Food God (SS)! Steal!

The next second, the screen lit up. The Blood Elf in ghost form appeared in the graveyard, while her own mangled corpse lay on the ground just a step away. She walked over, and the screen displayed "Revive in Weak State." She clicked confirm.

Her character then solidified from translucent to real. The status beside her name, originally "(Weak)," changed to "(Severely Weakened)," followed by a countdown: "(47:59:59)."

All her attributes had dropped to just 40% of their original values.

Yu Xunge entered Silvermoon City once more.

Through the shadows, she saw Yu Xunhuan accepting quests, and the first one was a chained high-level quest.

A few minutes later, Yu Xunge found Yu Xunhuan again by comparing the buildings on the screen.

Gambling the name of the Thief God, you attempt to steal the talent of the Elven player Xunhuan.

Steal successful—target's God-Bestowed Talent rank detected as too high—Theft interrupted!

Yu Xunge checked the time. It was 10:57.

There was no time. Besides, she was severely weakened right now. If she died again, she had no idea what would happen. She was unwilling to gamble on it. She did not want her greed to get her killed.

Even though her character's condition had yet to affect her actual body, after hundreds of Phantom Shifts, both her body and mind were already on the verge of collapse.

Yu Xunge controlled her character toward the Goblin district.

Rich goblins were really hard to find. She searched through more than a dozen goblins, trading a little from one and a little from another. It took some time, but she eventually exchanged enough for 10,000 gold.

By then, she had only five minutes of disguise time left.

Yu Xunge immediately found the nearest city gate and ran out. However, considering her weakened condition, she did not dare go too far. Instead, she stopped beside the city wall between two gates.

Then she chose to log out.

She closed her eyes. The sensation of severe weakness nearly drowned her, but she paid it no mind. She did not even look at the package, pocket watch, or dentures on the floor.

Instead, she immediately opened her Character Panel.

Character: Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%) (Severely Weakened) (47:45:39)

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

God-Bestowed Talent: Immortal (SS-rank) (Incomplete)

God-Bestowed Talent: Food God (SS-rank) (Incomplete)

God-Bestowed Talent: Divine Archer (A-rank)

Race: Human

Racial Talent: Undead Will┃Eating

HP: 60/150

Mana: 80/200

Strength: 8→3.2

Constitution: 11→4.4

Intelligence: 14→5.6

Agility: 21→8.4

Luck: 10 (Maximum)

Charm: 10 (Maximum)

Her trembling hand opened Food God.

Food God (SS-rank)

Even gods are merely ingredients in your hands.

Skill 1: What Is a Food God?: Whenever a dish you make scores above 80, it has a 20% chance to trigger a critical hit. For every additional point in its score, the chance of others triggering a critical hit after consuming it increases by 1%. Once a critical hit is triggered, the effects of consumption are doubled. If it is one of your original recipes, as long as its score exceeds 80, the effects are guaranteed to double when consumed by others. As the creator of the food, all food you cook yourself will have triple its original effects when consumed by you.

Skill 2: Who Is Hannibal?: When you turn any target into thirty-eight different delicacies, with every dish scoring above 90, then consume all thirty-eight delicacies by yourself, you will randomly learn one skill the target possessed in life. (Can only be triggered once per target.)

Skill 3: That's Right, I'm a Special Chef: The food you cook is all gourmet fare. Food made entirely by you and scoring above 95 has a 20% chance to randomly increase an attribute by 1 point upon consumption. (Can only be triggered once per target each day.)

Skill 4: Huh? Friend, Look, There's a Pot Here: A Food God will never receive a bad review. Mark someone who trusts you, and transfer all negative emotions diners feel toward you onto the marked target.

Skill 5: You Want to Get It for Free? (Passive): No one can enjoy a Food God's cooking for free. Unless you explicitly state that you are treating them, if a diner fails to pay for a dish you cooked before or after eating it, then for a period of time afterward, their fortune will be yours to use—until that damned person pays their damned meal bill.

Five skills. Just like the Undead City Lord's Immortal, there were five skills in total.

Skills 1 through 4 were all lit up. Only Skill 5 was dark gray.

Only then did Yu Xunge feel as though she had come back to life. It was as if someone had pinned her beneath deep water, unable to breathe or move—and at that moment, she finally broke free and burst through the surface!!

And she finally understood why Yu Xunhuan had treated her that way in her previous life, why he had worked so hard to earn her trust, and why his women and brothers had all held such immense hostility toward her.

So that was it...

So! That! Was! It!

Very good, Yu! Xun! Huan!

But she did not forgive them or let it go because of that. Yes, those people had humiliated, trampled on, and plotted against her because Yu Xunhuan had transferred their negative emotions toward him onto her—but weren't they the ones who had put that malice into action?!

She would not forgive anyone who had hurt her in her previous life, no matter the reason.

Everyone could betray her, but she could not betray herself—could not betray the suffering she had endured!

Yu Xunge's hands trembled as she downed a health potion, but her HP remained at 40. It seemed that until the countdown ended, her maximum HP would only be 40% of its original amount.

Yet she felt utterly refreshed. She felt better than she ever had before!!!

She put on the necklace that reduced Cooldown, then crawled under the bed to rest.

She was exhausted.

But she did not dare fall asleep. Instead, she closed her eyes to rest while continuously watching what Yu Xunhuan was doing through her shadow.

She had also seen Yu Xunhuan's original Luck Value just now. Like hers now, it had been 10.

Though Thief God's talent had distracted him from noticing his God-Bestowed Talent for the moment, he remembered his Skill 5, You Want to Get It for Free? He used his remaining money to buy a large amount of ingredients and began cooking. He only made low-level recipes; having just learned cooking, he was not worried about suddenly becoming a master chef, and most of the food he made did not even pass.

He placed the food he cooked directly on the ground, letting passersby and players eat it whenever they wanted.

At first, his luck was fairly ordinary. But as more and more people ate his food, it was as though he had activated a cheat. In less than two hours of running quests, he obtained 3 gold and a small piece of Green Gear. He learned cooking, and not long after, he found a money pouch in the city sewers containing over 300 gold. He took that gold to learn Jewelry Processing and Alchemy...

Yu Xunge watched as Yu Xunhuan fed on other people's fortune, offsetting the Luck Value she had altered.