All these improvements that we were making while being attacked by bigger and nastier forces meant that we were cycling our soldiers a lot, and with the new materials I found out we needed to make a better industrial complex and not only a better industrial complex, but also make some sort of magical facility so that the industrial residue would not affect the world, saving ourselves from the demons by making our world a wasteland was definitely not the objective so I had to go back to the drawing board to not only create bigger and better furnaces, but also create some sort of factory where we could send all of the waste air, liquids and garbage produced by whatever new forge we ended up making.

On the forge side I was glad of my blessing of soul memory since I could easily recall the method to make a blast furnace, but making that monstrosity was going to be a job and a half, but I also had to make certain structures to be able to recycle all the waste product that this thing produced, with magic getting the nitrogen that came out as a gas and solidifying it so that we could transform it into proper fertilizer, the carbon and carbon dioxide could also be recycled and separated so that the only waste product would be water vapor, and all the carbon could be collected for other projects, at one point I was going to find a way of making graphene, for now I needed to study more runes and more stuff, in the meanwhile with the absurd amount of ore we were producing from all the mines we started to send ore to the inner cities and the capital.

The king just ended up coming to see what the hell we were doing.

- Your majesty the point is that a lot of things we are making right now is only possible because people are rediscovering knowledge, I truly do not know if we had this knowledge in the past or not, but if people does not level up they won’t be able to make new products, for the soldiers leveling up is able to give them more strength but they also need better swords to be able to use that strength better – I tell the king.

- Yeah but for whatever reason your duchy is very well prepared in spreading information around how the demons cheated us of the higher levels of the system. – says the king

- I think we are still on the basics, I think the only one in the entire duchy to not be doing basics is my teacher, not to talk about high levels yet – I say

- Well yeah I used all our maids here in the mansion to create a gossip network to spread the information around, my third wife Sophia has been managing that, and they had paid special attention to spread information that the demons were cheating us out of knowledge and that most of what we knew in the past had been forgotten due to the doppelgangers, people in the city are paying massive amount of attention over the last year we have caught no less than 20 doppelgangers that moved to the city, my sister Clementine and Priest Raul have been having fun waging a crusade against the doppelgangers – Says my father.

At this point our butler alexander knocked on the door and told us that my teacher Bart was here and needed to talk with us.

- Bart how are you? What brings you here so urgently – says my father once the blacksmith has entered his office.

- Sorry sir I wanted to speak with carter since he had told me a long time ago to come here if there was any significant change on my status page, but I did not know I was going to be entering your personal offices I’m really not dressed for… - says Bart before being interrupted by the king

- Do not even think about it, you people are bringing me a headache but you are discovering a lot of info that will be necessary for the future of our nation, that you are here with your blacksmith clothes is not an insult, you are a blacksmith and are building the weapons and tools we need for a better future so straighten your back. – Says the king not allowing my teacher to complain about not being dressed to see nobles.

- I personally don’t mind your clothes, the maids will be furious with you and your granddaughter will probably scold you but me I don’t mind I’m more interested what did you discover about the system. – says my father, while I myself keep quiet and just looks towards my teacher.

- Well I was finishing another sword, this one also of rare quality is my third one since I got to level green, and my blacksmithing did level up to level 25, my own class of apprentice blacksmith is maxed, and just as Little Carter here told me to pay attention to the status board as soon as I hit level 25 a new option appeared and I can upgrade my class, before I did anything I decided to come here because I have my suspicions. – says Bart

My father rummages through his desk and gets the privacy orb and I see the king approving of its use.

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- Bart you are extremely trustworthy and I’m sorry but we want to keep everything a secret because this concern Carter life, if the demons get to know just how important Carter is they will stop at nothing to try and kill him. – Says my father.

Bart immediately makes a vow of privacy just like the one Raul made 2 years ago to keep anything we tell him private, he did this before my dad even explained what was needed, what kind of non-verbal communication was happening between my dad and the old blacksmith, I was surprised.

At this point my dad explains precisely my status as a chosen and Bart smiles.

- Well now that you have finished with the secret talks, will you upgrade your class? I will take note of the changes. – I say while taking some parchment and a quill to write whatever they tell me.

- Ok here we go – says Bart and I see him close his eyes, then he opens them and he looks wobbly.

My dad moves around his desk and brings a chair to allow Bart to sit and rest a bit.

