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CH8: A basic understanding of the system

CH8: A basic understanding of the system

[Class changed to monster teacher LV2 Rank 1]

Skill options available

[xp assist] [skill teach] [battle advise]

[Sub attributes changed!]

-15 Willpower, +15 Wisdom

[Class level up]

+3 all stats

Monster alpha sounded like it would involve participating in combat myself as a major factor, vetern tamer was too vanilla of an option, and between trainer and teacher teacher sounded like the more advanced option. Elemental tamer was too risky and necromancer was out of the question.

I also confirm with Ratina that I didn't lose consiousness, and tell her to evolve into mouse mage.

Charisma and wisdom seem like a good combination for an enhancing class if the buffs are based on charisma, but the loss of will power will make taming more difficult, if you don't have cheating level base stats that is.

All 3 of my skill options are very tempting, an increase in experience will always be useful, but skill teaching can be straight up broken depending on what it entails.

Battle advise seems like it will be another buff to gives my tamed monsters, but the other two options are far too tempting to pass up.

I go for skill teach as it seems to have the most promising potential.

[Skill teach LV1 learned] +1 Wis +1 INT

Name

Auxentius

Race

Human, male

Age

0

Lv

15

Class

Monster teacher

LV 2

Rank 1

HP

60/60

MP

131/131 (increases by 1.26/sec)

Strength

31

Intelligence

136

Dexterity

30

Willpower

154

Stamina

29

Wisdom

126

Luck

59

Charisma

116

Skills

Mana perception

Analyze

Mana manipulation

Magic mana sense

Magic connection

Telepathy LV1

TameLV2: 2/3 monsters tamed

Assassination

Fire magic: fireball

Water magic: waterball

Wind magic: windball

Earth magic: throw rock

Earth magic: soil manipulation

Monster buff LV1

Hide

Astral projection

Fire magic: fire manipulation Water magic: water manipulation Wind magic: wind manipulation

Skill teach LV1: allows you to teach one of your tamed monster a skill in thier class they haven't learned yet, can only be used once per monster MP cost 40x (rank of monster)

Titles

Child prodigy

Dark Horse

Heroic victory

Legendary Victory

Sinister puppetmaster

Tamed monsters

Ratina LV15 (evolving)

Nasby LV 24

Linked beings

Nasby LV 24 Ratina LV15 (evolving)  

Dang I should've waited to evolve Ratina until I tried this skill to see if there are changes in options before and after, Nasby chose her skills when she evolved the same way my classes do, so I should be able to confirm by using it on her and see if the options of her first evolution show up.

I try using the skill on Ratina first but it fails because she has to be consious for the process apparently.

Overall the monster teacher class seems like the a good choice, having an extra skill for my monsters that they normally only get after evolving seems real op, not to mention the skill can still level up and somehow get stronger.

My tamed monsters are also now listed by Name instead of by their race.

The number of monsters I can tame went up after changing class, but didn't when the tame skill levelled up, I am not sure whether the requirements for that are only based on class level, or if the tame level only allows more monsters if you have also increased your class level.

I call Nasby over to see what my options for skill teach are.

Class skills that can be taught Camoflauge Burst of speed (Water) Taunt Trample Intimidating roar Minor regeneration Rough hide  Bunker down Counter-attack positioning  Deflecting stance  

 Camoflauge and burst of speed seem to be from her fish form, and the others options she had when she evolved before are listed, along with some others.

I really want to save the skill teach for higher evolutions, but the taunt skill is desperately needed for her to tank properly no matter how awesome regeneration looks like it would be.

I still can't believe she passed up the regeneration option, her reasoning was if your defence is high enough not to get hurt, you will never need to heal.

I teach her the taunt skill so that we can have a proper tanker for the party, and just loaf around until Ratina is done evolving. I let Nasby go out to hunt for some food, but I stay back as someone needs to be gurding Ratina until she evolves and my magic sense makes me the better guard, I can also widen the entrance to our hideout to fit Nasby in while I wait.

Nasby kills some fish and a boar, another animal I only now learned live around here, but not enough for any of us to gain levels, and then I go to sleep after a quick meal several hours later.

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When I wake up it seems that Ratina finished evolving.

She is larger now, about 2.5x the size, and she has opposable thumbs now.

Mice don't have opposable thumbs obviously so I have an idea where this is going.

 Ratina looks at her new class window and seems very pleased.

