Chapter 7

Each professional has two types of skills: general skills and professional skills.

General skills are attribute skills, divided into ten categories: Life Enhancement, Endurance Enhancement, Skin Enhancement, Resistance Enhancement, Attack Enhancement, Strength Enhancement, Agility Enhancement, Willpower Enhancement, Perception Enhancement, and Energy Enhancement. Their primary function is to improve various aspects of physical attributes.

Every time a professional advances, their physical attributes are enhanced, with the direction and degree of enhancement varying according to their profession. General skills belong to an additional enhancement range, with a relatively fixed degree of enhancement, which is the highest index for each level of natural growth.

The index varies based on the profession.

For example, if a mage and a warrior both naturally grow to level ten, due to the different directions of enhancement, the mage's vitality cannot compare to that of the warrior. According to the promotion principles of the Gods' Game, a warrior's natural vitality is five, while a mage's natural vitality growth is only one.

However, for general skills, all enhancements are based on the highest index, which is five.

Therefore, if the mage invests a lot of points in Life Enhancement, it is entirely possible for the mage to surpass the warrior in terms of vitality.

This is the role of general skills.

The ten different general skills correspond to ten different directions. For example, Endurance Enhancement is for combat endurance, Strength Enhancement represents carrying capacity and overall strength, Skin Enhancement is for defense, Agility Enhancement represents movement and attack speed, and Perception Enhancement represents a mage's ability to communicate with nature, enhancing spell attack power, and also improving a warrior's early warning ability.

This is why these skills are available to all professions, hence the name "general skills."

Outside of general skills are professional skills.

After reaching level one, Yuan Chenfei's professional skill bar displayed two skills.

The first skill is "Versatile but Not Specialized": You can skillfully use various weapons and fight bare-handed, but lack the corresponding specialization ability, unable to exert additional attack power.

The second skill is "Duel Space": Create a duel space to battle a designated prey, limited to beasts. It is also a space for storing pets.

However, these two skills are currently in a dim state, indicating they cannot be used.

At the bottom of the professional skills, there is a skill point prompt, with the number 1 next to it, indicating that Yuan Chenfei has one skill point.

By allocating this skill point to the corresponding skill, the skill will be activated, meaning it can be used.

From the manual left by Liu Yang, Yuan Chenfei had already gained some understanding of the entire system of the Gods' Game.

The core ability of the Brutal Beast Tamer he chose is actually the Duel Space.

As a summoner, a Brutal Beast Tamer can have up to five battle pets to fight for them, and the way to obtain battle pets is through the Duel Space. As long as they defeat the opponent in the Duel Space, they can gain the beast's allegiance.

Therefore, the Duel Space can be considered the core skill of the Beast Tamer, which is evident from the system's introduction of the Beast Tamer.

However, this does not mean that Yuan Chenfei needs to activate this skill right now.

After all, he is only level one, and there is no need to rush to acquire battle pets.

The reason the Beast Tamer is prefixed with "Brutal" is that although this profession strengthens themselves through taming summoned beasts, they never feel sorry for their summoned beasts. Due to the nature of the profession, Beast Tamers can only tame beasts weaker than themselves, and as their own strength increases, the beasts will fall behind, so Beast Tamers must replace their battle pets periodically. They do not grow together with their battle pets; constant conquest of new battle pets is their path.

Therefore, they only have the intention to use their battle pets, not to sympathize with them, hence the name "Brutal Beast Tamer."

Those who love animals are not suitable for this profession.

Yuan Chenfei chose it because the Brutal Beast Tamer is the most promising profession among the twenty-one professions.

The strength of a Brutal Beast Tamer's battle pets is closely related to the Beast Tamer themselves. Since the Duel Space can only subdue defeated beasts, the stronger the Beast Tamer, the stronger the beasts they can defeat and tame. To some extent, the true combat power of a Beast Tamer is their own combat power multiplied by six.

Therefore, the stronger the individual Beast Tamer, the stronger their overall strength, and their potential for development naturally becomes the greatest among the twenty-one professions.

However, potential is potential, and how to develop ultimately depends on the individual.

As for now, Yuan Chenfei is not in a hurry to acquire a pet, so he directly allocated his first skill point to the first skill, "Versatile but Not Specialized."

After the skill was activated, the totem mark indicated:

"Versatile but Not Specialized, Skill Level 1/20."

This means that this skill has room for further improvement, with a total of twenty levels.

After mastering "Versatile but Not Specialized," Yuan Chenfei casually swung a knife, and he could clearly feel that his proficiency with the combat knife had increased significantly.

This is the benefit of "Versatile but Not Specialized," allowing him to skillfully use various weapons, but only to the level of proficiency, without any additional bonuses, purely a skill improvement.

If before allocating the skill point, Yuan Chenfei was just an ordinary person with the physical attributes of an athlete, then now he is an athlete with some combat skills.

That's all.

