Starting from zero: growing up with knowledge from another world

Chapter 5

The morning after finishing my meeting with Jay, I was passing the time by practicing swordsmanship, doing my now usual image training, only this time, I was trying to picture how a wild animal might move. Once I had worked up a sweat, I wiped myself off and decided to relax until it was time to head over to the merchants guild with Jay. While I was relaxing, I decided to look through my status for the first time in a while:

Name: Cero

Level: 1

Age: 7

Race: Half-Elf

HP: 108/108 (up 31)

MP: 251/251 (up 106)

STR: 41 (up 19)

VIT: 49 (up 25)

DEX: 51 (up 22)

AGI: 55 (up 23)

INT: 73 (up 14)

MND: 66 (up 28)

Special Skills:

Unlimited Potential (Unique), Perfect Memory (Unique), Language Comprehension, Spirit Vision, Concealment 6 (up 2), Oracle 2 (up 1)

General Skills:

Detailed Appraisal 7 (up 2), Housekeeping 6 (up 2), Etiquette 7 (up 1), Acting 8 (up 1), Calculation 7, Cooking 6 (up 2), Negotiation 2 (New)

Magic Skills:

Precise Mana Control 7 (up 2), Alchemy 4 (up 1), Barrier Magic 4 (up 2), Earth Magic 4 (up 1), Wind Magic 4 (up 1), Fire Magic 4 (up 1), Water Magic 4 (up 1), Neutral Magic 4 (up 1), Light Magic 4 (up 1), Dark Magic 3 (up 2), Plant Magic 4 (up 1), Space-time Magic 4 (up 1), Taming Magic 1, Magic Detection 6 (up 2), Enchantment Magic 2 (New)

Combat Skills:

Unarmed Combat 4 (up 1), Sword Mastery 4 (up 1), Body Control 5 (up 1), Stealth 5 (up 1), Trapping 2, Presence Detection 3 (New), Archery 1 (New)

Crafting Skills:

Drawing 4 (up 1), Architecture 6, Woodworking 3, Compounding 4 (up 1), Blacksmithing 2 (up 1), Leatherwork 2 (New), Needlework 3 (New), Sculpting 3 (New)

My stats and skills have risen nicely, and I also gained a few new skills. Although I managed to get a lot of magic skills up to level 4, I haven't been able to raise them in about a year now. I don't know if that is because of the difficulty of raising their level farther, my age, my stats, or because I am still level 1. I asked Sylphy about it, but she wasn't able to give me an answer, and I figured that if she didn't know, then no one else I have met would.

I tried appraising my Oracle skill, but it just gives me a generic description, telling me that with it, I will be able to hear the voice of god. I have not figured out how or why I obtained the skill, how its level increased, nor even how to use it. I considered asking someone at the church, but from my Earthly knowledge, religion, or rather, religious people, can be very dangerous to get involved with. Sylphy told me not to worry about it, and that I would find out when the time was right, but I don't like not knowing things that have to do with me.

Speaking of not knowing things that have to do with me, I still have no idea what these scales are by my ankles. I have tried talking to some scale-folk and dragonkin I saw in the adventure's guild, but from what I learned, you won't find anyone with silver scales among them. They are shaped oddly as well... they don't match snake, lizard, or even dragon scales from what I could tell. Since it hasn't negatively impacted my livelihood, my parents said I should just be happy since it will likely cause me to be stronger than most people when I grow up.