Sharpshooter

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.