The Mysterious Child: An Adventure Tale Beginning with Numerology

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Author Notes:

  I'm also updating the main story simultaneously.

  Act II [The Illusory Hero] begins.

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Introduction of main characters and unexplained skills

● Adventurer Party [Rozewill]

○ Ruruk Muuteru

The protagonist of this story. A 13-year-old human.

Appearance → Small build, curly brown hair, scarlet eyes.

Personality → Both his sword master and mystical arts master evaluate him as a "bad kid". Though he's dissatisfied with this assessment, he likes pranks and jokes, and has a habit of hitting on women he's just met (which he considers as greeting). So the world's evaluation is pretty much accurate. His past life's obsession with stories hasn't completely faded, sometimes leading to reckless behavior.

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[Name] Ruruk Muuteru

[Race] Human

[Level] 59

[HP] 460 (+6070)

[MP] 0 (+1)

[Strength] 420 (+3310)

[Endurance] 340 (+3680)

[Agility] 520 (+5470)

[Intelligence] 470 (+4780)

[Luck] 101

[Physical Skill Proficiency] 690

[Magic Skill Proficiency] 1

[Mystical Arts Proficiency] 9250

[Skills]

≪Automatic Type≫

"Calm and Collected"

"Incapacitation Immunity"

"Adversity Breakthrough"

"Numerology 7: Domain Mediation"

≪Activation Type≫

"Spirit Summoning"

"Familiar Summoning"

"Equipment Summoning"

"Copy"

"Color Change"

"Alchemy"

"Blade Conversion"

"Fist Conversion"

"Splitting Bullet"

"Landmine"

"Threshold Compilation"

"Relative Transfer"

"Phantasm"

"Word Soul"

"Legend Manifestation"

"Numerology 0: Eyes of Fiction"

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"Numerology 7: Domain Mediation" → Ability to set, expand, and adjust the domains of 'self' and 'other'. Details in the main story.

"Adversity Breakthrough" → Activates during battle when outnumbered. Enhances the five senses.

○ Elenora

The heroine of this story. A 22-year-old sheep-person.

Appearance → A loli with sheep horns. Short white hair, with sheepwool-like puffs on her wrists and ankles. Thicc thighs.

Personality → Usually quiet with little emotional expression, but due to her master's influence, she's a muscle-brain, battle-maniac, and closet sadist - an expressionless character who loves to fight. She's dissatisfied that her appearance doesn't grow.

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[Name] Elenora

[Race] Sheep-person

[Level] 57

[HP] 580 (+2890)

[MP] 1410 (+9310)

[Strength] 110 (+530)

[Endurance] 560 (+2520)

[Agility] 140 (+820)

[Intelligence] 700 (+2680)

[Luck] 777

[Physical Skill Proficiency] 380

[Magic Skill Proficiency] 8300

[Mystical Arts Proficiency] 90

[Skills]

≪Automatic Type≫

"All Magic Aptitude"

"Halved Magic Consumption"

"Power Increase (Large)"

"Magic Resistance (Large)"

"Status Ailment Immunity"

"Danger Perception"

"Pure Heart"

≪Activation Type≫

"Healing Breath"

"Song of Flowers"

"Sage's Ear"

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"Halved Magic Consumption" → Halves the magic power consumed when using magic.

"Power Increase (Large)" → Increases attack magic power by 1.5 times.

"Magic Resistance (Large)" → Halves damage from magic.

"Danger Perception" → Ability to sense aggressive presences, including killing intent and hostility.

"Pure Heart" → Greatly increases healing power towards one specific person.

"Song of Flowers" → Ability to know the toxicity, nutritional value, and additional effects of plants only.

"Sage's Ear" → Ability to fully understand sounds that one focuses on, including conversations and environmental sounds.

○ Saaya Schreine

The heroine of this story. A 10-year-old human, reincarnated from Azusa Ichinomiya.

Appearance → Black hair, gray eyes, twin-tails. An otherworldly beautiful girl.

Personality → Bright and intelligent, likes taking care of others. According to Ruruk, she's been a "communication monster" since her previous life. Like Ruruk, she inherited her personality from her past life, but being in a 10-year-old body, she also has a voracious appetite and can be selfish. A big fan of Nanairo Gaku, even making her own stuffed toys.

