142: The first SSS-level talent!

With clear vision, finding someone became incredibly easy!

Lin Chuan moved with extreme stealth, taking barely half an hour to spot Song Sandong huddled beside a giant rock!

That guy was very quiet, not making a sound.

At the same time, perhaps because he hadn't been discovered for over three hours,

the expression on his face even showed some relaxation.

Along with the relaxation, there was even a hint of madness.

Like a Homeless Man who had won a lottery worth hundreds of millions, he was filled with anticipation and excitement, waiting for the prize money to be released!

Lin Chuan’s lips curved into a smile.

Song Sandong probably still thought he could last six hours in the dark!

Little did he know, his actions were practically suicidal!

In this dueling space, Lin Chuan's attributes were indeed not as good as Song Sandong’s.

But the difference was only 20 points!

This small attribute gap, for Lin Chuan, who had trained his combat awareness and even broken through human limits, was not something he took to heart at all!

He wouldn't have lost to Song Sandong in a regular duel anyway.

Not to mention now, he could barely see at night, while Song Sandong couldn't see him at all!

It could be said that the advantage was his!

A cool night breeze gently swept past.

Following the night breeze, Lin Chuan suddenly raised his hand.

A sharp leaf instantly struck Song Sandong's glabella with precision!

The leaf pierced three-tenths of an inch into his glabella!

Blood gushed, flowing from Song Sandong's glabella, down the bridge of his nose, and slowly across his nose, lips, and chin.

A straight line of blood seemed to divide Song Sandong's entire face in half from the glabella!

The scene was shocking.

From Lin Chuan's fluorescent green vision, it even looked a bit like a terrifying horror movie!

And Song Sandong, until the moment of his death, didn't know what had happened.

He was still counting sheep with eager anticipation.

He had counted to the 11,575th sheep.

And with Song Sandong's death, this life-and-death duel was decided!

The dueling space instantly collapsed!

Lin Chuan reappeared in the reading room where he had vanished earlier!

And Song Sandong's corpse also appeared at the same time!

However, above his corpse, there was also a purple treasure chest and a talent crystal ball!

The purple treasure chest was a drop from killing a top-level player like Song Sandong.

And the talent crystal ball was a reward from the dueling space.

The design of the duel card was clearly very unfair to the player being challenged.

But once the challenged player won, they could directly obtain the Talent of the player who initiated the duel!

In contrast, if the player who initiated the duel won, they would not receive this reward!

For example, if Song Sandong had won this duel.

All he would have received were the rewards for killing Lin Chuan, which would be—

The golden treasure chest dropped by the number one player on the level ranking;

And the Gods Punishment Task reward.

But a talent crystal ball would not have dropped.

In other words, the duel card's setting was unfair to the challenged party during the battle.

But in terms of rewards at the end, it was unfair to the challenging party.

Comparing the two, it could perhaps be considered fair.

However, overall, the challenged party still suffered a disadvantage.

After all, the duel process was the key!

Once you lost, you would pay with your life!

For Lin Chuan, being challenged was even more of a loss!

After all, he could already obtain the opponent's Talent by incinerating their corpse.

The talent crystal ball rewarded by the dueling space to the victorious challenged party was practically superfluous to him.

That's why in his previous life, as soon as the Eternal Tower opened, the “prudent” Lin Chuan directly exchanged his Slaughter Points for long-term exemption cards.

An exemption card could directly prevent one from being challenged to a duel.

In other words, in his previous life, Lin Chuan never actually entered the dueling space.

However, he did simulate various extreme environments in the Eternal Training Room.

It could be considered that he had experienced the dueling space in a safer way.

And this time, it was his first time experiencing the dueling space in two lives.

This time, he could also resolve a doubt he had in his previous life—

Did the talent crystal ball rewarded by the dueling space conflict with the Talent he obtained by incinerating corpses?

After he took the dimensional ring from Song Sandong, he waved his hand.

