Warlock of Oceans: My Poseidon System

The elven girl looked cornered but took in a deep breath to hopefully calm her down and carefully analyze the situation.

"Am I allowed to ask who knows this information? I do not need the temple coming and finding me,"

"Don't worry. We'll offer protection from the temple as long as you tell us where the sword is. And guess what, we'll even give the sword to you. We just want to know of its location,"

I had no idea that this was part of the plan, but I thought that if I spoke up, I might just be shooting myself in the foot.

"And for what do you need the location? Is there something else there that I'm not aware of?"

The man stared at the girl, raising the tension in the room by a thousand pounds, nearly crushing my siblings.

They began to gasp for air, so I quickly escorted them out of the room before closing the door behind me, locking it just so nobody could interrupt this moment.

How amusing…

"*sigh*... Whatever… I've been meaning to have the sword anyway… and I guess I'll figure out what else is down there when I come with you," She smiled, clearly not backing down so easily.

"That you cannot do, unfortunately. We must go by ourselves. Otherwise, you would just get in our way,"

"Then you're not getting any piece of information from me,"

From the man's pocket, a phone slipped out, slowly twirling in between his fingers before he brought it to his right ear.

"One phone call, and everybody in this city knows your location. I wouldn't even mind trapping you in order to collect the juicy bounty placed on your head… so what'll it be, saintess?"

The elf looked as if she was about to explode with anger, shaking and nearly rupturing a vein on her forehead.

"I'll assume that's a yes. Now, since people are most likely listening to our conversation right now, I'll have somebody contact you at a random time. You must tell him the location, or he will spread your location across the city… got it?"

She slowly nodded, her balled fists beginning to bleed from her fingernails digging so deep into her skin.

Her eyes didn't even shift to turn with the man as he slowly exited the room, smiling maliciously before flicking a single piece of leather at me.

"Bring that to the librarian. She will exchange it for the skill book,"

My eyes drifted back to the elf, causing me to roll my eyes and let out a long sigh that dragged on for at least fifteen seconds.

It was exhausted and completely drawn out, made more to annoy the girl instead of displaying pity for her.

"Take this. The skill is shit for me anyway since I want to become a mage," I flicked the small leather sheet at her, but she didn't even react as it hit her temple lightly, causing her to swerve in place just a bit.

She fainted. Instantly fainted from either fear or mental exhaustion.

…

That night, I had a tough decision to make as I was drawn to selecting the class now rather than retaking the entire test.

The first monster was relatively easy besides the magic, which it could hardly even use in an intelligent way… but the second was something completely out of my league.

I could assume my stats carried over, but the use of skills was completely out of my grasp… meaning I needed to train my body and raise my stats.

Although, the only way to do that is through special means, which I am way too poor to afford, and nobody would be willing to sponsor such a selfish thing.

Secondly, raising my stats takes classing up… making this entire process counterintuitive.

In the end, I just sat there, staring at the single most powerful option I had been granted. It was something new, special, and potentially powerful… but did I want to risk such a thing for a potentially better class.

The enemy of dark users will obviously be troublesome, but now that I'm part of a school, the only thing really threatening to me is them destroying the orphanage… that's pretty much it.

"Why are you still kind to that elf? She's an asshole to you," Mari asked as she turned and looked down from her top bunk, staring right at me.

"Because she is still useful… now go to sleep,"

"You're such a weirdo…." Mari groaned before finally turning around and beginning to close her eyes.

A few hours had passed and it was finally midnight, and my decision had finally come. I was ready to select the obvious answer.

I sat up from my bed and walked to the center of our room, sitting down and staring at the confirm option.

Slowly, my hand moved towards it, selecting it, thus filling me with something new that began to eat away at my mana core.

『Status』

[Name: Cyrus]

[Race: Human]

[Class: Aether Magician]

[Level: 0/50] (0/100) XP NeededNôv(el)B\\jnn

[HP: 50/50 MP: 30/30 SP: 15/15] - Normal Human

[Strength: 10] - Normal Human

[Defense: 5] - Normal Human

[Magic: 15] - Normal Human

[Speed: 10] - Normal Human

[Aether: 20] - Non Human

[Skills: [Tidal Strike] [Water Magic] [Water Ring] [Poison Murky Water] [Mana Control]

[Aetheric Infusion] [Aether Control] [Aether Explosion] [Aether Creation]

[Runic Skills: [Fingers: Water Strings]

[Passive Skills: [Water Body] [Light Allied Aura] [Dark Enemy Aura] [Trait: Aether] [Angel Core]

[Master of Mana: [Foreign Mana Control]

…

[The Celestials glance at you]

[Gods begin to garner their gaze towards you]

My mana core swirled with some new strange power, causing my eyes to glow a dim white and the feeling of a foreign body entering my soul was stranger than anything I had ever experienced.

My heart began to beat rapidly, and a new sensation gathered at my fingertips, causing the strings made of water to turn into something akin to spider thread.

They were clear, but the only thing giving away their location was the dim glow that pulsated like a beating heart.

"This is pretty good…" I smiled.