Meanwhile, inside Bahamut's room, Nikoos couldn't suppress the growing grin spreading across his fabsp;
He had been quick-witted in the earlier frontation, and now the third-fastest spot was his.
Bahamut watched him in amusement, having overheard everything Vasiliki had said.
The otion had been right outside her room door, after all.
‘Sigh, ever uimate that girl,’ Bahamut thought, shaking her head.
Refog her thoughts, Bahamut pricked her finger with a needle, letting a drop of her divine blood fall onto Nikoos' babsp;
As expected, his status board appeared, and Bahamut began the process of his level-up.
"Hmm, what an ominous-sounding skill," Bahamut murmured, iing the avaible development abilities for Nikoos.
“Huh, did you say something?” Nikoos asked, having heard what she murmured.
“It’s nothing important” Bahamut replied.
Grabbing a piece of paper, she quickly jotted dowions and ha to the eager young boy.
Nikoos eagerly snatched the paper, his eyes sing the details with unbridled excitement.
Bahamut could see how thrilled he was, his tail flutterilessly and smmiedly against her skin, tig her slightly.
"No magiikoos asked, his ears drooping and his tail ing to a halt as he ied his status sheet.
“This boy..” Bahamut muttered under her breath.
“It won’t show up till you actually level up” Bahamut replied.
Nikoos expression quickly brightened up upon hearing this, but Bahamut immediately crushed his expectations.
“Don’t get your hopes too high, magic is very rare to obtain” Bahamut said.
Nikoos was a bit downcast, but he quickly recovered, realizing that there was still a ow and iure.
Refog on his status sheet, he observed his options with a keen eye.
Abnormal Resistanegates the effects of abnormalities such as poison.
Hunter: Improves abilities against mohat the user has fought before and gained excelia from.
Bone Crusher: Increases strength and agility between 1% - 10% of current stats against enemies with bohe rger and more bohe enemies have, the closer to the maximum value boost is provided.
Heavy Handed: Increases the user's strength when wielding a heavy two-handed on.
Nikoos fell into a dilemma, for all the optioempting in their own way.
However, there was one skill that resonated with him, almost like the call of a siren, and it was - the Bone Crusher skill.
Something about the name just felt right, as if it would roll off his tongue perfectly.
‘Ugh, how troublesome,’ Nikoos thought, aware that the safer options were either the Hunter or Heavy Handed skill.
However he couldn't deny the allure of the Bone Crusher skill, even though it would be limited against oppos without bones, such as pnts, slimes, and several other types.
There was also no guarahat the skill would reize the bones of dungeon monsters.
The only thing stopping him from immediately making a decision was the thought of how the others might react, especially Draco, if he made a horrible choice.
Once a person picked their development ability, there was no going back.
Bahamut observed him silently, patiently waiting for Nikoos to reach his clusion.
This was a choice that Nikoos had to make for himself, and Bahamut uood the importance of allowing him the space to do so.
After several minutes of deep introspe, Nikoos finally came to a clusion.
The bone crusher skill, with its clear and substantial buffs to two important stats, seemed to offer the greatest potential frowth and impabsp;
sidering how its effects would pound over time, Nikoos became increasingly certain that this was the right path for him.
"Have you made up your mind?" Bahamut asked, her keen eyes pig up on the resolution in Nikoos' expression.
"Yes," Nikoos replied, his voice steady and fident.
"Please select the bone crusher skill." he requested.
Without wasting time, Bahamut updated his status, and Nikoos became the 3rd level 2 adventurer in the Bahamut familia.
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Outside Bahamut's room door, Vasileios sat on the ground, his posture tense as he eagerly awaited Nikoos' emergenbsp;
Initially, he had po front Nikoos for cheating him out of the ce to bee the third fastest adveo reach level 2.
However, he soon realized the futility of su a – Nikoos had already secured that position, but the fourth to eighth spots were still up frabs.
With this in mind, Vasileios settled in to camp the door, determio seize one of the remaining positions.
Beside him, Michalis also waited, his eyes filled with a fierpetitive spirit.
He had no clear reason for his sudden drive to outperform the others, but the mere mention of rankings had ignited a fire within him.
The thought of Nikoos' smug expression as he exited the room spurred Michalis on, and he was determined not to be the st among the boys.
The girls – Cir, Dimitra, and Eleni – did not seem nearly as ied in rushing to level up first, whily heightehe wariness of Vasileios and Michalis.
Were they pnning some sort of sneaky tactic by feigning disi?.
The uainty kept the two young boys on high alert, both towards the girls and each other.
Iy, Dimitra's ck of enthusiasm stemmed from her uanding that this art of Vasiliki's scheme.
Knowing this, she opted not to participate but observe, finding the reas of the others rather amusing.
Eleni, oher hand, was more ied in unraveling the secrets of the versation had between Vasiliki and Cir awhile ago, her curiosity overp any desire to pete for a spot.
Cir, too, wished to participate, but Eleni's stant probi her distracted.
Vasiliki and Draco observed the unfolding se with a mixture of amusement and .
Vasiliki chuckled inwardly at the easy response of the boys to her ploy, but she was frustrated by the girls' ck of i.
‘Fufufufu, I didn't think the boys would bite at it so quickly, but the girls... aren't so responsive. Damn Eleni, she should just leave Cir alone,’ Vasiliki thought.
‘Well, the girls are just that much harder to deal with,’ she mused.
‘Now, what should I do to involve them when Nikoos exits the room?’ Vasiliki pondered.
Seeing Vasiliki's impish expression, Draco swiftly brought his hand down on her head in a firm reprimand.
He could tell she to something mischievous.
Thwabsp;
Vasiliki immediately clutched her head in pain, turning around with eyes pleading to Draco, silently asking what she had done wrong.
"You py too much," Draco scolded.
"Stop thinking about silly things and go do something else." he added.
As amused as he found Vasiliki's antics, Draew he had to rein her in.
She teo go too far sometimes, even if her iions were good.
He could tell what Vasiliki was trying to aplish with her silly as - she probably wao take everyone's mind off the emotional roller coaster of events during the day ahem unwind.
Before Vasiliki could respond, the click of Bahamut's door opening drew everyone's attention.
Vasileios and Michalis, their ears perked up, prepared to slip into the room as soon as the door opened.
As Nikoos fully stepped out, he was met with Vasileios and Michalis tightly ging to each other’s clothing at front of the door.
With a smug smirk on his faikoos used his shoulder to brush past them, much to their annoyanbsp;
The way he smiled and walked was just so infuriating.
He even had the gull to pause mid-stride, turn around, and dangle his status sheet in their faces.
Vasiliki doing something simir to them once before, was enough.
The boys weren’t allowed be rough with the girls in the family, except during practid duelling - that was the way Draco had brought them up.
But with Nikoos, it was different.
He was a boy, so without hesitation, Vasileios and Michalis jumped him from behind before he could reach Drabsp;
The three boys sooo the floor in a mild, pyful tussle.
Underh the pyfulness, there was an undercurrent of seriousness, but not harmful.
Bahamut just let out an exasperated sigh, watg them from inside her room.
‘Why ’t this children do anything normal’ she wondered.
While the boys tussled on the floor, and everyone was distracted by them.
Dimitra quietly got up aered her room, log the door behind her, much to everyone’s shock.
