Safe Haven

The two are sitting by the entrance of the boss room. They were currently preparing for the final fight so they decided to rest for a few minutes as they were a bit tired from killing all the goblins earlier.

While eating some food, Calvin accessed his status and used his 5 attribute points he got from leveling up to 7. He used 3 for his intelligence since what he lacks the most right now is mana. As for the rest, he spent 1 each on vitality and endurance.

Then he checked the skills that he learned earlier to know their effects as they were rushing to kill all the goblins earlier so he didn't have the time to check them.

[Parry]

F - rank

Action-Active

Depending on the execution, can reduce one instance of damage by 25% - 40%. If not successful, the damage will not be reduced.

Cost: 5 mana

Cooldown: 8 seconds

[Block]

F - rank

Action-Active

Cover a certain part of your body in mana to reduce damage taken by 20% for 5 seconds. Only works when the body part that was covered in mana is the one that got hit.

Cost: 7 mana

Cooldown: 10 seconds

[Taunt]

F - rank

Action-Active

Release mana outwards by shouting, drawing the enemy's attention to you for 5 seconds.

Cost: 8 mana

Cooldown: 9 seconds

Those three skills are the result of his hard work earlier. He created those skills as being a tank in mind. With these skills in hand, he's defensive, survivability, and crowd control capabilities increased making it easier for him to act as a tank and in turn allowed Madelyne to go all out in launching attacks and heals one after the other.

After checking that out, he checked his notifications to see if he was missing something and when he looked, he did missed one.

He checked its time and saw that he got it during their fight with the last group of goblins before they started resting.

[Congratulations! You have awakened an innate trait! Please give it a name!]

Calvin's eyes rose in surprise as he thought to himself. 'Innate skill? Does that mean I just have it naturally?'

He opened its description to gain more information.

[???]

Innate - Unique

Action - Pasive

Due to your innate attitude while fighting, you will unconsciously release an aura that makes all allies feel safe and powerful within your presence indefinitely. Allies will receive a 10% bonus in all stats and that bonus can change depending on the user's emotions and actions.

The moment he read the description, a curse escaped from his mouth.

"Holy shit!"

Madelyne was startled upon hearing Calvin cursing suddenly. She looked at him and saw his gawking expression and asked curiously. "Everything ok Cal?"

"Ohh!" Calvin blurted out as he calmed down and said with an embarrassed smiled. "Sorry about that mom. Its just that something cool happened. Here have a look!"

He shared the description of the trait to her. Madelyne looked at him before turning to the screen in front of her.

A few seconds later, Madelyne also can't help but swear. "Damn! Now I know why your so surprised. This thing is so strong!"

"Right? Though this is classified as a trait, not a skill." Calvin said.

"Does that mean exactly what it implies. A characteristic of some kind? And I'll guess its the same case for the word innate?" Madelyne asked.

"Let me look it up for a bit." Calvin said as he opened up the forums.

Madelyne patiently waited till Calvin looked at her again and explained what he found.

"Yeah its exactly what you said mom. Its a characteristic or something like that. Apparently, you usually get it when your learning special techniques. As for the term innate, it means that you had it already ever since you were born? Something like that."

"Ohh so I was right. It actually make sense." Madelyne smiled.

"What part does?" Calvin asked curiously.

"All of them. Especially about the innate part." Madelyne said.

He quickly guessed what she means but still asked. "You mean that I really make everyone around me feel safe?"

Madelyne nodded. "I don't know about others but I really feel safe around you. Especially now that you have become more confident and... courageous? Yeah that's it."

Deep inside, Calvin felt happy about it that he can't stop his lips curving up to a smile.

Madelyne noticed it as she smiled and hugged his arm. "Ohh is my Cal happy because of that?"

He quickly covered his mouth and faked a cough before asking with a straight face. "Uhmm anyway what should I call it mom?"

Madelyne pouted and muttered to herself with her head facing away from him. "Tsk. Wouldn't even let me tease you."

"What did you say mom?" Calvin asked her as he heard her say something but didn't heard it clearly.

"Nothing." Madelyne looked back and said with a smile before continuing. "How about 'Safe Haven'?"

"Isn't that too cringe?" Calvin asked with a weird face.

Madelyne rolled her eyes and said in a loud voice. "No its not! Its perfect! Just name it that way. Its not like you have some other ideas anyway."

Seeing her like that, Calvin helplessly smiled as he named the trait.

After that, he opened his status and looked at it while feeling happy about the changes.

[Status]

Name: Zeke

Race: Human

Title: None

Class: Rogue

Profession: Blacksmith

Guild: None

Level: 7

Health: 320/320

Mana: 230/230

Vit: 32

End: 29

Str: 33

Agi: 35

Int: 23

Luc: 3

Fire res: 1

Def: 31

Attribute points: 0

Skill Points: 3

Traits:

[Safe Haven]

Blessings:

[Blessing of ???]

Masteries:

[Dagger Mastery], [One-hand axe Mastery], [Sickle Mastery], [Throwing Mastery],

[Dual Wielding], [Forging]

Skills:

[Camouflage], [Lacerate], [Power Strike],

[Mana Bullet], [Axe Throw],

[Body Enhancement], [Charge], [Parry], [Block], [Taunt]