See I didn't lie!

I can't stop grinning like a fool! The wind rushes past me as I run at top speed down the road. Currently I'm on my way back to the clinic with Pan'ku box in hand. Once I get back and stash my things Lord Miach will give me his blessing and I'll have a falna. Power! Wealth! Women! All the dreams of a horny young otaku!

Okay maybe not quite that but hey a falna is the first step to true power in this world and I can hardly wait. The only reason I don't have it already is that horrible negativity in the back of my mind. Unfortunately it may have a point this time.

Lord Miach had offered to go ahead and give me his blessing right then and there. I had even started stripping my shirt off till one of those horrible nagging thoughts hit.

What about Shendu?

I didn't know how having him plastered across my chest would affect my falna. He's a demon and Lord Miach's a god, and as they say "Don't cross the streams." I'm probably already being affected by him. The insane healing time is proof of that, and if I somehow get knocked out I need to make sure my Pan'ku box is safe. So hear I am running through the streets like a mad man dodging hawkers and kids alike.

*HUFF HUFF HUFF* "I'M BACK!" Finally here

"Wow, I don't think I've ever seen anyone run that fast without a monster on their tail." Naaza gives me a poking jab.

"Oh, *huff* lay off we'll be partners soon."

"Nope, I reserve the right to bully you as both the senior and higher leveled member of this familia. Plus I'm the captain so you have to listen to me from now on." She gives me this grin that looks like she's sizing me up for market.

"Not for long if I have anything to say about it."

"Well good luck with that but leveling up is a lot harder than you think."

"Well thanks for the advice, but where is Lord Miach?"

"He's upstairs waiting for you so get going. I don't want you to keep him waiting."

"Yeah, Thanks!" After catching my breath a little and making sure there isn't a sword in my side, I jog up the stairs two at a time.

"Ah, Jack there you are. Did you get everything?" Lord Miach turns to me and gestures at a bed for me to lay on.

"Yes Lord Miach I got everything. Didn't have much beside some change and a box so no worries there."

"Good, I didn't want you forgetting something in your excitement."

*Hahaha* "Yeah um, I made sure to get everything, and the only really important thing was my box so no problems."

*Hmm* "That box sounds important."

"Yeah, it's also on of the things I'd like to tell you about after I get your blessing."

"Really, then we better get started."

I take off my shirt and lay on the bed. Now that it's finally happening I can't shake the nervous sweat of what my status will look like. Will there be any problems? Will I really get any skills? Will I even be able to get a falna or will Shendu get in the way?

Lord Miach seems unperturbed as he gently reaches over knife in hand.

"Now don't get too nervous everyone's status starts the same." His voice calms me down and I think that this must come with all his practice calming down patients.

With me calming down Lord Miach proceeds to cut his finger and write with the blood on my back. Nothing happens much to my relief at first, but as it feels like his finger makes it half way down my back my tattoo feels like it's heating up.

*Huh*

"WHAT!"

There's a shout from Lord Miach as my chest suddenly feels like an oven. Then the heat goes straight from my chest to my back. All the while Lord Miach is scribbling furiously on my back.

"What is going on? I've never heard of something like this."

Fortunately for me the burning fades away almost as quickly as it came leaving me sweating like I just left the sauna and Lord Miach still writing on my back.

"Is everything alright Lord Miach?"

*Hmm* Lord Miach mumbles to himself some more before he stops writing on my back.

Taking that as the sign that everything's done I get up to look at Lord Miach. He has a very worried expression on his face and is staring at a sheet of paper like he wants to bore a hole through it.

"Um, Lord Miach?" I try to get his attention which seems to startle him back to the present.

"Oh yes Jack, well you certainly gave me a surprise. It seems like you're secrets may be more dangerous than I thought."

"Really? I'll share everything I can with you, but what made you think that?"

"You see Jack an adventurer's status is no simple thing. It is the experience or excelia of the individual brought out and empowered by a god. This means that all skills or magic are the product of an individuals excelia. Grimoires are one of the few things that can forcefully awaken an individuals status. Those also only work on magic and required an extremely skilled craftsman to make them. Even then they only awaken an individuals natural magic. You on the other hand have not only immediately awakened a skill but it was without my help. I even tried to repress it but it wrote itself in despite me."

"Wait, I have a skill and you didn't want me to awaken it?" From what I've seen of Lord Miach he's done almost everything he can to help me when I needed it so why would he repress a skill?

"Here, take a look at your status and I'll explain your skill."