Earth's Best Gamer - Chapter 246
Chapter 246: A New Batch of Talent Skills
When the Ten-Species Competition quest was over, apart from the information on the headcount of the third batch of players, some players also received information on talent skills in their heads!
Take Elder Meng for example. He received a talent skill named Aura Observation, which was rated as Superior.
The effect of the skill was to observe the power of providence that covered a settlement or a bunch of creatures to learn information of the settlement, including but not limited to population, the top players’ levels, their physical statuses, etc.
This talent skill was more like a combination of Li Qing’s Combat Ability Detector and Su Nongying’s Registration Book.
However, it was apparently of greater strategic significance than the former two.
With this talent skill, the Twin Dragon Mount fort would have great advantages in terms of initial intelligence when faced with other alien settlements.
No wonder Elder Meng’s skill was rated as “Superior”, same as Elder Jiao’s.
Apart from Elder Meng, another four players who entered the Battlefield of Providence got talent skills in this round too!
They were Qin Yueyu, Chu Yin, Guo Wei, and An Quan respectively.
Among them, Qin Yueyu’s talent had the highest rating. Its name was “Trajectory Prediction”!
[Trajectory Prediction]
[Level: Ordinary]
[Rarity: Excellent]
[Description: This skill allows you to determine the route and landing point of items that have a trajectory with your eyes.]
The talent was very useful to archers and shooters.
After activating this talent skill, they would be able to decide where their attacks would hit the moment they pulled the trigger, so they could adjust their aiming faster than their enemy.
More importantly, the talent skill could not only determine the attacks that one launched but also those that were aimed at oneself.
If Qin Yueyu understood the talent well enough, she could definitely recreate the movie scenes where one casually walked in a storm of bullets without being hurt at all while firing arrows at the enemies’ throats and heads precisely!
Of course, she had to grow stronger in order to do that, and she needed movement techniques such as Distance Reduction. After all, just because she could see the trajectories of bullets didn’t mean that she was fast enough to dodge them.
Qin Yueyu’s talent skill was more like a visual enhancement thanks to her job as a “shooting champion” before she joined the game. Chu Yin’s case was similar to hers.
The only difference was that Qin Yueyu’s talent skill strengthened her vision, whereas Chu Yin’s talent skill honed her hearing!
[Sound Recognition]
[Level: Ordinary]
[Rarity: Refined]
[Description: This skill can increase the sensitivity and range of one’s ears, allowing one to acquire all kinds of information through sounds!]
This talent skill felt rather familiar.
That’s right. It was exactly the ability of the Spiritual Headphone that the Yuan Shadow Assassins wore in the inn back on the Battlefield of Providence.
As a player who had already died once, Chu Yin didn’t have any Stone of Civilization that could be transformed into “initial equipment”. However, since the Spiritual Headphone was transformed from the Stone of Civilization rewarded for the victory of the Ten-Species Competition, it could be inherited like the initial equipment. Ji Ye felt that it might be a way for the players to get talent skills!
As Elder Jiao’s assistant and a central researcher in the fort, Guo Wei had received a talent skill named “Contemplation”, which could concentrate his attention and improve the speed of his thinking for a while.
The talent skill was only rated as Common. Judging from its effect, it couldn’t even be counted as an Extraordinary ability, because drinking things such as the Stone Milk and the Sweet Dew could achieve the same result.
Actually, the players’ talent skills were never really unique and uncopiable.
For example, Elder Meng’s Aura Observation was a skill that the top advisors in the history of Chidragon such as Liu Bowen and Sima Yi were capable of, Ji Ye could somewhat replicate Qin Yueyu’s “Trajectory Prediction” with “True Seer”, and Chu Yin’s Spiritual Headphone was a product of a human civilization that was a combination of cultivation and technologies.
Generally speaking, only the talents marked as “Rare” were those that were truly valuable.
For example, An Quan, whose hair had regrown but whose body had fattened, also obtained a talent skill.
[Applet]
[Level: Ordinary]
[Rarity: Refined (rare)]
[Description: This skill can install applets on you for the corresponding functions you designed.]
It was a talent skill that matched An Quan, who used to be a game programmer, perfectly, and it was very powerful.
