Inside the Class Change Hall of Linghai Academy, a group of students waited anxiously.
"Xu Wu, class change successful. Class: 【Warrior】."
"Lu Zhinan, class change successful. Rare class: 【Heavy Knight】."
"It's actually a rare class!"
"Wow, I'm so jealous. It's only been one morning and a rare class has already appeared. He's a heavy assault specialist, too. Many battle groups will definitely try to recruit him. He'll basically be assigned a job before he even graduates."
The appearance of a rare class immediately stirred up a discussion among the students. It also caught Chen Xu's attention.
He had been in this world for eighteen years, and today was finally the day for his class change. In this world, when everyone reaches the age of eighteen, they can undergo a class change in the Class Change Hall to awaken their class and talent.
Classes are divided into five grades: common, rare, extraordinary, epic, and legendary. For newcomers just changing classes, the class grade will only be either common or rare. Subsequent grades require clearing dungeons to obtain rare items for class advancement. This was why a rare class attracted so much discussion.
Soon, it was Chen Xu's turn. Following the instructions, Chen Xu stood in the center of the ritual formation. As the teacher activated the magic circle, Chen Xu felt a surge of heat in his mind, followed by the sensation of something new being added to his consciousness.
【Class Change Successful】
【Obtained Class: Necromancer (Rare)】
【Rich otherworldly soul energy detected. Unique talent awakened: 996】
"I actually awakened a talent as well!" Chen Xu hurriedly checked the effect of the talent. One must know that while everyone could awaken a class, awakening a talent was based on probability.
【996: Whenever you work or cultivate continuously, you receive an additional percentage bonus. The longer the duration, the higher the bonus. (Get up and get to work!)】
"Has my soul of a corporate slave from my past life awakened? Even after transmigrating, I still have to pull a 996?" Chen Xu felt a chill run down his spine as the painful experiences of being a 996 programmer in his previous life resurfaced. "What exactly is this bonus? It's not clearly explained. Don't tell me I have to figure it out myself."
"Chen Xu, class change successful. Rare class: 【Necromancer】."
"Holy crap, another rare class! And it's a 【Necromancer】!"
"The undead scourge leaves not a blade of grass in its wake. Another Solo King has been born!"
After the successful class change, Chen Xu left the Class Change Hall and ran straight toward the training grounds. To maintain stability in the real world, except for those with official status or special permits, professionals using their abilities in non-dungeon worlds had to do so in official designated areas, such as the academy's training grounds.
He jogged all the way to the training grounds, where many newly awakened students were already testing their abilities.
"Hello, teacher. Could you please open a private training room for me?" Chen Xu said to the teacher at the front desk while showing his professional panel. "I have the rare class 【Necromancer】. I remember the teacher saying in class that rare classes are eligible for private rooms."
The teacher at the front desk glanced at the panel and nodded. "A lucky little fellow, aren't you? Take the key. You can enter by activating it with your intent." After saying that, he handed Chen Xu something that looked like a necklace.
Following the teacher's instructions, Chen Xu activated the necklace with his intent and was instantly teleported into a small, empty room.
"Is this dungeon technology? Pretty impressive. Let's look at the detailed class information first."
【Class: Necromancer (Rare)】
【Level: 1】
【Talent: 996 (Whenever you work or cultivate continuously, you receive an additional percentage bonus. The longer the duration, the higher the bonus.)】
【Skills: Raise Skeleton, Weaken Curse, Bone Armor, Necrotic Space】
【Raise Skeleton (Level 1): Summon a skeleton. If a corpse is consumed for the summoning, an additional bonus is gained based on the quality of the corpse.】
【Weaken Curse (Level 1): Curse creatures within an area, reducing all their attributes.】
【Bone Armor (Level 1): Summon and equip a suit of bone armor that can resist damage.】
【Necrotic Space (Level 1) (Unique): A personal space for the Necromancer where undead creatures can survive and be stored. Necrotic Space is a unique skill of the Necromancer, and its level synchronizes with the character's level.】
As expected of a rare class, the Necromancer started with four skills, which pleasantly surprised Chen Xu.
One had to know that purchasing skill books from the official store or the stores of major battle groups cost at least 5 gold coins per book, even for basic ones. 5 gold coins was the average profit a level 10 professional would make from a single dungeon run.
In this life, Chen Xu had joined the Linghai Academy reserve—the Linghai First Orphanage—at the age of six. Upon reaching adulthood, he only had the startup funds provided by the government, which totaled exactly 2 gold coins.
"Raise Skeleton!!!" Chen Xu stretched out his hand and shouted toward the open space in front of him.
