c5 (1/2)

The next morning I went to the old man’s cla.s.sroom. When I entered, Claire was already there munching. She was sitting down in her usual chair, and had an open lunchbox filled with leaves and was pulling them out to eat.

“……”

“…..” As I had my hand on the doork.n.o.b, Claire had stopped, a leaf halfway to her open mouth.

“It’s you.”

“Good morning, Callus-kun!”

“So, has the munching become a habit?”

“Th-that’s not it! I have to do something to increase my level to the point where I can change jobs from Hairy Caterpillar.”

“Is that so?”

“It’s the truth, the truth!” replied Claire desperately.

Now I see that it’s necessary…. In order for her to change jobs. At that moment, the old man entered from the interior of the house. As usual, he’s in senility mode. I mentally quipped at the idiot.

I reached Dragon level 3. My new skill was a wind-based breath weapon. When today’s cla.s.s ends, I plan on trying it out.

“Wilf-sama, I have a question?”

“What is it?”

“What’s the highest level someone can reach?”

“Good question. I was intending to talk about that soon, and this is a good as a time as any to do so.”

““Yes please.””

Claire and I lowered our heads. At this time, we can respect our teacher.

“There are two answers to that question. The Total Level most likely doesn’t have an upper limit. It’s not known how high it can reach.”

“It’s that likely?”

“You see, no one knows what the upper limit actually is. In recorded history, the highest a human has reached is level 130, while the average demon can reach level 200, and a greater one get to level 300. Past that, I do not know.”

“I see….”

“Compared to a demon, a human’s level is low, why is that? For two reasons. I will tell you the first now.” hearing what the old man said, Claire and I stared at him.

“Yes! The reason is that levelling becomes more difficult the higher it gets.” I remembered hearing something similar when I talked to Claire earlier.

“Well then, remember this. The second part has to do with life spans.”

“Life spans?”

“People have a shorter life span than a demon, and as we get older, we decline. Those are the two reasons.” I see. In the first place, the time period one can train in is short, and does the decline come early as well? Compared to the demons, we would have a lower Total Level than them.

“After that, each job has its upper limit. Once that is reached, it is impossible to level normally.”

“Really?”

“For every job with a max level of 100, there is also a job with a max level of 1.”

Is that so?

In this old man’s lesson today, I finally understood something. However, is with 100 or 200? But however, I feel like there’s something more to this. I came to a realisation.

“What level is Wilf-sama, if I might ask?” I heard Claire say.

“……”

“Wilf-sama?”

Grandmother, I’ve not finished my rice yet.”

“You ate that yesterday, old man!” That cliched retort brought today’s lesson to a close.

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I left the old man’s house and thought, (As for me, I attend the old man’s cla.s.s, and my level increases somehow or other. It seems I could become as powerful as a greater demon if I attend cla.s.s for around half a year. In a year, I could be the strongest in history.)

……hey, wasn’t it—- Is there a limit to how many jobs one can have at their highest level? For me right now, I have ninja and dragon, but I do not know what their upper limits are. If I were to hit the max level for one of them, I would not be able to raise my Total Level anymore. My thoughts went to the cave we explored yesterday to find a job change item for Claire by hunting pillings.