"These parts of the slums are pretty much the most dangerous. Walking during the night is extremely dangerous as well. Well if you know… umm… You walk during the night, there are many people who would do bad things to you. And if you…"(Airan)
Airan surely talks a lot.
From the moment he took the lead, he began talking. And for the past 10 minutes he had continued speaking while the rest of the kids looked up to him with bright eyes, fueling his ego even more, with which he was talking even more.
Noah simply nodded at once while Elios..
[Is that so?](Elios)
[Ah! I didn't knew that!](Elios)
[If only I have someone as brave as Airan to protect me](Elios)
He was having fun with this in his own way.
Didn't take much time until the well became visible about 40 meters away from here. It was pretty much at the center of the market area of these slums, but perhaps because of its contamination, nobody was going close to it.
As Noah and the group reached closer to the well, Airan also stopped talking before slowing their steps, observing the area carefully. And once Airan had done analyzing the faces of all the people present around the well area, he was finally relieved before he spoke,
"Let's go."(Airan)
Noah simply followed behind Airan until they reached the well and looked down into it.
The water was about 50 feet down, so that meant Noah had to go down there to purify it while avoiding the contamination at the same time.
"Here is the well. How are you going to purify it though?"(Airan)
Airan asked while the others also looked at Noah with curiosity in their eyes. Noah pondered before taking out a couple of white lemons and other fruits that he got from today's work and then passed it onto the kids, making them widen their eyes at the magic.
"It's not worth 1 Gold coin, but it should be enough for the efforts you had shown."(Noah)
[You have earned 100 Karma!]
Noah smiled, making them all taken aback by sudden kindness before Noah looked down at the well and sighed before taking off the white robe he was wearing. And then placing the robe in the bracelet space, and then as he prepared to jump into the well.
"Hey! You aren't going to-!!"(Airen)
But before he could speak anything, Noah jumped into the well…
The children ran towards the well, looking down with a worried expression on their faces. But when they looked down, their eyes widened as they saw Noah holding himself against the wall of the well, just above the water level.
[You have used 2 Karma Points!]
With 2 Karma points, Noah creates a wooden plank that he fits between the two opposite edges of the wall, before standing up on it. The children were surprised to see him creating something like that, but they all thought that he had taken it out similar to how he placed the robe into the bracelet.
Ignoring them, Noah then began purification
[Purification!]
Noah applied the purification for only a second to check the effects of skill. This skill was after all going to take 10 MP per second. Not a lot of which Noah had. But since it was also quite a potent skill, he believed cleaning contamination wasn't something that would take a lot of effort.
But there was one more piece of good news…
[You have partially purified the contaminated water for the masses!]
[You have done a good deed that would be a boon for many!]
[You have done the deed without asking anything in return!]
[You have gained +500 Karma!]
Noah was surprised to see that he was already getting Karma even though the work was still incomplete. But then thinking about it, it was easy to understand. The less contaminated the water, the less chances that they would get any disease or get sick from here.
[Since we have some extra Karma here](Elios)
Elios then simply upgraded the [Active Mana Regeneration] using 800 Karma points. It was something that he was planning to do given the F-Grade was barely usable in tricky situations.
[Skill: Active Mana Regeneration(E)
Effects: Allows the user to gather 1MP per second if he focused all his mind into it
Upgrade Cost: 5000 Karma Points]
[Your Side Job Reacts!]
[Active Death Energy Regeneration (E)
Effects: Allows the user to regenerate 0.1 DE/sec when the user is in complete concentration!]
And then thinking about the cost that was presented to them, Noah this time used 5000 more to upgrade it one more time. Elios was surprised but didn't stop Noah since he believed having unlimited mana would be a good thing for both of them.
An investment of sorts.
[Skill: Active Mana Regeneration(D)
Effects:
-Allows the user to gather 10 MP per second if he focused all his mind into it
-Whenever the user uses any skills that require mana, 10% of the Mana used will be returned to him over 10 seconds!]
[You Side Job Reacts!]
[Active Death Energy Regeneration (D)
Effects:
-Allows the user to regenerate 1 DE/sec when the user is in complete concentration!
-Whenever the user uses any skills that require death energy, an additional 10% death energy will be created and used in the skills, enhancing their effects by 10%.]
A worthy investment, to be honest.