- Oh d… - Bart almost swear but stops him before he continues – I’m not going to be able to forge for at least a week maybe closer to a month.

- Why what happened? – I ask worried.

- Well the multiplier for my stats changed, well its better if we go in order, I upgraded from apprentice Blacksmith to Journeyman Blacksmith, since my previous class was at maximum level I obtained 10% of the stats I had before. – He says and before he continues I interrupt him.

- I have a specific question, we already know of the 10 percent increase if the previous class is complete but did that 10% is from your whole stat or only your base stat? Since the multiplier for a beginner class is 1 we do not know if the 10% bonus is to the whole stat or just the base, since your previous class had a multiplier of 3 you could tell us and that way we can clear this. – I say, and see how my teacher remember his previous numbers and calculate.

- The 10% bonus is to the final total, and it’s rounded down, my strength was 35 base, multiplied by 3 it ended up being 105, the 10% bonus did not give me 3 points it gave me 10, now my base stat for strength is 45, also the new multiplier is 5. – says Bart

- Wow so you went from having a strength of 105 to 225? – I ask

- Yeah I need to relearn how to move my body, if I try to forge right now I will destroy whatever I hammer with 1 or 2 hits, also there is a secondary multiplier of 2 for all my other stats that are not favored by my class, and my class gained 1 more favored stat, Perception. – Says my teacher.

- What were the favored Stats of your class originally? – I ask

- Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence – He answers me while I continue taking notes.

- So right now you have 4 of your stats multiplied by 5 and the other 4 multiplied by 2 right? – I ask

- Yes, that is correct. – He says and waits to see if I have any other question.

- I do not know what else to ask right now, as such if something occurs to me I will go and ask you teacher, so my classes will be cancelled until you are back in control of your body with your new stats right? – I finish and close the parchment putting my quill aside.

- Yeah lad I will be sending a message once I’m ready for you to come back to the forge. – he says to me and then he turns towards my father – and also sir, Susanna the seamstress level up to green less than a week ago.

- I will tell one of my wives to visit her and tell her to inform us of any changes on her status board once she can, we are still gathering information so we can learn and teach everybody about the system and I’m sorry about not being able to be more honest. – say my father respectfully to the Blacksmith that frankly is older than any person in the room right now.

- I understand, at least the gossipers this time are right, and if we have to have a bloody war against the shifters we will root them all out, we will not let them come and do what they did before deleting the knowledge that our ancestors left for us. – He says and you can see how furious he is with the demons.

At this point my blacksmith teacher starts to move towards the door and I see alexander there.

- Alexander move don’t touch him – My dad says in alarm when he see the old blacksmith stumble a bit.

Our butler who was preparing himself to catch the old Blacksmith jumps to the side and when the blacksmith grabs the door of the study he end up breaking it in 2, he hit the wall but the wall was firm enough that he did not damage it, I cast a spell to grab my teacher with magic and make him sit on the floor, alexander looks at all the damage and I see his eyes wide open.

- Teacher please rest here in the mansion until you get your strength under control, I will forge some forks knives and plates with the new steel, and I will enchant them for durability, I really don’t think you should be moving right now, is dangerous – after saying this I shift my face towards our butler – Alexander please go towards the military hospital and ask for 2 people and a hospital gurney, I think this will be the safest way to move him into a guest room, and please ask the maids in the kitchen to prepare a meal, I think that right now his body is burning calories to adapts to all the violent changes in his stats. He did have some fairly large gains in his base stats thanks to that 10% bonus.

The king and my dad eyes open as they understand, It’s not the change to the multiplier that its causing the problem is the change to his base stats that is so large that it requires fuel to change the muscles and structures of his body, when kids or adults change their base stats it takes weeks, months or even years before they change 1 point in the base stats and that with good training and proper nutrition, changing 10 points just to his strength and we do not know how many other stat points he gained from all his other stats, he is obviously overwhelmed.

At this point Dina see her grandfather and her eyes bulge like crazy and I see her alarmed and trying to go towards him, I jumped from the couch and caught her before she could touch her grandfather, I explained the situation to her and She just bolted to the kitchen to cook.

Oh well I see my dad with the king talking about the mines and their output and my dad is telling the king that the current output can be maintained, but that the exports may change in the future specially if we can make the blast furnace I have been designing, I see my teacher in the floor waiting and well, I’m happy and I will take care of my teacher, I sit down beside him being careful not to touch him while we wait for the gurney.