Isaac went into his new bed and enjoyed the first good night's rest in a long time. When he woke up, his blood covered school uniform was still lying on the floor. A small box was on his desk, inside was a set of new clothes, while they were not as well made as his uniform, they were most likely more durable due to being made from things from the hero's world.
Isaac picks up his sword and swings it a few time to feel it in his hands, it feels almost made for him as if the handle is moulding to his grip, Isaac puts the sword the scabbard that was on his left hip, and he steps out of his room and walks toward the steps into the storage room, a small group of 4 people look at him with disgust, they hold woven baskets with fruit in them, the people are half tempted to throw the fruit at him, but hold back as it would be a waste to throw food at someone like him.
As Isaac walks into the storage room and spots Mercer talking with Macy and Cherry, Isaac walks over to them and stands next to Mercer silently. Mercer notices him in the corner of his eye, but doesn't speak with him. Mercer just continues with what he was saying to the girls.
After a few moment Mercer speaks to Isaac, "kid we wont be able to start your training today, instead we need to do guard duty, one of the ladies died giving birth, so we have to guard her husband, well guard is not the right term, keep an eye on would be the right way to say it."
Isaac nods and responds, "Is that why everyone seems so down today?" Mercer nods solemnly. Isaac asks another question, "How is the child doing? Were there any problems during birth?"
Mercer shakes his head, "No, the mother died after due to blood loss, so the child was fully born before she died, and she died smiling with her child in her hands. While we are keeping an eye on the husband, you can begin some of your basics."
Isaac and Mercer both leave the girls and head to a bigger building that looks at least 70 years old, with a similar feel to a small church, A man sits on his knees looking down at a stone small droplets run down the man's face and hit the sand at the base of the stone, the man couldn't have been older then 30 he was most likely around macy's age.
Mercer whispers "That's the husband, his core power is utility based, it allows him to fuse to point, he is one of our tailors, he fuses the parts together so we can skip the sowing process, normal we don't place guards like us on newly made widows or widowers unless you are one of us, since we can cause major damage, but due to the inheriting process of core powers, he have to."
Isaac looks at Mercer and asks a question, "What is the inheritance process that doesn't get mentioned in any of the books I know of?"
Mercer gives a look of shock before composing himself in an instant "It is the process of giving your core power to your child, people born in the hero world do not have core power nor are they able to get them unless there parent dies, since the mother died, the child now has her power, so if this man dies we will lose his power, which almost doesn't matter to you dose it. from what I can gather about your power, that is." Mercer pauses, the dry air inheld deep into his lungs, a ounce of hesitation forms inside of Mercer before he speaks "Your core power has something to do with giving powers that you can or have used, I don't know how you get those powers, and after what I saw yesterday, I don't think I want to know."
Isaac face betrays his shock as he is there agape about how Mercer was able to piece that together, Isaac was dropping small hits about parts of his core power, but Mercer was able to understand about half of what Isaac core power was and that was the half that Isaac only just found out about, Isaac was silently happy about the pain from yesterday since it seems to deter Mercer from learning about learning about Isaac's main power.
Mercer and Isaac didn't speak much after that, just silently following the newly made widower as he made his rounds, many people tried to give there condolences to him but with out fail he would snap causing Mercer and Isaac to step in, since Isaac wasn't viewed to good he would calm down the widower which had little success each time and Mercer would apologise to the people, on a few attempts the man would try to fight the others, this gave Isaac an excuse to test out his new power and help it gain a few points of proficiency. At the day's end, Isaac's proficiency was at 20% which didn't feel as rewarding as it should have due to how slow it took to gain a single point.
During of the time they had when the man was at peace Mercer would teach Isaac how to properly hold his sword and give him a set of basic motions to do so that he can get a hang of things, but this turned out to be a lot harder than Mercer thought, Mercer was taught how to fight through sound proof explanation from his father, who was the previous user of his core power, but for Isaac it would go in one ear and out the other, and much preferred to watch someone do it and then copy them, but even that was a challenge, since Isaac was left handed which he didn't tell anyone and made Mercer snap and shout at him for few a minuets straight.
After a long period of no talking Mercer tried his best to show Isaac what to do but it was very rough since mercer was right handed and couldn't hold the sword comfortably, Mercer silently watched Isaac preform basic movement and would correct them while wishing that Isaac would pull a power stone that would make Isaac the best swords man out of his ass or where ever they came from but his wish's fell unanswered, or so he thought as a loud bell sounded that sounded like nails on a chalk board.