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Chapter 72 - 028.2 - New Job Trees!?
Chapter 72 - 028.2 - New Job Trees!?
<Continued from before>
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Joe stopped by the smith in the morning before diving back into the dungeon and ordered another two spoon spears. He'd though of just buying two staffs or two normal spears, but then remembered Garnedell's inability to hold the things. And I know a staff can be seen as a weapon, too. So I better not take the chance. Paying the smith half, the smith promised completion in about a week; or, as I found out, eight days to a week here! Heh. This frustrated Joe to no end but the smith left him little choice and so Joe capitulated. He corralled Garnedell and headed back into the dungeon.
Two days of constant diving had him at fifteen, and the next bottleneck reared its ugly head, although he was able to hit fifteen in the early afternoon of the second day. It now took two days per level to make the next, and it would be another ten days before Joe made it to level twenty. When he'd hit seventeen, he picked up the two new spoon spears for Garnedell the next morning, and with another length of parachute cord, had another giant nunchuk spark killer. Joe taught him again, urgently reminding him of the caution he would need to take to make sure he kept the spoon spear grounded so that Garnedell could kill the spark.
Joe followed behind him for two or three kills, and when the boy showed excitement at the ease he was killing the sparks, Joe let him off the nanny cam and turned to take out the kills in the room himself. The two stayed close together and they shared the kills in the rooms but Joe took all the kills in the hallway. At the end of that day, Joe still hadn't leveled; he needed two days per level now; but Garnedell had made his next level, and Joe asked for him to bring up his status. Joe smiled with excitement, then frowned a little but then decided to let it pass. Shoot! I shouldn't have let Garnedell use that gem to level before… of course, I didn't know, and it looks like it only cost him one learning point, but still… At least he regained his lost learning from his curse.
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt"> </p> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> HA! I know his name now! I can read it! Joe chuckled a bit, then turned his humor into congratulations for the boy. The boy was now level seven and Joe felt some considerable joy for him. According to his numbers, Garnedell should take about one day per level to hit ten. Joe would be taking another seven days, since he still had half a day to get his job to eighteen from seventeen. Three days later saw Garnedell hitting level ten, and his growth took a nose dive, as usual, and Joe had no way to help him change his job because he didn't know the word for commoner. The only job Garnedell had available besides adventurer was commoner. It was going to take him about fourteen days to make fifteen, and another forty five days after that to hit twenty. It was going to be a long slog for Garnedell. Four days after that had Joe reaching twenty, and he felt some relief. He'd originally felt a bit of despair over the whole job, fearing it would be as bad as the other gateway jobs since in many ways it was. His despair turned slightly when he noticed the learning gain he was getting, along with his IQ. But it was the level ten skill that really shook him, and despair turned to a bit of giddy excitement as he wondered what skill he might get next at fifteen or twenty, for the level ten skill was a base fifty percent increase to agility! Joe didn't notice anything, of course, because his original earth agility was almost double. When he hit twenty, he saw the skill he gained and simply fell to the ground, giddy with relief and excitement: Char: Fifty percent increase to learning. Joe sat stunned in the middle of the dungeon for quite some time. After his shock wore off, he quickly swapped over to his basic stats page and found his learning now over a hundred. He ran the math, trying to figure it out, which proved a bit trickier than he liked, and came up with an original learning of about seventy. Maybe seventy one or so? I'm going to be flying through my levels now, right! Right! Running the numbers showed that He could grow from level one to twenty in a little over seven days! And I can keep this bonus even if I change jobs! I wonder what happens to the skill when I perfect it! Joe gave a hardy laugh, his bellowing guffaws echoing throughout the dungeon rooms and hallways and Garnedell looked over at him with some concern, his arm unwavering as he continued to keep his grounding metal spike in the body of the spark. Joe stood and waited for Garnedell to finish killing his spark. It was late afternoon and they still had some time but Joe figured it was a good time to head home, but then he remembered that his bonus to learning was a character skill. Huh… maybe I should try to perfect it! I can only perfect it while I'm a specialist! He then flipped open his available jobs, now that he'd hit the magic level twenty, and hoped to see quite a few more new jobs, but when he scrolled down, he found nothing new under specialist. He was getting a bit worried when he scrolled back up and noticed something that was quite a bit more shocking than he realized. I've opened up three new groups! Joe's laughter erupted once more, and he simply leaned back against the wall laughing and enjoying the whole experience. Three whole new groups of jobs! Ha! Although, they all seem to have their own gateway jobs…
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