After that day, Noah and Elios continued their daily tasks as usual without much problems.
They would wake up in the morning, pray as usual before moving to help people out for free. Since the first day, Noah was able to help about a dozen people within a few hours, from the next day onwards, he took about 20 to 25 requests each with him.
With the Karma he earned everyday, Elios chose a bunch of skills that would aid in his daily tasks. For example,
[Search] a skill that would help him find lost cats and dogs
[Restore] a skill that would help him restore broken items faster.
[Modify] a skill that would help him reshape things wherever needed.
[Craft] that helped him in creating small items that he wanted to.
[Cleanse] that helped him remove any dirt or microorganism from any object or person.
These were cheap skills that Elios created with the knowledge he had, and then bought with Karma points to help Noah with the daily work.
Noah created simple items like a cane, or even wheelchairs for those who couldn't walk. Fixed their leaking pipes or broken roofs. As he walked down the roads, he even fixed or cleaned a few street corners, creating a slight lush wherever he went.
Many times, he was rewarded with food and stock which he then distributed to the kids who eagerly waited for him every day. At times he even got a few copper and iron coins, which he simply used to buy a few more things to help other people.
It was barely a week but his name started spreading through the streets as they all called him…
"It's the Snow Priest!"
"The Snow Priest is here!"
A cringe name.
It started with Priest -> Holy Priest -> Holy white haired priest -> White-Haired Holy Priest -> White Holy Priest -> Holy Snow Priest -> Snow Priest
[Ain't that nice? Mr Snow Priest! How cool! Hehe…] (Elios)
Elios seemed to enjoy the embarrassed look that Noah was making, while Noah tried his best to ignore those remarks before moving to the work as usual.
Noach chose different areas of the Capital city at a time, trying to avoid too much attention, but perhaps because he always went all out with helping everyone, his name started echoing within the city. Especially among the common and poor people within the city, who were now expectant to see him coming to help them out as well.
But just as the name 'Snow Priest' was getting famous during the day, another name became resonant during the night with Noah. The Blue eyed demon hunter, Fenrir.
Nobody knows where this name came from, but the association of Dark Mages became conscious of this new hunting dog that the temple sent. He hunted with precision and it didn't matter whether there were 10 people or 50, he always killed every dark mage without missing a single one of them.
The testimonies of his existence came from the hostages he saved in his missions, they described him as a blue-eyed man donned from top to bottom in black. He was fast like a wind, and swift like a snake. The way he killed wasn't brutal like the barbarians, neither was it cold like the silent assassins. It was like an art… like a canvas being drawn by an expert.
Oblivious to these comments, Noah simply did what he was best at, trying to fulfill his mission.
Because of the skills he got during the day, he also received a counter skill for the night.
From [Search] came [Hunt!]. A skill that allowed him to select a target against which his stats would rise 200% for a fixed duration.
[Restore] brought [Reform], that allowed him to change the shape of his weapon to his interest. It simply [Modify] with another name that could also work with Death Energy.
The counter of [Modify] skill was [Transmutate]. While [Modify] worked only on menial things and not those which have been embedded heavily with mana, [Transmutate] especially was tailor made for things that were embedded with mana.
[Cleanse]'s counter was kind of ominous. [Contaminate]. A type of curse that makes you sick faster. Still, nothing too over the top.
But for the [Craft], Noah got what actually made him feel like a Necromancer for the first time.
[Create Undead(F)
Effects: Allows the user to summon a basic skeleton that lasts for 10 minutes!
Cost: 10 Death Energy!
Cooldown: 2 Hours!]
It was a skill that ran on Death Energy than on Mana, hence limiting the use to a severe degree for now. Still, Elios wanted to test it out and see how it works, studying it whenever possible.
And there was one more skill that Elios and Noah bought.
[Death Energy Control(F)
Effects: Allows the user to control the death energy within his body!]
A simple skill at first. But what happened next was something rather unexpected.
[Your Side Job Resonates!]
[Since Energy Control has an application of Death! The Skill will be enhanced instead!]
[Death Energy Control(D)
Effects:
-Increases the control of the death energy stored in the user's body!
-The Death Energy presented within the body increases by 50%!
-All Skills that require Death Energy will consume 25% less Death Energy! The Cooldown will be decreased by 25% while the effects will be increased by 50%!]
It was unexpected but a welcome surprise. With this, if Noah focused on skills that have death related aspects, he can increase their value without needing to do anything. But still, for Karma, he was going to need a few Skills based on light to help the people.
Another things that Elios discovered was the fact the light skills that Noah had can be increased even without using Skill Points. For example, the skill [Craft]
It was a complex skill that enhances cognitive application of one's body to create things.
Now to upgrade the skill, there were two things that were needed.
One was an understanding of the mana circuits of [Craft]'s advanced version of skill [Craft(E)]. Elios tried studying it through and through for the past week, and found out a way to create the advanced version. And as much as Elios had predicted, it appeared in the Store as well.
However, Elios then asked Noah to see if can upgrade the skill [Craft]. When Noah checked, he found that indeed there was an additional note below the skill now.
[1200 Karma required to increase the skill [Craft]]
And since Noah had an ample amount of karma points, he bought it immediately. Especially since he wanted to check if the other skill upgrades as well.
The answer to that was..
[Your Side Job Resonates! Skill (Create Undead) has increased by a grade!]
[Your Skill: Death Energy Control modifies the skill!]
[Create Undead(E)
Effects: Allows the user to summon skeletons that last for 30 minutes!
Total Undead Capacity: 0/3
Basic Skeleton: 7.5 Death Energy! (Space Count: 1)
Armoured Skeleton: 15 Death Energy! (Space Count: 2)
Cooldown: 1 hour!]