Chapter 86: The Weave System |
She had always lived together with her mother back in their hometown, relying on each other for survival.
To let her attend school, her mother worked tirelessly from dawn until late into the night every single day.
Originally, Vivian had believed she was simply a child from an ordinary family.
Yet now she discovered she was actually the illegitimate daughter of some great family.
And merely because of an older sister she had never even met, the people of that family wanted to kill her.
It felt awful!
Why?
Whether it was her mother or herself, both of them had already struggled with everything they had just to stay alive.
They had finally reached the point where life seemed about to improve, yet simply because her older sister needed to smoothly obtain the Hero Class, they wanted her dead.
Vivian absolutely refused to accept it!
“Hmph! None of you ever raised me, and I don’t even know any of you.”
“Just because I might become an obstacle preventing my sister from obtaining the Hero Class, you want my life?”
“Impossible! Absolutely impossible!”
“If you’re heartless, then don’t blame me for being ruthless!”
“Since you want my life, then don’t blame me for unleashing Lord Evil God on you!”
Vivian thought viciously.
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“Achoo!”
Sitting at his computer desk, Jiang Chen suddenly sneezed for no reason.
Rubbing his nose, he muttered, “Why the hell am I sneezing in the middle of summer? Which bastard’s talking shit about me?”
After grumbling, Jiang Chen continued watching the story.
“Holy crap, are they serious?”
“The probability of the Hero Class appearing is extremely low, but obtaining it is actually incredibly easy.”
While muttering, Jiang Chen gradually realized something was wrong.
Based on Jiang Chen’s many years of gaming experience, the stronger the Class, the harder it should be to obtain. There was no need to explain how absurdly overpowered the Hero Class was.
In other games, this was literally the kind of existence meant to defeat the Demon King.
Yet in this game, obtaining it was supposedly this easy.
Something was off. Twelve levels of off out of ten.
And this Hero Class could even be inherited?
Thinking this, Jiang Chen decided to ask about it.
“Old man.... uh... no, Principal, I’m just asking out of curiosity.”
“According to what you’re saying, this Hero thing works through some inheritance system.”
“Doesn’t that mean my cheap father could become invincible just by constantly producing offspring?”
“For example, Hero Number One is my cheap older sister. She goes to challenge the Demon King and gets killed. At that point, doesn’t the younger sister inherit the Class?”
“Then if the younger sister also dies fighting the Demon King, the younger sister’s younger sister takes over. If this keeps going, as long as they produce children fast enough, how could any Demon King survive getting farmed like this?”
As Vivian’s words fell—
Lilith and the old principal simultaneously turned to stare at her as though they had seen a ghost.
Facing their gazes, Vivian blinked innocently. “Is there a problem with what I said?”
The old principal’s mouth twitched.
A problem?
No.... how did you casually say something this outrageous so naturally?
Still, the old principal realized that this girl had definitely misunderstood something.
“Ahem.... it’s not like what you’re imagining.”
“You can understand it this way: right now your sister’s Class is merely a Hero Candidate. The reason she has not officially become a Hero is because your talent is not inferior to hers.”
“So before you die, she will never officially obtain the Hero Class.”
“Under normal circumstances, people directly obtain the Hero Class because unless one’s talent reaches a certain level, they would never qualify to inherit the Hero Class.”
“At least among all the Heroes I know, every one of them had siblings, yet they still smoothly obtained the Hero Class.”
As he spoke, the old principal looked at Vivian with a complicated expression. “You alone are the exception.”
Hearing this, Jiang Chen finally understood.
“So basically, people with inferior talent simply aren’t qualified.”
Immediately afterward, Jiang Chen asked another question that concerned him.
“Is the Hero Class strong?”
“And also, if someone already has a Class, can they still inherit the Hero Class? Can you somehow become dual-classed or something?”
Hearing Vivian’s question, the old principal’s expression changed completely.
After talking this long, the old principal had finally realized something.
This girl’s focus was completely wrong.
Especially the way she so naturally asked whether the Hero Class was strong and whether dual-classing was possible.
Everything she said carried one clear implication—
If the Class was strong enough, she genuinely intended to kill her own sister to obtain it.
No, seriously, what exactly are you thinking?
Your thought process is extremely dangerous.
“Vivian, she’s your older sister. Don’t you feel even the slightest psychological burden?” the old principal finally managed to ask.
“What burden? Back during summer jobs, I worked killing fish in supermarkets. My heart’s already as cold as a knife.”
“So Principal, is the Hero Class strong or not?”
Hearing this, the old principal thought for a moment.
“The Hero Class is also considered a type of Divine Blessings Class, but compared to ordinary Divine Blessings Classes, it is far stronger. Of course, this also depends on how powerful the god granting the Class is.”
“I heard the one granting your sister the Hero Class is the Goddess of Magic, Mystra.”
“Stra? What, some kind of new energy company?.... no wait, wrong script. Is this goddess really that strong?”
“You don’t know the Goddess of Magic?” The old principal looked shocked.
“Am I supposed to?”
“Uh....” The old principal no longer knew how many times Vivian had rendered him speechless. “Do you know about the Weave?”
Seeing Vivian’s confused expression—
“Apparently not.”
“The Goddess of Magic’s Weave is called the Webweave. For us Mages to cast magic, we must first sense the Weave and establish a connection with it.”
“Without connecting to the Weave, you may be unable to cast magic, unable to properly control magical power, and various risks such as magical backlash could occur.”
“And every god possesses their own Weave system. Among the Mages on this continent, at least half are using the Webweave of the Goddess of Magic.”
“As for obtaining two Divine Blessings Classes simultaneously, I can clearly tell you that’s impossible.”
“Because once you obtain a Divine Blessings Class, the only Weave system you can use will be that of the god who granted you that Divine Blessings Class.”
Hearing this, Jiang Chen understood.
As far as this so-called Hero Class was concerned, Jiang Chen’s evaluation could be summarized in two words: complete trash.
Simply put, this so-called Weave could be understood as the internet, except it was a private local area network.
And once you obtained the Hero Class, you would be forcibly locked into that person’s private network.
Although that person granted you certain permissions, the highest authority still remained in their hands.
If one day they disliked you, they could simply kick you out of the network entirely.
“And if you get kicked out, wouldn’t you be completely screwed?”
This Class absolutely could not be accepted.
Thinking this, Jiang Chen asked another question.
“Principal, if I refuse the Hero Class, then that whatever-the-hell family won’t target me anymore, right?”
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