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Lithyst's Perspective
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I had been overflowing with mana to the point where music played while I walked. It isn't exactly a rare ability unlock for a Musician, but I'm a Combatitive Musician, and having music play around me could get in the way of my actual playing.
I had just left my house after eating an Apple for breakfast and went to the town hall for any information on help needed. With the mess that happened a while ago monsters from different areas had been changing frequently.
Just thinking about how annoying the constant movement of monsters was enough for the music around me to go into a fast-paced orchestral march with plenty of jarring brass noises.
It was nice to see that my mood affected it so maybe I could get it to be quiet while sneaking about in the forest or just have it be quiet in general. I'm getting a lot of weird looks.
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It had been about a week since my mana had grown and I had finally gotten a seal on the music around me. I've also looked into it and it's a top-level Musician Master skill that has effects on the immediate surroundings. Everything from plant growth to melting bones in animals. Finding the right frequencies for the tune is what's important for that but I have no experience in that area of sound.
However, without the music I seem to feel bloated, which means that my intake of the surrounding mana is faster than my body's ability to release it normally. My body had learned that ability in a desperate panic to keep me from popping like a balloon or worse, turning into an abomination.
Keeping it on with a low level of sound would work for most people, but I seemed to have so much that I needed it to be loud enough for everyone in a 15-foot radius can hear it perfectly.
So I had taken to rapid firing notes as they consumed major amounts of mana if used out of sequence.
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It had been a week since I had refused to help with the dog and raccoon and I had now figured out another feature of breed. I could force an animal to give birth without a mate. I had tested it on a bee and it had rapidly devolved into a pupae state and then grew very quickly to a larger size. It then began to lay eggs in my backyard.
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I now had a large beehive being made in my backyard and the Queen Bee is under my care. I wonder what would happen if I gave it a nutritional boost. That'll have to wait until I know more about what I'm doing.
Charles had been going out recently and coming back with ruffled feathers but no injuries. So I can only imagine what he's doing while I experiment with these abilities. He seemed to be happy though, so I guess it's fine.
My neighbor had been showing changes recently, and that made me wonder if it was my fault. I felt extremely guilty every time I heard music. It's not like music is a popular thing outside of a city, and not sounding like an entire orchestra either. I knew when she was nearby and it was almost surely my fault.
But now, I'm really curious to see what'll happen if I give her a different fruit. Or maybe even some of the honey that should start being made in a few months. I'll stick with fruit for now.
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My neighbor, who I've only met a few times, had been giving me more and more fruit lately. And I've noticed that every time I take one of them and eat it, my mana grows. This is both an issue and a blessing. An issue because I now needed to have music even louder to have a drain on my body and a blessing because I was unlocking new abilities and growing closer to evolving into a Master Combatitive Musician. A job that had only been seen a few times in the entire time music has been around.
A new job would take into account the issues my body is facing and create a solution for it, but I'll have to tough it out until then. I feel bad for the townspeople. It will only get louder from here.
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Eldwern's Perspective
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Oh god, what is this fool doing now? It had barely been 2 weeks since our talk and he's now fattening up a Musician. If they were to keep growing with his help they might even make it to a Divine job position. It had only happened 1 time throughout the entirety of the history of the world and that was during a warring period when the first kingdom began to make its appearance. That was millennia ago. I can only fear what is to come as she will reach that point before she even reaches middle aged at this rate.
At this rate, she'll probably also get the ability to encompose the entire world into a song. I can only hope she never gets a grasp on what that could do for her.
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The Queen Bee had finally made enough honey for someone to harvest without ruining the entire hive system.
I had also noticed the looks my neighbor had been giving me. She 100% knows what I'm doing and she's accepting it. So I don't need to feel guilty anymore as she is actively seeking me out sometimes.
I had given a nutritional boost to the Queen Bee and she had grown 10 times larger and needed a new hive to be constructed. Now it was time to see what a nutritional boost would do to an awakened Queen Bee.
I gathered about a small cup's worth of honey and boosted it. My neighbor had been watching me for the last few hours from her window and I turned and raised the cup at her.