The talk with Miss Ginger and Mr Grant wasn’t as easy as I though, though I had given the idea of guilds they were against it since everyone hated guilds so I changed the name to Union and instead of making separate guilds it would be one huge Union of guilds, the Hevea Union. They seemed to like the idea, with less guilds it would make for easier control, I then went on to talk about the buildings, the first was a school for mages. Yes a school, I find the leaving it to mages to learn all on their own was kind of unproductive and with a school we could set up grades and teach basics and advanced methods separately which would help me, when I release puppeteering to the public. With this method I can create lower tier puppeteer jobs since I can teach them only a few techniques that are needed.

They both readily agreed and Miss Ginger would be the head while Mr Grant would be in charge of physical class. I then ordered the construction, mining of, the school on the second floor near the residential area I made the plan for it to be a 4 story building so that it would reach all the way to the ceiling of the cave.

The next bit of business was to set up a few factories; I needed large amounts of puppet quickly, so I also had a new large carpenters shop made which was named the puppet house. I went and hired some carpenters that were from Relona and taught them how to make the puppets pieces and made sure it was basic undetailed pieces.

(the result would be like the cover page I have)

Once all the pieces were made I brought out many boxes, each was for one piece of the puppet and they were to make the parts and put them there. Once the boxes were full they would be transported to the school where miss ginger was. I had already taught her what was needed and had her do it a few times. He commented on how I needed to charge a huge amounts on them but it just replied that I would leave the mana at the minimum lowering the price of the puppet enough for travelers to buy them.

Now for the remaining week I had before the interview I spend with Alice and topaz in the smithy. The goal was to make a giant guardian puppet to help with the defenses in town. Topaz was already in advanced level in blacksmithing and with him guiding us we had gotten to level intermediate 1, this was the result from training since we gained the city not in the last week. Once we both were skilled enough we began my plan was to taken from an old anime, I wanted to make the guardian similar in shape to it.

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We worked all day to get most of it done, all thanks to Topaz’s amazing speed. We were able to finish the giant on the second day since he had less than a normal human puppet. After shrinking the parts it took them outside and made them get back to normal size I faced the torso upright and the others put the parts in place. It was like a jigsaw puzzle but once all the right parts were in their correct part I pulled out a large diamond and began the process of making the puppet.

Thanks to the recent increase in puppets I made to supply the beginners that might appear I have gotten to intermediate in magic puppet making and it decreases the time I needed to make the puppet because I can attach several parts at the same time though it still took the same 30 minutes to stabilize the strings. Taking only 2 hours to finish the connecting it was time to stand him up and complete him, yes connecting and waking him up is part of the completion process. I attach string and make him stand up.

Magic puppet completion failed

The current core is too weak to support the puppet

Topaz: hmm some’em wrong?

Sting: the core is too weak to make the puppet work.

Alice: what it’s too weak, but aren’t you using a large diamond as the core.

Sting: yes but it’s still too weak…maybe it uses more mana then a normal puppet so a normal core can’t hold mana long enough for it.

Topaz: what we gonna do then?

??? : use more gems

We looked at the source of the voice and saw miss ginger there with her grandkids. In her hand was floating three gems, a diamond at the center and two other floating around it.

Sting: miss ginger, what is that?

Miss Ginger: ever since you taught me the way you make gems into cores ive studied how to make them stronger and this is what I came up with, a main core and smaller ones that capture mana and sends it to the main core. But I can’t make it more than two since I need greater control of the strings to do it.

Sting: may I see those gems.

She hands it over and it continues floating over my hand. Thanks to my experience it sensing mana I could see as the two outer gems revolve around the main one small mana strings come out of it into the center one.

You have discovered a method to make stronger gem cores for your puppets

+10 Int

Sting: I think I understand your method now… mind if I use these gems.

