DUNGEON DIVER: I become a Dark Knight in a world full of dungeons.
By Orangeowl
Vol 1 Chapter 6: Great Future Adventurers (Canaria dungeon accident) Part 2
"Good morning everyone"
"""""""Good morning"""""""
"My name is Darin, and I'm a silver-rank adventurer, I'm going to guide you and teach you how to navigate the dungeon and defeat monsters"
Inside the briefing room in the dungeon center of Canaria dungeon, we the class B1 were in the middle of the introduction of our guide that would help us on our first dungeon experience.
There are two guides, Mr. Darin and Mr Bell, one is middle-aged man with a kind smile and soft voice, he has the vibes of a father figure, while the other is a younger man in his late 20s wearing a red mage robe.
That red robe makes Alan squeak in
excitement.
On a projector, they teach us a brief explanation of what kind of landscape, equipment and monsters we are going to face.
Me and Lisa passionately listened to the guide's words. While Flynn and Alan who sit next to each other keep whispering about something, all while a girl named Polka tries to record a video from behind the two idiots, even though the teacher has said no video or photo could be taken inside the briefing room.
"Those three going to make us look bad in front of our guide"
"Ehehe if it's about them, I have given up"
Lisa's cute laugh healed my mind a little, but my frustration resurfaced watching those two, no, three idiot who couldn't see the room, there was the fourth but he was separated by the teacher in the back of the room.
"Now we have gone through theory and explanation, any questions?"
Mr Darin smiled at the students.
"ME!"
As expected Alan immediately raised his hand with a serious expression on his face, usually, this is where he says something stupid.
"Sir! What is your job class?!"
See, I could see veins bulging on the teacher's head who sits in the corner of the room.
"Haha I see you are interested in job class"
"Yes sir!"
Alan answered enthusiastically, Mr. Darin laughing while Mr. Bell wryly smiled hearing Alan's enthusiasm.
"Alright then, which one of you who interested in your job class, please raise your hand"
Everyone immediately raised their hand except Lisa. Seeing this Mr Darin smiled and nodded in understanding.
"It's actually very rude to ask what kind of job class adventurers have, someone might get offended"
Hearing this, I could see sweat trickling on Alan's forehead. Regardless of this, Mr Darin kindly smiled just remember it when you choose to be an adventurer alright, my job class was Berseker and bell job class was fire mage"
"fire mage!"
"berserker was a unique job class?"
"berserker sounds quite strong"
"my cousin has that class"
"I kinda want to be a mage"
"he didn't need a lighter when smoking?"
A wave of mumbling from students filled the room.
"Everyone please be respectful"
The teacher said from the corner of the room, after the room had calmed, Mr Darin put on a serious expression.
"if anyone asks, I and bell class were rare, and we are lucky for that, how many of you want to be an adventurer?"
This time half of the class raised their hand, Lisa didn't raise her hand but Alan and I did raise our hand.
"Now, how many of you want to be an adventurer if you got a rare job class or even a unique job class?"
again everyone in the room except Lisa raised their hand.
"as expected, I understand how you all feel about adventurers, it's certainly seems to be a sparky and free life, It was indeed true to a certain extent, but let me remind you that dream and reality rarely meet each other, it's fine if you are just a normal adventurer, however"
Mr. Darin looked into the faces of the students, he paused for a moment, I could see a certain sadness in his eyes.
"When you strike luck, please be careful, there are countless people who want to take advantage of you and do not underestimate anyone, would it be monsters or humans, do not cross the line, there is no way back from death"
We are listening in silence, some take it seriously, and some take it as a light advice, but I took it seriously, if I managed to become adventurer I didn't plan to die young.
After that, Mr Darin smiled again.
"Now, great future adventurers, I think this is the time to pull your lottery, do not let yourself down whatever the result, fire up your adventurer spirit!"
With this word, Mr Bell who has listened in silence all this time, suddenly turned off the light in the room, walked forward, he started casting his magic, from his hand a small pack of birds of fire took off into the air and started to fly around the room.
