NOVEL NEXT Chapter 33: The Most Awaited Upgrade
As for Big Uke, Tama and Smallest Kiki, Lukas changed their names to make it easier for him and to give them a little more standing in the tribe. Those who had Big, small, smallest, etc were basically those who did not have enough recognition in the tribe. Once they achieved something, they would be given a name by the shaman or the tribe's chief.
Tama was the only one in the three who had enough reputation but it wasn't for the reasons Lukas wanted. Known as the flower of the tribe, her destiny was fixed to be betrothed to a man of another tribe in exchange for various resources.
Big Uke was now Uke, Tama continued with the same name while Smallest Kiki became Kiki.
'Uke, Tama and Kiki. Nice.' Lukas thought as he nodded to himself before giving each of them a secondary job while also changing their primaries to suit their stats.
[Status Screen]
Name: Uke
Status: Healthy
Mana Heart: Active (F)
Primary Job: Berserker
Secondary Job: Warrior
Unique Skills:
Stoic Mind: Negates all low level mental effects and grants resistance to high level mental effects.
Skills:
Poison Resistance (A), Boosted Immunity (A+), Wild Instinct (B), Berserk (FFF), Berserker's Roar (FFF)
[Stats]
Strength: 32
Speed: 27
Endurance: 31
Durability: 35
Vitality: 28
Dexterity: 19
Perception: 35
Mana: 13
[Status Screen]
Name: Tama
Status: Healthy
Mana Heart: Active (F)
Primary Job: Hunter
Secondary Job: Apothecary
Unique Skills:
Keen Eye: Ability to absorb immense information through sight.
Skills:
Poison Resistance (A), Boosted Immunity (S), Wild Instinct (C), Trap (FFF), Camouflage (FFF)
[Stats]
Strength: 19
Speed: 42
Endurance: 28
Durability: 24
Vitality: 43
Dexterity: 54
Perception: 49
Mana: 11
[Status Screen]
Name: Kiki
Status: Healthy
Mana Heart: Active (F)
Primary Job: Warrior
Secondary Job: Guardian
Unique Skills:
Thick Skin: Incoming damage will be reduced by 20%
Skills:
Poison Resistance (A+), Boosted Immunity (A), Wild Instinct (S), Blessing (FFF), Guardian's Retaliation (FFF)
[Stats]
Strength: 29
Speed: 28
Endurance: 32
Durability: 49
Vitality: 45
Dexterity: 28
Perception: 31
Mana: 14
Lukas then moved on to look at the jobs and their skills.
[Primary Job: Berserker]
Grants +10% Strength and 50% Endurance
[Secondary Job: Warrior]
Grants +50% Strength
[Primary Job: Hunter]
Grants +50% Dexterity
[Secondary Job: Apothecary]
Grants +10% Perception and knowledge of various plants. The medicines made will have a higher potency.
[Primary Job: Warrior]
Grants +100% Strength
[Secondary Job: Guardian]
Grants +100% Durability and +50% Perception
Berserk (FFF): Reduce Durability by 10 and increase Strength by 10. You lose your sense of logic and rationality, operating mostly on instinct.
Berserker's Roar (FFF): Reduce the Strength, Durability and Endurance of everyone around you by 5.
Trap (FFF): Create and place traps. You will instinctively know where to place traps.
Camouflage (FFF): Use the environment around you to hide.
Blessing (FFF): Bless everyone around you with +10 on all stats. The blessing applies to the user too.
Guardian's Retaliation (FFF): Increase Endurance by 10% and reduce incoming damage by 5% for 10 seconds. After this, increase all stats by 25% for 10 seconds.
Lukas compared Guardian to Hero and saw that there wasn't much of a difference. Other than a change of names, everything else was exactly the same. The descriptions, the passive job buffs or the active skill buffs, every single thing was the same.
For the Hero, Blessing was called Hero's Blessing and Gurardian's Retaliation was called the Hero's Retaliation. The stat increases remained the same except, there was only one change in retaliation.
Hero's retaliation had a duration of 1 minute after the 10 seconds of endurance and damage reduction boosts. Apart from that, the skill was directly an SSS Rank instead of a mere FFF rank that every other person got once their classes were changed.
Hero's Retaliation (SSS): Increase Endurance by 2000% and reduce incoming damage by 80% for 10 seconds. After this, increase all stats by 5000% for 60 seconds.
'SSS ranked stuff really is over powered…' Lukas thought as he let out a soft sigh before looking at the group of seven people in front.
"Raise your heads, it's time to celebrate. Everyone, it's time to eat!" he said as he eagerly looked at the still steaming meat in front.
The 'chosen ones' got to their feet and and grabbed a handful of meat with their bare hands and brought it to their mouths. Lukas stood in place as he took in the sight for a few moments before shaking his head.
'Right… they have a high level immunity and poison resistance too.' he thought as he grabbed two hind legs of the untouched lamb and brought them to Nina. Then, he picked up a pot of steaming hot rice and poured all of it on a large leaf that was washed with water.
After making two sections, he began to eat. The rice was slightly overcooked as he could feel the mushiness. There was still a bit of moisture stuck to the rice but he didn't make any complaints since he had taken the lazy route and had the inexperienced ones make it for the first time.
'I shouldn't expect perfection.' he thought as he glanced at Nina who silently ate her section of rice while taking small bites of lamb meat in between. The only problem was that it kept slipping off the bone and after a minute or two, the whole meaty part was on the cooked rice while Nina held the bare bone.
She pursed her lips as she put the bone on the side before focusing on the rice.
Lukas shifted his attention back to his food as he stuffed himself. It wasn't as flavourful as he wanted it to be but it was perfectly seasoned. The pepper and salt ratio was perfection and the meat helped with the blandness of the rice.
Midway through his meal, he heard a familiar sound inside his head and saw a screen appear in front.
[Ding! Receiving feedback for the food.]
[Congratulations, the accumulated positive feedback has been condensed and merged with the Divine Farm.]
[Congratulations, Divine Farm's rank has been increased from E+ to D!]
[Ding! All plants and creatures in Divine Farm will undergo an increase in rank!]
[Unlocked new ability, Automatic Processing.]
Seeing the rows of notifications, Lukas couldn't help but smile.
'Finally, Rank D. It's time for permanent stats!'