Class advancement

The Assassin class instructor wasted no more words. With a wave of his hand, a golden light sank into Wu Shaozhen, and a system notification sounded in his ears:

"Ding! Congratulations on successfully completing your Class Change. Would you like to redistribute your free attribute points?"

When players left the Novice Village and underwent their first Class Change, they received one chance to redistribute their free attribute points—their only chance. This was mainly to accommodate Mage players. Without any skills early on, they had to rely entirely on basic attacks, so investing in intelligence would seriously hinder their progress. Most therefore put their points into strength at the start. Once they became Mages, those earlier attribute points would go to waste, so the system offered a chance to redistribute them during the first Class Change. It was quite considerate.

Wu Shaozhen thought it over and decided there was no need. Apart from five points in constitution, he had put everything into agility, which perfectly suited an Assassin. Redistributing his points would only waste time. He selected no.

"Ding! Congratulations on becoming a great Assassin. After advancing to Assassin, players will automatically receive two additional points in agility with every level gained, besides their free attribute points. The number of additional points will increase as their level rises."

Every class had its own dedicated attribute points: Warriors received two points in strength, Mages two in intelligence, Shieldguards two in constitution, Archers one in agility and one in strength, and Priests one in intelligence and one in spirit. Players could allocate their other attribute points freely.

After his successful Class Change, the experience that had been held back was released. His level instantly rose to 11, giving him 40 health, 20 mana, and 10 free attribute points. His agility automatically increased by two.

Level: LV10 → LV11, health: 1710 → 1750, mana: 150 → 170, agility: 76 → 78, movement speed: 100 → 102, attack speed: 50% → 51%, remaining attribute points: 30, experience: 2060/30000

At the same time, a server-wide announcement rang out across the Huaxia Server.

"Server-wide announcement: Congratulations to player Dustseal on successfully completing his Class Change. As the first player to change class, he is awarded 1,000 reputation, 50 Gold Coins, and one Special Skill Book by the system. Let this be known!"

"Server-wide announcement: Congratulations to player Dustseal on successfully advancing to Assassin. As the first player on the server to advance to the Assassin class, he is awarded 500 reputation, 20 Gold Coins, and one Class Skill Book by the system. Let this be known!"

The two consecutive server-wide announcements once again left the entire Huaxia Server in silence. Dustseal again. By now, practically everyone on the Huaxia Server knew that name. Since the server had opened, Dustseal had kept appearing in the announcements. It was hard not to know him.

"Just who is this Dustseal guy? How the hell is he so good?"

"Right? The server's only been open a little over a day, and he's already made the announcements three or four times."

"Holy shit, I'm only level 8, and he's already completed his Class Change. We both entered the game the moment it launched, and I haven't even logged out yet. How can the gap be so huge?"

"Anyone have his contact info? Please let me ride his coattails!"

World-Proud Under Heaven glanced at his experience-level 9, 50%-and his expression darkened.

Countless skilled players across the Novice Villages frowned. Most of the truly strong players had already reached level 9, so they all felt it was a shame.

"Jun Lin, the first Assassin spot is gone!" Hao Ran said regretfully.

"I didn't expect him to choose Assassin. It's a shame, but Archer suits me too," Jun Lin said. He had originally intended to become an Assassin as well. After all, Assassins had a high critical hit rate, and he liked close combat. Still, Archer also matched his talent.

"Yeah. When we reach level 10, if nobody's claimed the first Archer spot, you should become an Archer. I have a feeling the Skill Book awarded to the first player in each class will be really powerful," Nan Feng said.

"Right. Let's hurry and level up. Our Novice Village's Teleportation Array has already been repaired, so we can undergo a Class Change as soon as we reach level 10. That gives us a natural advantage," Jun Lin said.

"Yeah."

When Su Muxue heard the system announcements and saw the reward for the first Class Change, she glanced at her experience—level 9, 45%—then said to Uncle Liu beside her, "Uncle Liu, from now on, focus everything on helping me level up. This is a rare opportunity. I think I can make a push to become the first Mage."

"Good. We should have been doing this all along," Uncle Liu said. With his keen judgment, how could he fail to recognize such a good opportunity? If Su Muxue became the first player to advance to Mage, it would certainly give them a major advantage in their future development.

After hearing the system notifications, Wu Shaozhen breathed a sigh of relief, then hurriedly logged out to get something to eat. He had eaten breakfast a little after eight that morning, and it was now almost four in the afternoon. He had long since been starving, but he had endured it to claim the first Class Change reward. Now that he finally had it, his first priority was naturally to log out and eat.

Removing his helmet, Wu Shaozhen got out of bed and habitually took out his phone to check his bank balance. It was now his favorite thing to do. Balance: 607,650 yuan.

"Holy shit, it's already over 600,000?" Wu Shaozhen exclaimed in delight. Since getting up, he had been so focused on grinding monsters that he hadn't paid attention to his earnings. He hadn't expected to have made so much already. Six hundred thousand! That was enough to buy an apartment in a small city. Haha, his gamble had really paid off this time. Still, he owed all of this to his talent, and even now, he had no idea where it had come from.

Wu Shaozhen washed up, got dressed, and went out. He hadn't eaten properly for two days. Today, he was going to treat himself to a feast.

He went to a fairly large restaurant near his rented apartment. In the past, he had never been willing to spend money eating there, but now he could finally give it a proper try. He ordered several dishes at once, then browsed short videos on his phone while waiting for the food. Even the short videos were now footage recorded inside the game, and the most-liked clips were all of various guilds taking on the Boar King. Seeing that several guilds had already killed it, Wu Shaozhen couldn't help marveling at the strength of guilds. Without a talent that countered the Boar King, who knew how long it would have taken him to beat it in a normal fight?

Business at the restaurant was noticeably worse than before. Only a few tables were occupied by small groups, and most of their conversations were about Oracle.

"Who do you guys think this Dustseal really is? He's seriously badass."

"Yeah, I have no idea how he levels up. We all entered the game at the same time, so how can the gap be this big? I'm only level 7, and he's already completed his Class Change."

"Exactly. I wonder what he's like in real life. It'd be great to meet him."

Wu Shaozhen smiled and thought, It's only been a little over a day, and the game has already had this much of an impact.