Chapter 7: lla Vocation
“You ready lla?”
We stood outside the Access Terminal, the only one within the city.
“Hm Hm!” She viciously nodded her head.
I watched as her eyes excitedly glanced at the entrance of the building.
“Are you sure you’re not going to tell beforehand?”
“C—-oooo—rect!”
This hurt.
I waited a few monts as the ti neared when lla had to enter for her appointnt.
The Access Terminal was a very busy place, every day soone turned sixteen and wanted to get their Vocations as soon as possible. And lla was by no ans an exception to that, but before she went in there was sothing I needed to tell her.
“Just make sure you pick one you want.” I crouched slightly to be eye level, “not for so sort of job or obligation but cause you like it.”
lla froze for a second before returning a warm smile, “Okay! Sis.”
Tyell ended up choosing [Package Runner]. One of the weirder vocations like [Frequent Shopper] and [Trickstar].
A Carrier Vocation with small storage space, enhanced movent and low mana growth. It sounded alright to so and so a few people chose it as a sort of middle ground between work-related and self enjoynt. Even though the low mana developnt was a negative factor for both fields.
“See you later Elly!”
“Nah!” poking my tongue out, then I laughed “Rather see you sooner!”
lla pouted before chuckling and jogging into the building.
Now I had ti to spare. I went into the lounge area, found a chair and picked up a pair of interactive glasses to do so snooping.
Technology varied from planet to planet, as so places had preferences. Averon and Earth both heavily used interactive contacts and glasses (Inter-CGs). While Esteless the 4th went the way of implants. tous was quite old fashioned in that sense but we still used full dive VR and were more advanced in our portable devices technology.
None of the technology was banned, so people on tous did use implants and Inter-CGs but only one in about every hundred. Inter-CGs were more commonly used as guides or magazines on tous, which one could pick up when exploring a location.
I quickly scrolled through the massive list of Vocations available while lla was picking hers.
Stargazer, Stargazer, found it…
Even since I chose [Stargazer] I was always curious if it was originally available. Sadly yes. Reading the description I didn’t find any ntion of Starlight, even in similar Vocations [Star Painter] and [Star Traveller]. All three just ntioned being able to manipulate Light energy to a lesser extent than [Light Mage].
So I’m currently one of a kind, neat!
Knowing the creation thod of Starlight and how finicky it was as an energy, I could understand why it hadn’t been found yet–I doubted it was the only one. I had no plans to spread this information–unless for maybe a good price–but overall I’d rather keep it secret, I wasn’t planning to stay in this peaceful place forever.
Besides Starlight, other details on the Vocation were lacking. Its description stated it was minor light manipulator vocations with navigational skills.
The thod of how they created the Access Terminal was a ‘secret’, but everyone ‘knew’ the basics.
Over five hundred years, they were able to add starting Vocations–the ones an individual can choose without any prior experience levelling. It required having people who could choose those Vocations–one of the reasons why the process was known–involved.
Certain upgraded Vocations were also added but I had assud–along with the majority of people–that most couldn’t be due to so issue. [Furious Breaker] was the Advance Vocation of a famous Hero during the conquering of tous. Vocations that were gained from an upgrade were known as Advance Vocations–another human-given term.
So sohow [Furious Breaker] was accessible in the Access Terminal but [Blitz Combat dic] the Advance Vocation of Mile Hoover–an ally of the user of [Furious Breaker]–wasn’t available even though it wasn’t dangerous.
Speaking of dangerous. Many Vocations were known to be within the Access Terminal database but were inaccessible due to being ‘Problematic’.
These involved ntal manipulation, extre self-harming or promoting hostile activities. It was possible to get around these restrictions with permission, but getting your hands on that pass was nigh impossible for anyone below thirty-nine.
[Frequent Shopper] was a comical famous example of a banned ntal manipulator Vocation. A Carrier Vocation that had storage capabilities but also gained one interesting skill. [Returning Discount] was a skill that convinces people to give a discount if the user had visited the sa store–any place that sold goods–a certain number of tis within a set period of ti.
Self Harming only consisted of a small group of Vocations. A few where one manipulated their blood and so Enhancers possessed a little bit too much recoil.
Hostile activities sounded broad but in reality, only covered a few known Vocations.
Vocations containing skills that involved killing or disabling humans, rewarding indiscriminate killing, or unchecked destructive rampages. I checked and [Fated Vengeance] was a part of this banned grouping.
Quite a few of these Vocations that were banned for such reasons had their information hidden from the public. The idea was if people didn’t know the requirents–so Vocations required individuals to experience certain things–they wouldn’t try going for it if they got the opportunity to pick their Vocation outside a suitable facility.
