Chapter 250 Incomplete
Zach breathed heavily as he lay on the floor in the training room, his glistening body covered in sweat. He looked at the ceiling to avoid staring at the feminine curves of the maids lying down next to and around him.
Their maid dresses usually hid their hips well, but when they were lying on their sides looking at him, there was no denying that they were women. Fortunately, Zach had gotten a little used to it over the last couple of years and could almost focus.
As he looked at the square ceiling, Zach realized something.
He hadn't looked at the system interface in quite a while. He had done it before the end of the second school year to confirm that he had reached level twenty. After that, he hadn't paid much attention to it, not even after establishing a familiar contract with Soara.
So, he took a look at it.
After a few minutes…
"Soara, I have a couple of questions."
[Zacharia Evandiel - Troublemaker]
[Level 23 Expert Summoner]
[Innate Skill: Divine Luck]
[Contract Skills: Blessed Defense | Material Extraction | Transcension]
[Contracts: Yanael | Alzara roi Kalam | Soara]
[Yanael – S-Rank Angel *Battle Maid Variant]
[Alzara roi Kalam – SS-Rank Desert Witch *Battle Maid Variant]
[Soara – SS-rank Deity of Death and Transcendence *Battle Maid Variant (SSS) (Incomplete)]
[Titles: 1]
He had leveled up a little more than he expected. Being level twenty-three already put him in a good spot for reaching thirty. He had also gone from being a summoner to being an expert summoner. He wasn't sure what the difference was if there was one. But it was always better to be an expert than not being one.
He had a new contract skill. It seemed closely related to Soara's second power, which he still didn't know much about. But that could come later. For now, Zach was interested in the two parentheses behind Soara's information.
"I will answer you to the best of my ability, Master," Soara said. She already had a hunch about what Zach wanted to ask.
"You know the information I can see about you, right?"
"That's right."
"Are you missing a limb I didn't know you were supposed to have or something? Why does it say that you're incomplete?" Soara's status as an SS-rank instead of the indicated SSS-rank was probably related to that as well, so Zach didn't bother asking about it.
"No. Physically speaking, I am intact. It's… Well, in short, it's related to what you saw in the statues. I can't go into the details, unfortunately. Just know that while I may be significantly weakened due to my current status, I will not be a burden."
"Oh, I wasn't worried about that. I was worried that you might be suffering or something. But by the looks of it, it can be fixed, right?"
"Yes. I can be completed, as much as I dislike that way of phrasing it. But it's a distant matter for your current self. Thank you for your concern, Master."
"Mm. The contract skill I got from our bond is called Transcension. Any idea what it does? Or rather, what does your power of Transcendence do? I never understood or noticed it, no matter how many times I watched the scene in your statue."
Soara was silent for a minute.
"...It is a fancy name for a simple power." Soara's expression and tone were distant like she was looking at the past.
Her emotional response made Zach hesitate to continue asking. But he couldn't help it.
"...What does it do?" He asked gently.
Soara sighed with a depth of emotion Zach was a few thousand years too young to understand.
"It's a power that ignores limits."n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
Zach still didn't quite understand what it meant or what the power did. But Soara wasn't in the mood to explain. And he wasn't in the mood to make her do it anyway.
He could tell that the others thought Soara was being ridiculous. She had chosen to become Zach's maid, servant, and familiar. She had subordinated herself to him. That meant she answered and explained when he had questions.
Instead, she was being all weird and making the atmosphere gloomy.
However, it wasn't just about a familiar obeying their Master. The Master could choose to respect their familiar.
If Yanael or Alzara had been in the same situation, they would have appreciated the same kindness he was showing Soara.
Besides, Zach had a feeling that Soara wouldn't be able to explain it in much more detail than that. It was a simple explanation, maybe too simple. But it gave him an idea of what his contract skill would do.
None of his other skills had been similar to anything Yanael and Alzara did. They had been more like a perfect compliment to their abilities.
Blessed Defense let him protect himself while Yanael fought, among other things. Material Extraction smoothened Alzara's crafting process. Transcension, however, looked like it was straight from Soara's power of Transcendence.
If it was anything like her power, he wielded the power of a deity.
The thought and possibility were almost intoxicating.
By wielding the power of a deity, wasn't it like he himself was a deity?
Not quite. Of course.
Zach was still clear-headed enough to realize that. Otherwise, anyone with a similar power as any of the other deities would also be a deity. Anyone who could summon or control rain would have shared that power with Boa. As they had discovered last year, it wasn't a common power. But a skilled mage could do it. And if skilled mages were deities, deities wouldn't have been so rare.
Yissna of Strength was a deity. Being strong didn't make a person a deity.
There was more to it.
But Zach didn't just share the same name of or property of a power as a deity. His skill came directly from his union with Soara.
There was no harm in giggling to himself with excitement about what he could do with Transcension.
He just had to figure out how to use it.
It couldn't be that hard.