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

The six disaster names still hung above the massive projection of Mythal.

RED STORM

BLACK FLOOD

BURNING EARTH

WHITE FROST

BLACK SWARM

FALLING SKY

Nobody moved for several seconds. The room felt unusually quiet. Beating Tiamat had given everyone something tangible to celebrate.

This felt different. No enemy standing in front of them. No health bar. No level. No body to strike.

Just six names.

Kai walked slowly around the table. "We know four."

Lily nodded. "Which means we should stop thinking about all six at once."

"Four known variables. Two unknown," Elden agreed.

Raze leaned against the table. "So we solve the four."

Mira glanced at him. "And the other two?"

Raze shrugged. "We worry about them tomorrow."

Lily stared at him. "...That’s actually the first intelligent thing you’ve said today."

Raze looked offended. "I said plenty of intelligent things."

Sera smiled. "You said we should punch the disasters."

"That was strategically sound."

Kai laughed, and the tension in the room finally broke. He looked back at the map. "Let’s start."

Elden created a second projection immediately. "Before countermeasures, we need rules." He wrote three lines out.

Rule One: The Calamities last ten minutes each.

Rule Two: Eventually, their effects can overlap.

Rule Three: The disaster concentrates around Kai.

Everyone sobered instantly.

Mira pointed at the third. "That means protecting the city isn’t enough."

"We need to protect Kai’s position," Sera said.

Kai sighed. "I knew that was coming."

Raze grinned. "Congratulations. You’re officially the most important piece of equipment."

"I’m a person."

"A very expensive person."

Lily laughed. Even Kai couldn’t help smiling.

Lily brought up the first simulation, crimson lines projecting across the map. "Red Storm strikes from above, cuts through structures, overwhelms stationary defenses, creates unpredictable patterns, leaves permanent scars, and can hit the same area repeatedly." She pointed. "The obvious solution is barriers."

Elden said immediately, "No."

She turned. "...No?"

"Not as the primary solution."

"Why?"

He pulled up the earlier simulation. "Because the strongest barriers eventually failed."

"Then stronger barriers."

"More mana."

"Yes."

"More mana means less available for the other calamities."

She narrowed her eyes. "So what’s your solution?"

He cleared most of the barriers off the map, replacing them with dozens of smaller defensive zones instead. "Don’t build one wall. Build hundreds."

Lily studied it. "Distributed defense."

"Exactly." But she found the flaw fast. "If the storm hits one location repeatedly, those small barriers will still collapse."

"Then they move."

"The barriers?"

"The reinforcement."

He demonstrated, a crimson strike hitting one district, its defenses brightening as nearby relays automatically redirected power, the network following the attack in real time.

Lily’s expression shifted. "...Adaptive reinforcement."

He nodded, and she immediately pushed further. "That’s still reactive."

"Yes."

"Then we’re always responding after the attack." She added a second layer, the system analyzing the storm’s previous strikes to reinforce likely targets before they were hit again.

Elden studied it. "Prediction."

"Exactly."

"Prediction can fail."

"So can reaction."

They stared at each other.

Raze whispered to Mira, "Should we stop them?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Because this is how they work."

Kai finally stepped in. "Don’t choose. Use both." He combined the two designs, prediction forming the first layer, adaptive relays catching whatever prediction missed.

Lily looked at Elden. Elden looked at Lily.

"...That works," she said.

"It does."

"My idea was still important."

"I never said it wasn’t."

"You were thinking it."

"You cannot prove that."

Raze burst out laughing.

Sera brought up Kai’s position next. "There’s another problem." The map zoomed toward him. "The disaster follows him." She circled his marker. "If the storm concentrates here, the strongest defense needs to move with him."

Mira backed her up. "A mobile defensive zone."

Elden started calculating. "The relay network can prioritize the nearest active towers."

"We can also assign several reserve relays specifically to Kai," Lily added.

Kai looked at all of them. "You’re making me sound like a VIP."

"You are," Raze said.

"I don’t like it."

Sera smiled. "Too bad."

The map turned black next, and everyone sobered immediately.

"This one can’t be blocked," Mira said, remembering what they’d all seen. Anything caught inside got erased.

Raze asked, "What about barriers?"

Elden shook his head. "We don’t know whether prolonged contact would destroy them."

"Nexus records specifically warned against relying on barriers," Gabriel added.

"What did they do?" Kai asked.

"They redirected it."

Mira’s eyes sharpened. "Then that’s what we do."

She marked out the city’s terrain, elevated roads, drainage channels, reinforced trenches, empty districts, emergency shelters. "We don’t stop the flood." She traced a path through Mythal. "We decide where it goes."

Lily immediately pointed. "That channel isn’t wide enough."

"Then widen it."

"The mana cost—"

Mira cut him off. "If the flood reaches the city, the mana won’t matter."

Elden paused.

"We’re arguing about saving resources while an erasing flood is coming," Mira said flatly.

He looked at the map again. "...Fair."

Raze grinned. "You won that one."

"I know."

They built it out into four layers: terrain manipulation to redirect the flood, segmented barriers to slow and divide it, emergency teleportation to extract anyone trapped, and controlled sacrifice zones, certain empty districts deliberately designated as places the flood could consume without cost.

Kai looked at the last one. "We’re intentionally giving it parts of the city?"

"Better empty streets than hunters," Mira said.

"That was how several Nexus civilizations survived," Gabriel added quietly.

Kai nodded. "Then we use it."

Lily added one final rule. "Nobody touches it." Everyone looked at her, remembering the simulation. The black liquid hadn’t merely killed. It had erased.

"No direct attacks," Kai confirmed.

Raze raised a hand. "What if I hit it from really far away?"

"No."

"You didn’t even think about it."

"Because I know you."

