23 Preparing Another Breakthrough Event, Accepting Rewards (2/2)
Objective One) Find out who was behind your would-be kidnapping.
Objective Two) Defeat the perpetrator.
Optional Objective 1) Defeat the four would-be kidnappers as well.
Optional Objective 2) Kill everyone involved or spare them all.
Description: Hmph! No one gets away with messing with a mage; especially not a Time mage! Get stronger and avenge yourself!
Deadline: Unlimited (Completed upon finishing all primary Objectives)]
”Oh dear...” Elizabeth did a double take upon reading the words ”kill everyone involved,” but considering what they had done to her and Sun, it wouldn't really be that unjustified. She tossed the idea of taking lives to the back of her mind, as a matter to take care of some other time, and proceeded to look for what she originally searching for.
[Rewards:
1* Trash Tier Elemental Affinity Stone:
Description: Choose an element and you'll receive trash-tier talent for the chosen element as an innate affinity-based skill.
Would you like to use this item? Yes/No?
Grimoire of Smithy: Basic Forging
Description: Teaches the utter basics of crafting armaments to the user. Builds up a perfect foundation up to Level 5 in the Forging Skill.
Would you like to use this item? Yes/No?
Grimoire of Smithy: Saintly Forging
Description: Imparts highly technical and superior crafting methods of the forging path to the user. From the use of inferior Inner Strength to that of supreme Magic, all levels of Mortal Forging can be trained — upto Level 20 — with no flaw built within the user's foundation.
Would you like to use this item? Yes/No?
Grimoire of Cooking: Saintly Chef
Imparts highly technical and superior cooking methods of the gourmet path to the user. From the use of inferior Inner Strength to that of supreme Magic, all levels of Mortal Cooking can be trained — upto Level 20 — with no flaw built within the user's foundation.
Would you like to use this item? Yes/No?
Grimoire of Space: Spatial Meditation
Description: A Mortal Grade meditation technique of the highest level. Just like Temporal Meditation it allows the user to gain 0.01 point of Inner Strength per Intelligence stat per minute, only instead of generating time energy/magic at the breakthrough point for Mages, its use generates space energy/magic.
Would you like to use this item? Yes/No?
Creed of Space: Mage Enchantments
Description: Gives the user a myriad of formulas to apply space enchantments to: one's self, others, weapons, armor, and ammunition.
Would you like to use this item? Yes/No?
Creed of Time: Mage Enchantments
Description: Gives the user a myriad of formulas to apply time enchantments to: one's self, others, weapons, armor, and ammunition.
Would you like to use this item? Yes/No?
Creed of Spacetime: Mage Enchantments
Description: Gives the user a myriad of formulas to apply spacetime enchantments to: one's self, others, weapons, armor, and ammunition.
Would you like to use this item? Yes/No?]
To all except the Trash-tier Elemental Affinity Stone, Elizabeth said yes. Thereafter, a pile of multicolored tomes materialized atop the cabinet sink next to her. Elizabeth took a look at the water in the bath and noticed she still had time. So, one by one the grimores were ”digested” as they burst into bubbles and the knowledge held within each one was absorbed.
As if to make the experience all the more game-like. This time, as Elizabeth absorbed the knowledge of ”formal” methods of Cooking and Forging, within her mind she could see a skill tree of sorts expressly containing within each chunk, a section of skills she could unlock by practicing each respective occupation.
For Forging, after she took the [Basic Forging] grimoire, she could only see seven or so skill blocks in the tree. But upon digesting the [Saintly Forging] tome, the number of chunks she could see, expanded to fourteen. When she took the Cooking grimoire, a new skill tree, which contained ten new skill blocks, appeared. Each Creed of enchantments also spawned a skill tree of its own, yet all the skill trees had exactly twelve skill blocks.
After the final book on Spatial Meditation was digested nothing else seemed to unfold. But, just when it seemed like the process was over, a new notification gave more stimulation to Elizabeth as she slumped in waiting for the water to fill up her bathtub.
[Alert!
New Crafting Recipes unlocked!
All Initial Mortal Cooking Unlocked!
All Initial Mortal Forging Unlocked!
All Mortal Bullets Unlocked!
All Initial Mortal Enchantments Unlocked!
Would you like to review the new crafting recipes? Yes/No?]
”OOooOOooOO~” Elizabeth happily confirmed, very excited at the prospect of knowing what kinds of things she could create. As she willed for the prompt to show her all the new crafting recipes she had learned, a seemingly endless list of recipes surged in her mind. The sudden appearance of a wall of words that seemed to go on forever, momentarily stunned Elizabeth. But as she regained focus and looked more deeply into the matter, she realized that a grand majority of the recipes in the list were just types of bullets.
It was no joke when the status function claimed that she had learned EVERY recipe for Mortal-tier bullets as the list droned on and on with each subsequent bullet being more ridiculous than the last. Apparently, knowing all the recipes in this case was terrible as there were thousands of not dozens of thousands of bullets types Elizabeth would never even think of creating.
Seriously, the list seemed to record every known material that could be used to make bullets as among the list there include a recipe to create ”Dirt Bullets, Manure Bullets, Glass Bullets, and Plastic Bullets” just to name a few of the more worthless ones.
In comparison to the ridiculousness that was ”All Mortal Bullets,” when Elizabeth checked the rest of her Forging, Enchantment, and Cooking crafting recipes, the results were more tame. Instead of the countless useless recipes she had unlocked for bullets in particular, only some basic metal, wood, and animal based weapons and armor appeared for forging; all being at least useful to the current Elizabeth. Just a handful of diverse dishes were unlocked through the Cooking Skill, and even less enchantments were unlocked.
Though the Enchantments she learned were the least in quantity, with regards to quality and practicality, they were without question the most important. Elizabeth didn't have the time to study her newly learned enchantments at the moment as it was a profession that heavily burdened one's time, but she made it a priority to understand the effects and uses of enchantments after she finished dealing with Sun and completed her Main Quest.