Mushoku Tensei: Re

Chapter 4: Roya Greyrat

Roya opened his attribute panel, and on the transparent screen, it displayed:

Characters: Roya Greyrat

Age: 2

Strength: G

Agility: G

Stamina: G

Intelligence: D

Talents: Immaculate Body (Stage One), Fool (Stage One), Greed

Skills: Intermediate Magic Knowledge, Swordsmanship (Uninitiated)

Evaluation: You possess extremely high growth potential, but for now, apart from magic, you are quite unremarkable.

Roya then opened the World Capture interface, revealing a small line of text:

Space-Time Power: 50/100 (World Capture Unavailable)

The most critical function was this World Capture ability. According to the system's explanation, the system would split off a small segment of his soul and send it as a stowaway to another world. 

Once he completed specific tasks or significantly altered the world line there, the system would start extracting the world's primordial power and feed it back to the system. If he performed well, he could quickly unlock the next world.

In the Main God Space, their minions would be awarded points and exchange permissions.

For Roya, he could reclaim his soul and choose a few powers from that world based on the situation.

He wasn’t entirely sure about the specifics of this operation, as he hadn’t initiated his first World Capture yet.

Space-Time Power would naturally increase over time, but at an incredibly slow rate. In two years, it had grown to barely a hundred.

In this world, magic included healing magic, attack magic, and summoning magic. The levels were categorized into Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Saint, King, Emperor, and God.

Magic was cast either through chanting or magic circles. High-level magic users could attain titles like Saint Magician or Emperor Magician.

The main swordsmanship styles were the Sword God Style, Water God Style, and North God Style.

The founders of these styles were referred to as gods within their respective styles.

Swordsmanship was also graded into seven levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Saint, King, Emperor, and God.

While Roya had a high innate talent for magic, his progress was limited by available books, stopping at intermediate magic.

Magic was a fascinating and highly adaptable thing, guiding internal magical energy and converting it into various forms of power through set chants.

It could manifest as wind, fire, water, earth, or holy healing power.

In short, magic power was the source of all magic, akin to a car’s engine.

Roya’s talent was exceptional, to the point where even calling him a prodigy was an understatement.

He had a photographic memory and could learn things instantly.

At two months old, he learned to walk. By four months, he could speak simple words. At six months, he was reading magic books alone, to the shock of Lilia and the delighted smiles of Paul and Zenith.

Overall, Roya had an extraordinary learning ability.

However, despite his youthful face, he was inexplicably expressionless.

It wasn’t that Roya lacked emotional depth—quite the contrary. His internal monologue was rich and detailed, but for some reason, his face always remained calm and indifferent.

He often wore a cold expression, and even when he was happy and wanted to smile, the result was a slight, cold smirk. This smile often made Paul and Zenith think they had somehow upset him.

Over time, they understood this was just how he expressed happiness, not a cold smile.

A golden-haired, golden-eyed expressionless boy, whose looks were incredibly striking.

Despite not overly hiding his abilities, showing his precocious nature early on and handling many things independently, the oblivious Paul and Zenith never doubted their son and were often proud of his talents.

Roya didn't trouble the naive Paul and Zenith much, focusing on training his magical power.

Casting spells and depleting his magic would increase his body’s magic capacity.

Roya’s body had an unexpectedly large capacity for magic. When he first started learning magic, though a beginner, he needed to cast several intermediate spells to exhaust his magic.

As his body's capacity grew, intermediate magic was no longer enough for his consumption.

So he started experimenting.

He was now trying out a novel technique.

He named it the Magic Sword.

Everyone’s magical energy differed in properties, each requiring varying amounts for different magic.

There were qualitative differences in magical power.

Roya discovered his magical energy was unusually high quality, yet somewhat eerie.

Ordinarily, magical energy couldn’t manifest on its own and was merely fuel for spells.

His was different—it could appear directly as magical energy and possessed immense destructive power and plasticity.

Manifesting as pure magical energy significantly increased its destructive power, though it also greatly increased the consumption.

The Magic Sword was a technique he developed based on his unique magical properties.

Roya flipped his wrist, and a pitch-black dagger appeared in his slender, fair hand.

The black dagger was entirely composed of Roya’s dark magical energy, with black patterns on its surface, capable of tremendous destruction.

According to this world's magic standards, a fully formed Magic Sword could equate to a King-level spell in terms of damage.

Higher-level spells required more time and harsher conditions, with longer preparation times for the caster.

Instant casting like Rudeus was possible, but only for lower-level spells. High-tier spells still needed long chants.

Moreover, the surrounding environment influenced spellcasting.

But the Magic Sword was different; it was instant.

As long as he had enough magic, it could theoretically obliterate a town in an instant.

Instantly, turning everything to nothing.

Absolute destructive power.

After playing with the Magic Sword for about an hour, his magical energy was finally exhausted. His strong mental power prevented him from fainting, leaving him only a bit drowsy.

Sighing, he walked to the door.

Lilia, the well-endowed maid, was doing housework in the living room. Paul had been spending a lot of time with Zenith lately. Zenith hadn’t been feeling well, and it was clear she would soon give birth to another child. The large household was a lot for Lilia to manage alone.