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12 - Before being trapped by common sense, they don't even know common sense

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“Wait.” says Christoph.

“Farmer's skill level? D-doesn’t Heinz want to be a farmer instead of an adventurer??”

You’re asking from that!?

“Have you heard anything from him? Or from his parents――Viscount Hankstein?”

“Ah, aah… In the first place, it was his parents who asked me to bring Heinz to my party. They said they will reward me without fail.”

That’s what I thought... I checked the documents handed to me by the guild again.

Heinz Hankstein
Job: Farmer Lv.32
Element: Fire Magic Lv.4

Job Skills:  Agriculture Lv.1
 Animal Husbandry Lv.1
 Forestry Lv.1
 Fishery Lv.1

HP: 5500/5500
MP: 400/400

Level 32... he is doing pretty well, but the essential Job skills are at level 1. This won’t do.
Job skills do not increase in level unless you take actions that will give experience points with the Job skill.

According to my status I disclosed before, I, a magician, have no job skills.
Just as magicians only have corrections to their magic, there are no Jobs that only have corrections to something specific.* (T/N: the translation should be correct, but isn’t this contradictory?)

Randy curiously asks.

“But hey, Heinz has a fire element, you know? That just doesn’t match farmers.”

“…There is a demand for it. For a fire element――it would be to manage plants that can only be cultivated in volcanic regions.”

As even a layman can imagine, most farmers basically have the [Water] or [Earth] element.
Hence, farmers with fire elements are valuable.
Heinz's parents understand this and plotted to first level him up as an adventurer and then put him in the market as a valuable fire element farmer.

“You may have heard of things like [Crimson Berry] and [Flame Seeds]. Those are also raised by the few fire element farmers with great care.”

“S-so that’s how it is. I knew about [Crimson Berry] because my father gave me strict instructions on how to handle it, but I didn't realize that fire element farmers were involved…”

“Yes. Just like you just said, [Crimson Berry] is a delicate fruit. For that reason, they can’t entrust the guarding of the fields to those without knowledge, like adventurers. The fire element farmer is responsible for everything including dealing with monsters and thieves.”

Sedoor is puzzled, saying, “Thieves?”
That's obvious. On top of there being few farmers who can handle it, [Crimson Berry] is also used as a medicine for incurable diseases.
It would be strange for it to not be targeted for money.

“On top of that, in the volcanic area, there are salamanders, magma golems, and… when it comes to advanced monsters, they have to deal with dragons and phoenixes. If they imply that they've lost motivation, then maybe they feel ashamed that they’re too scared to fight a life and death against them."

Christoph and Sedoor were silent.
Randy just says, “Well, if he does, he’ll just die,” as if it were someone else's problem.

Ironically, this is also the fourth of the isekai ideologies; [There is little understanding of valuable Jobs].

Just like a farmer with a fire element, one would be ridiculed because their element doesn’t match their Job.
They expected a lot of it because it was a job no one had ever seen before, but there was no demand for it and they were treated as incompetent. The person themself was not able to understand its true value, and ended up wasting their time.

Well, that’s what happened a long time ago.
As a result of the accumulation of history of painful experiences by people at the time, in recent years it has been recognized that [every Job has their strength] and in particular, Unique Jobs are carefully studied for the sake of the person in question.

However, this perception is something that is gradually spreading in developed countries, and has not spread to all citizens of developed countries.
Like these guys, they weren't able to recognize it. The percentage of those who ridicule it is high.

However, considering that Heinz's parents have an understanding of fire element farmers, there was no reason why they didn't explain the situation to their son.
Most likely, Heinz isn’t slacking either.
I made a suggestion.

“Let's finish the quest quickly and we’ll go find him.”

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