With an hour left to train, what should I do? Should I try obtaining the water element too?
【Master, this is just my suggestion, but it would be better to start concealing Master’s status, especially the Light element.】
<”Why?”>
【If people from the church found you, they might take you to the church. They might force you to become a priest and assign you to healing roles.】
<”Ah, I see. Fantasy novels were like that too. But I thought you wanted me to be a priest and a believer of Libertas.”>
【You don’t have to be a priest if you want to be a believer of Goddess Libertas. And I know you wouldn’t be happy if you became a priest.】
That’s true. This might be the right time to start hiding my skills and talents too. They are too overpowered.
I'm lucky there haven't been any issues until now. There shouldn't be anyone capable of appraising my skills and talents.
…There is none, right?
I don’t know for sure, but there haven't been any problems so far, so it's okay.
<”Status Manipulation.”>
? Status Window ?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Name: Freed
Age: 6
Race: Great Human
Title: Otherworlder
State: Normal
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Essence ?
Mana: [-] 140 [+]
Aura: [-] 130 [+]
Vitality: [-] 135 [+]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Attributes ?
Strength: [-] 130 [+]
Magic Power: [-] 135 [+]
Mental Power: [-] 132 [+]
Agility: [-] 145 [+]
Dexterity: [-] 110 [+]
Magic Resistance: [-] 117 [+]
Mental Resistance: [-] 115 [+]
Status Points: 0
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Element Affinity ?
Light
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Skills ?
— Active —
Immortal Bonds, Appraisal (3), Light Ball
— Passive —
Language Comprehension, Breeze Footwork (5)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Innate Talents ?
Immortal, Double Natural Growth Rate, Status Manipulation, Elementalist, Learning Acceleration
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[ Save ] [ Set Fake Status ] [ Show Fake Status ]
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It’s the third time I'm utilizing it. Previously, I used it for my mom and dad. It resembles the regular status window, but with a few distinctions.
Each status has a ‘+’ sign to increase the status and a ‘-’ sign to undo it. Aura and Mana don’t display their current values in the body. There's also a fake button to set fake status as well as hide some things. I can check the result of my fake status too.
<”Set fake status.”>
This is my first time using it. The status window changed.
? Status Window ?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Name: Freed [Set Fake] [Hide] [Invisible]
Age: 6 [Set Fake] [Hide] [Invisible]
Race: Great Human [Hide] [Invisible]
Title: Otherworlder
State: Normal
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Essence ?
Mana: 140 [Set Fake]
Aura: 130 [Set Fake]
Vitality: 135 [Set Fake]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Attributes ?
Strength: 130 [Set Fake]
Magic Power: 135 [Set Fake]
Mental Power: 132 [Set Fake]
Agility: 145 [Set Fake]
Dexterity: 110 [Set Fake]
Magic Resistance: 117 [Set Fake]
Mental Resistance: 115 [Set Fake]
Status Points: 0
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Element Affinity ?
Light [Hide] [Invisible]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Skills ?
— Active —
Immortal Bonds [Hide] [Invisible]
Appraisal(3) [Hide] [Invisible]
Light Ball [Hide] [Invisible]
— Passive —
Language Comprehension [Hide] [Invisible]
Breeze Footwork(5) [Hide] [Invisible]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Innate Talents ?
Immortal [Hide] [Invisible]
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Double Natural Growth Rate [Hide] [Invisible]
Status Manipulation [Hide] [Invisible]
Elementalist [Hide] [Invisible]
Learning Acceleration [Hide] [Invisible]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[ Save ] [ Cancel ] [ Reset ] [ Show Fake Status ]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
It became so long, with numerous buttons on every attribute, skill, and talent.
<”What’s the difference between Hide and Invisible?”>
【There are several skills that could detect a hidden status, but there is no skill that can detect an invisible status, except for exceptions like Status Manipulation, which can detect both on allies’ status.】
【Normally, skills that can hide the status need to be high-level to make the status invisible. Since it's rare for people to fake their status that often, their skill level is not that high, and nobody knows it. So, probably only Master is able to make skills and talents invisible.】
<”I see. So, do you think it would be better to make all my skills and talents invisible?”>
【For overpowered skills and talents, yes. But for normal skills, it’s enough to hide them or not hide them at all to avoid suspicion.】
That’s true. If I aim to become a high-ranking adventurer, having no visible skills at all would definitely raise suspicion.
