[God of Thieves] (S-Rank)

All S-rank talents are unique and extremely rare.

In the second year after the game invaded Earth in her previous life, various rankings appeared in the game. Nearly 80% of the information for people on the combat power top 100 list was scraped clean by items or talents. The remaining 20% had found ways to hide their information, but among the nearly 80 people whose information was revealed, only two had S-rank talents, and both were in the top ten of the top 100 list.

There were only two, and both were related to the male protagonist: one was the male protagonist's brother, and the other was the male protagonist's second wife.

S-rank God-Bestowed Talents seemed to be exclusive to the male and female protagonists' teams.

Even if she couldn't develop for the next year, she wanted this talent!!

This talent could allow her to rise quickly while also suppressing her enemies.

More importantly, she had a very bold idea about the second skill.

It was already 4 AM when Yu Xunge selected her talent and entered the game. Ever since she drew the S-rank talent, her heart hadn't stopped racing.

Her character spawned directly in a bustling yet dim city. Most of the passersby were pale-faced Undead, looking like the main city of the Undead race.

[Character]Gē Wū Ēn (Level 0 0%)

[God-Bestowed Talent]God of Thieves (S-rank)

[Race]Undead (?)

[Racial Talents]Undead Will | Consume

[Health]: 100/100

[Mana]: 100/100

[Strength]: 5

[Constitution]: 6

[Intelligence]: 10

[Agility]: 11

[Luck]: 8

[Charisma]: 9

In addition to these basic attributes, there were more detailed advanced attributes like critical hit rate, critical hit damage, hit rate, cooldown reduction, and so on.

She was penniless now. The most urgent task was to find a way to make money and then learn skills.

She walked up to the nearest person with a question mark above their head. After a few exchanges, she received a quest to clear rats from the city, with a reward of 10 copper coins.

Although Yu Xunge rarely played games, she always liked to be efficient. She first toured the entire city and picked up all the available quests, from killing rats to delivering messages and running errands to buy corpse worm bread. Only after filling her quest log did she start doing the tasks.

She killed rats on the way to deliver messages and bought wine for the blacksmith on the way to buy corpse worm bread.

In one hour, she completed 17 quests and earned only 2 silver coins and a tattered cloth bag. It was a spatial bag with 6 slots, and items of the same type could stack up to 99.

But these were not her most important gains. This hour was less about Yu Xunge doing quests and more about her acting like a street wanderer while casually completing quests. Yu Xunge used the God of Thieves talent on every NPC she encountered.

A 20% and 10% chance were truly low.

It wasn't that stealing from 100 people would guarantee 20 successes. Probability sometimes felt like metaphysics; when you were lucky, you might hit every shot, but when you were unlucky, the success rate could make you question your life.

She didn't know if drawing the God of Thieves talent had used up all her luck for the day. Yu Xunge had stolen from at least a hundred NPCs while doing quests, but she had only succeeded three times.

Her luck stat was 8! Yet she only succeeded three times!

But the gains were considerable.

[Rune Backpack][A Bag of Money][1 Agility Point]

The Rune Backpack was an exquisite palm-sized bag with 24 slots. Yu Xunge equipped it immediately upon receiving it. Besides one equipment slot at the waist, everyone had two bag slots. She equipped both bags, intending to bring them to the real world.

Opening the bag of money revealed 18 gold coins!

The exchange rate between gold, silver, and copper coins was 1:100. She had lived for three years in her previous life and done many wicked things with her skills. Even with all that wickedness, her account balance at the time of her death was only over 300 gold coins, which showed how valuable gold coins were.

After completing all her quests, Yu Xunge didn't take any more and went to learn skills instead.

Seven hours of game time wouldn't allow for much leveling. The reason those who had rushed ahead in her previous life could enter the top 100 list with B-rank or even C-rank talents was that they had learned skills from other races during the closed beta.

These racial skills were impossible to teach to Earthlings after the game invaded.