Going back to my original train of thought. At so point, soone else possessed the [Stargazer] Vocation.
Then that person or soone else later down the line should’ve tried developing the skillset of the Vocation. Which was how they created this description. Still, it seed the previous users of [Stargazer] and similar Vocations–[Star Painter] and [Star Walker]–didn’t experience the Vocation purpose and utilise its affinities anywhere near enough.
Haaaa, I got to thank Espr for giving this information for ‘free’.
I tried doing so research if the information I learnt on the Dungeon Planet was correct–from my testing, it seed to be–but humanity was a little further behind in its understanding of Vocations than they probably ever expected.
They had correct ideas but we’ve stumbled when dealing with their growth and developnt.
While I continued my stroll through the database of information. Comparing my own knowledge with whatever I could find. lla returned after only ten minutes.
Due to noticing being ‘distracted’, she tried sneaking along the wall. Stealthy moving like a proper ninja.
“Is this soon enough?” lla flicked the glasses off my head from behind. Extrely smug she truly thought she had gotten away with it. Hehehe, poor girl.
“I guess so,” I shrugged. Floating the glasses up and throwing them right back into the stand.
“...How did you do that?”
“Maybe I’ll teach you one little child.”
lla walked around the chair and was now facing , “I’m sixteen.”
“You’re also eleven years younger than , so your point is invalid.”
“That’s not how age works,” lla stamped her foot.
“And?” I questioned.
“Haaaaaaaaa…” lla sighed before pouting in realisation, “When are you going to ask about my Vocation.”
“Oh, what was that?” Yes, I was bullying her because of the failed act earlier, “I couldn’t hear you.”
“My… Vocations.”
I smiled, “So… what did you pick?” My grin widened in anticipation, “Or are you just going to leave your big sister waiting.”
Her mood jumped right back up to positive 100%. Proudly declaring, “hehehe, I picked [Warm Wind Mage]!”
[Wind Mage] was a very standard choice, by no ans a bad one, but I wasn’t sure exactly what a [Warm Wind Mage] did. My guesses were a [Fire]-[Wind] mix mage, or a [Wind] mage with a focus on nature.
I chuckled, “Sounds cool, but you are going to need to give a little bit more than that.”
“Sure…If you teach how to throw.” She dared to bargain with ?!
“Finneeee, you got yourself a deal. But I am also teaching you [Quick Step], it is family tradition after all.”
Her eyes widened in order of excitent, fondness then fear. “A–agreed.”
Coughing first to clear her throat, “[Warm Wind Mage] provides [Wind] and [Fire] energies. Hehe, we match!” Over emphasising the ‘[Fire]’ caused a warm smile to try forming on my face, so I let it.
Cute.
Seeing how I wasn’t going to reply for ti being she continued “It also can provide comfort skills and.. minor healing”–lla's eyes unconsciously darted to the gap between my gloves and sleeves–“So cool isn’t it!”
Doing a quick spin she waited for to provide her praise.
I’m glad she chose one she felt passion for. The excitent clearly visible in her eyes made butterflies sing in my stomach.
I gave a quick positive review of the Vocation in my head. A wide range of abilities huh? Healing, Fire, Wind. Three different pathways give a lot of freedom. Just need to make sure she keeps the effort up, her base soul is much bigger than mine so she should have gotten a few skills to start with.
A wider range of abilities ant individuals had to spend more effort to get certain types of skills. Compared to a Vocation focusing on one thing ant that it was easier to gain skills related to the Vocation.
For when I had [Fire Mage], any fire-related skills were easily gained, but I had to train a lot more to gain subskills after I chose [Stargazer].
Vocations similar to [Warm Wind Mage] usually ant each person had more diverse skill sets. Besides a select few skills–considered the core skills–nothing was set in stone with what skills one would receive.
The fire skills I gained when levelling through [Fire Mage] varied from a couple of people I knew. One had a couple of utility fire magic skills while another actually had a defensive.
“Oh amazing, I’m really happy for you!” I stood up and hugged her, then ssed up her hair and sat back down, “Though I thought you picked a [Thief] or [Shadow Dancer].”
Not understanding what I second for exactly 1.5 seconds. lla’s face flushed rose red embarrassnt.
“W-w-w-a-i–t-t-t you-sa–w that!”
“Are you upset?”
lla loudly whispers while pouting, “Why’d you let get away with it if you were watching!”
“I don’t see the problem here?”
