Today is my 7th birthday, the 15th of Lunen. After Ciela got her new skill farmers calendar tracking days became easier. It lets her know what the date is each morning, along with the season. If she looks at a plant or crop it’ll also tell her what season it grows, and growth time. It is a handy skill for her.

I can’t believe it has already been a year since I was thrown out. I’ve even come to terms with my insanity, by which I mean you Mr voice. Auna laughed as the voice groaned and began their narration again. It was like the voice had been peacefully sleeping.

“The snow is still coming down.” Auna looked through the kitchen window. She had succeeded in creating glass windows. She had also learned that job levels grew based on skills, and skill use.

A person’s overall level had very little effect on it. When gaining a new skill, a persons’ over all level, and job level would gain experience. When working on the skill to master it, only the job level would gain experience. It was not possible to see the job levels experience total like with over all levels.

“Happy birthday!” Ciela came bouncing in covered in snow.

“Thank you. You shouldn’t spend too much time in the snow, you will get sick.” Auna smiled. She remembered the touch and go issues while both girls were almost constantly sick the first few months.

“I thought I would check the sap from the maple trees there is almost enough to boil!” Ciela really loves maple syrup and is not going to stop until she gets some.

“Very nice, where is Willow?” Auna noticed the pup was not with Ciela.

“In my room, she does not like the snow.” Ciela smiled again walking away.

Though the trees were not far from the house Auna still did not like them having to go through the snow to get there. Thinking she began trying to make a doorway again. The last few months being inside hiding from the snow gave both girls a lot of practice time. They learnt ice magic and honed other skills as well. Auna even got a few more noble skills.

Now Auna was trying to create a new magic. In her mind dimensional magic should allow a person to create a doorway between two far away places. In reality it allowed a person to create a teleportation anchor, as long as they were not too far away. The limit to this was a person needed a lot of magic to travel between the anchors. Even if they were not that far away. The world voice let Auna know there was no easy doorway magic.

This she took as a challenge. She spent nearly two of the three winter months trying to create such a magic. She even added to her nightly prayers a plea for the gods to help her. Using her knowledge of teleportation anchors, space magic, and even the runic language she had managed to learn she got to work.

“Auna time for dinner.” Ciela said setting down a bowl of stew beside her.

Ciela watched as Auna created, tried to use, and then destroy many doors. Each was made of either wood, plant mater, ice, and earth. There were a few with cute designs, others just had runic magic. Most were normal sized doors, however after a while they became odd.

When Auna started making small doors even a child would have to crawl through Ciela left. She didn’t think there would be much progress, and she was correct.

In the middle of the night Auna screamed loudly enough to wake Ciela in her closed room.

“What?!” Ciela screamed coming out ready to fight.

“I did it!” Auna was bouncing around the room like the small child she was. Then she promptly fell over due to magic exhaustion.

An annoying beeping sound woke Auna. What is that she thought, to which Mr. voice answered. ‘The spell you created needs a name’. Opening her eyes she could see the status screen, and an unfamiliar screen in front of it. It was mostly blank looking for data input, she was allowed to put any name she wanted, and the rest of the information as well. She soon noticed this was how the odd descriptions of spells, and jobs were given. People had control over almost all information, which lead to many authors.

Skill Name

Skill creator

Type

Magic, dimensional magic subset

Skill function

Connection of two or more doors over long or short distances. Only the creator or those approved by the creator may pass through. Anyone not approved will see only a walled in door.

Skill description

How the skill works

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After some time Auna finished the skill screen.

Skill Name

Moon Door

Skill creator

AunaLuna, J

Type

Magic, dimensional magic subset

Skill function

Connection of two or more doors over long or short distances. Only the creator or those approved by the creator may pass through. Anyone not approved will see only a walled in door.

Skill description

Under the moons, during Lunen two doors were created on different ends of a crater. By walking through one the creator walked out the other door a distance away. Thus, the moon gate was created.

Two or more doors are needed to activate this skill.

How the skill works

By using the anchor fundamentals of dimensional magic and the idea of worm holes in space the doors become connected to different points in space, maintaining their anchor in time.

Auna looked at the screen for a while. She wanted to make sure she was doing the right thing. She felt Moon Door was a fitting name, it fit well with her unique job. She also had the breakthrough by staring at the moon. She had noticed that she was placing two doors very close to each other which was messing with the anchors. For anchors to work properly there needs to be some distance from other ones. This applied to the persons own anchors as the magic would be the same and interfere with each other. So, to prevent this she placed a door inside the house, walked to the tree grove and placed an identical one there. Then she tried to connect the two anchors into one over the distance. It worked and she walked back into the house within seconds with a joyous scream.

