After Ye Xiu quickly overturned the Dark Night Cat Demon, he picked up three Dark Night Cat Claws. Adding the previous six, he now had nine, reaching his requirement and making him very pleased. Besides this, Ye Xiu had also gathered four Dark Night Cat Paws. He didn't need these, but others did. After helping them get the dungeon record, the request for bartering shouldn't be refused.

Ye Xiu thought this, and sure enough, he had Lord Grim exit the dungeon, while Steamed Bun Invasion directly exited the game. After resting for ten minutes to remove the endangered state, he returned to the newbie village and learned some skills, using up all 1255 skill points. Generally, players only have 1250 skill points when they reach level 20, but Lord Grim had five extra points due to a skill book, a slight lead.

With the skills all set, he left the newbie village and officially set foot on the Glory Continent.

Here, the system would no longer help with diverting the crowd. The Frost Forest was a vast area, surrounded by players. Many Glory dungeons don't have a fixed entrance. Take Frost Forest for example, the entire forest is a dungeon, and you can enter from any direction.

"Where are you guys? I'm near the Frost Forest." The area outside the Frost Forest was very lively. After leaving the newbie village, market trading gradually started, and the area outside the Frost Forest became the first market, with many people setting up stalls to do business. Ye Xiu walked around, casually browsing through two stalls. The prices were all over the place. Players who didn't understand were afraid of selling too low and losing out, so they marked the prices high. Players who knew what they were doing were selling level 20 equipment, not rare materials.

But this equipment was only attractive to new players who had leveled up through quests, since most quests gave green equipment, which was a tier below blue equipment. Lord Grim, who had leveled up through dungeons, already had a full set of blue equipment.

After browsing a few stalls without finding anything, Blue River sent a message with the coordinates. Ye Xiu rushed over, and soon, the name Lord Grim appeared above his head in the eyes of Blue River's team. The four of them gasped. This master who had caught their attention in the tenth server was too trendy. This mixed-and-matched style of equipment, what the heck was it?

The four stared in disbelief, trying to identify the equipment on Lord Grim. In Glory, there was no setting to identify or view character information; it all depended on the player's eyesight to identify equipment by its shape and details. Lord Grim's equipment was a complete mix of cloth, leather, chain, heavy, and plate.

This style was common in the newbie village, but wearing it on the Glory Continent was super alternative. Because those who left the newbie village were all level 20 players who had already changed jobs, it wasn't that you couldn't wear equipment randomly after changing jobs, but because each job had its own specialized equipment, most people would choose the type of equipment that their job was proficient in. Occasionally, they might wear a few pieces of other types due to special requirements, but no one really wore all five types from head to toe like Lord Grim.

While the four were still in a daze, Ye Xiu had Lord Grim move to their side and put on his headset. He tested the sound with a "Wei, wei."

"Can hear you," Blue River replied.

"Hello everyone," Ye Xiu greeted.

"Hello..."

"Let me introduce you, Bound Boat, Lampion Night, Thunder Light, all are experts from our Blue Brook Guild's elite division." Blue River introduced the other three.

"Hello, hello everyone, please wait for me a moment! Sorry." Ye Xiu said, and then went silent. The other three took advantage of the fact that Lord Grim hadn't joined the team yet and frantically typed messages in the team channel to complain.

"Are you sure you found the right person?" Lampion Night asked.

"Nonsense!"

"Not changing jobs?" Thunder Light asked.

"He said he'll think about it..."

"Someone like him can help us get the record?" Lampion Night was doubtful.

"If we can't get it, then we can't get it. Our main purpose is to see how good this person is," Blue River said.

"I don't know about anything else, but I can already see the meaning behind his ID," Thunder Light said.

"What?"

"Lord Grim, it's to tell everyone not to laugh. Is this guy here to be funny?" Thunder Light said.

"Everyone, don't judge people by their appearance. He hasn't changed jobs yet, so wearing that is normal." Blue River didn't know if he was also giving himself a reason. He was also a little unaccustomed to Lord Grim's mixed-and-matched outfit. It had been many years since he had seen such free and unrestrained clothing on the Glory Continent.

"If this person doesn't change jobs, does he want to play as an unspecialized class?" Bound Boat, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. He was a veteran player and knew that there was an era when unspecialized classes were popular.

"Unspecialized class? That's a thing of the past! Isn't it because there's no awakening quest at level 50, so you can't continue to level up?" Lampion Night wasn't as experienced as Bound Boat, but he was also knowledgeable and knew about that period of time.

At that time, it was the third anniversary of Glory, and the third server was opened. Glory made its first update to increase the level cap, raising the original level cap from 50 to 55.

And if a character wanted to continue gaining experience at level 50, they had to complete the job awakening quest. Because unspecialized classes didn't have an awakening quest, the level cap remained at 50. Five levels were a phased difference in Glory, from equipment to skills, but this was just the beginning. As the level cap continued to increase in the future, the gap between unspecialized classes and other classes would be infinitely magnified. Everyone knew that unspecialized classes had lost their meaning.

"Does he want to play to level 50 first and then change jobs?" Lampion Night said.

"Wouldn't that lack attribute points?" Thunder Light wondered. The attribute growth of each class was different. The difference in attributes between a level 50 swordsman and a level 50 elemental mage without equipment would be obvious. The growth of an unspecialized class would naturally not be the same as any other class. If he reached level 50 and then changed to another class, would the 30 levels of growth between 20 and 50 be corrected?

"Who knows... Does anyone still care about this question now?" Lampion Night said.

Everyone was silent. They were experts, elite experts, but they had indeed never paid attention to this question, nor did they need to pay attention to it. Who would not change jobs at level 20? They hadn't seen someone like that in years.

"What are we guessing for? Why don't we just ask him?" Lampion Night was straightforward and walked up to Lord Grim: "Brother, are you planning to play as an unspecialized class without changing jobs?"

No response.

"Brother, are you there?" Lampion Night called out.

"He said to wait a moment, he might have left," Blue River said.

"If he's an unspecialized class, does he have all the weapons?" Thunder Light curiously circled around Lord Grim twice. Lord Grim's hands were empty, and he wasn't holding a weapon. That was because his Myriad Manifestations Umbrella had already been placed on the equipment editor by Ye Xiu. The moment the equipment was placed, it was no longer its original appearance, but the construction diagram of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella automatically read by the editor. The complexity of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella filled several pages of the screen.

At this moment, Ye Xiu was carefully taking out the Dark Night Cat Claw that he had obtained from the Dark Night Cat Demon in Green Forest and carefully pointing it at the tip of the umbrella rib that supported the umbrella surface in the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella construction diagram.
Chapter One
The Beginning