Chapter 126: Extraordinary Professions Only Go Up to the Fourth Rank!

"I'll just paint a pita pocket," Yun Mu thought to herself.

Hadn't she just been wanting to test what kind of effects a Spiritual Painting created using food as a material would have?

As it happened, the food most deeply impressed upon her mind right now was the pita pocket she had just eaten.

She figured she shouldn't be able to paint it wrong.

Besides, didn't she have the real thing in her hand to use as a reference?

Taking the card containing the sealed pita pocket from her bosom, Yun Mu injected her Spirituality into it.

"Sorry, Lucy."

There were three pita pockets sealed in the card; Yun Mu took one out and re-Encapsulated the other two.

Afterward, she Encapsulated the pita pocket she had set aside into another card.

Some might be curious about the point of her doing this.

In truth, there was no point at all.

It was just that the three pita pockets originally meant for Lucy had become two.

And the pita pocket sealed alone on the other card would serve as the material for Yun Mu's Spiritual Painting.

It was just like how mages in ancient times usually carried spellcasting tools with them when casting spells.

This pita pocket was Yun Mu's spellcasting tool for the moment! "Hmm?" Brenna lay on the bed with great interest, watching Yun Mu sketch on the Painting Paper.

A pita pocket occupying the center of the entire canvas, along with the silver plate holding it, and the wooden tabletop the silver plate was resting on... well, a bit perfunctory, or perhaps crude? Hey, she had already said she couldn't expend too much Spirituality.

She still had activities to attend to in the evening.

To avoid the image looking empty, she had even specifically painted the plate and tabletop to serve as a background!

What more could they want!

Holding a palette, Yun Mu began to apply color to the image.

Come to think of it, it was fortunate she wasn't the type who couldn't color at all once away from a Painting Board.

Even after transmigrating to another world, she could still use a palette to mix the colors she wanted.

However, wanting to achieve the rich colors of an Earth computer was still not very realistic.

When painting in reality, there was no undo option, let alone the ability to set up layers.

If it weren't for the painting knowledge and techniques that naturally welled up in her mind when she took on the jobs of Painter Apprentice and Painter, she wouldn't have been able to do what she was doing now.

Not only had her painting speed improved by leaps and bounds, but the probability of making mistakes while painting had also been greatly reduced.

Speaking of which, this brought to mind the effect of the trait 【Dexterity】 obtained when breaking through to a Second-rank Painter.

【Your painting technique is so proficient that you won't make mistakes even with your eyes closed; even in complex environments, you can keep your hand steady on the Paintbrush.】

【Focus +3】

This trait was simply a divine skill!

She hadn't noticed it when she first obtained it, but only now, while painting, could she experience that silky-smooth feeling! "I'm feeling so high right now!"

Yun Mu's hand speed accelerated further, and in just ten minutes, she had completed an entire Oil Painting! However, it wasn't over yet; she still had one final step to perform.

That was to fuse the real pita pocket with the pita pocket she had fictionalized in her painting.

This wasn't difficult, because her painting contained sufficient information regarding the pita pocket.

That's right, information! In this world, because of the existence of Ether, the concept of information had become much more concrete.

Fusing a real object with a painting was, to put it bluntly, actually just fusing their Ethers together.

Doesn't that sound much easier to understand? Because her painting content already contained a large amount of information about the pita pocket, it wouldn't be very difficult to make their Ethers fuse together.

Conversely, if the painting contained no information about a pita pocket, trying to fuse a real pita pocket into it would cause the two to repel each other.

This was the rule of the Ether World.

Ether recording the same information would attract each other, while different information would repel.

And even for an identical object, differences would arise due to production sequence, machine or person, time, and so on.

Unique people, unique objects, unique individuals... if this rule didn't exist, the world would probably be in chaos.

Shaking her head, Yun Mu stopped thinking about these things.

She injected Spirituality simultaneously into the painting and the card in her hand that contained the sealed pita pocket.

Under the manipulation of her Spirituality, the Ethers of the two constantly resonated, and then she gently pressed the card onto the painting.

A miraculous scene occurred!

The card sealing the pita pocket suddenly dissipated, turning into a cluster of spiritual light that surged into the painting.

The original Oil Painting, which had looked somewhat jarring in places due to the oil paint not being dry, instantly became incredibly natural.

Especially the pita pocket; it looked just like the real thing! Ignoring the notification in her mind that her Oil Painting Points had increased by one.

