Ding! Based on your awakening of a unique F-tier talent, the God of Luck has bestowed a pity blessing upon you. You have gained one opportunity to reallocate your stat points!
The concept of unique talents existed only among certain one-of-a-kind talents above A-tier!
Uniqueness might not mean that a talent was stronger than common ones, but it definitely possessed something distinctive that talents of other grades lacked!
No one had ever heard of an F-tier talent being judged as unique...
But considering his own talent, Xu Kun accepted it quite calmly!
What kind of F-tier talent could be like his? If they were all this absurd, what would those SSS-tier trial-takers even be for?
So Xu Kun was more than happy to accept that he was an exception!
But the information in the earlier notification did not merely point out the uniqueness of his talent. It had also rewarded him with one opportunity to reallocate his stat points!
Xu Kun was no stranger to the term stat reallocation, because under normal circumstances, one could gain a chance to do so after passing the beginner trial and completing their first class advancement!
"Still, the notification said this was a pity blessing bestowed by the God of Luck, not a reward from the Haotian Pagoda..."
"Could there be a difference?"
Xu Kun hurriedly opened his status panel.
Strength: 0 (+)
Spirit Energy: 0 (+)
Vitality: 0 (+)
Agility: 0 (+)
Composure: 0 (+)
Luck: 0 (+)
Available free attribute points: 49
"This pity blessing is way too good. If I put all forty-nine free attribute points into Strength or Spirit Energy, wouldn't my attack in that category reach ninety-eight? Normally, even F-tier level-one monsters only have around a hundred health. One hit would leave them near death!"
But Xu Kun was rational. Putting everything into Strength or Spirit Energy would be idiotic, because even level-one F-tier monsters had Agility. No matter how high his attack was, if every slash missed, what was the point?
Based on the experience of those before him, the choice between Strength and Spirit Energy depended on whether one planned to advance into a melee physical class or a ranged magic class!
The basic attacks and class skills of melee physical classes all received physical scaling!
The opposite was true for magical scaling!
Putting more points into Vitality increased both health and physical defense. During the beginner trial, it could greatly improve one's room for error, ensuring survival and a stable damage-dealing environment. Especially since, according to the textbooks, most low-level beginner trial monsters dealt physical damage!
That made physical defense particularly crucial!
Agility was not all that important during the beginner trial. Low-level monsters with high Agility were generally rare, so it largely prevented misses. But unimportant did not mean unnecessary. He still needed some!
If his Agility was high from the start, it would not only ensure his accuracy, dodge rate, and attack speed, but also let him run faster!
After the trial ended and he advanced classes, players taking the assassin route would place great importance on Agility!
There was no need to care too much about Composure. After all, there were not many skills available during the beginner trial, so there was not much demand for mana!
Furthermore, magic-damage monsters made up a smaller proportion during the beginner trial, so magic defense rarely came in handy!
Even after class advancement, Composure was generally suited for healer-type classes, since they needed to exchange mana for health.
Classes like mages would not deliberately invest points into Composure. They mostly obtained it through equipment, and even if someone intended to become a healer, they could reallocate their points after advancing classes!
The key was that players on the magic route generally attacked more slowly and relied heavily on skills for damage. But skill damage was not purely magical damage, making magic defense somewhat lackluster. Increasing mana was its only particularly practical benefit!
Just as Xu Kun was about to reallocate his points into twenty Strength, twenty Vitality, five Agility, and four Composure, he discovered that there was also a plus sign beside Luck!
His hand trembled, and Xu Kun hurriedly canceled the allocation he had been about to make!
"Luck can be increased too?"
To Xu Kun, who had studied basic theory for eleven years, this was utterly unscientific!
Luck was a fixed attribute separate from the five basic attributes. It could not be obtained by allocating points. Only after completing high-level events did one have the chance to gain one or two points!
But even a few points of Luck should not be underestimated. Every point increased drop rates by ten percent, and high Luck might even trigger certain opportunities!
Everyone started at level zero with zero Luck, unless they had awakened a talent related to Luck!
This made obtaining the Luck attribute incredibly difficult for everyone entering the Haotian Pagoda!
Many people failed to gain even a single point of Luck after climbing more than a dozen floors of the Haotian Pagoda!
The textbooks also recorded that during the beginner trial, only the once-in-a-century Lords of the Era would complete certain major events and gain a certain amount of Luck!
Having it meant you were incredible. Not having it meant you were normal!
Xu Kun's homeroom teacher, who had taught graduating classes for more than a decade, was an expert who had climbed over thirty floors of the Haotian Pagoda. Possessing two points of Luck had always been one of his greatest sources of pride!
Once, a classmate had foolishly asked, "What if I had ten points of Luck?"
What he received was his homeroom teacher's merciless mockery. "Ten points? That would mean the Luck Emperor himself had possessed you. Once you passed the beginner trial, the entire human race would spare no effort in nurturing you. They'd save bosses for you to kill, all just to raise the drop rate!"
"Ten points... What a terrifying number. I'm afraid only the Lords of the Era from each generation could possibly obtain that much Luck!"
"Then what does this make me?" Xu Kun scratched his head with difficulty. "Is it because this stat reallocation opportunity was a pity blessing bestowed by the God of Luck?"
Xu Kun recalled the initial notification, then tentatively tapped the plus sign beside Luck.
Luck: 1
Xu Kun's eyes lit up. "It really works!"
This discovery completely disrupted Xu Kun's original plan.
"Basic attributes are what I desire, and Luck is also what I desire. The two cannot be had together... I shall abandon basic attributes and choose Luck!"
Xu Kun gritted his teeth. He could not help suspecting that this was the closest he would ever come to becoming the Luck Emperor!
If Heaven offered it and he refused, he would be punished for it. Screw it!