The door she created was an arched 6ft tall stone door. It had carvings of the moon, runic language, and maple leaves along the edges. The stone doorway moved like a normal wooden door when pushed lightly. She also noticed the amount of magic she needed to activate the door was about one third the magic needed to teleport the distance. She also took note that the doors were assigned names as well. She would later change their names.

I think it is fine, go ahead and save that. Auna thought to the screen hoping that would work. It did work, and the new skill Moon Door was added to her status screen. Under Moon Slave, which made her worry no one else would be able to learn it due to the name she picked. Mr. Voice eased her worries though by explaining that skills moved to the job they fit under best, and many skills could fit under many jobs. As an example, swordsmanship fit under Noble, and soldier. It fit with soldier better, so it would move to that job as long as the job was not lower ranked. If Noble was at common, and soldier was at novice the skill would not move until the soldier rank matched.

After the skill was saved another screen opened. Asking Auna if she would like to evolve her survivalist skill to sage survivalist. As it blinked Auna went into hyper drive trying to figure out what was happening. She had read a few books that said evolving a skill cost mana, and only happened when certain conditions are met. Some jobs had easier conditions.

It was a known fact that to get the sage job the conditions were

* Five basic elemental magics

* Six unmagical skills

* Four mixed elemental skills

* One advanced basic magic

* Read, write and understand basic and runic language

* Have created a spell

* Have the appraisal skill

Auna did not understand the conditions for adding sage to another job, few people did. ‘It is because of me, or the inner narration skill you gained. There are a few other conditions as well, however we prefer people did not let others know’. Auna nodded knowing people with the sage job were usually secretive. Should I evolve it? Or leave it. She asked Mr. Voice. ‘Evolving would strengthen you, the job, and the skills under it. As you are unlikely to get a fourth job anytime soon, I think this is the best way’. So, with that advice she evolved her skill to Sage Survivalist. Only wondering briefly what Mr. Voice meant by we.

Her new job description was “Lost in an unfamiliar place the only choice was to survive by any means necessary. No matter where you are you will adapt. You began to collect knowledge which soon turned to power. Using this power in form of magic you began to not just survive but to thrive.”

Auna also noticed she no longer had any extra skills, they had all been moved to Sage Survivalist.

“Auna?” Ciela was watching her with curious eyes. All the screens had been in a private mode. To share them with others one had to either give the person their crystal or willing think for the screens to be visible to others.

“My job evolved, to Sage Survivalist.” Auna smiled weakly, she had once again used the entirety of her magic. She handed the small girl her crystal and went back to bed. A bonus of using so magic completely in less than one day was her mana pool increased to 31.

After a few days Auna was back to normal, though a bit weak from fever. She had named her Moon Doors, Home, and Maple trees. She had also braved the snow, and cold to go to the clearing. Now that she was a Sage Survivalist her body was a bit sturdier. Perks from the job evolution.

Once at the clearing she first checked for any new bags. She did not think that anyone would be braving the late snow fall. Still, she had to check. She decided to set up the door near the stone she used as a cave. She pointed the door away from the middle of the clearing. On the back of the door facing the clearing she put random but similar runes on a big stone, so it did not stand out too much. Each Moon Door she made was now an exact replica of the first one she made.

Mr. Voice said anyone who used the skill would also have the same door design no matter the material. They would have to put more magic into changing the doors appearance if they wanted to. It was like how all fire balls were the same at the basic level. Though a person could add more oxygen to create a blue one or make them different shapes. All of this cost mana.

After installing the door Auna felt very pleased with herself. She knew that now she did not need to take time from hunting to check the clearing. In fact, she could now come here first thing, hunt, and come back to zip back home. Like any magic the more she used it the more efficient it would become.

Currently using the door from the clearing was about one third the amount of mana than using the anchor teleport system. There was another plus as well. The door could simply be pushed opened and walked through almost instantly. The anchor teleportation took about thirty seconds up to a few minutes to focus and move between them. It was just a simpler way to travel. The runes she put into the door were most likely the cause.

“Welcome home.” Ciela said as Auna stepped through the door near the maple trees.

“Thank you, do you have enough for us to boil down yet? And don’t we need sugar?”

“I may have found and planted sugar cane in secret, I know you don’t like me planting food products that won’t help our survival and all.” Ciela smiled sheepishly. “Sugar will be useful in making the candies hard and clear. Though we really didn’t need it. Though soft candies and normal syrup is amazing as well.”

“Sugar is a very good thing to have though.” Auna said as both girls giggled.