Edge of Arcadia

*Even paradise needs a butcher, an unrelenting storm of violence.*

## Summary

Edge of Arcadia is an upgradeable Epic E-Grade class picked by Zachary Atwood from his five sets of class choices when evolving to E-Grade, It is a Strength focused class that continues the Hatcheman's specialty in dealing high damage to many enemies at once.

Zac earned the title Monarch Select and received the quest, Second Step of Sovereignty, when he upgraded to this class and Fetters of Desolation.

## Class Choice

**[Option 3.]**

**Name:** Edge of Arcadia [E-Epic]. Upgrade of Hatchetman.

**Attribute per Level (x1/x2/x3):** Strength +14, Vitality +8.

**First Skill Gained:** Rapturous Divide.

*Even paradise needs a butcher, an unrelenting storm of violence.*

**Name:** Fetters of Desolation [E-Epic]. Divergence from Undying Bulwark.

**Attribute per Level (x1/x2/x3):** Strength +11, Endurance +8, Wisdom +5.

**First Skill Gained:** Blighted Cut.

*Bind them to your calamity. Sever their path. Emerge alone.*

**Book 5, Chapter 69**

## Class Screen

Class: [E-Epic] Edge of Arcadia.

Strength +100, +10%. Vitality +50, +5%.

Level: Strength +14/28/42, Vitality +8/16/24, +10 Free.

Skills: Rapturous Divide (LOCKED)

**Book 5, Chapter 74**

## **Class Skills**

* **Rapturous Divide** (level 75)
* Skill Upgrade Quest (level 90)
* Skill Upgrade Quest (level 100)
	+ Both upgrade/fusions quests were completed off-screen during the three-year time skip post the Earth Mystic Realm arc. **Book 7, Chapter 72**
	+ He used one to fuse Nature's Punishment and Deforestation into Arcadia's Judgement.
		- It was a combination of two of his Daos as well, the Fragment of the Bodhi and the Fragment of the Axe, the essence of his Edge of Arcadia class and his cultivation path. **Book 7, Chapter 72**
	+ He used the other to fuse Chop and Nature's Barrier into Nature's Edge.
* **Empyrean Aegis** (level 125)

## **Compatible Skills**

* Primal Edict - Manually created skill that synergies with many of his class skills.

## Commentary

* He decided to go with this option for two reasons. First was the fact that Warmaster of Hecate was a divergence of Hatchetman, a class he felt perfectly suited for him. He would rather upgrade his human side and get a divergent class for his Draugr side. The second reason was that he felt it was too early to start mucking about and fusing the two concepts of life and death into one single class. **Book 5, Chapter 70**
* Edge of Arcadia seemed to focus more on axe-work, whereas Gaia’s Apostle leaned toward nature skills like **[Nature’s Punishment]** and **[Hatchetman’s Spirit]**. **Book 5, Chapter 70**
* He had done it, he’d passed the first true bottleneck of cultivation, the watershed that separated those who had a shot at immortality and those who were destined to stay at the bottom of the pyramid. **Book 5, Chapter 74**
* He cracked his neck and looked down at his watch, extremely surprised to see that almost fourteen hours had passed since he sat down. It felt like the tribulations hadn’t taken more than half an hour. Something had messed with his sense of time, it seemed, most likely the five visions. **Book 5, Chapter 74**
* There weren’t a lot of things that had changed to the Status screen from his evolution, apart from his attributes having increased by quite a bit. However, Zac was a bit surprised he was still level 75. ... It seemed that evolving was just shedding the limiters on your body, but you would still have to do the work yourself. **Book 5, Chapter 74**
* Almost completely new pathways had been branded onto his body after he passed the tribulations. The pathways were far more intricate compared to before, and there was a sense of spirituality radiating from them that had been completely missing before. His skills were thankfully all still there, and from the looks of it, the fit of his skills was at least as good as before. ... it felt as though he could cram massive amounts of Cosmic Energy into the pathways without damaging them. **Book 5, Chapter 74**
* The per-level gains from his old classes remained, but the flat class bonuses had been swapped out. **Book 5, Chapter 75**
* His Edge of Arcadia class rather excelled in large-scale battles, and **[True Strike]** couldn’t help much there. **Book 6, Chapter 71**
* He figured that the fusions he had planned for his Edge of Arcadia class were more straightforward, and the accumulated experience would hopefully help him when performing the more transformative fusions of his Draugr side. **Book 7, Chapter 71**