"This is the contract—"
Roy and Ryuu looked at each other, seeing the strangeness in each other's hearts, able to mutually sense one another.
Roy could determine whether Ryuu was alive through the system's friend interface, but the feeling was completely different— as if they had an existence that lived and died together.
Roy spoke, "Miss Ryuu!"
Ryuu nodded lightly, relaxing her mind.
[Ryuu Lion has agreed, obtaining Ryuu Lion's ability values, development abilities, and skills!]
Roy's pupils shook. An unimaginably powerful force emerged within his body— precisely Ryuu's Level 5 ability values, surpassing him by two ranks!
Even if he started from Level 1 and grinded his ability values to his talent limit, he couldn't cross this terrifying gap. It was like a lake compared to the vast ocean.
Every hundred points of ability value at Level 5 brought greater improvement than a thousand points at Level 3.
Development Abilities:
Hunter, Abnormal Resistance, Magic Defense, Mage!
Skills:
Fairy Star Song: Enhances magic effects, with enhancement continuing to increase during nighttime!
Spirit Load: When attacking, the greater the spiritual power consumption, the greater the Strength attribute amplification. Automatically activates once spiritual power consumption begins!
Swift Gale: When sprinting, attack power receives bonuses from rising speed!
Meanwhile, Ryuu's four development abilities and three skills also appeared in his panel.
A trace of excited smile appeared on Roy's face. The elf maiden's Level 5 ability values stacked onto his body made him feel capable of anything.
Unlike the temporary power of experience cards, the Synchronization Contract maintained for longer periods.
Roy and Ryuu were like children who had found a new toy, constantly exploring the "Synchronization Contract's" characteristics.
Three to four hours passed, and they gradually figured out this contract's power.
The party with lower ability values bore greater pressure. Roy stacking Ryuu's Level 5 ability values could maintain at most two hours before his own stamina was exhausted.
But calculations couldn't be made this way.
The activation count was unlimited.
Roy didn't necessarily need Level 5 power at all times. Briefly using it for five minutes, immediately releasing it, using it in segments— this could greatly extend the duration.
As for Ryuu, needless to say.
Level 5 stacking Roy's Level 3 ability values, maintaining seven or eight hours was no problem.
This contract wasn't without cost either.
During contract activation, the other person's full ability values would drop by about 30%. There was no effect on development abilities and skills— they could be used normally.
Currently speaking, the greatest beneficiary of this contract was Roy. As long as he utilized this contract, he immediately transformed into a Level 5 first-class adventurer!
And Ryuu didn't lose out either.
Roy's ability values could also raise Ryuu's full ability values to E-rank, making her an outstanding existence among Level 5 adventurers. Even Finn and Gareth took two or three years after reaching Level 5 to achieve such ability values, while Ryuu had been Level 5 for less than a month.
The numbers were secondary. The sharing of development abilities and skills was the most terrifying aspect of this contract.
Ryuu obtained Roy's development ability Abnormal Resistance. She already had Abnormal Resistance, and stacking them raised it by one rank, plus the ultra-rare "Adventurer."
Regarding skills, Ryuu naturally couldn't obtain "My Lord is Here" which the system disguised. Beyond that, she obtained Blood for Blood and Elven Royal Authority.
Ryuu had long known about the Blood for Blood skill. Her attention focused on "Elven Royal Authority."
When sensing the specific effects of "Elven Royal Authority," she almost immediately understood something.
Roy learned her and Riveria's magic through this skill. It could also suppress all elves— this skill was simply the bane of all elves.
Why would a human have such a skill?
Ryuu's gaze changed, issuing a soul question to Roy, "What's with this skill?"
Roy's expression remained unchanged, "If I said I have partial elven royal bloodline, would you believe it?"
Ryuu's sky-blue eyes tightly stared at Roy.
Roy confronted the elf maiden's gaze without the slightest timidity. So what if you have big eyes?
"Hmph."
After a long while, Ryuu still accepted this result, letting out a faint sigh. Her gaze toward Roy carried a trace of resentment. Possessing such a skill, do you want to capture all elves in one net?
Roy wore a smile.
Under the Synchronization Contract, the exposure of Elven Royal Authority was inevitable. Roy had long prepared countermeasures.
As long as the grave-digging matter wasn't exposed, he believed Ryuu could understand. Ryuu's stubbornness was no different from other elves, but she focused more on her companions.
Elves hated the Crozzo Magic Sword that burned forests with a passion. In the original timeline, when Ryuu dealt with the Apollo Familia, she was willing to use the Crozzo Magic Sword.
In Ryuu's heart, elven creeds and hatred were far inferior to the companions by her side.
An unprecedented seriousness appeared on Ryuu's small face. She warned Roy again, saying, "This skill absolutely cannot be known by other elves!!"
Ryuu understood better than anyone how profound elves' worship and respect for the royal family was.
In a sense, it could even be considered a cult—
If Roy this elven royal family's "illegitimate child" was exposed, elves worldwide would go mad, mobilizing all means in the world to bury this stain!
Roy nodded repeatedly.
Seeing Roy so obedient, Ryuu finally breathed a sigh of relief. She should be the only elf who knew Roy had this skill.
Suddenly, Ryuu seemed to think of something, her gem-like eyes widening.
Her voice trembling slightly, she asked, "When you were learning magic before, did Lady Riveria know about this matter? Did she detect your bloodline?"
Roy said, "Probably knew half of it."
Ryuu felt dizzy. Her pair of eyes glared at Roy deathly, her silver teeth nearly grinding to pieces.
Roy felt that Ryuu at this moment really wanted to curse. That expression seemed to say to him: You fucking—
Not cursing out loud was the elf maiden's high quality. Being able to anger the kind, upright, gentle, ice-beauty-like Ryuu to such a breaking point—
He should be the first.
Ryuu felt her head was about to split open.
This skill most shouldn't be known by the elven royal family. The elven royal family's conservativeness exceeded ordinary elves. Once known—
But Lady Riveria was also a very rare progressive faction among the elven royal family.
So this matter was truly tangled and chaotic. Even with Miss Ryuu's clever little brain, she had a crashed, collapsed feeling.
Ryuu looked at Roy with tired and complex eyes. Getting involved with this guy, her life was set.
Roy didn't care much, smiling, "Since things have come to this, let's learn magic first!"
The tables have turned.
This time it was Roy teaching magic to Ryuu.
Ryuu could also learn magic through the shared "Elven Royal Authority," but only during contract activation could she use those learned magics.
This contract's help to her was also enormous, suddenly giving her several more magics.
Ryuu learned Roy's Lord of Thunder, Diving: Protection of the Spirits, and Dimensional: Severance. At Level 5, her use of these magics had their power multiplied several times over.
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