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Seeing that Xu Huo wasn't completely unreasonable, the bearded man shared some of his experience with Ability Evolution. Overall, though, evolving an Ability still required a bit of luck. Sometimes an upgrade merely expanded its range; other times, the effects became almost entirely different.
"I've heard it's also related to a Player's career talent," he said. "Some Players might go many years without achieving a qualitative leap."
Xu Huo understood the difference. Abilities were essentially the game helping Players, under certain conditions, control a particular kind of power. But once they evolved to the level of a Super Player, their Abilities were like Super Evolution powers, no longer something that could be cut off by closing the Personal Panel. The ability to escape the game's control was a manifestation of talent.
It was a level that hard work and training alone could never achieve.
Evening came quickly. After discussing how to divide up the instruments with the bearded man and the others, they began waiting for eight o'clock.
With five seconds left on the countdown, Xu Huo nodded to the other two groups, then tapped open a Space Portal with his finger cot and entered another layer of space. At the same time, Xiong Xiaoxin's group also left this space.
The two groups were in luck and entered different spaces. As they crossed into another layer, the time also jumped to eight o'clock.
Those still outside had all entered the Dungeon at roughly the same time, but the earliest among them had been Sparrow, so she was extremely tense. Yet after the lights in the research institute came on, the danger didn't appear immediately, as they had expected.
The building was utterly silent.
The three of them stood some distance apart, but on the same floor, where they