7: Understand the skills and discover the weaknesses!

Ye Ze glanced at Wei Xingyue’s five-person team, his gaze lingering slightly on a girl with twin ponytails—Xu Yan.

Was Wei Xingyue the friend she mentioned?

“Ye Ze…classmate.” Xu Yan greeted him somewhat awkwardly, her eyes filled with disbelief. She couldn’t understand how Ye Ze’s strength had suddenly become so formidable.

Hearing Wei Xingyue invite Ye Ze, she also urged him, “Yes, come join our team.”

Finally, she added, “Xingyue is very powerful; she awakened the Holy Sword Master profession.”

Phew…

Ye Ze exhaled, then smiled, “Forget it.”

“I’m already used to grinding levels by myself.”

After speaking, Ye Ze ignored them, activated his Stealth skill, and quickly moved away from the area.

“He refused…”

Including Xu Yan, several people were stunned, not expecting Ye Ze to actually refuse Wei Xingyue’s invitation.

You’re a Chef, and you’re putting on airs?

Only Wei Xingyue laughed, “Stealth? Is this guy a Chef or an Assassin?”

She didn’t pay much attention to Ye Ze’s refusal. “Let’s go.”

When she reached the entrance of the next nest, she found that the Waste Rats inside had been cleared out, leaving only a few corpses.

Continuing to the next nest, there were still only Waste Rat corpses.

The next nest after that, still corpses!

The further they went, the more alarmed the group became.

Corpses!

Still corpses!

Waste Rat corpses were everywhere!

Within a hundred meters, whether inside the nests or in the passages outside, all were Waste Rat corpses!

“He did all of this by himself!?” Xu Yan was stunned, her eyes filled with disbelief.

“He’s clearly a Chef, and he can’t level up!”

“How did he do it?”

Wei Xingyue squatted down to examine the Waste Rat corpses on the ground, a complex expression in her eyes. “And these Waste Rats were all killed with a single stab to the throat, a fatal blow.”

“Very clean and precise assassinations.”

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At the same time,

Ye Ze had already used Stealth to reach another area, where there was no presence of other professionals.

His nose caught the scent in the air, he wanted to quickly find Waste Rats to fight.

The reason for his urgency was that after fighting the three Waste Rats just now, he once again felt that profound state he had experienced when he first learned the Stealth skill.

It was a pity that he hadn’t had time to fully integrate his combat experience before Wei Xingyue and her group arrived.

Now he desperately wanted to fight and re-enter that state.

Squeak, squeak, squeak!

Relying on his sense of smell, Ye Ze found three lone Waste Rats.

This time, Ye Ze didn’t ambush but directly wielded his dagger and charged towards the Waste Rats.

[Over-level kill of Level 5 Wasteland Rat, gained 280 energy points (extra +80)]

[Over-level kill of Level 3 Wasteland Rat, gained 120 energy points (extra +20)]

[Over-level kill of Level 3 Wasteland Rat, gained 120 energy points (extra +20)]

[Over-level… ]

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Three hours later, inside a nest deep within the Barren Rat Plain.

Three Waste Rats were besieging a professional.

This professional was Ye Ze. Ye Ze calmly faced the onslaught of the three Waste Rats, his steps agile and light, like a leisurely stroll, moving between the Waste Rats’ attacks.

An invisible wind swirled around him, and some combat experiences and many moves in his mind converged at this moment.

“Hmm?”

In Ye Ze’s eyes,

Three white dots suddenly appeared on the bodies of these three Waste Rats,

located at the throat, ear, and groin respectively.

The next second—

Whoosh~!

Whoosh~!

Whoosh~!

Almost like lightning, Ye Ze’s dagger stabbed three times in a matter of seconds.

One forehand stab,

One backhand stab,

One hand swap,

Rip! Rip! Rip!

Blood splattered out,

Each stab was from a different angle, yet each precisely hit the white dots on the Waste Rats’ bodies.

The three Waste Rats tumbled to the ground, struggled twice, and then completely lost their life force.

[Reminder: You have learned the skill: Weakness Detection!]

[Weakness Detection: Discern the weak points of an enemy target. Hitting a weak point deals an additional 100% to 200% damage.]

“Weakness Detection!?”

Ye Ze was startled at first, then overjoyed.

He had originally thought the skill he would learn would be Shadow Dance Step, but he didn’t expect it to be Weakness Detection.

He opened his attribute panel,

[Name: Ye Ze]

[Profession: Chef]

[Level: 1 (7950/100)]

[Strength: 33]

[Agility: 19]

[Constitution: 35]

[Spirit: 10]

[Combat Power Evaluation]: 2 Stars

[Equipment: Fine Steel Dagger +4, Novice Combat Vest]

[Professional Talent]: Novice Chef (F-rank)

[Combat Talent]: Assassin Specialization (E-rank), Archery Proficiency (F-rank)

[Elemental Talent]: Fire Element Sensing (F-rank)

[Bloodline Talent]: Smell Enhancement (D-rank)

[Innate Talent]: God-level Enhancement (God-rank)

[Skills]: Stealth, Weakness Detection

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Unbeknownst to him, his energy bar was already close to breaking the 8000 mark!

“Now all I lack are attributes.”

Ye Ze was very satisfied with his panel.

On the surface, his combat power was 2 stars,

but this combat power evaluation only considered the four-dimensional index and did not include talents, skills, and equipment.

If you add the boost from [Assassin Specialization], as well as the two assassin divine skills [Weakness Detection] and [Stealth], and the enhanced Fine Steel Dagger, his overall strength would definitely reach 3 stars, or even higher.

He had talents and skills, now all he lacked were attributes.

Ye Ze suddenly had an idea and added 100 energy points to his level bar.

[Your level has increased to Level 2!]

[Your Strength index has increased by 1 point!]

[Your Constitution index has increased by 5 points!]

[Your Agility index has increased by 1 point!]

[Your Spirit index has increased by 1 point!]

In an instant, Ye Ze’s entire body glowed with white light, a warm sensation washing over him, incredibly comfortable.

A moment later, the light disappeared.

Ye Ze slowly opened his eyes, a hint of helplessness in them.

“Sure enough, the Chef profession’s attributes lean towards Constitution growth. For every level up, there’s a total of 8 attribute growth points, with Constitution accounting for 5 points.”

What Assassins needed most was Strength and Agility.

Ye Ze shook his head in disappointment: “This increase of 1 Strength and 1 Agility isn’t as good as not leveling up, as killing monsters can still grant an additional 10% energy.”

The attribute growth for each profession was different.

Combat professions had attribute growth biased towards Strength and Agility,

Support professions had attribute growth biased towards Spirit and Constitution,

Life professions had attribute growth biased towards Constitution.

It’s not to say that Constitution attributes were useless.

Just like front-line professions, Shield Guards, and Knights, their attribute growth also leaned towards Constitution.

But they had corresponding Constitution talents and defensive skills,

for example, the 36th ranked Knight profession on the leaderboard—the Gem Knight profession.

Its talent was to convert health into attack power.

Front-line professions could leverage the advantage of high Constitution through their talents and skills.

However, a high Constitution in life professions simply meant high health points.

It was merely the difference between enduring one hit or enduring a few more.

“It seems that if I want to gain more attributes, I still have to get them from enhancing Spirit fruits, not from leveling up.” Ye Ze sighed.

If only he could find a few more wild spirit ginseng…