Mouse mage A mouse who has utilized their intelligence to harness the power of magic. This breed of mouse has far more potential than their cowardly cousins and will give a nasty suprise to any who underestimate them. Main attribute Intelligence, sub attribute Wisdom

Monster teacher You do not simply show monsters how to serve humans, you teach them how to be them. To harness the power of intellect to find new paths that none have trend on before. Knowladge is a very dangerous tool however, be careful that they do not turn it against you. Main attribute Charisma, sub attribute Wisdom

 When did these description get so ominous all of a sudden? At least it seems like we got some good paths.

Time to check out the full extent of Ratina's evolution.

Name Ratina Race Common mouse, female Age 3 Lv 1 Class Mouse mage Rank 1 HP 22/22 MP 22/22 (+0.22/sec) Strength 7 Intelligence 30 Dexterity 7 Willpower 9 Stamina 10 Wisdom 17 Luck  86 Charisma 7 Skills

Gnaw LV3

Claw LV2 Hide LV5

Poison resistance LV2

Iron gut LV 4 Mana Perception LV1 Mana Manipulation LV1

Magic: mana sense LV1

Telepathy Fire magic: fire ball LV1 Water magic: water ball LV1

Wind magic: wind ball LV1

Earth magic: throw rock LV1 Earth magic: soil manipulation LV1   Titles Owned by Auxentius     Race skill Compress LV3    

 The magic skills all have levels now! Now it makes sense why I don't get hide levels and Ratina doesn't get telepathy ones, skills unrelated to your class won't level up.

Ratina also has options for her evolution skill.

[Expanded mana pool] [Increased mana recovery rate] [Magical overdrive]

The first two are pretty straight forward, overdrive seems like a skill to increase damage but it will likely have some consequences and be for emergencies only.

The only problem is whether the damage is temporary or permanent, it could be useful but isn't worth risking a skill slot over.

We haven't really been running out of MP, and even if some skills require more MP than we have unlocked at the moment we can always just wait a few levels to do it, spells that cost all your MP will probably leave you vulnerable afterwords anyway.

Ratina picks increased mana recovery rate and I use Skill teach on her to see the list

Class skills that can be taught Burst of speed (land) Foraging Expanded mana pool Magic overdrive Magic fire wall (conditions not met) Magic water wall (conditions not met) Magic wind wall (conditions not met) Magic earth (dirt) wall (conditions not met) Magic fire manipulation Magic water manipulation Magic wind manipulation

 I focus in on conditions and discover why I never learned some magic spells I tried.

Magic fire wall conditions Reach at least level 3 of fire ball and level 2 of fire manipulation

 Apparently lower tier magics need to be levelled up enough to unlock higher tier magics, in other words my magic skills other than magic sense will become less and less useful as time goes on.

It seems like skills that skill teach teaches can be learned naturally, so the main use of this skill is to see the potential skills, learning about the conditions to learn higher level skills alone makes this skill worth it completely.

I spend a good hour teaching Ratina the other manipulations skills with assistance from the conection, and I get the pleasant suprise of a new skill.

Lecture LV1: while giving relevant instructions to another intelligent being on a skill, increases skill progess rate by 2%

As useful as this skill is, it is going to be difficult to talk about skills I don't know much about for an extended period of time. I just hope that conjectures that are wrong still count as relevant instructions, or I may waste my time trying to help them learn a skill the wrong way.

Now that Ratina has her mage skills set up, I will check her new menu one last time before setting off again.

Name Ratina Race Common mouse, female Age 3 Lv 1 Class Mouse mage Rank 1 HP 22/22 MP 2/24 (+0.22/sec) Strength 7 Intelligence 36 Dexterity 7 Willpower 9 Stamina 10 Wisdom 19 Luck 86 Charisma 7 Skills

Gnaw LV3

Claw LV2 Hide LV5

Poison resistance LV2

Iron gut LV 4 Mana Perception LV1 Mana Manipulation LV1

Magic: mana sense LV1

Telepathy Fire magic: fire ball LV1 Water magic: water ball LV1

Wind magic: wind ball LV1

Earth magic: throw rock LV1 Earth magic: soil manipulation LV1 Fire magic: fire manipulation LV1

Water magic: water manipulation LV1

Wind magic: wind manipulation LV1     Titles Owned by Auxentius     Race skill Compress LV3  Increased mana recovery rate LV1: increases MP recovery by 10%  

Those stats are a lot lower then before the evolution, but they are a much higher base even when compared to when I met her at level 4 before and will likely make her much stronger by the time she can evolve again.

After the less than 2 minutes it takes for Ratina to recover her MP, we head off to where Nasby is hunting at.

Once we are all together again, I place myself atop Nasby and we hunt some fish using water manipulation to trap them while either Nasby runs them over (to try learning trample) or by letting Ratina shoot them with magic.

