“Esta, bring that food to me.”
“I’m coming!”
“Hazel, I want to order this drink.”
“Okay, nya!”
“Thank you for the food, Cheri.”
“Un.”
"Gill, Kenya, bring these plates to table number four.”
““Okay!””
Tonight stretched on longer than usual, the lively bar buzzing with the energy of free food.
The adventurers, all in high spirits, drank and laughed without restraint.
Sis Sasa abandoned her usual position at the counter, transforming into a waitress, while Sis Morin assisted Brother Greg in the kitchen.
I had offered to help, but they insisted I take a break, still concerned after the confrontation with Matias’ aura.
Thus, I found myself near the counter, idly watching the scene unfold, my meal finished, and boredom creeping in.
<”Aza, open status window.”>
? STATUS WINDOW ?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Name: Freed
Age: 6
Race: Great Human
Title: Otherworlder
State: Normal
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? Essence ?
Mana: 120/120
Aura: 110/110
Vitality: 115
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? Attributes ?
Strength: 110
Magic Power: 115
Mental Power: 112
Agility: 140
Dexterity: 103
Magic Resistance: 107
Mental Resistance: 105
Status Points: 0
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? Element Affinity ?
-
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Skills ?
— Active —
Immortal Bonds, Appraisal (3)
— Passive —
Language Comprehension,Breeze Footwork(5)
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? Innate Talents ?
Immortal, Double Natural Growth Rate, Status Manipulation, Elementalist, Learning Acceleration
Glancing at my status, I couldn't help but feel a small sense of pride.
Six months ago, my stats had been nothing, but now, every attribute has reached the three-digit range.
Yet, despite this growth, I knew better than to let it go to my head. Aza had warned me from the start—the stronger I got, the slower my growth would become.
She told me this amount of growth because of me still being a kid, the kid's growth rate is bigger than an adult’s.
However, adults get helped by the amount of training they can do. For example, within 10 minutes, kids may be able to run 2 laps, but adults may be able to run 5 laps.
Aza had also mentioned that combat training was more effective than normal training—which explained why adventurers gained strength faster than people who simply trained all day.
Still, I wasn't too worried.
As proof, Aza had even given me a rough estimate of the average stat ranges for adventurer ranks:
G-Rank: 100 - 300
F-Rank: 300 - 500
E-Rank: 500 - 1,000
D-Rank: 1,000 - 2,000
C-Rank: 2,000 - 5,000
B-Rank: 5,000 - 10,000
A-Rank: 10,000 - 100,000
S-Rank & Heroes: 100,000+
At G-Rank, adventurers mostly ran errands in town, while F-Rank usually involved gathering herbs outside.
Real fights began at E-Rank, and they could accept quests up to one rank above them.
However, promotion wasn't based on stats, but rather a point system—the amount of requests they finished based on the requests’ rank—which meant that many E-Rank adventurers had stats lower than some G-Ranks.
Still, to reach D-Rank and beyond, they had to pass an exam, making it harder to advance without real skill.
By contrast, Sissy’s stats were nearing 300, despite having been an adventurer for only a year and three months.
Meanwhile, Sis Celes had already surpassed 500, though she remained G-Rank because she preferred simple requests that allowed her more time for training.
But it has been 2 years and 9 months since she registered as an adventurer, so probably she will get promoted to F-Rank soon.
But the real monsters in my family are my parents.
My father’s stats surpassed 6,000, and my mother's exceeded 4,500.
M parents had earned their ranks through real combat experience—fighting monsters one rank higher than themselves, rather than throwing themselves recklessly into suicidal battles like Matias.
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By the way, usually the result of appraisal can’t be saved.
But it doesn’t matter to me, because I have the memory card, Aza.
<”Aza, show me my family’s status.”>
? STATUS WINDOW ?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Name: Daisy
Age: 12
Race: Human
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Essence ?
Vitality: 307
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Attributes ?
Strength: 310
Agility: 287
Dexterity: 240
Status Points: 0
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Element Affinity ?
Fire
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
*You need the target’s consent to manipulate their status.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? STATUS WINDOW ?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Name: Celesia
Age: 14
Race: Human
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Essence ?
Vitality: 570
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Attributes ?
Strength: 520
Agility: 555
Dexterity: 585
Status Points: 0
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Element Affinity ?
Water
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
*You need the target’s consent to manipulate their status.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? STATUS WINDOW ?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Name: Sheryl
Age: 36
Race: Human
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Essence ?
Vitality: 4825
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Attributes ?
Strength: 4573
Agility: 4528
Dexterity: 4862
Status Points: 0
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Element Affinity ?
Fire
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
*You need the target’s consent to manipulate their status.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? STATUS WINDOW ?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Name: Glacius
Age: 38
Race: Human
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Essence ?
Vitality: 6320
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Attributes ?
Strength: 6470
Agility: 6548
Dexterity: 6015
Status Points: 0
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
? Element Affinity ?
Water
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
*You need the target’s consent to manipulate their status.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The appraisal skill I had been training diligently had leveled up to 3, granting me the ability to manipulate others’ attributes with Status Manipulation innate talent.
However, I could only do so with their consent.
Only Mom and Dad knew about this ability, which is why their status points were at zero—I had personally allocated them for efficiency.
My sisters, on the other hand, only knew about my appraisal skill, not the status manipulation talent.
I planned to tell them once they reached E-Rank, since it would actually benefit them at that stage.
Currently immersed in G-Rank requests, they find joy in assisting townsfolk.
By the way, G-Rank quests are usually easy and can be completed by 1 person.
The amount of rewards won’t increase even if they take the same request together.
So, my sisters didn’t form a party and take the quests alone.
That way, they can earn money from the quests.
Also, I haven’t used Immortal Bonds yet.
Apparently, I have to raise my Appraisal skill to level 10 first to be able to check others’ Trust percentage on me.
Aza told me that it won’t just check others’ Trust, but enable Immortal Bonds skill too.
So it can’t be helped.
<”Hey, Aza. You said Matias is weaker than Mom, right?”>
【Correct.】
<”Can you esti—”>
Already done. Based on the aura he released, his aura capacity barely reaches 2,000, and his other attributes should be slightly below that. 】
As expected of my personal Go*gle, she had already calculated everything before I even finished my sentence.
<”I see. So what Sis Hazel guessed was right. He barely became a C-Rank this year.”>
【Yes.】
I tapped my fingers against the counter, deep in thought.
Matias…
He was strong, but not as strong as he thought.
Even Sis Hazel and Sis Esta surpassed him—but they were bound by his orders.
I had saved them for now, but not completely.
Not yet.
But one day…
I would make sure they were truly free.
