The Players' reactions to the post were more interesting and exaggerated than I had imagined.
[These two people are two new heroes!]
[Jeez, is the next update going to bring new heroes too?!]
[Woah, I thought we'd only have new cards!]
[I wonder who these new heroes are?!]
[Are they really heroes?]
[From their titles, one of them must be an archer, after all his title is about arrows].
[Surely one of them is an archer, now the other one... I have no idea who the other one might be.]
[Maybe the other is a Healer?After all, redemption can usually be related to healing].
[I don't think so, redemption could also be from a murderer, or a failed protector].
[A Healer?What would a Healer do?Keep healing until the other player gets tired?]
[Don't talk about Helaers like that!]
At some point the comments turned into a discussion zone.
People were fighting over whether Healers would be useful heroes in Runestone, whether Healers were useful in real life, or even whether Healers deserved an equal share with other Players in Dungeons for not putting themselves in as much danger as others.
Seeing that this was going in a completely different direction, I just laughed and closed the page.
'If they want to fight in my comments section, let them, at least it will generate engagement for my publication.' I thought as I shrugged.
Opening the fridge in my dorm, I realized that I was almost out of food.
I would still be living here for a few more days until the testing time was over and the teachers finished evaluating the Players, so I needed enough groceries to last me for at least another week.
Looking at the money I'd earned from the game, I was satisfied and went to the market in front of the campus to buy some groceries.
Normally I only bought the cheapest and worst quality groceries possible.
If I wanted to buy everything of the highest quality, my money wouldn't be enough to pay for anything else until the end of the month, depending only on government assistance payments.
But now that I had a fat wallet, I was going to buy everything of the highest quality.
In my other world I didn't even know how to fry an egg, relying solely on takeaways to get by, or instant noodles, but in this world I didn't have the luxury of buying restaurant food every day.
Plus, living in an orphanage, I had to help out in the kitchen from time to time, which taught me basic cooking skills.
My skills weren't great, just enough to keep me from starving.
But since the two memories merged in my mind, my talent for learning to cook has also increased.
I didn't become a culinary anime protagonist, but I could think of different types of spices to try and make food taste better.
Sometimes I destroyed the food, but the times I really improved the taste were greater than the times it went wrong.
Feeling the flavor of the food improve under my control was a lot of fun, so since I came to this world I've been cooking almost all my meals while slowly improving myself.
Arriving at the grocery store where I used to buy groceries before the two memories merged, I started to pick up the things I normally bought to eat, but with better brands and qualities, as well as letting my creativity pick up a few other things that made me curious too.
'If I mix this seasoning with a sauce and put meat in it, it should taste good...' I thought as I looked at a bottle of seasoning.
After paying for my groceries and leaving the market, a different group was walking down the street.
“Dude, I told you I didn't do this on purpose, please help me fix it!” A boy of 18 or 19 wearing metal armor was walking alongside a boy in a cloth tunic while handing him a round wooden shield.
Sighing, the boy in the mage's robe spoke as he took the shield. “Bro, I told you I'm still learning this magic, it's more profitable to pay a real repairman than to let me try to fix it and ruin your shield.”
“I don't have the money to pay a real repairman...” The boy in the armor said embarrassed.
Surprised, the boy in the mage's robe asked. “We've just come out of a dungeon and won $100 each, where did you spend that money that I didn't see?!”
Even more embarrassed, the boy in armor scratched the back of his head as he answered. “My credit card bill this month came to over 2k... I'll need that $100 to pay off the bill, otherwise the interest will eat me alive.”
“You spent almost 2k on your credit card? Are you crazy?” The boy in the robe sighed as he looked at the shield and began to control his own mana to repair it.
To keep their concentration, they both stopped walking, and coincidentally this was right next to me.
With curiosity I looked at the boy using the magic on the shield and slowly the splinters of damaged wood on the shield were appearing again, so that within 20 seconds the shield had returned to its original appearance.
“Thanks a lot bro!” The boy in the armor said excitedly while looking at the shield in amazement.
The boy in the mage's robe was very pale now, looking frustrated at his friend. “Idiot, if you ruin your shield again, at least save the damaged parts, at least I'll spend less Mana next time.”
But despite being angry, the boy wizard didn't complain about anything else and the two of them continued talking until they entered a building near where I was standing.
Seeing such an interesting way of applying magic in the everyday world, I was surprised to realize that this world could have many things different from the other world.
As magic was known to everyone now, Mages could repair objects with magic, Healers could heal people, Shamans could attract rain to crops... there was that boy talking about a 'Repair Mage' and it made me realize there were so many business opportunities that didn't involve raiding dungeons directly.
Just as Game Creators could give up on getting ahead quickly by taking jobs for Guilds, Players could give up on getting stronger quickly and open businesses in the normal world by selling their service with magic to ordinary people.
As I walked home, I thought about various things along these lines, until I realized another point.
'I've never read anything about how to do that repair magic, can I copy it using the System just because I've seen the boy do it? ' I thought in surprise.
I had already thought about the possibility of using the System to teach me advanced spells, but I hadn't stopped to test the possibility yet.
Now could be a perfect moment.
From what the boy wizard said, as long as the original parts of the broken object were still present, the Mana cost to repair it would be reduced.
After putting away my groceries in my small kitchen, I started looking around my dorm room and found a small, dusty action-figure.
This was something I'd kept since I was a child, one of the few toys that was exclusively mine at the orphanage, so I'd always kept it as a nice souvenir.
But because it was one of the only toys I had, it was the toy I had played with the most during my life, so the doll was no longer in perfect condition, or rather, the doll was now completely destroyed.
The most broken part of the doll was that one of its legs was loose, preventing the doll from standing up.
Holding the doll and its leg in the palm of my left hand, I placed my right hand on the doll and began to imagine myself using the spell that the boy magician had used on the shield.
As soon as I started using Mana, my Mana began to accumulate at the tip of my finger, indicating that the spell was working!
[9 Mana Points Stored, do you want to use the Novus Reparus spell].
'Yes.' I replied mentally.
As soon as I agreed, my Mana started leaking through my fingers and I watched every detail of the process as the doll's leg returned to its original place and the small piece of plastic that was broken began to regenerate again!
After a few seconds, the doll in my hand was completely fixed!
Or rather, the things that I had imagined the spell would fix were fixed, but the parts that were missing paint, or scratches that the doll had suffered while I was playing, remained.
I didn't want to fix it, and it was a great way to understand how the spell worked.
The only bad thing was that the spell was very expensive.
I think that because I didn't understand the structure of the spell, the System consumed a lot more Mana than it should have to repair something as small as that piece of plastic.
I doubt that boy mage had 9 MP available after coming out of a dungeon, not to mention that if the cost of repairing a shield of that size was the same as repairing that piece of plastic, then that boy wouldn't have enough Mana for that anyway, since I believe that by his age he is still an F Rank Player.
'If I learn this spell more thoroughly, the Mana cost will drop a lot, not to mention that this spell has the property of generating materials, as it generated the plastic of the doll... if I understand this principle and use a similar material as a base, wouldn't I be able to make the System create objects using magic at a much lower cost?'
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