Chapter 230: Ch 230: Sophia
Rein started to get fragmented information about how his symbol worked and in about a week, he was able to understand his ability a little bit. The information that he got was not really detailed. So even after learning about his symbol, Rein did not become an expert at using this symbol of his.
So his ability from this symbol could be represented with three pairs of concepts. They were hot and cold, fire and ice, then finally cheerful and depressed. So basically it was the combination of three pairs of opposite words.
As for how Rein was able to use this, for the first pair of concepts, he was able to increase or decrease the temperature of anything that he touched. And for the second pair of concepts, Rein was able to create fire or ice out of thin air. The concepts were not this simple though as Rein was not sure if he could make someone cheerful or depressed.
He would need to test that in other living beings and Rein did not have the permission to do that for the time being.
Currently Rein was living with one of the UR grade Blessed of this nation and he was not allowed to do whatever he wanted. So Rein really needed to be careful. So for the time being, he was trying to master his first and second pair of concepts first before looking into the last one.
As Rein was thinking about this while sitting in his room, the room to his room was opened by someone. There was only a single person in this house who was able to do something like this, so without even turning back to look at the door, Rein greeted.
"Good evening, miss Sophia, welcome home."
Rein was still extremely young as a three year old but in just a few days, he had grown up quite a bit and looked like a seven or eight year old. This was not surprising though as everyone blessed children had a very fast growth rate and they would also stop ageing after reaching their prime.
Seeing little Rein greeting her so properly, Sophia was unable to hold her happiness back anymore and lifted him up on her hands and tightly hugged Rein. Rein knew that resisting this was useless so he also hugged her back. After some time finally Sophia let go of Rein and started to talk about many things with him.
Sophia was an UR grade Blessed and had a lot of influence in this nation. Not only she was a hero of the nation who had been saving it from various threats, she was also a famous actress, singer and designer. But most importantly she was also the principal of the elite special academy of the blessed for this nation.
Currently she was only 19 years old but already she had reached this high of a position in her life. Even though she was only 19, anyone looking at her would think that she was in her twenties. That was because of the quick growth of a powerful blessed.
Other than their abilities, all the blessed have something in common. Their strength and intelligence were many times higher than a regular human. The particular boost depended on the rarity of the symbols but even a C grade Blessed was stronger than most humans even without any training.
A C grade Blessed was about 2-3 times stronger than a regular human. Only a very well trained fighter was capable of fighting them in a normal fight.
As for a R grade person, they were about 5-6 times stronger than a future human. This gap was too big and even the best among regular humans were incapable of reaching this level of power.
Then a SR grade was about 8-9 times stronger than an average human. This was again insane but nothing compared to a UR who was at least 15 times stronger than a human. Sophia was just that strong physically and Rein had seen her lifting up many things weighing thousands of tons without any problem while living in this house.
She was also a good teacher and it made perfect sense as to why Rein was sent to her. Sophia was able to give Rein various ideas about how he should utilise his abilities and her advice was actually very helpful.
Sophia's symbol was of a Wolf holding a blade in its mouth. This symbol was named Obsidian Wolf. It was actually a powerful UR grade symbol that had four concepts in it. Those concepts were stealth, sudden, dark and kill. This was a perfect symbol for anyone who had the intention of becoming an assassin. It was also a very versatile ability.
The Obsidian Wolf allowed Sophia to jump into shadows to travel at a very fast speed and she was also capable of becoming invisible by covering herself up with a darkness veil. She was also capable of creating blades made of darkness by this ability.
But she was only only to create items shaped like a blade. So if Sophia wanted to create a hammer, that was not possible but if she wanted to create a naginata which was actually a type of polearm and not a sword, she was able to create that. With this ability and with her capability to hide herself, Sophia had become well known even among UR grade powerhouses.
She even had the amazing record of killing more than one foreign UR grade people.
So because of this, she was also very well educated about various things that other assassins would also use. That was the reason she was also very good at countering them. So Rein would get the highest possible level of security only with her.
Sophia had shown Rein her hiding ability after Rein requested her. She was obviously only doing this to play with a little child but this had given Rein a very important information.
This hiding ability of hers was too strong as Rein was unable to find her when she went invisible. But then Rein used his eye of Truth and was quickly able to find clues to determine where she actually was. He was still not able to find her perfectly but knowing about her general location was not a problem for Rein.
Yes, even after coming to this world, his previous inherent abilities were not completely sealed. These abilities were even more restricted than when he awakened them in the previous world but still he was able to use a little bit of their power.
This was definitely going to give Rein an extremely high advantage in the future. He was also trying to find a way to remove some of the restrictions from these amazing abilities of his. So his future was going to be quite busy but Rein was looking forward to it.
He has a straightforward mission in this world and having more power would be helpful for it. So Rein was planning to become as strong as possible before seriously trying to complete this mission of his.