Chapter 4

After a moment, the screen lit up again, still displaying the attribute interface, but the data recorded on it had changed significantly:

Strength: 15 points - Oh my God, are you a seed player in the World Strongman Championship?

Agility: 13 points - Wrap a piece of animal skin around your waist and go pretend to be Tarzan in the forest!

Stamina: 15 points - You could exhaust two people in a fight even if you don't fight back, of course, as long as your opponents don't use knives...

Spirit: 14 points - After staying up for twelve consecutive nights in an internet cafe, you can still be the MVP.

Perception: 5 points - You can sense when someone is staring at you, so it's a bit risky to try to follow you.

Spiritual Power: 3 points - A typical Muggle, completely lacking in magical talent!

Charisma: 3 points - Has any girl ever confessed to you? No, right? With your conditions, you should take the initiative!

Ignoring the absurd comments, Ma Le was already stunned by his new attributes. His Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Spirit were all four to five times higher than those of an average person. No wonder he felt light-headed when he first arrived in this fringe space. It wasn't because the gravity here was low, but because he had become much stronger!

Not only that, Ma Le was all too familiar with these abnormally high attribute values! Strength 15, Agility 13, Stamina 15, Spirit 14... weren't these exactly the four attributes of the character he had created in the game before!

How could this be such a coincidence? Only these four attributes from the game had changed, while the other three were at normal human levels. Could it be... Ma Le suddenly thought of an incredible possibility.

Ma Le exited the attribute interface and clicked into the skill interface. The first thing he saw was still the interface introduction. Ma Le didn't pay much attention to the details, only understanding that skills were released using Spirit points and could cause certain special effects. Beginners had only three skill slots, and each time they advanced a difficulty level, they would gain two additional skill slots...

Finally, after listening to the introduction, the skill interface appeared. There were two options: "Skills" and "Crafts." Ma Le clicked on "Skills," and three boxes appeared at the top of the interface, which were presumably the skill slots. Two of them were already filled with icons, and only the last one was empty.

Ma Le swallowed hard and clicked on the two filled skill slots one by one, bringing up the detailed descriptions. After reading them, Ma Le's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief, "Damn! I actually guessed it right!"

The two icons were indeed two skills, and their detailed descriptions were:

"Iron Bones (Level 3): The Iron Bones skill increases the adventurer's health points. Each level of Iron Bones allows each point of Stamina to provide an additional health point. (Insufficient data, unable to evaluate level)"

"Swift (Level 2): The Swift skill increases the adventurer's movement speed. Each level of Swift allows each 20 points of Agility to provide an additional movement speed point. (Insufficient data, unable to evaluate level)"

These two skills were exactly the ones Ma Le had chosen when creating his character in the game, even the levels were the same!

Although he didn't know the exact reason, from the electronic voice's introduction, Ma Le was sure that the Miracle City was some kind of intermediary that continuously transported many humans to different worlds for adventures. It definitely had nothing to do with the game he had played before. So, why did he bring the game's attributes to this world?

Ma Le remembered that when he first saw the attribute interface, his attributes weren't so abnormal. It was only after the electronic voice said they had been corrected that they matched the game's attributes. Then Ma Le thought about the strange, hot jade. Now, thinking back, when the jade got hot, the numbers that appeared on it were 110405, which was his adventurer number! It seemed that his arrival in Miracle City was mostly due to the jade. As for the game attributes, it was just a small probability event!

For some special reason, Ma Le, who should have been brought into Miracle City by the jade, had his physical data corrected and was influenced by the game data, resulting in him bringing the game character's attributes to this world!

Thinking about this, Ma Le suddenly felt a bit regretful. Why did he play a game with initial attributes of only a dozen points? He had another game on his computer where the initial attributes were in the hundreds. If he had played that game, wouldn't he now be a superhuman with attributes hundreds of times higher than an average person?!

Actually, this was just Ma Le's overthinking. Since Miracle City began operating, it had absorbed at least tens of thousands of adventurers, and many of them had been pulled in from their computers, but none of them had been influenced by virtual data to become superhumans. Ma Le's experience was a result of multiple unexpected factors coinciding, a super small probability event. If Ma Le hadn't been forcibly pulled in by the old man on the other side of the wall, if it hadn't been for the jade's protection, if the lightning hadn't interfered, or even if he had played a different game or created his character a second earlier or later, he wouldn't have been able to influence Miracle City with the game data.