“Arghhh! You owe ice cream!” I didn’t understand her logic…. But I went along with it, her birthday after all. Don’t worry lla, we are going to have a lot of fun at the gym later, hehe.
The day after lla Stella’s birthday. Tyell was up early and had long left for work.
It was weird for him to say goodbye as he left. Usually, everyone was asleep but now Ceella had returned, she spent most of her night laying on the front or back veranda.
Does she even sleep anymore?
He knew more mana made people need to sleep less but Ceella’s wide-open stares into the night sky creeped him out. Not only that, sotis his skill reacted negatively when she was around.
He did worry for his sister's sanity but he took it as she just needed ti to get comfortable with modern life again. Tyell tried to glean so information from where she had been, but the only conclusion was that it was sowhere dangerous.
His main job was serving drinks but in addition, he needed to help with the opening setup of the store when on the opening shift.
Tyell had already been setting up the counter for a while when the other worker entered the store.
“*Yawn* morning Tyell, always here early ain’t ya.” Miraculous shorter than Tyell, the blond lady three years his senior wore a purple hood and black jeans.
“Morning Elly, it would’ve been great if you showed up on ti.”
Elly was a friend of Tyell. They t six years ago during Tyell’s party phase. She had never t the rest of Tyell’s family as the two only interact before and after work, after becoming friends. Tyell wasn’t talkative about his social life at ho either.
“Nah!” She began helping, her orange eyes checking out Tyell “Looking tired again, what’s got you hooked this ti?”
“Nothing major, sister got her Vocation recently so just been dealing with that.”
“You sure? Need to predict your fate again? It probably won’t be anything good, but at least you will know that” she poked his arm repeatedly.
Elly Vocation was [Diviner], one that in most people's eyes was useless.
[Diviner]’s whole gimmick was that it tried to predict the future. However, the future wasn’t set in stone and [Diviner]s couldn’t choose exactly what they wanted to try and predict. But she had an uncanny gift, her divinations had a 40% correct rate
Tyell found Elly to be a good friend, his only two gripes were she could be an arse and her na was too similar to his sister's nickna.
“Nope… I don’t need them anymore.”
“Whatever.”
Tyell only ever asked for a prediction a few tis. The major occurrences were after Ceella’s disappearance and his father’s death. Which the forr predicted, which led to him choosing his current occupation.
“You rats, everything prepared we’re opening in thirty minutes,” a loud voice echoed through the shop as a large man wearing a black top and shorts walked in.
“Course.”
“Yes, yes.”
Tyell and Elly responded.
Mikey was the owner of the bar. Tyell got on well enough with him. He needed to otherwise life would’ve been much harder.
As the two were finishing up the prep, Mikey joined in the conversation by starting one of his own, “Did you hear, a PLS return to tous? Crazy right?”
“I an it happens.” Tyell was certain they were referring to Ceella. He hadn’t told anyone about his sister's return and had no plans to.
“Yeah it ‘happens’, once every average ten years but none have co back in over thirty-four,” said Elly.
“Well, fewer people go missing in space so it balances out.”
“Fewer people get recorded missing little brat.”
“Then those get automatically reported missing.” The governnt across all major planets were always concerned about the goings on in space and did their best to ensure if sothing did go wrong, people knew about it.
“Trust kid, I’ve known it to happen to people.”
“Well you are right, just those people are already criminals with fake identities.”
“He’s got you there,” Elly yelled out.
The chatter didn’t last much longer as there was less than an hour before opening ti. However then twenty minutes before the morning shift started, “Tyell.” Mikey called his na out from the backroom.
Tyell stopped what he was doing and went to visit, “Yes sir?”
“I got a job for you, needs to be done in five.”
“Now? Isn’t this pushing it?”
“Yeah, but stuff’s getting busy of late across the board. So the unexpected happens, but that’s not important. What is, do you accept?”
“Yes,” Tyell replied.
“Good, the money will be in the safe when you get back. Be quick and largely unnoticed.”
“Right,” Tyell walked into a nearby cupboard and changed clothes. Wearing different shoes, and a long dark hooded jumper and tracksuit pants.
Na: Tyell Stella | Race: [Human]
Level 62 | Awakened
Mana: 100%
Vocation: [Package Runner]
Skills:
- [Pockettory]
- [Quick Step]
- [Alert]
- [Retain Stamina]
- [Quiet Step]
- [Quick Hide]
- [I Belong Here]
- [Pain Reduction]
- [Hit & Run]
Tyell walked to the back exit. Before he left Elly called out, “Hey Tyell, be careful of fire.”
“Course,” he replied without looking back.
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