Volume 8 Chapter 3 Part 10
An incantation should float up inside Roxanne’s head after saying Appointment.
「Appointment… What?」
The expression on Roxanne’s face changed. It seems to have gone well.
「「Appointment」 is one of the Skills of a Knight Job. Do you understand what that means, Roxanne? It means that you’re a Knight now.」
「Err… am I a Knight now?」
「Yes, you are, apparently. This Skill that you used just now allows the person who has the Knight Job to appoint another person as a Village Chief.」
Addressing the confused Roxanne, Sherry, who had successfully fused the Skill Crystal with Misanga, handed me the newly-created Sacrificial Misanga. As expected of someone who such an intellectual. Sherry seems to know about the 「Appointment]」Skill and its effects.
「Is that so? Thank you. As expected of Sherry.」
「I thought that in order to become a Knight, one needed many years of training as a Warrior. But Miss Roxanne has been a Warrior only for a short period of time, so I don’t understand how is that possible.」
「I am sure that it must be because of master’s influence.」
「Master, desu.」
Roxanne’s and Miria’s enthusiasm overwhelmed the skeptical Sherry, who once again looks at me with doubtful eyes.
「No, I’m sure that it must be something related strictly to Roxanne.」
「Indeed, that seems to be the most plausible explanation.」
She agreed with me on that, and I can definitely understand why.
「As expected of Big Sister, desu!」
「Umm, do you want me to appoint you a Village Chief, master?」
「Please do.」
「Rule of the emperor who rules over the world…」
Roxanne tried using the incantation of 「Appointment」… but it didn’t work. There seems to be a problem with her spelling of some of the Brahim words.
「I’ll try it first, so make sure to listen well, okay?」
「Okay, understood!」
「The emperor who rules the heaven and the earth, let them reign without resistance… Appointment.」
I was facing Sherry while I recited the incantation of the 「Appointment」Skill out loud. Since I had cancelled 「Chant Omission」 Bonus Skill before selecting the Knight job, i was able to see the incantation and recite it properly.
Sherry’s Job is now Village Chief Lv.1
「As expected of Master. I will try to repeat the incantation now. The emperor who rules the heaven and the earth, let them reign without resistance… Appointment!」
Roxanne recited the incantation again while facing me. When I checked, my First Job became Village Chief Lv.1. Just like I thought, 「Appointment」makes it so that the obtained Village Chief Job takes your First Job’s place. So in case if you have Explorer as your First Job, your Item Box needs to be empty, otherwise it will not work. I was right to have emptied it beforehand.
「Oh, well done, Roxanne.」
「Thank you very much, master.」
「Err… it should be prohibited for a Knight to appoint a Village’s Chief Without official permission. Just to be clear on this… have I been appointed as a Village Chief as well?」
Sherry interrupts us with her pessimistic talk again. So appointing someone as a Village Chief without permission is actually considered as prohibited, huh? Well, that sounds logical. After all, if everybody could be appointed as a Village Chief at their own discretion, it would undoubtedly cause chaos.
「No Sherry, you’re not the Village Chief anymore.」
I said as I had already switched her Job back to Master Smith.
「It’s alright. Besides, it’s going to be our secret, so no one will be able to find out. Okay, Miria? Be sure not to mention this to anyone else.」
「Secret, desu!」
Well, nobody will find out as long as I don’t select it as my First Job. And besides, I am not even sure about selecting this Job at all as it doesn’t seem to be all that useful in combat, and if the Job cannot aid us in combat, then I have no use of it.
Maybe that is why any Knight can appoint anyone as a Village Chief, perhaps? Because it’s such a useless Job that no one would want to use it otherwise?
「Well, I guess that is one way of looking at it, but…」
「By the way Sherry, do you happen to know anything about the Assassin Job?」
I asked Sherry, who looked as if she was still pretty dumbfounded from everything that was happening right now. As long as usefulness is concerned, then Assassin seems to be infinitely more useful than Village Chief.
「It is a pretty unusual job. If I remember correctly, it has something to do with poison, because it is said that assassins fight with their weapon imbued with poison in order to be able to kill their targets more effectively.」
Poison, huh? If that is true, then I guess Roxanne really has met the conditions to become an Assassin since she has killed a great many enemies using poison, even if she was doing that as a kid when she was 「playing」around.
On the contrary, I have yet to use any weapons coated with poison or other poisoned items ever since I came into this world. So if poisoning your enemy is the condition needed to acquire that Job, then it shouldn’t be all that surprising that I still don’t have the Assassin Job even though I have my Warrior Job at Lv.30, same as Roxanne.
I set Assassin as Roxanne’s First Job and then I checked its effects by looking at them in the Party Job Settings.
Assassin Lv.1
Effects: Increase INT (Small), Increase SPI (Small)
Skills: Abnormal Status Effect Chance Up, Abnormal Status Resist
Since the Job has Skills that are connected to inflicting and resisting abnormal statuses, then I guess that poisoning your target really has to be a condition that needs to be met in order to acquire it. It also has two effects, both of which grant small increases to interesting Stats. Since this Job affects both INT and SPI Stats respectively, then does that mean that Intelligence and Spirit can be affected by abnormal statuses other than poison?
Of course, Intelligence is related to magic, too. I have already tested it numerous times and concluded that my magic attack power increases with the increase in my INT Stat, and that’s always good. The more powerful my Spells are, the better. Since it also profits other Party Members, it is definitely going to be quite useful. This「Abnormal Status Resist」 Skill also looks really interesting.
The Assassin Job has two Skills that are related to abnormal statuses. One is 「Abnormal Status Resist」, and the second is 「Abnormal Status Effect Chance Up」.
Does that mean that one is related to attacks that inflict abnormal statuses when attacking, and the other protects against being inflicted with abnormal statuses yourself? If that is the case, then I guess I might need to use poison with my weapon in order for this Skill to be of any use, though.
「Abnormal Status Resist」is also a pretty attractive Skill, because if it works exactly how I think that it works, then it would mean that we would no longer have to be afraid of being inflicted with statuses like poison, paralysis or sleep. And even if it was a Skill that does not affect the entire Party, then as long as even one person would have their resistance to abnormal statuses increased, it would still make the overall survivability of the entire Party skyrocket.
The only downside that this Skill might have is that it might as well become useless or obsolete if we get our hands on the equipment that would have similar Skills or resistances embedded into it. Aside from that, and since those Skills might prove to be immensely useful to us, I think it wouldn’t hurt for me to try to acquire it for myself as well.
「All right. Let’s do an experiment.」
「Umm, what experiment would that be this time?」
「This time, the experiment would be to kill the monsters while using poison. Sherry, the monster native to the tenth floor of Haruba’s Labyrinth was NT Ant, right?」
「That’s right.」
I put all the items I took out back in my Item Box and head to the tenth floor of Haruba’s Labyrinth.
For the time being, Roxanne’s Job has been switched from Beast Warrior Lv.26 to Knight Lv.1. Her Stats are going to drop slightly because of that change, but overall, it shouldn’t affect her all that much since she rarely even gets hit thanks to her godly dodging abilities.
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