Jonathan's evolution carried with it a shocking revelation. Evolving both Class and Profession simultaneously did co with a bonus to the process.
If it hadn't been so cliche, I might've been surprised. This seed on brand for what we had learned so far and wasn't beyond the realm of possibility.
After finding out it was true, it wasn't hard to co up with a reason why. From everything we have learned about this new System that watched everything we did, it all revolved around effort expended.
The System didn't do anything for free. It helped with leveling by taking a cut of the essence, the sa held true for evolving. To keep that assistance you had to prove you were worthy of it.
For every bit of aid you received, there was a cost that ca with it. I wasn't sure if it was a net even for the System, or if it ca out ahead, but it wasn't hard to co up with reasons for why there was a bonus.
During evolutions, the System expended effort to help you through the process, whether class or profession, it didn't matter, but it aided you through it. Doing both at the sa ti probably saved the System either energy or power of so sort making the process cost less than doing them both separately.
Since that seed to be the case, both evolutions cost the System less to help with. The bonus on the other hand could be for one of two reasons. One, the System wanted to incentivize evolving both at the sa ti, hence the bonus. Or two, the leftover energy the system would have had to expend stayed with you, rather than being used as paynt.
Finding out there was a bonus was all well and good, except it took a while to find out what the bonus actually was. It wasn't explicitly stated anywhere and it took us a minute to figure it out.
There were two things different between the evolution to E-rank when evolving separately compared to at the sa ti. The stat boost during the evolution and the racial boost.
Every ti a person went up in rank, there was an associated stat boost to all stats. For H to G, it was 2 stat points. From G to F, it was 5 stat points.
What took so long was because that wasn't the set-in-stone rule we had assud it had been. When I evolved to G-rank, 2 stat points in every attribute was my reward.
We were still new to ranking up and all that so when we told each other, everyone confird they received 2. Thinking that it was all standardized, when we evolved to F-rank we didn't think to say anything about it.
When I evolved to F-rank, I got 5 points in every stat, the sa as Austin who I had ntioned it to at one point or another. After his confirmation, I didn't think anything of it.
Except now, in our questioning of what was different, Brayden and Vinny got a different boost than Austin when evolving to E-rank, even though we all assud it was the sa.
With so backtracking, we found out the reason. The rarity of the class, or profession, you were evolving into mattered. Depending on the rarity, the boost for the racial rank-up changed.
We all got two at the start because there wasn't that much of a difference between rarities at that level. One got 8 stat points per level and the other got 10. For the 15 levels in G-rank that was only a 30-point difference.
A difference that could easily be made up in other ways, like training.
The F-rank evolution was where differences started to show. Austin and I both got 5 points in every stat while Rachel, Jonathan, Vinny, and Brayden all got 4 while everyone else got 3.
It happened again at E-rank. Austin got 10 while Vinny and Brayden only got 9.
The only common denominator between everything was the rarity we all evolved into. Austin and I evolved with Rare classes for F-rank and Austin kept that going into E-rank.
Vinny and Brayden both had Uncommon professions for theirs making it clear what was happening after that.
How we noticed the discrepancy was because Jonathan got a different number than either of them. Jonathan, with a Law and Spirit Anchor, evolved with a Rare class matching Austin.
Being the sa rarity as Austin, he should have gotten 10 stat points, but he got 13.
Everyone was wondering about the difference and it took until Abigail wrote it all down that we found out the math behind it. The stat boost when ranking up your race was 20% of the stats per level of the class you were evolving into.
There was so rounding that happened but that was generally the case. When I evolved into the class I have now, Champion of Niflheim, it gave 24 stats per level resulting in a 5 point boost to all stats.
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Jonathan, evolving into an Uncommon class for F-rank, got 20 stat points per level and only received a 4 point boost to all stats. The sa held true for the Common rarity as well.
The difference this ti was instead of the boost being 20%, it was 25%. Only getting a 5% boost for evolving both at the sa ti didn't seem like that much but you also had to consider we were still in the lower ranks.
Compared to the stat points that would be bouncing around up in A or S rank, the small amount we got per level wasn't that much. Altogether, Jonathan, getting 13 points in all the 9 different attributes, received 117 stat points for his evolution while Austin only got 90.
27 free stat points for evolving both at the sa ti didn't sound too bad when you thought about it like that. Plus, we learned that when doing both at the sa ti, the higher rarity class or profession was all that mattered. The boost was only from the higher one.
Jonathan had a Rare class and an Uncommon Profession but he got the stat points of his higher one.
