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Book 6: Chapter 26
Book 6: Chapter 26
Kay blinked down at the notification. He’d thought there were at least one Skill in both Expert Cartographer and Expert Mapmaker that hadn’t reached level thirty-nine and neither of those Skills were related to making a magical blood mapping artifact. Those were the only Classes he had that were even close to tiering up too, so it had to be them. He mentally focused on the notification and made it expand to give him more information.
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- For creating a new type of enchanted item you receive one free level up in a Skill of a related Class!
- Skill: Effective Communication has reached level 39!
- Class: Expert Mapmaker is ready to tier up!
- Tier V Classes Available!
- For creating a new unique artifact you receive one free level up in a Skill of a related Class!
- Skill: Sharpened Memory has reached level 39!
- Class: Expert Cartographer is ready to tier up!
- Tier V Classes Available!
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Kay’s eyes went wide. “That’s a thing?” He demanded of the empty air, or maybe the System. Like usual, it didn’t respond, which was both annoying and worrying. His Quest to help or save the Seramist isles had vanished at some point when he was on the ship back to Avalon, but he hadn’t received a reward for it and trying to get the System’s attention about it hadn’t done anything.
Shaking off that line of thought, since there literally wasn’t anything he could do about it, Kay turned his attention back to his notifications. Effective Communication and Sharpened Memory had both been giving him trouble with the last level up he needed to get to thirty-nine, because both of them were aggravating Skills that were hard to use. Effective Communication made it easier for Kay to create things that could be easily read or otherwise interpreted, but since it came with one of his map making Classes, it mostly only worked with maps. There was some overflow into other areas of his life, like giving orders or writing messages, but it mainly worked on maps and charts, which made it hard to level. There was only so much that a map really needed to convey and finding new ways to convey that information or new things to convey had gotten harder and harder the more he’d leveled the Skill.
The same was true of Sharpened Memory, for mostly the same reasons. His memory overall was generally better thanks to it, but he really remembered terrain, topography, geography, and locations with the Skill, and remembering the same places better didn’t give him any levels. He needed to find new places and explore them in order to remember how they were and then he would level the Skill, at least from his experiences so far. Creating a brand new kind of item and also a new unique artifact giving Skill levels as a reward was a brand new thing he hadn’t heard of before this, but he wasn’t going to look the gift horse in the mouth. A new tier five Class, even if it wasn’t a Combat Class, was a big boost to his effective power for the fight to come.
He happily opened the list of possible tier five Classes to peruse.
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- Available Tier V Classes:
- Self-Possessed Mapper
- Blood-Ink Mapmaker
- Blood-Ink Cartographer
- Blood-Ink Mapper
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- Blood-Scrawl Cartographer
- Blood Scrawl Mapper
- This Skill automatically activates when the user uses any form of blood as ink to draw a map, chart, or any other medium through which navigational data is conveyed visually. This Skill provides permanent effects to the medium created based on the medium, they type of blood used as ink, the being the blood was sourced from, the location of the being at the time the blood was sourced, and the area being depicted. This Skill constantly draws mana at a slow rate while being used.
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Doubts crept back up as Kay read about Blood-Ink Mapper. Should he take two tier five Classes? They’d probably synergize pretty well, he’d get two bursts of mana infusing his body, and he’d get the Class Creator title to upgrade twice... Shaking his head Kay overturned his previous decision and went back to read Blood-Ink Mapmaker and Blood-Ink Cartographer.
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Class: Blood-Ink Mapmaker (Combination of Expert Mapmaker + Blood Manipulator)
- Maps are an art form, as much as any painting, any drawing, or any tapestry. There is art in telling those who see your works that “here be dragons” whether that is with words or pictures and whether or not there are literal dragons there. Maps show safety, passage, travel, danger, opportunities, victories, losses, and so much more. Maps are life, and so is blood. Why would you not use the very source of life to transform art into majesty?
Class Skill: Paint the Map with Blood
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Class Skill: Paint the Map with Blood
- This Skill automatically activates when the user uses any form of blood as ink to draw a map or chart. This Skill provides permanent effects to the map or chart based the type of blood used as ink, the being the blood was sourced from, the location of the being at the time the blood was sourced and the area being depicted. This Skill constantly draws mana at a slow rate while being used.
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Class: Blood-Ink Cartographer (Combination of Expert Cartographer + Blood Manipulator)
- Your blood pounds in your veins as you climb that next hill, summit that next mountain, and cross that next river. Each new place seen is a new place to depict so that others can follow and see the same beauty that is out there. Your blood carries in it the mark of every view you’ve ever seen, and the same can be said of any other living thing. Those marks, yours and others, should be spread to the world for all to see, with the blood that carries those marks as the tool to convey the sights.
Class Skill: Sketch Your View in Blood
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Class Skill: Sketch Your View in Blood
- This Skill automatically activates when the user uses any form of blood as ink to draw a map, chart, or any other medium through which navigational data is conveyed visually, while the area being depicted is in sight of the user. This Skill provides permanent effects to the medium created based on the medium, they type of blood used as ink, the being the blood was sourced from, the location of the being at the time the blood was sourced, and the area being depicted. The closer the being that the blood used as ink was sourced from was to the area being depicted when the blood was sourced, excepting the user, the stronger the effects may be. This Skill constantly draws mana at a slow rate while being used.
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Kay had definitely been right about what the differences between the various options were, at least when it came to the Classes that used only Expert Cartographer or Expert Mapmaker as opposed to both. The differences in their Class Skills centered around the same concept that divided the variants. Maps as art meant versus maps as only a means of navigation or a third point that refused the divide and tried to do both, or perhaps one or the other when circumstances forced one’s hand and it wasn’t possible to do both.
He quickly looked at the “Blood-Scrawl” options and saw that they were combinations in the same vein as the Blood-Ink Classes but they included Blood Shaper in the mix and focused on making the entire map out of blood, not just as the ink. Otherwise they were identical to the Blood-Ink variants. All of the Classes were good, but none of them really spoke to him. Thankfully, he still had two options left to check before he had to really start thinking about what he was going to chose.