#20Chapter 20 Job Change and Skill Purchase
That night, at the East China University, Azure Dragon Academy's Dean's office.
"First job change awakening?"
Looking up at the black-haired young man in front of him.
Student counselor Zhang Nanfeng lazily shook the mouse, waking up the computer screen in front of him, then casually asked, "What's the student ID number?"
"0587, Lin Ke."
"0587, Lin Ke..." repeating the information reported by the young man in front of him.
Zhang Nanfeng quickly entered the student ID number into the system, and then clicked query.
Zhang Nanfeng had handled this kind of work countless times. The entire Azure Dragon Academy had more than eight thousand students in four grades plus graduate students. Even for job changes, a major event that most students only experience once or twice in their entire college career, Zhang Nanfeng had to handle dozens of them every day.
Although running over to apply for a job change mission in the middle of the night was a bit annoying.
However, at the important node of job change, which can greatly enhance one's own strength and social status, it is understandable that some impatient professionals can't restrain their excitement.
Moreover, the operation is not troublesome. According to the previous procedure, after entering the academy number on the school program, as long as the corresponding student's information can be found in the academy system, he can open the authority of the awakening room and let the student enter the awakening room to use the awakening ball to receive the job change mission.
Besides that, he doesn't need to do any more work.
Tedious, it's really too tedious...
Named a counselor, but in reality, he repeats such tedious tasks day after day. Knowing this, he might as well have stayed in his hometown to farm.
The counselor, who couldn't muster any energy, lazily browsed the information on the computer, repeating the almost formulaic content: "Student ID number 0587, Lin Ke, a freshman awakener of Azure Dragon Academy, identity confirmed... Huh?? You're a freshman?"
Suddenly regaining his senses.
Zhang Nanfeng looked at the black-haired youth in front of him with a look of astonishment, and a burst of annoyance rose in his heart: "What job change mission are you, a freshman, running over to receive in the middle of the night?"
How many days have passed since the awakening ceremony for freshmen?
At most, it's only been two days. Now you're running over to receive a job change mission, are you making fun of me?
"Is there a rule that freshmen can't receive job change missions?" Lin Ke asked rhetorically.
"What did you say?" Zhang Nanfeng's nose was almost crooked: "Don't you know that the requirement for accepting a job change mission is level 10? You're a newbie who just awakened as a professional less than two days ago, how can your level be level 10?"
"Sorry, this involves personal privacy, it's not convenient to disclose." Lin Ke raised his face: "The information is confirmed, right? Then I'll go get the mission."
Saying that, Lin Ke went straight to the awakening room without looking back.
If the awakening stone wasn't a federal strategic resource and it was difficult to find other ways to contact the awakening ball in a short time, Lin Ke wouldn't have risked exposing himself to come here to argue.
The counselor Zhang Nanfeng looked at Lin Ke's swaggering figure with a dazed expression, and for a moment, he couldn't say anything to stop him.
Since he became the counselor in charge of the awakening ball at East China University, it was the first time a student dared to talk to him like this!!
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Just as Zhang Nanfeng was indignant.
Lin Ke, who had entered the awakening room on the other side, had already communicated with the mysterious power in the awakening ball.
[Ding, level detection passed, you have met the job change requirements, please select your job change direction.]
[1. Warrior
2. Swordsman
3. Knight
4. Scout
5. Hunter
6. Mage
7. Archer
8. Priest
9. Warlock
10. Summoner]
Strictly speaking, only after the first job change can there be a distinction in profession.
Those professionals who have not undergone a job change and call themselves knights or mages are only expressing their future professional development intentions and their own positioning, and cannot be called true knights or mages.
Only after completing the first job change, obtaining the additional attributes of the corresponding profession, and having the qualification to learn the skill book of the exclusive profession, can one be called a true professional.
Ten major professions.
Representing ten kinds of powers with completely different focuses, but there is no obvious advantage or disadvantage in the strength between professions. As long as the talent is compatible and the level is high enough, any profession can exert terrifying power.
So Lin Ke didn't hesitate and chose the priest in seconds!
[Ding, your job change direction is: Priest.]
[Priest, professional positioning: auxiliary, enhancement, main attributes are constitution and magic power.]
[First job change characteristics: Constitution attribute increased by 30 points, magic power attribute increased by 20 points, and thereafter, every level increase, constitution will increase by an additional 3 points, and magic power will increase by an additional 2 points.]
