Chapter 54: The Hidden Ability of the Genius Class: Accumulating Magic Caster Levels

But!

Tang Zheng remembered that when he saw that "Papermaking" possessed two different magic scrolls, he had specifically asked that member of the Magic Caster Guild.

As it turned out, the other party had not mentioned "Tier 2 Papermaking" at all!

Logically speaking, there should have been no need to hide such a "Papermaking" skill that had absolutely no offensive capabilities and could not be applied to combat.

" 'Lowest-grade' alchemy material."

Tang Zheng looked at the last sentence in the appraisal information, lost in thought.

Researching utility magic is nothing more than to analyze higher-level magic or to increase the convenience of daily life.

If "Tier 0 Papermaking" was purely for daily life, then "Tier 1 Papermaking" was specifically provided for nobles to distinguish themselves from commoners.

Or it was used to utilize superior paper to produce books for writing and the like.

In fact, the level of paper produced by "Tier 1 Papermaking" was already similar to that of his past life; at this level, it was already sufficient to satisfy normal daily needs.

That people in this other world had actually developed "Tier 2 Papermaking"—thinking about it carefully, there was absolutely no need for it.

"Papermaking" was not a tier magic passed down from the era of the Eight Greed Kings, but rather something developed independently by the people of this other world, who had forcibly developed this utility magic to the second tier.

The time and energy consumed by the people of this other world must have been unimaginable.

From a magic caster's perspective, having this energy would allow one to learn other second-tier spells, or even push toward the level of a third-tier magic caster.

From the pragmatic perspective of the humans in this other world, there was likewise no need for this.

Then, the appearance of such a result could only mean there was a "demand"!

Alchemy materials?

Tang Zheng thought about it carefully, found he had no clue, shook his head lightly, and chose to put it to the back of his mind for the time being.

Suddenly.

Tang Zheng seemed to have discovered something unusual, a look of surprise appearing on his face.

He saw that behind the two spells "Heating" and "Papermaking," there was actually an "↑" symbol.

"How is this possible?" Tang Zheng looked as if he had seen something incredible, his face full of astonishment.

Levels 1–7 — First-tier magic!

Levels 8–14 — Second-tier magic!

According to the "Genius" level of 9, when converted into other magic caster classes, one should only be able to use second-tier magic.

"Heating" and "Papermaking" could actually have their tiers increased; what was going on?

Tang Zheng's eyes were filled with deep confusion; after a brief hesitation, he chose to consume skill points on the spell "Heating."

Skill: Heating (Tier 3) ↑

Cost: 15 MP

Description: Within 1 minute, heats the location of the object touched to 600°C, with an instant heating to 200°C.

Tang Zheng remained stunned.

It wasn't just surprise at the more powerful effects displayed after the "Heating" spell was upgraded again, but that it could actually have its tier increased.

Consumed 1 more skill point.

Skill: Heating (Tier 4)

Cost: 20 MP

Description: Within 1 minute, heats the location of the object touched to 1200°C, with an instant heating to 400°C.

Hiss~

Tang Zheng drew a cold breath; "Heating" at the fourth tier was already somewhat terrifying. A high temperature of 1200 degrees was enough to easily melt steel, and it was even approaching the temperature of magma!

Not to mention, being able to instantly increase the temperature by 400 degrees was already a quite astonishing destructive power!

This time, there was no longer an "↑" symbol. Seeing this, Tang Zheng pondered and more or less understood what was going on.

"Can the magic caster classes converted by 'Genius' actually be calculated based on the sum of magic caster levels?" Tang Zheng couldn't help but mutter to himself in shock.

He had originally thought that "Genius" could only be calculated based on a single base class, but the situation before him was clearly not that!

The reason the spell "Heating" was upgraded to the fourth tier in one go was naturally because it met the requirements for fourth-tier magic (levels 22–28).

The only possibility for this situation to occur was among the magic-type classes that "Genius" could currently convert into.

The levels of these three magic-type classes—"Magic Caster 9lv," "Alchemist 9lv," and "Pharmacist 9lv"—were added together.

A total of 27 magic caster levels!

Although the classes of Alchemist and Pharmacist were positioned as production classes in "Yggdrasil," they were cast through magic power, so they counted as magic-type.

That's right!

The "Genius" class could actually calculate the recorded base classes, especially magic caster classes, according to their combined level.

Such a hidden ability had no significance for warrior-type base classes, but for magic caster classes, it was simply like a cheat!

In the "Yggdrasil" game, magic casters were divided into four systems, and different systems had their levels calculated separately!

For example.

=9+Shu_ba

Magic Caster 7lv + Priest 1lv = Combined level 8lv.

These two classes, one being magic-type and one being faith-type, meant that according to magic caster levels, level 8 could use second-tier magic.

But in reality, with such a class structure, a player could only use first-tier magic from the magic-type and first-tier magic from the faith-type.

Therefore!

Players in "Yggdrasil" would only specialize in one magic caster system.

To cast tenth-tier magic of a certain system, one could only choose one system from the four magic caster systems—magic-type, faith-type, spirit-type, and other-type—and raise the magic caster level to at least level 64.

And the remaining 36 levels were not enough to build another magic caster system.

"Hoo~"

Tang Zheng exhaled deeply and reached out to rub his temples, which were throbbing from the excitement just now.

He had originally thought the "Genius" class only converted base classes and lacked attribute bonuses and the abilities possessed by the converted classes.

It was equivalent to wearing an empty shell of a base class for disguise.

He hadn't expected it to have such a hidden ability!

"Genius" was a general class, belonging to a type of base class, with a maximum level of 15.

Therefore!

One only needed to master five base classes from a certain magic caster system, or four base classes plus one intermediate class.

One could easily meet the requirements for "Tenth-tier magic" in a magic caster system.

In other words, Tang Zheng could completely use this shortcut method to max out the magic caster levels of the four systems: magic-type, faith-type, spirit-type, and other-type.

This was why Tang Zheng called this ability a cheat in his heart.

Even in the "Yggdrasil" game, such an ability was a quite rare occurrence!

That's right, it was "rare," not non-existent!

In the light novel version, Ainz had once mentioned that the "special class" that an Illusionist class could eventually qualify for possessed the strongest illusion exclusive to that class.

It was said that one could cast illusions on the entire world, thereby deceiving the world to the point of making the fake seem real!

Its manifestation in the game was the ability to disguise the magic-type system one had built as the other three magic caster systems.

Thanks to book friend "2021...2067" for the 100 book coin tip!

(End of chapter)