YGGDRASIL was completely different from games in the traditional sense. The death penalty was extremely severe: dying would immediately cost five levels, and if one's level was too low, the account would be deleted.
To reduce the cost,
one either had to cast resurrection-type magic or carry resurrection items—Krypton Gold items such as Resurrection Rings, Resurrection Short Staffs, and so on.
Tang Zheng had no such resurrection items.
Moreover, he suspected that even with the Innate Talent of a Player, he would not automatically revive after dying.
After all,
this was a real New World, not a game.
He had no choice but to be cautious!
Tang Zheng gnawed on hardened black bread while reaching for the shortsword at his waist, the one he had bought with silver coins.
Without magic like Item Appraisal, he naturally could not obtain information about the shortsword in his hand.
However, even without that magic,
Tang Zheng knew that the shortsword was nothing more than an ordinary weapon. It would not provide any attribute bonuses at all.
The reason he had bought it, aside from self-defense, was because touching it had taught him how to activate Classes!
"Buzz—"
"Contact with weapon: shortsword. Basic Class information obtained: Warrior." "Proceed with Job Advancement?"
Tang Zheng held the shortsword before him. After waiting for a moment, information appeared on the Attribute Panel before his eyes.
"No!"
Tang Zheng immediately muttered in his heart.
The Job Advancement prompt vanished from the Attribute Panel. This clearly was not the first time it had appeared; it had already appeared once when he bought the sword.
Including this time, Tang Zheng had rejected it twice in a row.
He had discovered that touching the appropriate weapon with his hand for a period of time could trigger prompts for related Classes. While in the weapon shop, he had once touched a special shield.
As a result, he activated a Middle Tier Class called Black Guard. However, he could not advance into it. To obtain that Class, he first needed the Basic Class called Guardian.
This excited Tang Zheng so much that, under the owner's nearly murderous gaze, he touched every weapon he could reach.
Unfortunately, aside from that shield, all the others could only activate the Basic Class Warrior.
In Overlord, Classes were divided into three categories.
Basic Class (Level 15)
Mid-tier Class (Level 10)
High-tier/Special Class (Level 5)
These three categories of Classes could only be raised to their corresponding maximum levels.
In YGGDRASIL, there were more than two thousand total Classes, forming an enormously extensive Class system.
Unless players deliberately tried to do so, almost no two Players would end up the same.
After discovering he could undergo Job Advancement when buying the shortsword, Tang Zheng had not advanced even now because he understood one thing very clearly.
Level 100!
That was the cap!
Every Basic Class took up fifteen levels. If he wanted to deal with those beings in the Great Tomb, a pure Warrior build or pure spellcaster build clearly would not work. It would be too easily countered.
In other words!
If Tang Zheng wanted to avoid having any obvious weaknesses, he needed at least one Basic Warrior Class and one Basic spellcaster Class.
Those two Basic Classes alone would already occupy thirty levels, drastically reducing the options for the remaining seventy.
He had to be extremely cautious!
Once his Class Construction went wrong...
There was far too little room for trial and error. Tang Zheng could not afford to be careless!
Dryly chewing his black bread,
Tang Zheng furrowed his brows and sat on the ground with his head slightly lowered, thoughts constantly flickering through his eyes.
As for choosing a Basic Class,
he currently had very few ideas—or rather, he did not dare make a decision.
If not for the threat posed by the Great Tomb, if he only had to face the natives of the New World, he would not need to struggle so much.
The only beings in this world who could truly be called threats were those True Dragon Lords.
Even so,
if Tang Zheng wanted to reach Level 100 in a short time, it was not as though there were no shortcuts.
YGGDRASIL's Class system did not require a person to max out a certain Class. If one advanced into a hundred Classes, then the Player's level could directly reach 100.
Of course, such a Level 100 would be incredibly weak and held little value.
Ever since learning about the world he had transmigrated into yesterday, Tang Zheng had been considering how he could narrow the gap between himself and the Great Tomb of Nazarick if they became enemies.
After thinking it over, there were only two possibilities!
① Make use of technologies unique to the New World that did not exist in Overlord, such as Martial Arts, the Re-Estize Kingdom's national treasure Razor Edge, the Ring of Beginning, and so on.
② He had to advance into a Special Class!
Special Classes were even more powerful than High-tier Classes, and they all came with powerful special skills or effects. Their strength could even surpass Super-Tier Magic.
Only by possessing a Special Class
did Tang Zheng believe he would at least have the conditions to fight the Floor Guardians of the Great Tomb of Nazarick one-on-one.
Tap, tap—
Footsteps emerged from the crowd on the street and approached Tang Zheng, who was crouching in a corner by the wall with his head lowered in thought, seemingly troubled by something.
A shadow blocked the sweltering sunlight.
Sensing a trace of coolness,
Tang Zheng was the first to come back to his senses. Looking at the shadow on the ground, his heart tightened. He tried to keep his face expressionless as he looked up at the figure standing before him.
It was a young man.
He had short blond hair, with bangs over his forehead that nearly covered his eyes. He looked a little like he had a mushroom cut, and the first impression he gave was that he had a somewhat weak personality.
He was not very old.
His clothes were fairly ordinary, but the material was much better than Tang Zheng's few-copper-coin outfit.
Looking at the blond youth before him, Tang Zheng froze briefly, surprise flashing through his dark brown eyes.
Nfirea?
The future Genius Alchemist, one of the few humans even Bone Lord valued greatly.
Although he looked somewhat different from when the story began, his overall appearance had not changed much. He was not difficult to recognize.
"Hello, have you run into some trouble?"
Nfirea spoke softly, somewhat shyly, his tone extremely sincere.
Trouble?
The question caught Tang Zheng off guard.
Looking at the half-eaten rye bread in his hand, the way he was crouched in the corner, and the air of dejection radiating from his body,
Tang Zheng more or less understood.
Damn it!
He thinks I'm pathetic!
Tang Zheng's mouth twitched as he answered expressionlessly, "No."
"What are you doing, Nfirea?" At that moment, a cold voice came from behind him.
A tiny old woman, only around one and a half meters tall, walked over with an indifferent expression. Her pale hair was wrapped in a green headscarf, making her look utterly unremarkable.
Hearing the little old woman call the blond mushroom-headed youth by name,
So it really is Nfirea, Tang Zheng silently thought.
If he had still been somewhat uncertain before, he could now basically confirm it.
Tang Zheng subconsciously glanced at Nfirea again.
This was genuine talent.
He possessed dual variant Classes such as Genius Alchemist and Genius Pharmacist.
These were Class variants unique to the New World. They could also be described as inborn talents or natural gifts.
Classes marked with Genius allowed a person to learn more skills from that Class, master certain related skills beyond their own level range, and even increase the power and strength of skills.
In just a few years, Nfirea had used local herbs to create the New World's legendary Divine Blood—the low-tier Red Potion from the game.
The Great Tomb had plenty of potions at that level, but no matter how many there were, they would eventually be used up. Since Nfirea could produce them, it was no wonder Bone Lord paid such close attention to him.
Besides that,
Nfirea also possessed the Innate Talent: All Item!
This ability allowed Nfirea to use any item, including Magic Scrolls that did not match his Class, equipment, race-restricted items, and more.
Even Guild Weapons that only Guild Players could use could be equipped and used normally!
Thinking of this, Tang Zheng drew a deep breath. Talent like this—he was practically a high-quality human of the New World.
To a certain extent, Nfirea could even threaten the Great Tomb!
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