A certain American comic book's secondary profession master

Chapter 16: The Surprise Brought by the Inscription

It's another sunny day.

Li Wei is going out to restock some goods today.

These days, he has devoted himself wholeheartedly to practicing his side job and hasn't left the house. Apart from fish, he has eaten all the other food in the house.

While fish is delicious, you can't eat it every day.

Besides, in order to level up her skills, the original owner's pocket money was almost gone, so she had to find a way to make money.

Although most of the materials for leveling up skills were obtained at the lowest price through his own trading company, Li Wei paid for them himself and did not use the company's accounts.

To Li Wei's surprise, although the purchases he made at the company were all at the lowest prices, they were still not a small sum.

Such a commotion did not attract the attention of the original owner's father at all.

It's been almost half a month, and the other party hasn't made a single phone call, let alone come home.

This is very strange.

Although when he received the original owner's memories, he knew that the original owner's relationship with his father was rather distant, and that the father would only give him a large amount of pocket money every year, and spend very little time at home each year.

But I never expected it to be this indifferent.

The son keeps making large purchases of supplies through his family's company, and the other party doesn't even ask any questions?
It's very confusing.

However, Li Wei only had a slight doubt before stopping himself from thinking about it further.

This is a good thing for him, who has taken over the place.

There's no need to try to justify your abnormality.

Closer to home.

Li Wei spent a great deal of time and money, and the results were quite good.

Engineering, alchemy, tailoring, and inscription all made great progress.

As for gathering skills, as well as jewelry making, enchanting, blacksmithing, and leatherworking, Li Wei did not practice them due to limited resources.

After all, energy and resources are limited; trying to learn everything will only result in not mastering any of them.

Of course, besides cooking, Li Wei's highest skill level skills are alchemy and inscription.

Inscriptions even show a tendency to surpass them.

Since the highest-level material that Li Wei has verified is herbs, and herbs are the cheapest, he will definitely prioritize alchemy and inscription.

Moreover, neither of them has high requirements for the container of the finished product... Earlier, Livy was worried that alchemy would require different bottles at different stages, just like in the early games.

However, as his skill level increased, he discovered that modern-made vials could still replace the crystal bottles and enchanted vials that were originally needed.

It feels a bit like a late-game update where all you need is a crystal bottle.

It seems that products from industrial society still have considerable advantages.

The inscription was even simpler, just parchment...

Although parchment is much more expensive than regular paper, it is not difficult to buy in the United States, a country with a developed livestock industry.

The only thing to be careful about is the issue of whether it's genuine or fake.

This fake is not fake in the traditional sense.

Instead, modern parchment usually refers to industrial parchment, which is not made from sheepskin but from normal pulp. It is a modified paper formed by treating it with concentrated sulfuric acid, hence it is also called sulfuric acid paper.

Because of its excellent strength, it is widely used in the inner packaging of industrial products such as mechanical parts, instruments, and chemical pharmaceuticals, as well as food, medicine, and disinfection materials.

Of course, it can also be used for writing or making books.

However, the inscription did not require this kind of parchment, but rather paper made of sheepskin in the true sense of the word.

When Li Wei first asked the company to make purchases, he didn't specify clearly, and as a result, industrial parchment was delivered.

The inscription didn't react at all, almost making Li Wei think that the parchment used for the inscription needed magical processing.

A quick online search revealed that there are two types of parchment. This prompted the company to repurchase, and they were able to obtain parchment made from genuine sheepskin and calfskin—yes, the materials used to make traditional parchment include not only sheepskin but also calfskin.

Moreover, calfskin is cheaper than sheepskin—because although the United States has a developed livestock industry, it mainly raises cattle, with very few sheep, and mostly mutton sheep.

Because of its gamey smell, picky Americans don't like to eat lamb.

Sheep account for less than 1% of the livestock industry in the United States.

Li Wei wasn't sure if the "parchment" made from calfskin was usable, so he had the company purchase small quantities of it.

The results confirmed that it could be used.

So, while honing his alchemy and engineering skills, Li Wei also started honing his inscription skills.

The inscription, which he hadn't initially paid much attention to, gave him a huge surprise.

At first, Li Wei didn't officially activate Inscription, so he subconsciously thought of Inscription as the Inscription profession that was removed in the later version—after all, in the early game, the revamped Inscription didn't offer much besides some magic scrolls and a few low-level decks.

However, once it was opened, Li Wei discovered that the inscriptions he had learned were inscriptions containing early large and small engravings.

After officially activating Inscription, he also opened the Glyph section.

But that's not the most explosive part.

The truly mind-blowing part was that when Li Wei created his first glyph, the Glyph of Arcane Intellect, and equipped it into his glyph slot, he discovered that the skill's activation icon had appeared in his mind.

Yes, he can use the Arcane Intellect spell now.

Suspecting he was hallucinating, Livi didn't hesitate to create another Charge glyph.

Then he would charge.

So... whatever glyph he equips, he can learn the spell corresponding to that glyph?

And there are no restrictions on professions?
This discovery filled Li Weixin with ecstasy.

As expected, Heaven still favors me.

Lao Tzu's fighting skills have returned.

However, after several attempts, it turned out that Li Wei was too optimistic.

Equipping him with a glyph will indeed allow him to learn the spell represented by that glyph.

However, as anyone who has played World of Warcraft knows, skills in World of Warcraft have levels.

The effects of the same spell can be vastly different between low-level and high-level spells.

Unfortunately, Li Wei's skills in assembling the Sculpture Society were only at level one.

Furthermore, the skill can only be used when Livi has this glyph equipped.

If Li Wei replaces the original glyph with another glyph, then Li Wei will no longer be able to use the skills associated with the original glyph.

There are only six engraved grids in total, three large and three small.

Although there are no character level restrictions like in games, this still means that Li Wei can only have a maximum of six skills at the same time.

If you want to use other skills, you have to replace them with glyphs.

However, after only a brief period of disappointment, Li Wei regained his composure.

In any case, being able to use those amazing skills is already a great joy in itself, and we can't ask for too much.

Moreover, the limitation of only being able to carry six skills is not insurmountable—just treat glyphs as consumables, make all kinds of glyphs, and then replace them in different environments.

It's okay if your skill level is a little low.

At most, the damage might be a bit lower, but the functionality remains complete—in World of Warcraft, many skills are strong precisely because of their functionality.

For example—the sheep transformation technique!

(End of this chapter)