Forbidden Talent: Calamity!

Lin Ye opened the door and walked into the luxurious villa with practiced ease, a hint of greed unconsciously flickering in his eyes.

“Chen Ming, just you wait.”

“One day, not only will this villa be mine, but the companies and assets under your name will be mine as well.”

Lin Ye thought to himself.

He believed that day wouldn’t be too far off.

After all, everyone knew that Chen Ming, that wealthy and lovestruck sucker, was head over heels for Zhou Yuyan.

And Zhou Yuyan had long since been trained by him into a Contract Beast.

Taking money from a sucker like Chen Ming through Zhou Yuyan was the easiest thing in the world for him—take this thirty million, for instance.

“Whoosh!!”

Just then, the kitchen door was pushed open, and a thick, metallic scent of blood wafted out.

Lin Ye instinctively looked up.

What met his eyes was Chen Ming, drenched in blood, along with Zhou Yuyan lying in a pool of blood, her fate unknown, and blood splattered everywhere.

“You certainly got here fast.”

“The timing is perfect.”

Chen Ming let out a whistle and looked at Lin Ye with a smile, the blood-stained Boning Knife in his hand reflecting a cold, chilling light under the lamps.

“You... what have you done, Chen Ming?”

Terrified by the scene, Lin Ye’s whole body trembled as he instinctively turned to bolt for the door.

“That bitch Zhou Yuyan is still waiting for you down there. Where do you think you’re going?”

Chen Ming spoke with dissatisfaction and quickly gave chase, plunging the Boning Knife cleanly into Lin Ye’s body.

The sharp blade pierced his heart, and the resulting spray of blood soaked Chen Ming’s freshly changed clothes in a dark crimson hue.

“A bitch and a dog, together forever.”

“Since you love each other so much, it’s only right that you stay together.”

Chen Ming wiped a spray of blood from his face.

Killing is sometimes just that simple.

All it takes is one strike to easily snatch away a person’s life.

Lin Ye’s body went stiff as the life force within him gradually faded amidst his terror.

As Chen Ming smelled the thickening scent of blood in the air, his smile grew even more radiant.

It was over!

He sat on the sofa and lit a cigarette, letting the nicotine hit his brain as he savored the pleasure of revenge.

Right at that moment, a grand, mechanical voice suddenly rang out in his mind.

[Notice: The universal online game “Eternal” is about to descend.]

“It’s here!”

There was only one minute left until eight o’clock.

The entire world was being rendered by dark green data streams. The sky, the earth, the rivers, the oceans, every single stone and plant was being forcibly digitized by a mysterious power.

“It’s starting!”

Chen Ming walked to the balcony and spread his arms wide to welcome the arrival of the new era.

From this moment on, the original world would completely rot and wither, and the curtain on a new era would be drawn back.

[Notice: The universal online game “Eternal” has successfully descended upon Blue Star.]

[World digitization complete.]

[Player digitization complete.]

[Please note, a total of 10 billion Blue Star players are participating in this open beta.]

[Teleportation is about to begin...]

...

As the system prompts continued to ring out, Chen Ming’s body turned into a dark green data stream and vanished from the spot.

When he woke up again, he was standing atop a magnificent altar, surrounded by shimmering stars.

[Detected player’s first entry into “Eternal.” Awakening initial talent for player.]

[Awakening complete.]

[Congratulations, player has successfully awakened S-rank talent — Infinite Enhancement.]

[Infinite Enhancement]

[Quality: S-rank.]

[Effect: Active ability. 10% chance to enhance a skill or equipment, increasing its rank by one.]

...

In “Eternal,” player talents are divided from low to high into nine qualities: F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS.

An S-rank talent is considered a top-tier existence even when looking across the endless civilizations of the universe.

In his previous life, it was precisely by relying on this S-rank talent that Chen Ming was able to grow into one of the ten strongest beings on Blue Star, even while carrying a burden like Zhou Yuyan.

“In this life, without the dead weight of Zhou Yuyan, my achievements will only be more staggering.”

Chen Ming grinned.

The existence of “Eternal” was extremely ancient. No one knew when it was born; they only knew that when the first living being in this starry universe was born, “Eternal” already existed.

Over endless eons, almost all civilizations and races in the universe had been encompassed within it.

[Ding-dong, detected unknown power interference on player...]

[Analyzing...]

Suddenly, urgent mechanical sounds rang in his ears.

The altar beneath Chen Ming’s feet began to tremble violently.

[Analysis complete. Detected several supreme powers on player: ‘Karma,’ ‘Fate,’ ‘Time,’ ‘Space,’ etc.]

[Anomaly occurring...]

[Beginning error correction...]

[Correction 1%... Correction 10%... Correction 35%...]

[Correction failed.]

[Player’s talent has been affected by numerous supreme powers and has been forcibly upgraded to SSS-rank.]

As the urgent mechanical voice faded, everything returned to peace.

Chen Ming stared blankly at everything that had happened.

“My talent was forcibly upgraded to SSS-rank...”

SSS-rank talents are also known as God-level Talents.

Even among the trillions upon trillions of players in “Eternal,” they are extremely rare existences.

“Perhaps it’s related to the reason for my rebirth.”

Chen Ming speculated inwardly, then excitedly looked at his talent panel.

[Infinite Enhancement]

[Quality: SSS-rank.]

[Effect: Active ability. 100% chance to enhance items, tools, equipment, skills, and all other enhanceable objects by one rank. (The same item or ability can only be enhanced once.)]

...

The success rate of the enhancement had jumped directly from the original 10% to 100%.

Furthermore, the targets for enhancement had changed from just equipment and skills to everything in the world.

“Can the talent’s ability be used on the talent itself?”

A bold idea suddenly popped into Chen Ming’s head. With a thought, he activated his talent.

[Ding-dong, you have activated your talent effect on the target [Infinite Enhancement]. Enhancement successful.]

[Congratulations, you have obtained the unique Forbidden Talent — Calamity.]

[Calamity]

[Quality: Forbidden (Unique)]

[Effect 1: Active ability. 100% chance to enhance items, tools, equipment, skills, and all other enhanceable objects by one rank, 50% chance to increase by two ranks, and 10% chance to increase by three ranks. (The same item or ability can only be enhanced once.)]

[Effect 2: You can perform Enchantments with a 100% success rate on any equipment, tool, or skill, adding random affixes.]

Affix Quality: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Gold.

Affix Addition Probability: White 40%, Green 30%, Blue 20%, Purple 9%, Gold 1%.

Each item can only be enchanted once.]

[Description: A talent that shouldn’t have appeared because it is too powerful, surpassing the limits of what the universe can sustain.]

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