Chapter 6

Carl selects his race (Primal) and class (Compensated Anarchist) with Mordecai's guidance, then distributes his stat points. The second floor collapses and the third floor opens with an eight-day deadline. Mordecai reveals he can leave the room as Carl's manager and presents Carl to the bustling village of the third floor.

Carl reviews 398 race options with Mordecai and Donut. The AI recommends Hobgoblin, Human, and Sasquatch—all visually unappealing or stereotypical. After extensive consideration, Carl chooses Primal, a blank-slate race that maintains his current appearance but requires grinding to unlock higher-tier skills. For class selection, Carl faces over 650 choices and reviews the AI's recommendations: Bomb Squad Tech, Prizefighter, and Compensated Anarchist. He ultimately selects Compensated Anarchist, a rare earth-class hybrid requiring 500 billion views by floor three, which grants trap-making and bomb-making skills plus +5 charisma and +5 to escape-related skills. Mordecai warns that the class demands high charisma (25 minimum) and dedicated grinding. After Donut awakens from sleep, Carl distributes his 36 stat points, forced to allocate 17+ to charisma by class minimums. His final stats leave him weaker than Donut overall, troubling him. Mordecai states that success requires money and training, then presents Carl outside the room. The second floor has collapsed, triggering an eight-day countdown for the third floor with 700,000 crawlers remaining. The village before them is a bustling medieval marketplace filled with creatures of various types, hot and sulfurous.