A skeleton crawled out of the ground from thin air. The level 1 skeleton soldier held a bone shield in its left hand and a bone blade in its right. It didn't look very sturdy, but fortunately, they could fight in groups. If quality wasn't enough, quantity would make up for it.
Chen Xu raised his hand again, and nine more skeletons crawled out of the ground one by one.
A level 1 Necrotic Space could accommodate ten units of undead creatures, so Chen Xu only summoned ten skeleton soldiers this time. This was a legal restriction of the real world; any undead creatures not inside the Necrotic Space were considered an external manifestation of a Necromancer's power and were not officially permitted.
However, inside a dungeon, there were no such restrictions. As long as the Necromancer's mental state could endure it, an endless sea of skeletons would submerge any dungeon.
Chen Xu clicked two buttons on the control console, and the room automatically generated two wooden training dummies.
Then, Chen Xu cast 【Bone Armor】 on himself, causing a ring of shields made of bone to float around his body.
He then controlled a dummy to attack him.
Chen Xu continued to control the dummy to attack a few more times and found that no matter the angle of the attack, the armor could block it.
"It seems my survivability is fine. As long as there aren't any creepy monsters in tomorrow's initial dungeon, I can just shamelessly spam 【Raise Skeleton】 and let the dungeon monsters see what an undead scourge looks like!"
Next, Chen Xu commanded the ten skeleton soldiers to surround the two dummies. Under the group assault, the dummies were easily dismantled into pieces.
Chen Xu nodded, very satisfied with the result. "A single chopstick doesn't hurt when you hit someone, but a thousand or ten thousand chopsticks should be able to crush them to death."
Afterward, Chen Xu withdrew the ten skeleton soldiers into the Necrotic Space and exited the training room. After returning the key to the front desk teacher, he went to the academy's logistics department store.
Using his startup funds, he bought a leather vest, a magic cloak infused with a basic energy shield, and a magic necklace infused with a basic repulsion field. With the remaining pocket change, he bought two bottles of basic antidote and one bottle of basic holy water for purification, maximizing his defenses.
By nightfall, Chen Xu was lying on his dormitory bed, already fantasizing about how he would dominate the initial dungeon tomorrow.
After having reached the peak of his life in his fantasies countless times, Chen Xu decided to check his panel one last time before going to sleep. After all, he had heard that the Necromancer class was heavy on yin energy, and if he didn't take care of himself, it would be easy to look... exhausted.
【Class: Necromancer (Rare)】
【Level: 1】
【Talent: 996 (Whenever you work or cultivate continuously, you receive an additional percentage bonus. The longer the duration, the higher the bonus.)】
【Skills: Raise Skeleton, Weaken Curse, Bone Armor, Necrotic Space】
【Raise Skeleton (Level 2): Summon a skeleton. If a corpse is consumed for the summoning, an additional bonus is gained based on the quality of the corpse.】
"Huh? Level 2 Raise Skeleton?" Chen Xu suddenly noticed the skill level on the panel and spotted the anomaly. "I haven't done anything, so why did the skill level increase?"
He knew that there were generally three ways to increase a skill's level.
The first was through special consumables dropped in dungeons, like skill upgrade scrolls, which could directly level up a skill.
The second was through frequent use of the skill to increase proficiency, thereby naturally raising the skill level.
The third was through the level increase of a high-level skill within the same system driving the level of low-level skills. For example, if a high-level skill in the skeleton summoning system, like Bone Dragon Descent, were to level up, it would drive the level of the basic Raise Skeleton to increase.
But Chen Xu's current situation didn't seem to belong to any of these three cases.
"Could it be my talent?" Chen Xu's eyes lingered on the talent description. "Continuous cultivation grants an extra bonus... Could it be that as long as the skeleton soldiers I summoned are still alive, it counts as me constantly cultivating?"
Thinking of this, the corners of Chen Xu's mouth, which had only just rested for a moment, curled up again. "It's only been twelve hours since the class change this morning, and it's already leveled up once in twelve hours. Then wouldn't twenty-four or forty-eight hours be even more incredible!"
With a thought from Chen Xu, the skeletons that had been standing quietly inside the Necrotic Space suddenly began to perform different actions. Some strapped their bone blades and shields to their backs and started doing push-ups, some directly hoisted another skeleton onto their shoulders to do squats, and some lay on the ground using another skeleton as a weight to do bench presses.
Although Chen Xu didn't know if commanding the skeletons to perform extra movements would accelerate the leveling process, the joy of leveling up made him willing to try anything.
"996 isn't enough! Every single one of you, start pulling a 007 for me! The harder you skeletons work, the sooner I can ride a bone dragon." Chen Xu watched the busy skeletons in the Necrotic Space, filled with excitement.
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