your own way, they often end up as useless garbage.
To avoid that, it’s considered best to learn from experienced people who have the same job.
In big towns, there are schools for the rich and noble.
Wealthy people hire private tutors, and if you join a temple or sorcery guild, you can learn from skilled mentors. There’s also help from craftsman guilds for apprenticeships.
By the way, it seems like many people in this world don’t enjoy studying either.
I muttered to myself,
”There’s always something. First it’s the Memory Crystals, then it’s the fancy schools, and now people just want to skip out on studying altogether.”
Ms. Marsha once sighed at me and said,
”There’s no harm in learning, but too many people rely on shortcuts. They forget that the real strength comes from experience.”
There’s even a cheat item called the Memory Crystal that lets you copy other people’s skills easily.
Memory Crystals are regular hexagonal prisms, but if you hold one to your forehead and concentrate, it copies your skills and turns into a perfect sphere the size of a pachinko ball.
Swallowing this “Skill Orb” lets you instantly gain the copied skill.
Thanks to this, you can skip the hassle of studying.
Some schools even let you enroll and graduate in the same day, just by handing over a Skill Orb.
Many prestigious schools have 3-year programs, but even in these elite institutions, Memory Crystals are used when needed.
Besides schools, illegal skill shops also sell all kinds of Skill Orbs.
When I was first summoned to this world, Ms. Marsha, a priestess, helped me with my job change.
She looked at me seriously and warned,
”Don’t rely on Skill Shops. You need to earn your own skills, not just buy them.”
She warned me not to use the Skill Shop for anything illegal.
Once you learn a skill, you can’t overwrite it.
If you copy a strange skill, you’re stuck with it for life.
Some people have even misused this with slavery-type skill orbs, and there’s no redemption for them in this world.
Ms. Marsha gave me a skill called “Healing Touch.”
She’s a top-tier user of light magic, but I can’t use light magic, so copying that skill wouldn’t do much for me.
Healing Touch is a derived skill from a life skill.
People in this world have life skills from birth.
Even summoned heroes get them if they change their job to warrior or thief. My job as a Stargazer also comes with a life skill.
Life skills generally raise strength, though it’s not immediately noticeable, and they use a lot of MP.
Since there’s no real downside, I keep it active for peace of mind.
Healing Touch is derived from a life skill, so its effect is just a strong charm, not real magic.
But for me, it’s still a useful skill.
It disinfects and stops bleeding, healing minor cuts in about an hour.
If I place my hand on my stomach for about ten minutes, it helps with diarrhea and stomach pain too.
Since it inherits the life skill’s low MP usage, you could say it’s a godly skill in terms of cost performance.
Healing Touch is something Ms. Marsha created nearly herself.
The “nearly” part comes from learning tricks from her grandmother.
I promised her I wouldn’t share my copy of Healing Touch.
She had warned me,
”Don’t let others misuse this, okay?”
High-performance skills, especially magic ones, are considered highly confidential.
For Ms. Marsha, she hates the thought of people using it without taking responsibility.
So, I want to get stronger.
I don’t particularly need to defeat the Demon King, but I want to be strong enough not to burden Ms. Nina.
The quickest way to do that is to copy strong skills.
But I want to focus on developing my own original skills.
I want to grow my own unique godly skill, just like Ms. Marsha.
If I try to develop it my way, I might fail.
But what can I do?
I’m already weak, so why not take a chance on my potential?
I’m a legendary weak hero anyway. Developing my own skills might lead to something unexpected.
Even if my skill turns out to be a failure, if it’s something new, my opponent won’t know how to deal with it.
In the RPGs I used to play, there were monsters known for their surprise attacks.
”If you know the pattern, it’s easy to beat them,” I thought, remembering how we used to plan ambushes in the game.
But if you’re caught off-guard, they could wipe you out instantly.
What I’m looking for is a skill that, despite its flaws, has a unique strength.
For my Searching skill, I want a longer range to spot enemies before they notice me.
If I can retreat before being seen, I can avoid a fight.
Initially, Searching only lets me sense creatures within about 5 meters.
The trick is imagining a circle around myself in my mind.
As the skill’s rank grows, the range expands.
Right now, my effective radius is about 50 meters.
In open areas, it’s quicker to use my eyes, so not many people bother to level up Searching.
However, since I can also use Stealth, I know the terror of surprise attacks from invisible enemies.
”If I had a skill that could detect them while I’m in Stealth…” I thought, imagining how much safer I’d be.
If I could detect enemies behind walls or while hiding, I could avoid a lot of dangerous situations.
Maybe because of my timid nature, activating Searching all the time became a habit.
As a result, my proficiency keeps improving, and the effective range is steadily increasing.
But after surpassing 30 meters, it suddenly plateaued, and around 50 meters, growth nearly stopped.
For someone like me, who isn’t very agile, a mere 50 meters is risky.
A slight movement could get me caught right away.
As if answering my wish, after the quail hunt the other day, I finally evolved a new skill.
”I think this might be what I needed…” I muttered under my breath.
I named it Radar Scan.
Radar Scan is a skill that rotates like an Earth military radar, searching the surroundings.
The range is about 800 meters for now, but I think it can grow more.
The trade-off is a critical flaw: everything except the thin search line becomes a blind spot.
If the enemy is quick, they could move a lot before the radar completes a full scan.
I’ll need to carefully switch between this and normal Searching to cover the blind spots, but I think it could be really useful.
At the very least, it’s a great skill for finding quails.
I don’t think Radar Scan is a skill without merit.
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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