8: Chapter 8: Talent Awakening, The Only Talent! Attribute Competition!
Chen Yichuan's eyes lit up, his heart filled with wild joy.
Attribute improvement.
So that was it.
This game had no levels; this was how attributes were improved.
The path ahead suddenly became clear.
"Whoa, not bad! Over a hundred Wild Dogs, all slaughtered in just over an hour. You truly have a talent for martial arts!" Instructor Huang Hu opened his half-closed eyes and laughed loudly.
He slapped Chen Yichuan's shoulder hard with both palms.
"Not at all, Uncle Huang, it's because you taught me well," Chen Yichuan smiled and cupped his hands in salute.
"Uh, Uncle, what about the Wild Dogs on the ground?"
Hm?
Instructor Huang Hu revealed a meaningful smile: "What, want to eat dog meat? Feel free to take one, I'll send the rest to the restaurant!"
Being men, he naturally understood.
"This... this, look at this, Uncle Huang, how embarrassing, then I won't decline." Chen Yichuan's words were declining, but his body was very honest. He grabbed a Wild Dog from the ground and chuckled.
"Haha, you little rascal!!"
"It's getting late, you should head back first." Instructor Huang Hu smiled and pushed Chen Yichuan out, all the way to the side of the martial arts training stage.
Instructor Huang Hu glanced at the sky, stood with his hands behind his back, and said in a deep voice: "A lot of experience is needed after reaching the Minor Achievement stage, and the martial arts hall doesn't have that much stock. Tomorrow I will seek you out and take you to a good place to level up quickly!!"
Leaving these words behind, Instructor Huang Hu stomped his foot and his dark figure completely vanished into the night sky.
Regarding this, Chen Yichuan didn't think much of it. At this moment, he was already unable to suppress his excitement, especially since the talent awakening was about to begin. He carried a dead dog and ran home quickly!!
Suppressing the joy in his heart, he closed the door and slid the bolt, completing the actions in one go.
Open the system panel.
[Chen Yichuan: Male, Human]
[Talent: Pending Activation (Countdown 14 minutes)]
[Strength: 4+1] (Attack 2-2; Strength * 0.4, rounded up)
[Agility: 5] (Speed 5)
[Stamina: 5] (HP 40/50; Defense 1; Recovers 1 point every ten minutes, provided no fatal wounds)
[Spirit: 9 (Inactive)]
[Free Attributes: 2]
[Realm: None]
[Skill: 'Basic Fist Technique' Minor Achievement, next realm Proficiency 6/300]
[Current Location: Mysterious Realm, Jiuzhou Nation, Liang Province, Nanshan Prefecture, Shuangjiang County, County Dungeon.]
5 points of Strength.
Although it only increased by one point, Chen Yichuan felt the strength in his hands become more solid, and holding the ghost-head blade felt even more lightweight.
Every swing of his fist became crisper, lighter, and he could control his own force with greater precision.
"Where should I add these 2 Free Attributes?" Suppressing his excitement, Chen Yichuan stroked his chin and pondered.
Should he take the path of balance, or should he break all laws with pure strength?
On this point, he hesitated.
Staring at the burning kerosene lamp on the table, Chen Yichuan was at a loss for how to choose.
"Sigh, there's no guide for this game." Chen Yichuan smiled helplessly.
However, he did not dare to treat the 《Mysterious Realm》 as an ordinary game anymore.
After thinking for a long time.
He did not add the points, deciding to wait a moment to see what talent he would draw.
...
5 minutes and 30 seconds.
Game talents largely determined a person's development.
As the countdown was about to end.
A surge of information flooded his brain, and Chen Yichuan gained some understanding of talents.
Game talents had five levels, as well as a Unique Talent.
They were each represented by several colors: white, green, blue, purple, and red.
White was the lowest, and the quality improved as they went up.
Moreover, these game talents were only granted to the fifty thousand players in the closed beta, and they would not be deleted.
It could be said to be the closed beta benefit of 《Mysterious Realm》, a blatant favoritism.
Ten, nine... three, two, one.
As the countdown ended, Chen Yichuan's vision went black.
The darkness lasted for about five seconds, then he opened his eyes... he had actually returned to the place where he first entered the Mysterious Realm, and everything before him was chaos.
However, this time it was a bit different.
Within the chaos, beneath his feet was a winding five-colored river that stretched to the horizon.
White, green, blue, purple, red, and extremely rare black light spots floated upward slowly.
Game Talent.
This word flashed through Chen Yichuan's mind.
Immediately after.