A fireball quickly devoured Song Sandong's corpse.

And the familiar prompt sound, as always, rang in his mind—

“Ding! Congratulations to the player for incinerating a Level 4 player! You have plundered the S-Class Talent Copy!”

???

Copy??!

Was it the Copy he understood??!

Lin Chuan immediately checked his data panel and found that he indeed had an additional S-Class Talent, named Copy!

And its effect was exactly as Lin Chuan had imagined: it could Copy other people's Talents!

It sounded incredibly powerful, but in fact, this so-called “Copy” had a time limit.

S-Class Talent could only be Copied for 10 minutes;

A-Level Talent could only be Copied for 1 hour;

B-Class Talent could be Copied for 3 hours;

C-Class Talent could be Copied for 6 hours…

As for Talents below C-Class, there was basically no need to Copy them.

So this Copy Talent was actually a disguised Talent trial card.

The higher the level of the Talent, the shorter the duration of the trial.

This Talent, let alone for Lin Chuan who could plunder other people's Talents, was actually quite a weak S-Class Talent even for ordinary people.

When the Eternal Tower was generated, many players would increasingly focus on their hard power.

At that time, many powerful individuals would spend a lot of time in the Eternal Training Room, training their attributes, Talents, skills, and so on.

Yes, the strength of Talent abilities could be improved through training.

There were even cases where players, purely through training, raised an F-Class Talent to E-Class.

And Song Sandong's Copy Talent always Copied other people's things.

He would be far behind others in the matter of Talent training.

It would be very difficult to try to be evenly matched with anyone, like Kakashi, by using the Copy Talent.

No wonder Lin Chuan only heard about Song Sandong in the early stages of his previous life.

Later, after the Eternal Tower became widespread, he basically never heard that name again.

Thinking of this, Lin Chuan shook his head slightly, somewhat disappointed with this newly acquired S-Class Talent.

However, when his gaze swept over the talent crystal ball, his eyes suddenly lit up.

He already possessed the S-Class Copy Talent.

Absorbing this talent crystal ball rewarded by the dueling space should allow him to obtain another S-Class Copy Talent.

If two identical Talents merged, and could be upgraded to SS-level…

Thinking of this, Lin Chuan couldn't help but shake his head again.

Just merging two S-Class Talents and wanting to upgrade to SS-level was still too difficult.

His S-Class talent crystal ball, whether it was put on the trading market or used to cultivate subordinates, was extremely cost-effective.

But very quickly, Lin Chuan abandoned the idea of giving this talent crystal ball to someone else.

After all, what if someone repeatedly used this Copy Talent on him and then discovered that he possessed countless Talents…

Wouldn't that be equivalent to revealing his secrets to others?

Moreover, Lin Chuan himself was an absolute egoist.

So, after only a brief thought, he directly used the talent crystal ball on himself!

“Ding! Congratulations, you have awakened the S-Class Talent—Copy!”

After hearing the expected prompt, Lin Chuan immediately looked at his attribute panel again.

This glance instantly made his eyes widen!

Good heavens!!

The S-Class Copy Talent actually upgraded to SS-level!

His luck was too good!!

He now finally had an SS-level talent!

Although this SS-level talent was still somewhat useless to him…

As Lin Chuan just thought this, his gaze suddenly swept over the words “Upgradeable” behind this Talent!

Yes, the “Talent Level +1” reward he received from killing the God Punisher had not yet been used!

Should he use it now on this only SS-level talent, or wait until after killing Cui Yongli to choose between two SS-level talents?

Logically speaking, it would, of course, be better to wait until he obtained another SS-level talent before making a decision!

But, people are emotional creatures.

Just thinking about immediately having an SSS grade talent made Lin Chuan incredibly excited!

No! He couldn't wait!

So, Lin Chuan indulged himself and directly clicked on the three words “Upgradeable” after the SS-level Copy!

Then, visibly, his Copy Talent directly changed from SS-level to SSS grade talent!