Chapter 63: Works

After discussing the course of action against the undead, Kira and Diana began to tell me everything that happened during their stay in the town of Valen.

They started by explaining to me about the Guilds, when they told me about the Commerce Guild all I could think from the description they told me is that it looks like a Mall, the Commerce Guild using a Mall as a base makes sense to me but It surprises me to find a convenient place to shop.

Another thing that surprised me was the Assassins Guild, I must admit I thought it was an organization of cruel and inhuman assassins, but it seems that other than what their name suggests most of their missions are stealing and espionage, the fact that they being sellers of information also surprised me.

Kira also told me about the Black Market, the way she described the Black Market reminded me about the "deep web" of my ancient world, they sell everything from legal and illegal stuff, sell weapons, magic items, books, slaves illegals, armor, drugs, poisons, etc...

After Kira explained more to me about the black market I couldn't help but think that the Commerce Guild must have a connection to the Black Market under the covers, I might be wrong, but at the very least they must have people in each other's organizations to spy on.

We only stopped talking when it was late afternoon, we stopped to eat, the girls said they brought the cooking items I asked for and the cookery books, but I don't have time today, there's still a lot to be done in the next few days.

After eating we continued talking and from Kira's reports I found out that the Adventurous Guild receptionist supervisor is a former adventurer and an old girlfriend of Diana, it was funny to see Diana blushed to see us all talking about her love life.

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During the night Kira takes a box from her bracelet and opens it showing that it has six books inside, she takes one of the books and gives it to Érica.

"You mentioned once that you have an affinity for the curse, but you don't know anything about the curse, so I bought this book for you." (Kira)

"The book's name is Basic Curses, it speaks comprehensively about what a curse is and how to control this unique element, it even has a few Curses for you to learn." (Kira)

"Thanks, Kira." (Érica)

"I had already given up on learning about Curses by now, I was trying to learn about medium level fire spells these days." (Érica)

"I advise you to continue learning about fire magic, curses don't have much effect on Undead, they already have Affinity and resistance to curses." (Diana)

"The Undead have a weakness to three elements which are fire, light and sacred." (Diana)

"But as Diana and I have talked about this before, those who have the sacred element are highly ranked members of Churches and Temples, those who have the elemental attribute of light must be members of the Church of Light or a religion related to them." (Kira)

"So I have to focus my attention on learning fire spells these days." (Érica)

"That seems like the best option." (I)

"For now I want Kira and Diana to go hunting the monsters to fulfill Diana's missions, while they're doing that be on the lookout for the Undead or any trail they might leave." (I)

"Érica will stay at the camp studying fire magic, I will start training Ibuki within two days and I will also try to learn something about magic in the meantime, I also have fire affinity, so I should be able to learn basic fire magic at least." (I)

"I will try to help the master with his studies, but before learning about fire magic, the master has to learn about magic itself, the basis is important for understanding." (Érica)

"We'll start this tomorrow, it's late for any kind of training, starting today we'll be standing guard every night in doubles taking turns." (I)

"Me, Érica and Ibuki will be the first, in the middle of the night Kira and Diana exchange with us." (I)

"Érica, I want you to see all the books on the magic they brought and give me the best order for me to read them, remembering that I have to learn fire magic first." (I)

"I will do this, master." (Érica)

"Is there anything we need to talk about?" (I)

"..." (Érica/Diana/Kira/Ibuki)

"Then let's end the discussion." (I)

"Now that we've finished talking about plans for now, did Diana bring you any books that talk about jobs?" (I)

"Yes master, here it is." (Diana)

Just as Kira did before, Diana removes a box containing six books from her necklace and from inside pulls out a book that she passes to me.

"This is a book that talks about a lot of jobs and the requirements for getting them, it also talks about the benefits they bring." (Diana)

"Thank you, Diana." (I)

I pick up the book and read the title on the cover that says "Works from apprentice to master".

"Tomorrow I'll take a better look at the other books, you can get any book you want to read." (I)

Saying that I leave the room and go out of the cabin, today one of the moons is full and its light shines all night, I want to use this light to help me read without having to ask Érica to use it that light ball spell.

I sit on the tree trunk near the cabin and start reading the book.

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After hours I finish reading more than half of the book, I learned a lot about the jobs.

If I had to summarize what I learned, I would say that jobs increase not directly but indirectly owner status.

For example, if someone who has no work increases in level and their stats increases by one point per level, if the same person had the job of swordsman their Dexterity, Strength, and Agility stats would increase by two or three points per level of people.

Job levels only increase the percentage of EXP the owner gains from certain tasks, for example, if a swordsman with job level ten kills a monster he will gain ten percent more EXP, and a swordsman with job level thirty-two will gain thirty-two more EXP in killing monsters.

But that's not all, for jobs not related to fighting, for example, if an Alchemist makes an HP potion he gains EXP with a percentage bonus depending on the level of his job.

But an Alchemist doesn't get his EXP bonus if he kills monsters like the swordsman, he will only get the normal EXP for killing the monster equal to a person without a job.

I don't know why this is so, but I suspect it is for each job to focus on its profession.

Another thing I noticed is that every ten job levels the job owner earn bonus points that vary depending on the job, these points are directly integrated into some status attribute referring to the random job.

I also learned that the bonus from jobs is not only limited to the EXP the owner gets, but also to the EXP for using their job-related skills making them level up faster and even increasing the chance of the skill to evolve when it reaches the maximum level.

"(I've never seen any game from my old world use works like that.)" (I)

I also learned that jobs have their Rank starting from the lowest apprentice > novice > practitioner > master > grandmaster.

This book only says so far, and it doesn't talk about higher rankings, so I don't know if there are more or not, it seems that the bonus in stats per level increases the higher the job rank is.

Another thing I learned is that you can change jobs every twenty levels, but when you reach the maximum level of the job you get a bonus in status that depends on the job, you can even acquire a skill, title or unlock another job depending on the work that has reached the maximum level.

The book also mentioned the work history, it seems that once you choose a work it will always be with you, as a mark as well as the titles.

"(The way each job changes its status points is like trying to rebuild the body to be more suitable for that particular job.)" (I)

Jobs in history can no longer be used if you have reached their maximum level.

Among the information in the book, it also shows that some jobs have requirements to obtain, for example, combat jobs need the person to have already entered combat, as a person needs to train in the sword and acquire the skill [ Basic sword handling: 1 ] to become an apprentice swordsman, the apprentice swordsman needs to learn the skill [ Basic sword technique: 1 ] fighting monsters to become a novice swordsman.

Some jobs require you to have reached specific levels in other jobs, or are combinations of jobs, for example, someone with the Swordsman job changes jobs to Mage in order to unlock the magic Swordsman job.

Sigh

With everything, the girls told me today about the city, the Guilds, the Undead, and now with everything I learned from this book.

That's a lot of information for me, I can't process so much at the same time and I still have more to learn tomorrow.

I'm going to stop reading now, I've already learned how jobs work and their classifications, now I have to rest my head a little to prepare for tomorrow.

I know I'm overworking myself learning so many things at once and quickly, but now with the threat of the Undead around, I don't have time to relax.