BMN Chapter 13 (Patreon)

Chapter 13: Choosing a Job and Copying Skills

As for the initial 1,000 Eris fee, the Adventurer's Guild simply waived it as a negligible amount.

However, Bai Luo paid an additional 1,000 Eris for Ogerpon's appraisal.

"Eh?"

"You want to appraise this little one?"

Luna seemed puzzled, but if Bai Luo wanted to spend the money, she couldn't refuse him.

She first handed cards to both Bai Luo and Ogerpon, then began explaining the nature of adventurers to them.

"Please examine this section of the card. Do you see an item labeled 'Level'?"

Luna explained, "As you both know, various things in this world contain hidden souls."

"No matter what kind of existence it is, as long as it consumes or defeats a living being—that is, terminates some form of life activity—it can absorb part of that being's soul memory, which we collectively call 'experience points'."

"These experience points are generally invisible to the naked eye," Luna continued, "but as long as you hold this card, the experience points absorbed by the adventurer will be displayed on it, along with the corresponding level."

"This serves as the standard for measuring an adventurer's strength, and the number of defeated targets will also be recorded here."

"And as experience points accumulate, various creatures will suddenly experience rapid growth one day. This is known as surpassing the high wall of leveling up."

Simply put, leveling up provided various benefits—gaining skill points to learn new abilities and enhancing one's stats.

"Pon-Pon, do you feel anything?"

Bai Luo glanced at his own card and noticed the attribute values displayed were vastly different from the Cardinal World system he knew.

Without a reference point, Bai Luo couldn't quite interpret them.

As for Ogerpon...

After touching her card, it showed no reaction whatsoever—remaining completely blank.

"Eh?"

"Is the card malfunctioning?"

Miss Luna was thoroughly confused. She initially suspected the card was defective.

But after replacing it with a new one, the result remained the same.

Logically, this situation should never occur under any circumstances.

Even summoned creatures or visitors from other worlds would have their soul values appraised and displayed on the card due to this world's rules.

However, Ogerpon's situation exceeded Luna's understanding.

"How strange. I've never encountered anything like this before."

"This child... what exactly is she?"

Ogerpon wasn't a creature of the KonoSuba world—she was an outsider from both the Cardinal World and the Pokémon world.

To put it more simply, Ogerpon was enveloped by the Cardinal World's laws.

This prevented the KonoSuba world's rules from penetrating this protective barrier to examine her information, only able to treat her as Bai Luo's accessory—an existence considered one with him.

It was precisely because of this that if Ogerpon were to unleash her power, the KonoSuba world would hold Bai Luo jointly responsible and expel them both.

"It's probably because this child is my familiar."

"Even for familiars, the card should still..."

Luna muttered under her breath, but since it involved Bai Luo's privacy, she didn't probe further. "May I examine your card, sir?"

"Of course, here you go."

Luna took Bai Luo's card and, sure enough, found the 'Familiar' notation in his attribute column.

While Ogerpon wasn't recognized individually, Bai Luo was considered legitimate in the KonoSuba world's eyes.

Through Bai Luo, the KonoSuba world easily identified Ogerpon as his familiar.

The familiar 'Ogerpon' noted in his attribute column provided perfect proof!

"It seems this little one is quite a remarkable familiar."

Luna didn't investigate further—prying into others' privacy was unprofessional.

As a guild receptionist, she understood well that saying too much led to mistakes and that one shouldn't speak deeply with strangers.

"Next, please fill in your height, weight, age, physical characteristics, and other details on this form, Mr. Bai Luo."

With Luna's assistance, Bai Luo completed all the required information.

"Excellent, that's everything."

"Now, Mr. Bai Luo, please touch this stone tablet, and it will reveal your various ability parameters."

Luna explained, "Then, please choose your desired job based on these values."

"Finally!"

The two things Bai Luo most anticipated from his KonoSuba journey were Aqua's cheat ability and this world's job system.

Although he already possessed the Copier skill for learning, Bai Luo still desired a proper job.

Because jobs provided attribute improvements.

The Cardinal World gave Bai Luo magicules, and Copier provided skills.

But magicules only affected Existence Value.

They weren't strongly related to individual strength, speed, and other physical attributes.

