Chapter 436: A Job Just Unique For Me.
Job: Star Idol
Benefit Slots: [Musical Crescendo] [Bardic Cadenza] [Heavenly Performance] [Musical Renaissance Diva Lv. 1]
Level: 30/30
Prestige Level: 5
Job: Fire Mage
Benefit Slots: [Magic Skills: Proficiency Lv. 4] [Fire Element Lv. 1] [Arcane Skills: Proficiency Lv. 1]
Level: 35/35
Prestige Level: 10
Job: Tyrant Hatchling
Benefit Slots: None
Level: 30/30
Prestige Level: 8
[Star Idol] Prestige Points: 5
[Fire Mage] Prestige Points: 5
[Tyrant Hatchling] Prestige Points: 8
You may spend your prestige points after your unique Job evolution
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Evolution choices for [Idol Tyrant Hatchling]. Evolution choice affected by unique choice from [Star Idol]s [Musical Renaissance Diva], [Fire Mage] evolution
[Tyrant Diva] Benefits: Skill evolution [Draconic Roar], [Draconic Barrier], [Benevolent Aura][Dragon Diva] Benefits: [Heavenly Performance] evolves into [Heavenly Performance Act 1], Job evolution [Star Idol] + [Fire Mage]
And those are my options, I told everybody of my Job evolutions, before taking my hands off the moist, freshly planted soil. I stood back up. Okay, done!
Cernust waved at me, shooting me a thumbs up after Rita and Tasianna also stood up and dusted the soil from the hands. Pulling some seeds out of his pouch, he spread them on the outer ring of the garden field, and once done, turned back into his two-floor house-sized drake form. The moss and wood-like carapace covered dragonkin roared and shook his head, loosening up his antlers.
Its been a while, he said in draconic, or thats what I believe he said. My mastery of the dragon tongue was still at the very bottom, as I had no need to practice it.
He then smacked his tail on the ground, sending some dirt flying onto him, before he roared again. At the same time, I activated [Mana Eyes], noticing mana streaming from his body into the ground to create something like a root system. Rita did the same, but unlike our drake friend, her body was slowly digging itself into the ground, essentially rooting herself in the ground like the dryad she was.
Once the both of them were done with whatever they were doing, Cernust then cast a brown magic circle on the entire room, causing the seeds within it to speed up their growth to the point we could see them sprouting from the ground. The outer ring of this large garden was mostly grass with a couple of trees, while the very middle was our alchemical and botanical fields. If we added a river or pond, this place could be an amazing recreation room.
[Rita and I spread the mana we injected into the ground as far and wide as we could. Make sure every little guy gets its fair share of draconic mana,] Cernust explained.
Oooh, you didnt get to feel it, but you know the insects and super small beings inside the groundthose microorganisms mentioned in the description? I got to touch them with my roots! The ones from the divine soil! Rita cheered, almost squeaking. Soil made from the gods! Ahhh, I am walking on blessed ground! Ahaha, they feel so good to touch. Made my roots feel so comfortable!
She might be a faefolk, but she still had the body of a plant, so her feedback on this was the closest we could get aside from asking spriggans. Speaking of
They like it, Lady Hestia! Tasianna exclaimed. They are really enjoying the field, right now. Some even mentioned wanting to stick around and live here, even if it feels cramped.
Tasianna was a fae whisperer after all, so I had her cajole from spriggans to come and live inside the subspace as free labor. To simulate an actual garden, we also had to emulate an actual ecosystem to assure our plants were of the highest quality, and that meant getting some lesser faefolk insidea fact Cernust and Rita heavily emphasized to us.
Spriggans, though, were nature loving faefolk and found the subspace extremely claustrophobic to live inside, as they couldnt open the door to exit by themselves. Healthy soil and solar energy were needed for us to start a garden, but spriggans were like the topping on top, as they spread mana naturally around without Rita and Cernusts help. By living and playing inside this garden, they made sure Rita and Cernust didnt have to constantly come over and make sure the mana was well balanced.
As such, I couldnt be happier, as the divine soil Bleidla gave us everything we needed to assure our ecosystem was as close to natural as possible. We didnt need new soil or the wind to spread pollen, as the microorganism inside the soil made sure the soil would remain fertile. No need for slash-and-burn or crop rotation, essentially.
That stubborn basthuda can actually do more than forge, huh? Grimnir smiled as he touched the ground.
Tatsuya clapped, grinning widely as he looked at a large patch reserved for our fulinoe leaves. Couldnt say it better! We upgraded from that small garden inside the RV into this huge place! One, two, threethere are so many more fulinoe plants now! We can sell even more boxes to the Sarlenzia company while keeping our own stocks full!
