“What happened?”! Zach asked with an anxious and concerned look on his face. “Are you scared?”
“No.” Aria stood up and said, “I just caught a glimpse of the creatures who blessed you. And they were in their ugliest form possible. Although I didn’t see the god you were walking about.”
“Oh, that does sound disgusting.”
Aria let out a weary sigh and uttered, “I give up. I can’t find a way to access your life tree.”
Zach placed his hand on his chin and pondered for a while.
“What if…” Zach looked at Aria and said, “What if I reverse track my life tree with the help of the skill tree and class tree?”
Aria shrugged her shoulders and replied, “Go ahead and try it.”
Zach opened his menu and used Aria’s blessings to change his secondary class to the crafter.
‘Only crafter class can access my skill tree and the class tree because I used them to create them.’
Zach kept trying for a while, but all his attempts failed.
“Tch!”
Annoyed and frustrated after several attempts, he clicked his tongue and mixed his skill tree with the class tree.
[Congratulations! You have acquired an awakening class!]
Zach raised his brows in confusion and opened his menu to see his secondary class had changed even though he shouldn’t be able to change it for the next 24 hours.
“What’s wrong?” Aria asked with a curious look on her face.
“I got a new class… an awakening class…” Zach replied while stuttering on his words.
“What’s the name of the class?”
Zach turned to Aria with a baffled look on his face and uttered, “Alchemist.”
Zach mixed his skill tree and class tree, which resulted in merging all his classes with his skills.
Of course, he had tried merging his classes before, but it had never worked.
However, Zach’s soul powers had awakened now, which was why he was able to merge his classes.
The Alchemist class was a mixture of Healer, Crafter, and Mage classes.
Zach could now heal, craft, and use magic without changing his class.
“That’s great, right?” Aria uttered with a smile on her face. “So why do you look upset?”
“I am not upset. I am just… I wonder if I can still make the potions or not,” Zach uttered in a low voice. “I probably can, but…”
Zach assumed that he lost all of his class skills because his class had merged. He thought he lost his DT skill, which was the most beneficial skill for him.
Of course, his DT skill wasn’t a class skill, so changing classes wouldn’t affect it. However, Zach had merged all the skills with the class tree.
“What’s wrong?” Aria asked again.
“I am worried that this class awakening might have affected my DT skill,” Zach responded in a calm voice.
“Does it still show in your stats menu?” Aria asked with a curious yet calm look on her face.
Zach nodded and said, “Yeah.”
“Then how about you try using it?” Aria suggested.
“Here?” Zach glanced around and said, “But there are no monsters here.”
Aria chuckled from the corner of her lips and said with a grin on her face: “Did you forget what you called me when we met for the first time?”
Zach had called Aria a monster.
“What does that have to do…” Zach stopped on his words when he realized what Aria was suggesting.
“Wait, are you asking me to use my DT skill on you?!” Zach exclaimed.
“Yes.”
“Are you out of your mind?!” Zach shouted. “You do know that my DT skill obliterates anything I touch, right?”
“Yes, I do.” Aria nodded and said, “But you said you want to control your DT skill and use a specific amount of MP. And I can’t think of a better way.”
“What if I fail? You will die.”
“So be it.” Aria furrowed. “If you don’t want me to die, then learn to control it.”
That reminded Zach of his childhood training, where his master forced him to do many risky things. That was one of the reasons why he never backed off in any of his commitments.
Moreover, his risky nature was the reason that Zach met Aria.
If he hadn’t thought of going past floor five and risked his life, he wouldn’t have reached floor ten and cleared it.
His one choice would have changed his fate and hindered his development. If he hadn’t met Aria, he wouldn’t have fought her. And Aria wouldn’t have given Zach her blessings to change classes.
Zach was remembering everything because if he used and failed to control his DT skill on Aria, she would die.
“What level are you on, and how much HP do you have?” Zach asked so he could calculate the amount of MP he needed to use with his DT skill.