"wow!"
"look at that!"
"please god, let me be a mage"
"my cousin couldn't do that"
"so cool!"
"Look, Lisa!"
"beautiful"
We watched beautiful birds flying and shining inside the room before slowly disappearing into thin air, the light turned on again.
"Future Adventurers! Lets we face the future with a smile and open our wings into the sky!!"
With Mr Darin's words of encouragement, The room filled with cheers and laughter.
"look at me!"
"you look like a good bait, Alan"
Besides the dungeon entrance, near the entrance there is a changing room where we can get our equipment and weapons, our class was gathered in preparation to dive inside, what we had was a pair of gloves and boots, a leather chest plate, a short sword and a knife.
"Ruby, I have a real knife"
"yes Lisa, please put it back into its sheath"
"This chest protector was uncomfortable"
"you use it backward Flynn"
"oh"
Step out of the changing room there are a lot of passers-by walking into the dungeon entrance, sitting on one of the small tables nearby, four of us waiting for our class to get ready.
"Now we have our own party, we need to name it"
Alan said with a huge grin on his face, Mr. Darin had told us to form a party before we entered the dungeon and four of us were one party now, even though I didn't have much confidence on this one.
"let's just name it Tiger Team or something"
I said uninterested, but Alan and Flynn looked at me like I was stupid, oh the irony.
"there is no way!"
"yeah! It's a lame name!"
Alan slammed the table in protest while Flynn threw more wood into the fire, I frowned seeing the two.
"I think it's a good name, it sounds normal"
"Exactly! Who wants to be normal!? It's boring!"
"My biggest fear was being normal"
"I think you guys mistaken being boring and being sane as the same thing"
"regardless"
Alan folded his hand and put on his serious expression, here we go again.
"I have decided on the name for our party"
"and who gives you the right"
Hearing my question, Alan smiled widely.
"this form"
"What?"
"according to this registration form, I, as the leader of our party, have the right to choose the name"
"yay!"
"There is a form paper for this?!"
these two idiots have caught me off guard!
"and because a majority of our members have signed their name on it, I just need to deliver it to Mr Darin"
"wait, majority? Lisa?!"
"...A-alan ask me to sign it, I can't refuse...he was begging to me in his knee....sorry"
"you low life!"
"Gehehe Secretary Flynn"
"yes, my lord!"
"Please deliver this paper to Mr Darin"
"I hear and obey!"
"Oh no, you are not, you brat!"
Flynn immediately runs toward where Mr Darin Is, I quickly run after him as fast as I can, Maybe I could let Alan be the leader of this party since he was quite knowledgeable about dungeons, but not with the name, anything but the name, hIs sense of naming was terrible.
"Flynn!! Come back here!"
My voice disappeared into the air.
"come on super majestic Sigma Chad team, let's raise our hand in Spirit!"
In the end, I can't catch Flynn in time.
Everyone tried to hold their laughter every time Alan said our party name, and even Flynn seemed to regret his action, ignoring Alan's nonsense, I focused myself on Mr. Darin and Mr. Bell in the front.
"Now, we are going to go inside the dungeon, please make sure to bring all your equipment and supplies, always follow me and Bell's order, and do not go anywhere without your party, if you understand, say yes sir!!"
""""""""""Yes sir!!""""""""""
"and for your information, because the first floor has been more crowded than anticipated, your groups would venture further into the second floor and spend the night in there"
"YES!"
alan jumping around like a monkey, again, a wave of whispers sounded among the students, this is bad, looking at Lisa beside me, she seemed surprised.
"Lisa, we are going into the second floor..."
"...mm"
Lisa nodded to me, she did not look well, and I think she was still afraid...even though she had relaxed a bit when she arrived.
"ah! if you want, we can ask Mr. Darin so our group can be swapped to another class so-"
"ruby"
"yes?"
"I'm fine, you did not need to worry for me"
"eh? Aren't you afraid Lisa?"
