SSS Awakening : I can Adapt to Everything-Chapter 3: Unique Class

"Congratulations Mr.Volter." The lady in the white repeated. "Its a Unique class with S rank potential. That’s great. I’m happy for you."

"Haha, an S Rank Potential, that’s very rare. Only one in a million gets that." The Doctor considered what to say and then added. "You can even reach the level of a captain in an Extermination Agency... but there is a little problem."

Hide comes back to his senses and listening to that, he curiously asks. "What kind of problem?"

The doctor coughs, and then continues. "You didn’t awaken any talent. Well, unique classes are as their names suggest... they are unique so we can’t say anything."

It was indeed problematic. A class only tells how a person’s body reacts to mana in order to create a said effect... but talents were what the effects were. What was an awakened person without a talent?

But Hide didn’t say anything, because there was something more weirder than that. And it was the system screen in front of him... it had disappeared now, but he knew with a certainty that it had something to do with his awakening and his unique class.

The doctor stood up and turned to the lady. "Get him registered and give him the Status Ring."

Saying that the doctor left first. The lady followed behind after telling Hide to wait at the reception.

He dressed silently and stepped out.

The corridor felt different on the way back.

The same white walls. The same blue strips of light at the floor’s edge. The same posters about awakening safety and mana stabilization.

’Unique class, with S‑rank potential.’

He should have been grinning.

Part of him wanted to.

Unique classes were monsters of the upper world. Those Exterminators walked into the rifts, outside the barriers like it was nothing. People whose casual battles left craters on the news feeds and whose interviews played on loop in the public squares.

And now, on paper, he stood at the same starting line as them.

Hide Volter – Class: ∞. Class Potential: S.

∞, an infinity sign.

The name of his class was... not exactly legendary. But it was weird for sure.

He reached the lobby and walked toward the reception, boots barely making a sound on the glowing floor.

’Maybe it’s because I awakened on the third try’, he thought. ’A "catch‑all" class. Something strange that only appears in edge cases. Unique doesn’t always mean strong. It just means... not normal.’

Still. S‑rank potential.

He couldn’t pretend that part didn’t claw at his chest with something dangerously close to joy. He had a way into the Extermination Agencies now. Not as a civilian, but as an awakened. One step closer to the things beyond the barriers.

To the beasts.

To that promise.

His hand curled into a fist.

And then there was the other thing.

The System.

He’d read enough old, archived webtoons from the pre‑Calamity era to recognize the pattern. Floating blue screen were basically cheat codes dressed up as destiny.

’If this is really a System...’

’If it’s anything like those stories...’

’Then maybe I really can become strong enough to face a lesser Calamity Lord. Maybe... even a Supreme Calamity Lord.’

The thought was insane, probably stupid and arrogant. But, he couldn’t let it go.

’Alright. If you’re real... show up again.’

He took a deep breath and then called out. "System"

Nothing happened.

"Status"

Nothing...

"Open System"

There was not even a flicker of anything.

"Menu?"

Still Nothing.

"Arise?"

"..."

’What in the name of bad luck.’

He tried every cliché he’d ever seen in an old comic.

Window. Stats. Inventory. Skill tree. Hello?

Silence... there was no blue screens or the ding of the system. Just the smooth white lobby, the low murmur of staff at their terminals, and the faint hum of the building’s climate system.

By the time he ran out of dumb commands to try, his name was being called.

"Mr. Hide Volter?"

The receptionist — the same woman from earlier — was standing behind the curved desk holding a small, sleek black box in both hands. She smiled when their eyes met.

He walked over.

"This is your status ring," she said, placing the box on the counter and pushing it toward him. "Please open it and put it on the middle finger of your left hand."

Hide flipped the lid open.

Inside, resting on a piece of soft white padding, was a ring that looked like it was made of solidified shadow... pure black, with a surface that didn’t quite reflect light so much as swallow it.

When he picked it up, it felt cool and unexpectedly light. The material shifted once against his skin, like liquid becoming solid.

He slid it onto the middle finger of his left hand.

It looked like an ordinary ring... without any unexpected qualities and it looked quite good in his hands as well.

The woman nodded, apparently satisfied. "Now, please say ’Class State’ out loud."

Hide raised an eyebrow, but did as he was told.

"Class State."

Light flared softly.

A small, semi‑transparent status window projected itself above the ring, visible to anyone looking. There were crisp white letters hanging in the air, fed directly from the AAA’s official registry.

At the exact same moment, another screen appeared.

Not in the air this time... It was in front of his eyes and at the same time it wasn’t, but actually Inside his head.

Translucent blue. Sharper than the ring’s projection and Floating in front of his eyes in a way that absolutely did not obey the laws of any holographic interface he’d ever seen.

Only he could see it.

And unlike the official display, this one had more lines.