There is Something Wrong with This Game - Chapter E004

Chapter E004 – Repairing the Wall

[Ruins of Archades Imperial Palace]

Hecate reappeared once again in her private workshop.

A few moments ago, after completing her exams and exiting the Academy's VR-Space, she took a deep breath as she removed all her rings. It had been a close call because the buff effect of the food items had expired almost at the end of the exam.

The thoughts that had been very clear and full of inspiration due to the buff suddenly broke off, returning to slightly above normal. Not to mention, the STR reduction caused her body to become lethargic. It felt extremely unpleasant, like an immortal suddenly falling to earth and becoming mortal.

Of course, she had the option to stop for a moment, return to the real world, and eat another portion of food items before continuing the exam. However, she decided not to because she had nearly solved all the exam questions, and the remaining ones were not that complicated.

And true enough, she was able to finish the exam successfully.

"Come to think of it, there was something wrong with the teacher's tone just now..."

Hecate couldn't help but notice the awkwardness in the teacher's words earlier.

Perhaps completing nearly 1000 exam questions in such a short period of time was indeed too eye-catching. The previous exam was fine because it was just a normal exam with only one subject at a time, and she did it simultaneously with many other students, so the supervision didn't focus too much on her.

This was a miscalculation on her part, but she had a premonition that it wouldn't be a problem.

'Well, it doesn't seem to be a big deal.'

A little bit of ability exposure didn't seem to affect anything important.

The exam she just took was the final exam at Kyoto Academy, serving as the entrance to university level. Every procedure was carried out systematically by the Ministry of Education, and no other party had the right to tamper with the results, not even Kyoto Academy.

Given her academic abilities that she had just demonstrated, there was no doubt that she would successfully graduate. And when she graduated, she would move to Tokyo University and would have nothing more to do with Kyoto Academy.

Little did she know that not only was her academic ability exposed, but her health status was also revealed. Fortunately, due to a certain misunderstanding, this did not have any significant influence on her, at least for now.

Anyway, that was all in the past, and the exam was over.

"Now it's time to take care of other matters!"

Hecate opened her Territory Interface and looked at the map of her territory.

Of the 108 barrier nodes, 85 were successfully activated, while the remaining 23 could not be activated. However, even though not all nodes were activated, that did not mean there were no additional perks available for the territory.

This was because the formation lines were able to work as they should, even though several lines were still disconnected. Indeed, the deepest layer of the city barrier required its formation lines to be connected, but this did not seem to be the case for the other layers.

If these formation lines could be compared to a series of electrical connections, then they were similar to a parallel circuit, where the circuit can still supply electricity even if some lines are disconnected, as long as at least one line is still functioning.

Spoiler <big><big>Tutorial: Territory</big></big>

<big>Managing Your Own Territory</big>

╭─────────────────────────༺♦༻─────────────────────────╮ Congratulations!

You have obtained your own first territory, the Archades Ruins.

As a lord, you have the right to rule and manage your territory.RêAd lateSt chapters at novelhall.com Only

But of course, you have to do a few things first before you can truly rule on this place.



╰─────────────────────────༺♦༻─────────────────────────╯ ╭─────────────────────────༺♦༻─────────────────────────╮ A few things you can do:

• You can rename your territory.

• You can partly enable the city barrier.

• You can set the mana tax of your territory.

A few things to do: ╰─────────────────────────༺♦༻─────────────────────────╯ <big><big><big>City Barrier Management</big></big></big> Currently available MP: 860,425 / 42,500,000 Add Command ¤ Set the Mana Tax: ▽ Hecate: 300,000 MP | hourly Result: 1 people will be taxed 300,000 MP hourly. ¤ Set the City Barrier: ▽ Partial Enable: Central District ▽ Blockade Setting: None Result: City barrier will be enabled on 1 area. ¤ Initiate the Territory Repair: ▽ Selective Repair: Wall Syllus - Part (C, D, E) Requirement: • (Stone): 424 blocks • 223,550 MP. Remove Command Change Priority Reset Changes Discard Changes and Exit Execute and Exit There are 3 unapplied changes. [collapse] Spoiler You have changed the tax settings in your Territory. The number of target affected: 1 person. List of the affected target(s): • Hecate: 300,000 MP | hourly The barrier on Wall Syllus has been successfully activated. Based on your settings, the barrier will be intangible and will not have You have initiated Territory Repair to repair the selected target(s). Target: Wall Syllus - [Part C, D, E] Required Material: (Stone) - 424 blocks. Please select the material that will be used for this repair The required materials have been successfully collected. 223,550 MP has been deducted from the Territory's MP Supply. Repair task in progress. Target: Wall Syllus - [Part C, D, E] <img /wp-content/plugins/yet-another-stars-rating/img/loader.gif" alt="" width="16" height="16" /> Estimated time to complete: 1 hours 4 minutes. [collapse]

