Back at the mercenary group's base in the Juberly Hub, Han Xiao entered the simulation combat room alone, closed the alloy door, took out the Mission Settlement Card, and used it on the advanced mission.
[You used the [Mission Settlement Card]]
[[Trial of the Strong] is currently being settled... Current progress: 1/1]
[Level 100 advancement quest completed! Stamina bonus increased! 1 Stamina = 50 Health = 60 Vitality]
It's done.
With the dust settled, Han Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. Composing himself, he realized that advancing to level 60 was the first racial advancement, and advancing to level 100 was the second.
"I once used Void Dragon Marrow to obtain the [Void Gene] feat, which increases racial ascension options and adds a new evolutionary path."
The options for racial evolution are randomly generated according to the evolutionary tree. Several options with high compatibility are selected, while there will always be one option with extremely low compatibility, providing players with the choice to take a completely different path.
At this moment, a dense array of evolution prompts popped up in the information bar floating in front of them.
[You have taken another step forward on your evolutionary path, achieving a higher level of life. Your race has been detected as: [Type I Cosmic Human]... Randomly selecting six suitable evolutionary paths... Selection complete]
Please choose one of the following six options as your evolved species -- Warning! Evolution is irreversible, please choose carefully! [Appendix - Explanation of Evolutionary Direction Characteristics]
[Type II Cosmic Human] - 94% compatibility, [Type III Cosmic Human] - 92% compatibility, [North Wind Protoss] - 75% compatibility, [Void Lurker) ] - 81% compatibility, [Half-Dragon Hybrid] - 64% compatibility, [Intermediate Mechanical Lifeform] - 22% compatibility]
"Aside from the standard Type II and Type III, the rest are all good, but compared to this, they all fall behind..." Han Xiao narrowed his eyes, already having made his choice.
[Selection complete, race evolving... evolution complete]
[Race changed to: [Void Lurker) ], molecular structure improved, organ structure strengthened, metabolism altered, adaptability enhanced... Your potential and aptitude increased!]
[You have gained the following attribute enhancements: Strength +28, Agility +45, Stamina +15, Intelligence +24, Mysticism +36, Charisma +22, Vigor +570. Vigor level bonus attribute has been changed!]
[Your racial trait [Adaptive Group] has been changed]
[You have gained the racial trait [Void Travel]]
[You have gained the racial trait [Void Mirror Image]]
[You have gained the racial trait [Void Shadow]]
The excruciating pain, like skin being peeled off and bones being torn apart, struck like a tsunami. Han Xiao was mentally prepared; each racial evolution was a major change in his genes and cells. Players could ignore the pain, but he couldn't. He gritted his teeth, his facial skin bulging with dense blue veins, writhing wildly like a green snake. His eyes were bloodshot, the capillaries in his eyeballs bursting open. The diamond-shaped skin between his brows, Void Gene, emitted a hazy gray light, and spiderweb-like gray lines spread across his face, quickly covering his entire body, altering all the cells within him.
Sizzle sizzle--
The immense power within his body was out of control; wild lightning lashed out like dozens of thunder whips, crackling and popping. The air was filled with the acrid smell of burning electricity, and the ground turned charred black.
"Https://www. hetushu. com. com. pfft..." Han Xiao suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood onto the ground. The bright red blood bubbled as if boiling and turned bluish-purple at a visible speed.
This pain lasted longer than any before, and the Void Prowler was almost a different life form altogether, a complete transformation. This was the special evolutionary path that the Void Gene had given him, making him the best among the six options in terms of both future potential and racial characteristics.
Type II and Type III Cosmic Human follow conventional evolutionary paths, with different tendencies and a generally moderate approach. The advantage is their versatility, meaning they can follow many paths. Han Xiao chose this path at level 60 in order to discover a sufficiently powerful evolutionary system, and now he has found it. The Void race is like the Demon race and the Energy Life race. This is an entire species evolutionary system that is rare, powerful, and has great potential.
The other options are: [North Wind Protoss] is a special race with naturally strong bodies, tenacious vitality, and explosive reproductive ability; they call themselves Protoss. [Half-Dragon Hybrid] is also a representative of strong bodies. Both of these are suitable for Pugilist Class. However, [Intermediate Mechanical Lifeform] is a completely altered species, becoming a mechanical lifeform without any physical strength, and the compatibility is too low, so he definitely won't choose it.
After a long time, the pain slowly subsided. Han Xiao looked as if he had been pulled out of a sea of blood. In the last period, what seeped from his pores was no longer sweat, but human blood. At this moment, the blood in his body had been completely replaced, and his senses were completely different. In addition to the five human senses, he had several new senses. He could feel the flow of free energy and see the void, as if he had opened the door to a new world.
Taking out a mirror, Han Xiao looked at his current appearance. He had grown another ten centimeters taller. Fortunately, his limbs were still in human form, without an extra tail or arms. However, his internal structure of bones, muscles, and organs had completely changed, becoming several times more complex than that of a human.
His appearance was not much different from before; he was still just as handsome. The diamond-shaped skin between his eyebrows had turned into an indigo blue crystal, a new, controllable organ used to sense the void. His skin was even whiter than before, and he exuded a mysterious aura.
