The skill tree interface also had the Master Blacksmith skill tree added; the Master Blacksmith’s skills were far more numerous than the Healer’s.
The Master Blacksmith’s skills are: [ Mana Infusion (Active): Consumes a certain amount of mana to infuse magic into an item.
The mana consumed is linked to the magic being infused.
Requires Master Blacksmith Lv2.
] [ Rune Mastery (Passive): Greatly enhances the ability to understand runes.
When seeing a rune, one can understand its information.
Requires Master Blacksmith Lv4.
] [ High-Level Fire Resistance (Passive): Grants immunity to low-level fire damage and reduces high-level fire damage by 50%.
Requires Master Blacksmith Lv6.
] [ Spirit Forging (Active): Grants spirituality to an item.
Can be used once per day.
Requires Master Blacksmith Lv8.
] [ Forbidden Forging (Active): A method that only the most excellent Blacksmith can use.
It can forge the power of gods into items.
Usage limit: 1 time/3 days.
Requires Master Blacksmith Lv10.
] These skills are all production-type skills, and they looked quite impressive, even if I didn’t fully understand them yet.
Skills in this world are divided into four main categories.
The first type is Passive Skills.
Passive Skills are almost impossible to master through study; generally, they are naturally acquired upon obtaining a class or learned from the skill tree.
The second type is Class Growth Skills.
Basic classes do not have these; only advanced classes and rare classes might have them.
They start at Tier 1 and can grow alongside training.
The third type is Class Skills.
Skills in the Class Skill tree come from the game, and most do not require mana consumption, only having daily usage limits.
For example, Rowan’s Optimization and Degradation belong to Class Skills; they can only be used three times per day.
The fourth type is Ordinary Skills, which can also be called Magic/Martial Arts.
Magic consumes mana and has no cooldown.
Because this world lacks things like mana potions and there are very few ways to recover mana, there is a saying that mana points are a mage’s lifeline.
Melee classes can just auto-attack if they run out of mana, but mages just have to wait for death.
Martial Arts, on the other hand, are techniques unique to this world and consume things like focus.
For example, the Warrior Captain’s Four-Light Continuous Slash.
As for what Rowan can access right now, it’s only his Class Skills.
Needless to say, after taking on the class, Rowan felt different the moment he picked up the hammer.
What surprised him even more was that repairing ironware could actually grant experience points.
It seems that the ways to gain experience aren’t limited to just killing fish; even doing work can earn experience.
Rowan excitedly hammered away for a good while.
He had only gained five experience points before stopping because…
there was nothing left to hammer.
“Uncle, is there nothing else that needs repairing?” “No.” “Oh…” Seeing Rowan’s disappointed expression, Carl’s mouth twitched slightly; Forging was so exhausting, he couldn’t understand what was fun about it.
“You kid, are you that obsessed with smithing?” “Haha, it’s alright.
By the way, Uncle Carl, if I want to forge ironware, where should I get iron ingots?” “I don’t have any.
There are no conditions for smelting here.
If you want to buy iron ingots, you have to go to the city, but the price isn’t cheap.” Rowan felt very helpless; it’s hard to make a meal without rice.
He wanted to work but had no work to do.
Oh well, he might as well go spearfishing.
“Alright, wash your hands and come over to eat something.” “Ah, thank you, Uncle.
You really are a good person, Uncle.” “Hmph, you did work for half the day after all.
Come over here, stop talking nonsense, just don’t turn your nose up at it.” After eating lunch at Uncle Carl’s house, he went off to farm in the afternoon.
Rowan, on the other hand, continued to the riverbank, changing his spot this time.
Compared to yesterday, Rowan’s stats had increased quite a bit, and it was an all-around increase, so his efficiency at spearfishing had improved significantly compared to yesterday.
He speared anything, regardless of size, and rarely missed.
Spearing a small fish gave one experience point, a large fish gave three, and a medium-sized fish gave two.
Smashing a toad gave one experience point, smashing a bug gave none, and killing a long snake gave four experience points.
Whoa, I didn’t expect that.
Snake, you’re the fattest one of all.
It’s a pity that the number of snakes is too small, making them hard to encounter, and only big enough snakes give high experience; small snakes give very little.
During this time, a class selection interface even popped up; Rowan had actually met the basic requirements for Fisherman without being taught.
Rowan helplessly chose to give it up.
Fisherman is an ordinary class, and its advanced class is also very ordinary.
Rowan isn’t a fishing enthusiast, so there was no reason to choose this class.
In the following week, Rowan spent his days either smithing or fishing.
On the smithing side, because it wasn’t formal weapon crafting, the progress of the Heart Forging Method was almost zero.
Spearfishing, however, became increasingly proficient.
Rowan now practiced a spearfishing technique where he was accurate with every strike; never mind fish, he could even spear a fly.
The bulk of the experience came from spearfishing; smithing was just a side bonus.
About a week later, Rowan successfully leveled up to level seven.
At this point, it was very difficult to level up by relying on spearfishing because the experience from spearfishing was too low and the experience bar was too large; it was simply hard to satisfy.
[ Status Table ] [ Level: 7 ] [ Class: Healer (Rare Lv5), Master Blacksmith (Advanced Lv2) ] [ Innate Ability: Class Evolver ] [ Justice Value: 0 (Neutral) ] [ HP: 100 (10.0%) ] [ MP: 85 (8.5%) ] [ Physical Attack: 85 (8.5%) ] [ Physical Defense: 100 (10.0%) ] [ Agility: 85 (8.5%) ] [ Magic Attack: 85 (8.5%) ] [ Magic Defense: 100 (10.0%) ] [ Comprehensive Resistance: 70 (7.0%) ] [ Specialization: 100 (10.0%) ] [ Skill Points: 13 ] [ Experience Bar: 1252 / 5000 ] [ Passive Skills: Healing Storage (20/100), Limit Break, Craftsmans Heart, Energy Expansion ] [ Active Skills: Optimization (3 times/day), Degradation (3 times/day), Heart Forging Method (Tier 1), Overlimit Degradation (1 time/3 days) ] Five thousand experience points were truly terrifying; the further one went, the more experience was needed.
Spearfishing was too slow.
Perhaps, it was time to consider fighting monsters.
Rowan was confident that, with his stats, an ordinary adventurer wouldn’t be able to compare to him even at level ten.
The bonuses from the Rare class were simply too great.
Just as Rowan was pondering whether to try going into the forest, a special guest arrived in the village that day.
“Enri!” A boy with hair covering his eyes, looking like he had a pot lid on his head, came running over excitedly.
Then, seeing a man following Enri at the doorway of her house, carrying a two or three-year-old child, he froze.
He rubbed his eyes, doubting if he was seeing an illusion.
“Ah, Enfirea!” Enri looked up and saw Enfirea, revealing a happy smile.
Huh?
This guy already knew Enri this early on!
Although he was a few years younger, the iconic golden pot-lid hairstyle still allowed Rowan to recognize him at a glance.
Plus his stats—yep, he was that guy who appeared in the first part of the story.