Murphy was completely dumbfounded.
He was fencing with Necessary Evil when a notification suddenly popped up on the character screen before him: "Human Subspecies: Mountainfolk Template Data Acquired +50." He nearly swung his sword off course, and Necessary Evil's follow-up strike almost killed him on the spot.
Fortunately, Lord Murphy was already a bona fide swordsmanship master. He dodged with a nimble Shadow Step, then countered with the beastly sword stance of Wolf's Kiss, driving Necessary Evil back before it could leave an ugly scar on his neck.
"Stop!"
He held up a hand to Necessary Evil, which was eager to keep going.
The magic sword immediately hovered in midair. It was a deaf and blind little thing that couldn't talk, but its "unfulfilled longing" was plain to see.
At first, when Murphy had asked Necessary Evil to practice with him, the ill-tempered thing had clearly been unwilling. Maybe it had thought there was no satisfaction in bullying a novice like Murphy.
But as the vampire lord's swordsmanship steadily improved, to the point where he'd even developed his own understanding of it, Necessary Evil had found a new "joy" in their daily practice.
Hey, fencing was only fun when you played against someone at your level. What real man wanted to pick on the weak?
You went straight for the giant robots, obviously.
Murphy sheathed his well-used swordstaff, Beastly Instinct, then checked the notification again.
Ever since he'd unlocked the feature for collecting racial templates, he'd been at a loss about how it worked. It wasn't until this notification appeared that he seemed to figure out how to properly gather template data for the various races.
He read the description carefully and saw that Brother Bang and the others had successfully changed class to Winged Cavalry and received Avalon's blessing