episode_0041

[ Job promotion is possible! ]

[Do you want to proceed with the promotion?]

After finishing cooking, I returned to the dormitory and started getting ready, when a message suddenly popped into my mind, it was a message I hadn’t seen in a very long time.

Yeah, that message box I saw twice before, from just a villager to a ‘really cool’ villager.

What kind of promotion is this all of a sudden? I wonder what kind of job title will come out this time.

Honestly, I don’t think they’ll give me a particularly good job since they’ve shown me this much.

I guess the anticipation is just the anticipation of how much of a hassle it will be.

“Okay. Go ahead.”

Since Marty was just going down to his house, he expressed his intention to be promoted out loud.

I was trying to end the night quietly for the first time in a while, but it really wasn’t like that.

[ You agree to the job promotion! ]

[ Promotion in progress! ]

[To upgrade, you need the titles ’50 Million Swings’ and ‘You Can Move Here!’ . ]

[You will be promoted immediately once you obtain a suitable title, so please make an effort to obtain a suitable title.]

Huh? What’s going on?

This time, instead of saying you have the right title, you’re telling me to work towards getting it?

Roughly speaking, 50 million swings seems like the equivalent of swinging the sword that much…

It seems that if you move here using movement magic and move somewhere, you will naturally obtain the title.

By the way, have you been a bit lazy with your training lately?

“But can you at least show us how many times you swung it?”

Honestly, doesn’t the game also allow you to check how much progress you’ve made by telling you how many trees or stones to dig up?

Well, in most cases, the number of swings starts counting from the time you start receiving the quest and earning the title, so it might be 0 right away, but this isn’t something you start from the beginning and proceed with, you guys!

I think I’ve swung it at least 10 million times, if not 50 million times.

If you don’t show it, I don’t know how you can follow the title.

No, but more than that, why do you suddenly need those titles to give such a great job?

“You shouldn’t expect much, Miss.”

These guys have a tendency to make people expect something and then throw them into a hole, so you should never have high expectations of them.

Even though I’ve been promoted twice in my job, I’ve never been able to escape being a villager, so this time I might become a ‘really awesome villager’.

Besides, what good is there in getting a job promotion?!

It’s not cool! And I don’t know what effect it has!

I don’t understand why they don’t show the stats window even though they said it was a status window!

Oh, I really don’t know.

Let’s wake up and think about it.

Anyway, it’s not like I’m going to go out and swing my sword 50 million times and then sit back and do it.

***

As Theo fell asleep, a new, translucent window appeared in front of him.

[When this job promotion is completed, the ‘Stat Window’ function will be unlocked!]

[You can check the progress of 50 million swings!]

[ You can move here! You can check the progress! ]

Theo was already asleep so he couldn’t see it, but the message window kept blinking as if to tell him that the system wasn’t all that unfriendly.

The morning is so bright.

“… Oh, what’s going on? You even tell me all this.”

Theo checked the notification window and felt as if he was on fire for the first time in a long time.

It is true that I worked harder than I do now before entering the academy because I didn’t know how much I had to do to get in.

Now, after having a practice match with Iris once since we last met, I have only been studying the theory.

“First, check 50 million swings.”

[ 50 million swings ]

[ 48,567,022 / 50,000,000 ]

“What, I swung my sword more than I thought?”

Theo thought he had only swung it about ten million times and thought he had a long way to go, but he was surprised by the number that was counting higher than he had expected.

But that was to be expected.

The amount of swordsmanship training Theo had done with Duncan before entering the Academy was equivalent to what most people would do over several years.

That meant Theo was doing something that would take years to wield, but he did it without a problem for a few months.

Although he had achieved such great things, he was unaware of it.

Anyone who had watched Theo’s training would have asked why he hadn’t done 50 million times yet, as Theo’s training was so difficult and intense.

“Hmm, then there are about 1.5 million left, so let’s try hard starting today. Oh, before we go, let’s check something else first. You can move here. Check that too.”

[ You can move here! ]

[ 150Km / 2000Km ]

“Hmm, it hasn’t been that long.”

In fact, I didn’t really use movement magic that much.

Most of the moving was done by Estelle.

“I guess I should first achieve the swing and then do it slowly. Oh, no. Should I do it now? Then… ”

If it were normal, walking to the nearest training center would be my daily routine.

Anyway, since I couldn’t control my magic well if I used it myself, I would get motion sickness, and since I had only tried it to the extent of moving from one end of my parents’ field to the other, I couldn’t really gauge how far I could go.

“I wish I could make it to the training center.”

First, set your target as the training ground and slowly begin to surround your body with magical power.

The magical power breath was still like breathing, so it felt more refined than before.

“Ah, let’s go!”

In general, compared to other magic, there are no specific spells or complex chants that need to be memorized for movement magic, so it is common for each person to use a convenient spell to move whenever necessary.

So the magic is activated and the next moment, Theo is standing there.

“Oh, it’s further than I thought, but it turned out well?”

It was inside the training center where I had been planning to move from the beginning.

Since the training center is open to the public at all times, it is usually full of students, but today, perhaps because it is the weekend, it was quite quiet except for one or two teams using it.

“What, that guy just showed up all of a sudden?”

“Ouch! Hey, that guy is that guy! The Crown Princess and the Saintess…!”

“Wow, awesome! I get to see a popular person like this!”

The third-year students were in the middle of practicing in the training grounds, but the rumor about Theo had already spread throughout the academy, and even the third-year students knew of his existence.

“Should I ask you to sign it?”

“Ah, I don’t think you’ll do it.”

“Honestly, if it were me, I wouldn’t do it.”

The men were whispering amongst themselves while looking at Theo.

“Well, I’m not that good of a person to sign or anything.”

I was so excited that I ended up not whispering at all.

“Ouch! Oh, I guess you heard us… !”

“What should I do…!”

“I think you are my seniors. Please take good care of me. If you need, I can write down your names.”

Theo was a bit embarrassed by this situation, but he tried to calm them down by saying that he could at least write down their names to calm them down because they were too excited.

“… ! Then on my hands… ! No, I can’t not wash my hands for the rest of my life… Jo, I’ll get some paper… !”

“Hey, let’s go together…!”

After the three people disappeared, saying they would bring the paper, the other teams also disappeared to get the paper, saying they wanted autographs too.

“Hmm, I guess the Iris and Estelle effects are big.”

Since Theo didn’t think he had any particular fame or anything, I just thought that he wanted to get autographs from Iris and Estelle because he was close with them.

Of course, they knew that too, but they also heard rumors about Theo’s incredible achievements and overwhelming skills as a freshman, so they wanted to get his autograph and become friends with him.

“Phew, then I guess I’ll have to practice until you come back.”

Theo lifted the sword he had brought and began swinging it with a serious expression.

The surroundings were quiet, and the only thing that could be heard was the pleasant sound of the wind swinging the sword.

“Hmm, that’s good.”

It fit my black hand perfectly, and the weight it gave me when swinging it was just right, which was nice.

This was only 1 million silver. No, actually, since Iris and Estelle threw it away, it was like getting it without spending a single silver.

“Phew, then let’s finish it in an instant, like 1.5 million times.”

If what he had thought to be 10 million swings actually turned out to be 48.5 million swings, Theo thought that 1.5 million swings wouldn’t be that difficult.

For an average person, swinging it 1.5 million times in one day would be so intense that they wouldn’t be able to move for a week, but for Theo, it was clearly easier than eating cold porridge.