My Parasite Skill System

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When someone had potential, they had ability and power. Theirs was potential change of the future. They could seize the future with their big hands, squeeze it real hard, and shape it into whatever form they would like.

But it isn't just that. It's way more than that. Potential is way, way, way bigger actually.

Take for example a river. What is a river, hm? Well, it's pouring water really quickly and really strongly with so much strength at some given spot; let it roll and roll down a hill or something; shaking and taking away every little obstacle that would find itself onto its way; finally letting itself dig a path and carve a way to its end.

You see the potential here? Now, that's what a river is … but not totally.

Why am I saying that? It's simple. Is the objective point and goal of this very river to do that?

Rolling down, and down, taking away, flooding, ravaging in a torrent everything on its way, and digging itself a path in and on the earth as it goes?

If that is a yes, and that the river fulfills it, then it isn't a 'simple' river you got here. No, no. In this very case, it's a potential river you got here. And it's as simple as that.

The higher the potential, the more devastating the river. The higher the potential the bigger the river. The higher the potential, the deeper the river. The higher the potential, the–okay, I'll stop.

Because, you must get it, right?

I get it.

Yeah I do.

Okay, I'll admit it, somehow, I didn't understand it that thoroughly … but I'm all right.

That was potential, briefly.

And what does the royalty say?

She says I've got potential and that I can be useful to her.

I am very strong, and as such, I can be very useful, basically.

What she respects above all else is strength. And it isn't just her, though. It's her, and her family, and her kingdom, and her home, and her way. They all respect that above all else, she insisted.

She respects that, and she sees that in me.

Which brought her closer to her proposal: I could be useful to her, hm.

Useful to her, yes.

But useful in order to accomplish what?

Taking back the analogy of the river: what is the potential river for?

It is for being useful. Useful, as in you're going to use it for certain purposes, the river.

The question is, now, how do you use a potential river?

Well, you drink from it, for example. It's very simple, see? You drink from it. Or you dive and swim in it. Or you play with your friends in it, splashing water at each other's faces. Or you freeze in the river, in winter. Or you cool yourself down in it, in summer. Or you drown your enemy in it.

Or you do this and that and this and that. Examples are many.

Let's be real, you can do whatever you want in it, I don't care–the point is just, the river is useful to you, right?

Well, that's just the same for me. Or could be the same.

A powerful monster. That's what I was.

Only problem to me, and as the past tension between me and the royalty pointed out: I was a monster.

But before being a monster, I was a being (that was refreshing to hear), and as such I could simply be viewed as a powerful asset.

So, again, I could be useful to her. All of this was really pretty. How she all put it together into this beautiful tale within which, I'd be able to just … not that much discriminated and killed for the sole reason I existed (mostly) at all. I could be relaxed, ha.

Ignoring these inconsistencies: what's the use of me, then?

She didn't say. Or maybe she did say, but since it was just playing around, I considered it as though she said nothing.

She at first said I'd be working for her (adventurers worked too) and would be benefiting from this as a normal consequence.

'Cause being working deserves profiting. And just like the working author deserves from his audience as many power stones and collections as humanly possible (only maybe, and if the good sirs are kind enough to provide him those)–I, working under the princess and playing around, deserve my share of fun … and money, and whatever.

So far, it was like this: I was strong; my strength could and should be used; which meant I would be working; should my strength be unpaid, though?

Certainly not.

So, one very important detail to both me and the royalty (it was only according to her own words, I didn't care about that 'price' or something at all), with what and how would my strength at her service be bought for?

To her knowledge, she says, I came out of my home and came all my way up to here only or partly in order to get the Guild's quest done.

Hence, I wanted coins of any kind.

Basically, money.

Gold. Lots of gold.

She and only she had got gold. As much gold as I wanted.

Was I drooling hearing all this? Not in the slightest. And even though, she seemed to consider I was.

And that wasn't all, no. What I also was offered, I think, was a status among humans.

A status in a good civilization. A place to dwell. Not just in and out the world of society. I'd be having a status allowing me to be part of the humans.

Apparently, it was common enough for high-level, unique monsters–that was to say, intelligent, sentient, magical, and wild creatures going against their nature of wild beasts–that they would wish to get in touch with higher and more similar beings to them; that is to say, human races.

Receiving the gift of intelligence also got them (the high-level monsters) into longing for higher standards of society and living, which was only quite natural according to her.

So she understood, and I understood, too.

Basically, a dumb monster doesn't equal a sentient one. Still though, I was to be killed for it, at the beginning of everything. It was clear to me that I should mistrust her saying.

But anyhow, diving deeper into her explanations, basically, it was because of perks that I should be wanting to move to a human, higher society.

Perks that I wouldn't be able to get from anywhere else.

One couldn't entirely be strong on his own, it seemed to her.

Well, this is flawed, to say the least.

Many flaws to her speech; but one big flaw above all others. Should I interrupt her right now and tell her that I wanna another kind of money, like fun for example?

I'll just wait until she finishes and keep that in mind for now.

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