It wasn't that Earthlings didn't have professional skills, but those required time and effort to learn. However, during the closed beta, as one world anchored itself to another in the form of a game, many things were crudely gamified. Other races spent money, time, and effort to learn their own skills, but in these short seven hours, learning in the game world only required progressing a progress bar.

Now, in the eyes of other races, game characters were like their own kind, and they could easily learn various skills from NPC "fellow races" with money. Even if they could only learn the basics, it was a huge fortune.

With money in hand, Yu Xunge headed straight for her destination.

Her character panel only had two professional skill slots, meaning she could only learn two professions, but there was no limit to life skills.

While traveling, she learned all the life skills she could find: [Cooking] (Beginner) [Fishing] (Beginner) [First Aid] (Beginner).

Almost instantly, Yu Xunge went from someone who couldn't cook to a good chef. Moreover, the food made with the cooking skill could provide attribute bonuses. Even if the bonuses were small, she unhesitatingly spent 1 gold coin and learned all the recipes she could.

[First Aid] could be used to make bandages, but after everything was gamified, modern medicine on Earth was no worse than this. However, learning it was better than nothing.

There were many professional skills in the game world, roughly divided into three major categories: gathering (herbalism, mining), crafting (alchemy, tailoring, engineering, jewelry making, leatherworking, blacksmithing), and service (enchanting, inscription).

Yu Xunge didn't consider gathering or service. The former was too easily replaced, as many materials could be dropped by monsters, and the latter had low earning efficiency.

Yu Xunge walked into the magic pharmacy and spent 5 gold coins to learn beginner Alchemy.

She directly unlocked 8 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].

In her previous life, any one of these potion diagrams could be sold for a high price of 500 gold. Among the top 100 on the wealth rankings, aside from guild leaders and those who were already wealthy before the game invasion, the richest individuals only had a little over 700 gold coins.

With 13 gold coins remaining, she clicked to learn all the alchemy recipes that beginner alchemy allowed.

After learning 37 alchemy recipes.

Account balance: 6 gold coins.

She then went to the herb shop and bought the herbs needed to craft [Minor Healing Potions]. In large cities, the herbs for these basic potions weren't expensive. Each [Minor Healing Potion] sold for 1 silver coin, while the herbs to make one potion cost 50 copper coins. She spent 4 gold coins to buy herbs for 400 Minor Healing Potions and 400 Minor Mana Potions. The remaining money was used to purchase herbs for 3 Minor Invisibility Potions.

It was already 5:32.

She was penniless again.

The server would shut down at 9:22, leaving her less than 4 hours.

In her past life, she had also learned a diagram for a very niche potion. After Earthlings learned a diagram, they would acquire the refining method for that potion in their minds. Whenever they thought of the potion, it was as if someone was playing a potion refining video in their mind, allowing players to learn directly from the potion masters in the video.

Rounding it up, it was no different from learning to cook from an online tutorial.

But now that her character was in the game, Yu Xunge only needed to click to refine, and the progress bar would fly by, producing a bottle of potion in less than a second.

Yu Xunge mostly ran, heading straight to the cauldron in the corner of the potion shop to refine.

6:00

Yu Xunge had finished refining all 800 portions of herbs. Initially, when her proficiency was low, she occasionally failed to refine, but as she became more skilled, she never failed again.

Now, her inventory contained 397 bottles of Minor Healing Potion, 392 bottles of Minor Mana Potion, and 3 Minor Invisibility Potions.

She had barely stopped, only pausing for two seconds to casually steal whenever unfamiliar customers entered the shop.

With 803 refinements, her Alchemy skill was directly boosted to Intermediate, allowing her to upgrade her Alchemy and learn new recipes.

However, the problem now was that she was out of money and needed to "borrow" from NPCs again.

She could sell the over 700 bottles of potions, excluding the invisibility potions, to the potion shop owner. But these items sold for 1 silver coin each, yet the buyback price was only 80 copper coins! Even if she sold them all, she'd only get a little over six gold coins, but upgrading Alchemy from beginner to intermediate cost 100 gold coins.

It was a drop in the bucket.

She had to become a street wanderer again, no, the God of Thieves.