And that wasn't even the only bonus. Jonathan got to boost his bloodline more than the other three had been able to. That one was a bit less definitive since we were unable to get hard numbers, but we were confident that was the case.
From what we had read, he should have only been able to use two Stone Turtle shells as material but managed to use 3 instead. We were lucky we bought extra thinking that could have been a possibility.
All of it added up to be a decent-sized boost for evolving both at the sa ti rather than doing them separately.
With all the excitent and brainstorming that the crowd turned into, I was ready to get back to what I was doing. I still needed to finish making what I was dubbing the Wind Chamber.
It didn't sound that impressive but I didn't really care about that. It beat calling it the 'room' forever.
Before I managed to sneak off back to my books, Austin stopped outside of my- his lodge.
"Can we talk before you bury your head in books again?" He asked.
"Sure but make it quick. I'm kind of on a ti crunch with this." I answered.
"With the end of the tutorial coming up, people have been... speculating. Have you heard what they are saying?" The way he said speculating clued in on what he was referring to. People spoke in hushed whispers about it, hoping that talking about it quietly wouldn't jinx it.
"Are you talking about how the final wave will co on day 88 but we won't leave until day 90?" I asked without the usual deference. It would happen or it wouldn't, talking about it in a whisper didn't change that.
"Yes," He nodded.
Only an idiot didn't do the math. The tutorial lasted 90 days with a wave coming every 3 days starting on the first. Marking all the waves out starting on the first made the final wave co on day 88, not day 90.
There would be 2 more days of the tutorial after all the waves were over. We didn't know what they would be used for but it seed unlikely that another wave would co.
The tutorial had held to its pattern almost religiously, it seed reasonable to assu that it wouldn't break it right at the end. We didn't know what the last two days would be used for, but another wave was not the running theory.
Plus, 30 seed like too even a number to break with another last-minute wave. The last wave already had so many things going for it symbolizing that it was the grande finale. I didn't think that there would be another.
So thought it was ti to get everything in order before being transported back ho. An opportunity to pack everything up and take what we needed while also giving ti to farm that last bit of points before the store disappeared. The grace period to use what the tutorial offered before it disappeared.
It didn't matter to which was the case, I had my own plans for how I was going to spend the last few days.
There were pylons out there that would look better conquered if you catch my aning. I planned to try to get the most out of the tutorial prizes by conquering as many pylons as possible in the two-day span.
We hadn't solidified any plans yet, but everyone in the family was on the sa page. Austin and I were able to fight pylons by ourselves while Jonathan, Rachel, Hal, and Carrie would form a group to go around and do the sa.
We planned to get as many as we could.
"From what I've heard, Tracy plans to do the sa as us," He said.
"So? What does it matter?" I scoffed, "She isn't strong enough to get that many and I doubt we will be able to get all 50 anyway."
There were enough pylons to go around, what did the ones Tracy would conquer matter?
"What if that Kurt guy gets involved?" Austin brought up the man in the south. Tracy was still negotiating with the man trying to rge and it was looking likely to happen.
I wasn't certain when, but if it happened, it would be soon. Most likely before the next wave.
"What are you suggesting?" I questioned. He knew that the extra 'competition' wasn't that big of a deal. We most likely wouldn't be able to get them all so it was odd that he was bringing it up.
"What if we were to be... more domineering about it?" He threw out there.
He didn't say the words specifically but I understood what he was implying.
"That could be seen as betrayal. I gave my word that we wouldn't co into conflict with her." I said, "Less than honorable almost."
"Betrayal is a strong word. I would say more like... inevitable. Plus, you said while the waves ca, not for the entirety of the tutorial. We are stronger than her, we could easily let her conquer as many pylons as she wants and then subjugate them." He tried to butter up the words used but it was clear to .
"So not only are you suggesting we betray her, but wait until the last possible mont to drive the knife in her back?" I wasn't angry or mad at the suggestion, just surprised. Surprised he had brought it up.
"Don't make it sound so bad. It isn't like we're killing her, just liberating so of the rewards she may or may not receive." He said, wiggling his hand back in forth in a so-so manner.
"Is this necessary? Must we go to such lengths for a reward we don't even know the value of?" I sighed dejectedly, "We are strong already, isn't that enough?"
"We have no idea what the world will be like when we get back. Might as well get everything out of this tutorial as we can." His voice was firr now, more resolute.
"You know he wouldn't like this." My tone wasn't like Austin's. It didn't have the firmness his did, only resignation.
Austin knew the he I was referring to, "I know. I won't force you, but it is sothing you should think about."
Saying this, he let go back to my books.
It was hard to focus on the words on the page after that conversation.
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