“I can’t believe it… the stupid [curse] followed me even to another world…”

  After a few minutes of cursing and swearing at nothing in particular, I decided to stop complaining and actually confirm what my new class did. I couldn’t do anything about the fact that my curse seemed to have followed me, so it was a pointless endeavour to spend so much time dwelling on it. Better to use the time and do productive things. I reached out and took hold of the floating golden [Class Crystal].

  “Uh… [Class Change]?”

  When I uttered the name of the skill, the [Class Crystal] began to shine brightly, its light enveloping my body. I felt my clothes disappear, replaced by a new set. The whole process took about thirty seconds, and I ended up back on the ground, in a new set of clothing.

  I found myself clothed in a full set of plate armour and chainmail – a collared breastplate over my chest and around my torso, segments of plate on my forearms, with chainmail filling the gaps. My legs were similarly clad in plate armour. A pressure on my forehead caused me to move my unarmoured hands towards it to check, and I found that a helmet had appeared around it. I removed it and took a good look. It was shaped like the front half of a cowl, with two wings appended to its side. It was designed so that it would protect my head without obstructing my vision. It left enough room for my hair to flow out behind it, but somehow it still felt like it fit snugly. I decided not to question it and chalk it up to another absurdity of my current situation.

  I slid the helmet back on and experimentally moved my body. Surprisingly, though I was covered in metal, my body didn’t feel any heavier than usual. I was able to make rapid, erratic movements without issue. Odd.

  I then noticed that a text box had appeared over the spot where I had used the [Class Crystal]

  I opened the radial menu next to my HP bar and selected [Class].

  Okay, that’s a lot of skills. Let’s see here…

  I carefully scanned through the list of skills, trying to get a rough idea of what they did. As far as I could tell, the skills listed under [__________ Arts] and [__________ Magic] were active skills, and the other were passives. It seemed that the skills I could use were grouped according to weapon type, or otherwise according to my class. Based on the [Proficiency] and [Arts] skills, it was clear that my [Valkyrie] class specialised in using spears and healing magic.

  [Divine Eye] seemed to be the equivalent of an appraisal-type skill. It would probably be helpful once I started coming into contact with living things. The amount of information it could provide me was rather underwhelming, but the [Lv.1] next to it suggested that it might get more powerful in the future.

  [Armour of Valhalla] probably referred to the armour I was currently wearing. It meant I wouldn’t have to go out of my way to acquire other armour, so that was nice. Furthermore, it seemed able to increase in strength as I grew, so I was unlikely to outgrow the armour anytime soon. It gave bonuses to Endurance and Resistance, which meant that those two were likely to be the defensive stats. Going by gaming conventions, Endurance would refer to my physical defence, while Resistance would refer to my magical defence. I had no way of confirming it at the moment, but I decided to move forward under those assumptions.

  [Divine Favour] and [Auto HPMP Regeneration] sounded ludicrously strong as far as passive skills went – [Divine Favour] was basically free stats at no penalty, while [Auto HPMP Regeneration] meant I didn’t have to worry about my health – resting long enough would recover my HP and MP back to full. Furthermore, both were scaling effects – which, in my experience, tended to be the most ridiculous effects in the long term.

  Of course, this was assuming the world I currently inhabited followed the same conventions as a video game, but so far, I had been given no reason to suspect otherwise.

  Those stat corrections sounded ridiculous, though. That’s what, three times higher than my previous class?

  I was about to close out of the [Class] window to reconfirm my stats, but then I noticed another, smaller text box below the [Class] information screen.

  Ah.

  I recalled the description for my [Gachamancy] – I could use it even if the class was set as my [Subclass]. With that in mind, I quickly registered my [Gachamancer] crystal as my [Subclass] and closed out of the window, re-opening the [Status] window.

  Those are way higher stats than before. On top of that, I get stats from the [Subclass] as well?!

  With only my prior status as a basis for comparison, the difference in stats seemed ridiculous. But I didn’t know what was the baseline for this world – perhaps I was now only just at the average. Still, it was nice to be stronger, even if only slightly.

  Now then, it’s finally time…

  I greedily rubbed my hands together. I’d been waiting for this moment since I saw that the option was available to me. I navigated to the [Gacha] menu, tapping on the panel for the [Beginner’s Gacha].

  I retrieved the remainder of the GP in my bag and held it up to the prompt. Like before, the 5 pearls began to shine with a brilliant light – only this time, instead of turning golden, the light turned into a rainbow-coloured light, the seven colours alternating and intermingling. The pile of GP floated off my palm and started to change shape, into a new form, into…

  “…A book?”

  The light was morphing into a shape that was very clearly that of a book. After a while, the light dispersed, revealing a single, bound tome. Its cover was pure white, with the image of a woman’s face on it, eyes closed, lips open as if speaking. A strange script flowed across its cover in a language I couldn’t read. The book hovered in midair for a moment, before dropping into my outstretched hand.