[Thief God] (S-rank)

All S-rank talents were unique and exceedingly rare.

In the second year after the game invasion in her previous life, the game released various rankings. On the Top 100 Combat Power Ranking, nearly 80% of the players had their information thoroughly exposed through items or talents. No one knew how the remaining 20% had hidden their information, but among the nearly eighty whose details had been uncovered, only two possessed S-rank talents. Both ranked in the top ten.

Just two—and both were connected to the male lead. One was his brother, and the other was his second wife.

S-rank God-given talents seemed to belong exclusively to the male and female leads' team.

Even if she could not develop for the next year, she still had to choose this talent!!

Not only could this talent help her rise rapidly, it could also suppress her enemies.

More importantly, she had an extremely bold idea regarding Talent 2.

It was already four o'clock when Yu Xunge selected her talent and entered the game. Ever since drawing an S-rank talent, her heartbeat had refused to settle.

Her character appeared directly in a bustling yet gloomy city. Most of the pedestrians passing by her had pale faces and looked like undead. This seemed to be the undead race's main city.

[Character] Gewuen (Level 0, 0%)

[God-Given Talent] Thief God (S-rank)

[Race] Undead (?)

[Racial Talents] Undead Will┃Feeding

[Health]: 100/100

[Mana]: 100/100

[Strength]: 5

[Constitution]: 6

[Intelligence]: 10

[Agility]: 11

[Luck]: 8

[Charm]: 9

Beyond these basic attributes, there were also more detailed advanced attributes such as critical hit rate, critical damage, accuracy, cooldown reduction, and more.

She was currently penniless. Her most urgent priority was to find a way to make money, then learn skills.

She walked up to the nearest little person with a question mark above their head. After a few exchanges, she received a quest to clear the city's rats, with a reward of ten copper coins.

Although Yu Xunge rarely played games, she had always valued efficiency. She first toured the entire city, accepting every quest she could find. From killing rats to delivering letters to running errands for people and buying Corpse-Worm Bread, she filled up her quest log before she began completing them.

She killed rats while delivering letters and bought wine for the blacksmith while on her way to buy Corpse-Worm Bread.

In one hour, she completed seventeen quests and earned only two silver coins and a shabby cloth sack. It was a spatial bag with six slots, and each type of item could stack up to ninety-nine.

But none of that was her most important gain. Rather than doing quests during that hour, Yu Xunge had really been wandering the streets while casually completing quests. She used the Thief God talent on every NPC she encountered.

A 20% and 10% chance was truly low.

Stealing from a hundred people did not guarantee twenty successful attempts. Probability could sometimes feel like mysticism. When luck was good, she might succeed every time, but when luck was bad, the success rate could be so low that it made one question life.

Perhaps drawing the Thief God talent had already used up all her luck for the day. Yu Xunge had stolen from at least a hundred NPCs while doing quests, yet she had only succeeded three times.

Her Luck was 8! Yet she had only succeeded three times!

Still, the gains were considerable.

[Rune Backpack] [A Bag of Money] [1 Agility]

The Rune Backpack was an exquisite palm-sized backpack with twenty-four slots. Yu Xunge equipped it immediately upon receiving it. Everyone had one equipment slot at their waist, along with two bag slots. She equipped both backpacks so she could bring them into the real world later.

The bag of money contained eighteen gold coins when opened!

The exchange rate between gold, silver, and copper coins was 1:100. In her previous life, she had survived for three years and done plenty of immoral things using her skills. Even after being that shameless, she had only had a little over three hundred gold coins in her account before she died. That showed just how valuable gold coins were.

After turning in all her quests, Yu Xunge did not accept any more. Instead, she went to learn skills.

She would not gain many levels in seven hours of game time. The people who had gotten an early start in her previous life had been able to enter the Top 100 Combat Power Ranking with even B-rank or C-rank talents because they had learned skills from the other races during the beta test.

After the game invasion, these racial skills would never be taught to Blue Star's people.

It was not that Blue Star's people lacked professional skills, but those required time, effort, and energy to learn. The beta test was different. As one world cast an anchor into another in the form of a game, many things were crudely gamified as well. Other races had to spend money, time, and effort to learn professions themselves, but during these brief seven hours, learning in the game world only required filling a progress bar.

