After the battle (3)

Cliff opened his eyes, his body lying on a bed, keeping his breathing calm, he studied the room he was in. The room was almost empty, there was only one bed - in fact it was the one he was lying on - and in the middle of the room, there was a circle drawn with strange signs and shapes on it. interior of the latter.

"Probably a magic circle."

Cliff had gotten a little used to seeing a circle like this since he arrived in this world, he was always intrigued by their modus operandi and had even asked Rakahn to teach him.

Unfortunately, His knowledge was not deep enough and he was not a good teacher even to explain the basics to her.

Abruptly, he got up from the bed, he saw that from his torso to his abdomen were covered in bandages. But strangely he didn't feel any pain.

"How many days have I slept!!?"

Right after the battle, he was so exhausted that he immediately passed out in the arms of Dahlia and Rakahn. Even if the battle was already over, it was still dangerous among these piles of corpses.

Cliff sighed.

"It's good to have people you trust."

As he sat down on the floor, and looked closer at the designs that were scribbled on the floor, he heard a knock at the door.

"Ah it's you Rakahn, come home I have lots of things to tell you!"

After he said those words, the door opened and then Rakahn and Dahlia entered the room.

"Guys, how many days have I slept? My injuries and fatigue seem to be completely gone!!" Cliff asked playfully.

Rakahn smiled.

"No, my lord we are the day after the battle, you had not slept that much!!" Dahlia replied, giggling.

"Ah well, yet it seemed that way to me"

"I told myself that since the battle took place last night, the voices of the people I heard outside would at least be more saddened." He replied

"It's true last night the cleaning team and some volunteers spent all night cleaning the surroundings, I guess they are enjoying their little moments of respite" commented Rakahn.

Cliff lingered for a moment and motioned for them to take their seats.

"I saw you fighting two variant creatures single-handedly," Cliff said mockingly, "well done!!"

"Really sire, did you really see us?, did you see the way I finished him!! " Dahlia replied, her eyes lit up with joy.

As she spoke she took out an amethyst stone from her pocket and placed it on the ground and after a few seconds Rakahn did the same.

Cliff looked at them, and he looked at the stones think for a moment.

"Why haven't you absorbed them yet? Don't tell me you were waiting for me because you want my approval or something?" Cliff asked with a slight frown.

"No sire, it is highly likely that we will be able to awaken after absorbing them" Rakahn replied while scratching the back of his head.

"I was right, that's partly why they waited for me to wake up."

"Well, that's cool, isn't it? If you could wake up, wouldn't it have been better to do it without me?" Cliff asked, curious.

"It is much more complicated than that my lord" Dahlia retorted, her soft voice echoing in the room.

"The process of evolution of each living being in this world had been divided into classes and ranks, the classes determined their levels of dangerousness and the ranks designated the stages of their evolution."

"they start from the "beast" class then the "monster" class and then a "demon" then a "plague" then comes the "calamity" class and lastly comes the "catastrophe" class as the rank rises from "constant" and then "variant" then came the "mutant" and last but not least came the rank "deviant".

She paused, searching Rakahn's gaze. this handsome horned brunette nodded slightly, and she let out a sigh.

"The creatures of the constant rank are those who have not yet awakened their skills. Once they have done so they become variants, they become mutants after having awakened their elemental affinities. For the deviant rank we do not don't know much about it because until now none of us have risen to this rank."

"That means someone had already risen to mutant rank?" Cliff asked, perplexed.

"I don't know if it's a myth, but when I was little we were told that among the first demi-humans there were those who managed to reach this rank. To be more precise they were mutant monsters. " Rakahn replied, massaging his chin.

Cliff didn't understand everything, but he got the gist of it. he nodded slightly and took out his two essence stones that he had won during the battle.

Both stones were the same color but one was slightly more frilly than the other. Cliff had placed them on the floor.

"Now what does this have to do with your awakening?"

"You already knew that for you to be awakened, you would have to show willpower sire." Dahlia replied.

"Well to awaken we will pass a kind of test, it is different for each person, if our will persists after the test we will receive our "skill" as a reward."

Cliff was struck by this revelation, several questions flooded into his head.

He furrowed his eyebrows.

Was this the reason for the pain he felt when he entered this world where he immersed himself in his absurd theories?

Cliff bit his lower lips in dismay.

"should we start?"