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Chapter 26: No Class?

"Wow, how did he do it?"

"He was like woosh woosh," somone said, making signs with his hands, "and dodged every projectile coming at him."

Aiden was happy hearing the praise of those watching him. After all, he had never heard much praise in his life, and he had to admit that it felt great. He understood why people were pursuing fame, and being adored by many could become addicting fast.

Aiden got down and went back to the start of the challenge, heading toward Maelis, ignoring the others who were close and had seen him complete the challenge.

Aiden could see that Maelis seemed shocked by what he had just done, fixated on him like never before. He could see that she appeared agitated or excited; he couldn't tell just from the expression on her face.

"Should we go somewhere, um, a little bit more private?" Aiden asked, not wanting to attract too much attention.

"Ye-yes, follow me," said Maelis, quickly leaving the training grounds and going to her office, where she would discuss some things with Aiden.

On the way to her office, complete silence reigned between the two of them. Maelis wasn't talking to calm herself, and Aiden saw that she didn't want to talk yet, so he respected her decision and waited until they arrived at the office.

The truth was that her mind was full of thoughts, trying to find an offer that could be good enough to attract the young man in front of her. The truth was that she had prepared one for him, a good one at that, but seeing what he was able to do, she knew it wasn't enough and that he deserved much more.

However, for her to give him an offer, she would need to learn more about his class, the level he had reached, and the skills he possessed. Knowing this type of information when recruiting someone was common and usually didn't cause any problems.

She knew that having someone with the talent he had in her medium-level family could probably propel them to the high tier in a few years as he continued to develop. She had no choice but to go all in with her offer to please him as best as possible.

Arriving at her office, Aiden was surprised that it didn't look that fancy compared to the rest of the building. Inside the office were only the necessities needed: a desk, a chair, and not much else. There wasn't much decoration; it was simply bland and empty.

Maelis quickly went to the other side of the desk and sat down on her chair, which was the only one in the room that seemed to cost quite a bit because it was really big, fitting of an important person.

The chair looked like some sort of throne with some gold attached to it. It truly was the only thing that stood out because everything else inside the room didn't look all that great.

"You can sit down," said Maelis, pointing at the small chair that wasn't like the one she was sitting on.

"Alright, before we discuss the benefits and the contract you would have to sign to join the family, I'll need to know your level, skills, and your class. Is that good for you?"

"I'm level 10. For skills, I have two. One is called [Mind of the Assassin]; it helps me calm my mind and find the best way out of a situation. The other one I got as a reward for completing the first trial, and it's a skill called Regeneration, which, as its name suggests, helps me regenerate," said Aiden, not wanting to reveal his passive skills. He also decided to reveal his skill [Mind of the Assassin] because she had seen him use it and saw his red aura during the challenge.

"What about your class?" Maelis finally asked, thinking that maybe he had forgotten about it.

"My class is nothing," said Aiden, not wanting to hide it from her since he knew she didn't seem like the type to reveal this type of information.

"What do you mean it's nothing?" asked Maelis, confused about his answer because she was sure he was going to announce to her that he had a special class.

"Well, I don't have an actual class."

"So, you aren't a special class holder? Then how the hell were you able to do all that in the parkour?" asked Maelis, not understanding anything anymore.

"Special class holder? What the hell is that?" asked Aiden, not even comprehending the words that came out of her mouth.

"It's not important; don't worry about it. Even if you don't have a special class, you should still have a class. Do you really not have one?"

Maelis was disappointed to learn that he wasn't a special class holder because that would have helped the family gain even more power. They already had one in the family, Emma Everheart, whom Aiden had beaten in the parkour challenge. If they could have gotten two, then their potential for becoming a higher-ranked family would have increased significantly.

"Yeah, I really don't have one. Believe me, I wish I had one."

"Alright, what about the dagger we bought yesterday? Wasn't it restricted to Assassins or a special class related to assassins?"

"Oh, item restrictions don't affect me. That's why I bought it and can equip it."

"You can bypass the restrictions set up by the system? How?"

"I have no idea. I tried to equip an item with a restriction, and the system let me do it."

"Wait, is it the same thing for skills? Can you learn any type of skills?" said Maelis, excited about the possibility of him being able to do so.

"Actually, I haven't tried yet because, as you know, I don't have enough money to buy different skills."

'Maybe he is special after all,' thought Maelis.

"Come with me. We'll go try it right now," said Maelis, with newfound energy contained in her voice as she stood up.


