'The Class System'

Before The Summoned Ones were brought to this world, the concept of classes never existed.

For the native, sentient beings of this world there was only one way to truly become powerful to gain strength beyond mortal man.

The Path.

Only by following The Path were they able to gain that strength and become greater than they ever naturally could. Only by reaching the ends of multiple paths could they become what all follower's of the path strived for.

Godhood.

Only the strong could follow The Path, either physically or mentally it didn't matter. Only through strength and will could you walk The Path.

The Path was absolute, every path was unique, if people tried to follow others paths they would fall.

A path can only be walked by one, no one can follow you on your path, for it's yours and yours alone to tread.

When the Summoned Ones were first summoned the gods thought they would also walk The Path but the worlds they were brought from were mostly peaceful.

They were weak and unprepared for the nightmares that the Dungeons brought forth, most of the first ones died before they could even take their first step on The Path.

The training that the Followers of The Path had from a young age, couldn't be forcefully ingrained into the Summoned Ones before the Dungeon took them.

The Gods fearing for their future, created a plan based on the memories of the surviving Summoned Ones and so 'The Class System' was born.

Taking the instincts and muscle memory of the trained Follower's, various techniques, magic's and creating new skills, the first class was created.

It was called 'The Adventurer' giving all the basic skills and abilities one would need to survive the long enough to start their journey on The Path.

As more and more time went on, the Gods found the Summoned Ones had started to get strong but because of a flaw in 'The Class System', they found out all of them were walking the same path.

Knowing that it would eventually freeze their growth completely, the Gods had to re-engineer 'The Class System'. They started to create many more variants of classes, with their divinity, the Summoned Ones foreign knowledge and The followers experience they created a near infinite amount of classes.

Bringing the Summoned Ones to a new level of diversity and strength. Finding that certain classes worked well together, they began granting the Summoned Ones that were brought together into the Dungeon classes that had high amount of synergy.

Creating a new hope for the Summoned Ones and for humanity but it was already too late for humanity.

Hadrian drew his sword with a grace and sureness he didn't know he had. Rushing to the first skeleton and beheading it with ease.

“Wow”

The speed and precision he executed the skeleton with, was something that Hadrian never dreamed he could ever achieve, it was like years of instinct and muscle memory awoke and took control of his body.

Preparing to finish of the other skeleton Hadrian lifted his sword up and went to charge.

'Wooooshhh' 'BANG' 'CRACK'

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“AH!”

Just as Hadrian was about to charge, another skeleton came out of the room and smashed it's long staff into Hadrian's side, sending him flying into the wall and cracking the fragile wooden walls.

“Fuck”

Bracing himself he lunges upwards piercing Grace through the skeleton's head.

'BANG', Hadrian had no time to rest before he was rammed on to the floor by the other skeleton, thinking quick he smashes the pommel of his short sword into the skeleton's head, cracks its skull and ending it life. He grabs the skeleton’s remains throws it off him.

“Hahhhh, hahhhhhh, hahhhhh, damn what the hell was that, shit, shit, shit, shitty shitting shit balls. Holy crap that was a close one I could have freaking died, ....this is getting too much. You should have been better prepared, you let your greed get the better off you”

“COME ON, YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS YOU FUCKING MORON”

'BANG' 'CRACK' Hadrian slams his head into the wall.

“... you need to do better than this”

'Click' 'Clack' 'Click' 'Clack'

“You have got to be freaking kidding me”, Hadrian turns his head to see two more skeleton's coming out of the second door.

Hadrian securing his grip on his swords, he rushes towards them and stabs Grace at the furthest skeleton while slashing his short sword at the closest, the short sword connects with the skeleton's arm, dismembering the arm holding its weapon but Grace falls short of severing the second skeleton's spine and ends up getting caught in between its ribs.

Trying to leap back out of the skeleton's range, he loses his grip of Grace. It still trapped within the ribs of the skeleton.

Retreating to the end of the hallway, Hadrian takes stock of the situation. The closer skeleton had lost its arm so it had no weapon and the other was undamaged expect for Grace being lodged in its chest.

“Okay you can do this, charge the closer one, pommel strike it in the head and then behead the last one, it'll be easy you can do it”

Psyching himself up, Hadrian charges them, he successfully strikes the first skeleton's head, destroying its skull. 'Whoosh' 'Bang', he ends up taking a strike by the second skeleton, but he was ready and blocks it with his gauntlet.

He grabs the last skeleton's mace pushing it aside he swings his short sword into its head, finally destroying it.

'Hah, hah, hah, hah, 'BANG' he collapsed to the floor, both mentally and physically exhausted, he nearly falls into unconsciousness.

'Smack' Hadrian smacks himself in the face.

“Owwwwww, probably shouldn't have done that with my gauntlet on, .....dumbass”.

Trying to keep himself awake, he smacked himself, too exhausted to remember his gauntlet.

'Ding' 'CLASS EXPERIENCE UNLOCKED'

'5 DUNGEON UNDEAD DEFEATED'

'500 EXP ACHIEVED'

'CLASS : SWORDSMAN EXP 500/1000'

'CLASS SKILLS HAVE LEVELED'

'SWORD MASTERY — LEVEL 2'

'EYE OF THE SWORDSMAN – LEVEL 2'

'PHYSICAL DAMAGE RESISTANCE – LEVEL 2'

'YOU TAKE YOUR FIRST STEPS ON THE PATH'

'PATH OF THE SWORD 5/10'

'PATH OF THE DUNGEON EXPLORER 2/10'

'PATH OF THE SUMMONED ONE 7/10'

'CONTINUE WALKING YOUR PATH TO EVOLVE'

'A NEW PATH HAS BEEN FOUND'

'PATH OF THE UNDEAD SLAYER'

'CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY TO FIND MORE ROADS IN YOUR PATH'.

“......WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T I USE MY SKILLS'

“Damn, I need to be become better at keeping calm, I could have ended that faster if I used my skill, at least my sword mastery and eye of the Swordsman levelled up. That must have been why I could destroy the skeleton's so easily, I must have been striking their weak points”.

“Better finish up searching this place, I need to get the hell out of here”