Clues to Class Advancement: A High-Quality Human

The game "YGGDRASIL" was completely different from traditional games. Its death penalty was extremely severe: dying caused the player to lose five levels outright, and if their level was too low, their account would be deleted.

To reduce the cost,

Either they had to cast resurrection magic or carry resurrection items—Pay-to-Win items such as the Resurrection Ring and Resurrection Wand.

Tang Zheng had none of those resurrection items.

Moreover, he suspected that even with the Player's Talent, he would not automatically revive after death.

After all,

This was a real New World, not a game.

He had no choice but to be cautious!

Tang Zheng gnawed on his hardened black bread while reaching for the short sword at his waist—the one he had bought with silver coins.

Without magic like Item Appraisal, he naturally could not obtain any information about the short sword in his hand.

However, even without that magic,

Tang Zheng knew that the short sword in his hand was an utterly ordinary weapon. It would not have any Attribute bonuses whatsoever.

The reason he had bought it, besides using it for self-defense, was that touching the weapon had allowed him to learn how to activate a Class!

"Buzz—"

"Contact with weapon: short sword. Basic Class information obtained: Warrior."

"Advance into this Class?"

Tang Zheng brought the short sword before him. After waiting for a moment, information appeared on the Attribute Panel before his eyes.

"No!"

Tang Zheng immediately repeated the answer in his mind.

The advancement information vanished from the Attribute Panel. Clearly, this was not the first time it had appeared. It had already appeared once when he bought the sword.

Including this time, Tang Zheng had now rejected it twice in a row.

He had discovered that touching the corresponding weapon with his hand for a period of time could trigger a prompt related to its Class. While he had been in the weapon shop, he had touched a special shield.

As a result, he had activated an Intermediate Class called "Black Guard." Unfortunately, he could not advance into it. To obtain that Class, he first needed the Basic Class called "Guardian."

This had excited Tang Zheng so much that, under the shopkeeper's murderous gaze, he had touched every weapon he could reach.

Unfortunately, aside from that shield, all of them could activate only the Basic Class "Warrior."

In the game "Overlord," Classes were divided into three categories.

Basic Class (15 levels)

Intermediate Class (10 levels)

High-Tier/Special Class (5 levels)

Classes in these three categories could be leveled only up to their corresponding maximum.

In "YGGDRASIL," there were more than two thousand Classes in total, making for an extremely vast Class system.

Unless they did so deliberately, Players would almost never end up with identical builds.

When Tang Zheng bought the short sword and discovered that he could advance into a Class, the reason he still had not done so was that he clearly understood one thing.

Level 100!

That was the limit!

Every Basic Class occupied fifteen levels. To deal with the existences in the Great Tomb, a pure Warrior or Spellcaster build clearly would not work. It would be too easy for him to be 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 would already add up to thirty levels, leaving only seventy levels of room for other choices, which sharply narrowed his options.

He had to be extremely careful!

If he made a mistake in constructing his Classes...

There was too little room for trial and error. Tang Zheng had no choice but to be cautious!

He chewed his black bread dryly.

Tang Zheng sat on the ground with his head slightly lowered, his brows faintly furrowed. Thoughts constantly flickered through his eyes.

As for the choice of Basic Classes,

He currently had very few ideas—or rather, he did not dare make a decision.

If there had been no threat from the Great Tomb and he had only needed to face the natives of the New World, he would never have been so conflicted.

The only beings in this world who could truly be called threats were the True Dragon Lords.

Even then,

If Tang Zheng wanted to reach level 100 in a short time, there were still ways to take shortcuts.

The Class system of "YGGDRASIL" did not require a person to max out any particular Class. If a Player advanced into one hundred Classes, their level could directly reach 100.

Of course, such a level-100 Player would be extremely weak and have little value.

After learning about the world he had transmigrated into yesterday, Tang Zheng had been constantly considering how he could narrow the gap between himself and the Great Tomb of Nazarick if he became its enemy.

After thinking it over, there were only two points!

① Make use of technologies unique to the New World that did not exist in the game "Overlord."

For example: Martial Arts, Re-Estize Kingdom's National Treasure "Razor Edge," the "Ring of the Dragon Lords," and so on.

② He had to advance into a Special Class!

Special Classes were more powerful than High-Tier Classes. They also came with powerful special skills or effects, and their strength could even surpass Super-Tier Magic.

Only by possessing a Special Class!

Tang Zheng felt that he would at least have the qualifications to fight the Floor Guardians of the Great Tomb of Nazarick one-on-one.

Tap tap—

Footsteps emerged from the crowd in the street and approached Tang Zheng, who was crouching by the corner of a wall with his head lowered, apparently troubled by something.

A shadow blocked the stuffy sunlight.

When he sensed a trace of coolness,

Tang Zheng came back to himself first. Seeing the shadow on the ground, his heart tightened. He did his best to make his face look expressionless before looking up at the figure standing before him.

It was a boy.

He had short golden hair, with bangs hanging down nearly to his eyes. He looked a little like a mushroom, and his first impression was that of someone with a rather gentle and weak personality.

He was not very old.

His clothes were also somewhat ordinary, but their material was far better than the clothing Tang Zheng wore, which was worth only a few copper coins.

Looking at the golden-haired boy standing before him, Tang Zheng was briefly stunned. A trace of surprise flashed through his dark-brown eyes.

Nfirea?

The future "genius Alchemist and Pharmacist," one of the few humans whom even Ainz Ooal Gown valued highly.

Although his current appearance differed somewhat from the beginning of the story, his overall features were not very different. Recognizing him had not been difficult.

"Hello. Have you run into some kind of trouble?"

Nfirea spoke softly, a little shyly. His tone was completely sincere.

Trouble?

That way of putting it left Tang Zheng momentarily stunned.

Looking at the black rye bread he had bitten halfway through, the way he was crouching by the wall, and the dejected air emanating from his entire body,

Tang Zheng more or less understood.

Damn it!

I'm being pitied!

The corner of Tang Zheng's mouth twitched. He spoke expressionlessly. "No."

"What are you doing, Nfirea?" Just then, a cold voice came from behind.

A short old woman, barely around one and a half meters tall, approached with a cold expression. Her pale hair was wrapped in a green headscarf, and she looked utterly inconspicuous.

Hearing the old woman call the golden-haired mushroom-headed boy by name,

It really is Nfirea.

Tang Zheng silently thought.

If he had still been somewhat uncertain before, he could now basically confirm it.

Tang Zheng unconsciously glanced at Nfirea again.

This was a genuine prodigy.

He possessed the two Variant Classes "Alchemist (Genius)" and "Pharmacist (Genius)."

These were unique Class variants of the New World. They could also be described as an inborn talent or natural gift.

A Class bearing the "Genius" mark allowed a person to learn more skills from that Class, learn certain related skills beyond the scope of their level, and even increase the power and strength of their skills.

In just a few years, Nfirea had used native herbs to create God's Blood, the legendary potion of the New World—in other words, the low-tier red potion from the game.

The Great Tomb had plenty of potions of that level, but no matter how many there were, they would eventually be used up. It was no wonder Ainz Ooal Gown paid attention to Nfirea, who could produce them.

Besides that,

Nfirea also possessed the Talent "Unlimited Item Usage"!

This ability allowed Nfirea to use any item, including Magic Scrolls, weapons incompatible with his Classes, race-restricted items, and so on.

Even Guild Weapons, which only Guild Players could use, could be equipped and used normally!

Thinking of this, Tang Zheng took a deep breath. Such a Talent was truly worthy of being called a high-quality human in the New World.

To a certain extent, Nfirea could even pose a threat to the Great Tomb!