Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The moment Su Chen stepped into the second floor of the quest pavilion.
Lines of text flooded his vision.
[ Gourdmaster: When casting healing abilities, the efficacy of their effects will be halved. However, the host will also gain a “Lifesteal” ability, which would recover the host’s HP based on the amount of HP lost from the target as a result of the ability. ]
[ Alchemist: The host is unable to synthesize potions, but is able to restore the potions back to their constituent materials. ]
[ Heavenly Craftsman: The greater the number of times the host fails to forge a weapon, the higher the weapon’s enchantment rates. ]
[ Beast Tamer: Can instantly tame any wild beasts, but the mounts would frequently get lost. ]
Despite Su Chen’s calm and analytical personality, he could not help but shake his head and laugh in disbelief.
Never in his wildest imaginations had he expected his transmigration to come up with such ridiculous effects for the subclasses.
[ The host can choose to reject one of the subclasses. ]
However, while Su Chen was busy laughing, another line of text appeared.
Huh?
Does this mean what I think it means?
Normal players were only allowed to select one subclass at most, but could he possibly select three?
Su Chen immediately regained his composure. At this point, there was nothing else he could do but take it in stride. With that, he began the process of ruling out subclasses.
The first subclass, the [ Gourdmaster ]’s greatest asset was in its ability to heal its allies.
However, after the transmigration system’s tempering with the said subclass, Su Chen would need to spend double the amount of mana just to heal someone compared to his regular peers. It was quite a detriment to him.
Of course, it also came with a good spell called “Lifesteal”, Although it consumed quite a hefty amount of mana, it was still useful.
Su Chen could use it on his enemies, after all.
He decided to keep it.
The second subclass was [ Alchemist ]. Its new effects had caught Su Chen off guard, as he did not expect it to decompose potions to their constituent materials instead.
He would keep this subclass in view.
The third subclass was [ Heavenly Craftsman ]. He decided to keep it, as he felt that he could make proper use of its reverse success rate effect,
The fourth subclass, [ Beast Tamer ], would result in his mounts regularly getting lost?
This was clearly the most useless subclass out of all of them.
“I reject the [ Beast Tamer ] subclass.”
The moment Su Chen spoke those words, the system immediately erased the [ Beast Tamer ] option from Su Chen’s window.
In contrast to the choice he had made in the transmigration system, Su Chen was officially registered as a [ Beast Tamer ] in [ Ark ]’s system.
Once Su Chen had ensured that the registration was complete, Su Chen the anonymized his ID and left the pavilion.
…
The counter on the teleportation talisman dropped by one.
Su Chen, who was dressed in his mage robes, had appeared outside of Fengwu Town.
At this moment, heb spotted a dozen or so soldiers who were repairing the trenches and fortifications not far away.
Su Chen recalled the details of his quest and confirmed that he was in the right place.
The size of each town within the [ Ancient City of Ten Thousand Towns ] dungeon was comparable to an actual city in ancient times. However, due to various reasons, none of them had successfully erected city walls around their territory.
As a result, they were unable to gather their troops at a single point, and had to split them up to defend the various entrances to the towns.
As such, bandits attacking the towns was a regular occurrence within this dungeon.
Su Chen walked up to the NPC [ Decurion ], donned in jet-black armor and wielding a sharp rapier, and handed him the teleportation talisman he had received.
Upon spotting the talisman, a look of realization appeared on the [ Decurion ]’s face. “Honorable Adventurer, are you here to help us defend Fengwu Town?”
“Yes.”
Su Chen nodded and put away the teleportation talisman that had only one charge remaining.
“I do not know when we will be assaulted by those despicable Mountain Bandits again. You can wait here for now.”
“This time, we will kill them all and be done with them for good!”
The Decurion finished his words in high spirits and stopped talking immediately after. Following that, he then started patrolling the area.
At this moment.
Su Chen looked back to the spot where he was standing earlier, and flashes of light indicating someone’s approach via teleportation appeared one after another.
Four level-10 figures slowly came into view.
One was a [ Heavy Shield warrior ] who carried a massive shield that was half as a tall as an adult man.
One was an [ Bowman ] who carried a gray bow.
One was a [ Heavy swordsman ] who had a massive blade sheathed behind his back.
One was a [ Fire Mage ] who wore the same robes as Su Chen.
The four of them must have accepted the same mission as Su Chen because they went to the [ Decurion ] and showed him their teleportation talismans.
The Decurion then brought them to Su Chen’s side and shouted, gathering all the guards present.
He then turned around and looked at the five players.
“Including the 5 of you, there are currently 20 guards patrolling this area of Fengwu Town. As such, we will divide the 20 members into 5 teams.”
