"...Although in this world, ClassAdvancement into a combat profession offers the best future prospects, lifestyle and enhancement professions also hold great potential."
"Especially enhancement professions—some classmates from well-off families just need to practice diligently and improve their skill proficiency. In the future, they'll be highly sought after wherever they go. They're in no way inferior to combat professions—if anything, they might even surpass them..."
On the podium, their homeroom teacher Li Qun, a man in his thirties, was passionately delivering the final pre-class advancement pep talk.
Even though everything he was saying was already common knowledge among the students, no one dared to be distracted. Everyone listened with full attention, afraid of missing a single word.
Because today was the unified Class Advancement Day for all third-year high school students.
Sitting in the corner of the classroom, Lu Fan was just as excited, eagerly anticipating the Class Advancement Ceremony.
He was a transmigrator from Blue Star, and three years had passed since he arrived in this world.
Over these three years, he had come to fully understand how this world worked.
This was a world where games and reality had merged, thousands of times larger than Blue Star.
Here, Secret Realms and instances were countless, and monsters roamed freely.
Everyone could grow stronger by hunting monsters, gaining experience, materials, and even equipment.
At the same time, this world had developed a class system, and every person could undergo class advancement at Level 10, gaining access to much more powerful abilities.
Each nation had built schools across the land to teach young people how to survive. Teachers would lead their students into starter Secret Realms or the wilderness to fight, earn experience, and strive to reach Level 10 before the age of eighteen in time for the Class Advancement Ceremony.
There were many types of professions in this world, which could bry be divided into three categories.
The first were combat professions—as the name implies, these had direct combat capabilities, such as warrior, mage, and archer.
The second category was enhancement professions.
Though fewer people chose these, they were incredibly powerful, capable of crafting special enhancement items to make combat classes even stronger.
Common enhancement professions included Enchanters, Magical Item Crafters, and Alchemists.
While these professions were also popular, crafting enhancement items required massive amounts of materials. Without backing from a wealthy family, it was almost impossible to become a competent enhancement class professional.
Finally, at the very bottom of the pyramid—and the most numerous—were lifestyle professions.
These were the most common, including roles like Chef, Herbalist, and Miner.
If someone ended up with a lifestyle class, they'd likely remain ordinary for the rest of their lives, barely scraping by. Being able to survive at all would already be considered lucky.
For example, Han Ke, Lu Fan's aunt in this world, was a Chef.
Lu Fan was an orphan. From a young age, he had lived with this aunt who was eight years older than him, and their life had always been hard.
His aunt had chosen the most basic Chef profession. After saving up for years, she finally managed to buy a recipe scroll for buns that could restore a small amount of HP. With it, she opened a bun shop that barely supported their daily needs.
It was thanks to this bun shop that Han Ke had managed to raise Lu Fan.
That's also how Lu Fan came to understand how difficult life could be without a powerful combat profession in this world.
Over the past three years, he had witnessed firsthand the hardship his aunt endured just to keep him in school.
That's why Lu Fan's one and only wish was to become a combat class, so he could one day grind monsters in the wild, sell materials, or run instances to farm gear—and give his aunt a better life.
"...I just received word—the class advancement altar has been fully set up. Everyone, stay in order and follow me to the field to assemble!"
Li Qun's announcement pulled Lu Fan out of his thoughts.
The entire class was instantly buzzing with excitement—
The moment had finally come: it was time for class advancement!
What kind of future they would have—it all depended on today.
Lu Fan didn't say a word, preparing to follow the others out to the field. But just then, a mechanical voice suddenly echoed in his mind:
"Ding—Eligible host detected. Binding the Treasure Map System..."
"Ding—Treasure Map System successfully bound!"
A system!?
Of course! A transmigrator always came with a system!
Even though it had arrived three years late, Lu Fan knew full well—good things are worth waiting for.
Suppressing the overwhelming joy in his heart, Lu Fan walked toward the field with the others while opening up his system to check its functions.
Very quickly, Lu Fan figured it out. His system was simple: he would receive a Treasure Map every day. All he had to do was go to the marked location and dig for rewards.
The Treasure Maps came in five tiers: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Rare, and Divine. The tier he received each day was random, and the locations also varied.
If a treasure location was too far or inconvenient to reach, Lu Fan could fuse maps of the same tier. Every three maps could be combined into a higher-tier Treasure Map.
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