Desolate World

Troy looked at the model that the system showed him and then nodded in satisfaction. He once again checked his attributes.

[Troy]

Race: Human

Job: Runemaster

Level 1 Exp: 0%

HP: 140

MP: 80

Strength: 30

Agility: 43 (+3)

Magic: 30

Physical Defense: 32 (+7)

Magic Defense: 22 (+7)

Vitality: 20

HP recovery: 0.1/sec

MP recovery: 0.15/sec

Traits: 

# Rune knowledge: Have complete knowledge of runes.

Skills:

Inscribe mastery (level 1): Can carve a simple detail into a surface of things. Mana consumption: 1 per second 

Troy was satisfied with the new job that he got. It was a production job with C rarity. He got it by paying 5.000 credits. For his current economic situation, it was a little too much for him. But to start over, he needed to get a good production job. 

He had already understood the importance of a good job for starting his new journey. The rarer his job, the easier it would be for him to be successful in his game career. 

He also understood changing his job in the game, although it would give him more versatile abilities, it would make him mediocre at best. Well, it was his case. There were combinations of jobs that really worked. However, there were several conditions to make them work.

First, your second job must have the same attributes distribution as your first job. For example, the thief had the same attributes distribution as the assassin. It was because your skills and traits needed correct attributes distribution for their effectiveness to be maximized. 

Second, your second job should be the same type as your first job. For example, if your first job was spell caster type, your second job must also be spell caster type. It was to ensure your first job was still useful to some degree. 

Another example, if your first job was a thief, and then you chose to become an archer, it would only waste your first job that was a thief. The thief's 'nimble hands' trait and 'knife mastery' skill had little use for Archer whose strength attribute was reduced much.

At first, he felt lucky to change his job from warrior to merchant, as he still had warrior's first skill and trait. But he was slapped hard as he leveled up to level 20. He didn't get the full skills of a merchant, because he had a useless warrior's first skill and trait. 

He felt they were useless because after he became a production professional, he was no longer comparable to a combat professional. As normal combat professionals had multiple traits and skills, thus making them stronger.

So, this time he wanted to be a full production professional. And luckily he got a C-grade production job, runemaster. It was like an enchanter, who could upgrade equipment by combining a certain monster core or monster heritage with equipment. However, runemasters upgraded equipment by scribing rows of runes on them.

And this time he wouldn't become a merchant, as he wanted to purchase the package from the system shop. He then opened the shop and saw the package that he wanted.

[Runemaster Pack]

Working gloves (C) [2,000 credits]

Blue crystal engraving knife (D) [1,000 credits]

20 x Red Potions (100 HP) [500 credits]

20 x Blue Potions (50 MP) [500 credits]

10 x Yellow Potions (antidote) [500 credits]

5 x Black Potions (stealth) [1,000 credits]

Protective array (10/10) [2,000 credits]

Repair tool (1,000 durability) [1,000 credits]

Durable rope (20 m) [50 credits]

1,000 dirac [1,000 credits]

100 slices of bread [100 credits]

100 L of water magic bottle (E) [5,000 credits]

Torchlight [10 credits]

[Pack price 10,000 credits]

[Working Gloves]

Rarity: C (7,659/10,000) (bound after equipped)

Effect: Reduce the mana consumption of production skills by 25%.

Durability: 700/700

Requirement: All production jobs 

[Blue crystal engraving knife]

Rarity: D (67,851/100,000) (bound after equipped)

Effect: Slightly reduce the difficulty of the engraving process.

Durability: 1,500/1500

Requirement: Runemaster, sculptor, and woodworker.

Looking at the job package in the shop, he couldn't help but sigh. The equipment and the tools that were available for him to buy were not as good as he hoped. But somehow, he had expected it, as the game had been launched for 6 months. Many good limited-edition things had been purchased.

Although the two things in the stores were also limited-edition goods, the two were barely valuable. Working gloves that could reduce the mana consumption by 25 % were much worse than special working gloves and platinum working gloves that could reduce the mana consumption by 75% for the former and the later by 50%

He saw them in the equipment catalog that was written by many players who wanted to share information about equipment that they had in the Internet forum.

However, although the two things were inferior products, they were better than none. Troy decided not to buy the entire pack, but only bought the two things for 3,000 credits.

After all, as a D rarity professional, he would be placed around 10 to 20 km from the settlement. It was around half a day to a day journey from the village depending on the type of location. If he was placed on the prairie, it would be a relatively easier journey, and if he was placed in the swamp area, it would be bad, as he would need more than a day to reach the settlement.

He hoped he got an easier starting point. As he also decided to not buy a magic compass but only bought a magic map that was only 10 credits. After all, he was not a fool. From 10 km to 20 km, he would be able to see the light tower of the settlement easily. So he didn't need to buy the expensive magic compass to tell him the direction of the settlement.

As he had finished his character creation and bought what he needed, he looked at the timer floating in front of him.

[As it is your second time creating your character, you can enter the game in 2 days 6 hours 35 minutes 21 seconds.

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