“Currently, three teams are already full and their members will remained untouched. However, there is still one team that is short of three people and one team that is short of two people.”
“You can form teams based on your classes. I will personally record the number of bandits killed by each team and will reward the team that killed more with additional rewards.”
The moment the Decurion’s voice subsided,..
Su Chen and the others became visibly excited as they did not expect to be able to obtain additional rewards.
Naturally, they did not forget the prerequisite of bagging the most kills.
The Heavy Shield Warrior of the ID [ Qiao Yi ] spoke up, “From what I’ve seen of this game’s meta, 4-man-parties are formed centered around the four available classes. As such, we actually have enough members of varying classes to form a proper party. ]
“The team that’s lacking three members are in a lack of a Swordsman, Archer, and a Mage. On the other hand, the team that’s lacking two members is in a lack of a Warrior and a Mage.”
“In other words, three of us already have our choices made for us, but since both of you are Fire Mages, I’ll leave it to both of you to discuss how you wanna …”
Before he could finish his sentence.
The second Fire Mage with the ID [ Chu Xiongzhou ] frowned and interjected.
“Why bother discussing? I’m definitely joining the team with three vacancies!”
Now that there were additional rewards at stake, the logical choice would be to join the team with three vacancies.
After all, it would be a team that consisted of three players and one NPC.
Their combat power would far surpass the party that consisted of only two players and two NPCs.
Everyone glanced between Su Chen and Chu Xiongzhou. For a moment, they did not know how they should decide.
“Hmm, how about we compare compatibility scores to decide?”
The Archer suggested.
“Why bother comparing? My [ Mage ]’s compatibility score is 70! Just let me join the team with a three-man vacancy! I’m definitely stronger than this player here who’s hiding his ID. Why would anyone care what your ID is!?”
Chu Xiongzhou did not want to miss out on this opportunity before him. He raised his voice and mocked Su Chen.
Su Chen suddenly froze. He originally wanted to give Chu Xiongzhou an icy glare, but upon hearing his compatibility score, he revealed a mocking grin.
“What are you laughing at? You don’t believe me? Then let’s compete to see who will kill more bandits later. I’m sure the difference in our Elemental Power would be clear for all to see once we begin.”
Chu Xiongzhou said noisily.
Hearing this, Su Chen shook his head in boredom. “Compete with you? I reckon that I’ll hit harder than your advanced skills with just a beginner one.”
With that, Su Chen then turned around and walked towards the party that was lacking two players. He could not be bothered to argue with the wild dog that seemed to be barking nonsensically.
As for the reason why he had chosen to join the team with a three-man vacancy.
It was because he could not be bothered. After all, regardless of the number of players or NPCs in his team, he was certain that he would be the one to come up on top in the end,
Meanwhile, Chu Xiongzhou froze upon hearing Su Chen’s words. He felt as if he had just heard the funniest joke in the world and started laughing out loud.
“Hahahaha, you really know how to bullsh*t don’t you!?”
“Forget killing more enemies than me. So long as you can even reach one-fifth of my kill count with a starter skill alone, I’ll concede my loss and hand you my reward.”
Then, just as Chu Xiongzhou was about to mock Su Chen even further, he was suddenly interrupted by the Decurion. He put on a smug grin and began following behind the Heavy Swordsman and the Bowman.
On Su Chen’s side.
[ Heavy Shield Warrior ] Qiao Yi quickly caught up to him.
“Brother, you don’t need to pay heed to his words. After all, what good can a level 10 class quest reward you with? There’s no need to get that agitated over such a small matter.”
“These kind of players are the most obnoxious. There’s no need to compete with him. Just play normally later and use whatever skill you’d like.”
Su Chen did not say anything else and simply nodded.
“Okay.”
The two of them then walked side by side to their team and arranged their positions.
Qiao Yi brought down his massive shield and stood at the vanguard. Beside him was an NPC Heavy Swordsman.
Su Chen and another NPC [ Crossbowman ] stood at the back row.
The moment all the players and NPCs had settled in.
The expression of the Decurion in the distance suddenly changed.
“Eyes up people!”
“There’s a large group of bandits attacking from the front!”
The quest had begun!
During this tense moment.
Qiao Yi, who was silently raising his shield in front of Su Chen, suddenly turned around. “Oh right, Bro, I see that your ID is still hidden.”
“How should I address you?”
Upon hearing this, Su Chen, who did not have a bad impression of Qiao Yi, decided not to hide his identity. As his gaze slowly fell on the mountain bandits who were charging over on their horses.
Following that, he spoke softly amidst the sounds of horse hooves.
“Su Chen.”
His voice slowly fell.
Qiao Yi’s expression froze as he immediately whipped his head around to look at Su Chen.
His face was filled with disbelief!