My status has some changes, but I don't know much about it. I think I need to explore uses of this Beacon of Truth myself. Now, I need to go back to the hut, as from this place I can clearly see and hear the voices of several children; all those children must be awake now.
Slowly, I walked towards the hut. Entering it, I saw eight children of 5 to 6 years of age surrounding Yuki and asking her questions; they were asking questions like, "Big sister, what will you do now?" "Big sister will mama, papa come to take us back?"
I did not understand the thought process of these children but Yuki looked concern as she is being cornered by these questions of those children, so I coughed a little making my presence known to those present, now all of them focus on me including Yuki, seeing me those children looked a little scared but I now want to talk Yuki, so I said, "Yuki, can I talk with you for a bit?"
Yuki, hesitated a bit but followed me outside of hut, those children tried to follow her but she told them to stay inside, after getting outside a little far away, I asked her, "Yuki, can you tell me situation of those children I am sure they did not know full information about their situation, can you tell your and their past circumstances, I am sure I can help you guys better, you hide important information like names of your family if you want."
Hearing this, Yuki looked back towards the hut, and after confirming that none of those children was listening to our conversation, she said, "Our situation is a bit complicated. I hope you don't tell anyone about it, not even those children."
I nodded to her and she continued, "Me and all those children are from, top rich families of the Ashborn city, we were originally learning martial arts from same academy, so I were senior of them and our families also had deep connections, so I treated them as younger sibling, but everything changed after our families tried to support a wrong person and bet their future on a single event, unfortunately they failed and that person's opponent, decided to take revenge on everyone including his supporter, so our families got eradicated in a single night, it was a massacre. Fortunately, those children and I were at an academy that time, so we survived, as even our enemy can not attack an academy funded by the federation, opening killing its students on campus, this will make him a public enemy for the federation."
"So we survived in that academy, but soon another problem arose, as not having any support we are unable to pay the fees of academy even if I were to get a scholarship, then still those children will eventually forced to leave campus, so I asked my teacher for help and he silently let us away from academy without telling anyone, that's how we get here."
"Don't say anything about this to those children; they are innocent and still don't know about their family's death. So, I lied to them, telling them that we are doing an important martial practice in which we have to hide and practice martial arts, and once we pass this exam, their parents will come to see them."
After all of her story, I sighed, it is similar to what I thought. In this world, it is very natural for the killer of parents to complete their work by killing children as well. It would be surprising if anyone left some survivors out of mercy, in this world of martial arts, mercy is as rare as diamonds and jade.
So I sighed and said, "Don't worry about this now, you guys are going to live with me, so you are my responsibility. I know, I may look like a child, but believe me, I am more than enough to help you guys."
I don't know why, but I said this, thinking about a realistic way, this is not a good way to start my way in another world, as I myself am struggling to survive, but now I am talking about taking responsibility for another nine children. But I can't do anything about this; this is how I am, even death and reincarnation have not changed me much, I am not those protagonists in novel stories who act like a lone wolf till the end, and talk about how the invincible path is lonely.
Now that I am here with her, talking about things, I think I should also ask her about the Martial power system, completing another one of my system quests. So I said, "Yuki, I need to confirm something if you are telling the truth and are really studying in the Federation Academy of Ashborn city, then you should have known quite a bit of martial arts?"
Yuki: "Yes, I was the top student at my academy, I know every beginner theory in martial arts, I was top at theory classes and practical as well."
Ryuk: "Ok, then let's start with simple questions, tell me about the realms of Martial arts from smallest to highest and explain them."
I cleverly asked her about martial arts, not letting her doubt that I know nothing about it, even my memories from before did not include anything related to martial arts, it is as if my father in this life isolated me from martial arts. I silently looked at my next system quest; this time, I need a useful reward.
"MAIN QUEST: GAIN GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT MARTIAL POWER SYSTEM(0/1)"
She started explaining about martial arts power system and realms, while I listened carefully, to summarize her knowledge, I can say that martial arts mainly have nine realms, while she only knows about the first four, which are.
Martial artists grade 1: A grade one martial artist, classified by federation, is someone who has the power of at least ten normal adult men. This is the beginning of the martial path. Children from the age 5 or 6 train until the age of 14 to normalize their bodies, making a perfect foundation before becoming a first-grade martial artist.
Martial artists grade 2: A grade two martial artist, classified by federation, is someone who has the power of at least a hundred normal adult men. In this realm, humans finally came in contact with a supernatural energy present in the environment called martial energy. In this realm, people normally learn how to absorb this energy efficiently in their bodies.
Martial artists grade 3: A grade 3 martial artists is finally a powerhouse in this world, in this realm real magic happened through the power of martial energy, people can do supernatural things like creating blade of martial energy, which can cut thick metal pipes in single swing, even human body get so string that they can run faster than super cars, jump high in the sky and do many more things, in this realm people mostly focus on gaining mastery over martial energy.
Martial artists grade 4: A grade 4 martial artist is like a superman in this world, he/she can fly in the air, lift mountains with bare strength, fight giant beasts, create a hurricane of fire out of thin air, or freeze whole lakes with breath. They are practically gods for mortals. She did not know much about this realm. According to my memory, my father was supposed to be in this realm, but he got beaten up and arrested because of someone's anger. I am sure this world has many bigger fish, but I did not know anything about it.
For now, I only know that the following realms are also called martial artists grades 5 to 9. I think this must be enough for completing the quest, and fortunately, my system screen shows that the quest is completed.
"MAIN QUEST: GAIN GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT MARTIAL POWER SYSTEM(1/1)"
"COMPLETED THIRD QUEST, REWARD AVAILABLE"