Good to hear, but what do we do with the RV now? Kyouya asked.
Grimnir shrugged. What do you mean? Were still gonna have to use it, lad. Just because weve been using the nexus all this time, doesnt mean we can just walk to places we havent been yet. Or, you want to get on the lass and fly over there?
Kyouya apologized to me, but I told him it was all right. With this new garden, the need for our RV has been reduced to a traveling tool, but weve been using it for that function alone for a long time already. Admittedly, it was slow, but so was traveling in general. The only way to improve it was to switch from it being pulled by Saoris shadow pack to something else Which was an idea Daichi shared with me.
We could always turn the thing into an actual RV. Put a motor in, and its a car, he stated nonchalantly, as if it was obvious. The issue is that neither Haruka or I know how to make one. You can only learn so much from physics classes; nobody in our class has a background in the automobile industry.
Well, if were thinking of the same kind of motor, then we can always ask the railroad guild for tips on their engine. The issue is that compressing it for the RV will probably be an issue, Grimnir replied.
The main power source of this world was mana, after all, and that meant manatech was everywhere, instead of coal-fueled or electricity based machines. The train I rode was mana-powered, and Daichi just confirmed none of us could recreate a car motor properly. We had to use this worlds tech if we wanted to make any progress, unless we had as much time as the Revolution Queen to create something revolutionary.
Well, it didnt matter to me that much. I preferred slower adventures over all the hecticness recently.
With the garden now ready, it was time for Tasianna to take care of the rest as our botanist. I turned to Gravy and inspected its mana.
Total Mana: 1048
Takes a while. Well, at least it can walk around the garden now.
Do you guys believe monsters can spawn inside? I asked.
Cernust shrugged. Considering you have the training room right next door, but nothing has happened yet, then I guess you have nothing to worry about. We arent technically in Peolynca, but in a subspace of it. The Divine System still works since were inside a subspace you created with its help, but maybe other functions dont work?
Since we drenched this entire room with mana, I did worry a rank B would randomly spawn inside here. Only monsters related to Gravys monster spawning would be docile.
Gravy, if monsters were to spawn inside this room without my permission, would they belong to you?
It shook its head.
If an intruder were to enter this roomso anybody I hadnt given permission to enter my subspacewould you be able to inform me?
It nodded.
Prestige Level: 5
Job: Fire Mage
Benefit Slots: [Magic Skills: Proficiency Lv. 6] [Fire Element Lv. 1] [Arcane Skills: Proficiency Lv. 1]
Level: 35/35
Prestige Level: 10
Job: Tyrant Hatchling
Benefit Slots: None
Level: 30/30
Prestige Level: 8
[Star Idol] Prestige Points: 5
[Fire Mage] Prestige Points: 5
[Tyrant Hatchling] Prestige Points: 8
You may spend your prestige points when you are ready
[Star Idol] prestige points: 5
Benefit Slot increaseJob Skill: [Acoustic Skills: Proficiency Lv. 1] [Acoustic Power Lv. 1] Evolve [Heavenly Performance]Growth Boosts: [Mana] [Intelligence] [Wisdom]Spell song slot (3 prestige point)
[Fire Mage] prestige points: 5
Benefit Slot increaseJob Skill: [Elemental Resistances: Proficiency Lv. 1]Growth Boosts: [Mana] [Intelligence] [Wisdom]
As before, I was saving up for the prestige ten skill on [Tyrant Hatchling], so that left me with the other two[Star Idol] and [Fire Mage]. Funnily enough, I could just evolve [Heavenly Performance] now, but that just seemed silly after I rejected [Dragon Diva].
To be honest, depending on how difficult it would be to level up my development Jobs to gain prestige points, it might have been good to get the free [Heavenly Performance] level, although the merging of my two development Jobs still worried me. It was done. Nothing worth mentioning any longer.
[Star Idol] Prestige spent. Benefit Slot gained, [Acoustic Power Lv. 1] gained
Three more left.
[Tyrants Voice] made my vocal attacks stronger; it was clear after what happened. This was essentially a power boost to it as long as I remained a dragonewt, probably to make it on-par to my dragon forms roar. Then again, leaving so many skills at level one really irked me, but gaining prestige points meant leveling a ton.
I did consider [Acoustic Skills: Proficiency] and [Heavenly Performance] for a moment, but I found them not worth the investment for now. The proficiency skill, unless they affected everything in general like [Fire Mage]s [Magic Skills: Proficiency Lv. 6] and [Arcane Skills: Proficiency Lv. 1], would only become wasted investment in the future, as I only had [Tyrants Voice] and [Idol] as my acoustic-based skills.
