Before Tinkerson dived back into the books, he decided to set his study. He had 10 years to read whatever he wanted. It might sound a very long itme, but if he wanted to seriously up his skills and also get some new ones and up those, He would need to be selective in what to take. First, the Encylopedias he had started reading before he crashed out. They were basically a guide to the basics of everything in the universe that existed. That was the basics however. if he was willing to read on to the next level of it, it would also go through variants and rarer information. Plus there was also a third part that spoke about particular places and contained ALL the information gathered about them. By ALL, this literally meant everything. To read the basic was going to take him two years, to read the second part, would take him another year and then the last part would take him a year. That was going to be four years total. 40% of the time he had to study. However, it should take his appraise skill up. Then he would read the memoirs of various people that interested him. They were not the normal people that interested everyone however. No, most of these people were comprehsive in their information about their work and renowned in their field, but were not powerful in and of themselves. Take for example this gentleman here and his story.
Gregor Understone was his name. He had been a dwarf. When he had been aware that he was dying of old age, started to narrate about the things he had studied and worked with and had it bound into a memoir. That subject had been about rocks. Literally everything you can think of about rocks. He had read it within three days in the month period and he had managed to work out that it had upgraded his lay of the land skill before it had merged with traveller and upgraded to knowledge of the land. He had a thought that perhaps by studying the memoirs of people like this, he would gain access to information that while mainly useless to mortal, might actually be of use to someone like him, who could probably manipulate and use the essences with the right skills. He allocated three years to this, covering a variety of subjects, including a very interesting one he found written by another demigod on dimensional construction. It appeared he had figured out how to construct dimensional buildings and spaces plu- but he digressed, he needed to finish sorting out his plan. that was 7 years sorted. What should he study for the last three years? He smiled as realised what would be extremely useful to him. The subject of summoning. That what he would do for the last three years. So he set to it. Stopping to eat and get a few hours of sleep every week, allowing his mind to collaborate with his knowledge skills and cross reference, enabling skills to level up and merge and new ones be developed. At the end of the decade, he stopped and went and told Kekemozz. Who lead him to the research and experiment room.
"This, is where you normally can try out ideas you get, to see if you get practical knowledge of your learned information, or experiment to see if you can do something you thought of using that studied information. Which can take years in and of itself. However, here lies your next danger. Get it wrong totally or in part, can lead to bad things happening to you, which can lead to a a variety of things including you being no more." Kekemozz nodded soberly at Tinkerson widened eyes. "This is the bigtime. Bigger rewards, bigger risks. For now though, all I want you to do, are these exercises. This will enable you to become familar with spaces like this, plus will also open up the inate abillities that demgods should have, including storage space."
So Tinkerson took the instructions and learned. First, was how to change it according to what was needed. It could be a room. It could be a forest. A crowded city street, a cliff by the sea. It brought to mind of the shows that would have a room that could do things like this back in his world, like the star trek series. Once he had gotten himself used to the basic controls of it, he then started to do the exercises that was assigned him. Some of them were very repetitive and boring. Some were very complexed. The one that boggled him, was the city streets one, where he was required to try and use blend. Somehow, he could be detected by the imaginary citizens of this city, and he had to work at it to blend. Then he was using it in a forest with monsters hunting him. These monsters could hurt him, although it always froze up when short of killing him. He did not enjoy that one, although he got pretty good of using blend in ways that was nothing short of amazing in his opinion. Again, only stopping once a week for ambrosia and sleep.
Tinkerson stepped into the meeting room and sat down. Without waiting, he threw his skill page onto the slate and continued to steadily look at Kekemozz. Kekemozz grinned back and suddenly, the information the page changed slightly. "So we can better understand what changed and how, plus some flair on style. Now let look at the information."
Open Skills
Hidden Skills
Divine - Universal Language, God's Eye
Divine - Dimensional Construction, Knowledge Of The land
Legendary - Neutral Aura, Summoning, Master Of Trades
Legendary - Neutral To All, Knowledge Depositary, Blend
Heroic - Steel Mind
Heroic - Way Of The Barter
Extraordinary - Elemental Craftsman
Extraordinary - Right Place, Right Time,
Basic - World Body, Animal Handling
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Basic - Staff Master
"Well, this is interesting. I am not going to go through the skills like I did last time. You learned these skills yourself and so should know what they do. I will just explain the new colour code and ask you some questions about how you managed to change some of these. Most I suspect I know, but a couple of them surprise me on this. Anyway. Orange is new, Purple is upgrade from studying, green is from the research room and mixture of both colours means a combination of both, obviously." Kekemozz then took his eyes off the slate and looked at Tinkerson.
