After that dark space collapsed, before Bai Zhi had time to sort through his thoughts, he found himself in another strange place.
On a pure white Plaza, two blurry figures stood before him. After giving him slight nods, they turned into a cloud of black mist that flowed into his hand and vanished.
Immediately afterward, Bai Zhi found himself back in the corridor on the first floor of the Office Building.
As the shadows that had been following behind him disappeared, Bai Zhi also felt as if something extra had appeared on him.
Raising his hand to check his Watch, Bai Zhi found that less than a minute had passed.
"Was that scene just now the real one? Was the previous one some kind of hidden stage?"
He looked up, frowning slightly. After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi decisively sat down in the stairwell.
The amount of information revealed by his previous experiences was far too great. He needed time to sort it all out properly.
He had already confirmed that the Skull that had nearly been completely devoured was this world's World Guardian. What he had not expected was that the rudimentary form of professions had been something the other party secretly learned from those things while being devoured.
Did the birth of all kinds of [professions] originate from those "things"?
He now understood why those Ghouls could still retain their professions. The original purpose behind the creation of professions had been to prepare them specifically for people like them.
And just as that World Guardian had said, something better than professions had indeed appeared now: the Core Talents personally constructed by each Player.
—Talents and professions complemented one another.
"So that means I should be the first person to enter that scene..."
Bai Zhi stroked his chin,