Also, I had to invest in a benefit slot to carry the skill for [Star Idol]. That wasnt worth it, either.
[Star Idol] Prestige spent. 3 points to [Acoustic Power Lv. 1] -> [Acoustic Power Lv. 4] gained
[Fire Mage] Prestige spent. 4 points to [Magic Skills: Proficiency Lv. 6] -> [Magic Skills: Proficiency Lv. 10] gained
It was a bad investment for the far future, but it would be for the best that I got all my elemental magic skills up to level ten for the System spells due to the imminent threat of the Prince of Envy. This was the time when short-term rewards would benefit me the most.
With this skill done, it was time to think about the future.
[Fire Mage] Prestige spent. 1 point to [Fire Element Lv. 1] -> [Fire Element Lv. 2] gained
MORE FIRE POWER! MORE SCALE-DUST EXPLOSIONS! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Yeah, pretty much just more damage modifiers. It wasnt anything special, but it did the trick, and I personally was a fan of simple skills like these considering how much unique stuff I had to juggle around already.
With this done, that was pretty much it on my list of fun duties. Now came the annoying business duties, as I had to speak with Arcanuess Helvas, Amelia, and her father regarding the concert that was tomorrow. To be exact, tomorrow was Goddess Chihiros birthday, and it was celebrated as Revolutions Birth by Ankor-Nazta.
Technically, this was supposed to be the original date of the summitthe 30th of AutumnSun. Obviously, due to all the recent events, it was pushed forward and that was why I decided to make the best out of it and hold a concert. For that, I needed to make a ton of preparations, as I had only decided to do it after the summityesterday.
We can get the workers and staff ready three bells after the lunch bell, but we will have to pay extra for the pastries and merchandise, as I had to pay my workers overtime, Amelia stated inside the subspaces meeting room.
Her father, Duke Greenveil, agreed, The Sarlenzia company has managed to provide us with the ingredients in a timely manner, so we should have no issues on that front. Lady Hestia, after the last concert, I had received feedback from our noble customers that they would wish for a better viewing experience. Watching your show right in the front is brilliant, but most feel like they behold the masses too often.
Goodness gracious, we already have the bleachers for that. We made them extra comfortable and luxurious with instant access to butlers and maids! I complained. Where do they expect me to put this better viewing experience anyways? The Obsidian Orchestra is designed to be humongous and to circle around the stage, I cant just add more or higher bleachers, as that will only obstruct the view for the others. Their complaints will be worse!
Then how about we put the seats on the ceiling? Every noble from Artorias and Yeos has a gargoyle, and if Estralians or the dwarves dont, we can offer that service for them. House Helvas has spares to provide, Arcanuess Helvas suggested, making me actually consider it. The ceiling is massive, yes, but you should be able to lower it and attach the ceiling seats. Therefore, you provide more seats overall, and we can demand even more exorbitantly priced tickets for them! The bleachers can be priced as usual, and that should attract the merchants, as not every noble can spend!
My goodness I stared in shock.
You need to pay off your debt, Lady Hestia. We need to slowly make these concerts actually profitable to run if you wish to make your plan come true. We cannot push our employees to perform these tasks without proper recompense!
The burden of having investors He was right, though. Even if my Obsidian Orchestra was, at the end of the day, my boss stage for battles where I could, first, afford to transport people into my subspace and, secondly, require the full breadth of an entire room to defeat, it was still where I performed my concerts nowadays. Considering how much debt Ive been accruing, I needed to think like Saori.
After I decided to build those extra seats, we then continued going over my finances and other details. Once that was done, we all left the room completely exhausted, but happy that we got everything done. It was a refreshing change from the summit which prompted me to quickly thank Sis once she got back home.
I hate it so much She just flopped onto the couch, accompanied by Ellaine and Fleindia, who both looked like their souls had left their bodies. I managed to get them to stop talking about the war, but we had to go through the tedious details concerning trade routes, immigrations, borders, and so many other topics for the alliance.
It was not my place to speak Fleindia looked sullen. At the very least, we did switch to religion mid-way through, where I managed to inquire on some Church of Aurena details within Saelariel and Artorias. Champion Hestia, we must speak with the current cardinal of Artorias.
Theodore Samuel Siriusit had been a long time since I last spoke with him, but I suspected as much that would need to change very soon. Since he was my greatest religious supporter, aside from Aurena and Fleindia, it was necessary that I got his opinion on how to tackle this faith war.
Regardless, he would be on my list for later, as it was finally time for me to practice. Practice like never before.
The day for my concert was here.
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