413: Hardworking Skill Awakening!

Hardworking Skill Awakening!

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Veronica opened her available Job Options, as she glanced at her available Jobs.

[Jobs Available]

[Gods Nemesis], [Thunderous Armored Tyrant Empress], [Invoker of Accursed Graveyards], [Living Demonic Mechanical Undead], [Abyssal Soul Shadow Ruler], [Accursed Phantasmagoric Flying Train], [Abhorred Manipulator and Devourer of Emotions], [Pseudo Light Attribute Mage], [Gluttonous Material Devourer], [Abyssal Metallic Demon Fighter], [Dungeon Creator], [Essence Absorber], [Nyx], [Abyssal Night World Goddess], [Chaos Attribute Mage], [Otherworldly Mechanical Organism], [Unliving Mechanical Factory] (New!), [Death Goddess] (New!), [Abyssal Curse Caster of Occultism] (New!), [Divine Light Soul Valkyrie] (New!)

One of such notifications before opening the tab said that some of the Jobs "upgraded" or something until she realized that some really did.

The Death Mage Job turned into Death Goddess Job.

There was another Job about related to the Armory she was going to take, but it was replaced by the Unliving Mechanical Factory Job.

Another old one was related to Curses, and it was also replaced by the new Curse Caster of Occultism Job.

However, aside from the upgraded ones, there was also a completely new one, Divine Light Soul Valkyrie…

How did this even fit Veronica at all?

Her Soul was Abyssal and black, and she was Undead, not really Divine…

Well, her race already had "Divine" on it anyways.

So perhaps this fitted, somehow?

She did not know…

Until she remembered that within her Skills, she had one she got from Graham Gold's Divine Soul when she ate him alongside Veronica.

"Oh right, the ability to turn my soul into light, I used it to generate the light inside the world of my soul and all… I have never used it offensively, but perhaps this Job can help me learn how to…" thought Veronica while rubbing her chin.

However, without further ado, Veronica decided to select the next job she wanted.

Based on her assumptions, some old Jobs could be taken and leveled up fairly easily.

She missed when she could change Jobs a lot of times, and now it was finally the time!

[You changed Jobs to [God Nemesis]!]

[The levels of the [God Slayer], [Soul Break], [Deformed Soul], [Mind Attack], [Murder Healing], [Aura of Abyssal Darkness], [Magic Fighting Technique], [Phantasmagoric Aura], [Abyssal Charge], [Abyssal Metallic Demon Fighting Technique], [Myriad Phantasmal Javelin Technique], [Spectral Decapitating Axe Technique], [Sword Technique], [Living Demon Shield Technique], [Living Demon Armor Technique], [Death Thread Reeling Technique], and [Demonic Mechanical Cannon Technique] Skills have increased!]

[The [Sword Technique: Level 10] Skill has awakened into the [Demon Blade Technique: Level 1] Skill!]

[The [Hardworking: Level 10] Skill has awakened into [Perseverance: Level 1] Skill!]

[The Commandment of Perseverance has awakened]

[You acquired the [Hostility: Level 1] Skill!]

Veronica got a bunch of new stuff right off the bat!

She could not be happier!

A lot of Skills finally leveled up, and two Skills awakened at last!

Even more, she got a new Skill too!

Her Sword Technique, which she had been polishing this whole time by sparring with Anna, Ervas, Leonidas, Ragdaz, Lilith, Jason, and other people through all this time finally awakened into a name fitting of her ability to generate living blades out of her body, [Demon Blade Technique]!

Aside from this, one of her oldest Skills, the one she had carried from when she was not even Anastacia but Veronica herself was also awakened!

Hardworking turned into Perseverance!

The hardworking effect was somewhat something similar to Limit Break but that covered everything, and it also did not have as many adverse effects on the body.

It pretty much gave her the ability to keep pushing herself beyond her limits as long as she could replace such lost energy with pure mana, fusing this with the actual limit break skill made it possible for her to constantly push her very soul to its very limits… something that she did a lot in the Dungeon and had been doing against the mighty foes she has encountered.

