Super Righteous Player-Chapter 164 - 162: Swordsman Advancement: Silver Knight_1

Chapter 164: Chapter 162: Swordsman Advancement: Silver Knight_1

Just like the last time he cleared the instance.

A vast amount of green paint poured out from Amos’s eyeball, which originally belonged to Elle.

The eyeball was cut open from the middle, bursting like a ruptured water balloon, and in an instant, the liquid splattered and dyed Amos’s entire head green.

But the liquid seemed endless, more and more of it surged out...

Finally, like a dam bursting, it roared out of Amos’s eye sockets, and in the blink of an eye, the entire room was flooded.

This world was as if it had been repainted with a copious amount of paint. Those three bewildered vagrants, standing in place, the very moment the river of green paint touched them, immediately dissolved and completely vanished. The same happened to the furniture in the room, the ceiling, and the floor...

In the blink of an eye, Annan plunged into a sea of emerald green.

He felt an intense sense of suffocation.

However, Annan calmly watched all this unfold, lifting his head to gaze at the top of the emerald sea with composure, breathing the green liquid slowly, and gradually closing his eyes.

Because he had already experienced this scene once before.

After he cleared the "Gallery: Elle Morrison" last time, he was also submerged by a sea of paint. The difference was, last time it was red, this time it was green...

When Annan woke up again, he could breathe normally in the green sea.

A slew of system notifications flashed before his eyes.

[Nightmare Purified]

[Purified the nightmare with a specified identity, rating increased]

[Completed the portrait, rating increased]

[All four survived until the end, rating significantly increased]

[Killed Amos, rating increased]

[Wounded Amos’s left eye as a vagrant, rating increased]

[Overall Rating—A]

[Gained 211 points of public experience, Perception +1]

[Current purification level is 74/350, can enter the instance again after 71:59 hours]

[Gained instance clearance reward: Profession (choose one) advanced by 1 level]

Annan realized that he hadn’t received the decryption reward for the instance this time.

Was it because his method of clearing the instance was incorrect...?

Or is it possible that the decryption reward for each layer of the instance is only given once?

Seeing this purification rate, however, gave Annan a sudden jolt of surprise.

He realized that it seemed impossible to embark on a plan in Frostwater Harbor similar to "unleashing a sword god for ten miles"—

He remembered clearly that after his last clearance, the purification rate was only 39.

But with the efforts of the player army, they managed to push it over 70+ in just one CD.

—And that was even when the players hadn’t fully cleared the instance.

Even if Annan didn’t recruit any new players, these forty players alone could consume all 350 instance attempts, at most six or seven CDs—over half a month.

...Damn.

That’s like locusts...

Annan realized the problem.

The Gallery instance in Frostwater Harbor would last at most another month...

After a month, he would have to let the players go. At the very least, he had to find them a stable pathway for levelling up...

It’s uncertain if players can gain experience through training. But it seems that apart from the level advancement gained from clearing nightmares and the mission experience distributed by Annan... there’s only the killing of humanoid creatures left.

Where in this world were there so many people for them to kill...

—A stable supply of nightmares must be found.

Annan sensed the urgency.

These were only forty players.

In less than a month, they could completely devour a horrifying nightmare that had plagued for forty-five years and even involved the power of gods.

If Annan got his hands on the complete Book of the Celestial Chariot and recruited six hundred players...

"...Is this really not a Book of Calamities?"

Annan sighed.jpg

"Huh?"

Just as Annan was about to allocate the profession level to Wizard, he noticed something amiss.

On his attribute panel, the original Swordsman LV10 (Max) now had a faintly flickering plus sign next to it.

This signified the possibility of further level advancement.

...But the Swordsman profession isn’t even a Transcendent profession, is it?

Annan had tried many times before. He simply couldn’t advance the Swordsman profession level any further...

Have I advanced?

So Annan focused his consciousness on that plus sign.

However, he didn’t advance immediately.