She nods, the gems she had were a sapphire, topaz and emerald, and I also pull out a ruby and head to the giant. I hold the sapphire in my hand and then put it near the diamond then stretch a string from the sapphires supply into the diamond. As I let go the mana inside the sapphire lets out tiny hair like strings and begins rotating and revolving around the diamond. I do the same to the ruby. The topaz and emerald I put above and below the diamond which made the ruby and sapphire revolve horizontally and the topaz and emerald revolve vertically. After that I close the top and get off the giant and attach the strings and order it to stand. As it started getting up it caused the area to shack a bit as it got up and stood at 4 and a half meters tall it was also 3 meters wide.

You have created the first Giant Magic Marionette

+200 fame

+2 every stat

Giant Magic Marionette

A huge Iron Giant made by with the combined effort of the Magus Puppeteer and his apprentices. This puppet which has a special mana infused iron body can easily suppress the power of a low class boss monster

With its size comes its great power in strength but it doesn’t lose out in speed even with it size thanks to its excess amount of mana from its core. These puppets are based off human giants, they hold great loyalty for their master even though they aren’t smart, they are capable of learning many tactics as well and can be left in auto mode without risk.

Level 1

Job Iron Guardian

Exp 0%

Health/Durability 20,000/20,000

Mana 25000/25000

Stamina Unlimited

Strength 150

Agility 90

Dexterity 60

Vitality 400

Endurance 160

Skills

Mana Infusion (basic 1)

Because of excess mana in its body it releases the excess into its metal body then into the air which makes its body much more powerful

Great charge (basic 1)

Iron Guard (basic 1)

Status: normal

Sting: wow it’s amazing though it doesn’t have intelligence and wisdom it can still learn and it even has endurance it their place as well as a skill that increases his base durability as well as an attack and defense skill.

Miss ginger: it’s because he has excess mana in his body, must have put to man gems on his core.

Sting: I think that’s a good thing, it will help with him being a guardian like I wanted. If I make one to travel with me it would make for the best tanks.

Miss ginger: so now what how will you make them it takes lot of recourses to make an a lot of time

Topaz: it aint nothen a dwarf can’t handle.

Sting: Topaz could you set up a factory like I did for the wood puppets, I need at least ten of these by the end of the week. Ill also need to teach the squad captains mana strings so that can control the giants.

Miss ginger: already done that, I find that skill something good for suppressing thieves and capturing without injuring.

Sting: you’re a life saver Miss Ginger.

Miss Ginger: nothing to it, I do what I must but really this guy is impressive but I can see that the mana consumption on him will be monstrous especially when fighting its possible he might deactivate during combat if the fight drags on.

Alice: I think with a bit of training he will become too powerful for the fight to drag on too long and we could always pull him back and send a rested one.

Sting: true something like this is useful only if you know how to use them well.

Miss ginger: you kids are right, well I should get going you kids need to work and I so do i.

We all separated then, I had Alice go work at the wood puppets factory while Topaz set up the Metal puppet factory. Me I returned to the forge and made human sized metal parts, it didn’t take as long as the giant only 5 hours to make two puppet worth of pieces and another 2 hours work the carve the spells I had on one of them, at this point I called Proto and Magi.

Magi: you summoned us master

Sting: yes, you see we just completed a metal puppet and I was wondering if you two would like me to upgrade you to metal puppets?

Proto: really that would be great to get more powerful but if our whole body changes we will begin again at level 1.

Magi: as long as our cores don’t change it won’t matter brother.

Sting: so you two want me to do it.

They both nodded and began removed there things which I stored away, including the synthetic skins. What remained was the bare wooden puppets I originally made.

I had proto lay down first and magi could wait. First I removed his core, it was a pain in the ass for sure thanks to it evolving into a nervous system but after a bit of tampering the mana dispersed leaving the body and the parts disconnecting permanently

You have taken apart the Magic Marionette Proto 1

All his skills and his Ego is stored within his core placing it inside a new body will place them within integrate them to it but it will reset their level to 1 and their combat skills will drop some levels due to the difference the body has.

I pick up the Amethyst gem which was his core and shrink and pack away his parts before pulling out new iron parts which were the same size and shape as the original. I place the parts all in the correct place and then put his core in its place. 3 hours later I finished the complex part which was even more complex because when I start on the next part the strings began spreading and making the nerves like before so I had to hold them off while I attached the body. When I try to wake him I get the same failure message as the giant.

