Chapter 90: Task Rewards
【Today's Task: Complete a Wizard duel and achieve victory (Completed);
Task Reward: 100 Talent Experience, 500 Skill Experience, Special Character Talent 'Ice Muscle Jade Bone'.】
After habitually adding the Talent Experience to her Soul Projection talent, Jia Na's gaze couldn't help but focus on the special character talent reward.
"Ice Muscle Jade Bone? Is this cumulative with the Fair and Tender Skin rewarded before?"
Jia Na was already used to character talent rewards that only improved appearance but didn't enhance combat power.
Counting until now, including today's reward, there are six types of character talents rewarded by the system. They are: Exceptional Memory, Muscle Control, Fair and Tender Skin, Heavenly Voice, Delayed Aging, and the newly added Ice Muscle Jade Bone.
The four character talents, Exceptional Memory, Muscle Control, Heavenly Voice, and Delayed Aging, are the ones Jia Na is most satisfied with and finds most practical so far. As for Fair and Tender Skin, besides improving Jia Na's skin texture and removing all inconspicuous scars on her body, it doesn't seem to provide any boost in strength.
And this Ice Muscle Jade Bone...
Pushing up her sleeve and looking at her flawless skin, which had a more radiant sheen than before, Jia Na's expression couldn't help but turn a little strange.
"It feels a bit cooler... What about the bones? Since it's jade bone, does that mean they've become whiter and harder?"
Setting aside this somewhat absurd but potentially plausible thought, the exhausted Jia Na closed her eyes again and entered a state of meditation after closing the task panel.
"Inhale—Exhale—Inhale—Exhale—"
Accompanied by the sound of even breathing, in just a moment, Jia Na entered a state of deep meditation.
As the intervals between breaths grew longer, emerald green light points once again gathered around Jia Na. As the light points increased, bathed in the soft glow, Jia Na, sitting cross-legged on the bed, looked like a jade figure, radiant and lustrous, like the most exquisite white porcelain artwork, so beautiful it was hard to look away—
With the tense daily class schedule and nearly two hours of paid overtime at the Nightingale Opera Troupe in the evenings, Jia Na had been operating under continuous high load for the past few weeks.
Furthermore, on the Saturday evening after work, Jia Na still needed to set aside a few extra hours to attend the Bai Wu Xie Club meeting, and at the same time, she had accepted several invitations from senior apprentices for future exploration of secret realms.
Although tired, Jia Na greatly enjoyed this busy and fulfilling life.
While quietly improving her Wizard strength, through the extra overtime in the past few days, Jia Na earned an additional one hundred and sixty jin sule on top of her fixed monthly salary of five hundred jin sule.
In other words, excluding the three hundred jin sule salary already prepaid, Jia Na would soon receive the remaining salary and overtime pay on the twentieth—a total of three hundred and sixty jin sule!
"Cut!"
Just as Jia Na was sitting by the mirror in the Nightingale Opera Troupe's basement rehearsal hall, letting her thoughts wander, Crane-Roland's slightly irritable interruption directly pulled Jia Na's thoughts back.
"Are you an idiot? Tomorrow is the day you go on stage for Saturday, and you're still missing your marks now? If you can do it, do it; if you can't, leave!"
Listening to Crane-Roland's irritable scolding echoing throughout the rehearsal hall, Liji-Xiaosi, whose turn to rehearse hadn't come yet, couldn't help but tug Jia Na's arm and whisper in a voice only the two of them could hear, like a mosquito:
"He usually seems quite gentle, but he becomes incredibly fierce when directing. I even suspect he has multiple personality disorder..."
Liji-Xiaosi, who had been scolded quite a bit these past few days, couldn't help but relate when she saw Lucy, a senior actor who joined at the same time, being severely reprimanded by Crane-Roland.
"If you don't want to be scolded, try your best to ensure you don't make the same mistake twice. If it's just one mistake, Director Kelan won't criticize you."
"Easier said than done. I'm not you, who never forgets anything after seeing it once—besides, I have dignity, okay...?"
"Liji, come here for a moment!"
Just as Liji-Xiaosi was quietly complaining, suddenly, Crane-Roland's stern voice, like a demon's call,
instantly made Liji-Xiaosi habitually straighten her body and walk somewhat nervously in front of Crane-Roland.
"Go demonstrate the blocking for these points to Lucy."
"Ah— So it was about this, okay, no problem, Director."
Seeing that Crane-Roland didn't intend to criticize her, the crumpled expression on Liji-Xiaosi's face suddenly relaxed a bit. However, her straightened back didn't dare to relax for a moment, fearing that Crane-Roland would criticize her again for posture correction issues.
"Jia Na, you come here too."
Crane-Roland's originally irritable tone suddenly softened when he called Jia Na. His stern and serious expression also softened.
"I've revised this part a bit. When we rehearse later, you'll act according to this emotion."
"Okay, no problem."
Unlike Liji-Xiaosi, the professional scolding recipient, or other senior actors who had been in the profession for a long time but still got scolded frequently, Jia Na was the only one who hadn't been scolded since the first rehearsal. Instead, she was repeatedly set as an example and praised repeatedly by Crane-Roland.
Even Lyon-Blaze, the actor playing the villain Charlotte with superb acting skills, didn't receive this kind of treatment.
However, among those present, no one felt there was anything wrong with Jia Na's zero-criticism treatment.
Whether it was singing, blocking, acting, or Crane-Roland's impromptu script changes where he came up with ideas on the spot, Jia Na could replicate his ideas one-to-one and pass in one take.
With such talent, such strength, plus her naturally gifted appearance, even the few older actors who had slight reservations about Jia Na, the 'parachuted' newcomer, during the first rehearsal, began to sincerely admire this new actor from the bottom of their hearts after more than half a month of observation and working together.
No, she should be called a genius actor!
"Lucy, perform it again according to the blocking Liji just demonstrated for you. If you still make a mistake, there's no need for you to continue acting; let other actors from non-weekend shows fill in!"
Looking at the embarrassed Liji-Xiaosi in front of her, Lucy, who was already over thirty, took a deep breath, suppressed the grievance in her heart, nodded, and began to perform diligently according to Liji-Xiaosi's demonstration.