Main Volume Chapter 87: Desert City
Zhang Yun: “???”
Seeing Zhang Yun's confused face, Lucina covered her mouth and smiled: "Look at you, you are good at both literature and martial arts, and you can also cook, and the food is delicious."
"You can easily deal with any natural disasters you encounter along the way, whether it's a violent storm or hot quicksand."
"And those troublesome enemies are no match for you. You can deal with them all in no time..."
Zhang Yun interrupted, "Stop, stop, stop! I say, Yutiel, are you praising me or insulting me?"
Lucina pursed her lips: "Of course I'm praising you!"
"no."
"Then please explain."
"What does it mean to be the world's number one butler?"
"So I, a summoner, am so unbearable in your eyes? I am just a housekeeper who can do all the dirty work? A servant who is as lowly as dust?"
"It really makes me sad."
Lucina laughed. "Hahaha! No! I was just imitating your way of speaking! That's what?"
"Make complaints?"
"I remember you said this: the essence of Tucao is to find a key point or keyword in the other person's words and deeds as a starting point, and then express your feelings or doubts with a teasing tone."
Zhang Yun covered her forehead with her hands: "So you are complaining that I can do everything, like an all-powerful butler?"
"I thought you were insulting me, saying that I was the ultimate tool..."
Lucina pouted: "Of course not...By the way, what does the ultimate tool man mean?"
Zhang Yun coughed and explained, "The ultimate tool man? How should I put it? First separate the two words. Ultimate is one word, and tool man is another word."
"The ultimate explanation is that it means the strongest, or the best in the world. If we put it together again, it means the best tool in the world."
"And the tool man means..."
"This word has a lot of meanings. It can be interpreted as different meanings in different scenarios. It's hard to explain, so I won't say what it means."
"You will understand it slowly~"
Lucina angrily said, "Hey!?"
At this time, Brother Zun, who was resting with his eyes closed, suddenly interrupted and said something shocking: "A tool person means that you don't think of him normally, but when you need him, you will think of him and use him to help you solve your problems. When the tool person can no longer be used, you kick him and let him go."
"It's just like a tool, which is usually kept in the warehouse and gathers dust. Only when you need it will you remember it, then take it out and use it to help you do your work."
"If you don't use it, you'll probably never remember it exists."
Lucina suddenly realized: "Oh! So that's it! I understand a little bit now!"
Zhang Yun: “…”
Huh? What? Brother Zun? Where did you get this meaning from? Is your explanation correct? Even Lucina understood it?
And why did you suddenly explain...
At this moment, Lucina suddenly looked at Zhang Yun and said angrily, "Well, Zhang Yun, you actually think I'm the kind of person who treats my companions as tools and throws them away after using them?"
Zhang Yun quickly denied: "What? Didn't I say that the word tool man has many meanings? Brother Zun only said one of them, and I said another."
Lucina stared at him closely: "Then tell me! What do you mean by tool man?"
Zhang Yun explained: "It's similar to a housekeeper, but the relationship is specifically for acquaintances. It's like a friend who takes care of all the chores, such as sweeping the floor, washing clothes, cooking, warming the bed... ahem, anyway, as long as it can be done, it will all be left to that friend to do. He is just a tool."
"Actually, it can be understood as a joke. For example, if I say that I am a novice professional who can't even defeat a low-level monster..."
After a long conversation, Zhang Yun explained the meaning of "tool man" as some people in their previous life self-deprecatingly called it, instead of the meaning of "suck-up" as most people understood it, so as to prevent Lucina, who did not understand modern culture, from misunderstanding and causing unnecessary misunderstandings.
Lucina listened with great interest, absorbing this fresh and interesting knowledge and secretly adding it to her own library of complaints.
Hahaha, tool man, the more I hear this term, the more interesting it seems. I really don’t know who invented it…
In this way, Lucina learned and understood very quickly because she was very interested in the new words uttered by Zhang Yun.