Sting: seems metal puppets have a higher cost to work let’s add two more since he is smaller than the giant.

I add a topaz and his original emerald.

Magic Metel Marionette (Proto)

The first of its kind, this special Marionette was modeled after its creator in his attempt to discover the how to make magic puppets. With its core placed in a new body it still holds the rank of first as it is now the first human sized metal marionette.

A well-crafted body by the Magus Puppeteer Sting, the powerful body increases the strength to great degrees. With a new Metal body its abilities increase by half its old body even though it a new body.

Level 1

Job Monk Puppet

Exp 0%

Health/Durability 15000/15000

Mana 10000/10000

Stamina Unlimited

Strength 170

Agility 150

Dexterity 138

Vitality 200

Intelligence 110

Wisdom 100

Skills

Sword Mastery (basic 1 50%)

Sense Presence (basic 4)

Fist Fighting Mastery (basic 2)

Monk Mindset (passive)

Fighters Aura (basic 3)

Knuckle Drive (basic 2)

Rush Strike, Drop Punch (basic 1)

Mana Infusion (basic 1)

Mana Strike (basic 1)

Mediation (basic 6)

Iron Guard (basic 1)

Sting: now this is great, so Proto how do you feel.

Proto: Stronger…much Stronger

Sting: here are your things; I made this body as close to your size as possible so your things wills still fit.

He gave me a small bow and took his things and got dressed. In full armor it’s impossible to tell that he is a puppet especially now with the skin.

Proto: going to train…to get used to…my new body.

Sting: go right ahead, Magi your next.

I did the same to magi but it was much harder, because of her higher mana pool in the diamond her nervous system was much more complex she took a whopping 4 hours to remove just the core and 6 hours to attach the core to the entire body.

Due to doing complicated tasks with great concentration

+6 concentrations

Sting: so she is that hard to put together huh.

I the take a ruby and a sapphire and add them to her core to power her up.

Magic Metal Marionette (Magi)

A magic puppet made from the Magus Puppeteer Sting. Its new metal body was made with great concentration and gained much greater quality then its old body.

This special marionette was modeled after the creator’s younger sisters, as such as the ego it is developing will have a tendency to have a younger sister’s personality but will regard her creator as master out of loyalty. Because of the new body its power increases to double its old bodies even though it’s still new

Level 1

Job Elemental Mage Puppet

Exp 0%

Health/Durability 18000/18000

Mana 25000/25000

Stamina Unlimited

Strength 120

Agility 200

Dexterity 180

Vitality 170

Intelligent 230

Wisdom 210

Skills

Sigil Magic Mastery (basic 5)

Magic Mastery (basic 8¬)

Elemental Magic Affinity

Delayed Casting (intermediate 2)

Sigil Spells

Fire Ball (basic 6)

Fire Bomb (basic 8)

Ice Lance (basic 7)

Pressure bomb (basic 5)

Earth Lance (basic 9)

Earth Bomb (basic 4)

Lightning Bolt (basic 6)

Paralysis shot (basic 4)

Healing (basic 9)

Cure (basic 7)

Blind (basic 6)

Curse (basic 5)

Sting: truly I do love this job, metal puppet have more upkeep but they compensate it by so much, I can’t wait to show the info of these three puppets in public, I will attract so many people to this place…can’t forget to set up an anti-theft mechanism…maybe a bomb to the core for the other puppets, mine can take care of themselves but I feel that other players will fuck things up badly with the mages guild.

The rest of the week (real life, 1 month in game) went pretty well, within two in game weeks we had 10 iron guardians ready and had them, magi, proto and a large platoon of solders (the ones from Relona that came to Hevea) train in the forest to increase the solders control of the giants and to increase their levels and make sure they are as strong as high level players. The ten giants reached level 30-35 by the end of the month and magi and proto got to 15 and 18 during that time, since the giants were tanking they got more exp.

