Thief God (S-rank)

All S-rank talents were unique and exceedingly rare.

In the second year after the Game Invasion in her previous life, the game released various rankings. On the Top 100 Combat Power Ranking, nearly 80% of the players had their information thoroughly dug up through items or talents. No one knew how the remaining 20% had hidden their information, but among those nearly eighty people whose details had been uncovered, only two possessed S-rank talents—and both were in the top ten.

There were only two of them, and both were connected to the male lead. One was his brother, and the other was his second wife.

S-rank God-Bestowed Talents seemed exclusive to the male and female leads' team.

Even if she could not develop for the next year, she still wanted this talent!!

This talent could not only help her rise rapidly, but also suppress her enemies.

More importantly, she had an extremely bold idea regarding Skill 2.

It was already four o'clock when Yu Xunge selected her talent and entered the game. Ever since drawing the S-rank talent, her heartbeat had refused to settle down.

Her character appeared directly in a prosperous yet gloomy city. Most of the pedestrians passing by her had pale faces and looked like undead. This seemed to be the Undead race's main city.

Character: Gē Wū Ēn (Level 0, 0%)

God-Bestowed Talent: Thief God (S-rank)

Race: Undead (?)

Racial Talents: Undead Will┃Feeding

HP: 100/100

Mana: 100/100

Strength: 5

Constitution: 6

Intelligence: 10

Agility: 11

Luck: 8

Charm: 9

Besides these basic attributes, there were also more detailed Advanced Attributes such as critical hit rate, critical damage, accuracy, cooldown reduction, and so on.

She was currently penniless. Her top priority was finding a way to make money, then learning skills.

She walked up to the nearest little figure with a question mark above its head. After a brief conversation, she received a quest to clear the city's rats, with a reward of ten copper coins.

Although Yu Xunge rarely played games, she had always valued efficiency. She first wandered around the entire city and accepted every quest she could find. From killing rats, delivering letters, and running errands to buying corpse-worm bread for people, she did not begin completing quests until her quest list was full.

She killed rats while delivering letters and helped the blacksmith buy alcohol while on her way to purchase corpse-worm bread.

In one hour, she completed seventeen quests and earned only two silver coins and a tattered cloth bag. It was a Spatial Pack with six slots, and identical items could stack up to ninety-nine.

But none of that was her most important gain. Rather than doing quests for that hour, Yu Xunge had really been loitering around the streets while doing quests on the side. She used her Thief God talent on every NPC she encountered.

A 20% chance and a 10% chance were truly low.

Stealing from a hundred people did not guarantee twenty successful attempts. Probability sometimes resembled mysticism. When luck was good, she might succeed every time, but when luck was bad, the success rate could become so low that she questioned her life.

Perhaps drawing the Thief God talent had used up all her luck for the day. Yu Xunge had stolen from at least a hundred NPCs while doing quests, yet she had only succeeded three times.

Her Luck Value was 8! Yet she had only succeeded three times!

Still, the gains were substantial.

Rune Backpack

A Bag of Money

1 Agility

The Rune Backpack was an exquisite palm-sized backpack with twenty-four slots. Yu Xunge equipped it immediately after obtaining it. Besides one equipment slot at their waist, everyone had two pack slots. She equipped both backpacks, intending to bring them into the real world later.

The bag of money contained eighteen gold coins when opened!

The exchange rate between gold, silver, and copper coins was 1:100. In her previous life, she had survived for three years and done plenty of immoral things with her skills. Even after being that unscrupulous, she had only had a little over three hundred gold coins in her account before dying. This showed just how valuable gold coins were.

After turning in all her quests, Yu Xunge stopped accepting new ones and went to learn skills instead.

Seven hours of Game Time was not enough to gain many levels. The reason those people who had gotten an early start in her previous life could enter the Top 100 Combat Power Ranking with B-rank or even C-rank talents was because they had learned skills from the other races during the closed beta.

After the Game Invasion, these racial skills would never be taught to Blue Star humans.

It was not that Blue Star humans lacked professional skills, but those required time and effort to learn. The closed beta was different. As one world cast an anchor into another in the form of a game, many things were crudely gamified as well. Other races had to spend money, time, and effort to learn professions themselves, but during these brief seven hours, learning in the game world only required waiting for a progress bar to fill.

