Chapter 572 Zesli's Theory

Watching Arwen leave, Shiro decided to search up the two topics that he talked about. The first was the Norman incident 22 years ago in Britain while the other was about the scientist.

Searching up the key words of Norman Incident, 2 extracts appeared on the screen.

The Norman incident was a situation where the adventurer by the name of Norman went berserk and committed mass genocide within London. They say that the cause was a fault with his mental state after his class was reset over and over again.

Every time you reset your class to get something new, you lose all of your progress and some theorised that after a certain amount of reset, it'll strain your body to the point where your mental state is affected.

Norman was never able to reach B class because he could never complete the class up requirements. Therefore, he would try to go down a different path but it never worked.

It was unknown how many resets he had experienced but when the incident happened, his class was now an error code.

[Norman – LVL ??? £%"$"%!"$"£]

Every time he attacked someone, their mind would be destroyed and they would enter a state where they couldn't even form proper sentences.

The situation was barely resolved after the government dispatched tens of top tier A class adventurers. However, during this, 4 of the A class adventurers were rendered into a vegetative state where they are still being treated to this day. There is no known cure for this state and many believe them to be a lost cause.

As for the cause of all of this, Norman was not killed but rather sealed and imprisoned in the highest-level prison there is in the world. There were voices of concern in regards to Norman's survival but the government expressed their helplessness at the situation.

Despite having the A class adventurers attack Norman, his wounds seemed to regenerate at a rapid rate. The best they could do was to seal him in an illusion array and seal him in the prison.

There were a few people that tried to save him for their twisted ideals but the guards were able to prevent all of the attempts so far.

The latest attempt was 2 years ago which was also the 50th attempt at rescuing Norman. It was believed to be the final attempt as the manpower used for this was three times as big as the other attempts and the lack of subsequent rescues proves this point.

Reading up to this point, Shiro furrowed her brows as Norman's class was in a way, similar to her chosen one. It was something that didn't have a name and the power seemed to be out of the conventional loop.

It was one that focused on multiple aspects rather than just one.

However, it was different to heir's since he was 'consumed' by something and lost his mind.

Shaking her head, Shiro decided to read about the scientist, Zesli.

Zesli was an orphan that started her research about classes when she reached level 100. Most classes experience the biggest change at level 100 which caused Zesli's interest to grow on the subject.

There have been many theories which make sense on paper that were written by Zesli but nothing was proven due to a lack of proof and test subjects that could verify her theories.

One of her theory's ties to the existence of hidden classes and why they are achieved.

Normally, one would class up once they achieve the class up requirements of the chosen class. However, should they fulfil the requirements of a higher grade of that class during this period, they transcend into a hidden class which isn't recorded.

There are many hidden classes in the world and there are new ones being discovered every day. Zesli believes that the basic class up requirements are the minimum standard one needs to reach in order to be classed as a tier 4 individual and the hidden classes are for those that surpass this 'minimum standard'. Hence why there are clear disparities between adventurers.

An example would be when someone is able to defeat people that are 80 levels above them. One of the reasons would naturally be the fact that the assignable points per level are many times higher than an average tier 4 but the other would be the quality of skills provided by the system.

An average fighter at the hundredth level may get a skill that increases their strength by a certain amount of points while an exceptional fighter that has achieved a hidden class may get a skill that increases their strength through percentile rather than point.

This means that the strong get stronger while the average stays average. Of course, if they're able to transcend their 'minimum standard' during the next class up, they'll receive a hidden class as well.

One of the variables to achieving the hidden class is naturally, the class up materials you have on hand.

Zesli theorised that when one collects an object to achieve their class up, they take a portion of that object's 'origin' in order for the system to connect them with the certain class.

For example, if someone was to obtain Sun Wu Kong's golden headband or staff, their next class may receive benefits that would remind people of the Monkey King.

Which means that one can control the hidden class that they may obtain through collecting certain items.

However, there was one question that Zesli kept asking.

What if you continuously break past this minimum standard? If you get a powerful class at the start and continue to surpass the standard set by each tier to the point where you can transcend tiers despite their difference in strength.

Like a snowball, the more you roll, the bigger you become. Eventually, you could become an avalanche that surpasses all of the other snowballs/classes provided by the system.

But to obtain this, what must you do?

The materials you obtain must be slightly higher than the limit of your next tier when you obtain it, the achievements/feats you do must be something that most people would struggle with at your tier.

Such examples would be completing a B class dungeon solo despite being C class or killing a A class monster when you're only in B class.

Regarding this theory, Zesli had a rather unique way of expressing it.

[If the class that you chose could be said to be a point value that you must meet, the quality of the hidden class is the point value you reach after surpassing that initial value. For example, if a swordsman has 10 points, and you completed feats that total up to 15 points, you may receive the class of talented swordsman. If you achieve 20 point's, expert swordsman. 30, 50, 100 and so on. The more points you achieve during the period of class up, the higher your hidden class would be.]

This theory had been half proven as a few people had refrained from completing the final requirement of their class in order to increase their points. Sometimes the subjects had managed to achieve a hidden class while others failed.

Due to the questionable success rate, this theory was put on hold for now.

Reading up to this point, Shiro was rather interested in meeting with this woman. After all, it made sense from her standpoint.

Despite her snow girl class at the start, her experience as a tier 6 and her Nanomancer class had allowed her to do things that were normally not achievable to people who are just starting out. After her first class up, she continued to challenge those that were higher level to the point where she is now unmatched against those that are at the same level as her.

If she had to describe it using the point system that Zesli used in her explanation, she was 500 points while normal B class were 200. She could kill them with ease while putting up a good fight against those that are in A class. Should she begin to struggle, her percentile based berserk skills could make up for that difference.

'Therefore, if I want to achieve my next class, I need to surpass the minimum standard that I have set so far. With how my classes have been and how I was able to defeat two tier 5 individuals with some help, I'll need to achieve a similar feat solo or go for a tier 6 in order to surpass the minimum standard. Perhaps this is what the system meant by the fact that I may not class up even after achieving the requirements. I don't meet the minimum standard of my ??? class should I go for average tier 5 materials.' Shiro thought with a small smile.

'So, to class up, I'll need to obtain materials and achievements that are near the standard of tier 6 legend.'