Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

Chapter 38: Tricking the Prankster.

In the crowded dining hall, the guild members were having dinner while discussing and chatting around.

Among them, two boys, a dark green-haired one and a silver-haired one were sitting together at a table with the former not stopping his mouth from talking and the latter grinning evilly at his plan.

Felix raised his hands and interrupted Steve from his never-ending rambling.

"You know what Steve? I think you're a nice and helpful person."

"Really?", Steve had a dumbfounded expression as couldn't believe when he was called helpful. It was the first time in his life someone had ever told him as such.

"Yes. Because even now you're helping me learn more about cultivation. So, I think that you're a great person."

Steve smiled and folded his hands arrogantly when he got praised. He let out a chuckle and waved one of his hands.

"Hehe, you don't have to compliment me so much. I already knew that I was great. It's just that people did not realize it all along. Poor them."

He shook his head sagely.

"That's right. I think the same, they are pitiful that they can't even realize your true worth."

Felix replied while faking a pitying expression on his face.

His words seem to have boasted Steve's ego that he harrumphed and shook his head like some hidden boss gloating over the masses for their ignorance.

Seeing as it was the perfect moment, Felix made a sad face and continued.

"But sadly, the dining hall has many people here shouting aloud. So I can't focus on what you're teaching me. Sigh..."

Steve frowned looking around the dining hall and nodded as he felt it was right, the area was crowded and loud so it was reasonable that the kid could not understand properly what he was saying.

"You're correct. Wait a second, let me tell them all to keep quiet so you can focus on what I'm saying."

Saying that he tried getting up on the table for everyone to hear his speech for them to quieten down. But Felix was quicker as he hurriedly pulled him back in panic.

"Wait wait wait, instead of disturbing them I have a better idea...."

Steve turned to look at the boy who stopped him and asked curiously.

"Hmm? What's better than telling them all to shut up?"

Felix shook his head in fear of angering all the people in the dining hall as he told him what he actually planned.

"Why don't we just meet in my room and continue our discussion tomorrow morning?"

Steve pondered for a few seconds and nodded as that seemed nice. He could help this boy in his room without getting disturbed by anyone.

"Sure, we can just continue our discussion tomorrow in your room. But you'll owe me a favor for assisting you, and help me with something later."

The deal was not bad as both of them would help each other, so Felix nodded and agreed with him.

"Deal, tomorrow morning we'll meet for breakfast here and go to my room for more discussion. I'll be going now. Goodnight."

"Oh you too, goodnight."

Concluding the plan, he got up from the chair to not waste more time listening to his rambling and bid him bye.

He left the dining hall leaving the tricked boy sitting alone on the table and walked back to his room.

Closing the door, he sat on the chair and reread the whole book again making points here and there for tomorrow's learning session.

Even though Miss Elsa had told him to ask her for any doubts, he held back from doing that as he was not from this world and she could be suspicious of his questions.

But the guy named Steve was an easily manipulated person who talked too much for his own good. So, using him to gain more knowledge was much better as he seemed too stupid to notice any fault in his questions considering that guy said he was a warrior as well as a mage.

Closing the book after rechecking and highlighting the important parts, he stretched tiredly and jumped on the bed.

'Tomorrow I'll make sure to suck that guy dry with all my questions.'

Smirking at his evil plan, Felix closed his eyes and slept peacefully.

*****

"Chirp~ chirp~"

Felix habitually woke up in the morning at the chirping of birds and refreshed himself in the bathroom.

Coming out, he dried himself up and stared at his naked reflection.

"Hmm....looks like I'm gaining some muscles in those thin bones."

His previous skinny and weak seemed to have grown a bit from all the nutritious meals he had eaten recently. Promising himself to continue eating a lot, he stared at the earring on his ear blankly for a few seconds.

"I wonder where this earring came from? Noah and others are not going to be back anytime soon, so I'm left with no one to ask about it."

He had asked Miss Elsa yesterday while they were coming out of the inventory but she just shook her head not knowing anything regarding the earing. With no one to give him an answer, he decided to wait for the kids to return before asking them.

Wearing his clothes, he exited the room and walked to the dining hall before entering. There seemed to be fewer people compared to yesterday so he quickly found the dark green-haired boy wolfing down his breakfast with both of his hands.

Taking a plate full of food for himself, he walked toward the boy and sat down at the table.

"Hey Steve, you didn't forget our deal right?"

The boy eating his meal was surprised when someone suddenly called out to him and choked on his food, but later drank some water and calmed down.

"Gosh, you scared me. And no, I didn't forget our deal.", Steve wiped his mouth clean and retorted back.

"Then after eating, we'll go to my room."

Felix smiled and started eating from his plate ignoring Steve who wanted to start another conversation now that there was someone to accompany him unlike being left all alone on the table.

They both finished their meal happily and got up to leave the dining hall.

"By the way, you cannot tell anyone about our deal, or else I won't help you with your matter.", Felix reminded the boy as that would keep some things hidden from everyone.

"You can trust me with it. I won't tell a soul about this.", the boy replied patting his chest confidently but his claim was not anywhere near trustworthy at all.

The pair stopped in front of the room and entered secretly without alerting anyone.

Felix told him to sit on the chair the moment they got inside and took out his aura manual. Flipping through the book, he paused on one of the pages he was confused about and handed it to Steve.

"Have a look here, this part confuses me a lot."

Without wasting any more time, he started asking him questions to clear his doubts.

"Oh, this part. It may seem confusing at first but if you read it properly, you'll understand that the explanation indicates having only focus is..."

While Steve started his rambling without breaking a sweat, Felix quickly called to the system in his mind to continue the last part of his plan.

'System, make this skill for me.'

[Processing the skill's power scale....grading the skill....estimating the possible points required.....skill successfully moduled.]

[Ding!]

[Skill Name: Parabolic Hearing.

Description:

This skill allows the host to focus hearing on certain areas and filter out unwanted information or noise from the area or person.

Cost: 10 skill points.]

[Does the host wish to use 10 skill points and create the skill 'Parabolic Hearing'?]

Felix briefly went through the details of the skill and agreed to create it before his mind could go crazy from the boy's rambling.

'Create it hurry.'

[Ding!]

[Successfully created a new skill.]

After the skill was created, Felix focused his ears on whatever the boy was speaking out of his mouth and started understanding the actual information that seemed useful to him.

Omitting the unwanted information like how he achieved aura and mana in a few seconds, and the color of the receptionist's undergarments, Felix focused his hearing only on the details of cultivating aura and information about warriors.

And what he gained from his plan made him dumbfounded, and he realized how lucky he was to have gotten this free Wikipedia without any effort.