Even if Ma Le had played the other game and been enveloped by the light and struck by lightning at the same time, he wouldn't have been able to get the hundreds of attribute points from the game. Remember the intense pain Ma Le felt when he entered the fringe space? The sudden enhancement of attributes naturally had some side effects. With Ma Le's ordinary human body, the maximum enhancement he could withstand was around 15 points, the limit for an average person. If he had been given hundreds of attribute points, he would have died from genetic collapse before the enhancement was complete...

Therefore, Ma Le's experience was a miracle that could only happen after accumulating thousands of years of good luck. If one were to seriously study the principle, perhaps only the term "main character aura" could explain it...

Exiting the skill sub-interface, Ma Le noticed another option in the main skill interface: "Crafts." What was this? Ma Le clicked on it, and the interface changed, listing hundreds of entries, which startled him.

Upon closer inspection, Ma Le realized that these crafts were basic skills that ordinary people could also master, such as cooking, painting, language skills, musical talent, and so on. In other words, this crafts interface was a summary of all the things a person knew or was good at.

Ma Le had over two hundred crafts, each with a proficiency level. He checked the meaning of the proficiency levels and learned that they represented the adventurer's expertise in a particular craft. The theoretical maximum proficiency level was 1000. Generally, a proficiency level of 15 points meant a basic understanding; 50 points meant the ability to use it correctly; 100 points meant the ability to use it proficiently; 200 points meant mastery; 300 points meant being an expert in the field! Due to physical limitations, the maximum proficiency level an ordinary human could achieve was between 400 and 500 points. A proficiency level over 500 points was already in the superhuman domain!

Ma Le went through his "crafts" one by one. Many of them he had never studied, but still had a proficiency level of over ten points, such as "Small Firearms Usage." Ma Le had never touched a real gun, so how did he have a proficiency level of 15 points? After consulting, he learned that proficiency levels could be gained without actual practice. As the saying goes, "Even if you haven't eaten pork, you've seen pigs run." Even if Ma Le hadn't touched a gun, he at least knew that to shoot, you need to pull the trigger, remove the safety, replace the magazine when it's empty, and aim the barrel at the enemy... These basic common sense points made up his 15-point proficiency in small firearms.

From this, it seemed that many of Ma Le's over two hundred crafts were somewhat watered down. Most of them had a proficiency level of less than twenty points. Suddenly, "English" caught his attention. Ma Le's English was terrible, but he had barely passed the CET-4 in his student days. However, the screen showed that his "English" proficiency was only 28 points...

Ma Le felt his undergraduate degree was being insulted, but when he saw that his "Chinese" proficiency was only 102 points, he felt much better. A proficiency level of around 100 for his native language was not bad, and his English being nearly 30 points was also not bad, considering how long he had neglected it.

However, the next "Japanese" proficiency level blinded Ma Le's eyes. The prominent 31-point proficiency level seemed to mock his CET-4 score! Ma Le was speechless. When had he ever studied Japanese? At most, he had learned some words and phrases from adult films, like "Yamada," "Iku," "Haya ku..." After recalling hundreds of Japanese words, Ma Le had to admit that his Japanese level was indeed a bit higher than his English... Damn, the exam-oriented education in China was even less effective than Kuaibo!

Incidentally, the highest proficiency level among all of Ma Le's crafts was not Chinese, but "Crossbow Usage," with a proficiency level of 120 points. This was likely also influenced by the game data.

Exiting the skill interface, Ma Le clicked on the last remaining active talent interface. The electronic voice introduced: "Talents are the result of Miracle City's datafication of the adventurer's characteristics. Together with attributes, they form the foundation of the adventurer's combat system. The talents of new adventurers are often not very powerful, but they can evolve or mutate as the adventurer grows stronger. Some special rewards or enhancements can also trigger new talents. Changes in talents often indicate changes in the adventurer's basic constitution."

After the introduction, the talent interface appeared. As expected, the talents of a beginner were extremely simple. Ma Le had only one talent:

"Unknown Constitution (Insufficient data, unable to evaluate level): Adventurers with this talent are not affected by critical hit damage."

Ma Le couldn't help but frown. What did this mean?