2: Chapter 2 [Immortal (Transcendental Prismatic Myth)]

Step!

Step!

Step!

Lu Yang walked steadily onto the high platform and came to a stop in front of the suspended six-sided prismatic crystal.

The scorching sunlight poured down from the direction of the two suns, illuminating the crystal pillar until it was completely translucent, with faint, seemingly nonexistent streams of Qi slowly drifting inside.

He took a deep breath, suppressed his violent heartbeat, and under the signal of the middle-aged mage in charge of the Awakening ceremony, he extended his palm and pressed it against the crystal pillar.

The touch of the crystal pillar was icy, resembling a piece of cold jade.

As his palm touched it, that peculiar current of Qi inside the crystal seemed to be awakened, seeping into his body through his palm, patrolling through his limbs and bones a circle, and then quietly flowing back.

It felt like a breeze passing through his bones and blood, gentle, cool, and very comfortable.

The next moment, a white light lit up on the crystal.

An abstract projection symbol appeared above the six-sided prism.

At the same time, a translucent panel appeared out of thin air before Lu Yang.

This was the class panel after Awakening, and only he himself could see it.

Before he had time to look closely, he heard the elevated voice of the middle-aged mage ring out: "Lu Yang, Warrior!"

Lu Yang's breathing suddenly stagnated, and then a surge of wild joy welled up in his heart.

Combat class!

It succeeded!

Behind him, a commotion came from the playground, the sound crossing the scorching air and pouring into his ears like ocean waves.

The corners of his mouth could not be suppressed at all, revealing a brilliant smile.

The middle-aged mage took out a set of warrior equipment and handed it to Lu Yang.

Lu Yang took it with both hands, put the equipment into his backpack, thanked the middle-aged mage, and walked with brisk steps toward his original position.

Along the way, gazes fell upon him.

Those gazes were mixed with envy, and even a few hints of undisguised jealousy.

Returning to his class's queue, the classmates immediately greeted Lu Yang enthusiastically.

"Old Lu, awesome! You even Awakened a combat class. Don't forget us when you take off in the future! If one achieves wealth and honor, let us all bark together!"

"Old Lu, congratulations! It's likely you're the only one in our class with a combat class."

"Classmate Lu Yang is really lucky... Unlike me, I can only be a farmer, and in the future, I'll just be a cog on the Alliance assembly line. Sigh..."

Everyone had envy, jealousy, and also loss.

Listening to this, Lu Yang also felt a trace of emotion rise in his heart.

Class Awakening, the most important watershed in life.

The difference of a class was enough to lead people toward completely different futures.

Of course, with the Blue Star Alliance's current productivity and security system, even if one Awakened the most ordinary lifestyle class, there wouldn't be any material difficulties in life.

Food and clothing were worry-free, it was just that luxury had nothing to do with it.

What truly widened the gap was social status and the power held in one's hands.

"Lu Yang."

A female voice drifted over mixed with the hot wind of the playground.

Lu Yang looked toward the source of the sound, and it was Wu You from the class.

This girl had a pretty appearance, and her family background seemed quite good. She was always popular in the class on ordinary days, and her personality carried a bit of pampered reserve, usually ignoring boys' overtures.

At this moment, she looked over with a slightly red face, her gaze somewhat dodging: "Are you free tonight? Let's go watch a movie together?"

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the surrounding male classmates immediately became complicated, turning green with envy.

After all, Wu You was the white moonlight of many among them!

Lu Yang smiled and said casually: "Let's talk about it later. After the combat class Awakening, I still have to go to the dungeon. I need to check my class panel first."

The Blue Star Alliance equipped every newly Awakened combat class professional with a benefit.

That was free entry into a special dungeon once.

Ordinary dungeons were the same as the outside world; dying meant true death.

But special dungeons were different. Dying inside allowed resurrection, except that after resurrection, one would be forcibly teleported out of the dungeon.

Every time such a dungeon was opened, it consumed a lot of resources. Therefore, as an Awakening benefit, everyone could only have one chance.

For novice combat class professionals, this was the best channel to accumulate experience and obtain equipment in the early stage.

Especially for Awakened ones with ordinary family backgrounds, there was even less reason to miss it.

Lu Yang valued this dungeon a lot.

