"No." I said, "I don't care how your System works; mine operates the way I'm telling you."
"I find that highly dubious." Malkin said, taking a leg sweep at my ankles. "Twelve legendary weapons, twelve distinct Systems. No crossover points for either."
I snorted. "Kornath disagrees."
"He WILL kill you, when next you duel." Malkin said. "I've seen how you fight. It is the very blessing of Loki that you live. He might even slay Rakkal, the false Axe Hero."
"Might?" I asked, "shouldn't the true Axe Hero prevail? Always?"
He blinked at me. "Fool. There were twelve legendary heroes, and they were not enough to stop the dragon of black wands."
"So your lesson from that is..."
"The ONLY lesson from that is that the strong will win, and reign over the weak." he said. "The strong, the swift, the clever. And when the dragons and giants turned on each other, when they were weak, THAT was the time when we the common races showed our strength."
Yes, I've been catching up on back chapters, and running numbers. And yes, this is EVEN MORE level one classes, even while Rhishi is barely halfway to level two with the classes he uses nearly every single day.
An unintended consequence of how I set up the additive level system with how multiple classes work in Athal is that unless you FOCUS, you end of growing a broader base of classes rather than depth. It's given me a new respect for the champions and heroes of the world.
But... the important part is that I *AM* catching up, and Rhishi is growing, if not always in the ways I originally intended.
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