Talent System: I Instantly Master My Opponents Skills
Chapter 84: Opportunities Come (5)

Chapter 84: Opportunities Come (5)

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Jason sat cross-legged in a corner of the large spacious area as he awaited for the arrival of the other clans.

The first thought he had when he realized that he would have to await for the arrival of the other heirs of the five strongest clans was obviously to continue his image training; Image training brought him solace when he was lonely.

In Jason’s mindscape his katana sliced through monsters, cutting dozens into mince meat at a time, and when anyone got close he switched to his dagger.

The action repeated.

A blade going through several monsters at a time, cutting them with incredible speed and precision.

But Jason’s peace didn’t last long.

"Hey there."

Someone put an arm on him.

Jason’s eyes came open in a flash. He felt something that seemed reminiscent to a heart attack.

He had never been woken up abruptly from image training so abruptly. His old teacher had never caught him during image training, even the elders too.

He trembled, his heart pounding in his chest. Jason struggled to calm himself.

"What the hell?" Jason finally said, his eyes closed as his heart returned to its normal rate.

"Sorry." The person apologized. "I shouldn’t have used so much strength to wake you up."

Jason was about to retort with ’what strength?’ but held back, as he opened his eyes the words got stuck in his throat.

He hadn’t turned gay, nor was he astounded by the beauty of the boy. Rather, it was because of what he had assumed to be an arm.

’That’s a tail.’ Jason thought as he saw the furry golden-brown tail wrapped around his neck.

The next moment he was yanked up as the tail’s grip on his neck tightened.

"Oh, sorry." He apologized again. "I just got excited."

But Jason didn’t listen to him, instead he called upon the system to scan the stats of the person in front of him, that was because he wanted to confirm a thought he had.

[Name: Sun W. Ezra

Age: 14

Physical – Mid Stage 2

Mental – Early Stage 2

Mana – Early Stage 3

Skills: 72 Earthly Transformations, Wind Magic, Spirit Steps, Terrible Cloning]

With the W as his middle name standing for Wukong, it was clear that he came from the Wukong clan.

Just like the Hachiman clan who drew their unique abilities from a god, other clans did the same. But the Hachiman clan drew their powers from the Japanese War god, meanwhile the Wukong clan’s was from the Chinese monkey god.

Sun Wukong was the Chinese god of monkeys, also known as the god of tricksters, the monkey king and the Great Sage, Heaven’s equal.

"Nice to meet you." Ezra extended his arm, he unknowingly brought his hand through the status screen of the system.

Jason dispelled the system screen and extended his right arm, grabbing Ezra’s for a firm shake.

"The name is Sun Ezra."

With stunning golden eyes, golden-brown hair, and stunning features that only accentuated it.

In a sense, he had the ideal looks to the lead in a novel.

"Jason Hachiman."

"Its a pleasure meeting you." Ezra added. "By the way, I apologize for almost killing you."

"Killing who?" Jason asked, already seeing where Ezra was heading.

"When I raised you up with my tail and when I touched you with too much force." On his words, his tail swayed around.

"It wasn’t that." Jason sighed, he was already being taken as weak just because of the way he looked.

He would need to prepare for it, as it would happen so very often.

But now he needed to explain himself.

"I was in image training when you tapped me."

"Image training? You can do image training!" Ezra exclaimed.

"It isn’t hard." Jason shrugged, he was able to accomplish image training even when he his mental stat was in mid stage 1.

Ezra had early stage 2.

"I can’t really do it yet." Ezra admitted, his tail scratching the back of his head. "I find it hard to concentrate."

’You find it hard to concentrate or the voice in your head keeps mocking you when you try?’ Jason wanted to say it out loud but refrained. He wouldn’t be able to explain himself if he knew Ezra’s darkest and deepest secret right off the bat.

"I can guide you on the path, its really easy actually." Jason offered a smile as he suggested it.

Normally he wouldn’t have offered to help someone, but this case was different; for one he was talking to the protagonist of TWODK, someone he liked in the novel even though he thought he was beta, and the second reason would be because he would have a reason to make contact with him.

And with contact comes talents.

"I’m not sure if it will help, the elders of our clan have tried to help me on it, but I’ve never been able to get it."

"Don’t worry, I’ve been using image training since I was six years old, and the best part is that I had nobody to teach me." Jason persisted.

If anything, Jason was sure that he would be able to get at least one talent from Ezra.

"Are you sure?"

’Is it telling him to allow me?’ Jason wondered, noticing that Ezra’s defenses went down.

"Yeah, I’m one hundred percent sure." Jason kept his smile.

"Alright."

Jason instructed Ezra to enter the cross-legged position.

He then proceeded to put his hands on the boys shoulders, massaging it while telling the Wukong clan heir the steps.

"Does it really know image training?" The Wukong clan elder that had come asked Elric.

"Yes, he does." Elric asserted.

The Wukong clan elder relaxed visibly, he watched Ezra and Jason keenly.

He watched as Ezra, who previously had a cautious look as he went through the process, suddenly loose it all.

It was replaced by a serene look on the boy’s face as his earlier cautiousness melted away. A smile formed on his face.

Jason stopped massaging Ezra, getting up with a genuine smile plastered on his face too.