My Class is Null, But I Always Get the Best Outcome

The simulation shifted into the fourth disaster, snow beginning to fall over another civilization entirely. At first it looked almost peaceful, white flakes drifting through busy streets, buildings standing intact, people still moving about their day.

Then the temperature dropped. Not gradually.

Instantly.

Kai watched frost spread across an entire building in seconds.

CRACK.

Windows shattered under the sudden contraction. Mana conduits froze solid mid-line. A hunter raised his hand to activate a skill, and nothing happened.

Elden noticed immediately. "Their mana isn’t responding."

Lily’s expression tightened. "The cold is interfering with their abilities?"

The Candidate nodded.

The civilization fired up massive mana furnaces in response, several districts warming almost instantly. For a moment it looked like they’d found the answer.

Then the frost spread faster, working the heating systems over from the outside in. One furnace shut down. Then another. Then a third.

Mira watched the city slowly lose function district by district. "They’re not just freezing the people."

"They’re freezing the infrastructure," Elden finished.

Kai studied it closely, cataloguing what the disaster was actually targeting. Movement. Mana circulation. Communication. Machinery. Healing. Transportation. Defensive systems, one after another.

The civilization wasn’t being killed outright.

It was being disabled.

"That’s worse," Kai said quietly.

The city made one last attempt, concentrating remaining mana into central shelters, hunters carrying the injured toward safety, barriers sealing shut, heating redirected entirely into the last strongholds.

For a few moments it seemed to stabilize.

Then the Candidate accelerated the simulation. The frost reached the shelters. The barriers froze solid. The heating systems failed one by one.

The vision faded.

Raze exhaled slowly. "...So even if you prepare for it, the disaster just keeps coming."

"That’s what the records said," Gabriel confirmed.

Kai looked at her. "You’ve seen descriptions of this?"

"Yes." She looked back at the empty space where the simulation had been. "But never this clearly."

The Candidate didn’t move to the next simulation right away. "There is something you should know."

Everyone turned toward him.

"I’m not certain the final two Calamities you experience will be the same ones I show you."

Kai blinked. "...What?"

"What do you mean?" Lily asked.

"They can change?" Raze said.

"Then why show them to us?" Mira pressed.

"Are the records inconsistent?" Elden added.

The Candidate didn’t answer immediately, and Gabriel finally spoke instead.

"He’s not wrong."

Everyone looked at her.

She explained that Nexus had preserved records from multiple civilizations that had experienced the Six Calamities firsthand, and the accounts weren’t identical, especially concerning the final two. Different civilizations described different phenomena, different forms, different patterns of destruction entirely.

"There are records where the Fifth Calamity wasn’t anything like what another civilization experienced," she said.

Lily’s eyes widened. "So the Calamities adapt?"

"That’s what the records suggest."

The Candidate gave a small nod, offering nothing further.

Kai caught it. "You know more."

"Enough."

He didn’t push further. He already knew they weren’t getting the whole answer.

Raze sighed. "Well, we’re already here."

"Even if they’re different, we can learn something," Mira said.

"Mechanisms. Patterns. Responses," Elden added.

Lily nodded reluctantly. "At least we’ll know what we’re looking for."

"Show us," Sera said.

"And we’ll hope the ones we get are close," Kai finished.

The Candidate nodded, and a new civilization formed around them, its defenses genuinely impressive, huge walls, mana towers, thousands of hunters ready.

Then the horizon turned black, a massive dark mass approaching in the distance. It took several seconds before anyone understood what they were looking at.

Millions of creatures, blotting out the sky entirely.

Raze’s expression shifted. "...That’s a lot."

"Black Swarm," Gabriel said quietly.

The city activated its barriers, and the swarm crashed against them, thousands of impacts landing every second. The barrier held, then began weakening under the sheer weight. Hunters fought from the walls, killing hundreds, then thousands.

It didn’t matter. The swarm kept coming, climbing over its own dead, covering buildings, filling streets, consuming mana structures wherever it landed, overwhelming positions purely through numbers.

Lily watched. "They’re not fighting the hunters."

Kai understood. "They’re fighting the city."

The civilization’s leaders eventually abandoned the outer districts entirely, barriers closing behind them, entire sections sacrificed while hunters fell back to fortified strongholds. The swarm consumed everything left behind.

"They gave up half the city," Raze said.

"To save the other half," Mira said.

"They survived," Kai said.

The Candidate didn’t correct him. The simulation ended with the civilization intact, but enormous sections of the city simply gone.

The final vision formed next, another city with massive anti-air defenses, mana cannons across every rooftop, detection towers along the skyline.

"They knew what was coming," Kai said.

