"Welcome Mortal" A familiar voice said.

"Did you really have to drag me in here now?" Lunetta whined.

"Yes, yes I did." Seyvila smiled, she was quite good at being annoying at key times.

"Fine, let's get on with it." Lunetta was obviously upset at not being able to immediately rush through the stage.

Seyvila giggled and both of them sat on comfy chairs opposite from each other, at first her friend didn't speak. Then she noticed it. The darn chair was massaging her butt. It felt good in a sensual way, though she didn't feel anything sexual from it, which was a shame. She leaned into the backrest and felt the same happen.

"Now that we're comfortable there's something I'm quite concerned, mainly your lack of profession. You should have already gotten one, even if it's crap it can be upgraded later." She spoke.

Lunetta could garner from her body language and from what she knew, that she wasn't truly angry, so she decided to play along. "I thought about selecting a kind of sand making profession, but my progress has been abysmal." a tear ran down her cheek.

Seyvila simply facepalmed and groaned. "Can you be a little less obnoxious?" She said before laughing. "Fine, I have an idea of what you could become. How does moon tailoring sound to you?"

"I don't know, affinities and professions never showed up when I was at school, it was mostly dependent on the materials." She answered honestly.

"Affinities influence professions with their aspects. If you had picked up a normal tailoring profession, excuse me for the language, but you'll be fucked." She spoke earnestly now.

"It's also difficult to choose which profession to take." Lunetta added.

"Well, me and your other "friend" chatted a bit, we have a good idea what would be the best fit for your path. It'll also be better than getting taught by some shmuck with novice skills." she spoke a little softer, "Pampered child with gods as friends..."

"Well I'll preface this, I'm not going to give you the profession." She smiled cheerfully as she spoke.

"Understandable, things that you don't earn aren't supposed to be yours." She poke comfortably.

They both sat in silence for a bit before laughing.

"My plan is for you to look at different affinities, see if moon fits into what you want to do, and if it does I have a bunch of complete path books that can help you establish yours. Though I do have to warn you that to progress in any path you have to challenge yourself. It's why legendary classes are fucked, anything they fight that might be a challenge is way too strong, and anything else is too weak." She finished.

Lunetta looked at some pending messages she had got at the second stage, but hadn't paid too much attention to, due to her circumstances at the time. 'fuck that guy' she thought bitterly.

Messages:

You have gained access to the profession: Silver Moon Tailor[Epic]

You have studied the powers of the moon, and have a great affinity with it, your time spent wearing cloth armor and clothes gives you insight on where to start your journey.

You have gained access to the profession: Storm Moon Clothworker[Epic]

You have gained access to the profession: Tailor

You have gained access to the profession: Clothworker

You have gained access to the profession: Enchanter

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You have gained access to the profession: Leatherworker

The rest were mostly the same, congratulating her for wearing different clothes, the enchanter bit came out from left field due to her recent wearing of enchantments, the same as leatherworker. She was curious why she didn't get some moon affinity leatherworker profession, but shrugged it off due to her very seldom wearing of the material.

"I don't think that's needed." Lunetta spoke with a shy smile. She started reading out loud, "You have gained access to the profession, Silver Moon Tailor, Storm Moon Clothworker, Tailor, Clothworker, Enchanter, Leatherworker."

"You have been into fashion I see." Seyvila raised an eyebrow. "Well, those professions are good, just don't do something moronic, like pick two different kinds of tailoring professions. You'll just end up making niche crap."

"I'd recommend picking up the the first two, then getting your hands on a supporting profession, like say leatherworking in order to add pads or something similar. Though leatherworking is seen is a "High Level Requirement" profession, because it only starts getting good when you get better leather. Cloth you can kind of weave into different structures and it gets stronger the better you get. To a limit of course.

A refiner profession might also work, clothworking is limited to cloth, so you already need the material in cloth form, for that you need a way to refine materials into the structure you want it. Cloth is different from leather, it needs to be non-metallic, and not have skin to be considered cloth. You can make cloth from hide though, metals are completely out of the question.

And this is my gift to you." She spoke finally popping a book out of existence.

"You seemed to already have found your path, refining is quite hard to get because you need to already know how a lot of things mix, by using a tome like this you can skip that process with the exact same result. I'd recommend reading it entirely though, even after you get the profession. If you don't then my previous point doesn't apply" Seyvilia finished.

Nodding, Lunetta took the tome and started reading.

Six hours later she finished, it was quite a long book, the writer seemed to be very bored when writing it so there weren't many images and the words sometimes just cut off because the writer had gotten impatient. She had pieced it together though and felt the knowledge do something inside her.

"My fuck that's a thick book." She whined once more.

"That's how you know it's useful." Seyvila teased, knowing the pains of reading boring tomes.

On another note.Lunetta had selected Silver Moon Tailor as well as Storm Moon Clothworker as her professions, the Tailor being the main one. She also added the last one, it was a rather unique profession.

You have gained access to the profession: Cloth Crafting Refiner[Uncommon}

You have studied refining for a long time, and have successfully bonded with a profession that's quite useful.

"Don't underestimate the usefulness because of the rank,anything more specialized and you might get hamstrung and unable to work with certain materials." Seyvila explained.

"So now my professions are handled?" She asked quite curious.

"Unless you plan on changing your sub-professions later, your main one is stuck though, but it's an epic one, and they do upgrade after a while. My suggestion is to keep the standard path for the refiner portion so you can make cloth from any type of material. Except metal of course." Seyvila explained.

"You wanted to make some kind of metallic cloth, didn't you?" Lunetta guessed and poked she had found a sore spot of sorts from her friend.

"Er, no." Seyvila blushed. "Now you should leave and finish that dungeon. I have some business to attend to." Seyvila seemed unready to admit her fault, so she simply did the next best thing, kicking her friend out.

And so she was sent back into the dungeon, with three new professions that she was very excited over, but with no ability to use them yet, disappointment and excitement never contrasted each other as much as they did now.

...

In the dungeon she popped back, she was getting tired of being manhandled or rather womanhandled in this case by beings of unspeakable power, she vowed to at least get some kind of protection. She went back to the illusionary field the black ball was still on the chair, when she noticed it, she felt the gaze before the world turned into something else. She felt like she was in a desert at this moment.

Dunes stretched very far, and there were tiny scorpions skittering about. She didn't know what was meant by the trial of courage, so she went to a higher-ish cliff and gazed down into the dusts The only thing she noticed was the occasional critter dashing from one rock to the other, or for one to catch another. The heat wasn't intense either, it was quite comfortable.

Then she noticed what was likely the "test" of courage. In the distance on one side there seemed to be a horde of tiny skittering scorpions heading her way, on the other side was a horde of ants, the ants had big bulbous butts that grossed her out. She hated the threats depicted, whether it's by revulsion, their deadliness or the pure insectiness they had going on.

This was going to be one hell of a trial. That she could tell, she looked at the other directions and they also had pleasant surprises, one side had wasps. And the other side had large grasshoppers. The grasshoppers terrified her the most, they were green and had too much insectiness going on, the others at least had some more hair or scales to cover them.

She seriously thought of just running in the direction of the scorpions, at least they looked inviting with their tails.