Out in the real world the two weeks had passed and on the Saturday of the second week dad and I were in VR New waiting for the time to be called, the host was already presenting the show which was supposed to release several hidden classes to the world and like that there were 5 others besides me here that were willing to do is.

Host: and today we bring you 6 young kids that were personally called by Virtual works to talk about their classes and guess what they are hidden classes, that’s right everyone they have agreed to disclose the class they discovered. Also with us is the CEO himself coming he has brought some info from each such as job info and buffs that the players themselves want to show. Please welcome him Jonan Brim and our six guesses.

We all walk out with dad in the lead and me behind him; I could see the sneer on one of the guys face behind me since I wasn’t letting him sit next to dad.

Host: it’s a please to have you Mr Brim and guests, we are all anxious to see the classes.

Jonas: im sure you will like them all, miss you may start.

The girl furthest from the host was called and she stood up and bowed to everyone, her name was Mika Talien her class was Siren Bard. It’s a unique version of the bard class that you can only get by charming a siren or mermaid with your singing which pretty much means that if your singing isn’t up to par with theirs you can’t get it. Bard jobs can normally give AoE buffs though they aren’t that effective like other jobs but it’s the AoE effect that keeps the job alive, but her job allows her voice to give buffs as strong as any priest or whatever and it can charm enemies and make them freeze up in the fight.

(can’t think of many jobs so I will skip to the cocky bastard which is just before Malcolm)

The second guy had a crafting job, the third was a unique mage class, four was a thief job. The fifth was the guy that was staring at me, his name was Jonas Ridley, his job was Flame knight, it’s a unique class because normally knights don’t use magic, and to gain this class you need high affinity for fire and be at least intermediate in fire magic mastery to gain it.

Host: now for the final player that has come today mr Malcolm…Brim

There are a lot of people that start murmuring in the crowd and Jonas has a big grin and a proud look on his face.

Malcolm: hello I’m Malcolm Brim, my class in Second life is Magus Puppeteer, it’s a magic and crafting base class which uses puppets to tank while control rest on me, there are also some skills that use the strings to attack.

There are a lot of people who were talking but with a few calls from the host they quieted down.

Host: um Malcolm you said you use puppets right…it’s a known fact that combat puppets are impossible to make even the arch mages have tried and failed.

I look to my dad and give a little nod.

Malcolm: I knew it would be like this that is why I asked my father to help me get the video feed from my capsule, just know what is show is my puppets already build i defiantly won’t stay how I make them.

Suddenly the video on the large screen at the end of the stage changes to show proto just as I was making him stand. Then the message showing his stats and the talking starts again.

Malcolm: this was my first puppet I made at beginner level, the skill level I make him in makes for different stats the same goes for the shape and size I make him into.

The video then shifts to magi standing up and her stats appearing.

Malcolm: this one I made at level 6 carpentry and 5 puppet making as you can see it is much stronger then the initial one at beginner level also they have the unique ability to gain jobs like us.

As I said that the video shows me using the books to change their jobs.

Malcolm: it is possible to change their bodys into a better one which I also recently did.

Host: wow this is amazing though have you thought of making larger puppet as well or metal ones.

Malcolm: of course I have and I have them done already.

The video changes to show the first giant puppet getting up and the stats showing up. As soon as they read the stats the crowd goes up in an uproar. It takes a few minutes to calm them down.

Host: um Malcolm im curious why are you showing such an OP class why not keep it for yourself.

Malcolm: because I want to spread this class

The crowd goes again in an uproar with many sending messages to watch the show.

Malcolm: I recently founded a town with some dwarves that were held captive from the bandits led by Tristan the red claw and made his hideout into a town, its east of Relona a town in the kingdom of Tredred in the Emon continent. In there I made a school to teach puppeteering, as well as magic and fighting classes but just a warning it’s not Magus Puppeteer that is the final tier class I’m going to make lower class ones starting with the basic puppeteer.

Before he could ask Jonas poked him and with a gesture to end it the host finished his show.

That night the show was spread worldwide and the prospect of the job like this cause hundreds of thousands to go to the town.

