"Look at these potatoes, you've worked hard today as well, haven't you?"
I brought all the harvested potatoes, carrots, and cabbage back home, as my grandmother greeted me with a happy smile. She quickly grabbed a potato and analyzed it. She seemed rather happy about it, but I almost thought she would give it a bite or something.
"Yeah, the harvest is plenty today as well, grandma. Is mom here?" I asked, looking around.
"No, she went to the church today. She wanted to meet the High Priest so he could give her his blessings for her child to be born healthy." My grandma said. "It's just a little tradition we do here. You also were blessed by a priest before being born."
"I see… (It is kind of like baptism I've seen in other planets with humans, but this is done before they're born instead to after, huh?)" I said while nodding, with the help of Eleanora we placed the vegetables over the table and began to wash them from the dirt or any other little bug that got in.
And while doing so, the Grimoire popped out of thin air in front of me, opening its pages and showing a new notification.
[Required Skill Proficiency has been accumulated]
[You have learned the [Agriculture: Lv1] Skill]
Oh? A new Skill out of nowhere? And its name… Isn't it related to Farming?
Skill Proficiency: 0/10000
A basic ability that Farmers might learn over the years of agriculture and tending crops. It grants the ability to use MP to enhance crops growth speed and quality by +20% with each level. It also grants basic insights about agriculture through the form of Appraisal-like information shown inside the user's mind.
Oh?! So it is like the spells I've been using all this time. Perhaps this is why I acquired the skill so soon? …Then again, I've been helping my parents with the crops since I was four years of age, even without magic. But still, I learned this Skill rather quickly. It might be a good combination with my other spells.
Skills are an interesting power that can be combined with spells to create even more amazing results. First Aid is already a good example of how Skills can enhance spells or be enhanced by spells.
[Due to your great insight about the usage of Skills and Spells, your Intelligence has risen by +2]
Ah, another of those. They had been happening from time to time through the years. Stats might increase over time as I grow or learn things. I get this message a lot when I cultivate Mana and Ki.
Nonetheless, and moving back to the Skill I just got, it reminds me that I had the [Farmer] Talent available to me before. It seems I might not be restricted with Talents and I could earn some of the Skills as long as I do the specific labors for them, continuously, for years.
But also, Hard Worker helps too, it increases EXP earned and Skill Proficiency earned, and it is already at Level 2. Even then, if a monster gives trash EXP the EXP I will get from it even with Hard Worker is still trash. I am still midway through Level 0 to Level 1, so this might take a while, especially because no monsters had been sighted at all for a while.
And well, I am not saying that Talents are useless in that regard, they offer bonuses to their specific jobs and also, Subclasses grants EXP by doing their related labor too. Although I've only made a two potions this week, I gained 100 EXP with each potion, so it was rather good. Hard Worker seems to also affect such EXP, so each potion actually gave 140 EXP each.
But that's not all. They also got Skills, Classless Skills are always available even when I change Classes, and I've gotten most of them already naturally, although I still bought a few others too. But I've been saving my Skill Points to buy new Skills from both of my new Talents. And by flipping the Grimoire's Pages, the Skills available emerge in a small list.
Main Class: [Invoker: ★]
[Create/Delete Familiar: Lv1] 10 SP
[Summon/Unsummon Familiar: Lv1] 10 SP
[Familiar Storage Expansion: Lv1] 20 SP
[Familiar Synthesis: Lv1] 25 SP
Subclass: [Alchemist: ★]
[Synthetize: Lv1] 15 SP
[Gathering: Lv1] 15 SP
[Apprentice Alchemist Recipe Book: Lv1] 20 SP
Currently, I have 50 Skill Points, so I could learn a few Skills if I wanted, but I've been checking the Skills in detail before taking any rash decisions. Both Talents come with four learnable Skills, and nothing else. I suppose that's mostly the norm in this world. People often come with a single Skill after birth that goes with their Talents, and then learn more as they progress and level up.
I've deduced that people might automatically use Skill Points as they grow and level up, instead of having the ability to choose what to pick like I do. Thanks to my Grimoire, I possess this unique ability.
The first thing that I have been analyzing through the week were the Invoker Skills, they were very… uninteresting? They were all about things I was already able to do through Gluttony. Of course they're uninteresting because they don't bring anything new, but they actually do.
As they will let me make Gluttony's powers mine by being able to summon the familiars and create them without having to use the spear as a medium. It is certainly just what I wanted from the beginning, but it also comes with two different Skills.
[Familiar Storage Expansion: Lv1] and [Familiar Synthesis: Lv1] are new Skills that Gluttony has no power to imitate. The first one grants the ability to create a storage inside the Grimoire to store the Familiars I've summoned as if they were cards, and the second grants me the ability to fuse Familiars together to boost their stats.
They're certainly good, but I need the other two before I can properly use these… Honestly, what a pain.