Mercenary System: I can increase innate potential !

"I'm going to go back to Eternity again, get stronger, much stronger, and then I'll successfully enter the best university in the world."

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The days began to pass in a well-oiled routine.

Every morning, Maxime would arrive at school, go to class, and sit next to Samuel.@@novelbin@@

From time to time, he would also talk to the young nobles in his class, including Winny.

Although Maxime realized that the word noble was a big word to describe his classmates, who only had one or two people in their family with the strength of a knight.

But Maxime had fought with these young nobles, all putting their lives on the line. Naturally, their relationship had improved slightly since then.

Particularly with Winny, who turned out to be someone with whom Maxime shared some values.

Maxime also saw Riva from the Juggernaut group again, who continued to teach them some lessons about Eternity.

He was also able to estimate her strength with his perception, which had improved a lot, and she was clearly barely reaching knight level.

But given her young age, she could already be considered a genius.

Many people could not achieve this level of strength even after spending decades in Eternity.

It was not that easy to accumulate gold coins.

In Eternity, you also had to find somewhere to live, feed yourself, treat yourself...

It was literally a second life that everyone lived in parallel. And most people literally lived in Eternity as they lived in the real world, that is to say peacefully.

And doing so was already a challenge. Even being very careful in Eternity and living like an ordinary citizen, it was difficult for a person accustomed to the comforts of the modern world to live in Eternity.

And even if one managed to adopt a profession from the Middle Ages, there were still many opportunities to die:

bandits, war, disease, monsters, the nobility...

But no matter, the lessons followed one after the other. Mathematics, history, geography, physical and combat exercises... The pressure of the exams was felt, and even Samuel, despite his carefree nature, began to study seriously.

The exam that would change their lives was less than four months away. Naturally, the pressure was on.

"Which university do you want to go to, Maxime?" asked Samuel, relaxed and curious after the geography teacher had left.

Maxime couldn't tell them the truth... because he didn't want to attract attention. So he improvised.

"Um... I don't know yet, do you?"

"I think I'm going to go to the University of the River Calm! In Nansoy, it's the best academy!" Samuel replied excitedly.

But Winny, who was standing right in front of him, turned around and showed a little disdain and provocation.

"You've awakened the Berserker class and your ambitions are still limited to Nansoy? The University of the Calm River isn't even in the top 20 of the best academies in the Federation..."

"What university are you aiming for?" replied Samuel, frowning.

Winny looked proud.

"I'm aiming for the top 10 universities in the Western Federation! If I don't get one of them, I'll shoot myself in the head!"

"And you're both strong with potential, I'm sure you can also try to get a school in the top 10," Winny continued with a sincere smile.

"You think so?" Samuel was hesitant.

His grades were pretty good and his class also had a lot of potential, but he was still having trouble earning gold coins in Eternity.

This was also the reason why more than 99.9% of high school students were unable to reach a 3-point physique before the competition, even though there were no restrictions in the real world before 3 points.

The gold coins were really too hard to acquire.

As for Maxime, he kept a low profile and no one detected any inconsistency in him.

Everyone thought he had reached the stage of apprentice knight, and for them that was already quite exceptional.

In any case, the atmosphere at school was good, although he often got bored. The lessons taught were no longer useful to him in view of the time he had already spent in Eternity.

Whereas his classmates only spent a week in Eternity, he stayed there for exactly 2 months and 7 days.

Naturally, the life experience of having entered Eternity only twice was totally different from that of his classmates, even if some had already entered Eternity 4 or 5 times.

But to avoid wasting time, he continued to work on cultural subjects, particularly mathematics and French.

After school, Maxime went to the bar to work.

He still had to help his mother financially, so it was essential. Even though she had told him several times that she would manage, and that the most important thing was the competition.

But Maxime didn't want to tell his mother his own plans to avoid worrying her.

So he simply refused to explain anything and just told Andrea, his mother, to trust him.

So at work, behind the counter, he served the customers, cleaned the tables and sometimes tried to fit in some revision between orders.

Cultural knowledge remained important even in special recruitment.

After work, he also tried to train for two hours with the sword in order to continue improving.

His talent [Sword regeneration] which he had acquired by increasing the level of his sword class, allowed him to lighten the burden of training slightly at the end of the day.

Because with his current program, he slept less than 4 hours a night, but at least he wasn't wasting his time.

The days passed, punctuated by exams, training, shifts at the bar... until the month was over.

One evening, while Maxime was quietly in bed, he consulted his own statistics page.

[Status page]

Identity: Maxime Valdreuve

Class:

Peasant level 3. MAX level! (+3% physique)

Swordsman level 9. MAX level! (+5% physique) (Class quest 2/3)

Beast tamer. Level 1 (0/100)

Unlocked a new class: 0/500

Physique : 3.95 (0.32 class bonus) (+0.67 passive trait bonus)

Total physique : 4.94

Qi: 0

Bestiality: 1

Sword mastery level 3 (70/100)

Spear mastery level 3 (50/100)

Language skills: French level 2 (52/100)

Passive traits:

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+40% efficiency when training with a sword.

Sword regeneration (allows you to train for longer.)