The first to arrive were those near the town, they were newbies that haven’t gotten their job changed yet so they worked together to pool their money and hired mercenaries to travel with them to my town.

The first group was around 100 players +20 mercenaries NPC. I was waiting at the front along with one of the giants. The looks on their faces when they saw the giant was priceless. I led them tow school and told them that besides puppeteering the school can train you to be other classes and that it was equivalent to a guild. In my mind I had my doubts that many would make it to get the beginner tier job. The second that came was a guild that wanted the class, some higher level players came with some recruits that were interested I was cautious around the high levels because they could cause trouble he was over level 100 but I had a feeling he would have a hell of a fight against my giants, I had tested their strength against the stone hide boars and he was able to stop its mad rush at it after being pushed back some 10 meters…at level 1. Currently level 30-35 they could take high level players probably up to level 200 if they didn’t train regularly their skills.

By the time a huge influxe of people arrived the first group of players has gotten the job, of the 100 only 12 had the talent and patience to bet the requirements for puppeteering, inner and exterior mana control, meditation and mana string. They were given a basic puppet to start up and told they can be upgraded at the school if you buy the parts for them.

Magic Marionette (unnamed)

A basic model of magic puppets given to beginners in the art of puppeteering.

There are no defects but no buffs are given either for the design is simple.

Level 1

Job none

Exp 0%

Health/Durability 500/500

Mana 1000/1000

Stamina Unlimited

Strength 20

Agility 20

Dexterity 20

Vitality 20

Intelligent 10

Wisdom 10

Skills

None

Status normal

The others gained mage or warrior based classes and surprisingly the warriors were better than normal, Mr Grant must have put stat requirements for his job change as well.

I was very happy about so many people coming, with the increase in players we began having money enter our pockets and thanks to the dwarves we had a sizable amount of higher level players coming for high grade weapons and armor. Heh heh current revenue from players 950G p/day, with the number still rising, my job and my town will increase the number of players on Emon and it will increase exploration and fame of my job.

After the first week I had the pleasure to also see someone that was trying to steal and was ignorant enough to fight against my giant. I heard that they guy was a level 127 thief class player but that didn’t amount to much after the giant caught him and smashed him to the ground before giving him a few stomps that left him in the red zone for his health and was taken to jail. The video of this quickly spread and the slightly rising crime rate vanished almost as quickly as it began to rise. Every few days’ two new giants are sent to patrol until we had around 50 giants so the rest was mainly backup if needed for a raid or something. I took one for perianal use if I ever needed it against large bosses or other monsters. It everything going so well I got bored quickly.

Sting: I’m so bored… I think I’m going exploring for some time and leave the town to Miss Ginger to take care

Alice: but doesn’t she have the union to take are of?

Sting: she only teaches an hour a day and she only take care of the school the union is made of a council of her Mr. Grant and a few other people with craft jobs.

Topaz: were would ya go.

Sting: WE would go north and explore the uncharted area, we can go to Feldon to the east first before heading up north

Alice: that nice…wait “we” as in me, you, and topaz?!

Sting: yep as my apprentices you still have much to learn and there are some things I haven’t taught or discovered and you guys can help me with that, that’s one of the reasons I am looking for apprentices.

Topaz: ah see now, wit help ya can make more wit the help of yer apprentice’s skills.

Sting: exactly just like the giant metal puppets were made with Topaz’s help one of you might think up of something else that I wouldn’t normally think of.

They both nod with a smile, we discuss a bit about what we will be doing and how to go about it then we split up to by supplies. I go and get potions and food while alice goes and gets materials for repairs for cloths as well as to prepare the carriages and Topaz goes get materials for repairs, for weapons armor and puppets.

We meet up at noon and head off after telling Miss Ginger we were leaving and asking her to manage until I returned. She gladly accepted and said she was amazed I stayed here so long instead of going off somewhere. We leave the town after giving orders to protect it at all cost, in the carts I had many weapons and armor the dwarves made I was planning on selling them at high prices at the next town since they were all great quality, I also hope to get info on some dungeons or get some quests, I’ve been playing a long time and haven’t been in one.