When Qin Feng made his choice, the grayish-white wheel before him began to spin.
An illusory grayish-white pointer gradually came to rest on a section marked with a question mark!
Is this... a hidden class?
Qin Feng's heart suddenly raced!
As the grayish-white pointer stopped, the question mark in that section gradually transformed into a black symbol.
It looked a little like the Greek letter "φ," but with some differences.
Both its upper and lower ends resembled razor-sharp blades, radiating killing intent!
[Congratulations! You have obtained the class: Shadow (unique)!] [Shadow: A unique hidden class. Born of the shadows, you become the shadows-the reaper in the darkness.] [Class passive 1: Stealth duration doubled!] [Class passive 2: +1 stealth level!] [Class passive 3: If you launch an attack outside the enemy's field of vision, that attack deals double damage!]
A hidden class-Shadow!
Joy surged through Qin Feng!
This class is a god at soloing!
In my previous life, there seemed to be a Shadow player too, but they were killed early on. I have no idea how strong this class becomes later...
But these three starting class passives alone mean I'll have excellent survivability!
What mattered most in the Godforsaken Game?
At first, many people couldn't figure it out.
But as more and more people died, they finally understood...
Survivability mattered most in the Godforsaken Game!
Dying in the Godforsaken Game wouldn't actually kill you, but it would cost you half your remaining lifespan!
That was the true cruelty of the Godforsaken Game!
Players could gain lifespan by killing monsters in the Godforsaken Game, and lifespan would even become the world's universal currency.
Yet dying in the game would halve their remaining lifespan...
Once your lifespan hits zero, you die.
If someone kills you in reality, you die too.
And to maintain your strength in reality, you have to spend lifespan to extract equipment and skills from the game...
That tells you just how important lifespan is!
Of course, survivability mattered, but so did damage.
And with the Shadow class, any attack launched outside the enemy's field of vision would deal double damage!
Outside the enemy's field of vision... stealth counts too!
All in all, this class has impressive survivability and damage.
As expected of a unique hidden class.
Qin Feng was already very satisfied with this class.
At the very least, it was much stronger than his ordinary Warrior class from his previous life.
As long as he could build up his strength, even a tough, heavily armored Warrior wouldn't be able to withstand a single strike from him!
Next, Qin Feng checked his starting skills.
[Starting skill: Shadowmeld (poor). Enter stealth for 8 seconds. Attacking reveals you. The strike that breaks stealth gains 30 attack power. Cooldown: 30 seconds.] [Starting skill: Back Attack Enhancement (poor). Passive effect: Attacks launched from behind the target deal 10% more damage.]
The first provided stealth; the second passively increased damage from behind.
Both skills were of the lowest grade, "poor." That was normal, since every class's starting skills were of that grade.
My Shadow class passive doubles stealth duration... so that's 16 seconds of stealth.
With a 30-second cooldown, it's still a little short of permanent stealth.
Qin Feng felt a little regretful.
But that regret soon vanished.
Because...
The passive effect from the authority of judgment finally took effect.
Once Qin Feng's class was confirmed, the system randomly granted him a top-tier talent!
[Congratulations! You have obtained the talent: Infinite Evolution!] [Infinite Evolution: Primordial-tier talent, grayish-white quality. When you kill monsters solo, you have a chance to obtain evolution points, which can be used to evolve skills!] (Note: You automatically receive 5 evolution points every 24 hours. Killing boss monsters solo guarantees evolution points!) [Current evolution points: 5!]
What the hell?
Wasn't it supposed to be an Immortal-tier talent?
Why is it a grayish-white Primordial-tier talent?
Even Qin Feng was dumbfounded.
Primordial tier? He had never even heard of that grade!
And grayish-white quality-was that really not the gray and white used for poor and common grades?
From its appearance...
It really didn't look like a top-tier talent!
Of course.
A talent's actual strength depended on its effects.
Infinite Evolution can evolve skills?
In that case, why don't I try evolving Shadowmeld first?
Qin Feng gave it a try.
He checked and found that evolving Shadowmeld currently required 1 evolution point.
When he chose to evolve it...
The skill really did change.
[You have spent 1 evolution point. Remaining points: 4.] [Starting skill: Shadowmeld (poor → common). Enter stealth for 8 → 12 seconds. Attacking reveals you. The strike that breaks stealth gains 30 → 60 attack power. Cooldown: 30 → 28 seconds.]
The stealth duration increased?
Qin Feng's eyes lit up.
Combined with his Shadow class passive, that already gave him 24 seconds of stealth!
If...
"Keep evolving!"
[You have spent 2 evolution points. Remaining points: 2.] [Starting skill: Shadowmeld (common → bronze). Enter stealth for 12 → 16 seconds. Attacking reveals you. The strike that breaks stealth gains 60 → 90 attack power. Cooldown: 28 → 26 seconds.]
It had cost 2 evolution points, but the improvement was substantial.
Shadowmeld's duration had increased to 16 seconds. Doubled by the Shadow class passive, that meant 32 seconds!
That already exceeded the skill's cooldown!
Shadowmeld starts cooling down as soon as it's used.
With stealth lasting this long, I can now stay invisible indefinitely, and every strike that breaks stealth gains an extra 90 attack power!
Those extra 90 points of attack power were nothing to scoff at.
In the early stages of the Godforsaken Game, classes such as mages, archers, and Warriors generally had only twenty or thirty attack power.
With 90 attack power, he would deal several times more damage than other players.
Besides...
My Shadow class passive doubles the damage of attacks launched outside the enemy's field of vision.
Those extra 90 points of attack power are effectively 180!
Qin Feng couldn't help marveling.
His combat strength right at the start already matched what he had achieved after a full day of progress in his previous life.
That was the power of a unique hidden class combined with a top-tier talent!
A Primordial-tier talent... it really does seem to be a top-tier talent!
And this talent is called Infinite Evolution.
Doesn't that mean I can keep evolving my skills, making their effects more and more overpowered?
All Qin Feng could say was...
With his transmigrator and reborn buffs stacked to the max, they certainly hadn't disappointed.
Besides, since he could obtain evolution points by farming monsters, he had no need to save them.
Using them whenever he had them and turning them into combat strength would yield the greatest returns.
Keep evolving!
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