Chapter Thirty

Joe's excitement only grew the next day as he was feeling like he was finally reaching stats that might be useable. Granted, he was now at the halfway point, but the speed he was growing was remarkable. If he would be able to spend about six days to get to twenty on the three gateway jobs he had, then he would hopefully have dozens in each one available to him. Reaching level fifteen in a single day wasn't difficult, and if his numbers were added up correctly, Joe still had almost a hundred and fifty days left. Take out thirty to fifty days for the various gateway jobs he would need to level to twenty, he would have a hundred days left to raise a hundred jobs to fifteen. Even if all of them only gave a single point per level, he would gain one and a half points per job. A hundred jobs would give him an average base stat of one fifty for everything! A hundred fifty points per stat at level zero, or level one, for any job he would choose! He wouldn't be locked in or forced to stay something anymore. Things were looking up. Even for the gateway jobs demanding level twenty, if he allotted the full fifty days for that, he could raise up to ten to twelve gateway jobs to the necessary levels to open up other jobs! He could only hope things would stay as useful and meaningful for him. In fact, he was now actually a bit more worried about his attacking capabilities considering they were lagging behind significantly. Although… I should be pretty OK even if I just focus on the sparks and I hit the end of my year and have to take the hit on my physical combat capabilities. But I'll probably want at least one melee weapon… besides the commoner's club! Joe grimaced with the realization. At this time, he was only able to utilize two weapons: bow and cudgel.

The two had had a regular morning: breakfast, language skills, and snaking through the streets to make the dungeon. They soon found themselves down in the dungeons and Joe could only wait in excitement at what scholar would offer him. They soon found a spark loitering in the hallways leading to one of the side mazes and Joe fell upon it with a bit of eager glee, grounding spear in his left hand while a wooden spear flashed in his right as he stabbed and slashed. The spark soon fell dead and Joe once again felt the tingle rush? Or a warm wave? Whatever! It's a weird feeling… He'd managed get his first level in scholar.

Joe's frustration for only unlocking a single job faded away before the stats he was seeing. He'd long become a bit numb, no longer feeling any shock and could only giggle with excited relish as he looked at what he was getting for his learning. If this keeps up! I'll hit twenty in a single day soon! Well… maybe a bit of exaggeration! Joe was excited for the boost he was getting in learning, but he quickly came to the realization that these jobs gave such a huge boost to learning that they actually exaggerated the learning speed only for these jobs. If he were to return to his commoner job, the speed would drop considerably simply because this job, at level ten, actually doubled what his base learning was.

Still, the excitement at his expected speed still flooded him and Joe had the two in a new room and once again sweeping through the sparks at remarkable speeds, wiping the sparks out. Before the first hour was up, Joe was at level five and working towards ten. And just around midmorning, Joe hit level ten and Garnedell was finally able to hit level fifteen. Joe took the time to celebrate with the boy a bit over his victory since the kid was quite excited. The kid's doing well, but he's so slow! This was… basically me with commoner, right?!