Knowledge is power

Back in the living room Hope was taking a casual glance at the weapon book before starting to memorize it. She suddenly left the book on the table and grabbed the zoology book.

"Done"

"Wait, just like that?"

…

"I just need to see it once to remember the contents… you are the one that noticed that I could do this…"

I didn't know that eidetic memory was so good I thought that she had to at least read it once before she remembers it.

"Good girl, that's why you are my favorite sister."

I patted her head to mess with her hair.

"Don't mess my hair!… Stop! Or I'll tell Rose all the embarrassing stuff that I can remember!!"

I let her go, and she started to comb her hair with her fingers while looking at her reflection on the glass table. She looked at me angrily.

"Read the other books alone."

She was about to leave. But I managed to stop her. Somehow, I must learn how to make ice-cream now, I think Hayley might be able to help me with that… I gave a quick glance to see if the system had recipes.

She finished reading the other books and after that, I explained how the rifle worked, it was completely unnecessary since she read the book I brought, but she didn't say anything until I finished, I discovered it when she started to add some facts that were mentioned in the book that I didn't know about.

Since I didn't want to be ridiculed by my sister anymore, I decided to absorb the books right away.

[User obtained Zoology Lv.1]

[Aura view now show weak points on some animals and beasts]

[User obtained Anatomy Lv.1]

[Medicine requirement for level up fulfilled]

[User obtained Survival Lv.2]

[User obtained Trapping Lv.1]

[User obtained Herbalism Lv. 1]

[User obtained Weapon Knowledge Lv.1]

[User obtained Short blades Lv.1]

[Achievement Unlocked]

[Good Reader

You finally follow your heart and got deeper into the bookworm path

Read 5 books

Reward: 3 skill points, Int/Wis +2]

[Skilled

Your arsenal of knowledge finally got to a point where you can call yourself "slightly useful."

Get a total of 25 Levels in your skills

Reward: 3 attribute points, 1 skill point]

I think I overdid it a little bit. My head hurt like hell, so I had to lay down a bit. Every bit on information that I just learned was forcefully engraved into my brain… I should have done it slowly and not all of them together, lesson learned.

The worst part was that I noticed some errors in what I just told Hope, she probably didn't want to mention it and knew that I was going to discover it after I absorb the books.

'System what does Weapon Knowledge, and short blades do?'

[Weapon Knowledge is a general skill that let the user get familiar with weapons faster, this way he obtains related skills more often and can rise them more quickly. The weapon masteries give different bonus depending on the weapon. Short blades proficiency improves the attack rate of the user on the early levels, and improves the chances of hitting a weak-points at higher levels]

That seems nice… my headache has stopped, and I was wondering about what kind of weapon I wanted, Hope noticed that I was feeling better.

"If you are ok, you should clean that."

I looked around and noticed that a part of the couch and the floor were covered in dust… I should have done this outside.

It took me a while to clean everything and surprisingly Hope helped. She seemed to be in high spirits, I think that it can be related to my promise of making ice-cream for her.

I was thinking about the weapons, I liked my knife and pistol, but I wanted to get something more effective. The probabilities of getting an assault rifle weren't too high, and I don't feel like it would be a good choice for me either. In the best case a better pistol or a SMG would be good, maybe a sawed-off shotgun could make it too.

For melee, I recalled the fight with the alligator, I wanted to keep the fast-paced fighting style that I was getting used to, so any heavy weapon was out of the question. Since I can't get through the defenses of the beast using brute force I need precise attacks, and for this, a spear should be a good option, but it can't be one of the longer ones. Also, a new knife or a dagger would be good since I already have the skill for them.

I finished cleaning, and I was talking with Hope about my thoughts about the weapons, since now she knew a little more about weapons she asked for a recoil pad for the rifle and Railfle, so it doesn't hurt her shoulder that much when she shot. At that time the door was opened, and everyone came inside the house… Thankfully Stan wasn't with them.

Rose smiled and came to see what we were doing.

"How was the visit?"

"It was fun!"

G looked at her as if she was a weirdo and Mr. Ryan laugh.

"There wasn't much to show, we are still in the design phase, so most of what we are doing it's still in theoretical phase."

I looked at G.

"Well at least you will be working in the armory, they are working on weapons made from beasts parts."

