"Hah…"

I'm just a high school student from earth, but that was just back then.

Thirty years ago, when I had just finished my graduation ceremony, and was about to return home, I was kidnapped. The reason was because my father was a politician who was running for president, and his rival didn't want him to be elected president, so his rival kidnapped me to threaten my father to make him resign as a presidential candidate.

The result was that my father didn't resign, and I was killed. You damn father, sacrificing his own son for a position. In fact, he didn't even send anyone to save me.

But that's not the end.

My soul transmigrated into another world, and entered the body of a fifteen year old boy named Lucas Bladeheart.

Lucas is a spoiled child, he didn't know how to cook food, buy food, and even he didn't know how to scoop food properly. Which in the end caused him to starve to death when both his parents died.

After Lucas died, my soul entered his body and I lived as Lucas. When I was transferred to this world I felt so happy, somehow I felt like the chosen one. I even hallucinated that the reason I was transported to this world was to save the world as a hero.

But no, I don't have something that a hero has.

This world is similar to an RPG game. Everyone has a class, and their class determines the skills they can use. And Lucas is Classless,meaning that I couldn't use and learn skills like many other people.

Life as Lucas the Classless is full of suffering. I was called a waste of resources, a burden on the nation, a failure. Wherever I was there was only ridicule and humiliation.

But even so, I still aim to become the strongest. I am a person who hates being belittled, humiliated, and ridiculed, that's why I want to be the strongest. So no one else can insult me.

But, even though I've worked hard I still failed. This is all because I don't have a class. And in the end I was only able to kill one of the six World Calamity Monsters, and even then only the weakest one.

“Hah… It hurts… Golden Conqueror sure did give me an incurable wound.”

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Golden Conqueror, it was the weakest of the six World Calamity Monsters. The reason why this monster is called the weakest is because it can only rely on Artifacts to become strong, which means that without Artifacts this monster is not that strong. That's why this monster is called the weakest of the six.

Even though I managed to beat Golden Conqueror, the victory I got together with the wound in my stomach.

And now, all I can do is wait for death.

“Eh!” Something surprised me.

From the golden scales of Golden Conqueror's body, a wisp of golden light emerged. The wisps of golden light flew fast towards me. My gut tells me, this is bad, this must be the last strike of Golden Conqueror to kill me.

But with my current state, I no longer have the strength to move anymore.

"...whatever, sooner or later in the end I will also die."

That wisp of golden light crashed into me before entering my body. I closed my eyes to prepare for the pain that led me to death. But, I don't do anything, instead I get a notification.

[Congratulations! You get a new Class: Treasure Emperor.]

"New Class?"

It was true that one could evolve one's own class, but that's only to classes that are aligned. For example, warriors can only evolve into knights, mages can only evolve into wizards. And Classless doesn't have an evolutionary path, that's why I shouldn't be able to change my Class.

But here, instead of changing or evolving a Class, but get a new Class. "What does it mean?"

[Connecting yourself to the Hourglass of Regression.]

“Even if I ask, the system won't answer my question… but what is Connecting to the Hourglass of Regression?”

I took out the object that I kept in my shirt pocket. It was a white hourglass about the size of two human fingers. Even though it doesn't have a great aura, nor a beautiful appearance, but I know the extraordinary use of this hourglass.

This hourglass is used to turn back time. And this Hourglass was what made Golden Conqueror and I fight. We fight over the Hourglass of Regression.

Even though I got the Hourglass, ironically I as a Classless don't have the qualifications to use it. The thing is, I'm dying.

[The Hourglass of Regression has successfully connected to you.]

After getting that notification, the hourglass that I was holding just disappeared from my hand. But I felt the hourglass enter my body.

[Do you want to use the Hourglass of Regression?]

“Can I use it now!!? Why!? Is this a Skill possessed by the Treasure Emepor?”

I wanted to quickly open the Status window to see my new ability, but I was now dying. I can't afford to waste time. Because I could die anytime.

“Rewind to thirty years ago, to the time when I came to this world!”

[You need a sacrifice for that. What are you willing to sacrifice?]

Even if I have the qualifications to use it, I still need energy to use it, huh?

“Sacrifice the corpses of Golden Conqueror and all of his Artifacts!”

Conqueror Gold fights using Artifacts, that's why around me now there are many Artifacts that Conqueror Gold used to fight me.

The Golden Conqueror's corpse, and all the Artifacts present glowed before flying into me.

[With all the sacrifices involved, you can only rewind time to 29 years and 11 months ago.]

Can't even be thirty years old, but that's okay. It's still better than dying here.

“Perform Regression.”

[Regression is performed.]

My consciousness suddenly weakened, and I fainted. When I opened my eyes, I was in a pitiful position.

I am now looking down, my feet are very close together, and my palms are clasping together. I remember this, I was being bullied.

“Hurry and give me your money!!” A fat boy shouted at me.

Behind Fatty was also Skinny Boy and Short Boy too. They all had happy smiles that insulted me.

Why can I be like this? The answer is simple, because I'm Classless.