Does static modifier change the access level of a class member in java?

I am reading the book of OCA & OCP for java 7 certification and I am trying the exercises of the book with java 8 and I noticed something wired.

I have Class1 class as follows:

package cert;
public class Class1{
    protected static void importantMethod(){
    System.out.println("importantMethod() method of Class1 class TEST \n");
}

The modifiers of importantMethod() method are protected static and the package is cert as you may see, and as explained in the book I would expect that another class from another package, in my case Class2 shown bellow, can access the importantMethod() method only through inheritance, but it turned out that from Class2 I could access the importantMethod() method through an instance of Class1 as well.

Class2 class:

package exam;
import cert.Class1;
class Class2 extends Class1 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Class1 c1 = new Class1();
        c1.importantMethod();
    }
}

If I remove the static modifier from Class1 it gives the expected error when trying to access the importantMethod() method from the Class2:

exam\Class2.java:7: error: importantMethod() has protected access in Class1
            c1.importantMethod();
              ^

My question is, does a non access modifier change the level of access for a member of a class?