Chapter 31 learning from the elvers 4 (1/2)
Mars gave a nod to her and walked over to the river side next to Isabel and kneeled down and washed the spider blood off his bone sword while Isabel sat down on the grass with exhaustion clearly viable on her almost perfect face
”doesn't living gods run out of mana? i mean i'm so low on mana because i didn't have time to properly form my spells, but it didn't look like you used any spells?”
Mars gave a smile while he washed off his bone sword
”i'm sure they do, even i might if i use [Shadow magic] but my [Dragon flame magic] is level 5, so i don't need mana to use it”
Isabel widened her eyes and looked disbelieving at Mars for a little while before she gave a sigh
”and to think i was proud of my level 4 [Earth magic]...”
Mars smiled slightly while he washed his sword clean before he remembered something Info had told him about and looked at Isabel before asking
”what kinds of jobs have you had?”
Isabel paused slightly before she showed a smile
”well i started as a [Elf villager] like all the elvers born in the village, from there i leaned under a hunter until i maxed my [Novice hunter], [Apprentice hunter] and [Adept hunter] jobs... from there i became interested in joining the patrol teams so i powered though [Novice swordswoman] and [Apprentice swordswoman] in basic training before i found out my talent in magic is higher than my talent in sword wielding, so i changed from [Apprentice swordswoman] at level 7 to [Novice earth mage]... and now some 300 years later i'm a level 9 [Expert earth mage] one of the best in the village”
listening to Isabel Mars made a metal job ladder in his head, going from novice to apprentice, and then adapt to expert before he asked her for more information
”...what effects does changing to a higher ranked job have?”
Isabel sat down and looked out over the river before she explained
”well for one thing it helps with gaining and leveling skills, for example a person with the [Novice swordsman] job has a higher chance of obtaining the [Swordsman] skill”
”...i see”
Mars in thought for a little while before Isabel suddenly asked him
”why are you asking about jobs? don't living gods have jobs too?”
as Mars was finished with washing his sword he stood up and shook the water off his sword before he answered Isabel
”no they don't, they have classes”
Isabel was slightly confused but refrained from asking more and as her mana had somewhat recovered she also stood up and looked at the spider corpses that littered the river side, before Mars walked up to a corpse and burned it to ashes and took the magic beast core from the ashes and turned to Isabel
”do you mind if i take all the magic beast cores?”
Isabel became a little confused but since Mars and Victoria had saved her from harm she gave a sigh
”...well normally all cores we collect goes to power the barrier around the village, but sure if you can use the cores then take them all”
Mars made a fist pump in excitement before he walked over to the next corpse and reduced it to ashes with his flame too with a excited smile on his face as Victoria walked out from the forest edge purring loudly and walked up to Mars that quickly patted her on the head
”Victoria do you mind dragging the corpses in the forest out here?”
”okay”
Victoria was in a good mood and quickly walked back into the forest before Mars yelled out to her
”be sure not to get any blood or acid on you!”
Isabel also joined them and worked on getting the cores out and half an hour later Mars stood with with 32 magic beast cores in his hands and admired them with sparkling eyes while he mumbled
”32 class 6 cores that's 6400 energy units... and there is 14 status points on them too...”
Isabel didn't know what he was going to use the magic beast cores for but she judge from his excited expression that it was something important and kept quiet while she observed before Mars snapped out of his daze and looked at her
”let's get back to the cave”
the trip back to the cave was quick as Mars didn't have any questions for the time being, so when they reached the cave it was afternoon
Alvin, Rex and Chloe was working on building the hut when Mars, Victoria and Isabel returned, Mars was a little impressed by the progress they had made and he judge that if they kept up the tempo the hut should be done in about a week, seeing Isabel return Alvin gave her a wave before asking
”how was the river?”
”it's not as close as i would like but---”
as Alvin and Isabel began talking Mars tuned them out as he had more important things to do, so after quickly greeting Rex with a wave he walked into the cave along with Victoria before he cheeked his status
”status”
Name: Mars
Age: 0 (vessel 5220)
Race: Half-dragon human
Titles: [Living god of energy] [Conquer of Salen] [Tyrant King] [5000 year prisoner] [Man that fell from the sky] [Contracted]
Class: [Energy]