Chapter 26
〈Dan-Katsu〉's biggest selling point was its huge variety of Jobs.
There were 1,021 Jobs in total.
In 〈Dan-Katsu〉, Jobs were divided into two classes: lower-tier and advanced.
Of these, 409 were lower-tier Jobs.
Lower-tier Jobs were the ones you could acquire first, and even 【Hero】 was classified as one.
Lower-tier Jobs had ranks, divided into low, middle, and high tiers.
With 409 Jobs, of course they had to be ranked.
【Hero】 was naturally at the very top of the high tier.
Other high-tier Jobs included 【Great Swordmaster】, 【Grand Archmage】, and 【Priest】, though they were toward the lower end of the high tier.
【Alchemist】, incidentally, was classified as middle tier. Middle of the middle—pretty ordinary.
However, no matter how highly 【Hero】 ranked among lower-tier Jobs, it couldn't compare to an advanced Job.
The gap was that huge.
Sooner or later, changing to an advanced Job would become absolutely necessary.
The item needed for that was an Advanced Job Change Ticket.
Changing to an advanced Job in 〈Dan-Katsu〉 was easy enough in terms of procedure.
All you had to do was raise your level to the Level Limit for changing Jobs and use an Advanced Job Change Ticket in front of the 〈Dragon Statue〉.
If you met the requirements for one to manifest, a list of available advanced Jobs would appear. Choose one, and you'd join the ranks of advanced Job holders.
The problem, however, was that obtaining an Advanced Job Change Ticket was absurdly difficult.
Advanced Job Change Tickets were generally only obtained as boss drops.
They were treated as rare drops in intermediate-tier dungeons and above.
The drop rate in intermediate-tier dungeons was 1%. In other words, the ticket would drop only once in a hundred boss battles.
No wonder ranking up to an advanced Job was so difficult.
I could understand why Sierra had said that no one in this world had managed to clear an advanced dungeon.
To clear an advanced dungeon, you'd need an advanced Job.
If things went smoothly for us, we'd be challenging advanced dungeons eventually.
So I came to get an Advanced Job Change Ticket early as preparation, before someone else got it.
The drop rate jumps to 3% for bosses in advanced dungeons, so it would actually be easier to farm Advanced Job Change Tickets there.
"Well, I've achieved my goal."
"Wow... Z-Zephyrus-kun, you look cool in that gear!"
"You bet!"
Hannah seemed transfixed by my revamped 〈Sky Series〉 gear.
A divine white suit of armor covered me from head to toe, with a gleaming silver-white sword and shield. This was great.
It was really great! Important enough to say twice.
I even struck a pose using 'Appeal' without thinking.
Hannah clapped and said, "Ooh!" She was a good sport.
Even though I'd hogged all the rare drops this time, Hannah hadn't shown the slightest displeasure.
Hannah's such a good girl.
As thanks, I gave Hannah all the ingredients we'd gotten today, except for what we planned to sell.
That wouldn't even begin to make up for the rare drops, so I'd give her any rare drops that suited her when we found them.
Once we were mostly satisfied, we decided to run the dungeon again.
"We've reached LV9 now. We'll probably hit LV10 after one more run, so then we'll call it a day."
"Yeah. Let's bring home lots of ingredients."
"Yeah, let's."
We hadn't been able to carry all the materials from our second run with the 〈Item Bag (Small Capacity)〉, so we'd had to give up on some of them.
Now we had a 〈Item Bag (Large Capacity)〉. It held almost a hundred times as much as the small one, and Hannah was happy we could bring all the materials back.
Hannah had really fought hard against the idea of leaving any materials behind.
After that, we returned to the entrance through the teleportation circle and immediately began our third run, continuing our hunt and collecting a huge amount of ingredients.
The Wood on the third floor dropped fruit, while the Kokekko (chicks) on the fourth floor dropped eggs, feathers, and chicken meat.
We still had some time, so I got caught up in chick hunting.
The first real work for my Sky Series gear: 〈Chick Hunting〉.
Yeah, it was like being one of those obnoxious MMO players who wore fancy gear while mowing down mobs in the starting area.
Maybe I changed into it a little too soon.
Good thing nobody but Hannah saw me.
Anyway, thanks to that, Hannah and I reached LV10, so we called it a day.
I achieved my goal! I have no more use for the 〈Beginner Dungeon〉!
"Skyyyyy! 'Brave Slash'!!!"
"Gobbyu!?"
Upon entering the boss room on the fifth floor, I activated 'Brave Slash' with the Sky Sword, incinerating the Plain Goblin in an instant and bringing today's dungeon run to an end.
Incidentally, the wall I'd blasted away had been restored when we re-entered the hidden room, so it was back to normal.
I broke it again and peeked inside, but there was no treasure chest.
What a shame.