CH508

“Huh, that’s surprising,” Ben muttered as the notification went off in his head, drawing the eyes of his two students while he watched them work.

“What, did we do something wrong?” Nati asked as she looked at what she’d been enchanting, trying to spy any issue.

“No, I just finished my job, I wasn’t expecting to have it done for another couple weeks.”

“Do you have a teaching-themed one?”

“No, master adventurer. Thera must have gained a lot of experience today, good for both of us.”

“Wait, you’re making your girlfriend get experience for you while you’re here?” Xilly asked him, judgment clear on her face.

“I’m not making her do anything, this was just convenient for the both of us. When she had the job, I was the one who got the experience for the two of us so now she was taking a turn at it. We’re a team, we raise one another up when we can.”

He could see neither believed him, both having the impression he was stealing growth off of his girlfriend’s work and it was enough for him to decide to end things for the day.

“Alright, it looks like I need to go change my job so why don’t we finish things here for now? I’ll be back tomorrow at the same time and we can start looking at one of the other topics a bit now that you’re getting the foundations of ritual magic.”

“I’ve had arrangements made for practicing connect tomorrow so let’s worry about it the next day instead.”

“Alright, in that case, do you want me to join you to give whatever advice I can?”

Both women looked at each other, with Nati giving in at the end. Even if she didn’t like it, this was a request from her grandfather, she couldn’t just brush him off entirely.

“If you’d meet us at my grandfather’s church in the afternoon then I’ll take what advice you can give.”

“Sounds like a plan. In that case, you guys have a good night.”

He slipped off with that, happy to have the excuse to leave as he did, not going to find a job crystal like he’d implied, instead reaching down to pull out the one on his necklace while making his way back to where he was staying, letting the options fill his mind to decide what to take next.

AVAILABLE JOBS

Trap user
Craftsman- alchemy path
Craftsman- artistic path
Craftsman- blacksmith path
Craftsman- cooking path
Craftsman- stonecrafts path
Craftsman- sewing path
Holy craftsman
Mathematician
Cursed item maker
High tank
Otherworldly craftsman
Destructive craftsman
Soul defiling gardener
Summoned enchanter
Ritual enchanter
Divine enchanter
High marksman
High destruction mage
World killer
Material creator
Beginner puppeteer
Freak mind user
Unholy thinker
Connect master
Polymath
Holy adversary
Title master
Master of all

Three new ones huh, neat.

Not just three new ones, three strange new ones, with only one he was already aware of, leaving the other two to be guessed at.

Master of all is gained from finishing five master jobs and gives bonuses to everything so that’s great to get. I didn’t actually think master adventurer counted but it’s cool to see it there. Then obviously title master has to be related to either all of the titles I’ve gained or because of the title holder title specifically, not that there’s really a difference between the two, which just leaves the last one.

Holy adversary. Despite the name, Ben didn’t think he was the holy one it was referring to, with him far more likely taking the role of adversary. He had enough titles that could contribute to it with the two most likely culprits being both of his enemy titles, essentially already placing him as an adversary to two gods, but he wasn’t going to doubt that king of sacrilege might have played a role in it as well.

Which means I’d definitely be getting sacrilege bonuses for it, there’s no way I wouldn’t, but… Not this time. Probably not the next either.

He had thought he’d known what he was going for before he’d seen the new options, having planned on taking otherworldly craftsman since he wanted more bonuses to his crafting specifically, but one of the new options made him second guess his choice.

Master of all was a good job. An exceptionally good job, on a similar level to master adventurer. It gave bonuses to everything, with only one real drawback. It would be slow. Slower than anything else he was likely to take and he couldn’t think of a good strategy to speed through it. Given that it would give bonuses to everything and gain experience from just as much, it sounded like the couple of people who’d managed to gain it in the past had found the leveling difficulty had spiked, and without an adventurer to merge his pool with, he wouldn’t be able to cheese it.

But it could still be worth it to get bonuses for everything… No. Next time.

Getting master bonuses to every attribute and skill would be incredible, but otherworldly craftsman would give bonuses beyond the master rank to his core skills and given all he had already learned it wouldn’t be too long for him to complete it. Better to take the easier one first that focused on what he really wanted and to move on to that one next.

I’ll take otherworldly craftsman.

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