Right now, game characters were viewed as members of the same race by the other races. They could easily spend money to quickly learn all sorts of skills from "same-race" NPCs. Even if they could only learn the beginner level, it was still an enormous fortune.

Once she had money, Yu Xunge headed straight for her destination.

There were only two profession skill slots on the Character Panel, meaning she could only learn two professions. However, there was no limit on life skills.

While traveling, she learned every life skill she could find: Cooking (Beginner), Fishing (Beginner), and First Aid (Beginner).

Almost instantly, Yu Xunge went from someone who could not cook to a capable chef. Food made through Cooking could also increase attributes. Although the boosts were small, she still spent one gold coin without hesitation to learn every recipe available.

First Aid could produce bandages, but after everything became gamified, Blue Star's modern medicine was no worse than this. Still, learning it was better than nothing.

There were many professional skills in the game world, broadly divided into three categories: gathering professions (herbalism, mining), crafting professions (alchemy, tailoring, engineering, Jewelry Processing, leatherworking, blacksmithing), and service professions (enchanting, inscription).

Yu Xunge did not consider gathering or service professions. The former was too easily replaced, since many materials could drop from monsters, while the latter was not very efficient at making money.

Yu Xunge entered a potion shop and spent five gold coins to learn Beginner Alchemy.

She immediately unlocked eight potion recipes: Minor Healing Potion, Minor Mana Potion, Water Breathing Potion, Minor Invisibility Potion, Minor Strength Potion, Minor Agility Potion, Minor Constitution Potion, and Minor Intelligence Potion.

Any one of these potion recipes could have sold for five hundred gold in her previous life. Among the top hundred on the Wealth Ranking, aside from guild leaders and those who had already been powerful and wealthy before the Game Invasion, even the richest individuals possessed only a little over seven hundred gold coins.

With thirteen gold coins remaining, she clicked to learn every alchemy recipe available at the beginner level.

After learning thirty-seven alchemy recipes,

Account Balance: 6 gold coins.

She went to the Herb Shop and bought the herbs needed to make Minor Healing Potions. In a large city, the herbs needed for this most basic potion were not expensive. A Minor Healing Potion sold for one silver coin, while the herbs needed to make one cost fifty copper coins. She spent four gold coins to buy ingredients for four hundred Minor Healing Potions and four hundred Minor Mana Potions, then used the remaining money to buy ingredients for three Minor Invisibility Potions.

It was already 5:32.

She was penniless again.

The server would close at 9:22. She had less than four hours left.

She had also learned a recipe in her previous life, for a rather useless potion. Once Blue Star humans learned a recipe, they would learn the method for brewing that potion in their minds. Whenever they recalled the potion, it was as though someone were playing a potion-brewing video in their minds. Players could completely follow along and learn from the potion master in the video.

Put another way, it was no different from learning to cook from online videos.

But now that her character was still in the game, Yu Xunge only needed to click Brew. The progress bar filled rapidly, and a bottle of potion could be made in less than a second.

Yu Xunge ran almost the entire way, then began brewing at a cauldron in the corner of the potion shop.

6:00.

Yu Xunge had already finished brewing all eight hundred batches of herbs. At first, when her proficiency was low, the system occasionally displayed brewing failures. But as she became more proficient, she never failed again.

Her bag now contained 397 Minor Healing Potions, 392 Minor Mana Potions, and 3 Minor Invisibility Potions.

She barely stopped for even a moment. Only when unfamiliar customers entered the shop did she pause for two seconds to steal from them in passing.

Eight hundred and three brewing attempts directly raised her Alchemy to Intermediate level. She could now upgrade her alchemy skill and learn new recipes.

But there was a problem now: she was out of money. She had to go outside and "borrow" from the NPCs again.

She could sell the more than seven hundred potions, excluding the Invisibility Potions, to the potion shop owner. But these sold for one silver coin each, while the purchase price was only eighty copper coins! Even if she sold them all, she would only get a little over six gold coins. Yet upgrading Alchemy from Beginner to Intermediate required one hundred gold coins.

It was a drop in the bucket.

She had to loiter around the streets again—ah, no, she had to be the Thief God again.