“Wait, why are you erasing that?”
Naturally, Vigdis questioned my actions.
‘Your Attribute and Swordsmanship skills are suited for a dealer, but the [Iron-Blooded Steel Body] skill and {Patience} Attribute look like nothing but a tanker’s. So I’m erasing the one Attribute we can hide.’
I couldn’t exactly say that.
I was simply taking action to ensure this Swordsmanship genius wasn’t assigned to the wrong position. However, to others, it would look like I didn’t want my fiancée to take the role of a tank who absorbs enemy attacks head-on.
Thus, I hid my true motive and spoke a more justifiable reason.
“There’s no benefit to revealing your ‘Attribute’ to others.”
“Why? Isn’t this a strength?”
“Even so. Isn’t this ‘Attribute’ one of the primary words that define who you are? Don’t think of it as just a single word. It contains much more information than you might think.”
These words were meant to justify my actions and hide the real reason, but I wasn’t making it up entirely.
The reason Vigdis possessed the {Patience} Attribute was because she had endured a suppressed and diminished life, restricted from doing what she truly wanted.
“Is that so…?”
“It is. There’s a reason the professor mentioned earlier that one would naturally be reluctant to reveal their ‘individual Attribute’ entirely.”
“I thought that only applied to negative Attributes.”
Having great patience is clearly a strength.
However, considering the circumstances that led to the creation of that Attribute, I didn’t think it was something to be purely positive about or to boast around.
‘It might be different if she had escaped Count Shalbrady’s oppression through her own strength…’
She hadn’t even secretly trained her body to wait for an opportunity while avoiding his eyes. It was only after accepting her engagement to Karbaldr — another external pressure — that she began to train her body and learn Swordsmanship.
At least at this point, Vigdis’s {Patience} couldn’t be called a stepping stone for overcoming crises or achieving goals. It was closer to compliance — enduring unreasonable demands without being able to assert her own will.
It meant that if she met the wrong kind of person, she would be marked as a pushover and used.
‘I don’t really need to tell her that, do I?’
There’s a saying that ignorance is bliss, so I decided to let her keep thinking of it as a strength.
Besides, there was something else to discuss.
“By the way, this part about being ‘impervious to blades’ bothers me.”
“It means I cannot be cut or stabbed by a sword.”
“Do you think I don’t know the meaning…? I asked because that phrasing seems to define the skill’s utility as a defense against ‘physical attacks’ rather than ‘all attacks.’ I was going to ask if it’s effective against attribute-based attacks like fire, acid, or lightning.”
“Ah…! It can’t block those. I’ll get hurt just like everyone else.”
“You should have written that information down. How else are we supposed to plan a proper strategy?”
“I didn’t think of that. Since I copied the skill description exactly, I thought that was enough.”
Vigdis smiled awkwardly, looking a bit embarrassed.
Instead of responding, I quietly moved my pen and wrote the following line under the description of **[Iron-Blooded Steel Body]**.
[Only effective against pure physical attacks without attributes.]
If I clarified this in advance, they wouldn’t use Vigdis as a shield when fighting monsters that use attribute-based attacks.
With that thought, I handed the paper, which now included the additional text, to Reysir.
Then, Vigdis handed me the paper she was holding, thanking me for pointing out what she had missed.
***
**[Flame Mastery]**
: The ability to handle the power of fire.
: Not only can it cause flames to surge, but it can also control their flow and shape at will.
This was Hailga’s skill description.
It wasn’t that she had been insincere; elemental skill descriptions were just naturally like this. They didn’t require detailed explanations because the abilities didn’t function in a standardized way.
At least this one had two lines because it was a **[Mastery]** skill.
For **[Manipulation]**, which was one level lower, the entire description would be a single line: “The power to handle the strength of [Element] in a limited capacity.”
Regardless, the above description was all there was for **[Flame Mastery]**.
Below it, there were methods listed for using it in combat, but nothing particularly noteworthy.
Spreading fire wide to burn enemies or block their approach, firing flames shaped like arrows, and so on.
They were all methods anyone could normally think of.
‘In truth, this is all you can do with the ability to handle fire at this stage.’
I passed Hailga’s skill paper to the right and received Risi’s.
**[Superhuman Strength]**
: The ability to exert superhuman strength.
: Effect — Strength: +[n]
In the original work before the remake, Risi also stated her skill name was **[Superhuman Strength]**.
However, according to what the original protagonist confirmed through the **[Truth-Reading Eye]**, her true skill name was **[Giant’s Strength]**.
The skill description was “The ability to exert the strength of a giant.”
Since she was only about 150 cm tall, I suspected she had swapped the words because it felt embarrassing to have the word ‘Giant’ in her skill name.
Some readers of the original work assigned great meaning to this minor lie. They claimed the protagonist would surely reveal his ‘ability to read others’ status windows’ to Risi later. Then, Reysir would tease her by mentioning her real skill name, leading to a scene where she would get embarrassed.
‘It was a fairly plausible plot prediction… but because Risi died before that day could come, it was concluded that her lie meant nothing.’
Perhaps the original author had wanted to write that content, but lost interest after a reader beat them to it in the comments.