<”Is it okay to hide my skills when my Status Manipulation is invisible? Won’t people find it strange why I have a hidden skill even though I don’t have any skills related to faking my status?”>
【It is okay. There are items to fake the status too, although it’s not permanent.】
I see.
I experimented with altering a single attribute to test how the system works.
I discovered that I could set a fixed number or a percentage based on the original number, and I even had the option to determine its growth rate.
It's quite detailed… and cumbersome, no wonder why people rarely fake their status that often.
I tweaked my status.
Well, I simply hid my skills and talents. No need to fabricate my attributes. I lack the acting skills of Sis Esta and Sis Hazel to convincingly match a fake status.
Besides, acting as a weak person is just bothersome.
The result is as follows.
? Status Window ?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Name: Freed [Set Fake] [Hide] [Invisible]
Age: 6 [Set Fake] [Hide] [Invisible]
Race: Great Human [Hide] [Invisible]
Title: Otherworlder
State: Normal
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Essence ?
Mana: 140 [Set Fake]
Aura: 130 [Set Fake]
Vitality: 135 [Set Fake]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Attributes ?
Strength: 130 [Set Fake]
Magic Power: 135 [Set Fake]
Mental Power: 132 [Set Fake]
Agility: 145 [Set Fake]
Dexterity: 110 [Set Fake]
Magic Resistance: 117 [Set Fake]
Mental Resistance: 115 [Set Fake]
Status Points: 0
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Element Affinity ?
Light (Invisible) [Visible]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Skills ?
— Active —
Immortal Bonds (Invisible) [Visible]
Appraisal(3) [Hide] [Invisible]
Light Ball (Invisible) [Visible]
— Passive —
Language Comprehension (Invisible) [Visible]
Breeze Footwork(5) (Hidden) [Visible]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Innate Talents ?
Immortal (Invisible) [Visible]
Double Natural Growth Rate (Invisible) [Visible]
Status Manipulation (Invisible) [Visible]
Elementalist (Invisible) [Visible]
Learning Acceleration (Invisible) [Visible]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[ Save ] [ Cancel ] [ Reset ] [ Show Fake Status ]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
In the end, I just showed my appraisal skill, name, age, and race. My race should be fine to show it as long as they don’t suspect my race. On the contrary, it would arouse suspicion if I hid my race.
The rest is now invisible, leaving only the 'Visible' button beside them.
<”Show fake status.”>
? Status Window ?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Name: Freed
Age: 6
Race: Great Human
Title: Otherworlder
State: Normal
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Essence ?
Mana: 140
Aura: 130
Vitality: 135
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Attributes ?
Strength: 130
Magic Power: 135
Mental Power: 132
Agility: 145
Dexterity: 110
Magic Resistance: 117
Mental Resistance: 115
Status Points: 0
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Element Affinity ?
-
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Skills ?
— Active —
Appraisal(3)
— Passive —
-
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Innate Talents ?
-
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Much cleaner. Now, let’s check my real status again.
<”Show my real status.”>
? Status Window ?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Name: Freed
Age: 6
Race: Great Human
Title: Otherworlder
State: Normal
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Essence ?
Mana: 138/140
Aura: 128/130
Vitality: 135
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Attributes ?
Strength: 130
Magic Power: 135
Mental Power: 132
Agility: 145
Dexterity: 110
Magic Resistance: 117
Mental Resistance: 115
Status Points: 0
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Element Affinity ?
-
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Skills ?
— Active —
Immortal Bonds, Appraisal(3), Light Ball
— Passive —
Language Comprehension, Breeze Footwork(5)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Innate Talents ?
Immortal, Double Natural Growth Rate, Status Manipulation, Elementalist, Learning Acceleration
I haven’t checked my newest skill either. Although my first magic was shaped like a star, apparently it still registered as “Light Ball” in the status window.
<”Show Light Ball skill.”>
? Light Ball ?
A ball of light. The more mana used, the brighter the ball becomes.
So straightforward!
Well, it’s basic magic, so I guess that’s expected.