"Not bad, it still has a human appearance. This is Void Prowler in human form. What was its original species? After becoming a Lurker, it can still maintain its original appearance in normal state. Only by being tainted by the Void Gene can most species mutate into Void Prowler."
Han Xiao was knowledgeable and experienced; the characteristics of all three races were talents of the Void Prowler, with [Void Travel] being the core ability.
"Try it and see what it feels like."
The world before him suddenly shifted, becoming completely shrouded in mist, as if observing the real world through a veil. This was the Void Vision, entering a mirror dimension that reflected reality, where time flowed differently. When Han Xiao moved, the real world essentially stood still, but he couldn't actually affect reality; he could only pass through material entities. The two dimensions were like closely spaced mirrors, unable to interfere with each other, essentially a stealth mode allowing free movement. [Void Travel] had no duration limit, but continuously consumed a large amount of stamina during the skill's duration, with a five-minute cooldown.
Han Xiao walked from one corner of the room to another, silently counted a few seconds, and then deactivated the skill, returning to reality. He checked his watch; the movement had taken almost no time.
"So this ability manifests in reality similarly to teleportation, teleportation, or short-range jumps." Han Xiao nodded secretly. According to his senses, this talent was like a weakened version of the time-slowing ability, the difference being that it couldn't affect things in reality.
Then he looked in the mirror and noticed the changes in his body. When using the racial traits of the Void Prowler, he would leave his usual human form and enter a Void form, because only in this way could he access the Void Dimension. His skin turned a crystalline gray, with starlight-like Glimmer flowing through it, while his original white skin would converge into battle-like patterns, spreading all over his body along his bone structure, with the ends of the white patterns gathering at a crystal between his eyebrows.
Han Xiao waited for a while, and his body automatically returned to its original state. The white patterns unfolded again, covering his skin and restoring him to his adult form. Meanwhile, the gray skin under his void form was absorbed back into the crystal, like rivers flowing into the sea.
"What an amazing life form! I'm not going to be human anymore!"
Han Xiao kept switching between the two forms, getting used to them for a while.
The other two racial traits are: one is the ability to create a mirror image, which has no combat capabilities and can only confuse enemies; the other is the ability to summon a Void Shadow that exists for thirty minutes. This shadow appears as a dark, indistinct mass, is invulnerable, has no offensive capabilities, and moves at extremely high speed, making it useful for scouting or disrupting enemy vision. Both of these racial traits also consume a large amount of stamina.
Most races only have one or two talents, and three talents are considered a lot. The Void Prowler's talents are mainly focused on interference, confusion, and evasion. Among them, [Void Travel] is the most crucial, as it is an extremely powerful evasion skill with a very strong survival effect and a cooldown of only five minutes.
On the panel, the conditions for changing the main job had already been met, indicating that he had obtained the next stage of the job.
[You have obtained a new profession [War Mechanic lv1], Strength +120, Agility +3, Endurance +3, Intelligence +5, and you have gained 6 free attribute points and 1 potential point.]
[You have learned the skill [Applied Mechanical Affinity]]
[You have learned the skill [Scrap Modification]]
[You have learned the skill [Mechanical Force Overload]]
[You have acquired the skill [Practical Combat Mechanical Force Techniques (Unlocked)]]
[You have mastered the specialization [Battlefield Rationality]]
War Mechanic, this is the sixth stage of the Mechanic Class, a stable mid-game. This is when the Mechanic Class starts to shine. The level cap for this class is 20. As the name suggests, at this stage, the Mechanic Class finally begins to focus on combat ability. Apart from the new Mechanical Affinity, the other skills are all combat skills.
He invested his experience into his main profession, leveling up time and time again.
[[War Mechanic] upgraded to lv16, Strength +120, Agility +3, Endurance +3, Intelligence +5, gained 6 free attribute points, gained 1 potential point]
Once you reach level 100 or higher, each level requires even more experience. Han Xiao had about 1.6 billion experience points at this point, and he spent 1.3 billion of them to level up more than ten times. He was still four levels away from the level 20 cap for [War Mechanic], and he was running out of experience.
The experience he reaped from players in version 1.0 is finally coming to an end!
"I still have nearly 300 million experience points left, enough to level up again, but it's more cost-effective to use them to upgrade skills. Also, I need to synthesize two High-End Knowledge into new blueprints, so saving them will be more useful... Haha, finally I'm going to use up this huge amount of experience."
Han Xiao smiled contentedly. He hadn't felt the lack of experience in a long time, and instead of feeling bad, he was quite happy and nostalgic. He had already calculated that he would definitely be able to use up all this experience after advancing to level 100.
This is great news. The experience points you accumulate on the panel are just numbers, no different from earning money but not spending it. Only when you convert them into combat power do they have any real use. In my previous life, the most satisfying moment was when I used up all my experience points.
Making money is nothing compared to the joy of spending it! Spending! Extravagance! Wasteful spending!
Now that I have finally fully digested what I accumulated in version 1.0, a strong sense of fulfillment wells up inside me.
During version updates, players are offline, so there's no quick way to gain experience. The next version's release will be the time to frantically gain experience again.
"Having used up all that accumulated power, I'm now level 116. Great! When players reappear, it will be an opportunity for my power to surge once again."
Han Xiao narrowed his eyes, increasingly looking forward to the upcoming 2.0 version a year from now.