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Chapter 2 - Elias’s Skills

Skill List — Elias Crowe

Unique Skill: Regretful Sage

Type: Utility

Description: An advisory-type Skill born from accumulated failure. Provides analysis, warnings, and limited answers constrained to the user's existing knowledge and observable information. Displays minor emotional bias toward the user's survival, frequently emphasizing weakness and missed opportunities.

Effects:

Immunity to self-deception, mental distortion, and false justification

Automatic detection of hypocrisy or emotional denial

Enables accelerated mental growth and resistance to corruption

Extra Skill: Regret Accumulation

Type: Extra

Description:

Stores unresolved regret, guilt, and missed emotional connections as energy rather than mental burden.

Effects:

Converts emotional regret into magical potential

Increases magic capacity proportionally to unresolved remorse

Prevents emotional collapse caused by guilt or despair

Passive Effect:

Regret is preserved, not erased.

Warning:

Unprocessed regret may manifest during moments of extreme stress.

Extra Skill: Empathic Perception

Type: Extra

Description:

Allows the user to sense emotional states, intentions, and relational wounds of nearby beings.

Effects:

Detects loneliness, fear, hostility, and affection

Emotional states appear as instinctive impressions (not thoughts)

Enables non-verbal emotional communication

Restriction:

Cannot be turned off completely.

Note:

This skill causes discomfort when surrounded by intense emotional suffering.

Extra Skill: Loneliness ResistanceType: Extra

Description:

Nullifies mental degradation caused by prolonged isolation.

Effects:

Immunity to despair, madness, and emotional erosion caused by solitude

Allows stable cognition even in complete isolation

Prevents emotional numbness over time

Synergy:

When combined with Empathic Perception, enables deep appreciation for companionship.

Racial Traits: Greater Demon

High magicule count

Shadow and darkness affinity

Regeneration

Fear-based pressure (uncontrolled)

Long lifespan (effectively immortal unless the core is destroyed)

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