Although it was called a rest period, there was still plenty to do.
For Professional Adventurers, such periods of recuperation during their perilous careers were golden opportunities to digest their gains, improve themselves, and prepare for the unexpected.
Gauss and Alya both understood this well.
Alya, for example, needed to learn the new spell Will-o'-the-wisp, continue mastering Beast Form, build rapport with several Animal Companions, and train her Beast Taming and Nature Knowledge skills. Over the next few days, she would need to spend her time in the inn room, meditation room, or woods on the outskirts of town.
Gauss also had his own plans. He needed to practice his new spells, continue researching the advanced Casting Technique for Magic Missile, and head out to complete quests.
Yes, Gauss had no intention of staying holed up near Canopy Town for several days.
Instead, he planned to practice while taking on some small quests in the surrounding area.
That way, he would have targets to practice on while training his spells, and could also accumulate some Monster Codex kill counts.
One had to understand that dripping water could bore through stone, but not in a single day. The accumulation of Monster Codex kill counts also required building them up little by little in daily life.
He sank his consciousness into his mind and checked his current progress.
His Monster Kill Count was now 3,050, and he was less than a thousand kills away from triggering the next stage of rewards.
The number of entries in his Common Monster Codex had reached thirty-nine. He was still eleven species short of fifty, the number required to draw a new Talent.
Aside from the most common low-level monsters, the number of monster species in any given region was limited. Thus, the farther he progressed,