Chapter 16 – Class Change.

Roland stared spaced out for a moment after hearing those notifications. He quickly brought up his status window to look at his new title, not really sure what it was all about.

‘Understand my ass, I just redrew what my skill was showing me! Does this title even give me anything?’

Roland rubbed his chin, it seemed that creating a schematic was all that he needed to do. Maybe the system mistook his understanding of circuitry and computer programming as knowledge of runes? If so, then he might have been on to something.

‘Hm… that 1000 experience points though… Will I get just as much if I redraw other runes?’

That amount of experience points wasn’t small at all, he would probably jump a couple of levels instantly if he had switched classes beforehand. He knew that he would lose out on some of those points after changing classes now, but part of the XP would be carried over.

‘Think I’ll be losing half of them… shame…Still, this is a great discovery!’

This was something unprecedented, his debugging skill had given him an easy way to earn more experience and do it fast. He only needed to get his hands on some magical items. He then would be able to create improved schematics which in turm would give him more experience.

His skill allowed him to see every rune as a diagram, it even fixed any faulty pathways or misplaced components, shifting them into the correct places. The biggest problem would be actually acquiring the runes, they cost an arm and a leg

‘I wonder if I could sell those schematics or create some my own…’

He knew that knowledge about crafting and creating runes was a trade secret. Other people would never disclose those as their livelihood depended on it. He now had a way of producing complete rune diagrams, which meant that he wouldn’t even need to look for a teacher or master for such things. He might even be able to sell those schematics for a large sum of money later on in his career if he ever needed the funds.

‘Okay, I think I’m getting ahead of myself here. I have no idea how to even create a rune even with this schematic… still need to change my class to Mana Scribe to be able to actually put magic to paper…’

He calmed himself down, he now felt that his future as a runesmith might be rosier than previously he expected. Still, he needed to actually get to that tier 2 class before he could even do anything with these rune schematics. He also noticed that without having to even look to that diagram that he just made, he could probably redraw it from memory. He attributed that to his fast learning and knowledge retention traits that he had gained by possessing this youth’s body.

He continued fiddling around with the runic rapier but even after glancing at it from all sides and injecting more mana, he didn’t find any more uses for his skills.

‘Maybe if I understand more about runes, there will be other things I can do with this skill?’

He looked outside and it was already dark, most people were asleep. He glanced over to the crystal that allowed people to change their classes and then nodded. He had tested out the runes as he previously intended, so now was the time to change his class and get to work.

‘Well, here goes nothing…’

He activated the crystal and found himself back in his old apartment building once again. He was down on the first floor just like before.

‘Time to go up…’

He walked up all those stairs to his apartment room, the inside looked as bad as it always did. He tested the windows again but they wouldn’t budge and the outside looked like the empty void as it did before.

‘No changes here… time to check if I can actually change my class, if not then I might as well go back home and become a butler.’

He was slightly worried that there might be another error. He got that strange zero elemental affinity after getting his first class, there could be another mishap with this strange system that would keep him from advancing yet again. He waited for the windows screen to boot up, he then hovered his mouse cursor above the familiar icon that was used for class changing.

He waited a moment before clicking the icon, scared of what he might find there. Finally, he mustered up the courage to go forward and clicked it. He was greeted to a familiar image of a tiny pixel art version of himself in a mage robe. The image had the usual three frame walking cycle as before.

‘Heh, there is a lot of them this time…’

Previously there was only one arrow pointing to his mage class, now there were a lot of them. He hovered the mouse over one of those pixel sprites as he was unsure of what classes they were. The moment he hovered over one, there was writing on top of it.

He could see the usual tier 1 classes becoming available. There was the warrior, the archer, even the blacksmith class that he was going to take on the next try. There were mostly filled with the basic of basic classes that you only needed a certain amount of stat points to reach, he finally managed to find the Mana Scribe one, but there was a nice surprise waiting for him.

“Huh? there is a Runic Mana Scribe?”

“Is it a variation of the regular Mana Scribe class?”

He tried recalling the books that he read in the past that described the way to get him to the Runesmith Class. There was no mention of a Runic Mana Scribe class, or of any other way of getting his desired tier 2 class. This might have been a secret class and he had a theory on how he was now able to select this class.

‘Runic Scholar title, that must be it.’

He was quite sure that it had something to do with it, the books did describe classes that required certain titles to unlock and this was probably one of them. The only other explanation that could also be true, would be his debugging skill or his circuitry skill. The system already thought that they were related to runes, so it wasn’t that far of a stretch.

‘Maybe it’s even the three combined…’

Roland hovered with the mouse on that Runic Mana Scribe class, but it wasn’t giving him any info besides the name. From the way it was named he could deduce that it was focused on runes. It could also give him some bonuses to creating spell scrolls. He could also create rune schematics from other runes, which meant he could produce higher caliber spells while being at a lower class.

‘But these names… wouldn’t just Rune Scribe, or Runic Scribe be better? Why make it so unnecessarily long? ‘

He shook his head at the naming sense of the person responsible for this and then steeled his resolve. The first class was a freebie but this one had some kind of test behind it. It could be anything simple from making a horseshoe when choosing a blacksmith class, to fighting some monsters in a closed room when going with a fighter class.

He went over the classes again before choosing, he was mostly interested in the magic-related ones. He actually did find some interesting choices he could go with, like a mana warrior and a mana archer class. The requirements were probably having a mage related class along with all the basic weapon proficiency skills that he had previously unlocked while he was training for the past five years.

His adventurer sense tingled as he wondered what it would be like to be a magic swordsman but then he remembered. He remembered that if he actually wanted to progress past a tier 2 hybrid melee and magic class he would need an advanced magic class as well. At most he could hope for some lesser choices that might even be worse than a regular tier 3 warrior.

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He gave out a sigh after remembering that, he had to bring himself back to reality. He already found a hidden class related to runes, this was probably the best choice.

The mana scribe class was also a popular choice for mages as their second-tier 1 class before going for an elemental mage at tier 2. There were other choices like a ritualist that lead to a tier 2 thaumaturge and then into a tier 3 warlock. There were other various options that gave you a wizard class or a sorcerer class. Each of those differed in the way they utilized their spells and some were race or bloodline specific.

‘If I go by its name, this class probably has all the bonuses of the previous one. So it is probably a better version… though that could mean that the trial for it could be harder to pass…’

He gulped before finally clicking on the Runic Mana Scribe class sprite.