I use monster buff constantly just to try to level the thing as it is my only combat spell, I also use telepathy to send messages as opposed to having the magic connection allow them to read my intentions as it isn't a tamer skill.

I have no idea what skill magic connection is now that I think about it, it isn't a tamer skill or a magic skill so I really have no idea what class it is supposed to be for.

Telepathy levels up twice, Monster buff levels up 3 times, Lecture levelled up 4 times , I level up 4 times, Nasby finally levels up once and she manages to learn trample which gives her a full 3 wisdom and 5 intelligence, I guess she never naturally raised her stats much so any progress is huge, I allowed her to take a less offensive name by now if she wanted but she decided to own it at this point and somewhat enjoys the context.

Ratina leveled up 9 times, her water manipulation levelled up 5 times, mana perception 3 times, magic sense once, mana manipulation 5 times, increased recovery rate one, and each ball skill levelled up 3 times as I used teach on her basically the whole time.

We head back to base and I check all the stats screens before going to bed, Nasby doesn't understand why I check them so often, but I wouldn't expect a simpleton to understand, even if it should be obvious that with a skill like analyze that allows you to remember everything is far more useful when you give it access to lots of data that you can sort through later to look for patterns.

Name Ratina Race Common mouse, female Age 3 Lv 10 Class Mouse mage Rank 1 HP 22/22 MP 12/42 (+0.44/sec) Strength 18 Intelligence 63 Dexterity 16 Willpower 18 Stamina 19 Wisdom 37 Luck 95 Charisma 16 Skills

Gnaw LV3

Claw LV2 Hide LV5

Poison resistance LV2

Iron gut LV 4 Mana Perception LV4 (effect of levelling still unknown) Mana Manipulation LV6 (effect of levelling still unknown)

Magic: mana sense LV2 (less MP needed)

Telepathy Fire magic: fire ball LV4 (all ball skills deal more damage per MP used and have 3 second cooldowns now) Water magic: water ball LV4

Wind magic: wind ball LV4

Earth magic: throw rock LV4 Earth magic: soil manipulation LV1 Fire magic: fire manipulation LV1

Water magic: water manipulation LV6

Wind magic: wind manipulation LV1     Titles Owned by Auxentius  Skilled: levelled up skills more than 15 times in a single day, +5% rate of learning and levelling up future skills  Quick grower: reach the level for the rank your previous form required before evolution on your first day, experience increased by 3% Race skill Compress LV3  Increased mana recovery rate LV2 (20% increase)  

Name

Auxentius

Race

Human, male

Age

0

Lv

19

Class

Monster teacher

LV 2

Rank 1

HP

78/78

MP

78/146 (increases by 1.41/sec)

Strength

40

Intelligence

146

Dexterity

39

Willpower

162

Stamina

38

Wisdom

141

Luck

67

Charisma

140

Skills

Mana perception

Analyze

Mana manipulation

Magic mana sense

Magic connection

Telepathy LV3

TameLV2: 2/3 monsters tamed

Assassination

Fire magic: fireball

Water magic: waterball

Wind magic: windball

Earth magic: throw rock

Earth magic: soil manipulation

Monster buff LV4 (Now increases your monster’s stats by 11% of your Charisma stat +6% Willpower stat+ 5% Intelligence stat MP cost 15 cooldown 25 duration 30)

Hide

Astral projection

Fire magic: fire manipulation Water magic: water manipulation Wind magic: wind manipulation

Skill teach LV1

 Lecture LV5 (increases by 10% now)    

Titles

Child prodigy

Dark Horse

Heroic victory

Legendary Victory

Sinister puppetmaster

Tamed monsters

Ratina LV10

Nasby LV 25

Linked beings

Nasby LV 25 Ratina LV10  

Name Nasby Race Hippopotamus, female Age 20 LV 25 Class Tough Hippopotamus Rank  2 HP 451/451 MP 59/59 (+0.54/sec) Strength 105 Intelligence 63 Dexterity 73 Willpower 54 Stamina 223 Wisdom 54 Luck 105 Charisma 49 Skills Tough hide LV3 Enhanced senses Assassination Trample LV1: runs over your opponent dealing damage equal to your weight divided by their weight times your strength times 1.1, Cost 25 MP Taunt LV1: forces your target to focus on attacking you for 5 seconds, MP cost 15 cooldown 15 seconds     Titles Owned by Auxentius Biggest fish in the sea   Race skills Crushing bite LV4 Bulky LV6 Swim LV8