Of course, there is a cancel button, but it's better not to use it. Because if that button is pressed, the task will be canceled, but the MP deducted will not be refunded.

Her attention then turned to another tutorial icon.

Spoiler <big><big>Tutorial: Imparting Skills to the Territory</big></big>

<big>Impart Your Skills to the Territory</big>

╭─────────────────────────༺♦༻─────────────────────────╮ Congratulations!

 

You have successfully established a connection line between the formation core and Ebremus Tower.

Now you can impart your skills into Territory Skills in the tower.

The imparted skills can later be used by your chosen subjects, including yourself.



╰─────────────────────────༺♦༻─────────────────────────╯ ╭─────────────────────────༺♦༻─────────────────────────╮ A few things to note:

• Skills that can be imparted will have a special mark on the impart window.

• Imparted skills will be considered Territory skills and cannot be leveled up.

• If the imparter's original skill leveled up, the imparter may re-impart the skill.

╰─────────────────────────༺♦༻─────────────────────────╯ [collapse]

She received notification of this tutorial last night when she finished replacing the Save-Crystal and activated the barrier node in a place that turned out to be called Ebremus Tower.

Of course, Hecate was curious and because at that time she was in the tower anyway, she tried to impart her skills according to the tutorial. She was somewhat surprised when she saw some of her skills from the skill tree, subclass skills, and even extra skills were actually listed as impart-able and some were not.

Skills that are considered "unimpart-able" are skills that require body parts such as Flexible Body, Improve Jump, Basic Mana Training, Avid Reader, and many more. Apart from that, skills that have prerequisite conditions outside of Jobclass and Subclass that have not been met cannot also be imparted.

This was somewhat understandable, because in this case, the "primary user" of the imparted skills did not refer to <a>Hecate, but the Territory itself. Naturally, Territory could not jump, read books, or craft items, so these skills could not be applied.

But, Extremity of Primary Elements, Precision Mana Control, Mystical Amplification...

These above skills are included in the impart-able list and can be imparted right away. And further than that, of course it is very likely that Overspell and Archwitch's Pride can also be imparted after their prerequisite skills are met.

— What will happen if these skills are imparted and become Territory Skills?

— Could she increase the damage of her spell even more than before?

Unfortunately, Hecate hadn't been able to find out that answer yesterday.

It turned out that imparting each skill would take quite a long time and she couldn't leave the place during the process, so she had no other choice but to cancel and postpone it.

'Too bad, imparting a skill would take at least 6 hours, I thought this was similar to the apprentice system but apparently not.'

Hecate couldn't help but thinking about Dalmagna.

During Hecate's apprenticeship more than a year ago, she had been imparted by Dalmagna and was able to learn many Blacksmith skills, such as Metallurgy, Crafting, Repair, Upgrade and many more. These impartment process was fast and completed in less than 10 minutes.

But of course, this type of skill impartment has a few clear drawbacks.

First, the person who imparted the skill must learn the skill to the maximum of Lv10. Second, the person who is the target of the impart skill can only learn the skill at Lv1 and raise the skill level from the start.

"I can do this later tonight, for now I should go to Dalmagna's place first."

Hecate still had not forgotten that she was on a mission to work as Dalmagna's assistant.

With that in mind, Hecate closed all open notification windows and took out a Town Scroll from her inventory. As the scroll glowed and disintegrated, her body disappeared from the bright room.