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Chapter 100
Concerning the divine crystals, I had two of the needed 9 for the next evolution. At the same time, I had obtained the first of ten used crystals for the third secret, but I was unsatisfied.
No matter how I turned this thing around, I was nowhere close to where I should be in terms of strength. I had fought with two monsters that had consumed divine crystals, and in both cases, I had to fight dirty to win. I had to do something about this.
There were two options that were viable at that moment.
Either raising my level to 80, obtaining the disguise skill rank 2 that allowed me to use equipment, and then hope I would obtain more weapons similar to the petrification club. Personally, I didn't want to hope for that.
Or I would finally start working on my goal of obtaining more skills.
I opened the mutation window and used all my points to select the last and final tier in that window. The price to do so was horrendous, but I paid it happily, sacrificing quite a few levels of my hunter job in the process.
Raising my maximum level from 90 to 100 and unlocking the final enhancement tier for my character was very emotional for me. It felt like arriving at the final stretch of a very long race.
That was the last time I used the mutation mechanism of my system for that purpose.
I ordered the immediate stop of any dungeon explorations and explained the situation. I went into detail about what we needed to do to solve this problem as fast as we could and how to proceed. What followed was brutal.
The girls accepted it, and for two months, we did nothing else than fishing inside my dungeon. We were more than determined to obtain the last secret of the job and finally move forward. Day after day, we fought, we conquered, and we advanced my job at an astonishing pace.
So, when that moment finally arrived and we received the rewards of our efforts, I could not be prouder.
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Mermaid fishing
You have the probability of 1% to fish a mermaid instead of a treasure chest when you use mythical grade lures and a fishing rod. The mermaids will give you quests to complete.
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This was all I wanted.
Mermaids were the most hidden secret of this job. The rewards they gave for completing quests were insane, but so was the difficulty to clear it. If I was lucky or unlucky, depending on the point of view, the reward would be a good item. But those were the easy quests. The more challenging ones had rewards like trophies, free enhancements, and skills.
Yes, the mermaids gave me very challenging quests, and I could obtain skills that I would otherwise only get through repeated enhancement block completion.
I let the two fishing buffs run out, the one pertaining to the lure and the other connected to the net, and observed my girls. Then I pulled out the highest possible rod out and destroyed a tiara. The tiara was the only mythical grade item I had, and it was the item I had found inside the mythical grade treasure chest that started the quest for the final secret.
In the next moment, over four hundred small swarm beasts pulled out their rods and started fishing.
What followed was pure chaos. Most of them obtained fish. That much wasn't surprising, but the others who pulled out treasure chests had those treasure chests transformed into ghost ships. That much was also not surprising.
Of all four hundred girls, one had a mermaid on the hook, and that was considerably lucky. I ran towards that girl and ordered the others to clean up the ships. As I arrived, I was stunned by that I was seeing.
It was a mermaid like I expected it to be, but it wasn't exactly the one I had designed. This one had an addition to it that I didn't recognize.
On her head, instead of eyebrows, she had antlers. Except for that small detail, she was definitely the mermaid I had created.
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A mermaids plea
Clear 10 dungeons and obtain the reward from the mermaid.
Dungeons cleared: 0/10
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That one was a bust. It was one of the easy quests, so it only gave me a simple item as a reward for my efforts. What exactly always depended on what dungeons I selected to obtain the reward.
We cleaned up the place and went back to fishing for more mermaids. The next one was also a bust. She was also asking to clear ten dungeons for an item.
The third one was more challenging. She asked me for about thirty items hidden inside specific dungeons, but gave me a skill as a reward. This one was a winner. The first one.
This put a smile on my face. I was not expecting obtaining such a quest this fast, as they had a very low probability to occur. It only encouraged me to continue collecting more quests.
The girls and I stayed inside my dungeon for two days, doing nothing else than fishing mermaids and accepting their quests. I filled my quest log with almost 1.600 quests.
I wasn't even sure how I had obtained that many of them. I had reached the hard limit of acceptable quests and continued with collecting them with the idea of abandoning the useless ones to create room for the useful. Instead, I simply added them to the list and ignored the limits.
And that was also not the only problem i was facing. The requirements for all those quests made it almost impossible for me to wrap my head around it.
I had no quest giving me trophies as the trophy system wasn't active for me. I could live with that tragedy, even if it made me cry crocodile tears.
Once we finished that quest gathering, I let my girls roam free inside the dungeons. It didn't take too long until hundreds of items started piling up inside my inventory and the quests being cleared. Then, after a few hours, the first quests i really needed started to be cleared.
Dungeon related quests were pretty common as quest from the mermaids, but there were a significant portion that requested other conditions to clear the quests.
I had hundreds of simple dungeon clear quests that gave me items, so I wasn't surprised when bows, lances, and other items started to appear in my inventory. In fact, the only annoying part in those quests was that I could not clear a dungeon, and that would count for multiple quests at the same time. I was also disappointed that it was impossible for multiple quest items inside dungeons to appear. But my mind was not focused on those small problems.
Far more important were the quests that gave me skills and enhancements. Of those quests, I had 14 skill related quests and 8 enhancements related quests.
As most reward items came in, the only ones that caught my attention were the heroic or mythical items.
After two days, the first pop-ups started to show up. I was obtaining random enhancements without needing to put in the experience points. The costs of the following enhancements still rose due to that, but a free enhancement was always welcome.
After a week of intensive quest clearing, the first skills started to show up.
I was a bit disappointed because these were not really the skills I was expecting, but I accepted them nonetheless. My girls were also quite underwhelmed by the rewards, but everything that could help was always welcome.
I was also very occupied with completing the quests that didn't involve entering the dungeons. Material gathering most of the time.
After eight days of intensive dungeon runs, I asked my girls to come back so we could collect more quests again for two days, which they happily accepted.