3: EX talent, SSS-level class?

The echoes of the system's announcement faded in the empty, pure white space. Lin Ye stood still, making no movements. He slowly closed his eyes, beginning to meticulously sort through and examine the complete information about his new powers that had just flooded into his mind.

First, his extracted talent:

Mechanical Intelligence

Type: Talent

Rank: EX

Talent Effects: Truth Sequence, Infinite Empowerment, Portable Subspace Dock, Integrated Link

Truth Sequence: Any individual, item, or phenomenon entering its effective perception range will have its core data instantly analyzed and stored in the consciousness space.

Perception Range: 100,000 meters

Description: "Stars as eyes, discerning the warp and weft of all phenomena; code as guide, pointing directly to the origin of existence. With a single glance, the universe holds no more mysteries!"

Infinite Empowerment: All mechanical skills and equipment receive a base amplification of their attributes and effects.

Amplification Effect: 10 times

Description: "With a single decree, steel will transforms into an immortal divine weapon; where empowerment reaches, mechanical creations are clad in undefeatable glory. My creations are the pinnacle of power!"

Portable Subspace Dock: Gain an exclusive subspace pocket. Summoning mechanical units within the subspace dock consumes no mana and has no cooldown. Mechanical summons can be pre-stored in the mechanical dock and instantly summoned to your side via mental command during combat. They can also be quickly recalled to the dock when out of combat or damaged.

Space Size: 100

Description: "Dimension as harbor, void as dock, an endless torrent of steel lies dormant here!"

Integrated Link: You and your mechanical units form a unified protective network. When you receive any form of damage, that damage will be preferentially borne by externally summoned mechanical units.

Description: "Thousands of mechanical guards, one heart, one body, forging a line of absolute defense; where I stand, there is immortality!"

"Perceiving everything, enhancing creations, infinite soldiers, absolute defense..." he murmured to himself, connecting the four talent effects with his profession's characteristics in his mind. "This is an EX-rank talent, it's too strong!"

This was only the effect upon awakening; he couldn't even imagine how powerful it would be after subsequent upgrades.

After marveling, Lin Ye focused his consciousness on his profession.

Myriad Mechanic

Type: Profession

Rank: SSS

Profession Description: A war artist who commands infinite machinery and creates an army of steel. With the mighty power of Mechanical Intelligence, the Mechanic breaks through the limits of creation to achieve myriad forms. Every cold piece of steel under their command will ignite with sparks of destruction and creation, playing a heavy metal symphony of doomsday among the stars.

Profession Trait: All units successfully summoned through mechanical summoning skills are independently operating permanent entities, no longer having duration limits, until they are completely destroyed in battle.

Profession Skills: m-1 type miniature floating cannon, Integrated Polarization Shield, Tactical Command - Alpha Band, Extraordinary Modification

m-1 type miniature floating cannon

Type: Active (E)

Skill Level: 1

Cooldown: 30S

Effect: Consumes 50 mana to summon an m-1 type miniature floating cannon within the mechanical dock or at a specified location. It can float near the controller or at a designated spot, firing energy beams, and possesses basic automatic targeting and evasive maneuvering capabilities.

Integrated Polarization Shield

Type: Active (E)

Skill Level: 1

Cooldown: 45S

Effect: Consumes 100 mana to instantly generate an energy shield for yourself and all friendly units within a 200-meter radius. The shield can absorb any type of damage equivalent to 8000 + Spirit × 100, lasting 150 seconds or until the shield's energy is depleted.

Tactical Command - Alpha Band

Type: Active (D)

Skill Level: 1

Cooldown: 45S

Effect: Consumes 150 mana to send an "Alpha Band" overload command to all summoned mechanical units within a 1000-meter radius of the designated area. For the next 100 seconds, these mechanical units' attack power increases by 800%, and attack speed increases by 800%.

Extraordinary Modification

Type: Active (S)

Skill Level: 1

Cooldown: None

Effect: Consumes special materials to modify mechanical summons. The modification effect and strength depend on the resource level.

"A profession enhanced by an EX-rank talent is just too strong!" Lin Ye gasped.

The two buff skills, with the talent's modifications, could already seamlessly connect, meaning as long as there was enough mana, shields could be replenished and enhancements applied indefinitely!

Not to mention the S-rank skill, which allowed for custom mechanical designs. What man could refuse DIY mechs?

