Chapter 65: Success and Failure
Is this a good plan? You’ve seen this kind of thing before. How would you do it better?
I can’t answer that.
It wasn’t the time, Tulland thought, for the System to shed it’s helpful friend-slash-enemy act. The last fight had been something that he and his friends had barely survived. He had no illusions that he would have died if Necia had fallen. If this new combat tactic wasn’t going to work, he needed to know about it soon.
Of course you can’t. The guy who is always saying he has thousands of years of knowledge just doesn’t know this one thing.
It’s not that I don’t know. It’s that I can’t answer. Haven’t you noticed that neither I nor The Infinite have given you advice on your class? They’ve altered it, and even pushed it in a certain direction. But they’ve never told you how to use it.
Your point being?
A System, any System, is usually a hands-off thing, at least in most respects. We communicate little. We grant skills and some direction, but only in a few ways. I can’t guide you on how to use your class.
I seem to remember someone telling me to eat where I would have otherwise died of an unfueled regeneration skill. And warning me against dangers more than once.
Which were all pieces of obvious, immediate advice having nothing much to do with the progress of your class. This is you asking me, the one who gave you your class, to also tell you how to use it. Which will determine how it progresses. More than once, you’ve seen the idea that your own usage factors into what your class becomes. Why did you think that was?