He started to walk back to the job change room and reviewed his options. Trap User could be fun, and he did hunt a lot, but if it just made him more successful at hunting he didn't care too much. As much as he enjoyed adventuring with Thera at the moment and gathering his own materials, he wasn't sure he wanted to spend who knows how long leveling it up, not to mention that without combat skills it could still take an even longer time to complete.

Tree tamer was another interesting one if what Sachel had said was correct, but maybe one he would leave for later in the future in case the main two he was interested in were dead ends after he completed them.

Yes, the only options he was going to take seriously were Craftsman and Enchanter. Both had their positives and negatives as far as he could see.

For Craftsman, he may be able to figure out a way to make better staves for Thera beyond just making them resist her magic more. The prospect of being able to make more complex things in general was appealing to him as well so he was sorely tempted by it. On the other hand it was an advanced version of the apprentice job he just had so it would probably take longer to level up.

Enchanter seemed like it could help him in the immediate future. He might be able to finish Thera's cloak quicker with the benefits it would give him and maybe he'd be able to level up his skill faster so he would be able to make a staff that could resist her magic more strongly. The issue was how useful it would be for anything else. Sure, he could just keep applying heavy resistances onto items to sell as his teacher suggested, but it wouldn’t be good for much else. With no magic and no high-level skills he just couldn’t feel too much point in it.

After minutes of agonising over it and flip-flopping, he returned to the room and placed his hand back on the crystal, knowing his decision was made.

Name: Ben Heph

Race: Human

Titles: Apostle of Myriad

Jobs: Craftsman (lv 0)

Previous Jobs: Apprentice craftsman

Attributes

* Vitality: 160

* Vitality recovery rate: 1/hr

* Mana: 84

* Mana recovery rate: 5/min

* Strength: 123

* Agility: 84

* Stamina: 576

* Intelligence: 192

Affinities:

* Light: 3

* Life: 2

* Fire: 4

* Water: 3

* Air: 4

* Earth: 2

* Death: 3

* Dark: 1

* Space: 4Time: 5

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Resistances:

* Light: 68

* Life: 72

* Fire: 75

* Water: 69

* Air: 66

* Earth: 8

* Death: 78

* Dark: 85

* Space: 63

* Time: 61

Blessed skills:

* Crafting lv2

* Enchanting lv2

* Focus lv1

Passive skills:

* World speak+

Active skills:

* Dismantling lv1

* Stealth lv0

* Connect lv1

Blessings

* Myriads Blessing

The world spoke out to him, and it was remembering what it had said when he first picked the apprentice job that helped finalize his decision. It had said the same thing now, all crafting related skills would receive a growth bonus, so presumably it was any skill that would result in a final product or be used with crafting. In that case wouldn’t enchanting count as a crafting related skill? Sure it wasn’t a part of his craftsman skill already, but he couldn’t help but think it was related enough that it might apply. Aside from that he had been able to level it up just as much as his crafting skill while he was an apprentice craftsman, so even if this was just a theory he felt it was worth taking the job anyway.

With that finally done he went back to the house for the night.

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When he got back both Thera and Sonya were curious about what he had ended up choosing, so he told them he was now a Craftsman and explained the other options he had available. They were especially curious about his potential to be a Tree Tamer, given that ordinarily one would need an uncommon magic variant to use it, but eventually the conversation died down and he went back to working on the cloak before turning in for the night.

“Oh Ben, it's wonderful!” Yelled a floating cube that appeared in front of him shortly after he had gone to sleep. “I received a prayer! It was just a greeting, but other than you and Thera I don’t know how long it’s been.”

“Sachel prayed to you already huh? Well that's good, look at me being a proper apostle and everything.”

“Yes she mentioned she had heard about me from you, I was busy with another god so I didn’t see, but tell me everything!”

Once again Ben recounted the events of the day, talking about his job change and the options available for Myriad's benefit.

“So I was thinking we could advertise the fact that your gift skill may help lead to awakening to plant magic. That is of course if you think it’s possible, I’m not going to go around lying for you.”

“It’s possible but it’s not a guarantee. From what I know the more you come to understand the combined magic you’re attempting to gain the more you increase your chances of getting it. Having access to an ability and job that is closely tied to it could only improve your chances so it wouldn’t be lying, but it would probably be best to be upfront about the fact that it’s not a sure thing. I wouldn’t want any of my future believers to turn spiteful on me after all. Of course the chances of awakening a skill are slim enough as it is that it probably wouldn’t be a huge concern anyway.”

“Okay cool. Now I just need to figure out how to find people who want that magic, who knows how I’ll manage that? Oh well, I’ll figure that out after I get this cloak done. When I do you won’t take too long to give any new believers the skill, will you? I told Sachel I got it in a couple months, I’d feel like a dick if I got it that fast since I’m your apostle and it will actually end up taking years or something.”

“You don’t need to worry about that. It’s a bit hard to put in mortal terms, but I essentially have the blueprint for the skill now, unlike when I was preparing it for you I had to make it from scratch. A couple months should be a reasonable time-frame so long as they pray regularly. Of course I’ll end up pretty busy for a while if we get a whole lot of believers trying to get the skill all at once.”

“Well I doubt we’ll have to worry about that problem.”

“A god can dream.”