"Magician! Magician! Magician!"
Lu Qiming kept chanting, hoping he'd get the Magician class. After all, as a geek who'd watched countless anime and read countless novels, he had a natural fondness for Magicians—a cool, flashy class that could deal damage safely from the back line.
It definitely wasn't because he was a coward who didn't dare charge into the front line. And it certainly wasn't because Magicians had invisibility skills and he wanted to go sightseeing in the women's bathhouse!
As Lu Qiming kept chanting, the wheel soon came to a stop. The golden pointer settled firmly on the black section.
"Yikes! I'm doomed!"
Before Lu Qiming could finish lamenting, the system's voice rang out.
"Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the [Assassin] class inheritance. The exclusive class skill tree has been unlocked!"
Lu Qiming collapsed onto the ground in despair. How could he not know what the Assassin class was like? He'd played plenty of games, and Assassins were always typical high-damage, high-mobility classes. The problem was that they were squishy; one careless moment, and an unpredictable area-of-effect attack would take them out.
What he wanted was a Magician! He could just put a dozen or so layers of magic shields on himself and deal damage safely from the back line. Or a Warrior would've been fine! At least they were tanky and wouldn't get killed by a single random slash.
The system paid no attention to Lu Qiming's grumbling. Its mechanical, mature female voice sounded again.
"Beginning class inheritance import. Congratulations, Host. You have received the following class attribute bonuses: Spirit +8, Strength +6, Agility +12, Constitution +6."
"Congratulations, Host. The class skill tree has been unlocked."
At the system's prompt, a warm current rose from Lu Qiming's chest and slowly spread throughout his body, bringing a strange sensation, like reaching the peak of an intimate encounter.
Blissful and invigorating!
The warm current coursed through Lu Qiming's body for several minutes before disappearing. In its place was a feeling of immense strength. It was as if a light jump would send him soaring into the sky.
"System, are you sure this is the Assassin class inheritance?"
Lu Qiming raised his hands in amazement. He clenched his ten slender, fair fingers and punched the air in front of him.
"Whoosh! Boom!"
In an instant, Lu Qiming's fist tore through the air and slammed into the sewer wall in front of him. His fist sank deep into the wall, with only half his arm left sticking out. Even more astonishingly, Lu Qiming felt no pain at all, as if he'd punched into tofu.
Now he could say with certainty that his strength was at least five times what it had been before, and his agility at least ten times greater. The wings of the flies buzzing around the sewer looked like they were moving in slow motion.
It seemed that the increase in Agility had improved more than just his movement speed. His dynamic vision and reflexes had improved right along with it. The other attributes had probably improved in the same way.
"Host, this is indeed the Assassin class inheritance. Please do not doubt this system's professionalism! Also, please allocate your skill points."
"Okay!"
Lu Qiming suppressed his excitement and looked at the pale blue screen before him. Aside from his Agility, which was now at twenty, all his other attributes were at fifteen. More importantly, he'd originally thought that ten points in an attribute was equivalent to the limit of an ordinary human.
But now it seemed that past ten points, every additional point doubled the attribute.
Then Lu Qiming lightly tapped the very bottom of the screen. The class inheritance slot, which had previously displayed "None," now showed [Assassin].
The moment his finger touched it, the page displaying Lu Qiming's attributes gradually vanished, transforming into an upside-down, tree-shaped diagram.
Lu Qiming restrained his excitement and stared intently at it, reading carefully.
[Dual Sword Mastery], [Musou], [Soul Blade], [Godspeed Reaction], [Weakness Insight]
[Moon Arc], [Limit Pursuit], [Flash Shadow]
[Grim Reaper]
The skills formed an inverted pyramid, with nine of them clearly displayed before Lu Qiming's eyes. According to the system's prompt, he could unlock the next tier only after every skill in the current tier had reached level three.
However, every skill had only five levels, corresponding to Novice, Proficient, Expert, Master, and Grandmaster.
Right now, Lu Qiming had only five skill points. He could max out any one skill in the first tier, or unlock all the skills in that tier.
"Then, of course, I'll unlock them all!"
After all, his priority was to become combat-ready as quickly as possible, not to foolishly bet everything on a single skill. It was better to develop evenly at the start; otherwise, if something unexpected happened, he wouldn't even know how he'd died.
Lu Qiming swiftly tapped each of the five skills. As they lit up, information appeared in his mind, and his muscles began to twitch slightly.
A series of moves appeared in Lu Qiming's mind: [Arc Flash], [Dual Blade Pierce], [Death-Strike Slash], [Spinning Dance Slash], [Spiral Pierce], [Arc Chain Flash], [Thunder Blade Shadow], [Gale Dance], [Sky-Flash Step], [Side Step], and more.
He also felt that his muscles had already formed a sort of muscle memory. As long as he wanted to, he could use these moves right away. And there was no such thing as a cooldown limit; as long as he had enough stamina and magic power, he could keep unleashing powerful moves without end.
And these were just the moves he'd gained by unlocking the first-tier skills. Did that mean even more powerful ones awaited him later?
"System, you're pretty great!"
Lu Qiming looked at his fair hands in delight. If he had two short swords, he was absolutely confident he could slaughter his pre-inheritance self—one hundred of him wouldn't stand a chance.
Besides these moves, he'd also discovered that all five of his unlocked skills were passive skills, except for [Musou]. As its name suggested, Dual Sword Mastery improved his proficiency with dual swords. Even at level one, Lu Qiming felt he could use a pair of swords to shave a hair clean off—and leave not a single scratch behind.
Soul Blade allowed him to bind a pair of dual swords to his soul, turning them into his Soul Blades. The swords would grow along with him, and even if they were destroyed, they would be reborn within his soul. He'd never need to keep changing weapons, and he wouldn't have to worry about them being stolen, either. After all, once bound, he could store them in his soul.
Godspeed Reaction further enhanced his reflexes and bodily reaction speed, while Weakness Insight allowed him to easily spot an enemy's fatal weaknesses.
The strongest was Musou. Even at level one, activating it increased all attributes by three hundred percent. In other words, once he activated it, Lu Qiming's Agility would jump from its original twenty to sixty, instantly becoming more than forty times what it had been before.
The only downside was its high magic power consumption. Even though activating Musou boosted his magic power from 150 to 450, he could only keep it going for 450 seconds—that was just seven minutes and thirty seconds.
Still, Lu Qiming was thrilled, even if it lasted only seven minutes and thirty seconds. A skill that powerful was more than enough to turn the tables, even for that short a time. And wasn't that still more than twice as long as the three-minute Ultraman?
What more could he ask for?
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