The materials used for the task also had an effect on the reward, the stronger the material the stronger the final reward will be, a claw from a dragon with make a sword much more sharper and durable than that of a normal beast's claw, the material also had a chance to impart special abilities from the creature it came from to the reward, poisonous material would likely make that reward before to deal poison damage. After find that information out, he started to think about what he wanted his reward and eventually what "class" or "job" he wanted to be, he decided to be a mage or magician just like Merlin and chose to have an orb be the object rather than a ring or staff, in merlin's book regarding a mage/magicians choice of weapon, he stated that while the latter 2 were more conductive in moving/utilizing magic, the former have the ability to hold more power and in some cases the user didn't need to be able to use mana in order to utilize it.^
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ch 0 2 Chapter 2
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1 year into arriving, John finally headed towards the village and found that it was occupied by people, he decided to use a magic that made him invisible and walked into the village and learned that, 1. some taskers had finished their tasks, 2. the second batch of summons had just arrived and that he was part of the 1st batch of summons, 3. there was a portal that lead to other worlds. He never revealed himself and quietly watched what happened in the village and that they had renamed the place to fire village from azure village.
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After looking through all of that information John decided to be an idiot and yoloed and choose to be a Soulmancer, trials were usually extremely hard but not impossible, even someone who hasn't finished their task and obtained their reward would be able to complete it, John already died once and chose Hell task, so why not continue down this line of hell by choosing the hardest but completable way and if he did somehow complete all trials he would be able to make the strongest orb in new lands (recorded) history, and that is what he did for the next 2 years, he decided to learn how to harness external mana (pulling mana into his body to use magic) while also learning different martial arts from Merlin's books, after that he went onto learn various basic magic and then soul magic while also reading the rest of Merlin's books.^
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The materials used for the task also had an effect on the reward, the stronger the material the stronger the final reward will be, a claw from a dragon with make a sword much more sharper and durable than that of a normal beast's claw, the material also had a chance to impart special abilities from the creature it came from to the reward, poisonous material would likely make that reward before to deal poison damage. After find that information out, he started to think about what he wanted his reward and eventually what "class" or "job" he wanted to be, he decided to be a mage or magician just like Merlin and chose to have an orb be the object rather than a ring or staff, in merlin's book regarding a mage/magicians choice of weapon, he stated that while the latter 2 were more conductive in moving/utilizing magic, the former have the ability to hold more power and in some cases the user didn't need to be able to use mana in order to utilize it.^
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