“I am level 29, and my HP is 25000,” Aria replied honestly.
“So I will use 24 MP with my DT skill, and that will deal 24000…” Zach uttered in a low voice.
Zach placed his hand on Aria’s chest— between her bosom and asked, “If… you die, will you be able to come back here again?”
Aria shook her head and said, “Most likely no. So if you mess this up, this will be our last time seeing each other.”
When Zach had stabbed Ameria to confirm she was Aria, he hadn’t killed her. She still had some HP left. Then, Aurora had healed her the next day.
“You are giving me second thoughts now…” Zach muttered under his breath. However, because he was close to Aria, she heard him.
Aria scoffed softly and said with a grin: “What, are you worried about me?”
“I am.” Zach nodded. “Is that weird?”
The grin from Aria’s face vanished as she said, “Didn’t you want to get rid of me? This is your best chance.”
Even though Aria was acting tough from the outside, she was scared from the inside. Not because she would die in the game if Zach failed, she was scared because if Zach failed, she would never get to see him again.
“What are you talking about?” Zach furrowed his brows at Aria and said with a solemn look on his face: “You are my party member. I am not going to let you go so easily.”
“Don’t worry too much about it,” Aria said with a wry smile on her face. “If I die now or in the future, you can visit me anytime in the real world once you have beat the game.”
“I don’t know where you live,” Zach replied in a disdainful tone.
“Then maybe I will visit you. I am powerful enough to sense you from my purgatory.”
Zach chuckled and said, “How are you going to introduce yourself to my family? As my wife?”
Aria bit her lips and said, “I am regretting being your servant.”
Zach scoffed and said, “Tell me something new.”
“If I was your master instead, I would have messed with you and teased you on every chance I had gotten. But now, I am stuck as your servant, and you don’t even use your authority over me.”
Zach frowned his face and said, “If you truly want me to order you, then here is your order….”
Zach pressed his hand on Aria’s chest and continued with a serious look on his face: “Don’t die.”
After saying that, Zach closed his eyes and used his DT skill on Aria.
Once he was done, he was scared to open his eyes to see the results.
“…”
He didn’t want to see Aria turning into ashes.
“Are you going to open your eyes or not?” Aria commented.
Zach sighed in relief after hearing Aria’s voice and opened his eyes.
“It worked…?”
“I have 100 HP left, so yes, it worked,” Aria replied with a grin on her face.
Zach was so happy that he hugged Aria without thinking of anything else.
Aria’s face immediately flushed like never before.
‘This is the first time in my life a boy has hugged me…’
‘Oh really? Does that mean I am your first?’
‘Yeah…’ Aria stopped when she realized she was talking with Zach using telepathy.
She pushed Zach and made some distance between them.
“Don’t listen to my thoughts!” she yelled.
“I wasn’t listening. Your voice automatically sounded in my mind,” Zach responded with a shrug.
“Enough!” Aria frowned her face and said, “Now heal me!”
Zach knitted his brows and uttered, “That’s not a way to talk with you, master.”
Aria rolled her eyes and said with a sigh: “Heal me, master.”
Zach shook his head in disbelief and healed Aria to her maximum health.
“It does feel amazing to be able to craft, heal, and use magic at the same time without changing any classes.”
Zach stared at Aria and kept staring at her because she was smiling for some reason.
“What are you staring at me for?” Aria asked with a grin on her face.
“You said I am the first boy who has ever hugged you in your life, but you are tens of thousands of years old. So…” Zach shrugged his shoulders and said, “It’s kind of hard to believe.”
“What’s your story, by the way?” Zach asked with a curious look on his face.
“It’s nothing interesting.”
Zach squinted his eyes and said, “I order you to tell me your story.”
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Total players in the game 404504.
0 new players logged in.
58 players died.
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Author’s Note- How would you like to see Zach use his Alchemist class?