In battles, he could set up a sword art applet on his body, and when he was faced with an enemy, he only needed to activate the applet to carry out the corresponding moves as quickly as possible!
In life, if he created a “Perfect” gun or armor, he could set up the process as an “applet” and thereby create more “Perfect” equipment in repetition!
Of course, such an example might have been an exaggeration.
Neither battles nor firearm making could be as simple as that. One often had to improvise according to the situation.
Besides, An Quan’s talent skill was just Refined, and its level was only “Ordinary”. The best he could do was to create a few applets that didn’t consume inner strength.
However, talent skills could be upgraded.
If he worked on it, it was possible to upgrade the applet into an application, a giant application, and a super application!
After all, programmers were creatures who could create an alternate world purely with “0” and “1”.
It was a talent with a huge potential, just like Mister Bug’s God Invitation.
Speaking of which, those two people had something similar, which was that they weren’t very distinguished among the players in the fort but both received a talent skill when a round was finished. Their talent skills were both plain at first but had huge potential.
Ji Ye’s remark on such a situation was that the two of them probably really had unique talents in those aspects.
An Quan, for example, worked as a developer, writer, artist, and many other roles at the same time back on Earth. He could create a game entirely on his own.
People like him might not be able to become the best in any aspect, but their talent could not be denied.
Apart from the players who entered the City of Humans, three of those who stayed in the fort got talent skills.
For example, Shang Yan, who had been responsible for the fort in the past dozen days, got a talent skill named Heart Questioning.
It was an ability similar to a certain mutant professor’s mind-reading ability, but there was a minor difference.
Shang Yan couldn’t directly acquire the target’s thoughts from his head, and she must perform her skill by interrogating the target. The target whom the skill was used upon couldn’t hide their real thoughts and purposes.
It was undoubtedly a great interrogation skill. Together with the Universal Translator, Elder Meng’s initial equipment that had yet to be used, it could even elicit intelligence from alien captives.
However, Ji Ye vaguely thought that the important part about this skill was that it could be used on “allies” instead of “enemies”…
After Shang Yan received a talent skill, all the nine players who arrived at the Twin Dragon Mount fort in the second match except Xu Xue and Jiang Wenming who were already dead had got a talent skill!
Ji Ye felt that it might be a bonus for the Twin Dragon Mount fort’s development in this round, because apart from those six, there were another two people who got talent skills. The total number was exactly the first digit of “800”, the headcount of new players to be sent to the Twin Dragon Mount fort.
As for which two exactly?
One of them was the manager of the cafeteria of the Twin Dragon Mount fort. He claimed to be from a family of chefs and had worked in a five-star hotel for twenty years before entering the Land of Inheritance.
That’s right. He was exactly the middle-aged chef player who joked about cooking tiger-shark fins for Ji Ye.
Perhaps because he had been responsible for the food of hundreds of people for days, and he made food with precious ingredients, the chef named Hao Dahai received a talent skill named “Food Replenishment”, which could transform the Extraordinary matters in the food he ate into Extraordinary power that was under his control.
The talent skill was rated as “Excellent”, the same as Qin Yueyu’s.
He had received this talent partly because of his own experience too.
Although he spent most of his time in the kitchen every day, thanks to the abundant EXP he got from cooking and the intake of advanced food, Hao Dahai had already reached Extraordinary Rank-5. He even learned a saber technique from Wu Song, and he was no weaker than the players who leveled up through battles such as Li Qing and Qin Yueyu.
If an alien attempted to break into the Twin Dragon Mount fort’s kitchen and sabotage their food, he might be cut into two parts and killed or sliced into pieces and cooked, depending on whether or not this particular alien was edible and looked delicious!
Similar to Chef Hao, there was a player who was responsible for manufacturing cannonballs and had been recruited by Ling Zhen as a disciple. Similar to Guo Wei, he got a talent that could increase the agility of his arms!
Although it was just “Common”, they were still very proud in front of the players who didn’t get any talent skills.
Tempted by the talent skills, it was not hard to imagine that a lot of players to arrive in the third batch would fight for the important jobs such as chefs, blacksmiths, tailors, breeders, etc.!
Maybe, many people who had been chosen on Earth were busy collecting technological files on weapons, firearms, architecture, and clothes.