[Job change mission (1): Please collect bronze-level dungeon items.]
"As expected, just like the knowledge taught in school, the difficulty of job change missions before the gold level is not high. The first stage is mostly collecting items of the corresponding job change quality, and the second stage only requires killing a BOSS of the corresponding level."
Of course, the simpler the task looks, the more complicated it is in some ways.
Taking the collection of dungeon items as an example. It seems that there are no requirements for the level and quantity of the items except for limiting the quality of the items. That is to say, even if only one of the lowest-level bronze-level dungeon items is submitted, the first stage of collecting dungeon items can be completed.
But this does not mean that it is the best choice to just hand in a dungeon item and fool around.
Although the task does not clearly state that there are any extra rewards.
However, it is well known that after completing the job change mission, the job change system will give back a large amount of skill proficiency of the corresponding level to the professional based on the value of the dungeon items submitted by the professional!
Some wealthy professionals can even obtain enough proficiency to upgrade a bronze-level skill from level 0 to full level by 'recharging' after completing the first stage of the job change mission! It is precisely because of the existence of this group of unscrupulous professionals that those seemingly useless dungeon monster drops have a consistently strong market value.
Like the token of a bandit minion, it should theoretically be of no value at all, purely a material that takes up space in the bag.
But there are a group of alchemists who have mastered the alchemy skill who can synthesize 3 non-grade bandit minion tokens into a black iron-level bandit minion token, and then synthesize 3 black iron-level bandit minion tokens into a silver-level bandit minion token.
As long as the level of the alchemy skill is high enough and there are enough materials as consumables, even a stellar-level bandit minion token can be synthesized for you!
It is also for this reason that even though there are more than 100 million professionals in the entire federation frantically farming and dungeon crawling, and trillions of garbage materials can be produced every year, these garbage materials can still be sold at a price.
The second stage of the BOSS challenge mission is also the same.
A level 10 BOSS is just the basic requirement, and passing it can naturally complete your job change.
But if you have the ability to challenge a level 20 BOSS, a level 30 BOSS, or even a named BOSS and a wilderness lord, then the professional panel will not treat you badly, but will give a large amount of experience reward based on the strength gap between you and the BOSS.
Currently, the world record is that a rich second generation of a super consortium spent 500 million federal coins to hire an entire B-level battle group to hunt a level 25 wilderness lord. As soon as he completed the job change, he raised his level to level 15 in one breath through the extra reward of the job change mission!
This is also why the advantage of the clone in the simulation will quickly disappear after the job change. The clone in the simulation often can only complete the job change mission to the minimum extent due to being too poor, which leads to his skill proficiency being far behind others.
Often, the skill levels of other people in the team have exceeded level 5, but the clone is still hovering at level 2 or 3. Until the second job change is about to take place, the bronze-level skill proficiency of the clone is not as good as many rich second generations who have just completed a job change.
Admittedly, the difference in skill proficiency of just one or two levels has a negligible impact on strength, but if this gap reaches 4 or 5 levels, or even more than 5 levels, it is quite terrifying! It is no exaggeration to describe it as a world of difference.
Fortunately, Lin Ke's clone has the possibility of inheriting skill proficiency from the simulation. The currently lagging skills still have the opportunity to make up for it through simulation in the future, so there is no need to care too much.
As for Lin Ke's main body, what does he, who relies on clones for food, need so much skill proficiency for?
Don't really think that Lin Ke will stay at the bronze level for a long time, right? The current Lin Ke only took two days to complete a job change from a newbie professional. Who dares to say that the future Lin Ke cannot become a silver-level professional in two days?
Wouldn't it be better to directly farm silver-level or even gold-level skill proficiency at that time? Who still has time to practice bronze-level skills!
"Okay, the main reason is that my current financial resources do not allow me to be so extravagant."
Although Lin Ke made a fortune in the kobold nest before coming.
However, Lin Ke spends even more money!
Simulation costs money.
Reserving rewards for clones also costs money.
In addition, Lin Ke also wants to upgrade his clone's talent level, and in the future, he also wants to copy talents from the clone, and also buy skill books and equipment for himself, and reserve start-up funds for the clone in the simulation...
One thing after another, the ore worth a total of 500,000 federal coins in the kobold nest is not enough to spend at all.
Lin Ke also doesn't know how those traverser predecessors managed to spend money like water.
At least, based on the current situation, it is too difficult for him to earn federal coins through legal channels!
