Joe turned his thoughts back to the list of jobs and scoured it, certain it had to be related to the number of jobs. The title itself literally pointed it out. He wrestled with this for some time until a tickle in the back of his mind caught his attention. Wait… Groom… it actually is two jobs… but acts like one it opens nobility and its under metropolitan … is that… Joe quickly went back into the list. Baker… cook… umm… waiter… bartender… … all doubled between villager and metropolitan! Five jobs… so I counted five jobs twice… so… Five less… fifty? Something to do with fifty jobs! Fifty LEVELLED jobs. Is it at least level one? Or is there a minimum? Like… ten? Possibly? Not sure… but at least the fifty jobs… That… seems to fit… probably…
Joe’s excitement at discovery thrummed through him and he vibrated on his bed, having long sat up with the excitement as he explored what it all meant. OK… cool… so…probably related to leveling fifty jobs or something… then the title… Hmm… It gives .001 percent per level… that’s… hmm… right, .035 percent. That… kinda sucks… Got … about two hundred strength… rounded up for ease… one percent gives me two extra strength… and I’m not even getting ten percent of that.
He frowned with that realization. I’m getting … man… nothing… One percent of two is point oh two… multiplied by three point five… getting seven… yeah… point oh seven extra to my strength… WHEEEEeeee! So now my strength is two hundred point oh seven. NICE! Joe ended sarcastically. He shook his head frustrated, but then paused. Going to make a big difference as my numbers get bigger, though… so can’t complain… should help my learning a lot! Uh… He ran the numbers in his head, just using his current learning as a standard, knowing the title already had his learning boost incorporated. Don’t really want to waste too much time finding actual base, but… One percent of sixty k gives me… six hundred… Joe’s excitement fell flat. And a percent of that gives me six… and I get three point five… so six times three… eighteen… and half of six gives me… twenty one… OK… still… twenty one extra learning... but... kinda lame!
Joe’s excitement over the title waned, wondering at its usefulness now that he’d discovered how weak the benefits were. He rallied and turned back to understand his new ability to equip sub jobs. Right… even if that sucks… just getting extra jobs… MORE than worth it! So… then… Nothing really new here… on to the skills!
Joe excitedly looked through his skills, specifically looking for ‘char’ skills and found six. Two of them were unlocked and tied to two important skills he wasn’t willing to give up: polyglot and double learning. The third was also tied to another skill which he didn’t want to give up since it gave a fifty percent boost to learning as well although it was still locked to that skill as well. He had three more in the believer job by itself, tied to three skills that he thought would ultimately be worthless, for now: enhanced magic, magic defense, and wisdom. But… none really seem tied to giving me this extra job… so… not… ooh… will I lose the extra jobs if I change jobs? That’s… Joe’s happiness faded then he quickly rallied again. Something to test… but doesn’t matter… cause if I have to keep this job equipped, I still got at least another job… so two jobs… ooh! That might be it… the two jobs Gwenvair said… but… Joe frowned. But… I don’t remember two lines… only just… the two jobs… no empty third… wait… she didn’t have gifted either… Joe’s happiness returned. Maybe I don’t need it either… She only unlocked one sub jobs… I got two and a half… if I can find the trick to the third one…
He shifted back to the list of skills available to him, forcing himself to start at the top with commoner, even if he was certain that whatever was there was useless. He went through it diligently and carefully. Cudgel, calculate taxes, use plow and scythe, balance glasses… Joe sighed but forced himself to continue, looking through each skill carefully and reading each one. Gotta double check… Commoner and metropolitan jobs proved interesting but ultimately useless and he continued.
He only had two citizen jobs: citizen and specialist. Neither proved enough to pick but it did draw his attention as he was receiving his fifty percent bonus to learning from the specialist job and the citizen job actually had two interesting, if not powerful, skills: advanced self-defense and advanced attack.
He moved on to the education jobs, and then suddenly found something that made his eyebrows shoot upward. Educated had one job skill that he never remembered before. At least, he couldn’t remember ever seeing the skill before. That triggered the memory of the scrambled job skills that he’d had before. Wasn’t it an educational job? There was another… believer had another right? Joe quickly dropped his eyes down to the believer skill and found no scrambled job skill, but another skill identical to the one in educated: + 1 sub job. What is… this wasn’t here before?! But… is that from… Joe quickly clicked on it, excited to see what was going on.
+ 1 Sub Job – secondary unlock for one sub job.
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Secondary unlock? What’s that supposed to mean? The other didn’t say anything like… Joe glanced over at his list of skills back down to his new job, gifted. Hmm… not the same, the educated and believer skills are + 1 sub job. The gifted jobs skills are sub job + 1. Although… they seem… basically the same? He clicked on the subjob + 1 skill from the gifted job to look at it again in comparison. He wanted to make sure the skill was as he remembered it.