He lowered his hand. "...Fair."

The map turned orange for Burning Earth, the ground beneath Mythal glowing on the projection.

"This one is worse," Mira said.

"Because it bypasses the city’s defenses entirely," Elden added, studying the underground structure. It didn’t attack buildings. It attacked the ground beneath them.

"Then stop depending on the ground," Kai said.

Everyone looked at him. Elden’s eyes narrowed. "...Elevation."

"Temporary floating platforms," Lily said, catching on.

"We can’t lift the whole city," Mira said.

"Correct," Elden agreed.

"Why not?" Raze asked.

Everyone turned toward him.

"What?"

"Do you know how much mana that would require?" Lily asked.

"No."

"Exactly."

He shrugged. "Worth asking."

They laughed before returning to the real problem, settling on priority instead of totality. Kai as Priority One. The core relay network as Priority Two. Hunter shelters as Priority Three. Critical infrastructure as Priority Four. Everything else could be abandoned if it came to that.

Sera objected immediately. "What about hunters outside those zones?"

"Emergency teleport," Mira said.

"Assuming their teleport markers are active," Elden added.

"Then every hunter receives one," Lily said.

Kai nodded. "Everyone gets a personal extraction marker."

Gabriel offered up Nexus’s old floating platform design, admittedly never enough to save an entire city, but enough to preserve critical areas. Lily began modifying it immediately, Elden adjusting the mana requirements.

Gabriel watched them work. "You’re changing it."

"Of course," Lily said.

Gabriel smiled. "My ancestors would probably be offended."

"Then it’s probably an improvement," Elden said.

Gabriel laughed.

The room quieted for White Frost. Elden listed what the simulation had shown. "The problem isn’t temperature. It’s system failure." He highlighted each collapsing system in turn. Mana. Communication. Healing. Transportation. Weapons. Relays.

"Then we need heat," Mira said.

"Not enough."

"Mana insulation," Lily offered.

"Not enough."

"More fire?" Raze suggested.

Everyone turned toward him.

"...What?"

"We’re going to ignore that," Lily said.

Mira proposed concentrated heating zones, and Elden objected on the grounds that centralizing resources created single points of failure.

"Then make more," Mira said.

"That increases the mana cost."

"So increase the mana supply."

"From where?"

"The same place we got everything else." She pointed at the city’s network. "The city."

Elden went quiet, and Lily realized where it led. "Independent heat cores."

Gabriel confirmed Nexus had used something similar, self-sufficient units that could function without the central network at all. If one failed, the others kept running.

"So even if the primary network freezes, the heat cores keep operating," Elden said.

"Exactly."

"And we can use them to protect the relay chambers too," Lily added.

The final White Frost plan came together: independent heat cores protecting key areas, insulated relay chambers, backup mana storage, physical communication as a fallback, emergency teleport for immobilized hunters, and specialized anti-frost equipment issued in advance.

Kai looked over the whole plan. "So White Frost isn’t about fighting."

"It’s about keeping the city functional," Elden said.

"Then that’s what we’ll do."

Hours passed. The city projection now carried four overlapping systems, layered and cross-referenced, adaptive barriers and prediction and mobile relay coverage for Red Storm, terrain channels and redirection and sacrifice zones for Black Flood, priority elevation and hunter extraction for Burning Earth, independent heat cores and insulated systems for White Frost.

It looked complicated.

It also looked possible.

Lily suddenly pointed at the map. "There’s still a problem."

"What?" Kai asked.

"These are four separate plans." She looked around the room. "But the Candidate said they’ll eventually overlap."

Silence.

Elden understood immediately. "Then the systems need to communicate with each other." He began linking the four layers together, Red Storm barriers reinforcing heat cores, heat cores keeping relay systems functional, terrain manipulation redirecting Black Flood, emergency teleport pulling hunters clear during Burning Earth.

The systems began reinforcing each other in real time.

Kai watched the network reshape itself. "Now it’s becoming one plan."

"Exactly."

Lily labeled the final projection.

MYTHAL DISASTER RESPONSE — VERSION THREE

Kai studied the name. "Version Three."

Lily smiled. "Don’t get excited."

"Why?"

"Because tomorrow we’re going to try breaking it."

"Repeatedly," Elden added.

"Now I’m excited," Raze said.

The meeting had run for hours by then, and it showed. Raze had practically collapsed into his chair. Mira was rubbing her shoulders. Lily sat buried in notes. Elden’s glasses hung slightly crooked. Gabriel stared at the maps, quietly overwhelmed.

Sera looked at Kai. "You realize we’ve been sitting here all day."

Kai checked the time, eyes widening. "...Oh."

"Exactly," Raze said.

Kai laughed. "We should stop."

Lily looked reluctant. "We still have Black Swarm and Falling Sky."

"Tomorrow," Kai said.

He stood. "We’ve got four plans." He looked around the room. "They’re not perfect."

"They’re not supposed to be," Elden said.

Kai smiled. "Tomorrow we deal with the last two."

"Then we test everything," Sera said.

"And find what breaks," Mira added.

"Then rebuild it," Lily finished.

Raze stood, stretching. "And after that?"

"We break it again," Kai said.

Raze grinned. "Now you’re speaking my language."

Everyone laughed, and the group started filing out. Kai stayed behind a moment longer, looking at the six names one last time.

Four had plans now. Two remained question marks.

Red Storm — Prepared.

Black Flood — Prepared.

Burning Earth — Prepared.

White Frost — Prepared.

Black Swarm — Unknown.

Falling Sky — Unknown.

"You have a habit of making complicated plans," Tiamat said quietly.

Kai smiled. "And?"

"Nothing." A pause. "I like it."

He looked toward the doorway. "Get some sleep."

"You first."

Kai laughed and headed out.

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