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Class Change
We smoothly cleared our second dungeon dive as well.
After a total of about ten fights, I went from level 29 to 31, Seiichi and Mai went from level 14 to 20, and Shizuka went from level 1 to 3 (Miko).
Shizuka should have fought at least as much as Mai, but her level up rate is so low.
I think it’s due to the influence of class change.
Even so, her SP value still surpasses that of Seiichi and Mai’s, so result-wise, I think acquiring a class is the better option.
There, the question of what in the world Class is comes up again.
I think it’ll surely come up in the lecture content of the upcoming lesson, but it seems we’re progressing a little faster than normal.
Rather than making Sensei go through extra trouble, I think we should do our own research here.
Just in case, I tried googling 『class change』 on the Internet, but as expected, all I got was various game walkthrough information.
We can more or less connect to the Internet through the academy network, but it is quite heavily filtered, so it’s difficult to use.
It seems that the only way to find out local information is to rely on the old-fashioned analog method.
That’s why I’ve come to the library located at the end of the garden.
The building is quite on the compact side compared to the clock tower and the student cafeteria.
Detached from the academy building, the stand-alone building looks like a stylish lodge-style sidewalk café.
Today is the third day since the dungeon was opened, and the agenda for our party is personal offline information gathering and shopping.
To begin with, for general students, dungeon dive doesn’t seem to be something to strive for on a daily basis.
Except for a few battle maniacs, they do it two or three times a week.
According to the academy’s regulations, once a week is the minimum quota.
However, for us who are struggling even in the first stratum, I believe what we should do is to accumulate as much experience as possible.
At the very least, we should get the class change done as soon as possible.
If we look at Shizuka’s precedent, I think it’s something along us getting our level initialized when we change classes.
When I enter the library, I receive a warning pertaining to the use of the facility by the receptionist at the entrance.
The receptionist is not a student, but a specialized librarian.
In a nutshell, I think the warning is something along the lines of: there are some historically valuable literatures among the collection of books inside, so please handle them with care.
It seems that taking books out of the library is strictly prohibited, but there is a photocopy machine available.
I thought that digitalizing the books into PDF format would make it easier to manage, but after entering the stack room, the thought Ah, I think it doesn’t seem possible after all crosses my mind and gets me convinced.
The inside of the library that I perceivable from its exterior was only half of it.
Not only is there a staircase leading up and down in front of the entrance, the dense bookshelves on the underground floor, the bookshelves on the mezzanine terrace surrounding the atrium, and even bookshelves around the arch-shaped ceiling are arranged in lines.
I can’t help but worry that catastrophe would break out should an earthquake occur.
Most of the books lined up are of hardcover binding that look like they could be used as weapons.
It feels like on a completely different level from a normal school library.
And yet, they also seem to have the lighthearted manga and light novels among the collection.
Shizuka, who for some reason is accompanying me even without me saying a word about it, is looking around the collection of books with a curious look on her face.
She verily looks like the type of person who seemingly loves books, but I guess she really does.
And I by no means dislike this moldy scent as well as peculiar tranquility, either.
Her brightly sparkling eyes are asking me if it is okay to take a look at them.
Leaving Shizuka, who happily begins exploring at once, alone, I have librarian-san tell me the place where the materials related to 『class change』 and 『skill』 are placed at.
As these are materials with a high frequency of perusal, they seem to be arranged at a place close to the entrance.
With a thick dictionary that lists the summary of various class types in hand, I occupy one of the reading desks.
Perhaps due to the amount of books dominating the space in the library, the reading corner is quite cramped.
Skimming through the initial resume, I look at the table of contents, which has an endless line of class names.
The number of basic classes, the first step classes listed at the top is not very large.
The class with the largest number of branching from the second step onward seems to be as expected 『Fighter』.
This list itself contains the records of all classes that the students of Toyoashihara Academy had acquired in the past.
Each page is inscribed with supplementary information pertaining to the attribute values corrections as well as skills of a certain class, but there are more than 1,000 pages.
The way there are classes such as 『Clown of Love and Sorrow (Love and Peace Honesty)』, which I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of concept it’s based on from its name alone, among the rare-type branching classes is interesting.
Compared to such a class that blatantly screams out its uniqueness, Shizuka’s 『Miko』 is poised on the archetype tree of Magi-type.
It seems to be a kind of hybrid class that provides skills classified such as 『Wish』 and a considerable amount of combat ability.
I think taking class change as something akin to performing a modification and enhancement surgery that makes use of our accumulated experience is more or less not a mistake.
I think I’ll have to take a look at the official class change facility, the 『Cathedral』, at least once.
For now, I tuck a sticky note into the 『Miko』 page.
It seems that 『Fighter』, which is described as the main class even in the textbook, is the class with most people qualify for.
I guess that means physically beating your opponents is the common practice here.
Of all types, there are also a number of non-combat classes that don’t seem to be useful in battle.
Even among the non-combat classes, there are slightly peculiar yet are also archetype classes, the 『Debauchee (NEET)』 branching.
It seems that students who are unable to adapt to the battles in the dungeon mostly obtain these kinds of classes.
Since dungeon exploration is a compulsory credit, it’s presumed that they get stuck with accumulating experience through the manner of either being repeatedly wiped out with a cause or parasitizing some party.
Also, among the non-combat classes, there seems to be 『Officer』 branching such as 『Librarian』-san who is at the reception desk, as well as 『Craftsman』 branching.
I guess their technical skills will be useful even for dungeon conquest.
From what I can see through interface, the upperclassmen from the enjoy group are mostly of the 『Debauchee (NEET)』 branching.
By the way, the 『~Princess』 type is classified as SSR, and I’ve only seen a few possessors of these classes even in the whole academy.
One of them is Midori-sensei, our homeroom teacher.
It’s the 『Meat Relief Princess』 that Shizuka is also qualified for, so I become somewhat intrigued by its details.
But after considering how nauseating its entry of acquisition conditions is, I decide to skip over it.
As expected, the 『~Princess』 type classes seem to be a trap class with a high correction value but a clogged branching tree.
Just in case, I also try looking for the type that seems capable of curing even incurable illness, but the classes that are capable of using cure-type skills turn out to be fairly rare.
It seems that there is skill that is something along that line possessed by the superior class of the 『Healer』 type, but in terms of rarity, it’s probably SR.
And since its class depth is also of the fourth step, there are no current students who are qualified for it.
It seems that the acquisition conditions for rare classes are related to one’s own qualities, but the precise details don’t seem to be known as of yet.
Since neither me nor Seiichi seems to have『Healer』 type qualities, it doesn’t appear in our class change list.
There are some possibilities in Shizuka’s 『Miko』 class, and Mai too, if she does her branching well from the 『Arts User』 type, she may be able to arrive at a similar class.
I believe this part is a subject for party deliberation whose materials I ought to copy.
I stretch for once and crack my neck.
It’s been too long since I’ve searched through materials in paper media, so my shoulders are going stiff.