Special Profession Inheritance

On the deep sea at night, the pale moonlight filtered into the wooden bucket, making the white bones look even more eerie.

The hollow sockets of the skull stared straight at Ling Chu, and at first glance, the scene was rather unsettling.

Ling Chu had always been bold, so she just raised an eyebrow at the sight.

A skeleton frame was nothing—alive, it might not have been able to beat her, and dead, there was even less to fear.

She reached out and fished out the soaking wet pirate hat.

[Captain Teach's Pirate Hat]

[Quality: Fine (Damaged, Repairable)]

[A dashing pirate hat that exudes leadership charisma! When worn to command, crew morale +1]

A decent piece of gear, its rank higher than the Shark Tooth Dagger someone had shown off in the Public Chat Channel earlier. Ling Chu then moved on to check the revolver and the ring.

[Rusty Revolver]

[Quality: Fine (Damaged, Repairable)]

[A common revolver, its barrel rusted from years of water exposure, causing some deviation in aim.]

The revolver and the pirate hat were of the same quality, both requiring repairs before use. Ling Chu's gaze swept over the ring, and the next second, she was firmly drawn to it.

[Ring of Undead Bones]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Upon wearing, triggers the Ghost Pirate class inheritance. Cannot be removed.]

[The wearer will receive a curse: upon death, they will turn into a skeleton, and their soul will find no rest.]

[Comes with 1000-slot storage space]

(Equipment quality from low to high: Poor - Common - Fine - Rare - Exotic - Unique - Legendary)

Ling Chu held her breath in excitement—another legendary-quality piece of gear!

Though she didn't know exactly what the Ghost Pirate class entailed, anything at the legendary level had to be formidable, and it came with a thousand-slot storage space, while her raft only had ten.

As for the so-called curse, to Ling Chu, it was as good as nonexistent.

In this survival game fraught with danger, even living a few more days was uncertain—who cared whether their soul found rest after death?

She put the ring on without hesitation.

[You have received a special profession inheritance: Ghost Pirate]

[You have obtained the class skills Ghostly Steps and Bone Revival.]

[Ghostly Steps: Your form moves like a phantom, impossible for anyone to track. Teleport to any location within ten meters, consuming 10 Mana Value, cooldown 30 minutes.]

[Bone Revival: Revive bones to become your loyal servants, consuming 100 Mana Value. (Requires bone integrity of 80%)]

[Congratulations, you are the first player in the entire server to obtain a special profession. You have received a System Blind Box*1, which will be airdropped to your raft shortly. Please check it.]

As the system voice faded, a wooden box with a question mark on its packaging materialized out of thin air onto the raft.

Ling Chu didn't bother checking the system reward, her heart and mind full of the joy of striking gold.

Ghostly Steps was an excellent life-saving teleport skill, and Bone Revival was so powerful it bordered on broken—actually capable of reviving white bones.

Did this mean that as long as she collected enough bones, she could build her own skeleton army?

Speaking of bones...

Ling Chu turned her gaze to the skeleton frame in the wine barrel—wasn't there a ready-made one right here?

She tried to activate the Bone Revival skill.

[Skill activation failed. Insufficient Mana Value.]

Ling Chu froze. Mana Value?

Back in college, she'd read plenty of web novels, and Mana Value sounded like something akin to magic points. She scanned the system panel twice before finally finding the character stats section in the corner.

ID: Player #29786510

Title: None

Class: Ghost Pirate Tier 1 (Upgrade requires reviving bones 0/10)

Physique: 5 (Affects resistance to disease, durability, and health. 1 point = 10 health)

Strength: 7 (Affects how heavy a stone you can lift)

Agility: 6 (Affects your speed and flexibility)

Intelligence: 8 (Affects Mana Value and mana recovery speed. 1 point = 10 Mana Value)

Luck: Hidden (Affects the probability of finding treasure chests and good events occurring)

Charisma: Hidden (Affects how NPCs in this world treat you)

Health: 50

Mana Value: 80

Skills: Ghostly Steps, Bone Revival.

Ling Chu finished reading the quest panel and understood—Mana Value depended on Intelligence. She'd have to find a way to raise Intelligence to 10 points.

She then checked the Pirate Hat and Revolver. Repairing the Pirate Hat required the Tailor profession and five cloth; repairing the Revolver required the Blacksmith profession and two iron ore. Plus, using the revolver needed ammunition, so it was useless for now.

Ling Chu stuffed all the resources into the Ring of Undead Bones. The raft, piled high, instantly freed up space. Annoyed by the Wine Barrel and the skeleton taking up room, she tried to shove them into the ring as well.

The next second, a black monocle eyepatch dropped down.

Ling Chu picked it up, a little surprised. She hadn't expected that eyepatch on the skeleton's head to be equipment too—she'd almost missed it.

[Captain Teach's Monocle Eyepatch]

[Quality: Unique (Upgradable)]

[When worn, allows reading of player basic information. An essential item for murder and plunder. Also looks stylish from the outside—a pirate without an eyepatch is no proper pirate!]

The eyepatch's function was very practical, so Ling Chu put it on immediately.

Her left eye was covered by black cloth, limiting her vision—it felt a bit off. But she found a hidden option in the system interface. After selecting it, the eyepatch vanished into an invisible version, and her left eye's vision returned.

This hidden function was really nice. Otherwise, wearing the eyepatch all day would be like writing "I am a pirate" across her face.

The Lucky Frozen Octopus Fishing Rod, the Ring of Undead Bones, and now this monocle eyepatch—barely a day into the game, and she already had three pieces of equipment above Unique quality. And equipment above Unique quality was exclusive, meaning she was the only player on the entire server to have them.

Although the Luck stat was hidden in her character panel, Ling Chu was sure her value wasn't low.

Riding her good luck, Ling Chu went ahead to open the system reward blind boxes.

[Monocular Telescope*1, Sunscreen Sportswear*2, Fisherman's Happy Folding Set*1, Mysterious Fruit*1, Public Channel Megaphone*10, Coconut*10, Straw*10]

With no reference to compare, Ling Chu didn't know if she was lucky or unlucky, but the rewards were practical enough.

The telescope and sunscreen clothes went without saying—both were precious and useful at sea. And she had the freshwater she needed most; these ten coconuts would last her three or four days.

As for the Fisherman's Happy Folding Set, it contained a sun umbrella, a folding chair, a small folding table, a fish basket, and a landing net.

Her four-square-meter raft could just fit the unfolded folding chair and small table. At least tonight, she wouldn't have to sleep on the wooden planks.

Each person could send ten messages a day on the public channel. To send more, you needed the megaphone item. Ling Chu didn't like chatting in public channels, so this was the most useless thing.

Finally, there was one Mysterious Fruit left.

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