My basement connects to another world.

Chapter 64 Job Change

Cape Collar

After resting for a while in the old house, Jiang Yuan pushed open the door to his bedroom and was immediately greeted by a faint, fresh scent.

Several newly hired maids were wiping windows at the end of the corridor. They stood on low stools, holding rags in their hands. Their movements were still a bit clumsy, but they were doing it very seriously.

Seeing Jiang Yuan walk over from the other end of the corridor, the group jumped off their stools almost simultaneously, lined up against the wall, and bowed in greeting.

"My lord."

Jiang Yuan nodded.

The castle looks more lively now; it seems Tissa has been quite busy these past few days.

He walked down the corridor and found Tissa in the study.

Pushing open the door, Jiang Yuan discovered that the room had also changed.

The files and booklets that were originally piled up haphazardly on the long table have been rearranged and divided into several stacks according to year and category.

Tissa stood to the side of the long table, an unfolded parchment map in front of her, and was gently tapping a spot with her finger, as if she were calculating something.

Her long hair was tied into a loose bun at the back of her head, with a few stray strands hanging down beside her ears. Hearing the door open, she looked up with a relieved expression on her face.

"You've finally appeared."

"What's new?" Jiang Yuan asked casually as he sat down behind the long table.

Tissa picked up a page from the top, cleared her throat, and began to report on the tasks that had accumulated over the past day and a half.

"Let's talk about distributing the grain first. The old batch of wheat flour has all been distributed. Each family was given two jin per adult and one jin per child. After that, I had the granary cleaned up to make room for the new grain you brought back."

As she said this, a slight smile curved her lips: "The quality of this batch of wheat flour is so much better than the original. Some people cried on the spot after receiving it."

"There have been many changes in the territory in the past two days."

"When I went to distribute grain before, the commoners would either lower their heads and hide when they saw people in the castle, or their eyes would be numb and they wouldn't expect anything. Now it's different—"

Jiang Yuan leaned back in his chair, not interrupting her.

He knew that Tisha wasn't saying these things to take credit; doing good deeds inevitably makes people feel happy.

"And another thing," Tissa continued, "I had Marin, along with several knights and hired subjects, search the wasteland around the castle and the saline land below the hills."

"The soil here is worse than expected, but after turning it over and letting it dry for a few months, we should be able to try planting some salt-tolerant crops next spring."

"And news came from Yuri Territory, which is closest to our territory, that a caravan arrived there a few days ago. As is customary, they will depart from Yuri Territory and trade along the way through various territories."

"The caravan sent someone to deliver a message saying that the next stop is Cape Territory, and they are expected to arrive tomorrow afternoon."

A caravan? Jiang Yuan's eyes lit up slightly.

This is what he's been waiting for.

Cape Territory is too remote. If you want to purchase alchemy materials, magic books, weapons, and equipment, you either have to go out and do it yourself, or you can only wait for these irregular traveling merchant caravans.

He currently has five or six hundred gold coins in his pocket, which is equivalent to the purchasing power of two Cape Territories, and he's just worried about where to spend them.

"Where did this caravan come from? How big is it?" he pressed.

Tissa glanced down at the record in her hand: "The messenger didn't go into too much detail. He only said it was a medium-sized joint caravan, about twenty or thirty people, with guards."

"The goods are diverse, ranging from grains and cloth to alchemical materials and magic scrolls. Yuri territory made a deal with them, purchasing a batch of winter rations and a dozen or so weapons."

"How many days will they stay at the cape?"

"According to custom, caravans that trade along the way will not stay for more than a day."

Tissa replied, her tone tinged with uncertainty, "But it also depends on how much cargo they're carrying. If the transaction volume is large, it's not uncommon for them to stay for an extra half day."

Jiang Yuan did some mental calculations. A day was enough for him to make a list of things he wanted to buy, and also enough for him to get a feel for the business rules and price levels of this world.

More importantly, this is his first time contacting people outside the local system, and how much news he can hear from the outside world depends entirely on this trip.

"You did a good job."

Tissa smiled slightly and closed the booklet.

Having finished reporting everything, she looked up at Jiang Yuan, her eyes questioning, and said, "Then I'll get back to work."

"Go."

The door closed gently.

The study quieted down, and Jiang Yuan didn't rush to get up.

He sat in the chair and went over the information he had just heard in his mind.

The grain distribution was more effective than he had anticipated, and the news from the caravan arrived just in time.

Things are moving forward one by one, but ultimately, the most important thing is his ability.

Jiang Yuan closed his eyes and drifted into meditation.

The magic power within his body flowed slowly. After dozens of attempts over two days, he was always stuck at the last step.

When the pressure was halfway applied, the different forces began to become uneven.

The weight was too heavy on one side and too light on the other. The particles that were already stuck together were torn apart and then scattered.

But the dozens of failures were not in vain.

With each collapse, his control over his mental power also improved through training.

This made his grasp of force increasingly clear.

With this in mind, Jiang Yuan once again began to condense the core of magic power.

He redistributed his mental energy evenly across his chest.

This time he didn't hesitate at all.

The seven streams of spiritual energy tightened simultaneously, their force perfectly aligned, like seven fingers pressing down on a bead with equal pressure.

It begins to shrink towards the center.

He could feel the gaps between those particles shrinking, from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a needle tip, becoming tighter and tighter.

The repulsive force arrived as expected.

But this time, he wasn't swayed by the repulsive force.

His mental strength stabilized, and the output of the seven forces remained absolutely balanced. None of them increased their strength due to the increased repulsive force, nor were any of them pushed back even slightly by the repulsive force.

The repulsive force was increasing. His mental strength was also tightening in sync.

When it reached a certain critical point, a tiny bright spot appeared at the center of the magic vortex.

It was as if several particles had been forced together by pressure, and their boundaries began to dissolve.

As soon as this bright spot appeared, the surrounding magical particles were immediately attracted to it. Without him having to use his mental power to suppress it, they began to surge towards the center on their own.

Jiang Yuan was overjoyed.

Instantly, the power of the seven spiritual forces doubled simultaneously.

That repulsive force was finally overwhelmed.

All the magical particles were compressed to the same point at the same instant, and the gaps between them were completely filled.

His mental energy sensed a clear sense of collapse.

Like a heart completing its first beat.

After expanding, the vortex disappeared.

Jiang Yuan could clearly see a tiny, translucent crystal floating in the center of his chest through his spiritual vision.

Its surface is a complete light film, and inside there are colorful streams of light slowly rotating along a fixed trajectory.

Magic Core!

With each rotation, a trace of the magic power that was slowly dissipating from Jiang Yuan's "magic channel" was drawn back.

It is injected from the bottom of the crystal and then expelled from the top, in a continuous cycle.

"It's done!" Jiang Yuan opened his eyes, sensing something.

A panel popped up in front of me.

It's still the familiar fluorescent blue, but the content on it has changed.

[Class: Mage]

The occupation field has changed from "None" to "Mage".

He stared at those two words for several seconds, then looked down.

[Cooldown until next magic core extraction: 15:19:34]

I've finally changed jobs—and I can extract magic cores again in less than a day!

After more than two days, we finally reaped the rewards.

Moreover, once the cooldown is over, his strength will experience another boost.

Jiang Yuan was delighted, but then he thought of something else.

According to the update announcement for the game "Oracle," the game will be updated in the next few days.

I wonder what changes the game update will bring—whether in the game itself or for him.