"This is a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity!"
"Without it, you wouldn't even know where to begin improving, much less how to strengthen this system's abilities!"
the Paper Strip said.
Xu Yuan thought it sounded even more anxious than he felt. He couldn't help laughing.
"Do I have to rack my brains for another skill?"
"You need to hurry and build your third ability. Once this energy settles and the mist covers everything again, you'll have to wait for the next chance—and who knows when that will come," the Paper Strip said.
"If I build it successfully, I'll get my third ability?" Xu Yuan asked.
“The beginnings of it! Your third ability will be like a baby. You'll need to nurture it patiently, let it evolve, and help it grow stronger.” Pale mist, ancient and desolate, shrouded Emptiness, as though it had been the truth of the endless Emptiness since time immemorial.
It was like a sea.
Even Xu Yuan grew solemn in that mist.
But Zhang Pengcheng, seated beside him, felt nothing. He kept his head down, searching his phone for information about imagos.
"Other Immortal Species only have to follow the established path, but I have to think everything up myself?"
Xu Yuan sighed.
"Almost every powerful Immortal Species has an ability unique to them. Are you content with mediocrity?" the Paper Strip asked.
A line of Prompt Talisman text quietly appeared beside the empty diamond-shaped image:
"The mist will close in after 7 minutes and 29 seconds."
Just over seven minutes!
The mist surged back and forth like waves, ready at any moment to swallow the empty diamond-shaped frame.
Xu Yuan scratched his head. It had all caught him off guard.
Thinking back carefully...
Competition was what he did best.
Honor Among Thieves had come from "Blessing Power