Accessorycraft
Intermediate 4
41%
Acrobatics
Intermediate 10
27%
Animal Handling
Intermediate 5
66%
Archery
Intermediate 10
6%
Athletics
Advanced 2
5%
Aura Manipulation
Beginner 9
65%
Bluff
Intermediate 10
38%
Cleaning
Beginner 10
59%
Climbing
Intermediate 2
75%
Cold Resistance
Beginner 10
61%
Compulsion Magic
Intermediate 5
45%
Contractual Magic
Intermediate 8
70%
Danger Sense
Intermediate 10
54%
Death Magic
Beginner 7
45%
Deception
Intermediate 10
20%
Disguise
Intermediate 5
54%
Dodge
Intermediate 10
12%
Eating
Intermediate 9
69%
Elementalist
Advanced 8
43%
Engineering
Intermediate 4
52%
Firearms
Beginner 6
37%
Flight
Intermediate 3
89%
Glasscraft
Beginner 6
53%
Gravity Magic
Intermediate 2
50%
Healing Magic
Advanced 3
6%
Heat Resistance
Intermediate 6
24%
Herbology
Intermediate 3
66%
Hypnotize
Intermediate 3
29%
Illusion Magic
Intermediate 10
70%
Insight
Advanced 3
30%
Life Magic
Intermediate 3
35%
Light Armor
Intermediate 2
37%
Magic Resistance
Intermediate 5
52%
Mana Sense
Intermediate 7
21%
Mental Fortitude
Advanced 4
43%
Merchant
Advanced 10
12%
Modeling
Intermediate 5
82%
Navigation
Intermediate 6
79%
Pain Tolerance
Advanced 1
15%
Perception
Advanced 3
11%
Perseverance
Intermediate 10
71%
Poison Resistance
Beginner 8
99%
Resilient
Intermediate 8
6%
Riding
Beginner 9
61%
Running
Intermediate 8
96%
Shock Resistance
Beginner 9
89%
Singing
Intermediate 2
20%
Sleight of Hand
Advanced 1
10%
Small Blades
Intermediate 8
91%
Spatial Magic
Intermediate 7
9%
Stealth
Intermediate 5
19%
Stun Resistance
Beginner 9
3%
Summoning Magic
Beginner 4
65%
Swimming
Beginner 6
77%
Tailoring
Intermediate 1
8%
Tracking
Beginner 10
86%
Unarmed Combat
Intermediate 9
2%
Walking
Advanced 1
20%
Well, it seemed merchant was now her highest skill, on the cusp of...whatever the next level was. She realized she didn’t know what the next level was, but figured she’d find out soon enough. It was interesting though, because two of the combined skills were at advanced 2 and 4, some of her highest. Apparently the learning curve got a lot steeper the further along you got. Made sense.
Elementalist was her next highest at advanced 8, and animal handling, athletics, healing, insight, mental fortitude, and perception all increased by one or two levels. Pain tolerance, sleight of hand, and walking had also broken the barrier into advanced. Climbing, gravity magic, life magic, spatial magic, and tailoring all broke into intermediate. Those were the most notable changes, though almost everything went up at least a level. Only compulsion magic, danger sense, herbology, magic resistance, modeling, perseverance, running, shock resistance, and small blades hadn’t gone up more than a few percent. Cleaning and firearms were the ones that didn’t change at all, but she hadn’t expected them to.
Satisfied that her progress was worth the pain, she finished up and went back to her room to make sure she didn’t forget anything. She thought about putting her little tree into her ring so she could pull it out for her babies, then rejected the idea and decided to grow them a new one because she still didn’t know the aftereffects of putting living things in spatial storages. Instead, she expanded her ring on impulse. Something made her feel like she would need it.
Thanks to Kaylee’s warning, she wasn’t totally surprised to find the common room packed as she walked down the stairs. They must’ve cancelled classes today, because aside from Raphael, Jessica, and Kaylee, she also saw Will, Camille, and Victor standing to one side, Eric, Stephen, Lucas, and Jarom with them. Jackson, Evan, and Adam stood with Ian, Mathis, Chloe, Travis, and Steven, and she was glad they’d become friendly after her introduction.
Tristan stood with Randal and Dante, and she figured the assistant teachers were sticking together. Carter, Brady, Delaney, Edmund, Rachtin, Eamonn, Aiden, Vincent, Shara, and even Morpheus stood from the table where they were sitting when she entered the room, and she smiled fondly at her teachers. She noticed Glen, Jayce, Angus, Seamus, Bryoni, Chase, Jeffrey, and even Kevin beaming happily at her behind them. Nearer the door stood Mike and Elisa holding hands and chatting with Sharon, little Tina, and Damien.
Nearly everyone she’d come to know and care about in the last week was there. Even though it was a solemn occasion, saying goodbye, hopefully not, but maybe for the last time...she had a bright smile on her face. In the quiet that descended on the room, she spoke gently, “Thank you all for coming to see me off.” She opened her mouth to continue, but found she didn’t know what to say. There were a few nervous chuckles before people started to move forward.
“Remember, you promised to come back safely. I’m holding you to that. And here, take this food with you. Heaven knows you’ll probably need it.” Jessica spoke for her and Kaylee, pushing a large bag into Jade’s arms, which she quickly deposited into her ring so she could hug them. Her conversations with the rest of the room were along a similar vein as they hugged her and told her to take care. Only Eric’s was noticeably different, with her giving him an extremely quick rundown of her new merchant skill and what went into it. She promised to keep in touch via her mirrors, which seemed to appease them somewhat.