Chapter 2

Blue Star, Xuanlong Nation, Longshan City No. 1 High School.

The annual Awakening Ceremony is in full swing.

All who have reached eighteen must participate immediately.

On the podium of Class 15, Gao San, a white-clad Awakening Ceremony staff member held a list and slowly called out a name: "Luo Chenyu!"

In the back row's "Supreme" seat, a young man rose and walked toward the podium.

When the staff member saw the young man approaching slowly.

His pupils contracted slightly.

His feet involuntarily stepped back one pace.

His body stood like a iron tower, shaped like a ferocious tiger; his plain school uniform stretched taut over his powerful frame, radiating a fierce aura as he moved.

Such a brute could automatically earn the nickname "Walking Five Hundred Thousand" on any street.

If not for the faint youthfulness on his handsome face, he would have thought this was a hardened convict who had just escaped from Xuanlong Nation's first prison—Hell Island.

"Luo Chenyu?"

The questioning voice sounded again.

At the edge of the podium, homeroom teacher Chen Laoshi shook his head helplessly and said: "He is Luo Chenyu. His personality… uh… is rather introverted."

Staff member: Fuck, you call this introverted?

Bound by duty, the staff member nervously accepted Luo Chenyu's documents, checked them carefully, and spoke:

"Identity confirmed. Preparing to begin Awakening."

The gray Awakening Divine Stone reappeared on the podium. "Place your hand on it. Relax your mind and body."

Luo Chenyu nodded, extended his large hand onto the Awakening Divine Stone, and closed his eyes.

……

In the classroom, the last few students whispered among themselves.

"Old Liu, what do you think the mute will awaken as?"

"Warrior, maybe even a rare class… after all, even before Awakening, he punched Wang Ziqian from Class 14 five meters into the air and left him hospitalized for three days. If not for today's Awakening Ceremony, he probably wouldn't have gotten out."

"Tsk tsk tsk, I was there at the time. Never expected the quiet mute to be so vicious when he snapped—I got hard just watching!"

"Huh???"

"Cough cough… don't focus on those details! If he really awakens as a rare Berserker, even if his liberal arts grades are last, he can still get into a decent university."

"Envious, jealous, bitter."

"Good thing I never bullied him before—if I had, I'd be lying in a hospital now."

……

A soft Bai Guang flared, enveloping Luo Chenyu's body.

The staff member stared at the burly Luo Chenyu, then at the Awakening Divine Stone in his hand.

"Awakening successful. Common combat class: Warrior branch, Defense Warrior!"

The white light receded like a tide, revealing Luo Chenyu's iron-tower physique.

Homeroom teacher Chen Laoshi's face showed disbelief; he muttered to himself:

"How is this possible? He's not a Berserker!!"

"What's so shocking? Most job awakenings are random. If he's not a Berserker, why are you freaking out?"

Hearing his colleague's words, Chen Laoshi explained: "Luo Chenyu's family carries Berserker bloodline—his father, mother, grandfather, and grandmother were all Berserkers!"

"Two Berserkers giving birth to a Defense Warrior? No wonder you're stunned—but I've never heard of a Berserker family before."

"All loyal martyrs—they're all in the Martyrs' Cemetery!"

Chen Laoshi looked at Luo Chenyu's youthful face, a flicker of pity in his eyes.

……

Luo Chenyu ignored the murmurs around him, slowly opened his eyes, and a trace of disappointment passed through them.

A true transmigrator…

Didn't awaken an SSS-tier hidden class?

A bit embarrassing for the senior transmigrators.

That's right.

Luo Chenyu was not a "native" of this world—he had transmigrated here two days ago, arriving in this Strange World where everyone undergoes a job transformation.

After two days of learning.

He had roughly grasped the world's general outline.

Hundreds of years ago, the entire planet changed dramatically; games merged with reality, followed by a demonic calamity, and ferocious beasts ravaged human lands.

Fortunately, all adults who reached eighteen could undergo the Awakening Ceremony to transform into their desired job, gaining supernatural power and ascending their life tier.

After centuries of research and exploration.

The success rate of transformation has stabilized at 99.99%; aside from a tiny handful of "lucky ones," everyone awakens successfully—only the quality of the job differs.

Today, the varieties of jobs bloom like countless flowers, too numerous to count.

For example, the most basic: Warrior, Mage, Assassin, and so on.

Warrior, focused on strength, holds absolute advantage in melee combat—strength breaks all techniques.

Mage, focused on spirit, communicates with elemental forces of the world, commands wind and rain, moves mountains and overturns seas—capable of anything, called "Magic Lord."

Assassin, focused on agility, appears and vanishes without trace, a hunter lurking in shadows.

Such as Sword Saint, Monk, Tyrant Blade, Daoist Priest—unique to Xuanlong Nation.

Beyond these, there are countless other life professions.

Blacksmiths, enchanters, alchemists, farmers...

The ancients said: there is no weakest profession, only the most trash profession-users.

Once, a big shot of Dragon Nation, with the most ordinary blacksmith profession, brute-forced his way through the Shi Shi Trial and earned a legendary name.

There were also the unlucky ones who got an SSS hidden profession, only to die in the endless wilderness.

Talent is decreed by heaven.

Profession follows the heart.

So, Luo Chenyu, at this moment, regarding his own ordinary Defense Warrior profession...

... was still... quite disappointed.

Everyone else is showing off, only the Defense Warrior is getting beaten up.

At worst, inheriting the "family bloodline" Berserker, then being a brute is also pretty good.

"Alright, Luo... Luo Chenyu student, please go to the observation area and wait quietly, we'll depart for the newbie instance promptly at eleven o'clock."

The staff member, as if shooing away a plague god, pointed at the Shide Sect door.

Luo Chenyu took a deep breath and walked straight toward the door.