Chapter 260: The Faction

Special Classes, on the other hand, are completely different. Their advancement paths are both few and extremely demanding. Although they are powerful, they can easily put the player in an awkward situation, and once something goes wrong, it can also be difficult to find a way to solve the problem.

Take the most basic [Warrior] class, for example. In the future, it would have an extremely wide range of choices. Although its lower limit was low, its upper limit was very high. There were Eastern style martial arts masters, as well as Western style knights. Under them, there were also hunters, archers, and a whole series of other classes to choose from. As for the Astral Diviner, within the class system transmitted by the system, there was currently only one available advancement path.

Special Classes were like things such as a Pure Yang Spiritual Body or Innate Dao Body in cultivation novels. When practicing special cultivation techniques, they possessed unique advantages from birth, and such physiques often appeared only once every several thousand or even tens of thousands of years, making them seem like something everyone would envy.

But once such a situation became reality, the disadvantages were actually greater than the advantages. There were neither teachers or seniors who had walked this path before and could provide useful advice, nor fellow travelers who could discuss and exchange ideas with each other. Everything had to be understood by oneself.

However, what suited oneself best was still the best. Joo Joowon had probably already guessed why the class had turned out this way. Perhaps even if he had not chosen a Beast Taming class and had instead chosen an ordinary Warrior, he might still have eventually changed into a Special Class.

At least now, while barely taking his own needs into consideration, he had also obtained a Special Class that was extremely suitable for his unique constitution. It could also be considered a perfect match for his talents.

Since he could not change it, he could only accept it.

Aside from the change in his class, the only thing that had changed on his attribute panel was his experience value. It had changed from the numerical value displayed before into an energy bar like the one shown now.

From now on, the experience values he obtained would all be stored in an experience pool and would only be taken out when needed.

Experience values could be converted into various types of energy that players needed. There was no need to worry about a certain type of mysterious energy that he needed not existing anywhere in the world. However, this energy conversion would have a certain loss rate. Only when it was converted into Quanta Energy would there be no additional loss.

But Joo Joowon did not have any extra experience value in his hands right now, so he did not know how much energy would be lost if he converted experience values into Star Fortune and Star Fiend Energy. He had a feeling that the ratio would probably be quite high.

He did not dwell on these things either. Star Fortune and Star Fiend Energy were already difficult to obtain in the first place, so having one more way to acquire them was already a good thing. It was still better than Byeol’s situation, where he could only rely on skills to obtain cultivation power.

Joo Joowon clicked open the faction interface again and took a look. There were many factions listed on it. Unexpectedly, there were not many neutral factions in his faction relations. Most of his relationships with them were [Indifferent], a small portion had neutral reputation [Stranger], and there was even one hostile reputation [Dislike]. The name of the hostile faction was the Temple of the Profound Darkness.

He glanced at it but did not pay much attention. Judging from the name, it was probably the religion that worshiped the Supreme Sovereign of Profound Darkness.

As for the faction reputations that were favorable toward him, most of them were 3, which happened to match the reputation he had gained.

Among these factions, quite a few were probably hostile toward the Temple of the Profound Darkness, which was why some of the reputation increases were 2 while others were 3.

Of the reputation he had obtained, there had been two occasions when a world announcement had appeared. Another time was when he had received reputation for killing the Big Belly Zombies. Thinking about it, the difference probably came from this.

The factions in the Age of Apocalypse were truly numerous. There were various cults and other factions that clearly seemed like things that would appear after natural and man made disasters, such as the Sons of the Supreme Heaven and Holy Spirit of Blood and Water Church, as well as factions whose names sounded extremely childish and overly dramatic.

Joo Joowon looked through them roughly. The Eastern factions included [Celestial Sovereign Court], [Eternal Immortal Sanctum], and [Divine War God Palace]. The Western factions included [Grand Arcanum] and [Verdant Covenant]. There were even factions representing the technological side, such as [Machina Consortium] and [Nexus of Omniscient Knowledge].

As for the faction [Astral Palace], which the system had automatically added him to, it did not restrict whether one’s class belonged to the Eastern system or the Western system. As long as it was related to the starry sky, one could join.

Joo Joowon’s reputation with the Astral Palace had directly risen to [Friendly] after he joined. He clicked into it and took a look, only to discover that this faction really did not give him benefits for nothing. The homepage contained all kinds of knowledge about celestial phenomena, while the faction’s shop was also open to him. There was even a faction forum within the faction.

He did not wander around randomly. He only looked through the homepage. The [Astral Palace] did not have a faction leader. Instead, it had only the [Fourteen Seats]. Each seat was surrounded by swirling starlight, making it impossible to see the figures’ faces. Beside them were only code names such as The Celestial Ruler, The Solar Emperor, The Lunar Patriarch, The Heavenly Strategist, and so on.