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After activating "Versatile but Not Specialized," Yuan Chenfei did not go to kill those small animals, as they were still level zero, and killing them now would be a waste.

However, this does not mean that Yuan Chenfei had nothing to do.

After completing his professional advancement, Yuan Chenfei began to process the hundred rats he had killed.

He cut open the rat corpses, extracted the rat hearts, and placed them aside.

After extracting a hundred rat hearts, Yuan Chenfei left the breeding farm with the hearts.

Not far from the breeding farm stood a tall red tower.

To be precise, the reason Yuan Chenfei chose to buy the breeding farm was because of this red tower.

The red tower is a special facility opened by the Gods' Game for humans. In simple terms, each red tower is a return zone where people can freely purchase items.

At this time, many people were gathered around the red tower, but no one could enter. This is because the red tower is currently only open to professionals, and since no one has become a professional yet, they cannot enter. However, it will soon be open to everyone, regardless of whether they are professionals or not.

After arriving, Yuan Chenfei did not stop but walked directly towards the tower area.

"Hey, don't bother, you can't get in!" someone who had tried before warned him.

Yuan Chenfei ignored them, walked to the invisible wall, and took a step forward. A ripple like water spread in front of him, and he had already entered.

The few people who were gloating and waiting to see him get electrocuted were all stunned.

"This... This is impossible?"

"Can he really get in?"

Everyone looked at each other and walked in together.

The next moment, a surge of electricity appeared out of nowhere, and a large group of people were simultaneously electrocuted and fell to the ground, paralyzed.

"What the hell? Why can he get in but we can't?" someone shouted angrily.

But they received no response.

At this time, the tower area was still empty.

After entering, Yuan Chenfei went straight to a small shop in the tower area, where a peculiar four-armed being was sitting.

The four-armed being's eyes lit up when he saw Yuan Chenfei: "Welcome, dear friend. I never thought that Paroro's little shop would welcome its first customer so soon. What would you like to buy? We sell all kinds of meat rich in spiritual energy."

"I don't plan to buy anything. As you know, I don't have a single energy crystal coin, but I have this, perhaps it can be exchanged for some money."

Yuan Chenfei opened his bag and revealed a hundred rat hearts.

Paroro glanced at them and muttered, "Oh, level zero rat hearts. Is there any lower-grade material than this?"

Yuan Chenfei shrugged, "I don't think so, but do you need them?"

"Yes, they are perfect for a pan-fried rat heart dish. I can pay you ten white crystals for them," Paroro said.

"Deal," Yuan Chenfei agreed.

Although these strange beings seem to be able to communicate and are reasonable, they play the role of NPCs here. No matter how much you plead, they won't give you an extra coin.

The rules of the Gods' Game, set by the gods, must be followed by all beings.

Unless the gods grant special privileges.

White crystals are the standard currency of the Gods' Game and the lowest denomination. Ten white crystals are the standard price for rat hearts, neither more nor less.

These are actually small, luminous crystals, just painted white.

In addition to being used as currency, the most important function of white crystals is as energy.

Yes, after all energy sources failed, the gods provided a new energy source, and this new energy source is these special crystals that emit light. They can be used in any device, and a small white crystal can power a car to run at forty miles per hour for ten minutes. So to drive a car for an hour, you only need six such white crystals. In the currency system of the Gods' Game, this is equivalent to six yuan.

A hundred rat hearts were purchased by Paroro for ten yuan.

With the money, Yuan Chenfei went to another shop.

Inside, another strange being was sitting, with a twisted head connected to an octopus-like body.

"I want a simple map of the nearby area," Yuan Chenfei said, placing ten white crystals on the counter.

"Here you go, a simple map of the tower area's surroundings," Alice handed the map to Yuan Chenfei.

This is a map of the surrounding terrain, but unlike Earth's maps, it is based on the world of the Gods' Game, with the tower area at its core. The tower area on the map has a red marker, which represents Yuan Chenfei himself.

When Yuan Chenfei moves, the red marker representing him also moves, indicating his position.

This is the main feature of the map.

This is still the simple version. If it were the perfect version, it would even provide real-time information about nearby monsters.

However, that would be expensive, not something an ordinary person could easily afford.

"Thank you," Yuan Chenfei put away the map and walked out.

Next, Yuan Chenfei went to another room.

This time, the being inside looked more human, except for the long snake tail, which could be considered a beautiful woman.

The snake-tailed beauty was working on a piece of leather when she saw Yuan Chenfei enter and said, "What can I do for you, noble first ascender?"

Yuan Chenfei replied, "I hope to obtain a life profession from you."

"Oh, what life profession do you want?"

"Harvester."

The snake-tailed beauty looked at Yuan Chenfei, "Hmm, a good choice, perfect timing. Since that's the case, let's follow the rules."

She then touched Yuan Chenfei's forehead, and his totem mark warmed slightly.

At this point, if you look at his character template, you can see that a life profession category has been added below his professional skills.