Chapter 43: Badass Valkyries
"Then I forgive you, Kai!" Aria chirped merrily. The silver-haired beauty seemed to not care too much.
"Thank you. Check your systemic interface. I wonder if you got a power." Kaiden did his best to move the topic along before the gamer girl started slinging fists at him instead of mere curses.
"Oh! I did. I awakened!" Nyx squealed with pure joy. "Space Valkyrie, it sounds very badass! However... It only has one spell."
Having one spell upon awakening often meant that the class would be F-tier once evaluated by the artifact in the Awakened Assocation. Each time an awakened reached a bottleneck, the first of which would happen at level 25, they would face a challenge. If they pass, the class will gain new abilities. However, there's a good reason for the tiering of the classes and why they were so important to decide one's ceiling as a combatant.
While low-tier awakened could put up a fight against higher ones if they were either higher leveled or just much better combatants, the higher-tiered people would gain better rewards, such as more or stronger spells, giving them giant innate advantages over the lower tiers.
"Moon Valkyrie! It sounds so beautiful; I love it so much." Aria was not at all disturbed by the fact that she also only had a single skill based on her ethereal, happy smile.
"Storm Valkyrie... You overgrown pink bimbo; you just dissed my language skills, yet you failed to read the added text. It says we will grow in strength alongside the Successor of the Heavenly Demon. When he ranks his Demonic Pornstar System up, we will gain new abilities. Furthermore, we can strengthen ourselves like normal awakened can by leveling up."
"Oh!" Nyx exhaled with surprise before swiftly checking the validity of Luna's statement. "You're right! This suggests that unlike normal awakened, we don't gain new spells by leveling up but by ranking up the Demonic Pornstar System. Levels for us mean upgrading our current spells as if our class is very strong already but is partially sealed away from us. Each rank-up puts us closer to the true potential of our Valkyrie classes and Kaiden to his Paragon of Sin class."
"A good theory," Kaiden nodded, thinking the same thing. "What are your spells?"
"Stormblade... Says I can summon a blade that's made of pure storm."