Chapter 10: Skill Analysis

Three days have passed since I reported my job as a farmer. Why do you think Commander Meld believes me despite not showing my own status plate? That is because you can't hide your class as you need to use the skills they have.

So he will just think that I am too shy to show my attributes to others like Hajime. Though, I can see from the corner of my eye that He is staring at me from his position. I don't know what he is thinking about as He glances at me with a weird stare.

Weirdly, people just don't care about my class as a non-combat job, unlike Hajime. This is probably due to the fact that I got the same class as our Teacher. After all, disrespecting my class is equal to disrespecting our teacher.

By the way, although my class is the same as Aiko sensei on the surface, it's actually different. After all, my job is [Farmer?]. Why the heck is there a question mark on this? I don't know. What I know is that my skills are different from Aiko sensei.

Here are her skills compared to mine below.

Aiko sensei skills:

[Soil Management] [Range Temperature Adjustment]

[Soil Restoration] [Farm Barrier]

[Range Cultivation] [Abundant Rain]

[Growth Stimulation] [Language Comprehension]

[Selective Breeding]

[Plant Appraisal]

[Fertilizer Production]

[Mixture Development],

[Auto Harvest]

[Fermentation Operation]

Kentarou's Skills:

[Soil and Earth Manipulation]

[Plant Growth Stimulation]

[Plant Manipulation]

[Plant Appraisal]

[Chemical Production]

[Seed Formation]

[Language Comprehension]

Right! She has twice as many skills as mine! I can't help taking a deep breath before realizing that some of my skills actually are a combination of her skills. For example [Soil and Earth Manipulation] also include [Soil Management] and [Soil Restoration]. In fact, [Soil and Earth Manipulation] also includes attack magic as I can control dirt, soil, and earth in any way possible.

Although I can control the earth, I can't control any soil or earth that has a mineral concentration of more than 50%. After all, dirt or soil is a mixture of many minerals, when one mineral is more prevalent than the others, it is considered as an ore. So in a way, transmutation is more useful in this case as it can also control minerals, ore, and any other materials.

Into the next one. [Plant Growth Stimulation] as the name suggests, allows me to accelerate the growth of plants that I want. This can be a single plant or even an area like a domain around me. For now, I can grow weed or grass in mere seconds while normal crops like wheat in tens of seconds. As for more complex plants like herbs or special plants, I need minutes, hours, and even days to grow them.

Do you think days are short? Nope! After all, I need to consume mana in order to grow them and my regeneration is not as fast as my consumption. I also tried to calculate how many times my growth stimulation sped up the growth of the plant. However, I find that to be different depending on the type of plant. I assume that there is some kind of rarity between plants that I need to discover with more data and plants.

After that is [Plant Manipulation]. These skills can manipulate the shape of a plant when or after it grows up. It can manipulate it to have more branches or move its branch, roots, and others. However, it seems to only work on the surface of the plant and not the structure of the plant itself. So manipulating the plant to be denser, sharper or anything else is impossible. At least before I got its derivative skill I guess…

[Plant Appraisal] works just like any other observation skill. One thing I discovered is that I can appraise different parts of the plants like the flower, trunk, roots, and fruit too. On another thing, I think I also found an advanced application for appraisal.

A normal appraisal only gives you any "noteworthy" information for the object you appraise like this thing is the hardest thing in the world with XX moh scale or this thing has the highest mana conductivity. However, if you use your intent while activating the skills like 'I want to know its hardness' or 'I want to know its chemical composition' you can also appraise it to give a mode detailed data.

Out of all my skills, only appraisal and language acquisition are the skills that work on a completely different logic. After all, earth manipulation, seed creation, or growth stimulant can be explained by the conversion of energy and mass theory. But appraisal or language acquisition?

I hypothesized that appraisal and language acquisition is a form of spirit magic. Appraisal works when you exchange mana with spirit for information. After all, the information you get is not only information that you can get by mere physical scanning using magic. Although information such as physical or chemical properties can be found using scanning, can you find out its use or history? That's impossible!

Language acquisition also works in almost the same way. However, this skill is a passive skill that doesn't consume mana. So I think language acquisition is actually just a single time whenever a new language is learned, you will need to spend some mana to get the knowledge like speaking, writing, etc.

This was proven correct as I tried to learn all sorts of languages I never learned before like Frances, Germans, Koreans, and others as I just needed to spend around 5 mana points for each language. It was quite cheap for learning a new language… I wish I got this sooner since I don't really need to memorize a lot of things that waste my time learning other things.

Well...since even our Earth civilization can't understand what a soul or even a spirit is, I will just ignore these 2 skills which I still don't understand fully, and go to the next skill [Chemical Production]. I think the reason I got this skill is so that I can produce my own fertilizer such as ammonium nitrate (which can also be used as an explosive) or pesticide. However, this is basically an almost cheat skill as I can produce any type of chemical that I remember or understand.

Of course, there is also a drawback, mana consumption. Mana needed for these skills increased geometrically with how complex the chemical I want to produce, making it non-practical in combat situations. I try to test this skill by making fluoroantimonic acid and all my mana is depleted as I only make 100 ml of this chemical.

Of course in pre-combat situations, this is a very useful skill as any chemist can see before. Yes! What is fluoroantimonic acid? It's called the "superacid". To get you an idea of how strong and dangerous this acid really is, it's 10 000 000 000 000 000 (quadrillion) times stronger than Sulfuric Acid (H2SO4), which has a Ph scale of 2!

So I bet you're already wondering what this acid is capable of? It has no problems going through the human body. Pour some of it on your hand and it will melt through your skin, other tissues, muscles, and even bones…!

Yes, it can go through all sorts of metal too, glass becomes sugar to this acid. The only way you can safely store this is in a Teflon container. This super acid concludes it as the most dangerous acid in the world or at least on the Earth right now. This shows how preparation before a battle is very important. Although I have not yet tested the effect on this world's monsters and metals, I think it will still leave some marks at the very least if I splash them with this.

The last is [Seed Formations] since I don't need to explain [Language Acquisition] anymore. This skill allows me to create seeds that I already understand. Of course, "understand" here means I know the exact gene sequences of the plant which can only be done through plant appraisal for now as I am not sure we can do that on Earth. After all, since getting the internet, most of the subjects I focused on are physics and chemistry as I don't really delve into biology.

You might be asking why I ignore biology right? Well, it is because of future prospects. It is way harder to invent something through biology than through the physics and chemistry sides. Not because of the theory and knowledge problem, but ethics!

For example, you want to invent a new drug that enhances the human physique. First, you need to of course invent them either through the chemical side or gene side. After creating it, You need animal experimentation. However! Those animal lover organizations will prevent you from doing that as they want to keep the animal from being experimented on.

Even if you finally succeed in animal experimentation, you need to go to the next step "human Experimentation". This one… You can't do it with civilians at all as you will be arrested immediately for ethical reasons. So your only choice is [military].

However, would the military allow such things to be mass-produced and sold to the world? No! They will just take all your data and even possibly arrest you to be their scientist for your whole life… So that's why without power, knowledge is sometimes useless…

In the end, because of these reasons, I will take the physical technology route rather than the biotechnology route which is full of hurdles and challenges. I will just say "good luck" to those who take biology. If you just want to be a normal doctor or other professions that are still ok. However, if you want to invent something new that can be considered a 'revolution'... Unless you have the power to do so, it will be very difficult.