Chapter 84 - Secondary profession
“Does summoning consume spirit power?” Lan Xuanyu asked.
Qian Lei then replied, “Yes, but the consumption is rather small. I usually don’t feel a thing. After all, it is rather unreliable. If the consumption is huge, won’t it be too miserable?”
Lan Xuanyu opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but Qian Lei immediately butted in. “Do you want to ask how did I get here? Hehe, if I said it was due to luck, would you believe me?”
“Is that possible?” Lan Xuanyu was stunned.
“Of course! I was especially lucky during the test and summoned an extremely strong spirit beast, earning me the first place in the test. After that, I was chosen. But after a while, the teachers realized that my summons is rather unstable. By then, it was too late. So we can only wait and see, maybe with more spirit rings in the future, I’ll be more reliable…”
“You win.” Lan Xuanyu could not hold back and ended up laughing.
“My spirit is a spear called the White dragon spear, a spear spirit that incidentally was supplemented by a dragon spirit. I’m an agility-type Spirit Master,” Liu Feng said.
Lan Xuanyu was taken aback. “Shouldn’t spear related spirits belong to the attack system?”
Liu Feng frowned slightly. “But the dragon spirit within my spear mainly increases my speed. I can become extremely fast while my attacks get weaker, therefore, they’ve put me under the agility system.”
“Frenzie’s techniques are superb. Although he appears to perform intricate techniques, he fails to break the enemy defenses. He fought against Jin Xiang and he was incapable of breaking through his feathers so he lost.”
It was there and then where Lan Xuanyu realized his two roommates were truly lacking behind in terms of strength. One was unreliable, while the other was fast but not devastating enough.
After idling through midday, the classes officially began in the afternoon.
All the outstanding teachers were assigned to the Elite Junior class, and Lan Xuanyu immediately discovered that their teaching pace was far faster than before.
“After this, all of you have to consider your optional courses, especially for your secondary professions which will be extremely important for your future. Everyone is required to pick two secondary professions. As students of the elite junior class, we mainly focus on fighting. So at the present, the school requires all of you to a mecha control-related profession as one of your secondary professions, leaving the other open for your preference. The popular choices would be the warship piloting foundations, or either of the four related to battle armor, which are battle armor design, manufacturing, forging, and maintenance. It will depend on your individual selves if you wish to take the duo battle armor mecha courses or take the warship and spirit ship controls route. Relatively speaking, the former can be considered as individual combat centered while the latter is more on teams.”
“Following this, you all have one week to consider and also contact your family. As all of you are still young, it is extremely difficult to see what profession you will be proficient in. But remember this, go with where your interest lay and invest sufficiently into it. Once you choose your secondary profession, it is extremely difficult to change it, as redoing a secondary profession will take too much time and no one can afford it.”
“For this week, my class will be going into a detailed analysis of the various secondary professions, and as for today, we will be talking about warship piloting foundations.”
The man conducting the class was middle-aged, around 40 years of old, speaking at an extremely fast speed but every sentence had undoubtedly captured the attention of the students.
Lan Xuanyu was extremely curious during the class. Secondary profession? The practice of having a secondary profession in ordinary schools was usually enforced during their last two years. They were only so old but were they actually able to choose secondary professions already?
He had learned from his parents that neither one of them had secondary professions when they were young.
An individual alone had limited strength, leaving many of the majority to not put in effort in holding two professions at the same time. Only the most outstanding and top students had the choice to do so.
Without a doubt, every student of the elite junior class had Spirit Master as their main profession. While their secondary professions all required being a Spirit Master as a core, there were no longer any pure Spirit Masters in the federation anymore, and only the higher appointments were taken by Spirit Masters. For example, a Battle Armor Master.
The battle armor legacy had continued on for tens of thousands of years and were in fact evolved constructs of mechas that had intertwined to what a Spirit Master was. Spirit Masters had to craft and design their own battle armors, while high-grade armors could essentially dissolve and integrate into the user’s body, which was far more powerful than ordinary mechas.
And if a Battle Armor Master held the role of a mecha operator as well, they were hailed as Duo Mecha Masters, which have become the synonym for the strongest individuals on the battlefield.
Of course, the path to being a Duo Mecha Master was not easy as well. One had to become a Mecha engineer and affiliate him or herself to a mecha related secondary profession, then, forge a part of the mecha themselves, including the Battle armor. That requires a large amount of time and effort. Adding that Spirit Masters had to cultivate, if one was not naturally gifted, it would seem almost impossible to integrate all three roles together.
These thoughts stirred endlessly within Lan Xuanyu’s mind whilst the teacher began on the main subject of the class.
“All of you must think that warship piloting foundations is all about knowledge with regards to warships but I have to tell you this, that is wrong. Warship piloting foundations is not about piloting warships, but about piloting in general. That includes spirit guidance vehicles, aircraft, and all other forms of transportation. There are all sorts of ways to handle different vehicles ranging from simple forms of transportation to aircraft. Warship piloting is by itself an extremely complicated matter, so one must first grasp the feeling of piloting. So the class is all about practicing piloting on all sorts of vehicles. Only after being qualified in all vehicles in a test can one take the next step, and ordinarily, it takes about three years to pass the piloting foundations. Only then will one be qualified to learn about the composition of a warship, just a step closer to its true goal.”
“According to the federation’s rules, one requires at least 12 years of practice to truly become a member of piloting a warship. That is an extremely long and arduous journey, and even after being successful, one needs to develop one’s skills in a small warship before gaining the possibility of progressively moving up the ranks to large warships. It usually takes about 20 to 30 years to temper and refine out an excellent warship commander. Even until now, the cosmos is full of mysteries to our human race. Only with sufficient mission probes can one become an excellent pilot.”
“And if one wants to opt for the warship piloting foundations, there are a few prerequisites. Firstly, one must have a self-interest in it. They must have the tenacity to strive hard and work towards their goals. Aside from that, one must have a sufficiently strong Spiritual Power to handle the foundations. Through the Academy of Sciences’ research, the strength of a person’s Spiritual Power correlates to their perception. So the stronger the Spiritual Power, the higher the probability of being able to master the warship’s complicated controls. The requirement to learn warship piloting foundations is to have at least 50 points of Spiritual Power. To become a real warship pilot, one needs to have at least 200 points. That is something all of you need to consider.”
“From the looks of our Elite Junior class, the teachers do not have much hope in any of you choosing the warship piloting foundation class as your secondary profession as it will exhaust your focus and mentality, which isn’t good in terms of improving your individual fighting capabilities. That is not our original intention as to what we have prepared for the Elite Junior class, but the school still wishes to respect your choice and the final decision still lies in your hands.”
Following that, the teacher continued onto various other important points regarding warship piloting foundations.
The majority of the students were not as earnest in listening because they had all long decided what they wanted. But Lan Xuanyu listened attentively, his goal was to become a warship pilot! He also liked the sound of becoming a Duo Mecha Master, but he preferred the sound of being able to control and traverse in a large warship, especially after experiencing the interstellar holiday, his curiosity towards the cosmos had grown even bigger.
“You like this course?” Qian Lei nudged him.
“En en.” Lan Xuanyu nodded his head.