"Yes."

The sky darkened, not from clouds this time. A gigantic shadow passed overhead. Something was falling. Then another. Then dozens.

The city opened fire.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Several objects shattered mid-fall. For a moment it looked like it might work.

Then something far larger appeared above them all.

Elden’s expression changed. "...That’s too large."

The Candidate simply watched as it fell.

BOOOOOOM!

The simulation ended.

Lily looked toward the Candidate. "That’s Falling Sky."

He nodded.

"And this is the version we’re getting?" Kai asked.

"I don’t know."

Everyone looked at him.

"The final two can change."

"That’s consistent with the Nexus records," Gabriel added.

Sera sighed. "So we could prepare for something completely different."

"Yes."

Raze scratched his head. "Great."

Mira glanced at him. "You sound thrilled."

"I’m trying to stay positive."

The Candidate finally gave them something concrete. "There is one thing that remains consistent."

Everyone went quiet.

"Each Calamity lasts ten minutes."

Kai’s eyes narrowed. "Ten."

"Ten minutes."

Lily started calculating out loud. "Six Calamities—"

"One hour," Elden finished.

Silence held while the realization settled in.

They didn’t have to defeat them.

They had to endure them.

Kai suddenly asked, "Wait." Everyone looked over. "How does the System categorize failure?"

The Candidate watched him carefully.

"Is it if the city gets destroyed?"

"No."

"Then what?"

"It depends on whether the City Leader survives."

Kai froze. "...Me."

"You."

He thought for several seconds. "So what if I leave the—"

Gabriel shook her head immediately. "You can’t."

He looked at her.

She explained what Nexus had documented, that when the disaster began, a barrier would form around Mythal entirely. Citizens could remain outside. Hunters could reposition. The City Leader couldn’t.

"You will be locked inside," she said.

His lips twitched. "...Of course I will."

Raze laughed. "You were already looking for a loophole."

"I was checking."

"Sure."

Kai crossed his arms. "So failure is if I die."

"Yes."

"And success is surviving for one hour?"

"Yes."

He went quiet at that. With Tiamat, he’d been able to fight.

With this, he was the objective itself.

"Have there been others who passed this?" he finally asked.

Gabriel answered before the Candidate could. "Yes."

Everyone looked at her.

She explained that several civilizations had survived the Six Calamities, but the records described terrible costs. Hunters throwing themselves into the disasters outright. Entire districts abandoned wholesale. Defensive forces wiped out to the last person. City Leaders surviving specifically because everyone around them had died protecting them.

Her voice softened. "Some records called those civilizations successful."

She looked down. "I don’t know if I’d use that word."

She looked back up at Kai. "I hope Mythal can be different."

"Different how?"

"Like Tiamat."

Everyone went quiet. Nobody claimed they’d repeat exactly what had happened, because they all understood the difference.

Tiamat could be fought.

The Six Calamities couldn’t necessarily be fought at all.

"I think surviving this may be more difficult than defeating an enemy," Gabriel said quietly.

Kai asked one last question. "Where will they happen?"

"Around you."

He blinked. "...Around me?"

"The disaster will focus on the City Leader."

Everyone worked through the implication together.

"Then the defensive network needs to move with him," Lily said.

"Or keep the strongest coverage around his position at all times," Elden added.

"Which means we need to know where Kai is going to be," Mira said.

Sera looked directly at him. "And make sure he doesn’t get trapped alone."

Raze cracked his knuckles. "Easy enough."

Kai glanced at him. "You didn’t even think about it."

"Thinking comes after punching."

The Candidate reminded them, "You can request simulations."

Lily understood immediately. They could recreate Mythal, test each disaster deliberately, break their own defenses on purpose, find every weakness, and try again as many times as they needed.

"You have twenty-six days," the Candidate said. "Use them."

"We will," Kai said.

The Candidate looked around at all of them. "You overcame Tiamat." A pause. "I know you can overcome the Second Disaster."

Something settled into determination across the group.

Then he added, looking directly at Kai, "But remember." A pause. "You are not fighting six enemies."

"You are surviving six disasters."

The blue world began fading, and just before they disappeared entirely, he offered one final line.

"Good luck."

They returned to Mythal, nobody speaking for several seconds.

"We should start making a plan," Lily said.

Elden adjusted his glasses. "I agree. We need to figure out how to survive it."

Raze cracked his knuckles again, grinning. "Now that’s a plan."

Kai turned toward the others. "Let’s get started."

Somewhere inside his mind, Tiamat spoke quietly.

"This should be interesting."

His lips twitched. "...I was hoping you’d say something more encouraging."

"No."

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