Draw God-Bestowed Talent

On the way over, she had even considered waiting until Yu Xunhuan downloaded the game before taking him down. That way, when he learned the game's significance a year later, he would definitely be heartbroken.

But she quickly crushed that thought. She didn't dare take the risk.

What if she was two minutes too late and he drew a talent?

Then she would be the one left heartbroken.

Yu Xunge planned to keep watch in Yu Xunhuan's room tonight.

2:22

The moment the time ticked over to that number, Yu Xunge searched the app store for "Dread Rift: Warcraft." Seeing the red moon on the app icon, she felt nothing but relief. This life would definitely be different.

Yu Xunge raced against every second. She didn't know how many people would play the game tonight, nor how long those who had soared to greatness after joining the beta early in her previous life had played. She only knew that every minute now was precious.

She skipped the opening cinematic and went straight to the character creation screen.

Perhaps due to the game's power, when she reached the face customization stage, the default character already resembled Yu Xunge by eighty percent. She still needed to cause trouble in the game—how could that do? She tapped randomize and stopped once she got a face that didn't look much like her own. As for the name, she casually entered Gē Wū Ēn.

The game world had a Western fantasy setting, with different races and factions. Yet no matter how fiercely those races and factions opposed one another, they had formed an alliance when invading Blue Star.

Humans naturally couldn't become other races, but Yu Xunge still carefully chose her character's race. Every race had racial talents, and she wanted to see whether she could steal a race's racial talent through her game character after choosing it.

She had killed living beings from every race. Many of them had given her headaches, but the ones she least wanted to encounter were undoubtedly the undead.

The undead were one of the few races with two racial talents.

Undead Will: As one who had already died, the deeper you were driven into desperate straits, the stronger your will became. When HP fell below 5%, all attributes doubled. When HP fell below 1%, your current attributes doubled again.

Feeding: Consuming flesh and blood could restore your injuries.

The former was practically a godly skill for turning the tables. If someone knocked her HP below 5% but above 1%, her attributes would double once. If they then knocked her below 1%, they would double again on top of that.

So when facing an undead, if one couldn't rapidly unleash a burst of damage and pin them down for good after their HP fell below 6%, the worst-case scenario would be facing an enemy whose attributes had surged fourfold.

And Feeding gave her a way to restore HP by eating meat after all Healing Skills and potions had entered cooldown.

In her previous life, she had fallen into a weakened state countless times. It felt little different from quietly waiting to die.

If eating flesh and blood could restore HP, wouldn't that make her much harder to kill?

After choosing undead as her race, her character's face visibly became much paler and thinner.

When a world with a fully developed combat system invaded Blue Star, heaven naturally gave Blue Star a chance to survive.

On the day of the Game Invasion, every human received one chance to draw a God-Bestowed Talent. This was also something every nonhuman race possessed from the moment of birth. Now, it was simply meant to maintain balance—and it was the key to Blue Star's people rising swiftly and resisting the invasion.

Now that Yu Xunge had created her character, she naturally received one as well.

The moment her character was created, the screen transformed into a starry sky. Though it was only a sky the size of a phone screen, Yu Xunge felt as though she stood beneath a vast cosmos, a tiny figure facing hundreds of millions of stars.

She tapped one at random.

The star crashed toward her through the screen like a meteor, and the phone emitted the sound of shattering glass.

Acting (A-rank)

You could impersonate anyone. Once you successfully made ten thousand people recognize you as that person, kill them and absorb everything about them, they would become a character slot. You could switch to their life at any time. No Item Skill could see through it. You could dismiss the replacement state yourself, but after dismissing it three times, that character slot would disappear.

Skill 1: Life Is Easy—You could store up to three replacement characters.

Skill 2: The Best Actress Is Me—You could imitate skills you had seen, but they would have only 20% of the original power.

It was the God-Bestowed Talent she had received in her previous life.

In her previous life, the Su Family, Han family, and Liang Family had jointly hunted her because of this skill. It was also because of this skill that she had managed to stay on the run for so long despite being pursued by all three major powers.

