Death Mage with an SS-Rank Talent-Chapter 116

"Master, are you sure about this?" a young girl asked the woman before her.

The girl is none other than Mary Hinters, the SS-rank class awakener, and the woman before her is one of the human gods, Serena. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

"Yes, though the rewards may not matter, the experience would be good. Also, you need to mingle with your fellow students. One day you may become a god like me, but even then you can’t do everything yourself and have to depend on others".

"Many talents from your generation will be present there. You can use this tournament to select a few helpers for yourself in the future", Serena said.

Marry nodded her head in understanding.

What her master said was right. She can’t do everything. She would need the help of others to maintain things, or else she would be overburdened with work. That would not be good for either her or the work.

An overburdened person may make mistakes, causing everything to fail.

Moreover, she would have her own private life. Bearing everything on her shoulders would not give her any time to enjoy her life. That is not a good way to live, no matter who you are.

Especially now that she was destined to be a human god, everything that she does would affect the entire alliance in the future. She can’t make mistakes when she becomes a god, but mistakes are part of human nature. To avoid that, she would need the help of others.

As her master said, this tournament would be the best way to find some future helpers. Though many experienced seniors are readily available for her now, that won’t do for her.

They are seniors after all and could undermine her. So that way has to be scrapped.

She could easily get some talents after she becomes a god, but as a god, she would attract everyone, even some scum who would want just to take advantage of her position as human god.

Even if there are some genuine ones, as juniors to her, they might not be able to express themselves due to fear of her.

So, it has to be scrapped too.

The best way is to find someone in her current generation.

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Serena looked at Mary’s expression and concluded that Mary understood the reason. "Okay, there are still four months before the tournament. So, you should train yourself better in this time".

"It would be bad if you underperform in the tournament. Though your class is SS-rank, you should now know that there are many with talents that others know nothing about", Serena warned her student, thinking that she may become overconfident due to her class rank and could fail in the tournament.

With the resources she provided and the training that Mary underwent in these few months, and would do so in the next four months, there is no way that Mary could be defeated. That should be the scenario, but Serena is someone who has lived for a long time and seen many impossible situations.

In addition to Class, there is a talent that an awakener could have. Not every awakener would have talents, and even among the ones that do, most are common and weak ones. Only a few have talents that are considered good.

To the low-level people, Class is what determines one’s power, but the high-level ones knew that Talent also plays a role. Until a few days ago, this was what they believed, but that was shattered when those notifications appeared.

There are Physiques and Bloodlines.

These are concepts that no one thought of before.

Sure, there are Berserkers and some other classes that depend on physiques, but no one ever thought that there were actual physiques.

Coming to Bloodline, they were considered to be for monsters, not humans, but they were proved wrong about that.

Before now, even if there were any with those abilities, it was kept a secret. Even now, this information is kept secret, and no one knows about it.

The only info that was spread was that the world would face a crisis due to the upgradation.

How did they come to know about this?

Everything was pushed onto the human gods. Rumours spread that the human gods had found some clues long ago, and based on that, this was deduced. Once those words were said, no one questioned about the upcoming crisis and started to prepare for the event.

"Yes, master", Mary said.

"Good, also, there is the crisis that would be erupting any moment. We have no idea when that would be. We need to be well prepared for that too. So, as a future guardian of the human race, many would depend on you. You can’t lag behind on your work".

"Also, this tournament is a way to create powerful pillars for human society. This was something almost everyone knew, but what they didn’t know was that due to the upcoming crisis, the higher-ups had decided to increase the rewards given out".

"Those rewards would make even a Rank-6 envious. With those rewards, one can easily propel higher quickly", Serena said.

Mary was not surprised at all by hearing those words. She was not the same naive girl she was months ago when she first awakened.

Back then, she didn’t know much, but as time went on, she came to know a lot of information, sometimes even something that the top officials of the alliance had no idea about.

Mary is one of the hundred who knew that truth about the upcoming crisis. So, it didn’t surprise her that the alliance decided to increase the quality and quantity of rewards.

It would be surprising if they didn’t.

If not for the fact that changing the date of the tournament would create panic among the people, the alliance wanted to hold the tournament way before the actual date.

The idea was shot down because the higher-ups felt that everyone would panic.

This tournament would happen at a certain time. This was known to every awakener who had attended an academy. So, changing the date suddenly, they would definitely feel that something is up.

If the evil elements in society had no idea about the crisis, doing so would only make them aware of the fact and stir up trouble. That is not acceptable.

Every preparation has to be done in secret before the evil parties know about this, so that when they stir up trouble, they can be easily snuffed out.

"I’ll work harder than before and make sure that I won’t besmirch your name, master", Mary bowed her head.

"Good, now let’s start your training. There is not much time to waste on unnecessary things", Serena spoke.

Mary nodded, and both headed towards the training ground.