Yun Mu couldn't wait to check the effects of this painting.

【Painting · Pita Pocket (Green)】

【Oil Painting / Food / Delicious】

【Skill · Empty Stomach】

【Expend Spirituality to summon a pita pocket. The pita pocket will exist for twelve hours and, upon being eaten, can produce a feeling of fullness. When the pita pocket's duration ends, the feeling of fullness will also disappear.】

【Uses: 10/10】

【Validity: 29 days 23 hours 59 minutes】

【A Spiritual Painting created by Language Spreader · Painter · Yun Mu, allowing one to enjoy delicious food without feeling guilty.

It is worth noting that the feeling of fullness is real; please do not overstuff your stomach.】

"This effect..."

Yun Mu looked at the information displayed on the panel, feeling somewhat at a loss for words.

To say it's useful, it doesn't seem to have much use; to say it's useless, it actually does have some use.

She injected Spirituality into the painting, and a pita bread slowly manifested in her hand.

Its appearance, weight, and even the way it smelled were no different from the one Elena had made that she remembered.

But what about the taste? "Is this the effect of your painting?" Brenna, who was to the side, asked with some surprise as she looked at the pita bread that had appeared in her hand.

"Mm."

Yun Mu did not reply, only nodding; she looked at the pita bread in her hand and took a light bite.

"The taste is no different either."

"However, this thing cannot satisfy hunger." She looked at Brenna and explained to her.

"You're only Second Rank; it would be strange if it could satisfy hunger," Brenna said, not surprised in the slightest.

"Why not try researching and painting some kind of dessert?" Brenna suggested to her.

Desserts that you can eat without getting fat, and that you don't even need to buy? That was certainly worth a try, but... Yun Mu shook her head.

"The effect of a painting is not something I can decide. Even if I follow the pattern and replace the pita bread in this painting with a dessert, it doesn't mean I'll be able to summon a dessert."

"It doesn't matter, just study it casually~" Brenna suddenly became very excited and said, "As long as you succeed, we'll have endless high-end desserts to eat."

"So this is your real thought, how unsurprising," Yun Mu retorted.

"Just tell me if you'll help or not!" Brenna straightened her body on the bed in a W-sitting position, hands on her hips, and said, "I don't believe you don't like eating desserts."

"I can only say it's alright," Yun Mu answered honestly. She remembered that when she was a child, she loved eating sweets, until she ate too many sweet things, which led to cavities and toothaches so bad she couldn't sleep at night; after that, she didn't like them as much.

Even after her baby teeth fell out and new teeth grew in, this did not recover.

"Watch your teeth," she could only say this to Brenna.

"Hm?"

The other person tilted her head, not knowing why she had suddenly said that.

"I'm going to read." Without any intention of explaining to Brenna, Yun Mu said.

She picked up Night of Rolling Stone Town and Introduction to Elvish, then went to the desk in Brenna's bedroom.

"Do you have any book recommendations?" She looked at the numerous books on the bookshelf and asked Brenna.

"Cognition and Exploration of the Supernatural World—Basic Volume." Hearing her words, Brenna didn't think much and said.

"I feel like I've heard of this book somewhere."

Yun Mu raised an eyebrow and quickly recalled that this was a book that Sixin, the president of the Painter Association, had once recommended she exchange for.

"Don't you know very little about many of the basics and common knowledge of the supernatural world? That book should be able to answer most of your questions," Brenna explained to her.

"Is this book very famous?" Yun Mu asked with some curiosity.

After all, Sixin had also recommended this book to her before.

"It's very famous in the supernatural world of this country," Brenna said, "Basically everyone has read it."

"Because the author is from this country?" Yun Mu guessed casually.

"Not really." Brenna shook her head and said, "This book has no author, or rather, it has many authors."

"In the beginning, this book was a safe survival manual for the supernatural world released by the Dark Night Church, and it only became what it is today after who knows how many revisions and edits."

"This was released by the Church?" Yun Mu was a bit surprised; this was something she really hadn't expected.

"That's right, and that is precisely why it has been able to stand the test of time." Brenna got off the bed and walked toward the outside of the room, saying:

"You read slowly here, I'm going to go research mechanics too."

"Oh."

Yun Mu watched Brenna's back disappear behind the door, and she couldn't help but feel curious about the other person's profession.

