128: Job Change to [Summoner]

He followed the girl on a tour of the Summoner Association.

The entire first floor here was a service hall.

"There are bounty missions here too?"

"Yes, completing the Association's bounty missions earns you Association Points. A certain amount of points allows you to exchange for advanced Summoner classes!"

You guys really know how to play the game.

"Can't I just apply for an Advanced Class? Or buy it with money?"

"We're such a large association; do you think we're short on money?"

The girl raised her head slightly.

"In the entire Qixia Town, aside from the Mage Guild and those religious fanatics at the Church of Light, our Summoner Association is the wealthiest!"

Xu Shian actually believed those words.

After all, they were Casters!

In all the Myriad Realms, he had never heard of a Caster who was poor!

"After changing classes to a Basic Summoner, does it affect my ability to later change to an advanced or Hidden Class?"

"It doesn't. Actually, the skills for advanced, hidden, and basic classes are similar. It's just that hidden classes have higher skill bonuses, and some skills allow for contracting higher-level creatures..."

Xu Shian squinted at her.

Keep talking! Why did you stop?

How shameless, it's easy for her to say.

With such a world of difference between them, how could she have the nerve to say they were 'similar'?

"If I need to join the Summoner Association, do I have to pick up all these missions here in the hall?"

"Not at all! Once you join a faction, an Association Mission section will appear on your personal mission panel! Missions on the panel are updated daily, including long-term missions, solo missions, and group missions!"

"Missions can be accepted directly from the panel! However, capture-type missions must be submitted at the hall, while kill-type missions can be submitted directly through the mission panel!"

He learned more about the Association's situation from the girl.

Xu Shian immediately processed his membership!

While he was at it, he changed his class to a Summoner... though a Basic Summoner didn't seem to fit his vibe.

But since they didn't offer anything else here, he would wait for an opportunity in the future.

[Ding! Do you confirm your class change to 'Summoner'?]

"Confirm!"

[Ding! Congratulations, you have also become a Summoner!]

..."That's it?"

Xu Shian was dissatisfied. He was supposedly the first player to complete a class change; give him some face!

Even if there wasn't a world announcement, there should at least be some basic rewards, right?

One star review!

[Class: Summoner]

[Class Skill 1: Provides an additional 20% of your own attributes as a bonus to summoned beasts.]

[Class Skill 2: Fusion Combat Technique. Designate a summoned beast to die instantly; its soul power will then empower you, granting 10% of the beast's total attributes. Duration: 3 minutes. Cooldown: 2 hours.]

[Class Skill 3: Beast Mimicry Tactic: Clears all negative status effects from yourself, transforms you into a designated summoned beast, and rapidly summons illusions of the same beast to scatter and flee. Duration: 20 seconds. Cooldown: 1 hour.]

[Class Skill 4: Spatial Doubling: Doubles the number of summoned beasts you can store!]

[Class Skill 5: Adds one skill slot to all your summoned beasts!]

...Xu Shian looked at these class skills with mixed feelings!

The only consolation was that these class skills didn't take up skill slots; they were innate to the class.

Aside from that... this Basic Summoner class really looked underwhelming no matter how he viewed it!

Only class skills one, three, and five were somewhat reliable.

The other two seemed quite useless to Xu Shian.

After all, in his opinion, if there was a monster he couldn't beat, such a tiny attribute boost wouldn't change that... however, Beast Mimicry Tactic had some potential!

Calling it a 'combat tactic' was a nice way of saying it was a survival skill... although Xu Shian already had [Vanish] to drop combat and escape!

But when it came to saving your life... who would complain about having too many ways to escape combat?

Besides, Xu Shian could Summon Crows... when the time came, crows would be flying everywhere. If he hid among them to flee, who could catch him?

Xu Shian tried out the Association's mission system and found it worked normally, so he stopped exploring.

To be honest, this class change was better than nothing for Xu Shian, but only just.

Of course, for ordinary players with mediocre strength, even a tiny buff was good!

Xu Shian's reason for joining the Summoner Association and becoming a Basic Summoner clearly wasn't for this ordinary class.

Mainly, he needed to find his own organization... besides, they wouldn't let you learn skills here if you didn't change classes!

"You can learn Summoner skills over here!"

The girl led Xu Shian to the Class Trainer; the receptionist girl's task was now complete.

She said goodbye to Xu Shian and left first.

The Class Mentor was a middle-aged man in his forties.

He had long hair and a full beard, which made Xu Shian's scalp tingle!

Fortunately, he was wearing a standard mage robe and not a men's tank top or something... otherwise, Xu Shian would have definitely turned around and left immediately.

"Welcome, our... newest member!"

Xu Shian shook hands with him!

"Is there any skill you want to learn? I have the skill descriptions and price list here!"

Skill descriptions... and a price list?

You guys are quite advanced... as he looked through the list, Xu Shian's frown deepened!

Except for a few minor skills, all the other skills actually required Association Contribution to exchange.

Association Contribution was, of course, obtained by doing Association missions... couldn't they just take money?

"I heard..."

Since there was a mentor here who could provide guidance, he had to ask, even if it was awkward!

"I heard that the skills we currently learn and use are all basic skills? What's the deal with those non-basic skills?"

The mentor's eyes lit up as he sized Xu Shian up.

"Where did you hear that?"

"I just happened to hear about it..."

"The learning conditions for many special skills are very strict, with requirements for level and rank! You currently... you're Bronze Rank?"

The mentor could no longer maintain his composure.

He stared at Xu Shian in shock.

After all, while there were people who could pass the Bronze Trial at level ten, there weren't many that an ordinary person would see!

He took a moment to compose himself.

"To be honest, I don't know the kind of skills you're talking about! I've only heard people mention them! There was once a senior Summoner who contracted a Frost Dragon on the Battlefield of Ten Thousand Races..."

The mentor's gaze seemed to pierce through the world, seeing that grand and magnificent battlefield.

Xu Shian was speechless and looked carefully at the skill descriptions.

"This Pet Skill..."

This was one of the few skills Xu Shian saw that could be learned with money.

"Didn't the class change give you a skill slot? This Pet Skill specifically serves that slot! Once you learn it, all your pets can be equipped with this skill!"

Speaking of this, the mentor immediately went into sales mode.

"We Summoners have it hard! Different races carry different skills. Sometimes when the lineup is adjusted, many familiar tactics can't be used anymore!"

"What should we do then? We give them skills ourselves!"

"For example, this Taunt can be given to tankier pets, this Backstab can be given to more agile assassin-type pets, and this Lightning Bolt can be given to magic-type pets..."

Xu Shian's face darkened.

"Do I have that many skill slots specifically for Pet Skills?"

"Don't worry about that! Pet Skills are all unified under the 'Pet Skill' slot, occupying only one position... even if you learn ten Pet Skills, they will only take up one skill slot!"

That's more like it... "Are there no area-of-effect skills?"

"There are! Look here!"