The system prompt sounded suddenly.
"Congratulations to the Blue Star players for surviving to the seventh day, the game talent draw has begun."
"Each person has ten chances to draw, you can draw talent entries, either single draws or ten-consecutive draws, and finally choose one as your permanent talent."
As the voice finished.
His figure flashed, and Chen Yichuan arrived in front of a huge roulette wheel, with various colors floating back and forth.
"Miracles in single draws? I never believe in them!!"
"Ten-consecutive draw, one shot to the soul."
Bang.
Chen Yichuan slapped his palm down heavily, and the light shimmered.
The results appeared quickly.
Blue, blue, blue, green, green, purple, purple, purple, red, and the most conspicuous black!!
Ten light orbs landed beside him.
He couldn't see what the talents inside the light orbs were.
Only the colors.
Chen Yichuan's eyes skipped over those talents below purple, and his gaze locked onto the red and black ones.
"Red? Or black?"
"Red is the top-tier talent, black is the Unique Talent, one of a kind. Which one to choose?" Chen Yichuan murmured softly.
A happy problem.
His luck had always been very good; others might not even have a single purple talent.
Yet now, he was struggling.
If other tens of thousands of people saw this, they would probably be jealous to death.
Out of fifty thousand people.
Those who drew a purple talent would not exceed three hundred, and those with a red talent would not exceed 30. As for black, it was absolutely unique.
Looking at that river of colors alone, the Black Talent was almost invisible.
"Damn it, I'll take a gamble. Red is certainly stable!!"
"But I like to go all out." Gritting his teeth, Chen Yichuan reached out and tapped on the Black Talent.
[Attribute Involution (Black)] (Unique Talent)
— — Spirit + 5
— — Martial Arts Experience Efficiency + 200%
— — Four-Dimensional Attribute Involution (Introduction: When one of the four-dimensional attributes significantly exceeds the other three, with a threshold of 10, e.g., Spirit 15, Stamina 5; at that time, the Stamina attribute will undergo crazy involution, automatically cultivating to the highest attribute ± 3, plus or minus three.)
Thump.
Chen Yichuan's heart was pierced hard, his hands trembled slightly, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up.
"Haha, worthy of being a Black Talent, three entries!!"
"No! Even if there was only Attribute Involution, I would be satisfied. Black, black is good, I like black silk the most!!" Chen Yichuan slapped his thigh excitedly.
Excited, jumping up and down, it was no longer enough to describe his mood at this moment.
"Attribute Involution, involution is good."
"Whoever tells me that involution is a derogatory term, I'll fight them!!" Chen Yichuan laughed maniacally.
The life of a corporate slave in his past life.
He hated it, but now he loved this Attribute Involution dearly.
This gamble, a 100-fold effort, he bet correctly.
The first lesson of being a person is loyalty, the second is not forgetting one's roots.
Chen Yichuan experienced it thoroughly and deeply.
System prompt:
"Talent selection complete, returning to the Mysterious Realm."
Whoosh.
A short while later, Chen Yichuan opened his eyes and stood up from the wooden bed.
System panel:
[Chen Yichuan: Male, Human]
[Talent: Attribute Involution (Unique Talent)]
[Strength: 4+1] (Attack 2-2; Strength * 0.4, rounded up)
[Agility: 5] (Speed 2)
[Stamina: 5] (HP 40/50; Defense 1, Stamina * 0.2)
[Spirit: 9+5 (Inactive)]
[Free Attributes: 2]
... (Collapsed)
Whoa.
Hoo hoo hoo.
Looking at that Black Talent, Chen Yichuan's breathing unconsciously accelerated.
His hands trembled slightly, and he then added his only 2 Free Attributes to Spirit.
System prompt:
"Ding!"
"Attributes have changed, Spirit has reached 16, significantly exceeding the other three attributes; Attribute Involution talent activated."
The next moment.
Chen Yichuan felt his mind clear up, becoming even brighter.
Certain parts of his body began to slowly strengthen and change.
[Chen Yichuan: Male, Human]
[Talent: Attribute Involution (Unique)]
[Strength: 4+1 (+0.4 + 0.2 +..., continuing to rise, expected to end at 11:12)]
[Agility: 5 (+1.5 + 0.2 +..., continuing to rise, expected to end after 9 hours)]
[Stamina: 5 (+2 + 0.4 +..., continuing to rise, expected to end at 7 hours 03 minutes)]
[Spirit: 9+5 + 2 (Inactive)]
[Free Attributes: 0]
... (Collapsed)