At present, game characters were seen as members of the same race by the other races. They could quickly learn all kinds of skills from "fellow race" NPCs with money. Even if they could only learn the beginner versions, it was still an enormous fortune.

With money in hand, Yu Xunge headed straight for her destination.

There were only two profession skill slots on the character panel, meaning she could learn only two professions. Life skills, however, were unrestricted.

While traveling, she learned every life skill she could find: [Cooking] (Beginner), [Fishing] (Beginner), [First Aid] (Beginner).

Almost instantly, Yu Xunge went from someone who could not cook to a good cook. Food made with the Cooking skill could also increase attributes. Even though the boosts were small, she still spent one gold coin without hesitation to learn every recipe available.

[First Aid] could make bandages. However, after everything had been gamified, Blue Star's modern medicine was no worse than this. Still, learning it was better than nothing.

There were many professions in the game world, roughly divided into three major categories: gathering professions such as herbalism and mining; crafting professions such as alchemy, tailoring, engineering, jewelcrafting, leatherworking, and blacksmithing; and service professions such as enchanting and inscription.

Yu Xunge considered neither gathering nor service professions. The former was too easily replaced, since many materials could drop from monsters, while the latter was not very efficient at making money.

Yu Xunge entered a potion shop and spent five gold coins to learn beginner alchemy.

She directly unlocked eight potion recipes: [Minor Healing Potion], [Minor Mana Potion], [Underwater Breathing Potion], [Minor Invisibility Potion], [Minor Strength Potion], [Minor Agility Potion], [Minor Constitution Potion], and [Minor Intelligence Potion].

In her previous life, any one of these potion recipes could sell for the high price of five hundred gold. Among the top hundred on the Wealth Ranking, aside from guild leaders and those who had already been powerful figures before the game invasion, the wealthiest individual had only a little over seven hundred gold coins.

With thirteen gold coins remaining, she clicked to learn every alchemy recipe available at beginner alchemy.

After learning thirty-seven alchemy recipes—

Account balance: 6 gold coins.

She went to the herbalist shop and bought the herbs needed to make [Minor Healing Potion]. In a large city, the herbs required for such basic potions were not expensive. One [Minor Healing Potion] sold for one silver coin, while the herbs needed to make one cost fifty copper coins. She spent four gold coins to buy herbs for four hundred Minor Healing Potions and four hundred Minor Mana Potions, using the remaining money to buy herbs for three Minor Invisibility Potions.

It was already 5:32.

She was penniless again.

The server closed at 9:22. She had less than four hours left.

She had also learned a recipe in her previous life, a rather useless potion. Once Blue Star's people learned a recipe, they would gain the method for brewing that potion in their minds. As long as they recalled the potion, it would be as though someone were playing a potion-brewing video in their mind, allowing players to learn from the potion master in the video.

When rounded up, it was no different from learning how to cook from online videos.

But now that her character was still in the game, Yu Xunge only needed to click Brew. The progress bar flew by, and a bottle of potion could be made in less than a second.

Yu Xunge practically ran the entire way, then began brewing at a cauldron in the corner of the potion shop.

6:00.

Yu Xunge had already brewed all eight hundred portions of herbs. When her proficiency was low at the start, the process occasionally displayed brewing failure. But as she became increasingly proficient, she never failed again.

She now had 397 Minor Healing Potions, 392 Minor Mana Potions, and 3 Minor Invisibility Potions in her bags.

She had barely paused at all. Only when unfamiliar customers entered the shop did she stop for two seconds to casually steal from them.

Eight hundred and three brewing attempts directly raised her alchemy to intermediate level. She could now upgrade her alchemy and learn new recipes.

But the problem was that she had no money again. She had to go out and "borrow" from NPCs once more.

She could sell the more than seven hundred bottles of potions, excluding the invisibility potions, to the potion shop owner. But these things sold for one silver coin each, while the purchase price was only eighty copper coins! Even if she sold them all, she would only get a little over six gold coins. Yet upgrading alchemy from beginner to intermediate required one hundred gold coins.

A drop in the bucket.

She still had to wander the streets again—ah, no, be the Thief God again.