Aventine Tidea was born with a gift. 

It was the gift of [Absolute Awareness], the ability to sense anything and everything with unimaginable detail.

However, Earth seemed to lack the power to fuel his gift. He could only activate [Absolute Awareness] for half a second and with a cooldown period of one year. Nevertheless, Aventine did not find this odd. Instead, he followed his instincts.

The [Gate].

Something he had sensed when he was a child. A one-way portal to another world.

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[The Gaea System has received a Divine Branch from Hunter Aventine Tidea. (6/42)]


[You have gained an increase in <Growth>. Each level-up will grant you an additional +1 to all your attributes.]


Looking at the gleaming screen, I inwardly nodded. Kuvie and Reazue were looking at me, wondering why I grabbed a stick and promptly 'stored' it in my ring.


"What?" I asked, "I like collecting cool sticks."


In response to my words, Reazue seemed to understand it in some way, but Kuvie was clearly baffled.


"Collecting… sticks?" She echoed my words, pondering for a moment as a bit of amusement tinged her voice. "Is there a criterion for the sticks you like? I can help you collect some interesting ones!"


Was this a characteristic of Nature Mages? She was very much amused by the excuse I cooked up at random—something about an individual without Nature Affinity collecting something as mundane as sticks…


Chapter 116 - Another Eye - XI