Lin Ye took a deep breath, calming the violent heartbeat caused by this overly heaven-defying talent and profession.

Just as he was initially digesting this vast information and preparing to further research the skill details, the cold, emotionless synthesized mechanical voice once again resounded throughout the pure white space, and simultaneously echoed in the minds of every "qualified person":

Initial talent extraction and professional template matching have all been completed.

Now performing initial regional teleportation based on individual origin and civilization affiliation...

Teleportation preparation complete.

Immediately after, a new system announcement appeared as a more prominent pop-up window in the center of everyone's vision. Its content concerned their survival in this unfamiliar world:

myriad realms hegemony Core Rules Announcement

Newbie Protection Period (Initial Three Years): During this period, all players have unlimited resurrection opportunities daily. Death penalty: 10% deduction from current level experience, equipment has a very small chance of dropping (Luck will affect this probability).

Advanced Trial Period (Fourth Year to End of Fifth Year): During this stage, the daily resurrection limit for players is adjusted to 3 times. The fourth death on the same day will be a true death, and the character will completely disappear. Death penalty increases to: Level reduced by 3, equipment has a higher chance of dropping (Luck will affect this probability).

Final Contest Period (After Fifth Year): Resurrection mechanism is canceled. Any form of death is a true death. Death penalty: Character completely disappears, everything reset to zero.

Rules announcement complete.

Wish you... a pleasant game.

"A pleasant game?" Lin Ye's mouth twitched involuntarily as he looked at those last four words.

This was no game; this was clearly a cruel elimination match with life as the stake!

The initial three years of unlimited resurrections seemed benevolent, but it was more like a screening and cultivation process, preparing for the subsequent, more brutal stages. Once the fifth year arrived, every mistake would lead to irreversible doom.

Before Lin Ye could fully recover from these cruel rules, the pure white beneath his feet began to dissipate, and the sensation of weightlessness returned. However, unlike the violent pull when he was sucked into the computer screen, this teleportation was smoother, yet equally irresistible.

A flash of light, and Lin Ye felt his feet touch solid ground.

Blinding sunlight and noisy human voices instantly replaced the previous silence and pure white.

He instinctively squinted his eyes, slowly opening them after a moment of adaptation.

The first thing that came into view was a vast, almost boundless giant metal plaza.

The plaza's ground was pieced together from huge silver metal plates engraved with complex patterns, cold and solid. In the distance, towering skyscrapers pierced the clouds. These buildings shared a unified style, full of strong lines and metallic textures, their surfaces shimmering with a faint energy glow, as if from a futuristic city in a sci-fi movie.

However, in stark contrast to these futuristic buildings was the chaotic scene currently unfolding in the plaza.

Tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people, appeared like randomly dumped sardines in various corners of the plaza. Based on their national division, they were all Chinese.

At this moment, most of these people, who had just experienced teleportation, wore expressions of fear and bewilderment.

"Where is this? How did I get here?"

"I don't want to play this damn game, let me out!"

...Cries, screams, curses, prayers... various dialects mixed together, forming a huge torrent of noise that assaulted everyone's eardrums. Some slumped to the ground, faces ashen; some ran frantically, trying to find an exit; others buried their faces in their hands, completely breaking down.

Lin Ye stood on the relatively sparse edge of the crowd, calmly observing his surroundings. Although his physique was only 3 points, his strong mental power allowed him to adapt more quickly to such sudden environmental changes.

He noticed that between the towering buildings, some even larger, rail-like circular structures were faintly visible, spanning the sky.

Almost the instant his gaze touched these circular structures, the Truth Sequence talent activated, and a massive data stream poured into his consciousness space:

Target: Superluminal Space Track (Regional Transport System)

Function: Achieves superluminal point-to-point teleportation of matter between different Resistance Posts by generating stable, unidirectional gravitational distortion channels within the track.

Core Technology: Gravitational Wave Confinement and Induction Technology, Subspace Tunnel Stable Anchoring Technology, Energy Tide Counter-Balance System.

Main Constituent Materials: The main body of the track uses Orichalcum Composite Metal, possessing extremely high energy resistance and physical toughness; the internal channel walls are coated with Zero-Friction Phase-Change Coating; the core of the gravitational distortion generator is a Compressed Space-Time Crystal...

In an instant, Lin Ye gained an understanding of these magnificent creations far beyond ordinary people. This device supported the operation of this massive Resistance Post.