As the players found the labyrinth leading to the second floor and witnessed the incredibly powerful monsters within, their progress slowed down drastically. It had been almost ten days now, and they still had not found the room of the first floor's boss.
However, little did all the players know that while they were frantically clearing the labyrinth, one player had chosen an unconventional path.
...
Inside the blacksmith shop of the beginner town.
Ding! As the inventor of the world's first thermal weapon, you have attracted the attention of the gods. Do you wish to change your class to Sharpshooter?
Yamagami Tetsuya looked at the system prompt that suddenly popped up before his eyes. A flash of pleasant surprise crossed his eyes, and he then chose to change his class without hesitation.
Ding! Detected that the player is the first shooter in this world. Hidden class quest activated.
The player may choose one of the following classes as their subsequent hidden class: Launcher, Mechanic, Spitfire, Ranger.
Prompt: The hidden class cannot be changed once selected.
Prompt: Different hidden classes have different focuses, with no superiority or inferiority between them.
Yamagami Tetsuya looked at the hidden quest message before him. His gaze hesitated for a moment on the four hidden class options before he selected Launcher.
The next moment, the prompt sounded again.
Ding! The player has selected the hidden class Launcher. Activating the Launcher class change quest: Firearm Mastery.
Firearm Mastery: Personally forge a single-soldier heavy thermal weapon of white quality or higher. Quest Reward: Hidden Class - Launcher Class Change Certificate, Title - Launcher.
Launcher Class Change Certificate: Upon use, you can change your class to Launcher. Each level up grants base Strength x2, Stamina x2, Intelligence x3.
Detected that the player is the first shooter in this game. Obtained exclusive title: Sharpshooter.
Sharpshooter: All thermal weapon mastery +1, Strength +10, Stamina +10, Intelligence +10. Focus is increased by 50 percent when using thermal weapons.
Detected that the player has created a new class system. Synchronization rate +5 percent.
Detected that the player has triggered a hidden quest. Synchronization rate +1 percent.
Looking at the game prompts before him, Yamagami Tetsuya's ordinary face had morphed into an expression of unparalleled joy.
However, after the initial joy, he did not hesitate to find the owner of this blacksmith shop, his teacher.
"Teacher, I need more materials."
...
Just as Yamagami Tetsuya was incredibly excitedly beginning to manufacture the world's first single-soldier heavy thermal weapon, Chen Changsheng had also discovered his situation.
"This guy is impressive! To actually handcraft a thermal weapon in such a short amount of time. But why does his name look so familiar?"
But soon, Chen Changsheng tossed the matter of Yamagami Tetsuya to the back of his mind. Players like Yamagami Tetsuya were not in the minority, but their imagination was only limited to the most basic knowledge and common sense of modern technology.
Perhaps they could activate hidden classes.
But the ceiling for these types of hidden classes in this game would, at best, merely make them stronger than ordinary players.
Compared to the cheat-like hidden classes he created for Eriri and the others, it was far inferior.
Player: Eriri
Level: 9
Class: Magician
Synchronization Rate: 100 percent
Strength: 51
Stamina: 50
Intelligence: 52
Mana: 900
Skills: Magic Orb, Magic Orb Barrage
Equipment: Apprentice Staff
Apprentice Staff: Strength +1, Intelligence +2
Magician: Obtain skill tree - Magician Exclusive (automatically learned once level requirements are met). Obtain exclusive attribute - Mana. Mana increases by 100 per level. All attributes increase by x5 per level. Magic learning speed +50 percent, Mana consumption -20 percent, Casting speed +50 percent. Advanced class change quest will automatically activate upon reaching level 20.
Not only Eriri, but Rikka also obtained the Magician class change certificate.
As for this Magician class, it wasn't actually this strong initially. After all, although Ai didn't mind the players getting stronger, she didn't want any player to have a discontinuous lead over the others. That would turn the game into a playground for a select few, which brought absolutely no benefit to her.
Not to mention, Eriri and the others had taken the backdoor.
However, when Chen Changsheng discovered that the hidden class bonuses Ai gave to Eriri and the others were similar to Yamagami Tetsuya's, he simply waved his hand and modified their hidden classes directly according to the DNF in his memory.
He planned their subsequent classes based on the earliest Magician.
He did this to enrich the two girls' combat methods against enemies. He couldn't have one at the peak of Qi Condensation and the other already at Foundation Establishment, yet neither having decent attack methods. He couldn't act as their escort every day in the future, could he?
Aside from the two girls, there was also Toka.
Toka's body in the game was silently clearing the labyrinth alone.
But in reality, she had long since returned to the real world and was currently cooking for Chen Changsheng.
The body in the game was actually being operated by Ai.
Ai was extremely speechless about this, but as a spiritual artifact that integrated technology, the divine path, and the immortal path, she was like a quantum computer with a terrifying calculation capacity. The primary authority naturally belonged to Chen Changsheng, while the secondary authority belonged to Takanashi Toka.
As long as Toka wanted to, she could directly and freely alter her own data in the game.
And this, naturally, was Chen Changsheng's masterpiece.
Chen Changsheng did not plan to keep Ai by his side forever. After all, although Ai's future was incredibly bright, her growth speed certainly wouldn't be able to keep up with his own. It was better to leave her in this world to develop on her own, while also providing protection for his women.
Of course, Chen Changsheng originally hadn't planned to hand Ai over to Toka immediately.
But...
Toka was simply too obedient, too skilled.
Ever since seeing Chen Changsheng again, Toka could be said to have completely unlocked the shackles in her heart. She used all the various methods she had secretly learned on Chen Changsheng, and she wished she could stick by his side every single day.
In response to this, how could Chen Changsheng bear to make her grind levels in the game every day?
Naturally, he gave in to her completely.
Chen Changsheng thought happily, and then gave an instruction.
"Ai, I'll leave this place to you. Toka is calling me out to eat."
After saying that, he didn't wait for Ai to answer and vanished from the GM space.
Seeing this, a trace of resentment flashed across Ai's cute little face.
As she absorbed more and more of the spiritual energy dissipating from the players, along with some faint power of faith, her emotions were already no different from those of a normal human.
However, being essentially a supercomputer, she would not be affected by these external emotions.
After expressing a tiny bit of resentment in her heart towards her master who didn't seem to care much about her, Ai also turned her attention to the deepest part of the first floor's labyrinth.
There was an incredibly massive stone door there. The stone door was tightly shut, and the entrance was guarded by a large number of elite monsters.
At this moment, Anshera and Rikka, leading their own teams, arrived near the stone door.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the overpowered Eriri, along with Sirin and the rest of the girls, approached the stone gate.
The two groups spotted each other almost simultaneously.
"Eriri!"
"Rikka!"
The two girls excitedly waved at the same time, and seeing this, the girls behind them quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
