Book 3, Chapter 27
Switching Cla.s.s

    "Sorry friend, I don"t want tosit jail, because I"d probably never get out with how many people I"ve killed. So..."

    I tossed a lightning ball at the wizard which blasted him pretty far away. SinceI"m dressed like a warrior, the poor guy was never prepared to take a spell tothe face instead. Without his shield his HP bar was reduced by more than half. Ifinished him off with a quick follow-up stab before he can react. He lookedlike a high level wizard, but he"s fragile nonetheless.

    I quickly tried to contact Rose, only to be told that Icannot private chat with a player who"s in jail.

    d.a.m.n it. I was hoping to spenda good day with Rose.

    I called Wayne. "Wayne! Got time?"

    "Boss? What is it?"

    "A little help!"

    "Speak it."

    "I ran into a bounty hunter!"

    "You weren"tcaught right? Your level is low but it shouldn"t be that easy to catch you. Yourteleport should be enough to deal with anyone, no?"

    "I wasn"t caught. But your dear sister is! Someoneambushed us."

    "I see. Tell me. What do I need to do? Just incase, don"t ask me to break a jail. I may be a super powerful hidden mage cla.s.sbut I can"t take on all the guards! Maybe I can survive for just a couple ofseconds."

    "That"s not what I meant. a.s.saulting the place is my ownjob anyway, I need you to locate Rose for me. I don"t know which room or block she"sin, it"ll be embarra.s.sing if I get lost. And I can"t scout myself since I can"tgo into cities!"

    "Easy then. Tell me which city."

    "Duh, I won"t be asking you if I know it. "

    "You mean you want me to search through cities oneby one? There are lot of them, it will take months! And I"m broke, you giveme the teleport fees!"

    "Right. As long as you give me the result!"

    "Alright. Just wait. Oh and, tell me where ithappened! She should be in a city not far from you."

    I went back to the Lost City after telling Wayneeverything. He just reminded me that I still have two hidden cla.s.ses that Ineed to figure out. I didn"t have enough levels before, it should be good now. Plus I need the extra power to save Rose! 

    The question is, where do I go?

     I searchedin my bracelet for quite some time before I took out the two scrolls. Eversince I got this super inventory I never bothered to organize it because itwill never get full. Now I"m facing the consequences.

    First, I spread the Demonized Fighter scroll.  c.r.a.p. Only the first one or two lines areintroductions, the rest are all instruction. Looks like this is one of the NPC-lessquests, they usually got such kind of complex directions.
    Ok, I just need to follow the steps. "First, findsome place wide and safe." 

    Wide and safe? I looked at the streets. It"spretty safe in here but hardly wide. Yes, the gra.s.sland outside. It"s big andthere aren"t many monsters. I rushed until I"m far enough from the city. Thisplace looks big enough.

    "Step 2: Summon two dark-affinity companions." 

    Dark-affinity huh. My companions are all somewhat blackened when I got them. Theyare all Dark. 

    There is a note: "A Demonized Fighter can have many possiblefinal forms, which is dependent on the companions you choose." 

    What doesthat mean? Will I turn into a dark monster myself? Whatever. I"ll do it. 

    Iconsidered for a moment and decided to summon Loong"er and Phiona. Nothing badwould happen with this combination. (*)

    "Step 3: Drop you own blood on the scroll andspeak the prayer following behind." 

    Here goes nothing. I cut my finger anddid as told. The scroll started to burn, and some strange words appeared insidemy mind. 

    "I embrace the darkness root. 

     I abandon the way of good. 

     Icall upon the power of dark with my soul, 

     I leave the beckoning of lightunheard. 

     I vow to become the speaker of the underworld. 

    Grant me the power ofdestruction, the power to murder!" 

    A black ring began to spin around mefaster and faster. It expanded, with more and more cracks showed up on itssurface, before it finally exploded to countless shreds. The broken pieces all went to Loong"er and Phiona instead of flying away. Then two black orbsreappeared from their bodies and flew inside me.

    "Congratulations, player Ziri has successfullytransferred into Demonized D&P Rider. Please designate your mount. Youcannot choose the two companions used in the ritual, select one other than these two."(**)

    "Night Shade!"

    "You haveselected Night Shade as your mount. You have acquired skills: [Rider Charge], [PolePick], [Heavy Smash], [Weapon Parry], [Pierce], [Intimidate]. Because of yourcurrent cla.s.s, your Servants will be limited to Rider-type only."

    Rider? I checked the help texts. Itmeans I can only capture humanoid, rider-cla.s.s NPCs as my servants from now on.

    s.h.i.te! Rider NPCs are usually high-level knights and are highly organized.If you ran into any you will be dealing with a large group of them, in whichcase the best choice would be running away. Even if someone is higher leveled, agroup charge performed by hundreds of those knights can still kill him easily.

    Wait a second... My sworn brother! Domergor got a bunchof underlings right? He"s the leader of the dark legion for G.o.d"s sake. It won"tbe hard to ask for several helpers from him. 

    Ahhaha! I"m a genius!

    I summoned Night Shade and told him totravel towards brother"s territory, while I checked how to use the other scroll.

    After some reading I only figured out one thing: Theprocess for switching into a Soul Manipulator requires the player to go to acertain NPC in a place called the Dragon State. And it"s considered a city too,which means I"ll put it aside for now.

    Wayne called me when I just entered the valley range."Hey boss, I got it! I visited the prison in Bright City and saw Rose inthere. The gate is always open but red players can"t get out once they"re in. Italked with Rose and she told you to not come. Everything is fine in thereexcept you can"t go outside. And your Evilness drops faster."

    "Alright. Tell me the coordinate of the city gate.Oh and tell Rose I won"t leave her alone." 

    I cut the chat and told NightShade to ran faster. 

    The guards even rememberedme. They are not as courteous as last time when I brought Clark"s message, butat least they didn"t chop at me on the spot.

    "Excuse me, can I see my brother Domergor?"

    "Wait here!"He ran inside. Then returned soon, with an obviously better att.i.tude. "Followme please." 

    I followed the guard for a long way again to where Domergor stays.

    "h.e.l.lo brother."

    "Whatbrought you here? That old snake told me he broke your Dragon Lord set intopieces. Aren"t you going to repair it?"

    "I have something to discuss with you."

    "What is it?Anything I can help." 

    I love his frankness!

    I told him how Rose was captured. "I"m going tosave her now, but you know the city guards are all above level 800. Players outthere are usually below 500 for now, and I haven"t even reached 300. I don"thave any chance against the guards."

    "That sounds terrible alright. But how can I helpyou with that? We"re regulated by the laws. We are not allowed to help youattack a city." 

    "That"s not what I meant.  I just became a Demonized D&P Rider and it restricted me torecruit Riders as servants only, can you appoint several men for me?"

    "Is that so?..." He signaled his soldiers toleave the room. 

    Domergor made sure no one can hear us before he whispered:"I happen to have several...subordinate under my command. They are a little troublesome though. It"ll be nice of you if you can takethem away, actually."

    "Trouble? Is their level too low to help me?"

(*) See .

(**) The original cla.s.s name would be something like "Demoninzed Dragon & Phoenix Rider", which is awkward however I put it. But again, they won"t appear often in the future.