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"A skill?"

nic was confused as this was the first time that he had ever heard of this, but author was happy that he did not know what it was, as it made it easier for his plan.

"I would gladly tell you, but under one condition" the giant fox mask smiled at nic.

"what may that be?"

"you have to take me as your master and establish your name in my kingdom" this was the plan that author had created, if nic was to take him as his master he would be able to develop nic into a powerhouse for the beastmen race, and if he was to become a knight in the future, by establishing his name as part of the beastmen kingdom, other territories would see it as an increase in power for the beastmen nation.

"no I have no intentions of having a master, I would figure out what it is on my own" nic was not dumb and had came to realize authors scheme.

nic then glanced at the image that kept repeating the same thing over again, it rip of it's own arm then it grows back and then it rip it of again.

"that must be painful" he thought as he looked at the image, it made him sick as the image looked exactly like him, which made him react everytime he saw the arm being pulled off.

"no its godly" author said as he to was fascinated by the image, only that he knew exactly what it meant.

the fox mask then appeared infront of nic but this time it took the shape of a fully grown man that was covered from the neck down in armor, on his face was that of the fox mask, but the eyes and mouth that were drawn on the mask moved as though it was his real face.

"nic you have great potential, with me as your master I promise that you would be able to defeat argus without even lifting a hand, their are many things I can teach you and tell you, but I can only tell you and teach you if you become my only student" he pleaded to nic with his arms stretched out towards him.

"I know your scheme but that's not why I did not accept the first time, I can tell that you are really a powerful figure in this world"

"then why wont you accept?" author asked as he was confused, he had thought that nic did not accept him because he did not want to serve under the beastmen.

"it's simple I do not trust a man that hides behind his mask"

the eyes drawn on authors fox mask curved to make that of a crescent, "ohh I see, for a minute I thought otherwise but it is something this simple, you are really an interesting man Nic the halfling" author then raised one hand to his mask, he then proceeds to take it off.

"stop!" nic suddenly shouted at him.

"I can already see that in my mind you are able to change your appearance or do whatever you like, how would I know if the face you show is really yours" nic was a quick thinker he was not going to take no chances in getting fooled.

"sigh!" author exhaled heavily as that was exactly what he had planned to do, he did not want to trick nic but his queen banned her generals and vice generals from ever showing their faces to anyone other than herself.

"alright how about this I would show you my face when you come to me"

"deal!" nic said as he was planning on going to meet author as soon as possible, he still needed to save dona.

"in the meantime I would explain to you what a skill is" a throne then appeared behind author as he sat back happily and prepared himself to give nic a lecture.

"its simple really, a skill is like another ability that dwells within your gift, this ability have to have something incommon with the gift, like my gift that real name is known as mind cloud, but my gift have many skills like the ability to control others or the ability to enter minds, these skills can be thought by the gift to its user, or they can simply be learned through just knowledge and training, I learned my skills through knowledge"

"but this seems like something to do with a healing gift, my gift is age manipulation" nic was confused as he can clearly see that the ability had something to do with regeneration, "does age have something to do with healing?" he asked himself and he looked at the image with his thumb in his mouth as he was biting on its fingernail, the image just kept repeating the same thing.

"why dont you try asking your gift" author said as he pointed at the massive core that was pulling the clock together.

"huh?" nic was confused, he now thought that author was simply mad, how was he supposed to talk to his gift.

"just try, believe me this master of yours know more than you think" author said with pride as he placed one hand to the side of his face, the throne then turned on it's own to face that of the massive core that was far away.

"gulp" nic gulped his saliva as he tried to force down the embarrassment of what he was going to do.

"thy mighty gift, what is this skill that you have bestowed upon me?"

"hahaaha.." author burst out laughing as he heard the way nic talked to his gift, "I told you to talk to it, I never told you to pray to it, ..haahaha"

nic dropped his head in embarrassment he thought that this was the way he was supposed to talk to something that was given to him by the gods.

*click* suddenly the chains pulling the pieces of the clock back together stopped, and the core shined a deep crimson red as though it was a blood star.

then the image of nic faded away, as the light particles that made it up suddenly turned to a word.

"Reset?" after nic read the word, he was confused even more than he was before, the word then disappeared and the image of nic then came back but this time their was a clock over its head.

"wow, you are really impressive nic the halfling, to be able to talk with your gift on the first try, the heavens most really favor you"

nic ignored author and was more focused on the image infront of him, it did just as it did before, it ripped of its arm and then seconds after it reappeared.

nic watched the image doing the same thing for two more times but did not find anything different, he then sighed as he looked over to author.

but something was wrong author fox mask was darkened as he had his eyes on the image to, he had a look of disbelief, "boy what did you say your gift is named?" he did not turn his eyes away from the image as he questioned nic.

"age manipulation, why do you ask..?"

"monster, monster" author mumbled, "boy you are really blessed by the gods, it seems that they dont even want you to suffer in this world" author mumbled to himself.

nic head felt as though it was going to explode, as author was making him even more confused.

author seeing that nic was confused turned to him and appeared before him as he grabbed onto his shoulders, "I can only tell you if you promise to be my student when you see my face" author sounded even more desperate.