The kind of Bionic Doll that Brenna made, she imagined, shouldn't be a purely mechanical structure; at the very least, there would be the participation of Supernatural power.

According to her speculation, there was a high probability that Brenna had a domain similar to steam or mechanics.

Then, could her profession be Mechanic?

*Cough cough*, to prevent any misunderstandings, let me clarify here.

She did not know if the profession of Mechanic existed; she was just guessing blindly.

If she guessed right, that wouldn't be strange either.

After all, Mechanic really does feel like the name of a Supernatural profession.

However, speaking of Mechanics... Heh, she wouldn't recognize a Mechanic who couldn't perform blue-blood conversion or tear apart mechs with their bare hands.

Thinking of Brenna's thin and small figure, Yun Mu couldn't help but chuckle.

"Stop thinking about it, read, read."

Picking up that copy of "Cognition and Exploration of the Supernatural World—Basic Volume," Yun Mu began to read it seriously.

"So that's how it is."

Half an hour later, Yun Mu looked at the content in the book and said.

Let's first talk about the issue of ranks for Transcendental.

She originally only knew that there were eight ranks: Apprentice, Elite, Expert, Master, Champion, Legendary, Epic, and Myth.

But she didn't understand the meaning and abilities contained within these ranks.

First is Apprentice; there's nothing much to say about this, as it belongs to the mortal level and basically cannot use abilities that transcend mortal cognition.

After entering a Supernatural profession, the lifespan of an Apprentice generally exceeds 85 years; as long as they don't die by accident, the accuracy rate is as high as 95%!

As for the Elite rank, it is the rank where one initially grasps Supernatural abilities and gradually becomes proficient in using them, with an average lifespan exceeding 120 years.

The Expert rank that follows is the process of gradually excavating, fully understanding, and analyzing Supernatural abilities, with a lifespan of 135-150 years.

Does it feel like the increase in lifespan isn't much? Because this is just a transitional rank; basically, anyone who can reach the Expert rank can eventually advance to the Master rank.

And the Master rank is for humans who can freely control their own abilities and can have a huge impact on the real world.

The lifespan is over 200.

"It doesn't feel as good as cultivation," Yun Mu remarked sarcastically.

If only she had transmigrated into a cultivation world; even a random Qi Refining stage cultivator would have a lifespan exceeding that of a Master.

But she could only think about such things.

If one had to say, cultivation is much harder than the Supernatural system of this world; both have different advantages, so they are fundamentally difficult to compare.

"Hmm, Champion level; Lucy told me before that it means what, a lifespan of 350 years?"

Good grief, that's a direct increase of one hundred years.

Then wouldn't Legendary, a rank that clearly represents a qualitative change, be an instant takeoff?

Sure enough, Yun Mu looked at the content in the book and discovered that the lifespans of Legendary Transcendental are generally over 800 years, with some even being old monsters who have lived for over a thousand years.

"Tsk tsk, one thousand years is an entire era," Yun Mu remarked sarcastically.

The world's history only spans four eras in total, so one thousand years accounts for a quarter of it.

Then what about Epic?

Yun Mu couldn't wait to continue flipping through, and then she was surprised to find that the records in the book regarding Epic were very vague.

As it turns out, there are no longer any Epic-level existences in the world today.

The earliest one can even be traced back to over two thousand years ago: the genius mage who was driven out of the Southern Continent by the Heling Empire, Fen Yege.

Uh... that is the book's claim; Yun Mu doesn't know this guy at all.

It's just that according to the book, this person is the current God of Decay and Necromancy, and even the giant Wonder of the Orc Federation, the Magic Fountain, was created by this guy; it's simply absurd.

Keeping this name in mind, Yun Mu continued reading.

The content on Epic is very vague, so there is no need to even mention Myth.

There are records of becoming a god, but how does one become a god? Who knows! It is only speculated to be related to domains... what a damn good speculation, don't speculate next time.

Isn't this something one could figure out with their toes?

Yun Mu thought, feeling quite speechless.

Since we are on the topic of advancement, let's talk about professions.

When she first met Sixin, didn't the other party tell her what the four-tier names of the painter series of Transcendental were?

At the time, she just thought Sixin had deliberately not told her the full list, but the truth was.

All Transcendental professions can only reach the fourth tier at most! PS: Ding ding! I saw feedback saying people like four thousand 【words】 a bit more.

Then let's make it four thousand per chapter; if it really doesn't work out, we can change it back later.

(End of this chapter)