Frostbound

Jonathan's evolution carried with it a shocking revelation. Evolving both Class and Profession simultaneously did come with a bonus to the process.

If it hadn't been so cliche, I might've been surprised. This seemed on brand for what we had learned so far and wasn't beyond the realm of possibility.

After finding out it was true, it wasn't hard to come up with a reason why. From everything we have learned about this new System that watched everything we did, it all revolved around effort expended.

The System didn't do anything for free. It helped with leveling by taking a cut of the essence, the same held true for evolving. To keep that assistance you had to prove you were worthy of it.

For every bit of aid you received, there was a cost that came with it. I wasn't sure if it was a net even for the System, or if it came out ahead, but it wasn't hard to come up with reasons for why there was a bonus.

During evolutions, the System expended effort to help you through the process, whether class or profession, it didn't matter, but it aided you through it. Doing both at the same time probably saved the System either energy or power of some sort making the process cost less than doing them both separately.

Since that seemed to be the case, both evolutions cost the System less to help with. The bonus on the other hand could be for one of two reasons. One, the System wanted to incentivize evolving both at the same time, hence the bonus. Or two, the leftover energy the system would have had to expend stayed with you, rather than being used as payment.

Finding out there was a bonus was all well and good, except it took a while to find out what the bonus actually was. It wasn't explicitly stated anywhere and it took us a minute to figure it out.

There were two things different between the evolution to E-rank when evolving separately compared to at the same time. The stat boost during the evolution and the racial boost.

Every time a person went up in rank, there was an associated stat boost to all stats. For H to G, it was 2 stat points. From G to F, it was 5 stat points.

What took so long was because that wasn't the set-in-stone rule we had assumed it had been. When I evolved to G-rank, 2 stat points in every attribute was my reward.

We were still new to ranking up and all that so when we told each other, everyone confirmed they received 2. Thinking that it was all standardized, when we evolved to F-rank we didn't think to say anything about it.