97 – Quest Ledger

Allowing the levitation enchantment to relax turned out to be a whole other lesson. Willow offered to adjust the enchantment, but Alexandra asked her not to and moved the floating disk to a corner of the room. It was her achievement, and she hadn’t reveled in it enough.

She set her journal on the desk and reviewed the result of her quest.

Enchant an Item (1/1) -> Quest Completed: +10 exp, +1 INT, Skill Quest Unlocked: Basic Enchantment.

Daily Quest Streak: 49 -> 50

Next milestone: 100 days.

You’ve achieved a feat: Insistent Quester III

Insistent Quester III: Reach a 50-day daily quest streak. +5% All stats, +5% skill experience.

She smiled.

“Something good?” Willow asked, sitting on Alexandra’s bed.

“Very.”

She’d been a little disappointed at her streak bonuses until now. She could see the potential, but one or two percent were simply not doing much. Five percent, however. She looked at Willow.

“You should get a quest streak going.”

Willow rolled her eyes.

“Do you have Basic Enchantment?” Alexandra asked.

“I used to. I upgraded it to an uncommon version. You should unlock it too if you want to pursue enchantments. Completing Bird’s introductory course should do it.”

Basic Enchantment – Common:

Slightly improve your skill in every aspect of the enchantment process.
Each level increases the effect.

Basic Enchantment: Study enchantment to the level of apprentice (0/1).

Alexandra nodded. The effect was straightforward, but about as good as one could hope for.

She flipped the pages of her journal back to the start.

It had been thirteen days since the dungeon. Thirteen days since she got lost in the forest and contracted that damned sickness.

You are suffering from the sickness of paranoia.

To think the Dark Bolt she paid for with that curse didn’t have any effect. She was so close to being free of all her curses, too. She could feel the sickness of empathy was just a small breakthrough away from being dealt with. It was almost like someone had planted the wild dog in her path so she would be forced to use Dark Bolt.

She was convinced Sera hadn’t been there by coincidence. She could have acted earlier. Or perhaps it was Tristan who was taking revenge for their first meeting.

“You’re doing it again,” Willow said. “What’s been going on with you recently?”

She looked at her. Was she trying to pull her into Goodpeak’s schemes?

Alexandra slapped her cheek. “Sorry. I…” She groaned. “Fuck it. I’ll tell you. I’ve been hit with the sickness of paranoia.”

“Again? You’ve been cursed more in the short time you’ve been there than most people do in their whole lives!”

“I’m not exactly doing it on purpose.”

Willow exhaled. “Still, you should be careful.” She paused. “Did you request the Magus to lift the curse for you? That one is really bad. You’d think he would agree.”

Alexandra shook her head. “I think he’s more than happy with that sickness.”

“Is that paranoia talking, or Alexandra?”

Alexandra pursed her lips. “Both?”

Willow opened her mouth.

“Look, Willow,” Alexandra said, “I have good reasons to doubt.”

“I could try getting you a meeting with my elders. They can deal with a sickness.”

Alexandra narrowed her eyes.

Willow raised her hand. “No, I’m not trying to get you on our side. My elders might. But they might decide to do that regardless of your sickness. Your call.”

“I’ll think about it,” Alexandra said. “Thank you, Willow.” Then she returned to her journal.

Twelve days of daily quests had yielded a good amount of experience, attributes, and even one new skill quest that she quickly completed.

Daily quests summary: Twelve Quests Completed -> +120 exp, +3 STR, +1 CON, +3 INT, +5 PER, New Skill Quest: Mace Mastery.

When she tallied all of her gains since the beginning, she noticed that her attribute gains were close to evenly distributed among her five attributes, except for dexterity, which was lagging behind. The sample was still too small to draw conclusions, but it looked like the distribution was truly random.

As for her skills, they were progressing steadily, though she had yet to manage to evolve one to the next rank.

Inflict Weakness 10 -> 11

Drain Life 3 -> 4

Curse Unraveling 9 -> 11

Aggressive Assimilation 2 -> 3

A Face Among Many 5 -> 6

Running 6 -> 7

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Mana Manipulation 7 -> 8

Reading 5 -> 7

Basic Hygiene 2 -> 3

Sword Mastery 3 -> 6

Spear Mastery 5 -> 6

Axe Mastery 2 -> 5

Mace Mastery 1 -> 3

She turned back to Willow. “You must have a lot of skills. How do you organize your time to level all of them?”

Willow tilted her head. “Define a lot. All together, I have a dozen skills. Most of them are geared toward enchantments, with a few supporting ones. It’s not that complicated. Why? Do you have more?”

Alexandra looked at her list. Twelve common skills, six uncommon, and one rare, for a total of nineteen.

“A little more,” she said. “But I think my concern is that they’re very eclectic.”

Weapon mastery, magic, utility, curses, her skillset was all over the place.

“That’s unusual,” Willow said. “No doubt a function of your particular flavor of divine class. Typically, a class art will only help unlock a specific subset of skills. For example, an enchanter like me is limited to enchanting skills.”