"...yes, but after I arrived here, I saw its adventurer's life was not as dark as I expected...I believe Mr. Darin and Mr. Bell would look after us, and most importantly"
Lisa smiled at me like a blooming flower.
"I know you, Alan and Flynn would be here for me"
"Lisa!"
"R-ruby?!"
I hugged Lisa tightly in my arms, Lisa has bad memories about dungeons in the past, I'm really glad she Managed to face her trauma, you are a strong girl Lisa.
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"wait, what did miss?"
"I think we should hug each other"
"yeah, I'm going to skip this one"
"Then, we should hug them?"
"I Would kill both of you if you dare"
Lifting my head from Lisa's shoulder, I said Sharply to Alan and Flynn.
a few minutes after that, we are ready to go.
"Alright! follow me!"
""""""""""Yes sir!!""""""""""
following Mr. Darin's words, with bagpack on our backs we started to walk into the dungeon, climb down the stairs I could see light from the other side.
"uwahh!! dungeon!"
"This is the best! Look! Grass!"
Step our feet inside the dungeon we were welcomed by a vast field of grass as far as you can see, fresh air filled my chest.
"We are in the dungeon Lisa!"
"yes!"
Lisa was more excited than I thought.
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CONGRATULATION
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Eh?
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STATUS ACTIVATED
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STATUS
Name: Ruby Rainfall
Age: 18
Class: Spear Dancer
Level: 1
HP: 9/9
MP: 0/0
Strength: 11
Speed: 12
Intelligence: 8
Agility: 12
Defense: 8
Exp gained to level 2: 0%
Status point: 0
Skill: Strength up Lv1(New), speed up Lv1(New), Agility up Lv1(New), Pierce Lv1(New), Spear art Lv1(New), Parry Lv1(New), Dance of Spear Lv1(New), Sound Stab Lv1(New), sonic blow Lv1(New), Screaming Javelin Lv1(New), Sonic lance Lv1(New), Thousand Spear attack Lv1(New), Sound wave Lv1(New)
Title: Spear Dancer
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Spear dancer? Even though the last time I danced was in ballet class when I was a kid, I didn't know if this class was any good, but, even I could tell this was not a common job class.
"I get my job class!"
"me too!"
Alan and Flynn jump around screaming, soon after all the students start to cheer and talk to each other in euphoria.
"magician!"
"I got Swordman!!"
".... I got support"
"What did you get?"
"I'm going to be adventurer!"
"Did anyone get a unique job class?"
"How did you know what rank of job class you got?"
"Listen everyone!"
with Mr Darin's words, the group starts to calm down.
"Now let me ask, anyone who got their class locked raise your hand!"
everyone looks at each other but no one raises their hand.
Class locked? I feel I have heard about it somewhere.
"Alan, what class locked means?"
"hm? class lock? Ah that's when your class got locked for whatever reason, so you can't use it in any way or benefit from it"
"wait, that's horrible!"
"Indeed, but in all cases of the class lock, if one managed to open it, it would guarantee a unique class job
"ehhh....How did you open it?"
"Unknown"
"What did you mean?"
"the user wouldn't know how to open it, so it's trial and error, some even take tens of years to open it"
"That's just torture"
What horrible circumstances, I'm lucky for getting my job class right away.
"hmm... Ruby, did your class get locked?"
"nope"
"then! tell me your job class!"
"didn't you know it's rude to ask someone job class, you are luck if didn't stab you with my knife!"
"Why so cruel?!"
"Ahahaha!......hmm...?"
Looking at Lisa, she Weakly lowered her head, is there something that has happened?
"Lisa?"
"...hm?.... Ah! Yes?"
"is there something wrong?"
Lisa seems lost in her mind for a second there.
"she might get common job class?"
"shut up Flynn"
"ahh... it's nothing..."
Lisa weakly said.
"Really?"
hmm...even if Lisa got a common job class, since she didn't plan to be an adventurer, she wouldn't be this drowsy, there is something wrong.
