Despite what he thought what would've happened, Rhea simply looks thoughtful.
'Anticlimactic, I thought she would've gasped and said, "that's an evil super legendary class!" or something like that '
"That's a rare class, I have only heard of a few people with that one. If I'm remembering correctly, it is an offshoot of warrior and thug or was it goon? either way despite Its quite ominous sounding name it is quite versatile, you should have no issues getting someone to help you level it".
"Hold up. are you saying that the system thinks I'm a goon? like a henchman to some cheesy villain movie? ' What the fuck system!?'
Rhea begins to giggle before full on bursting into laughter holding her belly.
"Really, you're laughing. I'm a henchman and your laughing" Carter grumbles.
*sniff* " I am sorry for laughing, it has been some time since I have heard something so humorous" she says as she wipes a few tears away.
" Goon is not a 'henchman' as you called it but is simply a more combat focused version of thug, which is just a common combat class found in cities. Like brawler or fighter but more group oriented. Even some city guards have thug before meeting requirements for more better suited classes".
"Classes have hidden requirements to unlock which people have recorded for many of them and sell but some are so widespread they are freely known. For example, like [warrior] a common armed class typically needing a basic mastery of a weapon. Truthfully now that you already have a rare class you won't need to worry about any of this unless you want to switch to something more noncombative."
"Exp is used to level up and can be as simply as doing paperwork for some, healing and doing first aid, and defeating or killing for others. You will most likely have to kill enemies; be them monsters, beast, or bipeds." she says all this in a matter of fact tone as if killing is simply a fact of life hear.
'Maybe this world won't be so bad for me'
*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*
"I KNOW YOUR IN THERE"
"COME OUT FILTH!"
"OR WE WILL BURN DOWN THIS HOUSE"
Carter and Rhea both flinch from the unexpected noise outside.
*gasp* "Oh no! they have found us!"
"How!? it's too fast. This doesn't make sense, I put up the Illusory artifact!"
"Who found you?" Carter asks as he cautiously peeks out of the draped window facing toward the front of the house. Three men in uniform Leather armor and white hoods covering their faces are standing in front of the doorway, with a robed individual hovering behind them as if using them for protection.
'What the fuck? There's fantasy Klansmen, I guess. Who would've thought'
Carter instinctively touched his forearm which before his death had his chain wrapped around it.
'I kind of miss that rusty thing, I should get another one or maybe an actual weapon like a war hammer or something.'
Carter notices the robed finger is holding something struggling in his hands before he slaps it and it goes still.
"Rhea, where is Kamari right now?"
"He was outside "she whispers as she comes to look through the other window.
"Oh Kamari" whispers Rhea as she begins to quietly sob.
"Do you have any weapons?"
She shakes her head in the negative as she continues to stare at the still boy in the robed one's arms.
"Come on now, you got to have something, anything heavy? how about those draughts?".
"They won't work. they are too agitated to affect them enough for my magic to put them to sleep. All of my stronger potions were used fighting them off the last time and I have no more reagents" She sullenly says.
"How about a lock and a chain?" Carter asks hopefully.
Rhea looks confusingly at him until a light goes off in her eyes and she quickly scampers away into a back room.
"COME OUT SPIDER SCUM!"
"WE HAVE YOUR HALF-BREAD ABOMINATION; YOU DON'T WANT HIM HURT COME OUT NICE AND DOCILE LIKE!"
Rhea burst out of the backroom with a large and thick black chain, one end dangling a large old timey lock.
"Now we're talking". Carter takes it out of her hands and wraps around his forearm, the familiar feeling causing an invisible weight to lift off his shoulders.
A warmth ignited in his core and flowed through his limbs, a feeling of lightness overtaking him. Though something was different this time.
******
Rhea's POV
Rhea was not having a good day. No one of her colony had shown up to the main safehouse yet except for her and her adopted son. Not to mention a giant and ruggedly handsome newly awoken had come to her doorstep during mating season. His rumbly voice kept vibrating the fine sensory hairs hidden among her scalp, causing her to shiver. And she accidentally poisoned him.
'May the Goddess take me'. And now with the order outside banging on her door the giant had transformed into a savage. Her instincts screaming at her to mate with him, kill him or run for the nearest dark and high corner.
His presence which had already been distinct was heavy in the air now. The giants scarred lips forming a rictus grin showing surprisingly white teeth with sharp incisors.
She was soaked.
'If I survive this, I need to see his system details because this cannot be natural'. she thought as she stared at the man lumbering towards the shaking heavy wooden door.
******
"IF YO-"
*BANG*
The order member banging on the door was thrown back with the door landing on him momentarily stunned and the wind knocked out of him.
A large figure ducked out of the entryway and outside onto the porch looming over the three still standing.
"What exactly is the problem here?"
The robed figure is the first to break out of the shock of the situation. "We are here for the spider scum not an ogre-" whatever else he was going to say is drowned out by the wails of his associate who is holding his Knose and, on his knees. 'When did h-'
His inner turmoil is abruptly interrupted as the surprisingly fast giant clamps his hand around his throat and lifts. The figure drops the still boy to put his hands to his neck struggling against the giants grip unsuccessfully.
'Why is he so strong!?, this ogre is unnatural!'
relief comes from the other standing order member finally snapping out his shock and slamming his large club into the ogre's back causing his grip to loosen letting a gasp of a breath through the vice before quickly closing.
The club is ripped away from him before being summarily returned at high velocity to his jaw making a sickeningly loud *crack* before falling limply to the floor.
The robed man is jerked into the house and forced onto his knees before feeling a fist slam onto the back of his head and darkness quickly taking him.
' That one for questioning and the others for my first exp in this world.'
Carter walks back out of the now doorless entryway and slams the heavy lock twice onto each of the dazed odor members shattering their skulls with a *SQUELCH* and dying their hoods red.
*Ding*
~Level up x3~