Chapter 96: Emergency Class Change (2/2)

[Explanation: Through much training, you are now ready to receive the blessings of the ocean, but before that, you must possess the ability to hear the ocean’s voice, as well as sign a contract with the powerful, beautiful, and mysterious beings of the sea. They shall lend their aid to you in your future conquests should you decide to call upon them.]

[Requirements: 1 Listening Conch (1/1), 10 Skins of Oceanic Beasts (10/10), 30 Evergreen Kelps (30/30), 1 Length of Coral (1/1), 1 Red Freshwater Cuttlefish (1/1)]

[Rewards: 1 Cloak of the Ocean (class specific equipment, does not take up an equipment slot), ∞ Oceanic Contracts, 1 Coral Pen.]

[Note: Quest items can be found by exploring the ‘Gray Fjord Port’ area.]

“Everything’s already prepared!”

Jom took out a small pouch from his bag filled with his already prepared quest items—since there were already quite a few players who had already reclassed to Aquatic Angel, the items required to complete the quest had been circulating through the Cleric players. A couple of these items were difficult to find too, for example, you’d think a ‘Length of Coral’ would be easy to acquire, but the system only accepts coral with very specific dimensions… Still, most Cleric players held on to a set of these items regardless of whether or not they planned on reclassing, just in case they needed them.

This, Jom felt, was definitely a ‘case’ that he needed them.

The mountain bandits let fly a few more fireballs, all flying towards Jom and Terry. Even if they were able to roll out of the way, the shockwave from the blast would still knock them off their feet, leaving them to be trampled by the oncoming chocobo stampede.

Even though they looked cute, the Chocobos boasted a hefty two-hundred something kilograms of weight beneath their feathery exterior. With their armor and the fully equipped bandits on their backs, they could easily exceed three-hundred kilos, getting stepped on by one of them was either death or a life lived crippled!

But just before the fireball came into contact with the two boys, a swarm of blue light surrounded Jom.

The next moment, the fireball hit, bursting into flames and causing a thick combination of smoke and mist to cover the scene.

Oceanside areas weren’t lacking in the wind department during winter.

Valley winds swept away the smoke and mist, uncovering what had happened.

Appearing from behind the fog was a huge… clam?

“Just in time…” Jom spat out the bottle in his mouth and let out a deep breath.

He had seen a recent wardrobe change.

Around his neck was now a scarf with blue and black stripes, if you looked closely you could even see a scale-like texture on it. A sea snail brooch was attached to it as the scarf whipped in the wind, adding an air of heroism onto the young boy.

His white robe didn’t change much, but he had an extra pouch attached to his belt containing the Coral Pen and his ‘Oceanic Contracts’.

“Sprite?” Terry asked, looking at the bottle Jom had spat out.

“It’s ‘Water from the River Lethe’!” Jom corrected.

“Isn’t that sprite?! Wow, those things are so expensive!”

“Well, I need to change my skill points a bit after reclassing.” Jom canceled his clam (?) summon. “Anyways, now we can finally start our second round.”

Following his words, many small octopus tentacles started crawling their way up from the ground, inching their way towards the mountain bandits that stopped their charge at the sight of the clam…