"... Lisa, what is your job class?"
"eh?!"
"what's your job class"
"wait, aren't you told me it's rude to- ouch!"
Lisa looked at her feet and thought for a moment.
"...swordsman"
"Really?"
"...yes"
"Isn't it pretty good?"
"yeah I think so"
Alan and Flynn might not realize it but I do, Lisa is hiding something.
"Now if anyone doesn't have their class locked, it's time to write your name and your job class to this Tablet! And do not lie! Because Soon enough we would find out!"
Mr Darin's words bring me back to my mind, are we must expose our job class to the dungeon guild this fast?
"We need to know what kind of job class you had, and if you are lucky you might get scouted by clans or dungeon guilds, also, we would announce your job class and its rank right here!"
"Mr Darin! would everyone know our class?"
One of the students asks.
"Well, this is the procedure from the dungeon guild...I shouldn't really said this, but, the dungeon guild seems to want the adventurers with a good job class to take pride in their class, I didn't like how they tried to separate the common job from the higher one....however! Just Remember do not let it get into your head!!"
This leaves a bad taste in my mouth, Mr Darin does not have much agreement on dungeon guild intention, especially since I'm worried about Lisa.
Thinking in my mind, we wrote our job class on the tablet Mr Darin gave us, after that, Mr Bell ran some applications on the tablet.
"Now this is something"
Mr Darin smiled looking into the screen.
"We have 3 rare job classes in this group!"
"Three?!"
"is it a lot?"
"I hope it's me"
"ugh! I already could tell it wasn't me"
"Please, please, please"
mumbling and whispers spread, everyone, wondering who these three rare class users were, well, I didn't really know if my job was one, but I had high hopes for a spear dancer.
"Ruby!"
My shoulder jumped when I heard my name, everyone looked at me at once.
"rare job class, spear dancer! Congratulations!"
"ruby! That why you wouldn't tell me!? Congratulations thought!"
"she was so lucky for this!"
Congratulations, Ruby"
"ah! Thank you very much!"
Claps and cheers erupted around me, Alan, Flynn and Lisa congratulated Me, I had guessed it a little, but it still felt unreal.
"Now for the second one"
everyone listened in silence and tension.
"Flynn, rare job class, water mage! Congratulations!"
"ehh! Flynn?!"
Alan shouted in shock.
"congratulations Flynn"
"congratulations"
"ehehehehe"
I and Lisa congratulate Flynn who happily laugh while rubbing his face.
"Now for the last!"
everyone listened even though more than half of them had lost hope.
"Alan!, rare job class! heavy warrior!"
"Alan?!"
my mind was blown.
"congratulations leader!"
"Congratulations Alan"
"AHAHAHA!"
Alan proudly laughs while I'm still in shock.
Chapter 6 end
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Ruby Rainfall Profile
Spear Dancer Job Class effect:
bonus +1 status point to Speed when leveling up
Bonus +1 point to Agility when leveling up
Skill Sound wave
Skill Dance of spear
Skill Thousand Spear attack
Skill Sound Stab
Skill Sonic lance
Skill Screaming Javelin
Skill sonic blow
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STATUS
Name: Ruby Rainfall
Age: 18
Class: Spear Dancer
Level: 1
HP: 9/9
MP: 0/0
Strength: 11
Speed: 12
Intelligence: 8
Agility: 12
Defense: 8
Exp gained to level 2: 0%
Status point: 0
Skill: Strength up Lv1(New), speed up Lv1(New), Agility up Lv1(New), Pierce Lv1(New), Spear art Lv1(New), Parry Lv1(New), Dance of Spear Lv1(New), Sound Stab Lv1(New), sonic blow Lv1(New), Screaming Javelin Lv1(New), Sonic lance Lv1(New), Thousand Spear attack Lv1(New), Sound wave Lv1(New)
Title: Spear Dancer
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Passive Skill effect:
Strength Up Lv1(+3 status point)
Speed Up Lv1 (+3 status point)
Agility Up Lv1 (+3 status point)
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Nicknames: -
RANK:-
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Darin Asano profile
Berserker Class Job effect:
bonus +1 status point to strength when leveling up
Bonus +1 point to speed when leveling up
Skill Berserker rages
Skill rages of the death
Skill Warcry
Skill Battle maniac
Skill BloodFrenzy
Skill regeneration
Skill Weapon Breaker
Berseker Darin status.
