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Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 8: Skill Verification②
Hyde had been staring blankly at the large rock for a while, but his skill testing was still not complete.
“【Clay Doll of the Divine Realm】… A skill that can transform into anything and heal any injury, huh? When it comes to the part about healing anything… it’s kind of scary, honestly.”
He had just become acutely aware of the absurdity of the 【Guidance of the Martial god】ability, which was described as being able to master any martial art or physical technique.
Although Hyde was a little hesitant, he began testing the【Clay Doll of the Divine Realm】skill.
“…I really don’t want to get hurt.”
One of this skill’s abilities was to heal any injury.
To test that, Hyde had no choice but to get injured first.
Just two days ago, he had suffered bruises all over his body, but he couldn’t use the skill in front of Cordelia and the others to avoid suspicion.
Despite his mother having healed him, he still felt guilty about hurting himself again. Above all, Hyde, trembling at the thought of the pain, activated【Guidance of the Martial god】.
“Ow!”
He imagined the movement of lightly slicing the tip of his finger with a wooden stick and followed the path indicated by the skill.
Just like when he cut the large rock, the tip of Hyde’s finger was sliced, and fresh blood began to ooze out.
“――【Clay Doll of the Divine Realm】”
He then imagined the injury healing.
Immediately, light covered the tip of his finger, and when the light faded, the wound had completely disappeared.
“This much is healed in an instant. Well, it’s still pretty strange… But, I wonder what happens with larger injuries?”
Cordelia’s【Healing Barrier】had taken a full two days to heal Hyde’s injuries.
Even then, it was an astonishing speed. A wound that would have taken about a month to heal was healed in just two days.
However, Hyde felt that this skill wasn’t even bound by such limits.
The immense injury he had sustained earlier felt like it would heal just as quickly as this one did.
“Though, I still wouldn’t have the guts to cut off my arm or anything…”
It was important to know the limits of the skill’s performance, but he still didn’t have the courage to go that far.
“Well, unless I get seriously injured, at least in terms of healing,【Clay Doll of the Divine Realm】won’t go out of control. …Now, about the transformation part.”
Over the past two days, Hyde had been deepening his consideration of his skills.
As a result, he believed that the transformation and healing abilities of【Clay Doll of the Divine Realm】were fundamentally the same thing.
In other words, it recreated the imagined state.
The healing ability could be seen as a transformation to the state where the injury didn’t exist.
“Transformation… like, for example, turning into a dog—”
The moment Hyde thought about becoming a dog, his whole body was enveloped in light.
His field of vision lowered drastically, and when he looked down, he saw the paws of a dog with a fox-colored fur coat.
Though he moved in a manner that was far from graceful for a dog, it was clear that he had transformed into a Shiba Inu.
“――Woof.”
A confused voice escaped from Hyde’s mouth, but it was a dog’s bark.
(Does it even replicate things like this?)
Confused, Hyde started running on all fours.
Like a dog chasing a frisbee in the park, he joyfully raced through the forest.
It was movement that no human could clearly replicate.
After running around for a while, Hyde undid the transformation on the spot.
“…So, I can also bring out the abilities of what I’ve transformed into.”
This could be, depending on how you look at it, a terrifying prospect.
Right now, he had turned into a Shiba Inu, but if he transformed into a powerful person or monster from this world, it would mean that he could potentially use their abilities as well.
At that moment, he heard the sound of birds flapping their wings overhead.
Surprised by the sudden change, the birds flew up into the night sky.
As Hyde looked up at the scene, a thought suddenly crossed his mind.
“Wings… if I grow wings on my back, could I use them to fly?”
Since Hyde had thought of it, it meant that he had imagined it.
【Clay Doll of the Divine Realm】faithfully recreated Hyde’s wishes.
He felt something glowing on his back, and before he knew it, magnificent white wings had sprouted.
Strangely, just like his arms and legs, he instinctively understood how to use the wings…
“Here we go.”
He concentrated power into his wings and flapped them.
Lightly, both of Hyde’s feet lifted off the ground, and he was freed from the grasp of gravity.
He caught up to the trees stretching above him, soared over them, and eventually took off into the sky above the forest.
“Ha ha, ha…”
Below him was the dense forest and the Rugen family’s estate.
And right above, the pitch-black sky stretched out.
The sky was so clear, it was unimaginable on Earth.
The stars and moon shone brilliantly, casting their glow over Hyde’s body.
He was flying. There was no doubt about it, Hyde was flying through the air.
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Just like when he transformed into a Shiba Inu, Hyde spent a while freely flying through the night sky.
Though the higher altitude was colder than the ground,【Divine Realm’s Mud Doll】continued to work for him.
It healed the feeling of coldness in his body…
This wasn’t something Hyde consciously did; it was more of an unconscious byproduct.
“I’m glad I tested it after all. This kind of application is possible too.”
Adaptation to all environments.
The abilities of【Divine Realm’s Mud Doll】had gained yet another layer.
“Now, there’s just 【Fountain of Divine Blessings】to test…”
Hyde continued to flap his wings and stayed suspended in the sky.
Normally, skills consumed the mana within the body the more they were used.
Mana was like life force, and when it ran out, the user would be unable to move.
Even as Hyde kept using his wings and their abilities, he continued to consume mana.
No, this wasn’t just happening now.
During today’s skill tests, when he had used【Guidance of the Martial god】to cut through the large rock, when he had used 【All-seeing eye of the God】 for appraisal and vision, and when he transformed into a dog with 【Clay Doll of the Divine Realm】.
Without exception, Hyde had felt his strength draining from his body each time.
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Yet, every time, the lost energy was replenished.
The skill 【Fountain of Divine Blessings】. Its ability was simple: it allowed for infinite handling of mana.
But,
“This, in a sense, is the most broken thing.”
Hyde felt that, compared to most skills, the mana consumption of the skills he possessed was abnormal.
Flying through the sky like this wasn’t something that could usually be sustained for long.
However,【Fountain of Divine Blessings】made it possible.
Even after using all three cheat skills, his mana remained inexhaustible. That was the ability of his final cheat skill.
Each individual skill was powerful, but they had their own weaknesses.
But when these four skills were combined, they canceled each other’s weaknesses completely.
“Ah, but still, it’s so beautiful…”
Hyde glanced around.
The vast night sky stretched infinitely, with stars shining brightly across it. In this place, he felt like he had become part of that shimmering sky, and it was there that he truly realized the full power of the skills that had been granted to him.