Chapter 225: Collective Class Transfers

The so-called Elite Program aims to transform all the people in the territory into powerful professionals and elites in various fields. This plan has already shown initial results. Although the population of Dusk Town is small, accounting for only a quarter of the entire territory, almost all adults are professionals, craftsmen, or merchants. There are hardly any illiterate farmers; those who only know how to farm are assigned to two villages to ensure the territory’s food supply and land reclamation.

In addition, several farms on the estate have recruited people skilled in growing medicinal herbs and raising livestock, offering them much better treatment than servants of noble families elsewhere.

What needs to be improved urgently is the overall strength of the territory. Although there is a legendary dragon to protect them, they must strive even harder to become stronger—strong enough that no one dares to invade! Strength alone is only a temporary deterrent; a powerful military force is what truly makes other noble forces wary.

However, it will take decades of development for Dalarn’s basic strength to catch up with those established noble families. Fortunately, Donald has the Power of Truth, a powerful tool that can accelerate this process.

Having made up his mind, Donald quickly gathered all the strong individuals and trusted subordinates in the territory, ordering them to assemble at the lord’s manor.

In just five days, Messehl rose from a Silver Mid-Level mage to a Gold Archmage without any strain. The other mages no longer felt they could compare to him and could only express their admiration.

As for the other subordinates, they were naturally overjoyed and congratulated him. The stronger Donald became as lord, the higher their status as his officials.

“I’ve called everyone here for a special occasion. I plan to open the Sacred Ground of Class Transfers, giving those who are loyal and have made contributions in the territory the chance to become powerful professionals!”

Messehl and the other mages had previously entered the Sacred Ground of Class Transfers and received advanced training through its structures. Thus, like Uther, Clinton, and other summoned beings, they already knew about its existence.

As for the others, aside from William, who handled the territory’s affairs, and the old steward Kord, who knew a little, most were completely unaware. Hearing Lord Donald’s announcement, they were initially puzzled, but when they understood that they could become professionals, they were overjoyed.

Donald, not wanting them to get too excited too soon, immediately dampened their enthusiasm by saying, “Don’t rejoice too early. Although you are among the first to receive the opportunity to change careers, whether you can successfully become professionals depends on your own talents!” The buildings created by the Books of Truth were not places where anyone could easily inherit a profession; instead, it depended on an individual’s physical constitution and soul attributes to determine if they were suitable for such inheritance. Of course, if Donald was willing to pay a high price, he could directly endow someone with a powerful professional inheritance through the Books of Truth, but such a cost was equivalent to permanently summoning a heroic unit, so Donald had no intention of doing so. Whether one could change careers ultimately depended on personal talent and luck. Although Donald had mentioned the restrictions on career changes, everyone was still excited, even someone as steady as William. The old butler shook his head and said, “With these old bones of mine, what chance do I have of becoming a professional? I’m content to watch the young master achieve greatness and help manage some household affairs!” Donald persuaded him with a smile, “That won’t do. Cord, you should go. Gaining a professional inheritance can significantly extend an ordinary person’s lifespan. With my current bloodline, even if I don’t become a Golden Archmage, I can live for thousands of years. I still need you as my butler for life!” Hearing this, Cord also felt some desire and stopped refusing. “Donald, we who have consistently pursued the path of mages aren’t planning to take on other professions that might interfere with our spellcraft training,” said Messel and several other mages. However, they also intended to join in and witness this historic moment! Donald nodded in understanding. After all, few people had a divine artifact like their own Book of Truth to assist them, and trying to master multiple professions would result in failing to reach excellence in any of them. Turning his attention back, he looked at Clinton and George, who were summoning soldiers. Although they were created by the Books of Truth, they had integrated into the laws of this time from birth and were fully part of this world, so they too had a chance to change careers—though only to a military role related to their original profession. The most suitable advanced profession for human infantry was the fourth-tier human military class: knights.

Perhaps the low cost of summoning limited their talents. In any case, aside from Clinton, all the summoned warriors were stuck at the black iron level and unable to advance to bronze. A career advancement through class transformation could undoubtedly help them overcome this obstacle and gain more potential and greater strength.

The idea behind these human infantry summoned warriors was quite simple. They didn’t intend to undergo knightly trials like Uther to obtain formal titles and fiefs; instead, they just wanted to strengthen their own abilities to better serve their masters.

Donald’s first disciple, Merlin, was now a full-fledged mage at the beginning stage of black iron. When Donald, his teacher, looked at him, the mature-looking young mage blushed slightly and said, “I’m far behind you, teacher. I’m the weakest full-fledged mage in Dalaran. I haven’t even mastered the mage profession well yet. It’s better not to try to learn other professions at the same time!”

Hearing these words, Donald was very satisfied with his disciple’s steady mindset. He decided to devote all his efforts to nurturing this disciple, allowing him to inherit the legitimate lineage of mages in his family. Having a successor in their line would also honor Teacher Maysel’s guidance and cultivation.

Seeing Barn, Tik, and the others eager to proceed, Donald stopped holding them in suspense and immediately led them to the sacred place for class transformation.

