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Chapter 3: Skill analysis

I was reincarnated, and within just 10 minutes, I was expelled from my family home. Without hesitation, I headed straight to the royal capital.

Fortunately, I had a small amount of money on hand, so I booked a cheap inn and took a breather in my room.

To be honest, I didn’t feel anything about being expelled from my family home. While it might have been the house where ‘Haruto’ grew up for 18 years, for ‘Sugiura Yuto,’ it was a place with no emotional attachment.

Rather, I felt like celebrating, considering that I could now avoid dealing with someone with such a simplistic thought process.

More than anything, I was filled with excitement about how I would become stronger in this ‘world of swords and magic.’

“Now, how should I allocate my skill points…”

That was my current challenge.

In this world, there is a concept known as ‘Skill Points.’

When you undergo the aptitude ceremony, you receive 10 points, and thereafter, you are granted 1 point with each level increase. These points can be allocated to acquire new skills or increase the level of existing ones.

Points can be assigned to skills specific to your class, but they can also be allocated to skills outside your class. In other words, in this world, regardless of your class, you can learn various techniques.

However, there is a constraint that if you learn skills outside your class, their effectiveness will be inferior.

But with enough wisdom and ingenuity, one can overcome such limitations.

I opened my status screen.

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Current SP (Skill Points): 10

◇ Acquired/Level-up able Skills (SP Required)

Skill Analysis Lv1 (2)

◇ Available Skills for Acquisition (SP Required)

Life Barrier (1)

Body Strengthening (1)

Sword Technique Enhancement (1)

Single Thrust (1)

Sharp Lash (1)

Fireball (1)

Ice Needle (1)

Magic Arrow (1)

…

…

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When I opened the window, a list of acquirable skills appeared like this.

Having just completed the aptitude ceremony, the ‘Basic Skills’ of each category were lined up.

The only skill I currently know is ‘Skill Analysis,’ a non-combat skill. Therefore, to fight monsters, I need to learn combat-oriented skills.

The problem is deciding which skill to learn…

Within the knowledge of “Haruto,” there is no data on which skills are useful and how one should acquire them.

This is because the people in this world lack a method to objectively confirm the “effectiveness” and “conditions for mastery” of skills as data. The knowledge is only transmitted to a limited extent through the empirical rules of past individuals.

However, I do not determine the allocation of skills based on vague grounds.

Based on data, I want to verify which skills are the most useful and which classes are beneficial. Having been granted the optimal class for that, the ≪Analyst≫, I should especially pursue this.

And the first hypothesis I arrived at is:

“… If ≪Skill Analysis≫ levels up, would it reveal the characteristics of skills…?”

The only skill I currently remember, ≪Skill Analysis≫, allows me to grasp the skills that others remember. However, while I know the names of the remembered skills, I don’t know their contents.

However, by allocating skill points and leveling up the skill, I should be able to obtain more information than I currently have.

There is no absolute certainty that it will become a skill that provides indispensable information, but—

Generally, it is said that allocating skill points to one’s own ≪Class Skills≫ is rarely a bad move.

Here, Haruto should believe in himself and try it out right away.

“All right…”

Haruto promptly decided to allocate skill points to ≪Skill Analysis≫.

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Allocated 2 skill points to ≪Skill Analysis≫.

≪Skill Analysis≫ has reached level 2.

◇ Current SP (Skill Points): 8

◇ List of Owned Skills

– Skill Analysis Lv2 ← Up!

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“Now… let’s see how it goes.”

Haruto immediately tries out the upgraded ≪Skill Analysis≫.

Since there is no one else here, he targets himself for the time being.

Upon doing so, the results of the skill analysis appear on the status screen.

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Haruto Springsteen

List of Skills

【Analysis System】

– Skill Analysis Lv2

  – MP Cost: 1

  – Effect: Summarizes the target’s owned skills and their effects.

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“I knew it!”

Before leveling up, he could only know the names of the skills the opponent possessed. 

But now, he can understand their effects as well.

Certainly, as he continues to level up the skill, the amount of information he can discern keeps increasing.

Haruto decides that allocating skill points to ≪Skill Analysis≫ is worthwhile and decides to invest more points into it.

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Allocated 3 skill points to ≪Skill Analysis≫.

≪Skill Analysis≫ has reached level 3.

◇ Current SP (Skill Points): 5

◇ List of Owned Skills

– Skill Analysis Lv3 ← Up!

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And once again, he uses ≪Skill Analysis≫ on himself.

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Haruto Springsteen

List of Skills

【Analysis System】

– Skill Analysis Lv3

  – MP Cost: 1

  – Effect: Summarizes the target’s owned skills, their effects, and the conditions for acquiring them.

  – Acquisition Conditions: None (Initial Skill)

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“Jackpot!”

The result turned out exactly as he had hoped for.

Now, in addition to the skill names and effects, he can also see the conditions for acquiring them.

In other words, if he uses ≪Skill Analysis≫ on others extensively, he can learn the effects and acquisition conditions of all sorts of skills.

This is essentially like obtaining a strategy guide for this world.

Yes, a strategy guide. It’s a strategy guide cheat.

Knowing the “fastest path to becoming strong” only he can take, he can proceed with acquiring skills.

The benefits of this knowledge are immeasurable.

“All right, first, let’s confirm which skills are strong…”

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