Or maybe they never had any intention of doing so from the beginning, or the timing to write the scene was never right, so it was scrapped.
Only the author, Senna, would know the truth.
‘Did Risi give a false skill name this time too? Or did the name change to [Superhuman Strength] in the remake version?’
A small curiosity arose.
However, since it was a trivial matter, I didn’t think about it deeply and passed the paper along.
The next one I received was Fjodra’s skill description.
**[Spatial Leap]**
: Jump across space in an instant to move to a desired location.
: The destination must be within the user’s line of sight.
: Maximum leap distance — [20] m
This was an ability commonly referred to as a ‘blink spell’ in Korean fantasy novels.
When Reysir first saw her in the original work, this skill was S-rank, so it probably wouldn’t be higher than that now.
But there was no way a space-shifting skill would be A-rank or lower.
‘It’s probably S-rank.’
By the way, as I expected, there was a sentence missing from the skill description.
: Exception: By cooperating with a being possessing the same ability, the user can move to the other party’s location without line-of-sight restrictions.
In this case, the maximum travel distance is [n] km, where n is based on the distance the person attempting the movement can leap on their own.
That was the missing content.
Based on Fjodra’s current ability, for example, it meant she could move to Lausa’s side 20 km away in an instant.
‘It’s an ability that allows one to save their life in a crisis. A bird-type Familiar with wind abilities can quickly fly away from the scene, and the master can survive by moving to its side.’
The reason I knew this was because, in the original work, it was an assassin sent by the Imperial Family who killed her.
Thus, they blocked Lausa from leaving the area, and as a result, Fjodra could not escape using the method mentioned above.
‘…It’s not something that’s good to reveal carelessly.’
Lowering my gaze further, the description for **[Wind Mastery]** caught my eye.
Since it was the same as Hailga’s **[Flame Mastery]** except for ‘Fire’ being replaced with ‘Wind,’ I won’t describe it here.
‘Since she’s an Imperial Princess and much older, Fjodra’s Aether skill wouldn’t be lower than Hailga’s. Is it A-rank?’
At the time of her first appearance in the original work, she possessed the SS-rank skill **[Wind Sovereignty]**.
With the Imperial Family’s information network, it wouldn’t be strange if they had already figured out the rules for naming elemental skills.
‘Perhaps she has the S-rank [Wind Sovereignty] skill but deliberately wrote down [Mastery] instead.’
After handing Fjodra’s skill description to Reysir, the next paper I received from Vigdis was Svein’s.
His skill name as a water-attribute elementalist was **[Water Flow Mastery]**.
I could see the original author’s effort to somehow match the attribute name before **[Mastery]** to two characters.
‘But does wind not need to be converted to a *Hanja* term? Does it just need to be two syllables?’
Such thoughts occurred to me, but as a fellow author, I could understand. Since forcing “wind” into a two-syllable *Hanja* term would sound awkward, he probably just wanted to leave it as is.
‘Next is Pret’s skill description…’
**[Camouflage]**
: Allows the user to change the color of their Aether at will.
By stripping away the core of the ability — the capacity to change the caster’s appearance — the skill description was incredibly simple.
Perhaps Pret also felt bad about writing only one line.
Below, he had added an explanation stating that besides using transparent Aether in battle, it was possible to avoid the eyes of monsters by wrapping the body in Aether and blending its color into the surrounding environment.
‘To think he’d reveal this when it’s practically a trade secret!’
Since it was just a color change like a chameleon’s rather than the body itself becoming transparent, one could be caught if looked at closely.
However, since it was useful for hiding quickly when being chased by monsters or for ambushing while waiting for them to approach, he must have judged it beneficial to reveal it to the comrades he would be entering the Demonic Realm with.
**[Armor of Protection]**
: Protects the self by wrapping the body in Aether shaped like armor.
: A protective barrier is layered not only over the body but also over worn equipment.
: As the skill’s rank and proficiency increase, the armor’s defense grows stronger. Parts damaged by impacts exceeding its limit are automatically repaired by consuming Aether.
Liolikin’s skill was truly just this, so there wasn’t much to comment on.
Besides, hadn’t I already mentioned this skill several times?
So, I moved on immediately to Reysir’s thunder skill description.
**[Thunderbolt Rule]**
: The ability to govern the power of thunder and lightning.
: Not only can it fire electricity, but it can also control its flow and shape at will.
: It is possible to make lightning strike from the sky or to seize and control at will the power of thunderbolts under another’s control.
“Why are you making such a sour face after reading my skill description?”
“…Isn’t it very rare to find someone with the Thunder Attribute? I was just wondering if there’s any point in being able to seize the power of thunderbolts under someone else’s control.”
“Is that so…? But if there are monsters with the Thunder Attribute, wouldn’t it make them easier to deal with?”
Contrary to Reysir’s expectations, monsters that handle thunderbolts were also very rare in this world.
They might appear as a one-time event to showcase the protagonist’s strength, but he couldn’t be shown cheesing every battle.
And since the author, Senna, loved to see the protagonist suffer and struggle, it was bound to be that way.
However, I couldn’t say such things out loud.
I had to give a response that contradicted my thoughts, nodding reluctantly.
“Well, I suppose that’s true.”