Talent:

NOX LIMIT level 2 (rank unknown) (0/10,000)

Zero Limit maximum level (Legendary)

Awakening of Life level 1 (diamond) (0/1000)

Minor talent in endurance

Minor talent in strength

Knight talent: high

Skills:

Frozen Time (single rank), Bestial Bond, Rest, Healing Space.

Money available: 50 gold coins (in the system) + 100 gold coins (saber-toothed tiger treasury)

Maxime would have been happy to see this luxurious sign before, but that was no longer the case that day.

"Level 3 spear mastery has appeared and it is not weak. Definitely, acquiring a B-rank martial technique thanks to the Eternity points was not a loss.

"My progress with the sword has improved enormously with all the time spent fighting. I am almost invincible below a great knight."

"And especially my physique, it far surpasses that of a knight at the peak stage, but I don't know if it reaches that of a great knight."

"But I don't think so, the minimum to be a great knight should be 5 points."

"I'm still too weak."

"My ordinary combat power, that is to say without counting my talents, is far too far from that of a great knight."

"The goal is to at least be invincible below epic knights on the next outing. Otherwise, I don't deserve to attend the best university in the world."

"And the first step is to awaken my vital seed."

Since he had ended up in a world that was not his own, he had to adapt to the norms of that world.

Max knew that he could no longer rely on brute force and his talent [Nox Limit]. He had to take the next step.

And his new breathing method [Symbiosis] and his new class [Beast Tamer] would help him greatly.

The two were exceptionally compatible, particularly because Symbiosis was a reward created especially for him after he destroyed the Origin of the Dravaks.

After that, Maxime glanced at his mercenaries.

Mercenaries: (The data in brackets is the date of the last appearance of the statistics, i.e. between one month and five days and one month and two days because there have been new recruits in the meantime. The time is counting only the time of Eternity. Adding the time spent in real time, it is between two months and five days and two months and two days.)

Kaite (knight at the peak stage): Six-star potential. Average knight talent. Physique: 4.2 (3.4)

Langus (knight at the peak stage): Six-star potential. Weak knight talent. Physique: 4.1 (3.5)

Apprentice knight (peak stage): Five-star potential. Weak knight talent Physical: 3.4 (2.8)

Apprentice knight (peak stage): Five-star potential. Weak knight talent Physical: 3.3 (2.7)

Charles: Five-star potential, affinity with dragons. Physical: 3.3 (2.6) (Plouta)

Ultia (apprentice at the peak stage): Five-star potential. Weak knightly talent. Physical: 3.3 (2.5) (Seahorse)

Henry (apprentice knight at the peak stage): Five-star potential. Weak knightly talent. Physical: 3.2 (2.4) (Seahorse)

Andrew: Four-star potential. Physical: 3.1 (2.6) (Quessoï)

Laura: Four-star potential. Physical: 3 (2.5) (Bandits)

Apprentice knight (peak stage): Five-star potential. Weak knight talent. Physical: 2.9 (2.5)

Apprentice knight (peak stage): Five-star potential. Weak knight talent. Physical: 2.9 (2.4)

Ernest: Potential four stars. Physical: 2.9 (2.4) (Brotherhood house)

Apprentice knight (great success stage): Five-star potential. Weak knight talent Physical: 2.8 (2.3)

Apprentice knight (great success stage): Five-star potential. Weak knight talent Physique: 2.7 (2.3)

Apprentice knight (great success stage): Five-star potential. Weak knight talent Physique: 2.7 (2.3)

Ivan: Four-star potential. Physique: 2.5 (1.8) (Hénor)

Wigor: Four-star potential. Physique: 2.4 (1.7) (Hénor)

Liam: Four-star potential. Talent of the ghost swordsman. Physique: 2.3 (1.1) (Plouta)

Garen: Four-star potential. Talent of a berserker. Physique: 2.1 (1.4) (Woodwind)

Lira: Four-star potential. Affinity with the shadows. Physique: 1.9 (1.2) (Woodwind)

Romuald: Three-star potential and a minor talent in physics. Physique: 2.6 (2.3) (City of Barthon)

Rodrigo: Three-star potential and an elementary affinity with the earth. Physical: 2.5 (2.2)(Brotherhood house)

Tena: Three-star potential and a minor talent in intelligence. Physical: 2.4 (2) (city of Barthon)

Izo: Three-star potential. Physical: 2.3 (1.9) (Quessoï)

Terry: Three-star potential. Physique: 2.2 (1.9) (Quessoï)

James: Three-star potential. Physique: 2.2 (1.9) (Quessoï)

Piedro: Three-star potential. Physique: 2.2 (1.9) (Quessoï)

Moron: Three-star potential. Physical: 2.1 (1.7) (City of Barthon)

Jeb: Three-star potential. Physical: 2.1 (1.7) (Ventbois)

Irus: Three-star potential. Physical: 2 (1.7) (Bandits)

Jean: Three-star potential. Blessed by the wind. Physique 1.7 (1.2) (Woodwind)

Reta: Three-star potential. Physique: 1.6 (1.2) (Woodwind)

Yvan: Three-star potential. Physique: 1.5 (1.1) (Woodwind)

Katarina: Three-star potential. Physique: 1.4 (1) (Ventbois)

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Maxime couldn't believe his eyes.

"I should seriously look at my mercenaries' statistics more regularly."