Waiting for her brother, Nina kept looking at the horizon, hoping to see a silhouette of the priest that went inside the house to save her brother. And not even an hour later, she saw two boys coming towards her with tears in their eyes.
"Brother!"(Nina)
One of them was her brother, and another was her brother's friend. Both of them had been gone missing for more than a day in that house, and given how missing people are generally considered in this world, Nina was extremely happy to see her brother alive right now.
"Nina," her brother looked at her with a worried gaze before checking for any wounds on her. And finding that she was fine, he sighed in relief before turning back,
"Thank yo-"
But the priest that saved them along with the other kidnapped people was nowhere to see.
That boy searched for his traces but seeing how he was gone, he simply sighed before turning back to Nina, who seemed a bit confused as well.
"Nina. Have you eaten anything?" He spoke thanking that priest in his heart, hoping to pay back someday in the future.
…
Meanwhile, Noah was currently walking through the other places where he was needed.
[Karma: 270]
Saving all those people gave a huge amount of Karma to Noah, making him smile a bit. And since he had this much, he decided to buy a healing skill for now. As for which one to take,
[Leave it to me.](Elios)
As if already knowing which one to pick up, Elios chose a spell that he thought would be the best for the current situation.
[You have Purchased Focused Heal for 100 Karma!]
[Focused Healing(F)
Effects: Rapidly heals the focused area at the cost of 1MP per second. Can heal most minor wounds, relieving pain and fatigue. The speed of healing depends upon the focus of the user!]
A simple spell but…
[Your Side Job Resonates!]
[Vital Drain!(F)
Effects: Allows the user to drain the life force of a target, increasing his own Health in the process! 10% MP and HP can be generated from the amount of life lost from the enemy!]
And then there was this…
[Skill Points: 4 -> 1]
[Focused Healing -> Purification(D)
Effects:
-Rapidly heals the focused area at the cost of 10 MP per second. Can heal all minor wounds, relieving pain and fatigue.The speed of healing depends upon the focus of the user!
-Can remove curses if the user has knowledge of the type of the curse inflicted!]
[Vital Drain -> Vampirism!(D)
Effects:
-Allows the user to drain the life force of a target, returning 33% of the life taken to himself. A Maximum of 100 HP and MP can be generated at once.
-If the target is weaker than the user, the user can force a temporary command on that target.]
[SO COOL!!!!](Elios)
Elios seemed to be happy about it, but Noah had another question popped in his mind by now. He pondered about a few things regarding his side job and then questioned.
'Is it really a necromancer based job? I used to think they deal with undead and stuff.'(Noah)
[Create undead, huh? Well that is true. Most of the Necromancers prefer to create an undead who would fight for them than to do it themselves. Though I doubt we would encounter a spell like that unless we ourselves go and look for it.](Elios)
'Meaning?'(Noah)
[Well. In simple terms, if we keep on learning spells like [Heal] [Bless] etc we will most probably get something like [Decay] and [Curse]. It's necromancy but not something that will help us create undead. In fact, it's hard to think of a holy spell that is opposite to an undead summon, you know?](Elios)
[On the other hand, if we go and research dark magic, we should be able to learn undead summon with ease. Especially with our affinity to dark magic.](Elios)
"That makes sense, I guess," Noah nodded, agreeing to Elios' words. Even though he could learn stuff like that, he would rather prefer fighting on his own. It's a good skill to have, but not something to die for.
Though Elios' next words puzzled him a bit.
[Although there is something similar, I think we need to check out affinity first.](Elios)
'??'(Noah)
[It's not the same as Holy Magic, but there is something called Spirit Magic. It's rare and is found in the Land of the Elves. Since we have our affinity with light and dark, if we can learn to summon Light spirits somehow, maybe we can get something similar to summon undead? It's honestly a far fetched idea though.](Elios)
"That's good and all but let's focus on the task now," Noah said as he looked at the house from where the request came from.
And then using [Focused Healing] one by one, he was able to heal all the people that required his help. It honestly didn't even take 20% of his total HP doing so.
Though it wasn't all that he did. Since helping people was going to reward him with more Karma, Noah went one step further and did additional tasks related to the one that requested for help.
To some, he helped with the dishes, to others he fixed some broken furniture and pipes. With some he even helped with finding their cats and such. It was two, or even three times more than what he should have done but in the end…
[Total Karma: 1000]
It was worth it.
"Thank you young priest."
"You can have these apples."
"Here take these bandages with you."
"Next time you want to buy some clothes, you can ask me! I will give you a huge discount!"
Perhaps because of his additional service and continued work throughout the day, his name became known just on the first day.
All those people and their families waved at Noah as he walked away from there with a bunch of things in his hand. Though Noah wasn't the type of person to have things to himself…
He moved to a nearby alley where the poor children were playing with each other. Looking at the priest with a bunch of bandages and apples in his hand, they all became confused.
"Here. You can share these among yourself."(Noah)
It was enough to make all the children smile brightly before they ran towards Noah, who then divided them equally between the children.
"Thank you sir Priest!!!!"
All the children thanked Noah before they laughed and went to their homes to share the food.
As for Noah, he simply left from there before he reached to report today's findings.
"Hmmm. A kidnapping incident, huh? Good thing the adventurers were there. Be careful next time, Elios."(Yuna)
And then the day break came to an end as Noah checked his Karma Points once again.
[Karma Points: 1050!]
[Is there anything particular you want or should I do whatever I want?](Elios)
There was still time before that demon hunting Job, and Noah wanted to prepare for it at least. The fact that he could have lost his life today if the circumstances were different left a bitter taste in his mouth.
"Can you focus the upgrades on my physical aspects this time?" Noah asked hoping to be at least performing better than he did today's morning.