Although harvesting wealth from the kobold nest seems simple.
But low-difficulty monster gathering places like the kobold nest are hard to come by. That is, top clubs like the Iron Blood Society of East China University can find them. If it were an ordinary person, they might not encounter such a surprise in their entire life.
"Could it be that the only way out for civilians is through crooked ways?"
Thinking of the 'brilliant' achievement of the clone in the simulation, who can earn 300,000 federal coins a month through the convenience of his position as a police chief.
And then thinking of the poor life he is facing now...
Lin Ke, who was originally somewhat opposed to the clone not taking the right path, couldn't help but feel a little shaken in his heart at this moment.
Fortunately, this shaking was quickly extinguished by Lin Ke's sense of crisis.
In the current situation where the overall situation of the federation is still stable, the risk of obtaining money through illegal means is still too great.
Reality is not a simulation. The clone in the simulation can be bold and unrestrained because failure can be done again. At worst, it is just wasting a simulation opportunity.
But once you get involved in trouble in reality, it is really like having a fistula in your butt, and you can't close the door even if you want to.
Being temporarily poor is just being temporarily poor. Lin Ke doesn't believe that as the clone's strength continues to rise, he will still be stumped by money?
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That's how it is.
After completing the first stage of the job change mission with a level 0 bronze-level dungeon item worth only 160 federal coins.
Lin Ke was not in a hurry to start the second stage of the BOSS strategy mission, but went back to the dormitory and had a good night's sleep. The next morning, he began to put the ore obtained from the nest on the campus network to realize it.
Because the selling price was far lower than the average transaction price on the market, Lin Ke's ore sold very quickly, and was basically sold out in less than two hours.
After withdrawing all the income, Lin Ke's bank card balance came to 520,000!
This is undoubtedly a huge sum of money. The purchasing power of the federal currency in this world is almost equivalent to the RMB in the earth of the previous life. It is definitely an exciting thing for a freshman to earn so much money.
After having money, Lin Ke's first priority was to buy three basic skills that fit the priest's profession, namely Healing, Blessing, and Light Ball.
[Healing LV1: After chanting for 0.5 seconds, restores the hit points of a single target. The recovery value is determined by your constitution and magic power. Consumes 15 mana points, cooldown time 8s.]
[Blessing LV1: After chanting for 10 seconds, increases the attack power and defense power of a single target. The increase value and duration are determined by your constitution and magic power. Consumes 50 mana points, cooldown time 1 minute.]
[Light Ball LV1: Releases a light attribute energy ball to cause damage to the target, dealing double damage to dark, evil, and undead creatures. Consumes 15 mana points, cooldown time 8s.]
He also spent 50,000 federal coins to buy two priest profession bronze skill books and one warrior profession bronze skill book.
The priest profession bronze skill books are the passive skill Devout Faith and the active skill Holy Shield, while the warrior skill is called Massacre.
[Devout Faith (Passive): When your skill proficiency is full, your skill chanting time is reduced by 2.5 seconds, and skills with a chanting time of less than 2.5 seconds no longer need to be chanted.]
[Holy Shield LV1: Chants for 1.5 seconds to apply a protective holy shield to the target that can block damage. The blocking value is affected by your constitution and magic power. Consumes 50 mana points, cooldown time 30s.]
[Massacre LV1: Wields a weapon to deal physical damage to all targets within the surrounding range, and restores your own hit points based on the actual damage caused. Cooldown time: 25 seconds.]
I have to say that the clone's life in the simulation is quite miserable.
The Silver Warrior possesses 5 Black Iron skill slots, 3 Bronze skill slots, 2 Silver skill slots, and 1 Gold skill slot.
However, due to extreme poverty, let alone learning Gold-level skills or filling the Silver-level slots, until the end of the simulation, the clone only had the Bronze-level skill 'Bullying,' with two Bronze skill slots remaining empty.
Even with the addition of 'Slaughter All,' the clone still lacked one Bronze-level skill. The reason for not immediately filling that slot was because Link wanted to reserve it for the clone in the simulation to choose based on the situation.
As for Silver-level skills...
He couldn't afford them, simply couldn't afford them.
Even the cheapest Silver Warrior skill cost a staggering 200,000 Federation Credits, and its practicality was extremely poor, incomparable to the Silver Aura the clone bought in the simulation.
As for the price of Silver Aura...
Link glanced at it, then immediately closed the website.
Lowest price across the entire network: 1,150,000 Federation Credits!