Joy and ecstasy suddenly invaded his body. The messages from the Awakening System flickering before him caused all kinds of waves inside him, from happiness and nostalgia to sadness and euphoria.
A flood of sudden emotions reached his throat, but he swallowed them hard. He pinched himself, wondering if what he saw was real and not a dream.
When he could verify that it was real, the last system message left him in shock.
"Did I awaken a Class?"
It didn't matter what type of class someone could awaken; if it was a class, it was incredible. Only one in a million awake a class, and the difference may be even more exaggerated.
In the process of awakening, you can obtain a Skill, Trait, Talent, Power, or Class. Of all these, the one with the lowest probability of appearing is the class, with less than 1% chance.
Because if you obtain a class, you can acquire skills and traits (for example) that make you much more powerful than your peers.
But there are many class ranks: Common, Rare, Epic, etc. Among all those ranks, there is the 'Unique'. Only Unique Classes fall into this category, and they can be of Common Rank or Epic Rank or higher, but they must be unique.
Although the Unique Class system is random, Elliot doesn't care about the rank.
He had awakened!
And of all things, he got a class.
Now, that is a cause for celebration.
Without wasting any time, he quickly pressed the messages flashing before his eyes to open the interface. Suddenly, his statistics appeared before him, but he ignored them. He was impatient to know the type of class he had awakened.
He scrolled through the system, looking for the class window, and he found it.
[Class Monarch of Energy: He who rules energy, its three Talents and two Manifestations]
| Rank: Unique.
[First Manifestation - Lord of Energy]
| You can use the Energy of Attributes in your body to create Summons of Attributes. These summonses are formed with pure energy, and depending on the type of energy used, they will have one capacity or another.
| When creating, you choose the amount of energy to use to enhance your summons. The more energy, the more power they will have.
| Conversion: 1 aggregate Stat Point equals 5 Points in the summoning.
Example: Using 1 Physical Attribute Energy Point when creating a summoning will have 5 Stat Points in Strength.
Amazement hit him hard and left him unable to react.
Being an emotional person, his body and mind roared with uncontrollable joy when he saw that his class looked amazing at first glance. However, his mind managed to calm down quickly.
'A Class that brings Three Talents and Two Manifestations... Although I don't understand exactly what a manifestation is, this one it gave me at the beginning is amazing,' he thought.
Although he could see some problems, such as that it would take him longer to reach a certain level of power if he had to focus on increasing the power of invocations, in general, it seemed like it would be important since they were much stronger than he was, with the same stat point.
But he didn't want to be a weakling, so he dismissed the idea of simply being an invoker; if he didn't fight at the front, he wouldn't feel satisfied.
As his mind wandered, his eyes focused on the next window of the system.
[First Talent]
| The Harvester: You can harvest the surrounding Attribute Energy. Stay close to where it is created to benefit much more.
| Additional Talent Bonus - 1: When killing a beast, human, or any other race, you can collect an additional 50% of the energy if you sacrifice 50% of the victim's body.
| Additional Talent Bonus - 2: If you find a BEAST that you did not personally kill, you can absorb around 50% of the energy it had before dying in exchange for destroying 100% of the body.
Detail of Talent Bonus 2: Only works on beasts.
| Additional Talent Bonus 3: You are the reaper of what you once sowed; therefore, Attribute Energy is created faster for you.
'The Harvester... A person capable of harvesting the surrounding attribute energy...'
If what he had read before seemed absurd, this first talent did not make any sense, mainly because of the exclusivity that Attribute Energy enjoys.
When the world awakened 500 years ago, it was filled with beasts, dungeons, and portals. Even new territories emerged from ancient times and merged with this world.
Fantastic and mythological races became reality overnight, and along with that, came the ability to strengthen themselves: the Global Awakening System.
This was like salvation for humanity, which was frightened by what might come.
They didn't think that many things would change with the system's arrival, but the change was drastic. In the ancient era, the world was divided into countries with large armies that fought each other, killing innocent people for their ambitions.
But in the Age of Awakening, the world changed and was never the same. Now, it is divided into Guilds and territories, and competitions decide everything.
Since the awakening, the laws have changed, and the so-called Laws of the Game have come into force.
For example, Loen City is within the territory of the Arce Guild, commonly known as the Kingdom of Arce. This guild is registered in the system under the Laws of the Game.
Many things cannot be done without the game's laws. For example, armies disappeared, and now wars are less common. This means that civilians are relatively safe, which has made the world a better place.
But at the same time, it is a playground of absolute competitiveness, where the weak seek ways to strengthen themselves to reach the highest heights, win the system's main competitions, and achieve Glory.
This is because the System can grant everything.
Lands, titles, classes, abilities... Even Divinity.
There is nothing that the system cannot grant.
This is why, as long as you act within the Laws of the Game, you could go to another Kingdom and ask its Leader for a one-on-one fight, with the Kingdom as the bet. If you win, you will be the new King, and no one can oppose you.
Now, along with the System, something has also arrived that governs passively and that no one can ignore: Attribute Energy.
It is the energy that the awakened use to increase their power—a peculiar and strangely powerful energy in every sense.
It naturally has many restrictions. For example, you shouldn't be able to absorb the energy created by someone because his actions create that energy.
That's why this talent didn't seem to make sense, which made him feel that there was something he didn't know about that energy.
'Stay close to where it is created.'
He repeated this to himself so that he would not forget it. He had planned to go to the place where it was created to do research.
While he was deep in thought, his door rang.
*KNOCK*
*KNOCK*
He frowned and got up.
'Who?' He had never had visitors before. So, he carefully approached the door to peer through a crack and frowned when he noticed it was his boss.
'Strange... I'm sure he's not supposed to know where I live.'
Maybe he went to the wrong door, or maybe...
Elliot turned around, opened one of the drawers of the living room table, and took out a small sheath with a dagger—no, it was more like a knife. It was a very low grade, but he had kept it since his mother and sister were alive.
Although the most dangerous people in this world are the Awakened, they should not generally attack a normal person head-on, as the system could penalize them.
There is no real restriction if you try to kill someone, but there could be a penalty if you break any of the rules, and it is very easy for an Awakened one to break the rules when attacking a civilian. So, for the most part, the Awakened avoid attacking these people.
Now, the Awakened are not saints who will not choose to kill anyone. Murders still happen daily, and there are occasions when the Awakened carry out large-scale killings of civilians. This can be for two reasons: they have the system's permission or use a particular group.
The Misfits.
They are like the hands and feet of the Awakened in the world of civilians; they constantly do their dirty work for them, as they are not tied to the System.
And getting permission from the system is not too difficult, besides the fact that it is still possible to cause carnage without the system's permission with the risk of being penalized.
Be that as it may, the system has loopholes in its rules that the Awakened tend to take advantage of, and he was facing one of those loopholes.
That's why... Elliot grabbed the knife.
The world is not safe these days. It was better to be safe than sorry.
'For safety.'
He tucked the knife into his clothes and then opened the door.