“We came as soon as we could,” Elsa explained, leading the conversation. “But we were very busy.”I nodded. “Sowing season. Or, uh. No, you probably don’t farm. [Saint] work?”The three shared another silent laugh, and Elsa nodded. “Something like that.”“Elsa was gracious enough to make the trip out and help me recover with some of her healing magic,” Somnial said.The sage had told me a bit about the saint’s powers in our conversations over the past months, as well as the hero’s and his own.I had already learned from the administrator that these three blessings weren’t skills in the same way that earned skills were. They appeared in the System profile the same way, but they weren’t actually contributing factors to the soul itself. They did not go with the carrier into the next life; they were features of this world, and this world alone.Each of [Hero], [Sage], and [Saint] were modifiers. They artificially boosted Body, Mind, and Will, which in turn helped the holder advance their actual skills, which were also boosted.The [Hero] gained a boost to Body. In effect, when training or using combat skills, Dargan’s Body stat was basically tripled. This helped him gain combat skills faster, and each skill also acted like it was triply as advanced. When the [Hero] first learned [Swordsmanship], he would have effectively started with advanced mastery, bypassing basic mastery entirely. Each subsequent skill level propelled him much further along.The [Sage] was actually a boost to Somnial’s Mind, not Will, like I had first assumed. This applied to learning magic, naturally. With such a boost, learning and memorizing spells was much easier for him, and when casting them, the effects were boosted as well, but his Will was relatively normal otherwise, beyond the natural gains he received from training magic intensively his whole life.It was the [Saint] who (...)