Sub Job +1 – primary unlock for one sub job.
Primary unlock? It didn’t say that last time, right? Joe thought back but couldn’t exactly be certain although he was rather positive. Regardless, it seemed that he’d found the reason why he only got two sub jobs instead of three. He had three primary unlocks but only two secondary unlocks. The primary unlocks seemed linked to his gifted job as all three were primary unlocks. It also seemed to make the secondary unlock skills visible in the status, since he remembered very clearly the old scrambled job skills from before and while he still had many scrambled skills, he now wondered if those unlocked as well via a similar mechanic.
His secondary unlocks looked like they were spread around basic jobs. There was one in believer, the opening job for the faith tree, and one in educated, the opening job for educat… Joe’s eyes widened. The basic jobs opening up that field of jobs. The basic job opening all priest jobs, believer, has a sub job + 1 skill and the basic job opening all educational jobs also has one! Gwenvair said nobility has one… another group of jobs. Then that would mean… another sub job skill in specialist, metropolitan, commoner, and wait…
Joe opened up his available jobs page and looked at it in comparison to the available jobs. Educated and believer, both jobs at the top of the list under their matching group. And commoner is at the top of its job list… so maybe not metropolitan and citizen? But then… all of sub job secondary skills were unlocked at level twenty. Commoner, metropolitan and citizen all were at least level twenty but none of them had a sub job skill available. The pattern was a secondary unlock for a sub job at level twenty in the job that opened up a new job tree. But… only two two examples of that… so maybe not? But if it is… then the opening crafter job should have one as well, right? And then groom? But… no, Gwenvair said it was in the nobility and there’s no way that grooms are nobility. Joe looked at the groom job again, seeing it head the nobility group of jobs. But it only takes a day to get it to twenty, that and crafter. But I only need one then I can unlock three sub jobs.
Joe’s thoughts wandered a bit before he grimaced. If changing jobs every day is dangerous, then what would happen if he changed three or four jobs every day! Joe’s thoughts wandered then another idea struck him and his sour mood dropped even deeper. What if changing sub jobs is a different skill or ability for priests!
Joe ended up grimacing and letting the topic drop. He had no option really until he could end up changing jobs on his own. And… she couldn’t talk about this with anyone but another noble… so… probably dumb to ask a non-noble priest? Gwenvair’s brother died… I’m… He heaved a sigh with some worry as he looked at his available jobs and considered. He was still stuck slowly going up through the faith line of jobs until he could change jobs himself. If I want to gain this advantage… I’m gonna have to do it myself… secondary jobs seem to be… a specialty of nobility… but then… His face turned to a frown. Then how do I have it now? Or… ooh… maybe something the nobility would keep for their kids… and with this learning… yeah… take this job first… whooo… wow… OK… then… hmm…
Maybe… I should start taking notes of the illegible garbled skills. It seems these are special skills. Keep track of jobs, levels… how they unlocked… hmm… Joe sat up and pulled his notebook into his lap on the bed before flipping open to a new page near the now defunct job skills page and began making another chart. He kept the table concise, listing only the job name, the level of the garbled skill, the name of the skill and a simple notes entry detailing how it became unlocked if he figured it out. He then added the entries to the table for the unlocked ones, adding the educated + 1 sub job skill and believer + 1 sub job skill, as he was fairly certain those were new, their implications too shocking even in their simple names as to escape his notice. He made sure to point to his gifted job and its skills as the unlock prerequisite. He then noted all the other garbled skill by simply adding them to the list by writing the job name and level of the garbled skill to the list, leaving the rest of the details to be filled in when they were revealed later.
He’d found only eight more still garbled skills, all in the theorist jobs, two in base theorist and one each in six different theorist jobs. There were nine theorist jobs, but only six had garbled skills. All of them were level twenty skills. Despite their hidden nature, Joe was now quite a bit more excited to discover what they may be, a grin regularly and spontaneously coming to his lips.
Finally, his excitement waned and he laid back down and returned to what he did every morning to pass the time, magic practice. He practiced personal and mana point emission both singularly and in combination with multiple streams; point manipulation and movement, and even emitting using a monster core. Once his MP was out, he then alternated to working on his mana points.
With mana points, he simply used them, flying them around and every once and awhile randomly squirting mana out from them, forming the mana into odd points and shapes even as he squeezed, stuffed, shifted, and generally did anything he could think of to his mana points, seeking out any secrets he could. About half way through his exercise, Joe frowned, noticing a feeling of… newness. Something new. Something odd. Something… new and similar but not the same. He struggled to place it for some time, even as he continued to whip his mana points around when he suddenly realized that what felt new was literally exactly that.