Chapter 38: Nightfall's Warning

I Want to Become an Immortal looked completely lost, apparently frightened by the game's complex career system. After pondering for a long time, he suddenly asked, "Then if I want to unlock a magical-class career, sister, do you have any suggestions?"

"Hehe, you really dare to ask. Everyone wants to transition into magical classes, but it's not that easy. I'm not even sure how I'm going to play yet myself. I do happen to have some theoretical conjectures regarding this aspect, but let's make it clear first—these theories were told to me by a friend, and I'm not sure if they're true."

I Want to Become an Immortal said sincerely, "Just say it, sister. Whether it works out or not is not your fault at all."

Xiao Jie also instantly pricked up his ears.

Although Ye Luo's tone was very modest, he felt that this young lady definitely had a grip on things.

"Well, then I'll say it. Different [Errands] require specific attributes to acquire. For example, herb gathering requires high perception.

And errands are often related to careers. For example, having done the [Hunter] errand has a high probability of generating the [Archer] career at level 10.

Having been a [Woodcutter] will very likely yield a Swordsman or Ranger at level 10.

Then theoretically, errands related to the magical class must exist. As long as you acquire such an errand, you can unlock a magical-class career upon reaching the required level.

And these errands naturally have corresponding attribute requirements. For example, if you want to cultivate immortality, spirituality naturally needs to be high. If you stack your spirituality high in advance, it's possible to trigger an immortal cultivation encounter and unlock an errand like a Daoist Boy.

For instance, encountering some mysterious master who sees that your spirituality is very high and that you are good material for cultivating immortality might just take you in as a disciple.

Once you become a Daoist Boy, you can naturally roll the Daoist career later on."

Hearing this, Xiao Jie nodded inwardly. This logic deserved a full score.

However, Ye Luo said again, "But as I said before, this is just a conjecture. What if you put a bunch of attribute points into spirituality and end up failing to encounter an encounter, failing to roll a magical career? Then those points would be wasted. A physical career with stacked spirituality is basically useless; fighting monsters and leveling up will be exceptionally difficult."

Indeed, that made sense. If all attributes were put into spirituality, leveling up would definitely be a hassle.

Hearing this, Xiao Jie felt it made a lot of progression sense. As for the level issue, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck him, and he spotted a crucial point.

"What if I suppress my level? For example, if I reach level 9, put all my attributes into spirituality, and then find a way to trigger an encounter? As long as I don't level up, I won't be locked into a career, giving me infinite time to search for similar encounters."

Hearing this, Ye Luo let out a surprised sound.

"You quite easily draw inferences from other instances, don't you? Exactly, theoretically you can indeed do that. That friend of mine told me about this method, and quite a few people know this method too. Many players who haven't triggered a magical encounter at level 9, 19, or 29 probably stop leveling up just to search for their desired encounters,

wandering all over the world.

However, wandering all over the world as a level 9 alt is very dangerous. Generally, you need the protection of a high-level main character to dare do this. There are no low-level maps among those related to immortals, deities, monsters, and ghosts; most level-suppressed players suppress at level 19 or 29."

Sure enough.

There is never a shortage of smart people. If he could think of this method, others could too.

Xiao Jie looked at the level above Ye Luo's head: Level 8.

Could this young lady also be suppressing her level?

He suspected this because Ye Luo knew far too much; she didn't look like a beginner at all. Moreover, her style of action gave off a particularly confident vibe, feeling just like a high-level player playing an alt, which inevitably led him to this thought.

"What route do you plan to take, sister?" I Want to Become an Immortal couldn't help asking again.

Ye Luo calmly said, "This question is not within the scope of consultation, I cannot disclose it."

Xiao Jie thought to himself that the kid was still too rash; how could he casually ask such a sensitive question? However, he felt that Ye Luo had definitely planned things out for herself, most likely a career related to perception.

"Then besides Divine General, what other dual-transition careers are there?"

"I don't know much. Many careers probably haven't been discovered yet. After all, in a game without error tolerance, the cost of trial and error is too high, so many people tend to make conservative choices, sticking to paths others have already forged.

Besides, the intelligence I obtained was from a long time ago; perhaps someone has developed even more careers recently.

The ones I know are roughly these types:
Military General + Divine Supplicant = Divine General.
Military General + Spirit Medium = Netherworld Ghost General.
Daoist + Spirit Medium = Celestial Master.

Tamer + Shaman/Daoist = Sorcerer.
Swordsman + Swordsman (Blade) = Chivalrous Hero.

As for advanced careers, I do know quite a few.
Swordsman——Sword Master——Sword Saint.
Military General——Brave Cavalry Colonel——Brave Cavalry General.
Daoist——Array Master——Qimen Dunjia Master.
Daoist——Thunder Mage——Thunder-Driving True Person.
Daoist——Illusionist——Demonic Daoist.
The Daoist career has very many advancements with many different development routes...
Thief——Flying Thief.
Warlord Monk——Warlord Monk Master.
Archer——Divine Marksman..."

"Wait a minute, why do those later ones only have a single advancement?"

"Who knows? Maybe there really is only one advancement, or maybe subsequent advancements just haven't been excavated by anyone yet. Of course, as I said before, this is all very old intelligence.

In addition, careers also have ranks of nobility and baseness. The harder a career is to unlock, the better the specialties it tends to grant. For example, a Military General is much better than a Spearmen. Being basic careers as well, the Military General not only has extra horsemanship but also aura skills.

However, the difficulty to unlock is also higher; it requires any weapon skill to reach mastery plus horsemanship mastery before level 10, and at the same time, the reputation in the corresponding prefecture must be raised to revered before career assignment.

As for careers like Spearmen and Battle Axe Fighter, you can just roll them out as long as you use the corresponding weapon, belonging to the most characteristic-less careers.

