But for a Slime

One strange thing he did notice was that metropolitan did have a unique unlock. It appeared that people could only unlock the metropolitan job if they lived in a city. He didn't really notice it until he had taken the time one night to go over the available jobs tab and studied each job and clicked on each one, studying what was shown there. He was quite certain that there was no information there until he had actually unlocked and leveled up the job at least one level. This certainty increased when he looked at and saw the same notice for the villager job, except it specified needing to live in a village. None of the other jobs had this caveat and he had been certain that he had studied the job listing carefully when he was choosing his first new job after reaching twenty with commoner. Huh… they keep things hidden until you figure it out… What's the point of a help system that won't show you any help until you actually do it? Joe fumed with some frustration when he realized this but then let it go. There was little he could do, but he did learn a valuable piece of information. Some jobs only opened after the person completed a specific task. I hope there's a way to figure it all out!

Despite all these new pieces of information, the only unique thing about today to mark it any different from the previous days was simply that he now had to make a decision. Every currently available job to him was now level five. He had to decide what to do next. It seemed obvious to him that metropolitan would reveal many more jobs, but he wasn't sure how high he had to get it. If commoner needed twenty to open up villager jobs, Joe could only assume that metropolitan would also need that, at minimum! Playing with the numbers he had now, he came out to needing thirty three days to go from level five to level twenty, which was much better than the forty days he needed just to level the final five levels to twenty for commoner!

Thirty three days to hit twenty excited him, but he didn't want to waste so much time only to get what amounted to as a base two points per stat. Thirty three days to do that seemed foolish, especially when he ran the numbers and learned he could take a little over twenty four days to level all of his current level five jobs to level ten, and gain another half a point per job: another eight points per stat just for the stats which were only getting the basic one per level anyway! Several of them, like miner, were giving quite a bit more points in some stats, and he wouldn't be surprised if he would get around another ten points or more. With that boost, leveling to twenty on metropolitan might turn out to be even faster and he would have a better spread of stats as well. His base stats were quite significant now, especially considering what they were originally, and Joe felt like he was on the right path. His growth was substantial in the last few days, and he really couldn't deny it.

Even now, he could feel the days had become longer and a bit warmer, and Joe didn't feel comfortable wasting the longer days he gained from summer. His calculations showed him taking about one and a half days to get from level five to ten, a far cry from the five or so days he originally needed. He was pretty sure a part of that was his much greater skill in slime killing, but the biggest part of that was the fact that his learning was now starting in the double digits; a significant boost. It would be a lot faster if I could get out more slimes… we lose a bit of time hunting them down… they all seem to be coming from the same place… hmm… Maybe find the source?

Joe considered his options and decided that making it to level ten in his current jobs would be worth it, giving him a stronger foundation for his stats and a much quicker trip through the next jobs that would come along. He ran the numbers, guesstimating what he would have for learning if all his jobs were level ten, and he realized that making it to level fifteen would only take five days for his jobs, and the final push to twenty would only take twenty three days, or a total of around twenty eight days. Huh… really not a lot of difference. Maybe I should… No! I've got to remember… I need the stats. That's what I need. What would I have if… Joe ran the numbers again really quick, extrapolating out everything to ten and was shocked to see many of his noncombat stats approaching thirty and with the addition of any jobs basic level ten stats, he was over a third of the way to what he saw as the minimum one hundred points for his stats. Incredible! Even if I just got about forty or fifty jobs to level ten, I'd be done! Right? Of course, if I wanted to start a new level zero job, I'll be in trouble… hmm… for future growth, I think I need to stick to my original plan. Get my stats to around a hundred, although with how easy this is turning out to be, I think I'll push to at least equal my current Earth stats!