3: Chapter 3 Upgrade Talent Selection

After making the choice, Lu Yang's Soul Talent column immediately changed.

[Soul Talent: Immortality (Transcendent · Prismatic Myth) "Selectable Talent After Upgrading"]

Lu Yang: "???? "

His gaze stayed on the information in the Soul Talent column.

He looked at it repeatedly twice, confirming that his eyes were not playing tricks on him.

His heartbeat violently slammed against his chest cavity, shaking his eardrums until they hummed.

What does this mean?

What on earth does this mean?

After upgrading... can he still continue to choose talents?

Could it be that he has more than one Soul Talent?

Lu Yang had heard that through certain extremely powerful and rare items, one could acquire a Soul Talent through Acquired means.

But items of that level had not appeared more than a few times throughout the entire Blue Star Alliance from the digitized era to the present!

One could imagine how high the difficulty of acquiring a Soul Talent through Acquired means was.

As a result, he only needed to upgrade to continue acquiring them?!

If every time he rose in Rank he could get an opportunity to choose a talent, then when he rose to Rank 10, Rank 20, Rank 30... wouldn't his Soul Talents be able to number in the dozens?!

Under the superposition of so many talents, to what extent could his strength improve?!

Lu Yang only felt his throat tighten, his scalp tingling for a moment, and he didn't even dare to continue thinking about it.

What on earth was going on with his own panel that it was so outrageous?!

He calmed himself down, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Could it be related to him being a Transmigration individual?

Thinking over and over, he felt that the biggest possibility was this.

After all, he had never heard of anyone who could additionally acquire a Soul Talent after upgrading.

This had already exceeded the scope of common sense.

He took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed his churning emotions.

As for the specific situation, he would naturally know after leveling up.

Thinking of this, his attention fell on the upcoming free welfare dungeon that was about to open.

This was currently the most convenient upgrade path.

Before Awakening, the school's curriculum had special guidance and planning for free dungeons, and every student had even done related after-class homework.

The homework title was also very straightforward: "Assume You Have Awakened a Combat Profession, Discuss Your Welfare Dungeon Strategy Plan in Detail".

Lu Yang had, of course, seriously done this homework.

The Alliance's welfare dungeons were divided into three difficulties: Normal, Hard, and Nightmare.

Under Normal difficulty, the monsters lacked intelligence and their distribution was relatively scattered.

The minions were uniformly of the Normal template, and even the final boss was merely an Elite template.

A civilian five-person team could clear the level as long as they were cautious enough.

When it came to Hard difficulty, the situation was different.

Although the monsters still didn't have much brain, there were more of them and their distribution was relatively concentrated.

More crucially, monsters of the Elite template began to appear among the minions, and the boss was upgraded to the Chieftain template.

Ordinary civilian teams were almost impossible to defeat Chieftain monsters during the newbie period, unless all five team members possessed a Soul Talent, or there were members with exceptionally powerful Soul Talents in the team, then there would be a glimmer of hope to clear the level.

As for Nightmare difficulty.

Just as its name implied, it was a true nightmare for professionals.

In this kind of dungeon, even the most inconspicuous minions were of the Elite template, mixed with Chieftain-level existences, and the final boss was a terrifying monster of the Hero template.

As a civilization that had stepped into the digitized era for many years, the Blue Star Alliance had conducted quite in-depth research on monster templates.

What did the Hero template mean?

It was equivalent to a hero-level figure in a civilization!

Placed in any era, it was one of only a few!

It was truly a favored child of heaven!

Wanting to clear a dungeon of this difficulty, civilian professionals could basically give up this thought.

Only the core descendants of those big Families could get their profession's skill books and high-quality equipment from the very beginning, coupled with their own powerful Soul Talents, and team up with a few teammates of the same Rank, to have hope of fighting a boss in the dungeon.

The plan Lu Yang formulated when he did his homework back then naturally targeted the Normal difficulty.

He knew his own limitations.

Both parents were lifestyle professionals, having neither skill books nor good equipment as a foundation, so he couldn't possibly touch Hard difficulty at all.

As for teaming up with those professionals with outstanding talents?

Opportunities were rare to begin with, and others had to rush to clear dungeons to get better rewards themselves, how could they be willing to drag along a burden?

Therefore, Normal difficulty was the most realistic choice.

