She said that she had guided blind people before. If that was the case, she would know that you should give them your elbow to hold on to and guide them. Source: my mother is a rehabilitation and mobility specialist who teaches blind people how to navigate for work and general life.

I don’t think that’s the case for every class. And Laken did more than just believe. He declared himself to the world, chose a domain, and collected taxes unchallenged. If he had been in the vicinity of Magnolia, he likely would have failed, as she has a much greater historical claim to the land and could refute his claim. But by doing it somewhere where nobody could challenge him, the system acknowledged his claim.

Classes aren’t really a trap. You get lots of power easily, so long as you follow the rules of the system. If you choose to break those rules, you get punished.

The florist girl didn’t just eat a dead body. She likely would have only gotten a red [Cannibal] class or something for that. No, she chose to eat a rotting, week-old corpse, something that even goblins would probably not touch normally. That’s why she got turned into a horror. She lost levels as a Florist because she was losing her humanity as she became more of a monster by continuing to eat.

The system didn’t decide that for her, she chose to eat that rotting corpse, which is something that probably 99.9% of other people would never do, they’d rather starve. Regardless of what the system did or didn’t do to her afterwards, if anyone had seen her eat that, they’d likely call her a monster and run screaming. She also probably thought of herself as a monster for doing so, and the system acknowledged that.

The fae never said that the system was a trap, or even that it was bad. They just said people don’t know what they are giving up. Which is entirely true – no one knows the exact rules the system uses, so they can’t know when they’ll be breaking them. There are likely other aspects as well – such as not being able to use the same type of magic as the fae – but none of that means it’s a trap.

As for why the world is at the technological level it is at, I made a longer post on an earlier chapter, but in short:

Monsters, magic, and levels would all play a huge part in keeping technology at a relatively low level. Magic would replace much of it, monsters would prevent a lot of logistical advancements, and levels would ‘reset’ things occasionally, not by any strict design of the system, but because people would rely on it too heavily. Constant warfare then exacerbates everything.

Rather than the system deliberately keeping things low tech, that is more of an effect of having such a system at all.

A lot of that was likely due to that skill, even if it wasn’t explicitly stated he was using it. Just like when Erin used her aura unknowingly to pressure Relc to leave her inn after his confrontation with Rags.

Confidence will get you a lot of things, but that alone wouldn’t get him the reaction he got from the merchants.

I dont think the system decides. I think the person does, the system just reinforces it.

Erin has flipped like 10 tables by now. And punched people for so much as asking questions. Same for ryoka. These girls are violent asf.