As a result, in the following days, she would often say "tool man" or other words that Zhang Yun taught her, such as "handsome boy", "shrimp catcher", "Sukabuli", "group sex", etc.
And her speaking style is becoming more and more like Zhang Yun, full of modern popular elements.
At the same time, the topics of conversation between the two people became more and more abnormal...
After spending about ten days in the desert, the caravan finally found a desert city built next to an oasis, which was also the only city on the way to the holy city.
This is a city with scarce resources, but also a city with abundant resources, because what it lacks are basic supplies such as cloth and porcelain, but what it has in abundance are rare magical beasts roaming around in the desert, magic stones buried in the sand, and other very valuable things.
Merchants from all over the world come and go in it, often exchanging things from the outside world for magical beasts and magic stones in the desert, maintaining the supplies and economy of the desert city and providing sufficient food and water.
Therefore, the lord who occupied this place issued a death order that all residents in the city were not allowed to attack any caravans that entered. Anyone who violated the order would be directly skinned alive and thrown into the desert to feed the monsters...
The caravans entered, replenished their food and water, and sold some of the goods they carried to the residents of the city, making a small profit.
This took quite a long time, a full three days, so Zhang Yun and Lucina walked around the city, ate all the delicious food in the city, and watched all the local performances in the city.
At the same time, Zhang Yun took some time to study her career system.
In previous games, if players wanted to get a profession, they had to go to the profession temple and pray to the statues of different professions, then choose their own profession, and then complete the profession tasks issued by the statues to obtain profession attributes and skills.
If players do not go to the profession temple, they will not be able to obtain a profession, and their profession level will always be stuck at level 0, and the profession levels of their followers will also be stuck at level 10.
In this real alien world, there is no such thing as a professional temple. Ordinary people can become professionals by picking up the corresponding weapons. After special training and with certain talents, they can change from the lowest-level novice professionals to low-level professionals, and then to intermediate professionals, senior professionals, and so on.
However, this title is not something that can be given to those who feel they have reached a sufficient level. One must go to a professional guild for special assessments before obtaining the corresponding title and being recognized by others.
It is just like the examination in the previous life. No matter whether your ability has reached the level of the world's number one hacker, you must first pass the first level computer examination, then the second, third, and fourth levels, before you can obtain the final certificate and be recognized by certain institutions that judge people by certificates.
This is not a troublesome thing, and the certification obtained after completing the assessment is very practical. It can avoid a lot of troubles and also bring many benefits and advantages, such as being recruited by dignitaries and becoming a noble knight.
Therefore, anyone who has reached the required level of strength will take the time to go through the process at the professional guild and receive a badge that represents their true strength at this stage.
However, there are also thugs like those in the Land of Chaos who will not waste time participating in any assessments, but will rely entirely on actual combat to recognize their own and their enemies' strengths.
But they will still look at the professional badges worn by others, especially the "level" displayed on them, to avoid angering external bosses and ultimately losing their lives.
Most of the trouble-avoidance mentioned before is of this kind, which can prevent the interruption of some people with bad intentions...
Zhang Yun did not find a professional temple in this world, nor did he have a professional scroll that could directly add a profession to himself, so he could only try his luck in the professional guild in the desert city to see if he could get his own profession from there.
When Zhang Yun arrived at the professional guild, he found that there were a lot of people inside, and they were all professionals with a high professional level, around level 20 on average, and some had reached level 30 or even level 40.
At this moment, they were sitting on chairs in the guild hall, drinking beer with each other, and from time to time looking at the walls covered with notices of various Warcraft bounties.
"this?"
"A professional guild also takes on some part-time work for the mercenary guild?"
Zhang Yun didn't pay too much attention to the bounty on the wall. After all, he was not short of money now, and his main task was to go to the Holy City. He would not stay here and waste time looking for those desert monsters.
He came to the front desk, looked at the muscular man who was sitting there constantly wiping his wine glass, and whispered, "Brother, I want to get a professional badge, but I don't know the rules. Can you teach me the process?"