This skill was only A-rank, but if used well, its effects rivaled an S-rank skill. It was especially valuable to the powerful and wealthy. What it meant to replace the head of a family—or even a city administrator—went without saying.

But since she had the chance to start over in this life, she naturally wanted something better.

Yu Xunge directly deleted the account and created a new character.

This wasn't a risk. In her previous life, the shut-in who had slaughtered his way across the world had said in an interview that, during the beta, he had disliked his talent and repeatedly deleted his account to start over until he got a good one. As a result, he had barely had any Game Time left in the end.

Compared to Game Time, a talent that determined one's fate was naturally more important.

Yu Xunge kept creating characters and drawing talents. If she wasn't satisfied, she deleted them.

Several talents that tempted her appeared along the way.

Broker (A-rank)

After introducing a transaction between buyer and seller, you could take a 5% commission from both sides.

Skill 1: Free Is the Most Expensive—If both sides bartered goods, there was a 5% chance after use to copy an Item Skill and turn it into your character skill.

Skill 2: Let's Be Friends—If the two parties attempted to bypass you and trade directly, after using this skill, the lower-value item in the transaction would automatically appear in your hands.

Ascension (A-rank)

After use, ascend an item and raise its rank. Usable once every 30 natural days.

Sleight of Hand (A-rank)

You could steal anything—items, attributes, even talents. But you had only one chance to steal from each person, whether you succeeded or failed. The secret to avoiding capture was to reject greed.

Skill 1: This Thing Looks a Bit Familiar—After use, there was a 10% chance to steal one item from the target, or a 5% chance to steal 1 point of one of the target's attributes at random.

Skill 2: Defy Fate—As long as I don't die after succeeding, I am the Thief God—After use, there was a 0.05% chance to steal the target's talent.

Yu Xunge lingered on Sleight of Hand the longest...

It was too tempting.

Her hesitation wasn't because she had any moral bottom line. After the Game Invasion, she had practically killed people every day. She had already killed people—what was theft?

This skill was truly amazing. Don't be fooled by the low odds; she knew of quite a few items that could increase skill probabilities.

After weighing the pros and cons, Yu Xunge still gave it up. This skill was too dangerous and would easily draw the hostility of other players.

Besides, this God-Bestowed Talent couldn't truly change her life.

After another dozen or so rounds of deleting and rebuilding, when she lit up another point of light in the starry sky, she saw the moon rushing toward her for the first time!

Then a voice rang directly in her mind: Greedy, restrained, skilled at disguise—you are qualified to walk the mortal world in place of the Thief God.

Thief God (S-rank)

You could steal everything in the world—items, attributes, talents, even life itself. Only thieves rejected greed. The Thief God loved theft as much as life itself. If someone possessed something you absolutely had to have, there was no reason for you to stop. You could repeatedly use skills on the same person, but from the second time onward, every theft would deduct 20% of your HP.

Skill 1: I Want This, This, and This—After use, there was a 20% chance to steal one item or some money from the target, and a 10% chance to steal 1 point from the target's highest attribute. (Cannot be used against living beings with a lower life level than your own. The Thief God never bullied the weak.)

Skill 2: The Thief God's Theft Can Also Be a Robber's Theft—Sorry, I stole your whole house. I apologize. In the name of the Thief God, steal the target's God-Bestowed Talent. The Thief God could use this skill only once in a lifetime. (If the stolen God-Bestowed Talent was above S-rank, failure was possible.)

Skill 3: Armor Up!—Summon your disguise. After use, you could temporarily alter your face, physique, and scent. No Item Skill could see through it. Disguise duration: 1 hour. Cooldown: 6 hours.

Skill 4: Ah, Where Did That Go? (Passive)—After a successful theft, the victim would briefly forget they had ever possessed that item. They would only remember losing something a day later.

At that moment, Yu Xunge chose this talent without hesitation.

Five minutes ago: Wouldn't being a thief be bad?

Five minutes later: I want it!!!