Xu Kun gritted his teeth, shut his eyes, and his fingers became a blur as he frantically tapped the plus sign!
Ding! Your Luck has reached its maximum. Congratulations, you have obtained the permanent buff, Heavenly Blessing: Child of Fortune!
Hearing the notification, Xu Kun suddenly opened his eyes.
Luck: MAX
Free attribute points: 0
He frowned. "The maximum Luck is forty-nine?"
Ding! The Great Expansion is fifty, its use is forty-nine, with one escaping. Trial-taker Kun, your Luck has reached the ultimate limit of the heavenly way and cannot be further increased through any other means!
Xu Kun had to admit that his horizons had been far too narrow!
What Luck Emperor? He did not want to be the Luck Emperor. If he was going to be anything, he would become the one and only Child of Destiny beneath the heavens!
"Hahaha! Who else is there?" Xu Kun threw back his head and laughed, his heroic spirit soaring into the clouds.
He completely failed to care that all five of his basic attributes were at zero!
However, the notifications had not ended yet!
Ding! It has been detected that your base Strength attribute is zero and your Luck is MAX. The God of Strength has bestowed the God of Strength's pity blessing upon you!
Ding! It has been detected that... the God of Spirit Energy has bestowed the God of Spirit Energy's pity blessing upon you!
Ding!... the God of Vitality's pity blessing!
Ding!... the God of Agility's pity blessing!
Ding!... the God of Composure's pity blessing!
The rapid notifications ringing beside his ears nearly shattered Xu Kun's eardrums.
When he checked again, he found that he had gained another five permanent passive skills!
God of Strength's Pity Blessing: Each time you level up, your Strength additionally increases by 1!
God of Spirit Energy's... your Spirit Energy additionally increases by 1!
...your Vitality additionally increases by 1!
...your Agility additionally increases by 1!
...your Composure additionally increases by 1!
"Uh... uh... uh..." Xu Kun instantly turned into a goose, so stunned by the successive surprises that he could no longer speak.
He could be completely certain that he had entered a virtuous cycle!
Because he had awakened a unique F-tier talent, the God of Luck bestowed a blessing. Because of that blessing, he gained the chance to reallocate his stats and maxed out his Luck!
Because his Luck was maxed out, combined with his five basic attributes being at zero, the gods of the other five basic attributes had also bestowed blessings upon him!
After a long while, Xu Kun let out a breath. "In other words, every time I level up, I gain five more basic attributes than everyone else!"
One had to know that the maximum level in the beginner trial was level ten. Every time one leveled up, there were no free attribute points. The five basic attributes simply increased by one each. Only after passing the beginner trial and completing class advancement could one reallocate all the attribute points gained from levels one through ten!
But now, as long as he reached level ten, he would have fifty more free attribute points than everyone else for nothing!
Good heavens, that was already equivalent to the treatment other people got at level twenty!
Not to mention that the higher his level became, the greater the difference between Xu Kun's basic attributes and those of normal people would be!
Xu Kun sighed. Was this the treatment enjoyed by a Child of Destiny?
He really... I'm going to cry.
He was too moved!
Then he looked at the permanent buff granted by his maximum Luck!
Heavenly Blessing: Child of Fortune: Turn danger into safety and misfortune into good fortune. All who befriend you will have good luck, while none who oppose you will meet a good end!
Increased drop rate: The grade of items dropped by monsters automatically increases by 1!
Increased rewards: Each time you complete an event, its settlement grade increases by 1!
Increased event trigger probability!
All enhancement success rates: 100%
When your dodge value is lower than your accuracy, hit chance: 100%; when your dodge value is higher than your accuracy, hit chance: 99%!
In short, as long as luck was involved, Xu Kun could confidently say that when it came to luck, he was first, and no one could claim second!
The concept of automatically increasing the grade of items dropped by monsters by one was already far beyond the conventional meaning of increased drop rates. Taking an F-tier piece of equipment and an E-tier piece of equipment as an example, their prices differed by at least dozens of times!
And the higher the grade, the greater the difference!
"Calm down. I have to stay calm!" Xu Kun kept taking deep breaths to steady himself!
But in the end, he stomped the ground. "How am I supposed to stay calm?!"
"Since I'm already a Child of Destiny, it's time to test the luck of this Child of Destiny's starter pack!"
Ding! Awakening complete. Is Kun ready to embark on the journey of the Haotian Pagoda?
"Bring it on!"
Ding! Scene matching successful. Your beginner gift pack has been distributed. Please check it!
Space shattered, Xu Kun's body grew light, and he fell onto the ground.
Without having time to examine his surroundings, Xu Kun immediately took the so-called beginner gift pack from his inventory!
What a beginner gift pack could contain had long ceased to be a secret among humanity.
Nearly ninety-nine percent of people received the same things upon opening their beginner gift packs!
The beginner three-piece set: a weapon, clothes, and shoes, plus one basic skill!
The bonuses were barely worth mentioning. They simply ensured that no one went out naked!
Staring at the beginner gift pack, Xu Kun muttered, "This beginner gift pack of yours is guaranteed fresh, right?"
Beginner Gift Pack: I've been selling packs for so long. Would I sell you an unripe egg?
The corners of Xu Kun's mouth rose as he said expectantly, "Open the beginner gift pack!"
The gift pack in his palm immediately began wiggling left and right. Then, the ribbon binding it loosened!
In an instant, rosy light filled the sky. The gift pack vanished and transformed into four balls of light floating before Xu Kun.
Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the B-tier Blazing Spirit Set: Flame Spirit Sword, Flame Spirit Armor, and Flame Spirit Boots!
Ding! Enhanced by Heavenly Blessing: Child of Fortune, the Blazing Spirit Set has upgraded into the A-tier Supreme Blazing Spirit Set!
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