"That… is fun." He said to Rose, and she blushed a little.

I told everyone the jobs they will be doing, Dana classes were in the morning, and Isabella will work at that time too in a temporal clinic that was made. Hope's work was in the afternoon I was sure to make it that way, so Rose's body was never left alone in the house. Rose will be with me hunting from time to time, sometimes she will go to the warehouse with Hayley, she had a lot of freedom since she was still 17.

Except for Hope who found her work boring, everyone else happily took the letters. It's not like everyone was happy about working, but after everything that happened, something normal was good for everyone.

Since today we haven't trained I took everyone to the roof. Our daily training was officially changed to before we go to bed. Since in the morning now we have to move here to do.

The content was similar to last time, but no shoulder throws until we get some mats, G said that he was going to see that tomorrow, so I don't have to worry. Dana was looking at our train while playing with Dante's paws making him dance to the rhythm of her humming.

When we finished, we joined Isabella and Mr. Ryan who were talking in the kitchen. It was already late, so we ate something and went to bed. Isabella, Dana, and Dante went to another apartment. Probably Dana is still nervous, so Dante decided to keep her company.

Hayley also went with her father to another apartment, she still had all her stuff here, but it wouldn't be weird if she moves out with her father, in the end, it was across the hall, so it wasn't a big deal.

…

Sometime later I was laying in bed with Rose, I was telling her about my day, and she told me about the things she learned on Mr. Ryan lab. I explained some of the idea that she didn't understand, she was smart but lacked the knowledge to understand how some complex theories worked.

I explained her also my thoughts about the weapons.

"There is no point on thinking about it, even if they had the police arsenal most of the good weapons should be already in someone's hand, you should see what they have first. You should think about using your points."

"I can't get to 25 points in any attribute."

"Other missions give you attribute points?"

I went to the mission section and looked all my pending missions.

"Mmm there is a total of 5 points for wisdom"…

"Then use the points to get to 20 on wis and the rest on the remaining stats."

I use a point on wisdom, and the rest on dexterity.

[Wis Improved]

[Dex Improved]

"Now… the skill points." I had already explained her before how they worked. And I had a bunch of skill in lv. 1. I had my ideas already, but I wanted to hear her.

"I think you should upgrade a combat ability, Krav Maga probably will help us a lot too, if you become better at it, you probably can teach us better. Weapon knowledge I feel it could be the better one, in the long run, Dodge would boost your survival ability. The weapons-related skills are not bad but I feel like upgrading weapon knowledge would help upgrade them faster and you might not even use those two after you go to the armory tomorrow."

I nodded, her analysis was the same as mine as always. The only difference was that I didn't rule out leveling up time bubble, but I feel like I should understand more about it first.

[Krav Maga Level Up Lv. 1->Lv. 2]

[Weapon Knowledge Level Up Lv. 1->Lv. 2]

'Status'

[Name: Spencer Davies

Age: 20 yrs.

Stats:

Str: 16 End:20 Agi: 25 Dex: 23 Int:25 Wis: 20 Cha: 25 Luk:10

Perks: Cold mind (+), Good Leader (+), Acrobat (+), Aura view(+), Accelerated Processing, Astral Anchor(0)(Bound to Rose Hunter).

Skills:

Battle skills: Krav Maga LV. 2 Firearms Lv. 1, Damage Resistance Lv. 1, Dodge Lv.1, Short Blades proficiency Lv.1, Weapon Knowledge Lv.2.

Knowledge: Medicine Lv. 1, Physics Lv2, Math Lv.2, Anatomy Lv.1, Zoology Lv.1, Herbalism Lv.1, Basic sciences Lv. 5.

Utility Skills: Stealth Lv. 2, Survival Lv. 2, Swimming Lv. 2, Tracking LV.1, Driving Lv.1, Trapping Lv.1. Ambush Lv.0

Production Skills: Cooking Lv.1, Mechanics Lv.1.

Esper-Related: Link Affinity Lv.2[(Share Thoughts)(Empathy)], Time Bubble(Slow motion)(Lv.1)

Esper abilities:

E-Rank: Astral Link (Bound to Rose Hunter), Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Psychometry, Sight, Sixth sense, Smell, Taste, Touch), Time Distortion.

F-Rank: Enhanced Reflexes.

System Points: 125]