"The library isn't hiring, but if you hit it off well enough the librarian, she might be willing to give you a part-time job. With that said, you don't exactly have much in the way of employable skills." The boy replied to Kluuto, shrugging slightly. "And to answer the others' question, no, I don't have jobs I need done. Nothing that shouldn't be done by myself, at least; a newly-awakened goblin without an ounce of magical strength doesn't have any use for me." He said rather coldly, leaving Sabu to only laugh slightly at the boy's demeanor.
"Gahaha! You could let them down a little bit easier, you know!" He remarked, grinning widely, only to be met with the terse reply of the boy.
"...what's the point of that?"
"Gahaha, you haven't changed a bit!"At Iris's question, though, a hint of amusement entered the boy's eyes, the trace of a laugh leaving him. "Well, likely not, but that's largely because the number of humans my age is relatively slim. The population above ninety years in age is a pretty small proportion." He replied. "To make that clear, I'm not human. I'm a homunculus, artificial life created through the alchemy of humanity's strongest magician. I've been stationed here for just under a century to monitor that freak, Yggdrasil. Well, that and potentially to serve as a last line of defense for the city if something were to happen, but I despise combat, so I'd rather that doesn't happen." He explained, puffing up with pride a bit at the mention of his creator.
With that, the process of Total Appraisal was conducted on those who remained. Lyminia, Ivy, and then Redd.
"Mostly the same as the last one. Standard physical parameters, no skills of note, slightly stronger soul than expected, possession of a Gift, no Evolution criteria met, information that I can't penetrate. Oy, just what's up with this group of yours? Even among all of my siblings, We've only seen this sort of thing, information outside of Total Appraisal's purvey, three times in the past. I'll have to report this to Father. Your Gift is related to heat and earth, so you've got some heat resistance and a subpar affinity for fire elemental essence; of course, as your soul gets stronger, so will that affinity since it's a result of the Gift. Depending on Evolutions and training, the Gift could either stay balanced, or one aspect could get exaggerated over the other. Valuable training places would probably be places like volcanoes, but there are only a handful of those on the continent, and they're all hotbeds for monsters that could kill you in an instant. There's also Below, but you'd need to be Father's equal to even attempt that."
"Mm, as for you, it's exactly the same thing in specs. Really, the only thing different among you is your Gifts and your minds. Oy, Vaish, are the gods engineering this or something? At any rate, your Gift currently lets you gauge properties of plants. That'll become more detailed as the soul grows stronger, and later on it could do things like grant certain affinities, allow one to speak with nature, or any variant of similar things depending on your Touchstones. If you're able to earn Yggdrasil's respect, then it's probably your best resource for the time being; that thing's the strongest plant-type existence in the known world, after all. In this specific case, the guidance it can give you is better than what I can."
"And you...oh, blood, huh? By coming into contact with its blood, you can gauge something's species. That could expand out into a more general detection ability, blood elemental affinities, vampiric capacities, maybe even acquiring abilities through blood. Again, it depends on your Touchstones. Most humans aren't going to take very kindly to that, especially if you try to go for vampiric Evolutions. It's also one of the harder ones to train, but combat's probably the easiest means. Consider visiting the Adventurer's Guild. Ah, and be careful, if you decide to shoot too high above your class in dealing with blood, you probably won't survive. Ingesting the blood of a Greater Dragon, for instance, would kill you almost immediately even with your Gift."
