Nicholas glanced at the stream of text along his vision, skimming through the list of classes. There were numerous amounts of text, at least 50 to choose from! It was quite diverse and required him to be more decisive as this would perhaps affect him as a whole. Either for good or worse.

He began to take notes of which classes seemed interesting and impressive before being left with at least one fifth of what he had begun with.

Fallen Reaper

Benefits: + 1 to Wisdom and + 1 to Agility

Description: Death. It is but part of the cycle known as ‘Life’. You, a Fallen Reaper, are not owned by no God. You are independent, and feast on the life energy of the living or the mana they so desperately crave. On your journey as a Reaper, be prepared to see things no man must see. It is your duty to send the souls back to the world. In return, you are bestowed with great power, but what you do with that power, is up to you.

Spartan - Scout Variant Type II

Benefits: + 1 to Strength and + 2 to Agility

Description: A soldier created by the hands of man, a soldier who died by the hands of man. You are a Spartan, and it is your duty to fight where no normal person could survive. You haunt the battlefield as if you were to be death yourself. You are the deaths of your enemies be it human or not. You, are a Spartan.

Shadow Merger

Benefits: + 1 to Intelligence and + 2 Wisdom

Description: You control the basic elements at your very will. The Shadow Element being the most useful among your arsenal. You fuse the elements into the shadows providing you with different reactions based upon the environmental effects taking place. Be it fire, earth, water, or air, you may imbue that attribute into the Shadows you hold so dearly.

Shadow Weaver

Benefits: + 1 to Wisdom and + 2 to Dexterity

Description: A class based upon the art of weaving the Shadows into physical and/or enhancing effects, whether for attack or defense. It all lies up to you.

Reaver of Emotions

Benefits: + 1 to Wisdom and + 2 to Intelligence

Description: You feast on the emotions of the living. Be it fear, joy, sorrow. It is but an emotion and yours to wield. You can wield these emotions to grant you small amounts of power that accumulate over battle. You are a Reaver of Emotions and it is but your job to devour and plunder them from these poor souls.

Shadow Rogue

Benefits: + 1 to Wisdom and + 1 to Agility

Description: A class based upon nimble movements made within the shadows. You use the surrounding shadows to provide additional effects to aid you in battle. Be it to impair the enemies movement or to provide a damage bonus upon the enemies contact with your blade. You are practically a shadow itself.

Ethereal Assassin

Benefits: + 1 to Dexterity and + 2 to Agility

Description: A basic class revolving around the idea of stealth and speed. However, you are ethereal, and are potentially resistant against a majority of physical based attacks. You are also the one who wields the blade, and this particular blade will not hesitate to kill upon contact.

Blood Mage

Benefits: + 1 to Intelligence and + 2 to Wisdom

Description: A class which wields the life force known as blood to their bearers every wish. Be it to kill, provide additional regenerative properties or effects to aid the bearer of such great magic. It only heeds to the bearers every desire.

Sword Mage

Benefits: + 1 to Intelligence and + 1 to Strength

Description: A person who bears both the great strength of the sword and the magic to annihilate your opposing enemies at will. A class which aims to be versatile and adept for any type of scenario, a Sword Mage.

Dark Knight

Benefits: + 1 to Strength and + 2 to Constitution

Description: A knight who lead himself astray to the dark, abandoning the light. Hopes, dreams, motivation, all but lost. You, on a path of revenge, or a path of redemption, be it whatever you wish. Just remember. You are the bearer of the sword, and are the one who controls it.

These were the particular classes he felt were to be unique and held great strength in the depths of their being. Something he wished to seize to further improve the rate at which he gained the power to survive and thrive in this new dog eat dog world. Not as if the last were not the same, but this world held, different qualities, that the last one didn’t have.

The Spartan class was something he was familiar with and held great power in contrast to the people on his world. But in this world of swords and magic, would it not be a waste to go for something perhaps more diverse? Something that utilizes both the speed of his body and the magic that Shadow Manipulation never ceases to display. Although Nicholas just slightly, just slightly, wished for something more, he knew he wouldn’t get anything better than what he was given.

After greatly considering the power and styles of combat that each class described. He decided that he would undeniably choose the class ‘Fallen Reaper’. It intrigued him to say the least. He just had this feeling that guided him towards it, it was mostly instinctual, but he still felt it was the right thing to do. Nicholas, before he knew it, had appointed Fallen Reaper as his chosen class.

A strong deathly glow enshrouded him as he closed his eyes. Feeling the mana sink into him, encapsulating him, guiding him. After around 3 minutes of the spectacle taking place, he came back to his senses. His mind feeling much more clearer, much more calm. His body strengthened by the abnormality that proceeded to envelop him.

He was death, or at least it felt like it.