Not far from the Tree of Life, Donald built a complex structure with a diameter of a thousand meters, located next to the Elven tribe’s Starlight Town. It was under the watchful eyes of the elves, preventing outsiders from approaching.

There were altars for the three major races other than the undead, along with six barracks for humans and night elves. There were also inns and mercenary camps that were added later.

As for the altars and barracks of the undead, since they were completely unsuitable for the people in the territory to undergo class transformation, no effort was made to build them.

The six buildings for humans and elves were the human barracks, the Sacred Mystery, and the Griffon Cages, as well as the Elven War Tree, Knowledge Tree, and Wind Tree.

These six buildings offered thirteen classes from the previous game for anthropomorphic creatures to transform into, eight for humans and five for elves, plus one advanced class: the Griffon Knight. As for units like Spear Carriages, Mountain Giants, and Elven Dragons, they were types that humans could not transform into and could only be summoned by the Book of Truth.

Yet, just these thirteen classes were enough for Donald to use to train his subordinates and build a powerful military force for his territory.

In particular, the infantry, musketeers, and knights trained in the human barracks were all suitable classes for ordinary humans to transform into.

As for the orc units, although they were also very powerful, they were difficult for humans to adopt as classes, so those units were abandoned, and only the race’s altars were retained, in the hope that someone might be lucky enough to gain the status of a hero class.

The first group to undergo the class transformation included 22 Summoning Warriors, along with William’s family of four, the old butler, Barn and Tik, and Augusta and Jesse—a total of 31 people, all of whom were the most loyal to Donald.

“You will take turns starting from the central altar to sense the building that suits you, then report back to me!”

Following Donald’s orders, these people went through the temples. After about ten minutes, most of the 31 of them sensed a particular building and, with Donald’s energy supply, received a class inheritance through those buildings.

The 22 Summoning Infantry Warriors who did not participate, due to their identical talents, all received the inheritance of the advanced class of Knight, instantly rising beyond the peak of Black Iron level to reach the Bronze tier.

William, Augusta, and Jesse, lacking special talents, only received infantry-related inheritances. However, since they excelled in other areas, they didn’t mind much—having extra strength for self-defense was sufficient.

Tik and Barn, two militia commanders from mountainous backgrounds, successfully obtained the status of professionals. Tik, being agile, received the assassin class from the Mercenary Camp. This was a third-tier neutral class with skills such as stealth and poisoned daggers; it was a combat unit focused on agility, which suited his physical traits well.

As for Barn, contrary to Donald’s expectations, he received the powerful inheritance of the neutral hero class of Beast Tamer from the tavern. His attributes and skills had changed slightly due to integration with the rules of this world, but his combat power became even greater. Combined with some ancestral inheritance of ancient beast taming skills, his strength increased significantly—he was now at a high Bronze level, and it wouldn’t be long before he reached Silver.

The hero status granted by the Book of Truth to all races (including neutral heroes) was unique, as dictated by the laws of this world. Otherwise, if too many elements from another world’s rules—especially powerful classes like heroes—were incorporated, even if the Book of Truth was a high-tier artifact, it would inevitably be rejected by the world’s laws. However, if a hero understood the rules of their own class and passed them on to the next generation, such an act was recognized by the rules and would not incur punishment from them.

It is worth mentioning that William’s eldest son, Eric, successfully inherited a knightly lineage as he had wished. However, it was not the knight lineage of the fourth-tier human warriors, but rather the Dragon Eagle Knight lineage derived from elven warriors, granted by the Gryphon Cage architecture. Since most of the abilities of Dragon Eagle Knights rely on their mounts, Eric did not gain much in terms of strength enhancement and remained at the peak of the black iron tier. This turn of events surprised Donald somewhat, as what his territory lacked most was an air force. With memories from his past life, Donald was well aware of the advantages and combat power of an air force. Currently, in Dalaran, aside from the inferior alchemical puppets like dragons and golems in the Fallen Star Bay, there were only ten gryphons. The emergence of Dragon Eagle Knights was undoubtedly good news. However, there were no Dragon Eagles available for him to train with yet. Since his own strength still needed improvement and he couldn’t rely solely on his mount’s abilities, he continued to train with the guard unit for now. Donald had already considered using some of his soul power to summon a few Dragon Eagles for training in the future. William’s second son, Eli, possessed an extraordinary hidden talent—he became a Beast Clan Sword Saint, one of the strongest melee heroes in the game. Hearing that he had inherited a Sword Saint lineage, though unaware that this one was different from the others, and learning from Donald that both were lineages capable of reaching the gold tier, the young Eli was extremely excited. Among these people, only the butler Cord and Catherine did not sense any inheritance of a profession. Yet they were not disappointed. The former was happiest seeing Donald grow stronger, while the latter relied on Donald and didn’t care much about her own strength. Seeing that the two truly didn’t care much, Donald comforted them, saying it was fine. If he wanted them to become stronger, he had other methods and didn’t necessarily have to convert them into these professions from the world of Warcraft.