Moreover, there's another problem with these types of careers: the skills of this profession are completely useless in reality, not even as good as Qigong Masters or Flying Thieves who at least have some supernatural abilities."

Xiao Jie thought to himself, indeed. Even if one wanted to play a physical-class career, at the very least it had to be one with internal energy and lightness skills so one could at least put on airs in reality.

If you pick a Spearmen or Axe Fighter, apart from not needing a stunt double when shooting a movie, he couldn't imagine any other use.

By stacking attribute points you could become an athlete, martial artist, or the like, but that was about it.

Of course, the best were still magical-class careers. Spells! Those were things that would feel immensely satisfying in reality if you could just pull off a couple of tricks. And thinking about it carefully,

combat-type spells weren't that valuable; the truly useful ones turned out to be auxiliary skills like Healing, Disease Removal, Invisibility, and Round Light...

The more he thought about it, the more Xiao Jie felt how prescient I Want to Become an Immortal's decision to trade intelligence was. This information was definitely more valuable than one or two pieces of equipment.

However, this Ye Luo was also a straightforward person, spilling so much as soon as she was asked.

This made him even more certain that the other party was definitely a high-level player.

"Alright, that's all I know. If you have no other questions, I have matters to attend to. Excuse me, you two." Ye Luo turned to leave as she spoke, but after taking a few steps, she turned back.

With a sincere tone, she said, "A little piece of personal advice: you'd better not aim too high right now and think about all those wild things. Figure out a way to survive in the game first. After all, you only have one life."

After Ye Luo left, Xiao Jie and I Want to Become an Immortal looked at each other in silence.

Xiao Jie began to consider the feasibility of different careers in his heart.

Ye Luo was right; surviving was the most important thing, but his goal wasn't just to survive.

Acquiring true supernatural power was the purpose of playing the game.

Therefore, planning his development route early on was extremely important.

Currently, it seemed the supernatural power in this game was mainly divided into four systems: Gods, Immortals, Demons, and Ghosts.

Gods relied on faith, which he wouldn't consider. His own faith value was only 7. Why it was so low, Xiao Jie could roughly guess: living in the new society and growing up under the red flag, he naturally had no feeling for gods or ghosts. Even now, encountering such a magical game, Xiao Jie hadn't changed much.

He didn't care much for ghosts either; they didn't feel like good things.

Then there were only two choices left: Immortals and Demons.

Of course, the best was to become an immortal.

And the career routes were nothing more than advancements or dual transitions.

Combining the skills he currently mastered, Xiao Jie quickly mapped out a few routes.

Route 1: Swordsman——Daoist——Sword-Wielding Master.
Suppress level to 9 and go to the city to learn swordsmanship. After learning swordsmanship, level up to 10 and take the Swordsman career. Between levels 10-19, find a way to trigger an encounter to gain spellcasting abilities, take a part-time Daoist career at level 20, and dual-transition into a Sword-Wielding Master at level 30.
The reason for learning swordsmanship was mainly the feeling that swordsmanship paired best with immortals, and the Sword-Wielding Master career sounded quite formidable. Riding the wind to roam the four seas, wielding swords across the eight wastes, incarnating into a sword immortal with clothes as white as snow and sword-qi like a rainbow—just thinking about it felt dashing.

Route 2: Ranger/Swordsman(Blade)——Daoist——????.
Level up according to the current situation, smoothly reaching level 10 to take the Ranger/Swordsman(Blade) career. Between levels 10-19, find a way to trigger an encounter to gain spellcasting abilities, take a part-time Daoist career at level 20, and combine blade techniques with Daoist arts at level 30 for a dual transition.
This route was similar to Route 1. The advantage was not needing to suppress levels to learn swordsmanship, reducing risks in the early stage. The disadvantage was whether a dual-transition career could be unlocked at level 30 was hard to say, but Xiao Jie felt that blades and swords fundamentally didn't differ much; there was no reason sword + Daoist arts could dual-transition while blade + Daoist arts couldn't. Such a career definitely existed; as long as he researched more, he could always uncover it.

Route 3: Daoist——????——????
This route was extremely dangerous. Spirituality had to be stacked high before level 10. Xiao Jie felt it needed to be stacked to at least 30, and safely to 40, to possibly trigger an encounter. His current spirituality was 12, meaning he needed to add 28 spirituality points, investing roughly 5 levels' worth of attribute points.
As a result, basic attribute points in the early stage would be very low, making monster fighting extremely difficult.
Of course, once an encounter was successfully triggered and spells were learned, he would take off immediately, making this the fastest route to getting stronger.
As for what route to advance into later, it would depend on destiny, but magical advancements definitely grew stronger and stronger, never falling behind.
This route carried risks as huge as its opportunities; one slip and he would crash, so he had to proceed with utmost caution.

Route 4: Tamer——Shaman/Daoist——Sorcerer.
Xiao Jie felt this route was the safest. Herding sheep and feeding dogs, and turning back to arrange pig-feeding as well, would give a very high probability of rolling the Tamer career at level 10. Having pets would naturally make early-stage leveling much safer.
This game didn't restrict what weapons players used; he could completely combine bows and arrows with animal pets, using a blade for close combat—truly capable of both ranged and melee, with both a meat shield and output.
Leveling and fighting monsters would definitely be formidable.
Between levels 10-19, find a way to trigger an encounter to acquire spellcasting abilities, take a part-time Shaman or Daoist career at level 20, and dual-transition into a Sorcerer at level 30.
Although the career name Sorcerer sounded a bit harsh, it should be on par with Immortality Masters and definitely wouldn't be weak.

Yet, which route should he actually take? Xiao Jie found himself in a dilemma.

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