I know I’m a few years to late with this critique for you to do anything about it, dear Pirateaba, but I hope this issue won’t continue in the following chapters and volumes.

It’s more of skills and money rather than a specific level, just level 40 is 4 spins on the big skill wheel and a lot of time (for most people) to earn said money

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Adding on to this, I believe it was mentioned in the Laken chapters that his engineers didn’t learn all of the exact math and such that we would normally use to calculate the proper dimensions for the arm. They just knew what the result should be.

So, looking at it like that, skills would give you the info you need to complete something specific, but not necessarily the knowledge that would allow you extrapolate for other problems. That’s why skills tend to hinder technical development, because they don’t actually provide the foundational basics needed to really learn a topic. If you ever need another answer later on, the skills might provide it, but you would have no way of deriving that answer yourself.

Thus, Laken’s engineers could be able to develop trebuchets, but may not be able to make ballistas, or catapults, or any other forms of siege weaponry.

At the very least, we’ve seen it work in the kitchen, common room, and basement of her inn. Haven’t seen anything specific in individual guest rooms yet, and it’s possible she could enable/disable it in parts of the inn if she wanted.

Adding onto the above, the level itself is often not so much a factor, as is telling about your specific class. Erin saying she was a “Level 35 Innkeeper” would be fine for the most part. Saying she’s specifically a “Level 35 Magical Innkeeper” would often be giving away too much info. Perhaps not in Erin’s case, but for the majority of higher level people, revealing an advanced class could give people a lot of information on how to defeat you.

I’d also agree with the stuff about Erin just handing out info on her Field of Preservation. It might seem like common knowledge in Liscor, but the number of people that actually know she has that skill is relatively few. Most customers probably think she just has preservation runes around her kitchen.

But that’s definitely a type of skill that a Slaver of Roshal, for example, might be really interested in. Kidnap her, make her a slave, and then “convince” her that this giant warehouse is her inn, and you’ve just saved yourself thousands of gold from that one skill alone. Keep her as a slave for decades, and that’s probably hundreds of thousands of gold she would be worth.

Along with the other responses, it was Yvlon, not Ylawes, who went with Revi to tell Tekshia.

Don’t forget they fought Ylawes back in Esthlem

“The Drake pulled a tumbler out and filled with some rum and juice it before Erin could protest.”

–> the Drake pulled a tumbler out and filled it with some rum and juice before