The next morning I went to the old man’s cla.s.sroom. When I entered, Claire was already there munching. She was sitting down in her usual chair, and had an open lunchbox filled with leaves and was pulling them out to eat.
“……”
“…..” As I had my hand on the doork.n.o.b, Claire had stopped, a leaf halfway to her open mouth.
“It’s you.”
“Good morning, Callus-kun!”
“So, has the munching become a habit?”
“Th-that’s not it! I have to do something to increase my level to the point where I can change jobs from Hairy Caterpillar.”
“Is that so?”
“It’s the truth, the truth!” replied Claire desperately.
Now I see that it’s necessary…. In order for her to change jobs. At that moment, the old man entered from the interior of the house. As usual, he’s in senility mode. I mentally quipped at the idiot.
I reached Dragon level 3. My new skill was a wind-based breath weapon. When today’s cla.s.s ends, I plan on trying it out.
“Wilf-sama, I have a question?”
“What is it?”
“What’s the highest level someone can reach?”
“Good question. I was intending to talk about that soon, and this is a good as a time as any to do so.”
““Yes please.””
Claire and I lowered our heads. At this time, we can respect our teacher.
“There are two answers to that question. The Total Level most likely doesn’t have an upper limit. It’s not known how high it can reach.”
“It’s that likely?”
“You see, no one knows what the upper limit actually is. In recorded history, the highest a human has reached is level 130, while the average demon can reach level 200, and a greater one get to level 300. Past that, I do not know.”
“I see….”
“Compared to a demon, a human’s level is low, why is that? For two reasons. I will tell you the first now.” hearing what the old man said, Claire and I stared at him.
“Yes! The reason is that levelling becomes more difficult the higher it gets.” I remembered hearing something similar when I talked to Claire earlier.
“Well then, remember this. The second part has to do with life spans.”
“Life spans?”
“People have a shorter life span than a demon, and as we get older, we decline. Those are the two reasons.” I see. In the first place, the time period one can train in is short, and does the decline come early as well? Compared to the demons, we would have a lower Total Level than them.
“After that, each job has its upper limit. Once that is reached, it is impossible to level normally.”
“Really?”
“For every job with a max level of 100, there is also a job with a max level of 1.”
Is that so?
In this old man’s lesson today, I finally understood something. However, is with 100 or 200? But however, I feel like there’s something more to this. I came to a realisation.
“What level is Wilf-sama, if I might ask?” I heard Claire say.
“……”
“Wilf-sama?”
Grandmother, I’ve not finished my rice yet.”
“You ate that yesterday, old man!” That cliched retort brought today’s lesson to a close.
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I left the old man’s house and thought, (As for me, I attend the old man’s cla.s.s, and my level increases somehow or other. It seems I could become as powerful as a greater demon if I attend cla.s.s for around half a year. In a year, I could be the strongest in history.)
……hey, wasn’t it—- Is there a limit to how many jobs one can have at their highest level? For me right now, I have ninja and dragon, but I do not know what their upper limits are. If I were to hit the max level for one of them, I would not be able to raise my Total Level anymore. My thoughts went to the cave we explored yesterday to find a job change item for Claire by hunting pillings.
“Callus-kun.” I hear a voice call out from behind me. It’s Claire. It seems that it came from the old man’s house.
“What is it?”
“Umm, Callus-kun, what are you doing….. after cla.s.s? If you want, we could go to register at the guild right now.”
“Guild registration?” I’ve just learned something new.
“I received that job change item from you yesterday, Callus-kun. Because of that, I want to be able to enter the cave for training, because you need to be in the guild to enter it.”
Is that so?
“So I want to register, and I wanted to know if….. Callus-kun wanted to go with me.” Claire’s pestering makes sense. Her eyes have the same look as the pet I used to keep in my parents home in my previous life. She hugged me. Well, taking yesterday into consideration, it isn’t surprising, wouldn’t you think?
“I understand, let’s go together.”
“—-! Thank you!”
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We left the village and walked for about thirty minutes. We went to a neighbouring town called Gordon. It was certainly different from what I had been expecting. Claire led me into the guild building to register.
“What are you doing miss? This is not a place for children.” Said the woman behind the counter. She looked down and despisingly saw us as children. Is she really that blind? Anyway, Claire was all business in her speech.
“I want to register the two of us in the guild.”
“You two?”
“Yes!”
“Pu!” exclaimed the woman as she compared Claire and I, and began to laugh suddenly.
“Go home, this isn’t a playground for children.” I was offended.
“We have come of age.”
“Right, right, you’re adults now.”
“Pardon my language in front of children who have just had their ceremonies, but the guild requires registrants to be at least level 10.”
“Ugh…..”
Claire groans. I can’t support her, as she’s still level 1.
“My level is over 10.”
“Wha?”
“Eh?” Both the woman and Claire were surprised.
“What sort of foolishness are you saying?”
“It’s true! Callus-kun was level 9 yesterday, but for him to go up so suddenly—-”
“Wait, What?” The woman’s expression changed. It changed at the same we heard Claire’s response. As I listened, she stared at me.
“Are you really over level 10?”
“It’s just 10, actually.”
“Wait a minute.” The woman disappeared behind the counter, and returned almost immediately. A gla.s.s of water is presented to me.
“Take this. Try to imagine your levels. Your Job levels, that is.”
“I just have to think about it?”
“That’s right.” “I understand.” Holding the gla.s.s, I closed my eyes. I found that it was easy to visualise. Ninja level 7, Dragon level 3.
“Ohh.” I opened my eyes when I hear Claire speak. The water that had been clear had just turned orange.
“Going past red into orange……. This boy is really level 10?” I saw that the woman could not quite believe it.
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