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STATUS
Name: Darin Asano
Age: 45
Class: Berseker (upgrade)
Level: 53
HP: 183/183
MP: 0/0
Strength: 295
Speed: 166
Intelligence: 38
Agility: 94
Defense: 135
Exp gained to level 54: 49%
Status point: 0
Skill: Strength up Lv10, speed up Lv5, Agility up Lv4, Defense up Lv6, HP Up Lv6, Martial Art Lv8, Advance sword art Lv5, Axe art Lv7, Spear art Lv6, Breaker rages Lv8, Berseker rages Lv8, Rages of the death Lv3, War cry Lv7, Battle maniac Lv4, Blood Frenzy Lv8, Regeneration Lv6, Weapon Breaker Lv9
Title: Goblin Slayer, Giant sSlayer Minotaur Slayer, Heroes of People, Great Spider-Slayer, Immortal Enemy of Minotaur, Troll Slayer, Ogre Slayer, Giant Boar Slayer, Giant Turtle Slayer, Centaur Slayer, cyclops Slayer, Giant Armadillo Slayer, Protector of Adventurers, Giant green wolf slayer, The one who surpassed its own talent, the last standing, Berseker of fire spirit, battle maniac, duelist, the one who dances with death, Blood drinker.
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Passive Skill effect:
Strength Up Lv10 (+30 status point)
Speed Up Lv5 (+15 status point)
HP Up Lv6 (+18 status point)
Defense Up Lv6 (+18 status point)
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Nicknames: Darin the blood drinker,
Berseker of Canaria dungeon, Crazy Warrior.
RANK: SILVER
Note: Darin Asano was a middle-aged man with a kind smile on his face, he had dark hair and tall stature, Darin's kind and calm demeanor was very different from his fighting style due to his berserker job class, his traumatic experience was when his daughter managed to get a very strong unique job class called sword saint, 2 years later her daughter was killed in the 70th floor of Dragonking dungeon after her and her party challenge the floor boss, making him decided to guide new beginner's not to have the same fate as her daughter.
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Bell Peterson profile
Fire mage Class Job effect:
bonus +1 status point to MP when leveling up
Bonus +1 point to Intelligent when leveling up
Skill Fire Magic
Skill Fireball
Skill Fire spear
Skill Fire Aura
Skill Explosion
Skill Blue fire
Skill Fire bender
Fire Mage Bell status.
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STATUS
Name: Bell Peterson
Age: 29
Class: Fire Mage
Level: 41
HP: 79/79
MP: 253/253
Strength: 41
Speed: 40
Intelligence: 142
Agility: 28
Defense: 39
Exp gained to level 42: 91%
Status point: 0
Skill: Strength up Lv3, speed up Lv1, MP Up Lv7, Intelligent Up Lv4,Fire ball Lv9, Fire Spear Lv7, Explosion Lv8, Fire Aura Lv5, Blue fire Lv4, Fire Bender Lv5, Wind Magic Lv3, Water Magic Lv1, Fire Magic Lv9
Title: Goblin Slayer, Slime Slayer, Wyvern slayer, Undead Slayer, Minotaur Slayer, Heroes of People, purple Spider-Slayer, Immortal Enemy of Minotaur, Immortal enemy of Goblin, Troll Slayer, Ogre Slayer, Protector of Adventurers, Giant Green Wolf Slayer, Ultimate Slime slayer, Fire mage, Arsonist.
