What must be done

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The girl walked out through a metal door that led to a cave. It was a completely different view from the laboratory. On either sides of the cave were lit torches. Not the modern kind of torches. No. I'm talking about sticks lit with fire.

The black dragon ran up her arms and rested on shoulder, leaving me on one of her palms. The girl then grabbed one of the torches, and she began walking through the cave. This led me to think to myself for a bit.

'Was it some sort of secret laboratory? Maybe I was some kind of secret project in the works. Yeah, right. Why give a secret project to a little girl? As if anyone is that dumb.'

As we walked through the cave we came to a massive area. There was a large underground lake with a hole in the ceiling which was letting in the moonlight. The lake was reflecting the moonlight, causing it to glow with a beautiful blue hue and shimmer like a gem. It was a very beautiful place but the most stunning feature was the massive crystal that was directly underneath the ceiling hole, right in the middle of the lake.

The crystal absorbed the moonlight and then dispersed it like a star, illuminating and bathing the cave in serene lunar light. The girl dropped the torch, and as soon as it made contact with the ground, the flames were extinguished.

'Weird.'

She then proceeded to move towards the lake.

'Is she going for a swim? Ou, maybe this is my chance to get a sneak peek at a naked girl's body.'

I waited for her to remove her kimono, but she didn't. She just kept on walking towards the water body. Maybe she preferred to swim with her Kimono on. Surprisingly enough, her feet didn't touch the water. I looked at the water and it didn't even ripple as she walked over it. It was like she was walking over an invisible platform. What was going on?

<<Answer. Probability of her using the skill [Air Plates] is 100%>>

'[Air Plates]? Skill? Ok, now everything is starting to sound like an RPG. Please explain what you mean by skill.'

<<Answer. A skill is an ability that allows an individual to perform a certain action. Skills are to be learnt after hard training, and are sometimes automatically obtained due to a person's class. There are various kinds of skills. Regular skills, Learnt skills, Unique Skills, Advanced Skills and Ultimate Skills>>

'Huh? I'm guessing regular skills are what a person or race is born with?'

<<Affirmative>>

'In that case learnt skills mean they can be learnt from other means. Unique skills are blessings from higher beings. Now it's left with these two. Advanced and Ultimate skills. What are those?"

<<Advanced skills are formed when regular, learnt and unique skills undergo a sort of evolution, to become more powerful>>

'I see. So it's basically a rank up for skills.'

<<Ultimate skills are the pinnacle of the skill tree. The final and most effective form of any skill>>

'Can't say I expected more for it. Wait... you mentioned some other unique skill earlier right? Evolve or something like that.'

<< [Unique skill]: Evolver>>

'Yeah! That. What does it do?'

<<This skill has the ability cause its user to adapt to its environment endlessly. User may also acquire the abilities of creatures it consumes>>

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