But for a Slime

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Joe turned his thoughts back to the list of jobs and scoured it, certain it had to be related to the number of jobs. The title itself literally pointed it out. He wrestled with this for some time until a tickle in the back of his mind caught his attention. Wait… Groom… it actually is two jobs… but acts like one it opens nobility and its under metropolitan … is that… Joe quickly went back into the list. Baker… cook… umm… waiter… bartender… … all doubled between villager and metropolitan! Five jobs… so I counted five jobs twice… so… Five less… fifty? Something to do with fifty jobs! Fifty LEVELLED jobs. Is it at least level one? Or is there a minimum? Like… ten? Possibly? Not sure… but at least the fifty jobs… That… seems to fit… probably…

Joe's excitement at discovery thrummed through him and he vibrated on his bed, having long sat up with the excitement as he explored what it all meant. OK… cool… so…probably related to leveling fifty jobs or something… then the title… Hmm… It gives .001 percent per level… that's… hmm… right, .035 percent. That… kinda sucks… Got … about two hundred strength… rounded up for ease… one percent gives me two extra strength… and I'm not even getting ten percent of that.

He frowned with that realization. I'm getting … man… nothing… One percent of two is point oh two… multiplied by three point five… getting seven… yeah… point oh seven extra to my strength… WHEEEEeeee! So now my strength is two hundred point oh seven. NICE! Joe ended sarcastically. He shook his head frustrated, but then paused. Going to make a big difference as my numbers get bigger, though… so can't complain… should help my learning a lot! Uh… He ran the numbers in his head, just using his current learning as a standard, knowing the title already had his learning boost incorporated. Don't really want to waste too much time finding actual base, but… One percent of sixty k gives me… six hundred… Joe's excitement fell flat. And a percent of that gives me six… and I get three point five… so six times three… eighteen… and half of six gives me… twenty one… OK… still… twenty one extra learning... but... kinda lame!

Joe's excitement over the title waned, wondering at its usefulness now that he'd discovered how weak the benefits were. He rallied and turned back to understand his new ability to equip sub jobs. Right… even if that sucks… just getting extra jobs… MORE than worth it! So… then… Nothing really new here… on to the skills!

Joe excitedly looked through his skills, specifically looking for 'char' skills and found six. Two of them were unlocked and tied to two important skills he wasn't willing to give up: polyglot and double learning. The third was also tied to another skill which he didn't want to give up since it gave a fifty percent boost to learning as well although it was still locked to that skill as well. He had three more in the believer job by itself, tied to three skills that he thought would ultimately be worthless, for now: enhanced magic, magic defense, and wisdom. But… none really seem tied to giving me this extra job… so… not… ooh… will I lose the extra jobs if I change jobs? That's… Joe's happiness faded then he quickly rallied again. Something to test… but doesn't matter… cause if I have to keep this job equipped, I still got at least another job… so two jobs… ooh! That might be it… the two jobs Gwenvair said… but… Joe frowned. But… I don't remember two lines… only just… the two jobs… no empty third… wait… she didn't have gifted either… Joe's happiness returned. Maybe I don't need it either… She only unlocked one sub jobs… I got two and a half… if I can find the trick to the third one…

He shifted back to the list of skills available to him, forcing himself to start at the top with commoner, even if he was certain that whatever was there was useless. He went through it diligently and carefully. Cudgel, calculate taxes, use plow and scythe, balance glasses… Joe sighed but forced himself to continue, looking through each skill carefully and reading each one. Gotta double check… Commoner and metropolitan jobs proved interesting but ultimately useless and he continued.

He only had two citizen jobs: citizen and specialist. Neither proved enough to pick but it did draw his attention as he was receiving his fifty percent bonus to learning from the specialist job and the citizen job actually had two interesting, if not powerful, skills: advanced self-defense and advanced attack.

He moved on to the education jobs, and then suddenly found something that made his eyebrows shoot upward. Educated had one job skill that he never remembered before. At least, he couldn't remember ever seeing the skill before. That triggered the memory of the scrambled job skills that he'd had before. Wasn't it an educational job? There was another… believer had another right? Joe quickly dropped his eyes down to the believer skill and found no scrambled job skill, but another skill identical to the one in educated: + 1 sub job. What is… this wasn't here before?! But… is that from… Joe quickly clicked on it, excited to see what was going on.