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Passive Skill effect:
Strength up Lv3 (+9 status point)
Speed up Lv1 (+3 status point)
MP Up Lv7 (+21 status point)
Intelligent Up Lv4 (+12 status point)
RANK: SILVER
Nicknames:
Note: A normal person, his face was quite handsome even if he didn't realize it himself, he was great at cleaning and cooking, just married 3 months ago.
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SPECIAL STATUS
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Sword Saint Job Class effect:
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Sword Saint Aoi Status
STATUS
Name: Aoi Asano
Age: 20
Class: Sword Saint
Level: 132
HP: 0/640
MP: ???/???
Strength: ???
Speed: ???
Intelligence: ???
Agility: ???
Defense: 483
Exp gained to level 133: 11%
Status point: ???
Skill: super strength up Lv6, Blessing of the world Lv-
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Title: ????????????????????????????
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Passive skill effect:
Super Strength Up Lv6 (+180 Point Status)
Blessing of the world Lv- (20% Increase in all stat)
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Rank: Adamantite
Nicknames: ??????????????????????
Note: The youngest Adamantite rank adventurer ever and the fastest to climb to the Adamantite Rank, daughter of Darin Asano, she was one of the strongest Adamantite Adventurer and believed to be able to reach the special rank heroes, unfortunately, she was killed when she and her's party challenges the floor boss of the dragonking dungeon on the 70th floor.
WORLD BUILDING LORE
JOB CLASS KNIGHT
Lore question: did the knight class less good at magic than a mage and less good in offense than a warrior or swordman
The answer is yes.
The point of Knight's job class was to have a decent defense and offense.
(noted that Knight aren't supposed to be decent at magic, some of them only use it as a support and not reliable power, Holy Knight Clerise was an outliner on this to have decent magic capabilities from her own talent and Holy Knight class job)
However, if a knight job class faced with someone that had specialized job class or built on the same level they 9/10 would lose in that subject.
From different types of job classes, attacker, tanker, magician, support, wild card, and commander.
Knight Class Job had less offense than attacker, less defense than tanker and used magic only to buff themselves.
this might bring up a question: if our protagonist or Holy Knight Clerise was challenged into a duel by a common sword man or magician with the same level, would they lose?
The answer is no.
The difference between common or rare job classes with unique job classes was night and day.
In this world there is a huge advantage on job class and skill someone had, Holy Knight Clerise would smoke any common class and rare class job on her level or even higher.
common job class has a bonus of 1+ status points every time levels up.
Rare job class have bonus +2 or +3 status points
Unique job class have +4 or +5 bonus points
Add the unique skill that is obtained with the class, this brings a huge disparity in their strength and power.
Weakness of Knights
There are knight job classes that specialize in certain builds such as unique class jobs immovable knight jobs, that specialize in defense, and dragon knight jobs that specialize in raw strength.
While these unique knight job classes were specialized, they also had one way or another to somewhat equal their attack and defense.
This is the strength and the weakness of Knight job classes that couldn't they get rid of.
As example
Immovable Knight has a very strong offense skill called ultimate blast, but it couldn't compete with Sword King's job class's strongest skill in offense.
Dragon knights have a very strong defense skill called emerald dragon mode but it couldn't compete with the earth dragon shielder class's strongest skill in defense.
This doesn't mean knight class (especially the unique job class) was weak but it does bring an impression of mediocrity into their classes.
Advantage of Knight job class
The advantage of the Knight Class was they were more ready for more variants of opponents and had less need for a party than any other job class.
(this is also the reason Holy Knight Clerise was sent into the dungeon alone on the Canaria dungeon incident)
Knight also have more options to combine their magic, strength and defense capabilities making them sometimes hard to counter.
Knight also could be very good at 1v1 duel beside certain classes that specialized in it such as assassin classes.
Did holy knight and Dark Knight specialize Job Class?
Dark Knight and holy knight class jobs were not specialized but they do have certain characteristics.
Holy Knight job class was more equal in offense and defense while utilizing holy magic to its advantage.
While Dark Knight job class was more offensive than it was defensive utilizing dark magic as one of its main power.