Chapter Three - An Extra

*Huh!? And you aree?*

The goddess looked towards me in shock.

It was obvious no one noticed my presence a moment ago.

"M-me am..."

*Tadano Kasumi?...hmmm it seems a mistake has been made the magic circle I sent was only supposed to grab three people from your world. It seems you have been accidentally taken and it's too late to return the soul corridor to your world has been closed off and won't reopen until the next century.*

The goddess crossed her arms and assumed a thinking position. I was stuck speechless and in awe with a bit of shock that the gods could make mistakes.

*Ah I know, why don't I grant you some abilities to be able to survive in the world below that way you can do as you please and live peacefully until the heroes save the world. It's law that if the heroes wish to return upon completing their quest, they can be reborn in their previous world, at that moment I could send you back to your world if u so wish it. That should be enough to make up for our mistake right.*

The goddess' way of speech got way more informal as she spoke to me but I could see that she was sincerely apologetic about her mistake plus it's not like I want to return to my old world nor do I want to have to fight monsters as a mission to save to world that's too much of a burden so her proposition isn't that bad.

"I-I'll go with that please."

I shakily replied still enamored by her beauty.

She then smiled and started to glow even brighter than before which made me cover my eyes from the lights. When the lights disappeared, before me stood a woman about 1' shorter then me. I was even more speechless upon realizing it was the goddess as her beauty was unchanging.

*Much better, staying in that form is so tiring so I rarely use it unless it's a special occasion. Now Sir Tadano, I am unable to grant you blessings like I did with the previous heroes and I can't call upon any other god as it's appalling for the head goddess to make a mistake.* The goddess walked closer to me until we were almost face to face just the distant of about a meter between us

*So how about this. Besides blessings there are things that beings get called skills, normally one has to level up and or meet a certain condition to acquire skills but I'll allow you to choose, hmm let's see ten skills to take with you. It can be any skills accept title granted skills like the hero's skill to wield the fairy kings sword for example.* the goddess then snapped her fingers and a translucent blue panel appeared before me.

*On the panel you will notice a small divide between the skills one section marked as unique and the other marked as general. On the unique side there are skills unique to a specific person or group of people and on the general side are skills anyone can get by leveling up.*

Now the goddess was practically in my face standing right beside me. I could even smell the scent of peach in her hair as she looked at the panel and pointed things out as she spoke.

*Heres the Deal, I'll allow you to chose one unique skills and nine other skills, of the nine others you can only make two of those seven stars the other seven skills will be ranked one star no matter the ability. Don't worry though the more you use a skill and increase it's proficiency the more stars it'll get and the stronger the skill will become. Oh and FYI all unique skills are ten stars which is the highest level amount of stars a skill can have. Now Sir pick as you'd like.*

I scanned the panel with my eyes and almost all those skills amazing, stuff I've only seen in fiction. I started to tap each skill and read about the abilities of the ones which interests me my main two were conceal and appraise those are skills ever fiction Mc always have along with the linguistic skill which would help me speak and understand the languages of the people in this other world. I made conceal and appraise my seven star rank skills and the linguistic skills one star.

Before long I'd already chosen all the skills I've seen and liked one unique skill two seven stars and seven one star skills.

*Aye you've finished your selection, I hope all these skills will help increase your survival rate in Engrasia. Is there anything else you want to request if not the portal is ready*

The goddess snapped her finger and a portal appeared below my feet like with the others earlier.

"Oh I have one last request, can you make me a few years younger when I descend?" I made a wry smile unsure if she'd grant that request.

*hmmmm... okay done.*

she snapped her finger and I was engulfed in a white light.

Let's activate my conceal before I reach down and conceal my status wouldn't want anyone seeing my skills.