Daz had promised to meet up with Rose, Crusher, Dorian, Madison and Vanessa shortly via text. However, first, he went to a training room in the general amusement centre. Naturally, he wanted to use his Class Upgrade Token.

  "It's so weird how my instincts are screaming at me to use this thing now. I wanted to think it over a bit longer, to be honest," Daz complained as he sat down cross-legged on the foam flooring of the training room that he was in.

  The room was pure white in colour and could be changed into any landscape with but a few words from its occupant - Daz. He could also summon enemies or dummies to act as training partners, but he didn't care about that right now. He was only here for some privacy and some space to think over his coming choice. Training could come after that should the need arise.

  Reika floated around lazily and stopped in front of his face. 'Do you know why your instincts are being so loud?'

  Daz shook his head. "I have no clue. I'm guessing it's because the people I'll be challenging with my tickets for the skill cap upgrades will be stronger than me? I'm not sure, but that's the theory that makes the most sense."

  'Hmm... What if Fort Skip will come under attack the moment this auction is over? Surely then, you won't have the time to choose your class upgrade. At least not with a calm mind,' Reika suggested.

  Daz raised an eyebrow. "I'm pretty sure that's impossible. I don't want to say it's entirely impossible, but I'm confident that very little time has actually passed outside. Like, what, just over four hours? And everyone on Earth is in the auction right now."

  'True. Hmm... We do not know why your instincts are reacting so violently, then,' Reika said as she shrugged her astral shoulders.

  Daz just rocked his head from side to side once more and sighed at the tiny demon princess' actions. "System, I'd like to use my Class Upgrade Token now, please."

  "Huh... They're all actually really good... But yeah, I'm going to have to choose Crystal Digger. That's obviously the best one. What do you think, instincts?" His esper power was silent, which meant that it didn't disagree with him.

  The young reaper nodded and said, "System, what do you think? Which class would you personally recommend?"

  "I wonder why. No chance you'll tell me, will you?" Silence was his only answer. "Guessed as much."

  He shrugged and stood up before he stretched. "Well then, Crystal Digger it is. I trust my esper power more than I trust you, system. Though you are very reliable, make no mistake there."

  The change was immediate. Daz felt something inside of him... click. Like a previously unlit fire was now roaring and blazing wildly in his mind. It felt... peculiar.

  "System, show me my status, my new class and all of its skills, please," he requested with his usual manners when talking to the almighty being who was controlling this 'test'.

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  "Heh... Not horrible. Shame about the future stat slots, but it's not the biggest deal in the world since I already have all of the important stats. Still, the boosts to Strength, Constitution and Dexterity have more than doubled from twenty-percent to fifty-percent, and the Wisdom stat gained the same boost," Daz concluded. As if to answer him, the details of his new class blocked his vision.

  "Wow. That's... That's a lot of shit," Daz mumbled as he whistled in admiration. He'd have to complain to Crusher at some point soon. It would seem that his somewhat impressionable state after regaining his emotions had led to him learning this whistling habit of hers.

  "Well, this is kinda usable now. I don't think I've ever used this skill before, have I? Maybe for Fort Skip's initial trenches... I can't really remember... I know I used the Grave of The Humans skill to expand them afterwards with the help of Rimmy's punches... Speaking of which, when exactly will that crazy old man judge that I can actually rank that stupid skill up?" Daz moaned as he moved onto the next skill.

  "Oh! Now that is great. Auto-collection and then they go into a specific subspace? I'll need to test the limits of its range, but yeah. I can imagine this being incredibly helpful if and when this whole test shit moves to other planets like it already seems to be," he happily said.

  "Nice. Not the most useful skill ever, granted. However, this'll make my hobby more fun, I'm sure. I wonder what rank Sandy's crafting skill is? I'm sure he must have invested some points into a decent version of it, right?" Daz wondered aloud.

  As promised, the skill was taken into the Shovel Arts skill the very next second and was added to its list of abilities. Daz looked forward to checking the power of this upgraded Shovel Smash soon.

  Once again, one of his new skills disappeared. This time, it became a part of Higher Identification, naturally. Higher Identification didn't rank up, unfortunately, but it did gain a new ability called 'Master Tool Identification'. What it did was painfully obvious.

  "All really decent changes. Now, onto the meat of the matter." Daz was eagerly awaiting the reveal of his new crystal-focused skills.

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