After saying that, Zhang Yun took out a gold coin and threw it on the table with a clang sound.
The muscular man glanced at the gold coins spinning on the table, then raised his head and looked at Zhang Yun carefully. He put down his wine glass, walked to the open small door next to him, and waved: "Follow me."
The muscular man left the gold coins on the table without taking them. The man standing next to him drinking took a look at the gold coins, swallowed subconsciously, then tilted his head decisively and looked away absent-mindedly.
Zhang Yun expressed her understanding of this, because the big man who looked like a monster in the muscle modification department was a super strong man with a professional and personal level of more than 45.
If this drunken level 20 guy steals the gold coins, he probably won't survive a day and will be torn into two by this muscular man, just like the exciting scenes in the legendary TV series that Zhang Yun watched in her previous life .
After walking into the door, there is a long corridor with no one inside. There are six small doors embedded in the white walls next to it, and a large door at the innermost of the corridor.
The muscular man took Zhang Yun to the innermost part and pushed open the heavy door, revealing a huge training ground, slowly moving magic puppets, and various weapons hanging on the shelves.
"Whatever profession you want to be, just use the corresponding weapon to chop the magic puppet. When you chop down the magic puppet, come to me and I will take you to test your level and talent." The muscular man explained the process and sat on a stool beside him, putting his right hand on his knee to support his half-bent upper waist.
At this moment, a system prompt popped up in front of Zhang Yun, which was a task issued by the system.
【New! 】
【Trigger a new task! 】
[Career Mission——Choose.]
[Task Introduction: You come to the professional guild, and the person in charge of the professional guild gives you the opportunity to choose your own career. Please seize this moment and choose the career that you most want to be. ]
[Mission Objective: Choose the profession you want to be (only one)]
[Task Reward: Career System Open.]
…
Yo huh?
Career mission?
Do you really want to get a job here?
Well, however, since the way to obtain the profession system has been changed, why can't I learn a few more professions? It seems that there are multiple professions in this world...
After thinking about it, Zhang Yun turned around, looked at the muscular man, and asked, "Can I choose a few more weapons?"
The muscular man said casually: "Yes, as long as you can use those weapons to knock down a magic puppet respectively, you can learn several professions at the same time. If you can use all the weapons to knock down a magic puppet, you can also use all the weapons and become an all-round professional."
"But you have to think it through."
"Everyone has different talents, time is limited, and the power in the body is not infinite."
"If you want to become an all-round professional, you may not be able to learn anything well, and become an extremely mediocre low-level professional, and will always be a low-level professional..."
The muscular man's reminder is very clear. One should not be too greedy. The fewer careers each person chooses, the better, and specializing in one is the best option.
If you learn too much, you will have no time to hone your skills. The result of all-round development will be mediocrity. Moreover, a part of your body's strength will be dispersed among various professions, resulting in a decline in overall strength.
Zhang Yun understood this statement. Just like Brother Zun's inheritance, "Dark Devil Swordsman", opened up a new sword-related profession for him, but did not increase his professional attributes at all. The points remained the same as before.
If Zhang Yun were to learn five or six professions at once, the total amount of his professional attributes would not increase, but would be dispersed among these professions.
Originally a swordsman has 10 points of strength. If he learns three professions, it will become 4 points for swordsman, 4 points for warrior, and 2 points for mage.
When the time comes, no matter which profession he uses to fight, the attached professional attributes will change according to the corresponding situation. For example, a single-professional swordsman will use all 10 points of strength, but now when he uses a sword to fight, only the swordsman's 4 points of strength will be effective, and the 6 points of strength of the warrior and mage will not be effective.
Uh, okay, it seems that not only I am restricted by my profession, but others are also restricted. If I want to have multiple professions and skills, my attributes will be reduced...
Then there's no way.
You can only choose one profession from all the professions.
In that case...
Then let’s choose the profession that we have always used!
