CHAPTER 6: A Class

As Earl made the plan to use a bomb, he resolved himself.

He knew he was going to destroy his mother`s body.

If the goblins were to defile her body, then he would rather make her a new body instead of making her deal with that.

What he didn`t expect was that Goblins didn`t like to use dead bodies.

Most goblins are sadists by nature and love it when their mate is squirming and struggling, screaming and crying. They are very picky with their tastes.

This peculiar taste also extends to rejecting broken women, which is why they don`t use the same mate twice unless that mate still has some fight in themselves.

They only took Earl`s mother to make him feel even more hopeless than he already was, and to watch him struggle to even move his body.

They just didn`t expect him to survive the beating from the Goblin Warrior and come back for his revenge.

‘I hope they regret it in hell.’ he thought.

He ran towards his mother`s body and embraced it, afraid she might disappear. Tears ran down his face as he muttered “I won`t ever let this happen to you again.”

He felt that it was disrespectful, but he put her corpse in the inventory. That way, he will never lose her.

He took the time to inspect his Status Screen, and was shocked to see the increase.

Earl Quinton

Level 10 (Delayed)

Class: Choose

HP- 380/380

MP- 200/200

STR- 24(+1)

AGI- 20

DEX- 16

CON- 37 (+1)

INT- 21

WIS- 20

PER- 24

CHR- 14

LUK- 4

Unassigned Points- 25

Skills: Hammer Bash 1, Defend 1, Stone Skin 1, Enhanced Regeneration 1, Bloodlust Aura 6

Inventory: 9/16 Items

‘So, my stats increase by 1 for every level...’ He felt awkward about not noticing this kind of thing, but he didn`t really blame himself.

The first time he checked his status screen was when he was level 2 and he didn`t know about his level 1 stats. He was in danger the second time around and wasn`t able to notice the changes when he put it all into CON.

‘Well, there`s no use in thinking about it now. I`m getting stronger, and that`s all that matters’ He looked through his status again and decided to get a class before assigning the points. He focused on the Class: Choose and a new notification suddenly appeared.

Would you like to choose a class?

The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.

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Warning: You will have to fall unconscious to make your selection. Please make sure that you are in a secure area where no one will disturb you.

‘There`s no one to disturb me anyway.’ He thought bitterly, but he still went home just in case some goblin survivors attack him.

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After entering his room, he laid on his bed.

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“Well, goodnight.” He said to no one in particular.

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He didn`t fall unconscious or anything like that, he just suddenly felt the space around him warp, and suddenly he was in a white room.

‘This is cool’ he thought, and then his thoughts echoed in the room.

He felt bewildered ‘What is this?’ he thought, and this also echoed.

He vaguely understood what this place is, his mind.

He tried saying something, but then he noticed that his body wasn`t the same as it was before. He felt just like a ball.

‘This place might be some type of soul space’ he thought when a figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

It was a tall, muscular figure with light brown skin. He had black hair, dark red eyes, a round nose, and a wide jawline. The figure also only wore black pants.

Earl noticed that this was him and marveled at the changes to his body.

Before the apocalypse, he was slightly pudgy, and his skin was greasy, with a lot of acne on his face. Now, his looks are more above average.

‘The change in eye color is probably because of the bloodlust’ he smiled. To be honest, he thought that the red eyes made him look cooler.

Choose

Just as he saw those words appear in front of him, the figure split into three.

The figures looked identical, until Earl noticed that each figure started to change into slightly different versions of himself.

The figure on the left started changing into a more demonic version of himself. His face changed from a blank expression into a scowl. The red pupils started infecting the white area, leaving his entire eye red. His skin started gaining scars and it also became much darker.

Finally, a thick red aura exploded from his body, overwhelming Earl.

Earl watched as words started to appear in front of the figure, Berserker.

Earl felt cold sweats appear on his non-existent back.

He thought that the classes were going to be basic classes, like Warrior, Mage, Healer, etc. and he would be able to rank up his class based on his skillsets, titles, achievements, etc.

His plan was to choose the Mage class and rank up to become a Necromancer.

After some thinking, he decided to look at the other classes first before making his decision.

In the middle, he saw his figure become thin and pale, akin to that of a skeleton, but it was quickly covered by a grey robe. The figure kept its expressionless face, but eyebags started to take over his eyes. His hair also started growing, only to stop as it reached his eyes. The hair started to ruffle around, until it became disheveled.

With the body as the center, a dark and repulsive aura started to spread like locusts. Earl wanted to vomit, but he had no—okay I`ll stop.

Corpse Eater, it said. Earl felt wronged. ‘Since when have I eaten corpses!’ Just the thought of it made him sick to the core, how did he get access to such a disgusting class?!

He focused on the name, and a description appeared in front of him.

Corpse Eater

* Ranked Up from Cemetery Guard

* Rank Up to a different race: Superior Zombie

* Corpse Eaters take advantage of corpses. These empty vessels are considered weapons, shields, beds, and yes, food for a Corpse Eater.

* You have gained access to this class due to your disrespect towards the corpse of one you used to hold dear.

* + 3 INT and WIS per level up. + 5 to new stat: DAK (Darkness)

* Corpse Eaters are unable to raise STR, AGI, and CON over 10.

* CHR will always be at 0

* Points over 20 and 0 will be recycled into Unassigned Points.

Earl stared at the description as his heart grew cold. He still hasn`t forgotten what he did to his mother`s body in that fight with the goblins. And if he thinks loosely, not even trying to get her body back before blowing the Goblin`s base was disrespectful too.

He lazily eyed the next figure only to see his hair become spikier, and muscles more toned. He was a bit disappointed, but then he felt a hidden energy pulsing from his body. The figure did a horse stance, and immediately, Earl felt that he was in danger.

He was unable to move and could only take the attack from the figure.

He heard a bang and his entire being was bombarded with force, and extreme heat.

‘Aaaaarrghh!!!’ His soul screamed as he was enveloped with pain, but then it stopped. He was confused, and opened eyes that were not there. He saw the figure standing there as if nothing happened, words started to form in front of his line on of vision, Explosive Warrior.

‘My god…’ he retorted. He then focused at the class and its description appeared.

Explosive Warrior

* Ranked Up from Warrior

* Rank Up to Destructive Warrior

* Explosive Warriors are Warriors who focus on power instead of control, though control may be possible if one trains.

* You have gained this class after two previous classes choices: (Warrior, Bomber) merged to give you this monstrosity.

* + 5 STR and INT every level up. + 7 to new stat: EXO (Explosiveness)

* Assigning 2 points into DEX grants 1

* You will need twice as much EXP than normal to level up.

Earl thought it was funny, how all his class choices would inevitably take one thing from him. Berserker will take his sanity, most probably, Corpse Eater will take his humanity, and Explosive Warrior will take his control. He looked deeply at the repulsive class in the middle.

‘Should I?’ He was in a dilemma. He wanted to bring his mother back, but the disgust he feels towards this… thing. He grit his teeth as he made a decision.

‘I need to pick this class, for mom!’ He thought with determination, but then the next moment he felt stupid.

‘Oh shit.’ He thought as he looked at the Explosive Warrior and chose it mentally.

‘Why didn`t I think of this before?!?’