CHAPTER 632: CHAPTER 26: TALENT

After opening a dozen wooden boxes, there were weapons, potions of unknown quality, and armor-like items inside.

After a long selection process, Su Xiao set his eyes on a knife.

[Blood Blade]

Quality: (Unidentified)

Su Xiao held a weapon similar in style to the Dragon Slash. This knife, due to its bloodred blade, was named Blood Blade.

The long knife slowly exited its sheath, Su Xiao tried a few slashes, the sharp breaking sound resonated, and the previously impatient auction manager’s attitude changed significantly.

The bloom of the blade was fleeting, and the long knife slowly returned to its sheath.

"This is it."

Su Xiao felt that the quality of this knife was not low, at least it could be equipped through Reincarnation Paradise’s fair judgment.

"This..."

The auction manager looked troubled, as if there was an unspeakable reason.

"What?"

"It’s like this, Mister Bai Ye, this knife has already been reserved by someone who is willing to pay a high price..."

"Already paid?"

"No, but..."

"If he hasn’t paid, tell him to shut up."

Su Xiao, holding the knife, walked towards the elevator, planning to stay at the auction house for the next few days.

...

On the twentieth floor of the auction venue, there were many guest rooms. Su Xiao chose to stay here temporarily.

Now he has joined the Ten Old Men’s power, establishing a cooperative relationship, meaning he is destined to be at odds with the Travel Group.

According to the original plot, the Travel Group will definitely come to rob the auction, and it’s not just the Travel Group, some Contractors will also target the auction.

Based on Su Xiao’s preliminary investigation, the Ten Old Men’s power has already seen several Contractors join their ranks. These Contractors do not conflict with his interests. Although they are in the same camp, Su Xiao has no plan to interact with these Contractors.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Su Xiao slowly opened his eyes, having completed his daily meditation.

Taking a long breath, Su Xiao suddenly remembered that he still had two treasure chests in his storage space, one light golden, and one purple.

"Let’s see how my luck is."

Su Xiao suddenly felt inexplicably nervous. After all, he had just acquired five Soul Crystals (Medium), and he’ll obtain five each day henceforth. Such windfall must have consumed a lot of luck.

Taking out the Fate Redeeming Lighter, Su Xiao held a cigarette in his mouth to light it up. After exhaling a puff of light golden smoke, he was enveloped in a European King’s State, which instilled in him a mysterious confidence.

[Do you want to open the Treasure Chest (Purple)?]

"Open."

[You have obtained 1200 Paradise coins.]

[You have obtained 5600 Paradise coins.]

[You have obtained 3400 Paradise coins.]

[You have obtained 9500 Paradise coins.]

...

Seeing this string of prompts, Su Xiao exhaled a mouthful of blue smoke. Overall, luck wasn’t bad.

Just after opening the purple treasure chest, the bathroom door opened, and Bu Bu Wang walked out from the bathroom, shaking its fur. This creature loved cleanliness and bathed every day whenever there was a chance.

Noticing that Su Xiao was ’secretly’ opening a treasure chest, Bu Bu Wang quickly ran over, its small eyes seemed to say: "Master, why didn’t you call me for such an interesting task?"

Bu Bu Wang sat on the bed, eagerly watching Su Xiao open the treasure chest, for Su Xiao’s facial expressions varied greatly during the task.

Taking a deep breath, Su Xiao opened that light golden treasure chest. Due to recent abundant gains, he didn’t have high expectations for this treasure chest.

[You opened the Lord’s Box (Light Gold).]

[You obtained 20000 Paradise coins.]

[You obtained Talent Book (second page).]

[You obtained Talent Book (third page).]

...

[Talent Book (second page), (third page)]

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise

Quality: Light Gold

Type: Consumable

Effect: Collect all three pages to synthesize a complete Talent Book.

Talent Book: A must-have for Awakening Talent (Current Talent: Soul Devourer).

Rating: 310

Description: A Talent Book can be exchanged using Soul Crystals (Large), with each Soul Crystal (Large) redeemable for one Talent Book page.

...

Two metallic yet soft-feeling pages appeared in Su Xiao’s hands, filled with strange text, just looking at them made him feel dizzy and headachy.

"Paradise, what is Awakening Talent?"

Su Xiao’s Talent Ability is Soul Devourer.

Slaughter Talent (Soul Devourer): After killing the target, you will permanently steal 1-15 mana values.

This Talent Ability is simple yet practical. As for what Awakening Talent is, based on his guess, it’s meant to enhance Talent Ability.

[Hunter Level audit in progress...]

[Audit complete, providing relevant information based on Hunter Permissions.]

[Talent Abilities vary, categorized as ordinary talent, rare talent, special talent, and slaughter talent, etc.]

[Talent abilities range from E-level to SSS-level; before talent awakening, levels are not indicated.]

[Awakening Talent requires meeting these conditions: any naked makeup attribute reaches 50 points (achieved), obtain three evaluations of S- or higher (achieved), Talent Book (achieved (2/3)), complete Talent Awakening Task (not achieved).]

[After awakening talent, talent abilities will show corresponding levels, and enhance existing abilities or explore new abilities.]

[Awakening Talent is extremely dangerous, with over 50% Contractors unable to awaken their talents.]

[Awakening Talent is of great significance; Slaughter Talent must awaken. Reincarnation Paradise will issue a compulsory mission after the Hunter reaches the Third Tier. The higher the Hunter level, the higher the difficulty of the awakening talent task, which will be 10 levels higher than the Hunter’s LV. (e.g., if Su Xiao is LV.14, then the Awakening Talent Task will be LV.24).]

[Insufficient permissions to view further information.]

[Warning: The Hunter cannot disclose issues related to awakening talent.]

...

After reading the information provided by Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao appeared lost in thought.

A previously unheard-of concept emerged - Awakening Talent Ability, indicating that awakening talent is beneficial in multiple aspects.

Regardless of whether new abilities can be acquired, the mere enhancement of current talent abilities is something he eagerly desires.

The Blue Steel Shadow Ability consumes too much mana value. Seizing 100 mana values in each Derivative World is hardly satisfying for him anymore.

The literal meaning suggests that awakening talent is fraught with difficulties, and it is an extremely secretive matter. This time, he just happened to open two Talent Book pages, otherwise, the concept of Awakening Talent would have been unknown to him.

To awaken talent, four points must be satisfied; an attribute’s naked makeup reaches 50 points, three evaluations of S- or above, a Talent Book (complete), and finally the Talent Awakening Task.

According to the information provided by Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao must first satisfy the first three conditions to activate the Talent Awakening Task.

The Talent Awakening Task differs from promotion tasks, as it can be executed in any Derivative World. If Su Xiao can assemble the Talent Book in the Hunter World, he can immediately activate the Talent Awakening Task.

Unfortunately, it’s doubtful whether Su Xiao has the ability to complete the Talent Awakening Task, and the possibility of acquiring the Talent Book (first page) in the Hunter World is slim. Life doesn’t work that way; with Su Xiao’s luck, the chance of someone handing him a pillow while he is nodding off is absolutely impossible—he would merely be ambushed if he were to ’nod off.’

"Awakening Talent... surpassing ten levels."

Su Xiao feels that the sooner he completes the Talent Awakening Task, the better. Ideally within the Second to Third Tier, minimizing the risk.

Putting away the two pages of the Talent Book, in this Derivative World, he doesn’t need to think about awakening talent yet. Instead, it’s more reliable to think about how to deal with the Travel Group.