Chapter 240: Working as Intended (2/2)

And when one considered Happy Flames’ buffs in spirit and magical damage, the weapon was more or less the same as Purple-rares.

Since the Mages only had a single class-change available in Tide Callers, Happy Flames was naturally a pitiful chicken feed: shunned and tasteless.

‘I’m already a Player who doesn’t fear death. What good is a shield that could only be used three times a day!?’ was the general opinion of the Mages.

But in the end, it was Edward who had yet to change his class who borrowed 15,000 game coins from Princess Leah to buy Happy Flames.

“Are you really buying that?”

Leah couldn’t stop herself from asking Edward just after the money changed hands. “Even if you hadn’t change class, isn’t there only a handful of fire-type spells?”

“You may be the Princess of Tierra, but you clearly don’t understand the wisdom of the God of Games.” Edward grinned in response. “I may be smart for a human and might conceitedly presume that I partially understand his plans, I know that our lord wouldn’t bestow something useless for us believers! He definitely had planned for the next step, and would hence display his grand divine feat…”

As soon as the words left Edward’s mouth and as if to support his point, all Players received a system notification.

[New Mage class-change: Skyblaze Herald]

[Introduction: Skyblaze Heralds open paths into the plane of fire elements to summon fire elementals—they are pyromancers who cast various powerful attacks through the combined flows of different flames and their manipulation over it.]

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[Class change requirements: Level 15 Mages and above, clearing class change quests.]

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The reason Xi Wei didn’t grant the Players ability to directly create flames was because he didn’t dare to use his Fire authority out in the open. Instead, he made it so that they could summon flames out from fire aspects just like summoners.

It was advantageous even though such a mechanic increased the time Players needed to cast their spells, because it meant that the power of the flames wouldn’t be equal to the Player’s level. Even at lower levels, Skyblaze Heralds would be able to summon powerful fire elementals to do the offensive work for them despite the long chanting that was required.

As usual, there were three skill branches for the new class.

The first was the Blazers who directly burn their enemies into ash through specialization in unleashing fires of extreme heat. This route had many active skills in store, most of which would increase the heat of the fire elementals that were matched with passive increased the intensity of its flames, causing burn damage and ruthless fires which befits the name of ‘flame’ itself!

The second was the Exploders. To them, fire was support—the art was in the explosions! This path was not concerned with the intensity of the flames or if the temperature were enough to destroy their foes. Either way, they would start blasting, and reduce their enemies to dust even if they can’t burn them out! Simple, direct and devastatingly powerful, Xi Wei was looking forward to see what the Players taking this route would eventually become…

The last was the Firelords: since there’s a path to the fire-element plane, why stop at summoning flames? Wouldn’t summoning a horde of fire-type creatures and fighting alongside them while yelling about how awesome that feels. There was basically nothing to explain here—Players taking this route are basically summoners, and at the early game they were the strongest in terms of combat ability alone of all three branches, although the Player themselves would become a vulnerable aspect in return.

Either way, the update of the new class left the Players beside themselves in shock. The Mages who watched as Edward bought off Happy Flames were hitting their own chest and stamping their feet, feeling that they had missed out on a golden opportunity.

Only Princess Leah stared in shock at Edward who bowed at her, his placid smile remaining on his face as if to say ‘Don’t be surprised, things are working as intended’.

[1] hahaha evil, pure evil