Chapter 81 – Tier 2 class

The sounds of vomiting filled a closed-off room. In it, there were many smithing tools along with scribbles of runic patterns on the walls. This was Roland’s workshop that he had hidden away in while going through his tier 2 ascension ritual. After it was over he found himself affected by the strain of going through those tests.

In the regular world, the use of a class-changing crystal was almost instantaneous. It didn’t seem like more than a few seconds had passed. Reality was different though, the moment he was out his brain was jolted with new information.

It was like every stressful emotion from all that fighting and then skill learning was condensed into one moment. This caused Roland not only to chuck up his dinner into the bucket that he had previously gotten but also to pass out.

“Ughh….”

He woke up to a characteristic stench that he recalled from some of the parties he was in his previous life. The bucket he used had spilled and the whole place was a mess. His workshop was lit up thanks to his mana generator but he wasn’t sure for how long he was out. The first thing that had to be done was to get a new change of clothes and then to clean this mess.

Roland decided to move upstairs, for now, he grasped the door and was surprised by how much lighter it felt. It was a reinforced steel door that he made to resist heavy impacts, it was also very heavy so that normal people wouldn’t be able to open it alone. This already signaled him that he had made it through into the second tier.

Before checking his new status a change of clothes was in order but then he was quick to take a peek. To his surprise, there was quite the change in his stats.

The Runesmith Lord class was now at the first level after he went through the trial. He remembered his old stat allocation and noticed that each of his stats went up by five points. This was with the exclusion of luck and charisma as those two acted on different rules.

Another interesting thing was that he was able to have two subclasses active instead of just one. His Blacksmith and Mage class passives were still working and boosting his mana and stamina reserves. Even with this, it didn’t account for the massive increase in his MP,HP, and SP that he was seeing. After going through a few other status screens he figured why this was the case.

First was his new class, it immensely increased all of his stat points like health, mana and stamina. He was also getting something similar to his rune mastery skill that lowered the mana cost for runes and rune related skills as well. So not only would he be able to cast more runic spells but the cost for runesmithing would be lowered.

The other thing was his tier 2 multiplier trait. It was also not a regular trait multiplier as normal classes had it all at a 1,5 times. This meant that he would outperform regular tier 2 class holders even with lower numbers on his side.

The points he got after reaching the first level of his Runesmith Lord class were also quite high. In previous cases something like this wasn’t the case, did this mean that he would be getting that high of a number of stat points at each level?

Roland wasn’t sure about that, from what he knew tier 2 classes did gain more of those points but not by this much. It could have just been some kind of bonus for reaching this tear, only when he reached the second level he would know for sure. There was also a change to most of his regular skills.

Identify L 9 -> Analyze L1
Basic Mana Shaping L 9 -> Mana Shaping L1
Basic Mana Regulation L 9 ->Mana Regulation L1
Basic Rune Mastery L 9 -> Rune Mastery L1
Basic Runecraft L 9 -> Runecraft L 1
Basic Runic Blacksmith’s Eyes L 9 – > Runesmith Lord’s Eyes L1…

‘Most of them turned into more advanced skills…’

All of the skills that were at the ninth level had gone through a change. Each and every one of them was now at the first level of a more advanced version. Most of them just lost the ‘basic’ prefix but some turned into other skills. Like his identify skill was now the Analyze skill, his blacksmithing eyes made a change too. After going through that library of books in the trial he knew why.