Chapter 47 Its Simple And Not Simple
At first, only a straight thread of dark element shot out from Jason's hand. He had to tweak it a little to make the end pointed before making the entire thing thicker and more dangerous.
Jason directed the newly formed harpoon straight towards the shark with full force. It tore through the air with blinding speed before impaling the shark's back.
Jason then made the harpoon go deeper inside the shark so that it was deeply stuck inside its body.
As he didn't know any curses or wasn't familiar with dark element's corrosive property, Jason used the same trick from before and sent lightning through the harpoon.
The shark couldn't do anything except groan in pain due to the lightning frying its insides.
Jason was happy with his endeavor until he realized that he had no way of pulling the shark's body out.
Even if he did manage to grab it using a net, he knew that the others fishes wouldn't go that easy on him, meaning he would have to repeat the same process again and again.
"Jason, pull out the net with the Eelfish," Risa suddenly ordered while jumping off the edge of the lake simultaneously. "Leave the shark to me."
Jason nodded once, shifting his attention to the net with the Eelfishes and pulling it with full force.
The predators in the area could only watch the net go on the land. Even they were intelligent enough to know that touching the net would lead to the same fate as the shark from earlier.
< Quest has been completed. >
Jason's mood further brightened up when he saw the quest completion message and the number of fishes he had managed to capture by using dark element on the first turn.
Risa also appeared on the lakeside with the shark and smiled proudly. She ruffled Jason's hair with her free hand as the latter felt proud of himself too.
[ Well, it was kinda expected since you know the basics and only had to manipulate the entire thing to your will. ] The system commented.
'You think that was easy? I had to mend the entire thing so specifically because if there was even a single mistake, I would have given rise to some new useless thing.' Jason refuted.
He was telling the truth as he had to imagine how a harpoon exactly looked.
He then had to convert the thread into the harpoon mid-air to get the desired weapon.
Jason felt a slight headache in the back of his head due to that but he was able to ignore it temporarily after the latest battle.
[ By the way, I forgot to mention that you can create your skill after naming it. I didn't create them the moment you called out those names just in case you felt like changing them later on. ]
'I will do that at night.' Jason replied as he looked at Risa.
His grandmother was somehow holding two sharks on her shoulders which made Jason wonder where she was getting all that energy from.
'I wonder if she takes some steroids or if the light element can boost her that much.' Jason wondered while changing the dimensions of the net a bit to change it into a carryover bag.
He swung it over his shoulders just like Risa and waited for her to move towards the forest. Risa however was staring at the lake as though she was looking for something.
She continued to do this for a few minutes before she shook her head and walked in front of Jason.
"Let's go back and surprise everyone with these fishes," She grinned. "Though if they ask where we find it, tell them that I took you to the edge of the forest where the river is."
Jason nodded as he and Risa started making their way back towards the family mansion.
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The remaining Syrward family was surprised by the fishes brought by the grandma-grandson pair. Their surprise only increased after knowing that Jason had helped in catching half of those fishes.
"Good job Jason." Issac proudly ruffled Jason's hair the same way Risa had done it.
Jason only smiled, his gaze meeting Nora's who was looking back at him with glinting eyes as though he was looking at his role model.
The adults then started preparing to cook the fishes and everyone divided their work. It took some time but a delicious dinner was served and all of them ate until their stomachs couldn't intake more food.
Jason retired to his room after walking for a few minutes to digest his food. While lying on the bed, he decided to name the skills.
'System, do you think that 'Dark Net' is a good name for the net thing?' Jason inquired while trying to brainstorm for another name.
[ Well, if you had chosen 'Dark Web' as a name, there would have been some problems. This name is fine. ] The system replied as Jason nodded and confirmed the name.
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< Dark Net >
500 Mana
— Launches a net made from dark element from the user's tips which can be controlled as suited by the user.
— Making additional changes to the net costs extra mana.
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Jason moved over to the next skill while noticing the fact that there wasn't any time limit on any of his skills. He greatly appreciated the fact of not having to wait for his skills to be usable again.
Though the mana cost was higher for some of his skills, it was much better than having a time limit.
'Dark Harpoon. That's the name for the harpoon attack I did.' He announced as another system window appeared in front of him.
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< Dark Harpoon >
500 mana
— Launches a harpoon from the wrist whose front end can be created by the user as per their wish.
— Minor changes can be made to the harpoon without costing extra mana but major changes will require extra mana.
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'Wait, neither of them had an upgrade bracket or a progressable skill bracket next to them.' Jason noticed.
[ Well, I can't really judge what category they fall into, though they did increase your current progression. It will depend on how you use them in the future so they are subjected to major or no change at all. ] The system informed.
'I see.' Jason then remembered that he had passed lightning through his harpoon and the net.
But it was pretty clear that he had just used his mana to transfer lightning from his palms so that didn't come under any sort of particular skill.
'System, can you please tell me the difference between my main job class and Dark mage one?' Jason asked the last thing he had in his mind.
[ Well it's simple and not simple at the same time. The least I can tell you is that your main job class is mostly focused on moves that don't specifically require dark mana and are less on the direct damage dealing side.
The Dark mage job class is common to those with the dark element. It includes curses, seals, creation, and necromancy, many of which are doable by your MJC. ]
'Both of them can allow me to use necromancy?' Jason interrupted as he remembered hearing Issac saying that dark element allowed one to use necromancy if they were skilled enough.
[ Yes, both can use necromancy but there is a major difference in the two ways. I can't really explain this in detail using words since even I don't know the entire thing. We just have to wait to find more information on this in the future. ]
'I see.' Jason replied, at last, closing his eyes to sleep.
That night, he had dreams of fighting fishes.