NOVEL NEXT B1 | FAQ and Q&A
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Hello everyone! As stated in the title, this is a Q&A post for this story! Go ahead and ask anything you'd like about it, and I'll most likely answer it within the next few days. Of course, no spoilers for future events. Unless I'm just in the mood.
And no, book one isn't over yet. There's still a lot more left.
So go ahead and ask away.
But first, the FAQ containing questions from Patreon. Some of these questions contain spoilers so I will put the answers in spoiler tabs. And if you ask questions about these that are already answered in the FAQ, I will not respond.
About how long until she gets her memories back? Either chapter-wise or time-wise.
That's hard to estimate considering my rather instinctive writing style, but probably somewhere in book two or three. Likely in book 2.
I was wondering where you see her character going emotionally towards her family?
She gradually gets closer to her siblings, but she won't forgive her parents. Although she will get over her trauma and will be able to interact with them in the future.
Is she only able to assimilate the skill trees of intelligent species or can she Assimilate from unintelligent creatures such as plants?
Ashley can assimilate from anything so long as it's considered alive by the System. And anything considered alive by the System has skills.
Additionally, yes, this includes plants. And she has taken skills from plants before but discarded them.
The reason why will be explained in the future along with what mutation skills are.
Do some beings in the universe have the exact same Skill Trees?
No one has the exact same Skill Tree. At all. However, some beings may have the exact same skills in their Skill Tree, just either under a different Skill Tree name or with a different setup for the branches with the skills located on different branches.
Does Ashley actually take their Skill Tree away or does she copy it?
She just copies it. She doesn't steal it. So if someone is resurrected they still have their Skill Tree without any signs of Ashley having it now too.
And the next question is one that is answered directly in the story but some people skip over or forget before asking about in the comments:
If two beings have the exact same root skill, can Ashley take a different skill from them?
No. This was shown before when it directly stated no skills were unlocked back in the tutorial when she was killing hounds. That the only thing that happened was that new skills were added to the end of the Skill Tree she already had that would still need her to purchase them in the future to have them.