Free Web NovelChapter 57: Class Change Success!
As soon as I logged into the game, I quickly felt the difference.
"So this is the power of money..." I whispered.
Even if the difference was small, just the use of a custom-made pod instead of staying on a normal bed, the sensations felt were even more pronounced, more accurate. I could feel minor differences even from something as simple as opening and closing my hand.
The feedback was cleaner, crisper—like the gap between watching something on a blurry screen versus a sharp one. You didn’t fully notice what you’d been missing until you saw the difference side by side.
"Woooh! This feels awesome! I can move my avatar so smoothly, as if I’m moving my real body!"
Beside me, Kiki was already cheering loudly, jumping around, rolling on the ground, acting like an idiot. She didn’t even look embarrassed by the weird looks sent her way by passersby. If anything, the attention seemed to encourage her.
Miyabi, a little distance away, was also obviously in awe of the difference. Though not to the same extent Kiki was showing it. She kept slowly flexing and unflexing her fingers, watching her own hand like it belonged to someone slightly more interesting than herself.
"Everyone’s ready?"
Finally, Eri arrived last, all smiles as usual.
"Right. We should stop wasting time and get moving." I nodded. "First, we should finish up our class change. Everything else will come after that."
Thankfully, all of us already had a UR Class Advancement Scroll. We could all proceed to the next level of our class without sacrificing rarity at all—keeping the maximum quality we had going in.
After that, we all headed to the Class Upgrade Hall.
In there, we each entered a separate room. Class Upgrade takes a bit of time, after all. The rooms isolate us completely, ensuring nobody could interfere with the process.
But the main reason it takes long is that Class Upgrade actually increases the percentage of stats our real body could tap into. Currently, we could only access 1% of our stats. But after a Class Upgrade with a UR scroll, that number jumps to 5%!
Knowing this, I didn’t dare delay at all.
After locking the door, I sat in the middle of the room and took out the scroll. Then, I tore it apart, activating it.
The next moment, a powerful surge of energy—enough that it turned into a visible golden glow swirling like a gust of wind—surrounded my body. The waves were so powerful that the ground and walls cracked from the pressure alone.
Thankfully, these vibrations would be completely isolated, not reaching even the neighboring room.
"Phew..."
I didn’t just let the energy run wild, either.
I closed my eyes and began collecting the energy into my body, taking it in one breath at a time and slowly claiming it as my own. Each breath, power swelled from within me. I felt hot, almost as if my blood was boiling, but I didn’t stop.
The sensation wasn’t entirely unpleasant—it was the kind of burn that felt like progress rather than damage, like a muscle discovering it had more capacity than it thought.
Breathe in, breathe out. Then consolidate.
Repeating this process as many times as needed until all the golden wisps of energy either got absorbed or dissipated as waste into the surrounding air.
Though since we were inside a room in the Class Upgrade Hall, the energy had nowhere to escape. In short, I was able to absorb 100% of it in just under 30 minutes.
[Congratulations to WhiteGod for successfully achieving the First Class Upgrade!]
[All stats have been increased.]
[Sync rate has been increased.]
[As one of the first five to Upgrade their classes, WhiteGod claims the title: Trail Blazer.]
A bunch of notifications appeared before me.
Unfortunately, there was no reward for being the first to upgrade classes. This was the same even in my previous life, as per Kiki’s endless grumbles about it back then. Knowing nothing else was coming, I just patted the dust off my clothes and headed straight out.
"You’re finally out! I thought you fell asleep in there, you know?"
"You sure took your time, WhiteGod. After the Class Upgrade I got a few new skills. I want to test them out with my new katana too. Let’s go!"
"Looks like you’ve gained quite a powerup. The gap between our strengths is really becoming a chasm..."
As soon as I got out, the three girls were already there, standing in a row to greet me. Kiki, Miyabi, and Eri respectively.
All three looked excited, but I felt surprised.
They had finished faster than me, which at first made me think their absorption was worse than average. However, looking closer, their auras read at least 90% assimilation. That wasn’t bad at all—that was actually excellent.
Then I realized the issue.
The wisps of energy that evaporate and linger just after the golden wind runs dry—they clearly hadn’t noticed those.
That’s why they finished so much faster.
They simply stopped when the main surge ended, not realizing there was a second wave worth of energy still drifting around the room if you waited for it.
My fault for not mentioning it beforehand.
"Alright, alright. Sorry I’m late. I was absorbing the evaporated energy, which took a bit longer." I said, scratching my cheek. "Anyways, let’s head to the next map now."
Now that we were level 50 and had changed classes, the teleportation array at the village center should be active.
Walking with the three, we headed toward the fountain without deviation. It served as our meeting point more often than not—not only because it stood out, but also because of what it hid.
"So this is the teleportation array...!"
Kiki gasped, seeing the change that had come over the fountain—unlocked after detecting the first class change occurring within the server.
It no longer looked like a simple decoration.
A set of stairs had appeared on one side, leading to a raised altar with water surrounding it. The fountain still ran, but now it almost looked like it was forming a roof over the teleportation array more than anything else.
The water caught the light differently now too—less like an ornament and more like something alive, aware of what it was guarding.
"So this fountain wasn’t just for display." Miyabi nodded slowly. "I noticed it looked way too elaborate for a fountain in such a small village... turns out it had this kind of secret."
Eri gripped her staff tight, looking worriedly at the water. "This... I feel a little uneasy, now that we’re actually changing maps. We wouldn’t die the moment we arrive there, right...?"
"It’s fine." I reassured them. "The teleportation array will bring us to the center of a random major city. If you want to be placed in the same city, make sure you don’t forget to join the party."
Right. This teleporter had no fixed destination. Instead, it sent you to a random city on the first use. Only after reaching the next map for the first time could you use it normally, with the randomization disabled.
Before jumping in, I checked our party once more.
Me, WhiteGod—a UR grade Android Meister.
Miyabi, FleetingCloud—a UR grade Shogun.
Kiki, Kristal—a UR grade Martial God.
And Eri, GentleBreeze—a UR grade Saintess.
All of us had the highest ranking classes, now upgraded with UR-level scrolls on top of that. In short, our collective strength right now should be heads and shoulders above other players.
Unless, of course, they were also UR class.
But with our head start, it would take time for anyone to actually close that gap. We had earned that margin, and I intended to use every bit of it.
"Let’s go!"
Seeing that everyone was ready, I smiled and paced toward the teleportation array, climbing the steps of the fountain. As soon as I stepped under the spout that curved overhead like a roof of water, it began releasing a faint blue glow around my feet.
Then my vision flashed white.
When I opened my eyes, feeling a cold breeze graze my cheeks, I couldn’t help but gasp.
Among the 10 possible landing locations, to think we actually landed on the best one... My luck was really something today!
I’d heard of this place before, of course. Read about it, heard veterans talk about it in the previous timeline. It’s importance... and its beauty. But to think it’d look this amazing in person.
Looking left, then right, all I could see was a landscape of white. Snow covered everything—the roads, the rooftops, the branches of trees lining the streets. freēwēbnovel.com
But cutting through all that white were the black plumes rising from countless chimneys, dark against the pale sky. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
If I closed my eyes to listen, there was that rhythmic sound of metal on metal.
Clanking, honing, hammering.
A city that never fully went quiet, because the work never fully stopped. And the smell—beneath the crispness of the wintry wind—was iron. Constant, familiar, filling all corners of the city.
"This is it..." I smiled, whispering to myself. "The City of Blacksmiths—Evergloria!"