But what appeared before his eyes was a line of text:

"[Please select an advancement direction—]"

"[Swordsman LV10 (eligible for advancement): Silver Knight (main attribute Perception)]"

"[Keywords: Toughness, Endurance]"

"[Mastery in: Environment (Nightmare), Solo combat, Group fights]"

"[Advancement requirements: Perception over 12, Will over 8, Constitution over 8; have used any Divine Art during the previous Nightmare, and all Divine Arts were effective with no mistakes (Silver Knight)]"

Then, another panel emerged in front of Annan:

"[Swordsman LV10 (eligible for advancement): Dual Swordsman (main attributes Dexterity/Strength)]"

"[Keywords: Balance, Disruption, Dual Attack]"

"[Mastery in: Struggle, Solo combat]"

"[Advancement requirements: Dexterity over 7, Strength over 7, possess the ability ’Cross-Weapon Mastery,’ ’Dextrous Both Hands,’ or ’Weapon Familiarity’; fought with the same type of weapon in dual-wield during the last Nightmare, and did not drop the weapon or injure themselves in combat]"

"...So that’s how it is!"

Comparing these two advancement paths, Annan suddenly realized.

—So this is how Transcendents change their class in this world!

To advance, one must reach the level threshold, and while passing the Nightmare, also meet the requirements of the next career stage, while ensuring one’s attributes are up to standard... only then can one advance!

That’s why advancement from the Bronze tier is relatively simple, but silver-tier Transcendents are so rare.

Because their attributes are not enough!

By the standards of a "strong Swordsman’s" attributes and abilities, it would be impossible for them to advance to either Dual Swordsman or Silver Knight.

Just take the players for example—

Even at level ten, they would not possess the ability ’Weapon Familarity.’ They would need to train it themselves.

If they were to change their class to Dual Swordsman, their attributes might meet the standards... but advancing to Silver Knight would definitely be impossible!

The requirement of Perception isn’t hard to solve.

Because Annan knows how to train the Perception attribute—by passing through Nightmares, one would inevitably increase Perception by one point.

But how to train the Will attribute, he indeed does not know... freeweɓnovel.cøm

He also doesn’t know why Annan’s base Will attribute was so high in the first place.

Plus, even as a Wizard, his Constitution doesn’t meet the standards.

In other words, if Annan were an ordinary person, he must be a Swordsman whose attribute specialty tilts toward Constitution, and he also has to pass through at least seven Nightmares, with a strong will... and he has to learn Divine Arts.

Although Annan’s current attributes far exceed these requirements, that’s because his initial attributes were very high. Moreover, he is not advancing from Bronze, but upgrading his second class to Bronze... which is much easier than the first class.

He now suspects that later on, it may be necessary to take on multiple classes.

Otherwise, it’s simply not possible to meet the attribute requirements for advancement...

Although he has already acquired this information, Annan still plans to ask Darry Garden.

But before that—Annan was about to start preparing for advancement.

The attribute points gained after passing through a Nightmare cannot be retained.

And considering the case of the guard captain, Claus, it seems like the world’s professions do not have a strict "advancement tree." As long as one’s attributes and abilities meet the requirements, one can jump to other professions... and even advance across professions.

Take for example the "Windrunner."

Annan heard from Salvatore that this is actually a silver-tier profession for Hunters or Stealthsters. At the time, he was a bit puzzled, wondering what profession Claus could be...

Now it seems that most professions likely don’t have a prerequisite class.

The ability to move like the wind silently and swiftly isn’t much use to a warrior, but it means a lot to a sniper or an assassin.

And yet, Claus was still able to forcefully advance to Windrunner, reaching silver.

The conditions for a Disability Wizard to advance probably involve mastering something like "Cold Touch." It’s just that Annan didn’t have the opportunity to choose an advancement direction from the system earlier because he didn’t meet the promotion conditions for two professions at the same time...

So although there’s no respec,

there’s also no need to worry about a wrong class change ruining one’s life.

Should I advance to Silver Knight first?

Or should I add a level to Wizard, then wait for the cooldown, and consider advancing to Silver Knight then?

"For me... it doesn’t really matter."

Annan had no hesitation.

Because he favored the path of the Wizard more. The main attribute for the Wizard profession is Perception, and the highest attribute on his own panel is Perception.

And the main attribute of Silver Knight is also Perception!

—That’s enough!

The Swordsman profession, aside from making him more resistant, was originally just a starter for Frost Sword Technique anyway. Compatibility is more important than anything else.

Not to mention, just by looking at the attribute requirements, the Silver Knight profession is much rarer than that of Dual Swordsman.

Rare things... can’t be wrong!

"So there’s only one answer—"

Annan unhesitatingly clicked on the plus sign.