He didn't chat idly with his classmates anymore, instead pulling his attention back to the class panel.

[Name: Lu Yang]

[Class: Warrior]

[Rank: 1]

[Health: 40 (Endurance * 10)]

[Mana: 50 (Intelligence * 10)]

[Attack: 4 (Strength * 1)]

[Defense: 4 (Endurance * 1)]

[Strength: 4]

[Endurance: 4]

[Agility: 4]

[Intelligence: 5]

[Skills: None]

[Equipment: None]

[Soul Talent: "Optional"]

He scanned the first few lines of data quickly.

The four-dimensional attributes were linked to everyone's childhood exercise and study, and the upper limit of human basic attributes was 5 points.

His panel wasn't top-tier, but it could still be called outstanding.

Three of the four items reached the excellent line, and Intelligence was maxed out.

The only pity was that he Awakened as a Warrior, not a Mage.

Intelligence was the main attribute of a Mage. If he had Awakened as a Mage, these 5 points of Intelligence would have been put to full use.

A trace of regret flashed through Lu Yang's heart, and his gaze continued downward.

Then his line of sight stopped.

In the Soul Talent column, the three words "Optional" were flickering with a peculiar colorful shimmer.

This meant it could be clicked.

Lu Yang was stunned for a moment, a trace of bewilderment in his eyes.

What does this mean?

Soul Talent is optional?

Of course he knew about Soul Talent.

Some professionals would additionally acquire talents during Awakening. Talents were linked to classes, could enhance class abilities, and varied in strength.

Professionals with Soul Talent were undoubtedly Genius among professionals.

He had originally secretly looked forward to Awakening a Soul Talent himself.

But what did "Optional" mean?

Could it be... he could freely choose his Soul Talent?

As soon as this thought popped up, Lu Yang's heart pounded heavily against his chest, and a dry-mouthed feeling surged up.

He took a deep breath hard, suppressed his churning emotions, extended his finger, and tapped on those three shimmer-flickering words.

The next instant, a brilliant colorful radiance flooded the entire panel like a tide.

The radiance dispersed, and several lines of text appeared on the panel.

[Please choose your Soul Talent:]

[God of War (Prism Mythic)]: Master all warrior-type passive skills. Whenever you use a warrior-type active skill, there is a 50% chance to immediately refresh that skill's cooldown and return all consumption.

[Touch of Death (Prism Mythic)]: Attacks have a chance to directly kill the target. The stronger the enemy, the lower the probability. The maximum is 50%, (Boss target probability reduced by a hundred times).

[Immortality (Transcendent Prism Mythic)]: Immune to instant-death attacks. Instantly resurrect after death, with no conditional restrictions and no limit on the number of times.

Lu Yang: "？？？？？"

He stared at these three lines of words, his eyes widening more and more.

The noisy human voices on the playground, the cicada chirping coming from afar, the soft rustle of the wind blowing across the corners of his clothes... All sounds were hollowed out at this moment.

In his field of vision, only those few lines of text remained on the panel.

Holy shit...?!

Holy shit!!!

What the hell?

Is this fucking Soul Talent??

Each Soul Talent was so terrifying that it made one's scalp tingle!

God of War could master all passive skills, plus using active skills had a half chance to refresh cooldowns and return consumption.

This fucking... as long as he had this talent, he could fight level ten or even level twenty monsters right now at level 0, right??

Touch of Death was even more outrageous.

Instant-death damage!

And it was instant-death damage that even bosses couldn't immunize against!

With this thing, as long as he didn't die, even without breaking defense, he could kill boss monsters!

The last one was the most outrageous.

Unconditional infinite resurrection!

The strength of this talent didn't even need much elaboration!

As expected of a talent that was different from the previous two Prism Mythic Ranks, and also added the Transcendent Rank entry.

The Rank of this talent should be a tier higher than the previous two.

Lu Yang took a deep breath, glanced somewhat reluctantly at the first two, and finally chose [Immortality (Transcendent Prism Mythic)] without hesitation.

After all, although this Universe was like a game, it was ultimately the real world. Except for special dungeons or environments, once you died, you were truly gone.

No matter how strong one's strength was, one had to survive first.

As long as he could survive, even by slowly improving, he could become the strongest!