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No matter how long he looked at it, it was hard to truly accept. Apprentice mage was there, clear as day for him to take if he wanted to, he was just struggling to understand why. He knew that in theory he could learn a non-affinitied magic, and now that his mana wasn’t so horribly low the option felt more and more possible, but he would have thought he’d need to put in months or years of training, at least if he didn’t plan on paying for Zandale’s services, but that left him with only two options. Either unending crafting was considered a magic version of the crafting skill somehow, or else his new one was more interesting than he ever could have hoped.

Just how exactly does it let me use materials?

He wanted to dive in immediately but first looked over all of his options again, trying to see them with fresh eyes.

AVAILABLE JOBS

Trap user
Craftsman- alchemy path
Craftsman- artistic path
Craftsman- blacksmith path
Craftsman- cooking path
Craftsman- stonecrafts path
Craftsman- sewing path
Heretic
Holy craftsman
Kin
Tank
Mathematician
Adventurer
Cursed item maker
Scholar
Master craftsman
Apprentice mage

Okay, so master craftsman is the objectively correct choice. There really isn’t any other job I particularly want at the moment and it would help me with the path I’m on. It would probably get me closer to awakening my enchanting as well, not to mention the fact that the bonuses on a master branch of a job are miles above any of the lower ones. Hell, if material user really is a magic skill that came from awakening my crafting then it already has tons of bonuses from my other crafting jobs too. It might even be double-dipping from my magic item and magic weapon maker bonuses. Leveling it should be easy, really the only reason to take the apprentice mage job would be to unlock the higher-tier mage jobs after it. It’s fine, I don’t need it.

…But on the other hand, completing it and then true mage after would give me bonuses to enchanting too, even if they aren’t as good, and the job should be quick enough, right?

In the end, he didn’t even know why he was trying to justify it to himself. He wanted to take it, so he would take it.

“I’ll take apprentice mage.”

Name: Ben Heph

Race: Human

Titles: Apostle of Myriad, The Forgotten One, Miracle Maker, Skill Learner, Enemy of Eneth

Jobs: Apprentice mage (lv 0)

Previous Jobs: Apprentice craftsman, Craftsman, Priest, Enchanter, Mind user, Magic item maker, Magic weapon maker, High enchanter, Fractured mind user, Tree tamer, High craftsman

Attributes:

Vitality: 321
Vitality recovery rate: 5/hr
Mana: 245
Mana recovery rate: 15/min
Strength: 344
Agility: 129
Stamina: 1133
Intelligence: 999

Affinities:

Light: 3
Life: 2
Fire: 4
Water: 3
Air: 4
Earth: 2
Death: 3
Dark: 1
Space: 4
Time: 5

Resistances:

Light: 68
Life: 72
Fire: 75
Water: 69
Air: 66
Earth: 81
Death: 78
Dark: 85
Space: 63
Time: 61

Blessed skills:

Unending crafting lv0*
Enchanting lv9
Focus lv9

Passive skills:

World speak+
Tolerance lv6
Sacrilege lv6
Complex mind lv6
Bind
Partial demonic body
Defense enhancement lv2
Parallel thought lv4
Absorption resistance lv1
Enchanting knowledge lv6
Plant knowledge lv4

Active skills:

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Stealth lv1
Connect lv9
Hidden mind lv7
Calculate lv4
Meditation lv3
Cycling lv0
Marksmanship lv0
Speed reading lv3
Material user lv0

Blessings:

Myriad’s Blessing
Anailia’s Blessing
Helori’s Blessing

Trials:

Trial of Anailia and Tolona

With his new job selected, he looked up to his friends, still trying to process the fact that he had managed to gain that option at all, but before he could say a word his teacher was forcing a knife into his hands.

“Put the best enchantment on that you can, now,” Falk told him and without questioning it Ben did as he was asked, using his magic rings as well as the bracelets still on his arms to quickly whip up an enchantment that would be comparable to the one on his main knife in its nature, only having to be slightly weaker than it could have been because he didn’t know how the knife he was holding had been made, meaning he’d be risking breaking it if it went too hard.

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