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[Name] Saaya Schreine

[Race] Human

[Level] 4

[HP] 110 (+800)

[MP] 70 (+800)

[Strength] 40 (+800)

[Endurance] 60 (+800)

[Agility] 90 (+800)

[Intelligence] 140 (+800)

[Luck] 111

[Physical Skill Proficiency] 340 (+800)

[Magic Skill Proficiency] 240 (+800)

[Mystical Arts Proficiency] 270 (+800)

[Skills]

≪Automatic Type≫

"Fire Magic Aptitude"

"Water Magic Aptitude"

"Wind Magic Aptitude"

"Earth Magic Aptitude"

"Lightning Magic Aptitude"

"Ice Magic Aptitude"

"Light Magic Aptitude"

"Holy Magic Aptitude"

"Numerology 1: Probability Manipulation"

"Universal Growth"

≪Activation Type≫

"Duet"

"Holy Beast Summoning"

"Heaven-Breaking Slash"

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"Numerology 1: Probability Manipulation" → A royal-class skill that fixes random numbers to absolute numbers. Details in the main story.

"Duet" → When using magic, can fire two shots with one incantation. Cannot use it yet.

"Holy Beast Summoning" → Can summon and command holy beasts. Cannot use it yet.

"Heaven-Breaking Slash" → Can cut space with bladed weapons like swords, spears, and katanas. Cannot use it yet.

○ Punisuke

The companion character of this story. A newborn slime.

Appearance → A slime. Cute.

Personality → Pure and cute. Just absolutely cute.

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[Name] Punisuke

[Race] Slime (Ruruk's familiar)

[Level] 13

[HP] 15 (+14)

[MP] 17 (+24)

[Strength] 9 (+17)

[Endurance] 14 (+28)

[Agility] 8 (+4)

[Intelligence] 1610 (+80)

[Luck] 540

[Physical Skill Proficiency] 60

[Magic Skill Proficiency] 90

[Mystical Arts Proficiency] 5

[Skills]

≪Activation Type≫

"Elasticity Control"

"Temperature Control"

"Gigantification"

"Transformation"

"Familiarization"

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● Important Characters

○ Roze

Ruruk and others' master.

A mystical arts ultimate being (sub-deity) who once lived for a long time as the Mystical King.

He still thought he was at the royal level. His actual age exceeded ten thousand years, but for a certain reason, his memories were reset once a thousand years ago.

He was troubled by having a skill that made him unable to die and wanted to die.

Thanks to having a reason he truly desired from the bottom of his heart - to save Ruruk - he was able to negate his numerology and end his life by becoming a heart.

○ Lilith Muuteru

Ruruk's half-sister, one year younger. Currently 12 years old.

Currently attending a ladies' academy in the royal capital of Mataisa, aiming to become a proper lady as a duke's daughter.

She frequently receives letters from Ruruk (addressed to their home) and uses them as emotional support. However, due to her position, she can't send letters to Ruruk who's living as a mere adventurer. So while Lilith knows about Ruruk's current situation, Ruruk doesn't know about Lilith's. It seems she's carrying some major secret...

● Other Sub-characters (Will they appear again?)

○ Verugana

Ruruk's sword master, a blind strong-character old lady. Super sadist. The hidden boss of the duke's family.

○ Rina Muuteru

Lilith's mother. At the age where she wants Ruruk to call her "mother". Living in the mansion in the royal capital.

○ Digray Muuteru

Ruruk's father and the head of the duke's family. Commander of the kingdom's Second Knight Order. Looks like a gorilla.

○ Lalahaine Muuteru

Ruruk's biological older brother. An elite knight and vice-commander of the kingdom's First Knight Order. A gorilla of light.

○ Gavin Muuteru

Ruruk's half-brother. A rookie knight working in the royal capital. Rumored to be favored by the princess.

○ Mererosu

An elf older sister and senior adventurer. Her appearance is Ruruk's type.

○ Zamza

A senior adventurer Ruruk respects. A nice middle-aged man with a shaved head.

○ Navi

A disciple of the master's disciple. A talented physical arts user and a socially awkward girl with braids.

She seemed to have known Ruruk's name from before...

○ Desuto, Soda, Hellheaven

Senior adventurers of [Sparkling Wine] in Stoania.

All of them are drunk scouts. Ruruk's good (in a sense, bad) friends.

○ Karl Schreine

Saaya's uncle and the head of a viscount family. A gentle man.

○ Babel Ketaaru

The lord of Shaboom town and the head of a count family. The only muscle man drawn in a dramatic style.

○ Tamerik

The guild master of the Adventurers' Guild Shaboom branch. His wife also has a fragrant name.