Chapter 191 – Choose your class.

“I guess everything is ready…”

Roland looked down at a crystal that was on his desk. He was now in his office that was filled with various books and notes concerning his runic research. A lot of time was spent in this room deliberating runic programming that he was slowly becoming an expert in.

“How do these things work?”

Before using this strange crystal he decided to just pick it up. A thought crept into his mind after receiving his new peculiar skill.

“Is this just a magical item like any other? Perhaps I could…”

Though the urge to test something rose he had to stop himself from activating his new identification skill. The class change crystal was probably a high-level item, if he attempted to use his newfound ability to scan it, he felt like a migraine would be the least of his troubles.

Previously he was already able to decipher regular spells and convert them into runic language. The question he had was, could he do it with any magical item? Were there limits to this skill and if he could just use it to help him understand magic even more?

After gaining this skill he was becoming convinced that all magic was more uniform. If he saw the runes just like a programming language then perhaps all other schools of magic were just software that could be made with it.

This didn’t mean that all magic could be translated into runes. Perhaps there were some restrictions or outside sources of power that would be needed. In his old world, there were a plethora of programming languages all with their pros and cons.

“If I figured out how to make runic versions of this crystal, I bet the church would have my head.”

A runic creation that could work like a class change crystal would probably be seen as blasphemy. Even worse if he could just engrave it on metal that could last through the class change without breaking. He would be eradicating the hold of the church that it had on the class change market.

‘I should probably focus on my class change, not like that skill is usable.’

He gave out a sigh as he knew that if he attempted to use the Runic eyes on something complicated they would start bleeding. For the time being, the decision to slowly level this skill up was made by him. He would use lower level scrolls and spells to gently progress it without getting a debuff each time. Perhaps when it leveled up a couple of times it would become usable.

Thus the thoughts of his new skills usage was tossed into the back of his head. The crystal was in his hand while he was sitting back in his chair. After clenching it tightly he activated it like he already did four times before.

“Here I am again… the more it feels like my past life was just some kind of bad dream.”

Roland was looking out through what appeared to be his old apartment window. He knew well that everything here was some kind of illusion and that he was only in a replica created from his old memories.

“Is the view becoming clearer?”

When he first changed his class the whole place outside was somewhat foggier. Now on the other hand he was convinced that the view on the street was becoming clearer. It was as if he could see further outside the more he progressed through the classes.

While this was an interesting thought he wasn’t here to reminisce about the good old days. At this point in life, he had mostly given up on ever returning to his old world. While his real parents were still out there, it had been so long that they had probably forgotten about his existence.

“Fifteen years…”

While the pc was loading he tried to remember some of the faces of his previous family members. It didn’t seem that his high intelligence stat would help him out with the old memories, most of their faces were a blur. They had become a distant memory and the new world that he was in now was his new reality.

“Hm…”

Roland was quick to use the mouse to bring him to the class change screen. There he saw quite a large number of pixelated avatars. All the old classes were there as they never went away. Even though he was a tier 2 class holder, it didn’t mean that he could pick a tier 1 class if he chose to.

“No mage classes as always…”

There was one class that he was somewhat interested in, it was the Rune Mage class. Normally he should have had all the prerequisites for it but it was not there. This was something that he expected as it was not there the previous time that he attempted the tier 2 class change.

“Let’s see… there they are…”

He turned to the crafting classes and instantly saw a couple of new ones, these were clearly there now because he had started working on his golemic creations. When he hovered on one of the walking pixel representations he was given one of the names.

‘Golem Craftsman.’

This was the simplest of the classes but it wasn’t the only one there. It depicted a tiny pixel version of himself working on something that looked like an iron golem. Then right next to the Golem Craftsman class was a runic variant just called the Runic Golem Craftsman. It was clearly the superior version that focused on runes.

Golems came in various shapes and sizes, runes were mostly used by Dwarven craftsmen to make them work. This didn’t mean that a person couldn’t make one with enchantments or with the help of mages. But with the help of runes, a craftsman could fashion one themselves without having to expand the size to fit the bulky enchantments on them.

A golem-like spider drone that he created would be hard to come by when fashioned by an enchant smith. The limiting factor was also in the lack of customization that those types of golems faced.

Yet, they were somewhat easier to find as they were simpler in design and came in lesser variants. Most of the bulky humanoid monstrosities like an iron golem were created through enchant smiths while the more specific designs came from runesmiths like Roland.

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“Runic Golem Craftsman seems like the better choice but there are more… Golem Designer… and Runic Golem Designer?”

When he read the name a certain title popped into his head, it was the one that he achieved when he first created a custom variant of the spider drone. Thanks to the title he was probably able to unlock the more prestigious version of the Golem Craftsman and its runic variant.

Not many craftsmen were able to design their own creations. Most of them just regurgitated old models and most of the time produced an inferior version of it. Only after understanding how to build one from scratch could they even attempt to customize.

Roland on the other hand made sure to go through everything. He didn’t want to just copy others’ work, he wanted to create new options for himself. His class was somewhat special thus he needed to change almost all of the schematics he was given.