But now that it had become Perseverance, it had greater effects!

[Perseverance: Level 1/10]

The awakened version of the Hardworking Skill, a Skill acquired by someone who worked way too hard despite having a weak body that could not let them, pushing their limits against their very instincts that told them to stop, and hence becoming the embodiment of the commandment of Perseverance.

Grants the user the enhanced ability to push themselves to their very limits without stopping as long as there is a stable supply of Mana.

Additionally, once a day, the user will survive any fatal attack with 1 HP regardless of the amount of damage taken. 

Use can use own's Mana as Health Points whenever they reduce below 1, as long as there is Mana, however, damage taken is tripled when in this state.

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"W-What…?! No way, the normal and boring Hardworking got a complete update! Now I get a shot of immortality a day?! That is insane! Although what can even damage me? …Oh right, I guess Gods could damage my soul," thought Veronica.

Alongside all of that, Veronica could infinitely work as long as she had mana, and she had a ton!

Meaning that she could constantly push herself…

Well, she still enjoyed sleeping…

Alongside this, there was another thing, the Hostility Skill!

[Hostility: Level 1/10]

A Skill is given to those who are hostile to divine beings and therefore to all the beings in the world these beings created.

Grants additional damage based on the Skill level against any being that the user sees as a "foe" or "enemy".

The bonus is 10% additional damage per level, up to 100% with the skill at Level 10.

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Hostility was an amazing Skill!

It literally lets Veronica do bonus damage to anyone she wanted!

And the % increased with every level, meaning that when it reached Level 10, she would be able to deal double the damage she had always done before!

That would be completely insane, as Veronica would have to watch for her own strength, even more, to not slap a thug head off.

She needed to be incredibly cautious now, a Cautious Heroine!

Although with her current powers, she thought that it could be possible to heal a person she blew their head off anyways with some help from Ervas.

"This is all nice, but let's see… oh?"

Ding!

[The Level of your Job has increased from 1 to 12!]

Ding!2

[The Level of your Job has increased from 12 to 25!]

Ding!

[The Level of your Job has increased from 12 to 37!]

Ding!

[The Level of your Job has increased from 37 to 43!]

Ding!

[The Level of your Job has increased from 43 to 56!]

Ding!

[The Level of your Job has increased from 56 to 69!]

Ding!

[The Level of your Job has increased from 69 to 77!]

Ding!

[The Level of your Job has increased from 77 to 86!]

Ding!

[The Level of your Job has increased from 86 to 95!]

Ding!

[The Level of your Job has increased from 95 to 100!]

In front of Veronica's eyes, her Job increased all the way to 100!

  But how? She didn't even do anything this time!

How could it be possible for her to get this far without actually doing anything…

Wasn't that too much now?

However, what were even the requirements for this Skill, to kill monsters?

Well, her presence and aura were still killing a few hundred marine life and monsters.

Until she realized she saw several Rank 8 monsters emerge on the surface of the water.

"Veronica please deactivate your aura, not even Rank 8 monsters can resist it…" said Ervas.

"What? I just killed them out of fear? Are you kidding me? Where is the challenge anymore?! Where are the stakes?! If this were a web novel I would be dropping it right now!" said Veronica.

"Well it is also quite hilarious so I wouldn't drop it," said Ervas.

"I guess Ervas would be the supportive reader type," said Kireina.

"What is even a web novel?" asked Ismene.

"Oh… nothing, never mind!" said Veronica.

"It is like a novel, a book, but made digital, in our world we liked to rad them to pass time… we used to be a loser back then, a single woman hopelessly dreaming or a change… Now we got it but we are also filled with troubles and responsibilities," said Ervas.

"Eh? Do you even remember that? Sometimes I think you are a completely different person… But yeah, just what he said…" said Veronica.

"Well, it is not as if we don't enjoy this new life… It has brought us a lot of happiness nonetheless," said Ervas.

"Yeah, we don't regret living it," said Veronica.

"Well you are Undead, so I don't think you are living-"

"…I know," sighed Veronica, glancing at her next pick for Job Changes.

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