Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

Chapter 32: lecture

As the afternoon arrived, Yunan, Leol and Reina returned wearing new training outfits and carried some more in their hands courtesy of Fae who was flaunting her wealth to buy some cuddly time with Reina. Lucian, who took the position of a wall between Fae and Reina was well bruised after a quick shopping trip, thanks to the unrelenting strikes Fae had delivered mainly as protest, probably also wanting to knock Lucian out and molest the little fox to her heart's content.

Once the shoppers arrived at hall 5 they found Balin hurling insults at Dustan while holding his posterior, it seems Bai and Leader took extra care while punishing him. After the whole party was present it was decided that while Reina ran around the hall and did some basic arithmetics, Yunan and Leol had to attack Dustan and try to break his defence. Leol was given a bastard sword, about a meter long, while Yunan was dual wielding two one handed swords. Before the training started Leader started with a lecture.

"The class system is wrong" Leader started "All humans and half beasts are born well rounded, there are some innate advantages that plays a role in the development of stats, but that is all, therefore there is absolutely no rhyme or reason for the class system except for division of labour, making it easier to classify and divide adventurers. In the ancient times when the first explorers entered tartarus there was no concepts of party or class; most of the early explorers were lone wolfs who managed to make legends and reach far deeper in the dungeon than the strongest current party at the moment, and the only reason was their ability to account for almost all shortcomings" leader paused for a moment to let the idea sink in.

"All those innate advantages only help you develop a stat faster than the others, for example Reina, as a kitsune she has the innate ability to learn magic faster than almost all creatures, as the kitsune has a high affinity for magic, they can advance their wisdom faster, they are good at all magic yet are more attuned towards illusion and shapeshifting magic" leader pointed at fae who stepped forward. "Elves are also magical, thus they can train in magic as fast as the kitsune, but they are attuned more towards nature, they make wonderful healers and elemental magicians." she then pointed at Balin who stepped forward while fae returned back to her spot. "Dwarves are smart and also lean towards wisdom, yet they do not cast macic but become smiths and engineers, they are very straightforward and also strong because of the requirements of smithing, thus they make good protectors, and those dwarves who chose to study magic make the best enchanters".

"It is the same for all of the sentient races, they all can advance faster in one stat then the others. humans on the other hand are different, they suffer from focus, they can train a certain stat and keep getting faster at training in it as long as they do not stop they can reach the peak of said stat, but if they shift focus to another stat they advance slower than the last time and take longer to reach the same point, and can suffer from regression in the first stat. thus most humans focus on one stat or two simultaneously, even if trained they naturally lean towards one or two, and that leaning means they will advance faster in their favourite stat, and so the idea to master one stat faster than take a long time advancing in a well rounded manner spread, and from that idea the class system was born"

"The idea that the jack of all trades are worthless, came from the fact that many abandon the road before it bears its fruits, but the truth is different, if one sticks to training all paths, one would steadily advance faster in all stats, it will just take about twice to thrice as long to reach the power level of a master that focused on only on stat, yet many forget that a jack of all trades on the same level as a master is far more potent as a party member than the master. For example, let's take Yunan and little tails for example, they are both level one in wisdom, but yunan is also level one in dexterity, strength, and constitution, meaning he has 4 chances to survive an attack while little tails has only one, Yunan can run faster, hit stronger, take more punishment and still think as fast as little tails. While little tails can only use her brains and make a strategy using her party members if she wishes to survive, Yunan can just ditch the heavy load of useless teammates and survive, if he can not save any of the with him, on the other hand little tails survival depends on the same heavy baggage, that Yunan can just ditch"

"Ever since Bai told me his student wanted to learn everything, i had the idea to train him into a master of all trades, and this is the point of the training we are putting you through, every day, you use your brains, strength, constitution and speed to solve all kinds of problems that seem a bit insignificant, but there is visible progress in the way Yunan grew, albeit slower than most, Yunan can destroy anyone who has put in the same time into only one stat, so i hope you can understand if we are harsh or sometimes unreasonable as you start to grow faster, and stronger and beyond those on your level. One more point, the path of an all rounder is long and hard, luckily you guys started before you went into the dungeon when it will be too late"

"If you start training your other stats only just before adulthood or after it, you will find it harder than it is now that you are still children, so forget all about what the rest of the academy is being taught, we are preparing you kids to become explorers and not some soldiers who can not even advance while in the dungeon and have to depend on the guild for their livelihood. We may seem easy going and eccentric, maybe even a proper party if you see us fight, but never forget, before we joined hands in debauchery, each of us had to survive for years in tartarus, alone for some of them, and even if you see us take the "proper classes" all of us can easily be as effective as a party in the same level. That is the rule of tartarus, those who are adaptable survive while the other become feed for the monsters"

On that note ended the lecture and the training started, from one look you can tell the kids have been given a clear path to tread and the motivation they needed to walk it.