Anahita

After copying the skills of the two-headed orc, Lioran asked the mysterious ability he had named Anahita:

"Check my new skills and see which ones are compatible. Combine them and create a new ability."

Anahita replied:

"You can combine the Madness skill, with the Dancing Sword skill,  to obtain a new ability called Demonic Mad Swordsmanship. This swordsmanship once belonged to a man known as the Mad Demon, who single-handedly killed more than a thousand men in one battle. This ability increases your power by 20% and grants you a crimson, bloodlike aura. Anyone weaker than you will be overcome with fear upon seeing this aura. Moreover, if someone dares to look directly into your eyes, They will imagine themselves drowning in an ocean of blood, overwhelmed by fear and despair, without being able to move a single step.Do you wish to merge the skills?"

Lioran answered with satisfaction:

"Yes."

Anahita then fused the skills together and created the ability Demonic Mad Swordsmanship.

When Lioran was six years old, he first realized that Anahita resided within his body. At that time, he also discovered several other skills hidden inside him: Copy, Absorption, and Identification.

When he asked Anahita:

"What are you?"

She replied:

"I am a spirit that has been added to your body. I understand everything about magic and can do anything."

That was why Lioran named her Anahita, meaning the Goddess of Wisdom.

With the Copy skill, Lioran could replicate the abilities of others — one of the rarest powers. By killing people, drinking their blood, or making physical contact for five minutes, he could copy their skills.

With the Absorption skill, he could absorb attacks or magical energy equal to or lower than his own circle.

With the Identification skill, he could see what powers others possessed.

Lioran knew very well that it was impossible for him to gain such abilities by chance. That was why he often asked Anahita:

"Who gave me these skills?"

But Anahita always answered:

"Answer inaccessible."

Eventually, Lioran gave up and said:

"Forget it. What matters is that I make the best use of these abilities."

From then on, lioran began copying the skills of others, and slaying monsters.He kept adding  his magical circles and improving his swordsmanship. Now, he possesses six magical circles, is at the fifth star of swordsmanship, and has gathered more than ten different skills within himself.

Lioran activated the skill Demonic Mad Swordsmanship and took one of the giant swords of the two-headed orc, holding it vertically in front of his face. Calmly, he closed his eyes and began to use the skill. Lioran started swinging the sword. After six strikes, a bloody red aura gathered around his sword. When he reached the seventh strike, he jumped into the air and brought the sword down with great force, splitting the ground before him, and even the large tree standing a hundred meters away, into two halves.

When Lioran opened his eyes and saw the ground and the tree, he became happy. But when he looked at the sword, he realized that using this technique had shattered it completely. By witnessing the unpredictable movements and strikes of this technique, Lioran understood how the "Mad Demon" had managed to kill more than a thousand people in one battle. He gathered the bloody red aura around his body, looked at his broken sword hand, and thought that he must quickly find a proper sword for this technique, otherwise he would not be able to use it in battle.

Lioran sheathed his sword and began collecting the crystals that were inside the orcs' bodies. Then he used his magic space, which was a third-circle magical technique, and threw them inside.

After killing the two-headed orcs and gathering their crystals, Lioran prepared to return to the small village where he lived with his mother. When Lioran approached the village, he deactivated the Transformation technique. Lioran always used the Transformation skill while hunting, because nobody knew about his powers and he came secretly to hunt. After deactivating the skill, his hair turned from red back to black. His height, which had grown tall, became shorter. His voice, which had turned into the cold voice of a thirty-year-old man, returned to the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy. His eyes, which had once been entirely black, slowly returned to their natural colors. His right eye was a deep red, and his left eye a bright sky-blue. Lioran had often been mocked by others because of his mismatched eyes.

Lioran said to himself: "I must play the role of a good boy again." and headed toward the village.

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