Chapter 74: Lectures

"Do you all understand that?" Hayatobi asked, his voice echoing against the high stone arches of the Grand Classroom. He stood with his arms crossed, staring at their shocked expressions—the look of young cultivators realizing that their roles in the world were far more dangerous than they had imagined.​The students slowly nodded their heads, the weight of the responsibility settling in. Satisfied with their focus, he continued:

​"Now, the remaining bloodlines." He pointed a sharp finger at the Warrior and Knight labels on the display.

​"Most of you are wondering why these two bloodlines are even here... Of course, they are the same thing. But you’re wrong!" He snapped a finger, and the screen flickered. Two detailed human diagrams appeared, glowing with a faint blue aura, standing beside the bloodlines list. Below them, their base attributes hummed into view.

​"Do you see the difference!!" Hayatobi paced the front of the room, his eyes sharp. "The average stat of any normal fighter, like the healer, are all 10! That’s for a Lv1 fighter! The warrior bloodline can deal more physical damage than the knights, who have the strongest defense! But a knight’s spirit energy is higher than a warrior’s."

​He paused, letting the students compare the numbers. The Knight’s defense and spirit energy were clearly meant for endurance, whereas the Warrior was built for the blitz.

​"About their magic Attacks... Knight and Warriors can’t use spells like a mage or priest! They come with innate skills. These skills can be activated with their body, as you experienced in Austin’s battle. He made use to use his body when using these skills... They can’t use fireballs or summon lightnings. Their only skills are related to force!" He explained, a small, knowing smile on his face.

​"Warning," he added, his voice dropping an octave, "Although the warrior and Knight bloodlines can’t use skills, they’re strong enough to kill any mage! Not to mention using a weapon will greatly increase their battle powers."

​He snapped his fingers again, and a third human figure appeared, leaner and more predatory in its stance, showing the stats of an assassin.

​"Assassins aren’t great with defense, or magic attacks... But never underestimate an assassin’s speed and attack! The best bloodline to counter an Assassin is a fellow Assassin or a Warrior." He said, taking a moment to exhale as the air in the room grew thick with the technicalities of war.

​"Yes, Assassins are faster, but Warrior bloodline holders have a more success rate to defend against their attacks... The second Bloodline after them is Swordsman."

​"To me... I will say, Swordsman have more advantage against assassins... Because just like Warriors and Knights bloodlines, Swordsmen also awakened innate skills, which helps them in their battles, and once a swordsman reached Lv70, they’ll be able to unlock a spirit weapon." He smiled, knowing that for many of these students, reaching Level 70 was a distant, legendary dream.

​"Assassins also have innate skills, but as an assassin you must know how to attack in the shadows, always know how to catch your opponent off-guard, if you master this. You will be invincible, even to Swordsman and warrior bloodlines. Just like the young man named Carl, the leader of team ten. His mastery over his stealth skill helped his team earn more points in the competition."

​At the mention of his name, a ripple went through the 250 students. Those who knew Carl turned their heads toward his seat, their sudden attention drawing everyone else’s gaze like a magnetic force.

​’You don’t have to call my name,’ Carl thought nervously, his face heating up as he stared intently at his notebook, feeling the weight of over two hundred pairs of eyes on him.

​"Where am I! Oh yeah, Mages and Priest!" Hayatobi’s voice boomed, pulling the attention back to the screen as two massive sets of data appeared.

​"What the hell?!" a student whispered loudly.

"Look at the priest’s spirit energy and magical attack!"

"My Goddess! At level one they’re already this powerful!!"

"Even the mage is Great!"

"Yeah... But the rest of their stats are so low."

​The classroom instantly burst into an uproar, a chaotic sea of whispering and frantic note-taking. The sheer disparity in Spirit Energy—a Priest having ten times the capacity of a Warrior—was a revelation that changed everything they knew about power scaling.

​"Yes! As you can see! The mage and priests are far below in combat stats. But their magic attack and spirit energy is on another whole level! If you have a single brain in your heads, you can also tell the Priest is a lot stronger than a Mage when using spells and spirit energies!" He exhaled softly, waiting for the murmurs to die down.

​"Only a Mage and Priest can use skill scrolls and gain more skills... While the rest of you can only absorb it to strengthen your innate skills! You must understand this! And know one thing. Although a mage and priest have low stats, their magic attack is strong enough to kill a knight two levels above them! So be careful when facing any of them!"

​He yelled the final warning, his voice sharp enough to cut through their excitement. The students nodded in sober understanding, their pens scratching furiously against their notebooks as they processed the dangerous reality of the magical classes.