Everyone on the server was calling the Zero Warrior a punching bag, until I switched to the hidden class—Shield Spellcaster.

Now, the style of my skill bar has changed drastically:

[Summon Rock Spirit Guardian], [Wither Mark], [Spirit Strike Rune]...

While top guilds were still struggling to clear content, I had already soloed the server's first kill.

While everyone else on the internet was figuring out how to withstand attacks longer, I was figuring out how to clear the field with spells.

They said I wasn't playing a shield warrior, that I was being too outrageous.

I glanced at the rows of rocky troops behind me, then at the BOSS's corpse that had crashed to the ground.

"It seems... to make some sense."