The basis and basics of understanding a system, well, to truly be able to explain this I need to give some information of what sparked it. In previous chapters I have mentioned the underlying mechanics of other systems and how sheer creativity can often be easier them. This is a true statement, but is also an incomplete statement. I also said that studying a system gives you a better ability to break it. This is also true. But now we must consider the system and how it works.

What is the basis of most systems? That it is commemorative of videogame status screens? That it's some quasiphysical construct that shows our physical, mental, and emotional aptitude and limits in numbers?

Not really no. Until now, or possibly even World Keeper, most litrpgs status screens systems have given information... In text. It's communication. Communication is the basis of the system. In some stories this is forgotten, in others it's the framework. In one story a creature gained the system, but because it could not read, the system message requiring a boolian response never went away until the creature found out what it meant to accept. Upon realizing this, it was able to clear away the box, letting it continue it's life. In world keeper, writing was not invented before the system came to be and quest scrolls became a thing. But they did have verbal communication. This verbal communication allows the system granted by the keeper to hold information, this information could not be read as no formal written language yet existed on the planet, so it took the information, and when it was queried what the quest was, it responded in the form of psychic channelling of the information held within, often, I think, with the voice of the quest giver.

Now, what does it mean that the system is based on communication? To understand the system of randidly ghosthound, we must delve into what communication means. However...

Before we continue, I wish to state that there is no response or inside knowledge that has given me this information, or confirmed it's validity, and as such it is deemed a theory, and more importantly... My headcanon.

Let's continue. Communication in the days of the Egyptians was done with heiroglyphics. These images portrayed a meaning between those who understood. Far before that was cavemen paintings of what typically was quite easily recognized landmarks, creatures, and plants. This too was a form of communication just as much as grunting was. As such, communication is not limited to words.

Moving back towards the RG system, my theory starts with the hints dropped during the spearman tournament arc, where in level was not important to tell how proficient one is. Instead it was the visualization of an ''magr' this image through aether gained power in the physical world.

Moving down the timeline, when the level 50 cap was reached, or even just during his dealings with aether it was understood that images and meaning color and reinforce the aether held by a person that makes up their class.

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Further on after that was the creation of randidly's class. This is also an important point as randidly's class started as being nothing but code from Lucretia and his new bone wyrm, it was utilizing communication via text, to a system that converts to text on it's own, and has a universal translator which has a predispotion towards one method of communication over others. This caused the ball of woven aether to be useless as the class randidly ENVISIONED was too powerful for such a low amount of aether bandwidth. Thus it unraveled it, consumed it, and the system turned the image into a class all on it's own.

But even then I did not yet figure out the basis of what could break the ghosthound system.

Until the newest arc and most recently chapter 489. The new mc of this arc is a cowboy, and in his zone people were separated into different tiers by an ai, that was so human that it was given access to the system as well. I think, a class is never truly stated for the ai, but that was the goal envisioned by the scientist who made him. And we get backstory, on the mc, the ai, and why the cowboy was given such a high status for a class that previously was, by the logic and reasoning held by the tests done in donnyton, "gunslinger" would be rather weak, if full of options. But the ai, named "ghost" gave one response.

Before we get to that, we need to summarize the backstory of the mc. As he was growing up, he was taught many things by a hard handed father, and idolized characters like John Wayne. In other words, his entire youth was spent dreaming of being "THE COWBOY" not just any cowboy, not some ranch hand, not some horse rider, no, he was a stand up for justice, quick draw sheriff, chug a sarsparilla and gun down five wanted bandits, and then ride out of town like a badass, punch some teeth out cowboy.

Now, ghosts response to why he thought so highly of the mc and his class was this, "of course your class would be stronger, others have ideas on the moment, but you've been dreaming of being a cowboy your whole life."

What does this mean? I shall restate, that this is only my theory, but in the RG system, image is king. To dream is to be, but the more time, effort, and detail you put into an image, the stronger it will be, this is proven in shal's world, but is proven by ghost to simply be the framework of how the entire system works. In other words, if the system hit today and we had unfettered access to classes, it's not simply thinking of what would be powerful, no, it's the one who has dreamt of being an astronaut for years and years and never gave up, it's the one who dreamed of being an arch mage with a long flowing beard ever since he was a child, it's the one who dreamed of saving lives and had those childhood dreams for so long they became more than the words that make up the idea. It transcended text to become image, and image gained the system to become as powerful as reality would allow. The details of dreaming for that long made a powerful image for the mc of the newest arc, and it's what allowed me to realize the basis and how to break the system of RG.

It all starts with skill grinding. You get the skills you want, random things for everyday life, do some paths, and each and every day, you sit, you consider, and you visualise the class you want. You think on it every day until you begin to suffer aether sickness for your strong skills, and then you go and see if it is now a class you can take. If so, boom, it's done. It's there, it's powerful enough and has been waiting. If not, maybe you got a skill from it anyhow, but my money is on it becoming something class related. The alternative is it becomes a soul skill. Which with greater detail becomes ever more powerful.

I suppose the lesson this chapter is, never stop dreaming. :3