But that was all in the past.

Now he possessed the transcendent prismatic mythic Soul Talent of Immortality, and he could resurrect on the spot once he died!

This meant that he could completely dive headfirst into the dungeon and slowly grind it out by relying on infinite resurrections!

Since that was the case, why didn't he directly choose Nightmare difficulty?

The minions in Nightmare difficulty were at worst of the Elite template!

Perhaps when fighting to the back he truly couldn't break the defense of the Hero boss, but it didn't matter; as long as he could kill more Elite monsters or even Chieftain monsters, he could still get massive amounts of experience and high-quality equipment!

To him, this was simply a start that couldn't be more perfect!

Thinking of this, Lu Yang's gaze became burning hot, and an uncontrollable excitement surged into his heart.

He took deep breaths several times in a row before barely managing to calm himself down.

Afterwards, he opened his backpack and began to check the welfare equipment issued by the Alliance.

[Warrior Cuirass (Normal)]: Defense + 1, Required Rank: 1

[Warrior Leggings (Normal)]: Defense + 1, Required Rank: 1

[Warrior Longsword (Normal)]: Attack + 1, Required Rank: 1

A long, neat string of "+1" made Lu Yang's eyes go numb.

The corners of his mouth twitched, and he helplessly shook his head.

After all, it was welfare equipment; it was indeed very average.

Forget it, as long as it could be used.

It was free, what more could he ask for?

He withdrew his gaze from the equipment column, looked back at the high platform, and quietly waited for the Awakening ceremony to end.

After Lu Yang's Awakening, his class indeed did not produce a second combat professional.

This was also normal; the Awakening probability of combat professions was indeed too low.

The Awakening ceremony for more than 6,000 people took a considerable amount of time.

Starting from early morning and continuing until dusk arrived, it took a full ten-odd hours to complete the Awakening of all senior high school students.

Two suns slowly sank toward the horizon, and the originally scorching white sunlight gradually took on a layer of orange-red, pulling the shadows on the playground long and slanted.

The evening wind finally carried a bit of coolness, gently brushing past the sweat-soaked collars of the youths, and many people couldn't help narrowing their eyes comfortably.

In the final statistics, only fifty-four people in the entire senior grade awakened a combat profession, a proportion of less than one percent.

Even so, the principal and several school leaders were still flushed with excitement.

Because this number was already higher than they expected.

The number of combat profession Awakenings exceeding the quota had real, tangible rewards for the school leaders!

The Awakening ceremony officially ended.

On the high platform, the middle-aged mage put away the hexagonal prism crystal, then his gaze swept across all the students under the platform, and he said in a calm voice: "Early tomorrow morning, the Professionals Association will open this welfare dungeon. You can form your own teams to go conquer it... Of course, soloing it is also fine."

As the last word fell, the space around him twisted for a moment, and his entire person disappeared on the spot.

This was the mage's spatial blink skill.

Lu Yang watched with eyes full of envy.

I have to say, mages were just cool.

This kind of skill effect was truly too cool and dazzling.

Although a warrior's combat power was not weak, when it came to skill special effects, it was still quite a bit worse compared to mages.

After the middle-aged mage left, the principal announced school was dismissed.

Even those students with relatively ordinary awakened professions wore a bit of excitement on their faces at this moment.

Lu Yang could understand this very well.

The Awakening ceremony was equivalent to the college entrance examination in his past life; once the profession was determined, they would step out of campus next and step into their respective jobs.

Influenced by the professionals system, there were no universities in this era.

Everyone turned into beasts of burden on the spot after the Awakening ceremony.

Several classmates with good relationships in the class immediately gathered around.

"Old Lu, how about going to sing together? Everyone will be busy with work in the future, and opportunities to meet won't be many anymore."

"That's right, Old Lu, or go online to play the newest virtual online game? My treat! Let's have barbecue tonight!"

"Lu Yang, do you want to go watch a movie?" Wu You stood in the crowd, her pretty face slightly red, issuing an invitation once more.

Lu Yang smiled, his tone gentle and sincere, but with determination: "We are going into the dungeon tomorrow, I have to go back today and prepare properly."

Hearing him say this, the surrounding classmates were somewhat disappointed, but not surprised.

After all, everyone had learned in class before how important a free welfare dungeon was to a civilian professional, and everyone present knew it in their hearts.