Chapter 27: Selecting a New Skill

Maelis stood up and told Aiden to follow her. She looked determined to test if the restrictions on skills were also lifted.

If that were the case, Aiden could be anything and wouldn't have to focus on a single path like all the others; he would become a Jack of all trades capable of pulling the move needed at the moment.

Maelis was currently going toward their storage room which had some skill books that were not used by the family members. The skills in the storage room were there for two reasons; the first one is that the members couldn't learn them because of the restrictions or the skill wasn't worth learning.

After two minutes of walking quickly, Maelis stopped and took a right turn, and in front of her was a tall door that seemed to be made of a special material that seemed solid.

Maelis started touching random spots on the door and a clicking sound could be heard, she had opened the door.

'Is it a special code for entering?' Aiden thought.

"Alright Aiden, this is our storage room, I know it looks good, but that's not what's important. Choose a skill that you like here that can normally be used by a certain class to try to learn it."

The storage had fifteen or twenty skill books on a bookshelf. It was crazy to think that they possessed that many unused skill books. Most of them probably weren't great, but it was still impressive. There was also equipment that was left there, like swords, daggers, bows, and more. All of those weapons looked great.

"I can choose whatever skill book that I want in here?" He repeated, making sure he had heard her correctly.

Having a new skill was perfect for Aiden, especially before his second trial which was not even in an hour.

"Yes, fast. We don't have all day since you are going to be summoned to the Otherworld soon, right?"

Aiden, hearing her say that, made him check how much time left he had.

"You're right. I only have one hour before being summoned."

"Go, we need to find out before you leave. Don't you know the second trial is a lot harder than the first one and will take at least a couple of days to complete? I can't wait to find out if someone like you who can ignore the system restrictions exists."

Hearing her excitement in finding out, Aiden quickly checked the details of the skill books in front of him.

There were all types of them. Three were for mages, one for healers, two for swordmen, and many others.

But after getting through all of them, Aiden had made his selection of three skills for him to choose from.

Selecting a skill was very important and he couldn't rush this decision since he already had used one chance out of his five to learn a skill book. Knowing this, he took his time calming down, not getting influenced by the emotions Maelis was projecting onto him.

It was now time for him to choose between those three skills, all of them were Green rated, it seemed blue rated skills were rare if even they didn't have one at their disposal.

'Maybe they already used them all." He thought, noticing that the only ranks of skill books they had were green and gray.

[Iron Fortress]

[Rank: Green]

[Restriction: User has to be of the Shieldbearer class.]

[Description: It is a great defensive skill that will make you into a literal iron fortress, your skill will become hard as metal. It will be much harder to penetrate it and harm you.]

[Cost: 4 Mana Points]

[Duration: 30 seconds]

[Cooldown: 15 minutes]

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[Phantom Parry]

[Rank: Green]

[Restriction: User has to be of the Assassin class.]

[Description: Use it for counter-attacking. The Phantom Parry is a skill that will make you able to block any type of attack, even the ones you cannot see. The Phantom Parry efficiency depends on the agility stats, the higher it is the better, it will work.]

[Cost: 1 Mana Point]

[Cooldown: 2 minutes]

---

[Swift Evasion]

[Rank: Green]

[Restriction: User needs to have at least five points in agility to perform the skill.]

[Description: Use the skill for evading and trying to flee, it is not a skill used to attack others. It will make you incredibly fast, making you able to flee. It can only be activated when fleeing from enemies.]

[Duration: 15 seconds]

[Cost: 3 Mana Points]

[Cooldown: 10 minutes]

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Aiden had chosen three skills that were defense-oriented because he didn't want to have to stress about not being able to kill an opponent in a single strike and get hurt because of that. He wanted to make sure he had at least a way to defend himself.

Looking at the three options he had chosen, he decided to discard [Swift Evasion] because it wasn't in his style to flee. He liked it more to fight opponents head to head.

After eliminating one of the skills, he only needed to choose between the [Phantom Parry] or the [Iron Fortress].

He started weighing which skills would make more sense to him.

The skill [Iron Fortress] was great because it could be used by Aiden to block some of the attacks coming at him for a whole 30 seconds, which was quite long, but the thing that he didn't like about the skill was the cost and the cooldown that were quite high.

On the other hand, [Phantom Parry] had a low cost of Mana Points to use, and it had a really short cooldown. However, the skill by itself wasn't as strong as [Iron Fortress].

Comparing the two of them, it was time for Aiden to make his final choice, and he decided to take the skill [Phantom Parry].

Picking it up in his hands, it was now time to see if he would be able to learn it or not.


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