CHAPTER 331: CHAPTER 120: NEW ABILITY_1

At this time, the little Soul Beast’s advancement had just finished. A pair of tiny black dots suddenly appeared on its round, plump body, and its slightly flattened form now resembled a small black bun.

"Master, master, look, do I look good?"

A childish voice emanated from beneath the Soul Beast’s eyes. When Wen Yu turned around to look, he found a tiny slit just below its eyes. The slit opened to reveal neat rows of tiny, chillingly white teeth.

At this time, Wen Yu was busy examining the advancement notification and casually pinched the little Soul Beast, not surprised at all when it started speaking.

Since even Cyclops could speak, it was no surprise that the little Soul Beast could too.

Upon seeing Wen Yu’s indifferent attitude, the Soul Beast pouted and mumbled a few words before floating up to bite Wen Yu’s ear.

Unfortunately, the Soul Beast had no combat capabilities of its own, so to it, Wen Yu’s ear felt like a chunk of steel. The beast’s teeth gnashed as it attempted to bite down.

"Stop fussing..."

Wen Yu casually pushed down the Soul Beast and seriously pondered the information he’d received from the advancement.

...

The first thing he noticed was the removal of the channel for converting low-level magic crystals to high-level magic crystals.

This had little impact on Wen Yu, but it would have a significant effect on large organizations.

However, this didn’t concern him much.

The newly introduced magic crystal exchange with special attributes would also be quite convenient for Wen Yu, despite the high cost! What truly excited Wen Yu, however, was the little Soul Beast’s new skill. For an S-class skill to appear after an advancement, Wen Yu could only say he was incredibly "lucky" this time! And now, with an S-class darkness attribute skill, it meant he could learn the Pitch-dark Divine Light ability!

The two most important points were the Level 5 to Level 6 advancement challenge and the Level Lock!

Information about the advancement challenge was scarce, and Wen Yu couldn’t glean any useful insights from the sparse details. The existence of the Level Lock, however, was something he had anticipated.

In his previous life, Wen Yu was cannon fodder, so he naturally didn’t have the opportunity or the inclination to think about this world’s intricacies.

But in this life, with his significant improvement in power and status, he naturally started thinking about some things.

For example, once the Demon Realm’s Gate opened and countless high-level Demon Fiends surged out from the Demon Realm, who could stop them? No one, unless the Dominator intervened!

Now it appeared the Dominator had already considered this, but also lowering the levels of both humans and mutant beasts struck Wen Yu as somewhat strange...

There are two possibilities. One is that the Dominator truly has no way to separate the Level Lock of the Demon Realm’s Gate from that affecting humans and mutant beasts. The second...

As he pondered this, Wen Yu’s eyes flickered.

After a brief moment of consideration, Wen Yu checked out the last "benefit": the upgrade in authority.

Wen Yu had heard about this from the brat Alcada at the beginning of the apocalypse numerous times.

Now, as a Sequence Number 2, not only had his authority in the treasure land increased, but his authority at the Exchange Stone Pillar had also correspondingly risen.

Wen Yu had to think about all these issues after getting out of the treasure land.

With a wave of his hand, Wen Yu recalled Cyclops and Star and was immediately teleported out of the Advancement Challenge Space.

...

Outside the Exchange Stone Pillar, due to Wen Yu’s advancement, military authorities had temporarily cordoned off the surrounding area.

Kuangliu was the only one standing nearby, waiting for Wen Yu.

As the teleportation light flashed, Wen Yu reappeared in front of the Exchange Stone Pillar, less than five minutes after entering the Advancement Challenge Space.

"I knew the advancement trial wouldn’t pose any difficulty for you."

Hearing Kuangliu’s words, Wen Yu nodded and directly touched the Exchange Stone Pillar.

Many new items had appeared, including the option to exchange for Level 5 magic crystals, as well as defensive tools and weapons suitable for Level 5 professionists.

These items were of no use to Wen Yu, not even Level 5 protective suits. For the enemies Wen Yu currently faced, if they could even touch him, Level 5 protective suits would offer no real protection. In fact, he had already stopped using protective suits when he was at Level 4.

He scanned the list of so-called new item types, which included B-Class and below skill scrolls, as well as some low-level hidden profession-change scrolls.

As he observed these items, a look of realization flashed through Wen Yu’s eyes.

These sequence-specific privileges were likely intended to allow Sequence members to drive the overall improvement of humanity’s strength, but for Wen Yu, they were genuinely useless.

There were even some high-end items listed—large space transfer devices, Demonic Qi converters, Demon Power Cannons, and various other heavy war weapons.

But none of these held any significance for Wen Yu either...

After a brief glance, Wen Yu withdrew his gaze and directly chose to exchange for a skill forgetting scroll.

The skill forgetting scroll, costing 1,000 points, was a mere trifle considering the points Wen Yu currently had at his disposal.

He immediately tore open the scroll and, after considerable thought, deliberated between the Darkness Stride and Skyward abilities.

Darkness Stride (B-Class, Passive Skill): Empowered by Pitch-dark Power, enhances the host’s speed by twenty percent!

Skyward (C-Class, Active Ability): Upon activation, defies the laws of motion, allowing a one-time arbitrary change in direction of movement!

After much contemplation, Wen Yu chose to renounce the Darkness Stride ability.

The effect of Darkness Stride was too singular; a twenty percent speed increase was better than nothing, but barely. In contrast, Skyward’s ability made Wen Yu’s combat style more versatile—changing direction mid-air, curving bullets—all were effects of Skyward.

After renouncing Darkness Stride, Wen Yu immediately pulled out the Pitch-dark Divine Light (SSS-Class) skill scroll from his space ring and tore it open.

A strange, black light enveloped the little Soul Beast, and at the same time, the prompt in Wen Yu’s mind began to flicker.

"Ding, successfully obtained the Pitch-dark Divine Light ability. Detection shows the host’s level is Level 5 and possesses an S-class darkness attribute skill; Pitch-dark Divine Light partially activated."

"Pitch-dark Divine Light (SSS-Class, Active Ability): Merge with darkness, control darkness, even transform into darkness, and then, unleash light in the darkness!

(Currently mastered Darkness (SSS-Class, Active Ability): Merge with darkness, control darkness, even transform into darkness. Darkness will provide the host with powerful dark power, and can mimic all non-Esoteric Level Pitch-dark type skills. The host can use the power of darkness according to their own ideas!)"

"Pre-requisite for mastering Divine Light: Host’s level needs to reach Level 7, and host must possess at least one SS-Class light attribute skill."