[Name: Nylah Lawcinder. Age: 15/Y +. Race: Human. Mutation 0%. Evolution 49%. Class’s: Tanker. [level 1.] Active skills: Tool kit. Passive skills: Catalog, Armored, Quick repair.]
“Nylah sweetheart respond to me! What happened?!” Her mother said worriedly.
It didn't escape Nylah’s notice that more than a few of the adults had their hands on their holstered weapons. More than one though was even trying to hide that they already had there’s out.
“Yeah, I'm fine just got my class. I don't recognize it though uh the class comes up as tanker level 1. The active skill something called toolkit. Passive skills are catalog, armored, and quick repair.”
And until she hit level 5 that's all it would say. The skill menu unlocked more information as the user’s level rose.
At level 5 it would let you see your full status. At level 20 it let you see possible class evolutions or skills you could earn or evolve. At 50 it would let you pick a skill after every level up. You could subclass every 10 levels it didn't even have to be in the same class. Nylah's father had simply gotten 10 levels in one class subclassed and gotten that up to level 10 and repeated over and over again.
The preacher the one person in town who had a codex beyond Nylah started checking it. Even though hers was a single issue out of date, having a new one been released about six years ago. She hadn't seen fit to buy a new one.
“I don't see that listed here could it be a new class or an evolved class that no one’s ever stumbled upon? Her father does have quite a few classes under his name, it could be that it's a fusion of multiple classes. It seems to be a utility based class at least based off of some of the skill's names. Though I don't see any of those skills listed. I'd have to take a deeper look other than? Ohh armored allows the user to more easily wield and maintain armor that sounds good enough. Uh, I don't see a quick repair, but repair is an equipment restoration skill. So, it’s likely a more advanced version of the repair skill. It’s likely faster and less mana intensive as well. Though according to this it runs the risk of weakening or even damaging or destroying pieces of equipment it's used on. So, while it might be able to mend a torn bit of armor in a pinch it's best not to rely on it unless you absolutely need to. Toolkit is unique I don't see that here in the active section at all but if I had to make a guess it's some sort of crafting or support skill. It’s rare to get a crafting class out of the gate but even then, it should be useful as it's clearly not a basic one. It’s not listed here so once it's a bit more developed, probably around level 10, I'd recommend writing a letter or making a trip to the capital to get it registered. There are people there with actual skills that could give you more information than I can.” She said looking up from her old book.
Nylah just frowned down looking at the screen she wanted to learn magic though now that she had the system she could in theory learn a few basic spells. And once she reached level 10 she could multiclass into one of the magic classes but she had been waiting for so long already to finally learn magic. It would just be so much harder without a magic class. Despite her getting an advanced class it was one she really didn't want, especially if it was actually a crafting based class. Don't get her wrong, she had nothing but respect for the crafting classes, but it wasn't for her. Yeah, she was small and wasn't the strongest of her years, but she wanted to go off and be an adventurer like her friends.
This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.
The world was a dangerous place in the human territories weren't that big. The Royal Army was mostly just made up of high ranking individuals devoted purely to protecting large swaths of territory against the things beyond their borders. since the world was far from a safe place even in held territory wars between the races and factions were rare. This was only helped by the fact the monsters of the world had a bad habit of swooping in whenever they sensed weakness. Leading to a rather work together than die alone mentality.
Adventurers were primarily meant to protect the home front and occasionally venture off into new territories. Most of the town had been built by adventurers looking to settle down. Her parents were one good example of that. As such they were one of the farthest villages from what was considered secured territory it would only be a few more years before the secure border would move over them with the number of towns that have been set up in recent years. It was only a matter of time before the Royal Army and the adventurers Guild would be setting out on a new cleansing and claiming as much territory as they could. And Nylah had been looking forward to being a part of that when she grew up.
She sighed and figured she might as well try out her first skill opening up toolkit she got a prompt.
[Warning toolkit is currently empty please purchase items from catalog.]
That confused her catalog was a passive skill, wasn't it? She tried focusing on catalog like she had been taught to and another blue screen popped up. It was a list of items hammers, axes, shovels, something called a wrench, blankets, trousers, lanterns, a box of nails the list went on and on and on.
Wanting to try it out she selected the shovel, figuring it be the easiest to get and it nearly knocked her out.
But the catalog skill had leveled up. At level 2 it now showed a price tag on every item.
[shovel 0/10 MP.]
After watching it for a few minutes the counter ticked up 1/10mp then 2/10mp then 3/10mp and so on. While it wasn't exactly what she was expecting. Though she could at least use this to judge how many mana points she had. Judging by how the price tag of the shovel was at 10 she guessed she had about 10 mp or it had drained her mana more than that and cut her regeneration to fill in the rest. Regardless when she hit five mana she tried opening up toolkit and to her surprise, another blue box popped up and inside of it was the shovel. Tapping her finger on the shovel’s icon a simple wooden and iron shovel of finer make than anything she'd seen before popped into existence in front of her much to the shock of any onlookers that where still paying her any attention. It had a handle on one end and an oversized spade shaped blade with a serrated edge on the other it was even sized to fit perfectly in her hand.
“How did you do that?” Her father asked having spotted her little display.
Nylah quickly explained of how one of her passive skills apparently worked like a shop using her mana points to purchase items and once purchased they were placed into toolkit allowing her to summon them at will. However, with some experimentation with catalog, she came to the conclusion that she used 1 mp when she summoned or unsummoned an item.
Starting at level 1 most classes started with somewhere between 10 and 30 mp. So she was definitely on the low end of that which sucked. So she’d drain her entire mana pool every time she made a purchase. Which wasn't the most pleasant sensation possible. So she’d have to try and level it up as best she could. She needed to if she ever wanted to try and get a magic class.
By the end of the night, she had managed to purchase a Lantern and summon it.
When she finally went home for the night. She huddled up in her bed and watched the flickering light of her lantern letting her mind mull over the day’s events. Before turning it off to get some sleep. She couldn't help but feel disappointed with her class and new abilities. Who knew maybe it was actually incredibly useful, and she just hadn't figured it out yet. She’d have to hope for more. As she drifted off, she hoped she didn't have another strange dream like she'd been having. She could never remember the strange dreams only that they weren't good ones.
