the value of the offered goods/information.
Patron deity: Floki – God of Deception, Lies and Treachery, Winding Paths and Caves.
Assassin – a master of stealth and agility, specializing in fast and deadly attacks. Assassins can stealthily approach enemies and inflict critical strikes.
Class skill: “Shadow of Death”: The assassin can become almost invisible for a while, moving at incredible speed and inflicting critical strikes that ignore the opponent’s armor. After the skill is used, the assassin becomes vulnerable for a short time.
Patron deity: Valor (Smith) God of Fury, Blacksmithing, Fire.
Necromancer – a dark mage capable of resurrecting the dead and controlling them. Necromancers can use the power of death to damage enemies and subjugate their will.
Class skill: “Sacrificial Resurrection”: The necromancer can resurrect one ally, but sacrificing a significant amount of his own health. The resurrected ally will have a temporary buff that increases his strength.
Patron deity: Sator – God of Darkness, Death, the Underworld.
Mage – a master of magic capable of using spells to attack, defend, and support. Mages can control the elements, create illusions, and heal allies.
Class skill: “Magical Reflection Shield”: The mage creates a shield that not only absorbs damage but also reflects part of it back at attacking enemies. This shield has a limited number of charges.
Patron deity: Malena – Goddess of the Moon, Passion and Magic.
On the stained-glass roof of the temple, there were all the colors of the rainbow except for green plus black and white. For the necromancer and the commander, respectively.
There must have been some kind of catch here, these were not all the game classes, but only the most common ones. For example, as he knew from snippets of conversations between adults in his family, the son of Alexander First – the owner of the company “Dream”, who died in a plane crash, had the druid class when he played, and he is still the leader of the character level rating. Which means his class was strong enough. And rare. And it wasn’t on the selection list yet. That is, there should be at least one more exit from the temple, marked with the green color missing to complete the full rainbow palette. It was worth looking further. After all, is it possible that the rarer the class, the stronger it is? Max approached the tree in the center of the temple. Shards of broken glass crunched under his feet. Max looked up and once again noted that part of the stained-glass window above his head was broken, maybe this is also considered an exit?
Max: Should he climb the tree and try to get to the round opening in the center of the temple’s dome, where there was no glass? Max touched the bark of the tree in the center of the temple and heard some kind of call, it seemed to be the voices of all who had ever lived in this fictional world. They were calling him… the music at the edge of consciousness became more alarming. Max pulled back his hand and looked down at his feet. He was standing on a round hatch cover with a classic image of the tree of life adopted in Scandinavian mythology, whose branches were so skillfully intertwined with the drawings of the mosaic on the floor that it was almost impossible to notice it from afar. In addition, it was entangled in the roots of the tree. A new system message appeared:
Quest “Choosing a Path” updated:
New class available:
Druid (hidden class) – a keeper of nature, able to transform into animals and use the power of nature to heal and attack. Druids can control the elements and summon natural forces.
Class skill: “Animal Fury”: The druid temporarily transforms into an animal – the totem of the tribe, gaining increased physical strength and armor. In this state, his attacks deal increased physical damage.
Patron deity: Terra (Mother Goddess) Goddess of Life, Fertility, Mother of Gods.
So if you open the hatch in the floor you get the druid class… Curious.
But Max was already looking up at the round opening on the ceiling of the temple, located directly above the hatch in the floor. Looking closely, he realized that the broken stained glass on the ceiling of the temple was a kind of sundial, and the glazing with symbols that allowed to determine the time by them was now missing because it had once been broken by a stone core launched by a siege machine. The stone core lay here among the fragments on the floor. “What if you don’t choose any of the classes currently available? Freedom is not choosing a class from a given list, but creating your own path,” he decided. – Technically, the broken stained glass in the center is also an exit.
Max smiled at his mischievous idea, jumping he grabbed the lower branch of the tree, pulled himself up climbed higher,
At that moment, his doppelgangers stepped out of the mirror portals all at once. “Get him!” – rang out the order of the commander. The warrior waved his sword, the mage released a ball of energy, the healer tried to paralyze him, and the assassin threw a dagger, but Maxim was fast enough. He ducked higher, climbed onto the next branch, and was soon under the very dome of the temple. Branches of the tree began to entwine around his legs. His hands didn’t reach the opening in the roof by almost a meter. “Stay” – a voice sounded in his head. He saw a face appearing on the bark of the tree, surprisingly similar to his own, if it opened its eyes it would be too late, too late. If he had been even a little taller, he probably could have reached the edges of the opening in the roof in a jump. But now it was impossible, his height was too small. He tried to climb a little higher, tearing his legs out of the branches that were entwining him. From this movement, under his weight, the upper branches of the tree creaked dangerously and went sharply down first, then returned up like a spring, momentarily lifting Max slightly higher than he was initially. “If you fall down and break all your bones, is there still a point in choosing the warrior class?” – a strange thought flashed through his head. The Ent was slowly coming to life.
Max jerked with all his might.
He pushed off with his feet at the highest point of the branch’s oscillation, and through a brief moment of flight, it seemed to him that he would never reach the edge of the broken stained-glass window, he instinctively squeezed his eyes shut, but his hands were still reaching forward, in this moment of weightlessness before the fall, his fingers gripped a ledge. He pulled himself up, grabbed a metal spire, which apparently once served as a clock hand in the sundial of the temple, and found himself on the roof.
Quest “Choosing a Path” Completed.
Class assigned:
Time Keeper (hidden class) – a mage capable of manipulating gravity, time, and space. Keepers can slow down or speed up events, use fast movements, and foresee the future.
Your divine patron is the One – God of gravity, time, and space, balance, and higher justice.
Reward: Class skill – Teleportation. With the help of ancient magic, you tear the fabric of space, instantly moving to the chosen point. Disappear from the sight of enemies and instantly move a short distance.
Use this skill to avoid danger or take a favorable position for attack.
Experience for completing the quest: +25
Experience for obtaining a unique class: +100
*You are the only player on the server to receive the Time Keeper class.
You have reached new level 11.
Experience to the next level: 1125 (+125) \1200
The movement inside the temple stopped, his digital doubles disappeared, and the tree became an ordinary plant again.
Max recoiled from the failure of the broken stained-glass window, stood up, and surveyed