Broken Council: A Space Opera, Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG (The System Apocalypse Book 10) by Tao Wong

Author:Tao Wong [Wong, Tao]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Starlit Publishing
Published: 2021-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

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Harry returns to us discussing what we saw of Kasva and his abilities. Perhaps most prominent of all was one simple fact.

“He wasn’t using any major Skills.” Mikito frowns. “You sure that’s all you have on his Skill use?” That question is to Ali, who nods. “Then I’m leaning toward a passive build.”

“Like Bolo?” I say.

“Yes. With maybe a couple of Heroic Class Skills held as trumps.”

“Can we find out what they might be?” I ask.

“Already tried, boy-o. Not possible. The Council clamped down on that real hard.”

I’m not particularly surprised. What we’ve seen of his Skills speak to a lot of passives. Not just in terms of damage dealt or speed, but also in high attributes. Higher than normal for certain—or else he’s learned to adjust the flow and guidance of his attributes to just speed. Which might be possible, but I consider it unlikely. After all, we still have to leave some level of control to the System to stabilize the physical world around us. Or else we’d burst into flame, shatter the ground, or heck, slip and fall on our faces.

“There’s something strange about the way he moves,” Mikito says softly, shifting the fight again. She replays the part where I—my Hand—tried to clamp the Chaos Mine onto Kasva’s body and lets it repeat.

“He’s smart enough to know to not be there when I’m going to attack.” I shrug. “Means he’s trained.”

“No.” Mikito shakes his head. “Look at his momentum, the way he shifts. If he really thought you’d attack that line, he wouldn’t have put all his weight down. He actually has to force himself into a new line to dodge…” Mikito looks at me, a half-smile forming. “You’ve actually gotten pretty good at that.”

“That?”

“Anticipating movements and momentum,” Mikito says. “See how he shifts there? It’s like he suddenly realizes what you’re going to do and shifts to adjust. Rather than planning for the shift beforehand.”

“You can plan for that?” I say.

“I can,” Mikito replies confidently. “I do.” She lets the rest of the short fight play out. “He doesn’t. I think he’s got a future forecasting Skill.”

I frown. “You sure? That doesn’t look like his kind of build…”

“Bought. Or maybe it’s part of the Council Champion. Might make thematic sense,” Ali points out.

“I thought those Skills aren’t very useful?” Harry cuts into the conversation. “At least, that’s what most fighters tell me.”

“They aren’t,” I say. “Normally.”

“It’s the problem of attributes. You need both a high Perception ability to ‘see’ properly and a high Intelligence attribute to understand what you’re seeing without going insane,” Ali says. “In normal circumstances, people like the Oracles and the like either get cryptic prophecies that are provided to them as a whole, or they see the prophecies as visions and end up trying to explain them as either bad poetry or too straightforward words. Since they can’t ‘see’ fully, often those kinds of prophecies are hard to understand. Or trust. On top of that, of course, it’s all a matter of guesstimation off current known events.

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