He could control the life force escaping from the bodies wisps of red and blue drifting into the atmosphere from the bodies ravaged from the battle.

5 to Wisdom and + 5 to Agility

Choose a Skill upon having chosen your class

Nicholas glanced through the options before him. A list of at least 20 suggestions were lined in columns before him as it were for the classes. Sifting through the skills, he came to what he had decided held the most utility, versatility, and potential.

Summon Familiar

Description: The ability to summon a permanent familiar that you can call back and forth from the summoning realm. The Familiar can grow and increase in terms of skills and stats just like it’s master. Upon every 20 skill levels, you have the ability to gain another additional familiar, each 2 levels also provides a percentage increase to the familiars individual strength

Cost: Permanent loss of 70 mana per familiar

Familiar Combat Increase: 1%

Type: Summon, Active Skill

Element: None

Shadow Jump

Description: Allows the user to teleport from one shadow to another from a certain distance.

Distance: 10 metres

Cost: 50 mana per use

Type: Utility, Active Skill

Element: Shadow

Ethereal Phase

Description: Allows the user to be able to negate physical damage for a limited amount of time

Time: 1 Second

Cost: 100 mana per use

Type: Utility, Active Skill

Element: None

They were all unique in their own ways but one stood out to him, summon familiar. For someone like him who had lived his last life in isolation, practically companionless, and forsaken. This skill seemed like a way for change. An opening for a better future for the poor soul which was Nicholas.

He selected it, the feeling of knowledge pouring past the outskirts of his brain into his very mind, once again catching him off guard. Although this time he was more prepared and experienced with the feeling in terms of before. As he was gently soaked in the replenishing and rejuvenating feeling, he brought up his status.

Status

Name: Nicholas Gray

Class: Fallen Reaper

Race: Shadow Demon

Titles: The Last of the Shadow Demons, Slaughterer

Level: 15

Health: 107/230 (240)

Health Regeneration Rate: 0.20 per second

Mana: 54/260

Mana Regeneration Rate: 0.30 per second

Strength: 20

Constitution:23 (24)

Vitality: 20

Agility: 56 (71)

Dexterity:25

Perception: 20

Charisma: 5

Intelligence: 26

Wisdom: 30

Luck:4

Unassigned Stat Points: 30

Active Skills: Identify (Active) lvl 5 (86%), Shadow Manipulation (Active) lvl 10 (32%), Mana Manipulation (Active) lvl 3 (47%), Assassination (Active) lvl 14 (68%), Summon Familiar (Active) lvl 1 (0%)

Passive Skills: Sword Mastery (Passive) lvl 3 (9%), Combat Knife (Dagger) Mastery (Passive) lvl 14 (76%), Shadow Footwork (Passive) lvl 20 (19%), Fear Aura (Passive, may be toggled) lvl 6 (7%), Lifesteal (Passive) lvl 1 (0%)

Affinities: Shadow element, Death element

Nicholas adjusted his stat points by appointing the unassigned points. 10 into intelligence, 5 for agility, 5 for dexterity, and lastly, the last 10 points were shared between strength and wisdom.

After having assigned his points, he looked into the new skills acquired from his class and battle. Fear aura, a skill that enveloped the enemies in a 5 metre radius or at a singular chosen target that doubles the distance in return for the reduction of the AoE (Area of effect), under the status effect ‘fear’. The ability that caused part of the instinctual fear the orcs had been subjected to.

The last unrecognized ability he saw was ‘Lifesteal’. He investigated into it, receiving information relating it to his class. A skill that provided him with health upon damage given in a percentage of 1% as of level one, but gaining increases every 2 levels. Presuming that the level cap was 100, it left him with a lifesteal percentage of 50% upon level 100. A skill of great potential.

After taking in the sight of his status and noting the new affinity acquired from his class, Death. Nicholas settled with waiting 4 minutes to replenish his mana in order to barely get 140 mana, double the amount necessary to summon a familiar. As he awaited for the fateful number to appear, he decided he would make the best use of his time clearing out the rest of the orcs down the corridor, if there were any that was.

He walked on to only see a large pair of doors towering over him, each individual door being at least 2 doors wide and long. It was quite the unnatural sight for Nicholas before he transferred from his world to the one as of the present. But it slowly came to him as but a common occurance to see things of such grandeur and mystery during the 2 weeks he had lived here.

As he looked over the cold dirty steel, he resolved himself to wait outside and contract his familiar, afterwards regenerating his mana and health to their prime before venturing onwards. He lingered there, back hunched up against the cold steel as he waited. After the few silent minutes had passed, his mana had gradually reached 140, he activated the spell, the words flowing into his mind as they were reciprocated from his mouth in turn.

Before him, a notification appeared, his attention fully placed on the words it relayed to him.

Choose your familiar out of the options provided