Aside from physiological armor and skin, the demons of the Cardinal World relied on various passive traits. There was no setting where higher levels resulted in increasingly monstrous physical strength.

For this type of power, Bai Luo could only seek it in other worlds.

His first stop was KonoSuba's job system!

"Your strength, vitality, magic power, dexterity, and agility are all excellent."

Luna recommended, "With such attributes, you can directly choose one of the advanced jobs."

The basic attributes of a C-rank Cardinal World being were also considered elite in the KonoSuba world.

The advanced jobs Luna mentioned included classes like Crusader, Sword Master, Archpriest, Archmage, and similar positions. 

Bai Luo didn't choose immediately, but carefully asked Luna for information about these advanced jobs.

Luna proved herself a true professional, patiently and thoroughly explaining each job's advantages, disadvantages, and characteristics.

"Are you certain you want to become a Martial Artist?"

Luna said, "With all due respect, among physical jobs, the Martial Artist's defense doesn't match a Crusader's, and its attack power falls short of a Sword Master's."

"Yes."

The job Bai Luo ultimately chose was the physical melee class called Martial Artist.

His reasoning was that the attributes this job could improve with each level-up were exactly what he needed most currently.

Health, Strength, Agility, Dexterity...

While the Martial Artist's improvement in each area didn't surpass other advanced jobs, its strength lay in balance.

In Bai Luo's plan, he could increase his Existence Value through dependents like Pon-Pon, thereby continuously boosting his magicules.

When activating the skill card earlier, Bai Luo had noticed something important.

Every adventurer accumulated initial experience points when first changing jobs.

After all, it was impossible for someone to reach adulthood without gaining any experience.

For example, Aqua in the original story had accumulated numerous skill points when she first became an adventurer.

The reason was Aqua's inherently high level.

Just like Bai Luo now—his stored experience points exceeded 30,000, roughly ten times his Existence Value.

Using magicules to raise his level in the KonoSuba world wouldn't make his existing magicules disappear.

The original magical power from his magicules remained unchanged—it was as if an extra set of attributes and skills were added atop his Cardinal World status panel.

Additionally, the KonoSuba world's experience point system differed from traditional online games.

Information from Luna indicated that reaching level 100 required approximately 1 million experience points.

Of course, while the maximum level was fixed, the gap between different level 100 characters could be greater than the difference between humans and dogs, due to varying starting points, choices, jobs, learned skills, and growth potential.

Leader increases magicules, magicules convert to experience points, which raise the Martial Artist job level for attribute gains.

And those skill points can all go toward the most cost-effective abilities.

The skills Bai Luo obtained through his copy ability all started at level 1. To improve them, he could only use skill points.

Hmm, this follows KonoSuba world rules.

I wonder what changes will occur when I bring these skills back.

This didn't concern Bai Luo much. He hadn't chosen the copy ability primarily for KonoSuba skills anyway.

The true purpose of Copier lay in the worlds he'd visit in the future.

Copying the special abilities of different worlds and making them his own—that was the correct application of Copier.

"Well then, please take your skill card and carefully choose the abilities you want to learn. If you wish to undertake a quest, you can visit the notice board and select one you like."

"Yes, thank you for your assistance, Miss Luna."

In this short time, Bai Luo had already grown comfortable with Luna.

He took Ogerpon and left the counter, pulling out his skill card to examine the various skills available to a Martial Artist.

"Before adding any points, let me copy all the skills I can."

With this plan in mind, Bai Luo chose a long table. He ordered food and, while dining with Ogerpon, used his appraisal skill to observe the adventurers in the hall.

【Defense】【Steal】【Haste】【Cross Slash】【One-Handed Sword Mastery】【Beginner Magic】...

All sorts of skills, though mostly low-level, also included advanced abilities requiring numerous skill points to learn.

The only disappointment was that this was merely a beginner town in the KonoSuba world, and adventurer levels were generally modest...

"Eh?"

Bai Luo noticed a figure in the guild. He examined the character panel that appeared:

[Name: Yunyun]
[Job: Archmage]
[Mastered Skills: Advanced Magic, Intermediate Magic, Teleport, High-Speed Chanting, Multi-Spell, Magic Power Boost…] 【TN: Yunyun is an Archmage from the Crimson Demon Clan and Megumin's self-proclaimed rival in KonoSuba】

"Advanced Magic?"

