Chapter 261: Future of Classes

The Fourteen Main Stars represented the Fourteen Seats. Their levels were not mentioned, but their battle achievements were. For example, [The Lunar Patriarch]’s battle record stated that one thousand three hundred years ago, at xxx location, they had instantly killed an invading enemy at the Sovereign level.

In the Age of Apocalypse, every class has a different name for each realm. The game does not categorize them and only displays their levels, although some higher level game worlds still follow their original customs.

[Firefly] (1-20), for example, is the stage where one has just entered the supernatural realm. Some also directly call it the first tier or the supernatural level.

After that, there are Starshine, Moonlight, and so on, but their levels are not fixed.

Some classes may already reach their limit at Level 32 or 34 during the second stage, and becoming stronger after that requires breaking through and advancing to the next tier. Other classes, however, may not advance until Level 40.

Therefore, people only care about these realm related issues when they cannot see the levels of players and NPCs. Most people only pay attention to levels, after all, because they are more accurate.

Joo Joowon did not care about these things either. From this information, it could be seen that it was not only Gaia that had been transformed by the Age of Apocalypse. Many supernatural worlds that were far stronger than Gaia had also failed to escape its grasp.

Therefore, the only thing that made him feel relieved was that this forcibly assigned faction did not seem to belong to a weak faction. At least, judging from its benefits, it was definitely not some small operation. It actually provided an entire class advancement path for free on its homepage. However, it only provided the path up to the third tier. For the later stages, one needed to go to the faction shop and use reputation and contribution points to purchase the subsequent stages.

This class path was not the one Joo Joowon followed.

Instead, it was Astrologer (1~17) → Starshine Scholar (18~35) → Governance Expert (36~47) → Seven Star Warlock → ...

Aside from the first three tiers, the Astral Palace had only revealed one name from the advancement path beyond them, without revealing the levels. It had not even revealed any names beyond Seven Star Warlock. All the other information was kept completely hidden.

The reason for this was that the name of an ordinary class usually already encompassed its main abilities, which was why such information was hidden.

This path had no overlap with Joo Joowon’s path from beginning to end. It was completely different from the first three tiers provided by the game. As for the class system transmitted by the game, for some unknown reason, even the fourth tier had only revealed a single name. Everything else was shrouded in a layer of mist. It seemed that with his current abilities, even hearing the name might cause unknown consequences.

According to the knowledge instilled by the system, reaching the fourth tier already meant becoming an extremely powerful existence. Many classes had no possibility of advancing any further once they reached this point. If one wanted to progress further, one needed to become a pioneer oneself and open up a new path. The extremely complicated class system of the Age of Apocalypse had also developed from this.

But Joo Joowon could not help thinking that this was truly unfriendly toward players with Special Classes. Before making their choice, they could not know any of this information at all. They might even think that they had obtained some incredibly powerful hidden class, only to discover that they had been tricked when they reached the later stages and tried to level up.

This was knowledge included in the class gift package provided by the system, and it had conveniently transmitted the information directly into his memory. In other words, some other players might have to wait until their classes truly reached a point where there was no path forward before they learned about this information.

He also did not know when the Trading House would reopen, or whether the game would open a world forum for the players, so that he could release this information ahead of time.

Joo Joowon did not know what the situation was like in other countries, but he knew that within his own country, most people agreed with the concept that rare things were more valuable. When the time came to choose classes, even if classes with greater adaptability were placed in front of them, they would probably still choose Special Classes whose future paths were unknown.

After seeing these factions and classes, Joo Joowon was already certain that the Age of Apocalypse would eventually open faction wars and even a world war. Otherwise, there would not be so many factions and classes. By then, it would be very difficult for one person to withstand everything alone, so he had never considered hiding such important information.

Once a class was selected, it could not be changed. One could only switch within the existing system. It was far more important than the college entrance examination. If people made their choices without knowing anything, there was no way Gaia’s overall strength could become powerful in the future.

From the basic knowledge about classes provided by the system, Joo Joowon also learned that he did not have to follow the advancement path provided by the system.

Among the many classes of the Astral Palace faction, he could currently switch to most of them. Only after progressing further into the later stages would changing paths become increasingly difficult.

However, Joo Joowon had no intention of changing classes for now. The second tier of the Astral Diviner was the Stellar Beast Tamer. Although he could not learn the specific skills, judging from its name, it did not seem like a weak class at all. Perhaps the Stellar Beasts would all be special beasts with unique destinies like Byeol.