"So the questions I have to ask. Dimensional construction. I know it coloured green due to the experimental work you did, getting the dimensional storage. However, the purple and change from magics to construction is the interesting one. I imagine you read the account of Freiser and his journey into this?" Tinkerson nodded agreement to this "The fact that it just shows up like this, makes me think that is where your dimensional talents mostly lie, although I reckon we can get another skill or two for you from this at some point if you want."
"Now I see others have moved up, pretty much as I expected most of them. Happy You upgraded mountain body to world. It mean that you will be a lot harder to hurt. You really did read all those encylopedias huh? Well, God's eye is proof of that. Also what helped upgrade Knowledge of the land I imagine. Was not expecting to see your knowledge one reach legendary, but I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. You do like knowledge, just not consumed by it. Blend I'm impressed by, was expecting that to rise one level, not two. Rest look normal, expect for one, but I'm guessing that to do with one of your new skills, so let start there." Kekemozz stared at Tinkerson. "I was not expecting you to get Elemental Craftsman. How did you manage to get this and bump up your trades skill to master and legendary no less?"
"Well, I can only ascribe it to the marvellous collection of materials I was reading. plus the elemental training you made me do." Began Tinkerson. "Jack of all trades turned to master, after I had read a series of interconnected memoirs, from a group of master craftsmen that worked together in a collaborative effort, acculminating in a series of true master and grandmaster works. I did not understand most of how, til after the exercises you assigned me, which is when I learned elemental craftsman."
"Huh, that would make sense. Those memoirs are definitely some potent materials, we were lucky to get those. Ok then, animal handling I can make sense of, due to the summoning portion, along with the encylopedia sections. The only reason it will have upgraded but not moved levels. Staff Master is the one i'm guessing you used your last skill up on, due to it being master rather then just simply staff work. That along with the way of the barter skill, I'm guessing you read the epic merchant series?" Tinkerson nodded to this. "Thought so, Well, that along with other skills means you will probably be able to pesuade most powers to let you remain in their lands, even if not the central parts. Plus it is a good way to make a living for the early demigod, beside the mission board." Kekemozz then stood.
"Ok then. The next 10 years. You are free to use the library and experimental room without running any of it by me. If you need my advice, you can ask for it. That said, I doubt you will. You seem to solidly know what direction you want to take, have listened to the advice I have given you and have gained useful skills. I would suggest more time in the experimental room then the libray. Meet me back here in 10 years." Tinkerson strode out. Read, trained, read, trained, trained, trained. Read, trained. 10 years went by, Tinkerson strode back to the meeting room and again threw his skills up on the board.
Open Skills
Hidden Skills
Divine - Universal Language, God's Eye
Divine - Dimensional Construction, Knowledge Of The land
Legendary - Neutral Aura, Summoning, Master Of Trades
Legendary - Neutral To All, Knowledge Depositary, Blend
Heroic - Steel Mind. World Body
Heroic - Seeker
Extraordinary - Elemental Craftsman
Extraordinary - Scholar
Basic - Tracker
Basic - Master Merchant
Tinkerson looked at it, with his jaw dropped. 10 years and this was all there was? Kekemozz was roaring with laughter and as he wiped away his tears said "You may be wondering why this looks so much less then before. There are two reasons. I will explain them once I get over how funny your expression was." He then proceeded to calm down. "Ok here goes. your animal handling skills, barter and staff master I believe combined to make Master Merchant. Now the reason that it at basic, is because this is a higher skill overall, as it requires skills learned to combine. That said, once you get out into the real universe and get some experience in it, it will most likely level quickly. Tracker is not one I was expecting you to get, How?" Tinkerson explained about how one part of his experimental training, he managed to avoid a beast wave, and mislead it, all through seeing tracks and changng some of it. "That explains that. Might be useful, might be useless. When your skills clutter up in the centuries to come, if it hasn't combined with something else, you can create a lesser used skill page. Glad to see you have levelled up your body a couple of levels, that will mean it be harder for you to be taken out and you can witstand more punishment. Scholar" Kekemozz sat back at this one. "It does kinda fit. You do like and enjoy learning knowledge. You just like to employ it as well. I imagine although this might level, it probably the highest academic rating you will get. Then we come to seeker. You may be wondering why seeker and not an upgraded version of right time, right place. Simply put, right place, right time can be replaced by knowledge and instinct. Which I suspect is what happened here. Seeker however is a talent to find leads and hidden parts. It can be used in conjunction of a number of skills, or just as a skill in it own right. Interesting you got it." They both looked at the slate in silence.
"Go eat, sleep and come back here tomorrow, and we will talk about the next 25 years and start you off on it. It will be very interesting for you. Possibly entertaining for me." So saying, Kekemozz departed the room.