The magic system in the KonoSuba world differed from the common understanding of Fireball, Heal, Wind Blade, and similar spells.

The magic here resembled the Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Wisdom skills from Heroes of Might and Magic.

The skill 【Advanced Magic】 itself required 30 skill points and the advanced Archmage job.

After learning Advanced Magic, an Archmage could freely record various powerful destructive spells.

Improving the Advanced Magic skill level would also increase the power of corresponding high-level spells.

In essence, it was a specialization approach.

A mage didn't need to know dozens or hundreds of spells but would unlock the Advanced Magic skill and then specialize in practicing certain powerful spells.

This wasn't a game world. For the same Fireball spell, how many you cast, when, and from what angle all depended on the adventurer's skill.

Such a mechanism was perfect for Bai Luo!

No Archmage job requirement?

It doesn't matter!

Copier: Time to act!

Without hesitation, Bai Luo copied every skill Yunyun currently possessed, leaving none behind.

"By the way, since Yunyun is here, where's Megumin?"

Bai Luo wouldn't forget the most powerful Explosion Magic in all of KonoSuba. 【TN: Megumin specializes exclusively in Explosion Magic】

Soon, he spotted a certain chuunibyou little loli from the Crimson Demon Clan.

Copier: Copying initiated... Copying complete!

Done!

Bai Luo mentally gave himself a thumbs-up, thinking this trip had truly yielded a magnificent harvest.

Dozens of jobs, over 100 skills.

He'd even found a fellow who'd also chosen the Martial Artist job in the crowd and copied all the Martial Artist abilities, saving himself numerous skill points.

As expected of KonoSuba's beginner town—it's full of talent!

The new Martial Artist job, the method of converting magicules into experience points for basic attribute improvement.

And the bug-like unique skill, Copier.

"Next, let me consider which skills to level up."

"Over 30,000 experience points can raise me to level 15 after conversion."

Martial Artist was an advanced job. Beyond the basic 15 skill points, each level-up provided an additional 2 skill points.

Beginner jobs had no bonus, intermediate jobs offered 1 extra point, and advanced jobs provided 2 extra points.

This created clear gaps between adventurers.

"45 skill points for raising skill levels..."

Different skills had limited improvement potential and would display as lv1, lv2, and so forth.

When a skill reached maximum level, it would show as MAX, indicating it had reached its limit and couldn't be improved further.

"Skill points are limited, so they must be used wisely."

Bai Luo scanned his acquired skills. Excluding passive abilities that couldn't be improved, his attention focused on those providing percentage-based boosts.

For example, the magic-type 【High-Speed Chanting】.

【High-Speed Chanting lv1】: Reduces casting time by 10%

A simple description, but incredibly powerful!

It didn't increase casting speed but reduced casting time instead.

A spell originally requiring 10 seconds could be shortened to 9 seconds after learning this skill.

If raised to lv10, it would enable instant casting!

"This skill must be maxed out."

Similar to 【High-Speed Chanting】 was 【Multi-Spell】. 

【Multi-Spell lv1】: Can cast two spells simultaneously

At lv2, he could cast 3 spells at once.

Seeing this skill, Bai Luo could already envision casting hundreds of fireballs simultaneously with Chain Fireball (Intermediate Magic), combined with Multi-Spell.

"So far, everything has proceeded very smoothly."

Bai Luo had no intention of involving himself in the KonoSuba plot. He needed to grow stronger as quickly as possible, and life in KonoSuba was too comfortable.

This place was better suited for Bai Luo to use for supply replenishment rather than strength improvement.

Were there wild monsters to fight in the KonoSuba world?

Bai Luo's answer was—insufficient!

The number of wild monsters in KonoSuba was too limited.

In this world, consuming food that provided large amounts of experience points was the optimal leveling method.

Defeating monsters was more about solving problems and handling quest requests.

Moreover, even reaching level 100 only represented 1 million experience points.

Converted to magicules, that was approximately 100,000, possibly even lower.

The specific conversion rate would need to be determined after Bai Luo leveled up by fighting monsters here in KonoSuba and returned to the Cardinal World once.

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