NOVEL WEB Ch. 9
Chapter 9: Speak to Become Stronger
As expected, with White Crane’s appearance, the 【Rumor Bearer】 profession—which was not supposed to exist at this point in time, nor even on this timeline—was successfully unlocked after completing the ritual!
Jiang He’s face lit up with joy as he decisively absorbed this power completely.
Lines of information immediately appeared.
【Class transfer successful, new profession acquired: Rumor Bearer lv1, 1 Rumor Bearer skill point】
【Profession specialty obtained: Universal Lingual Intuition】
A Transcendent profession itself did not directly grant any improvements.
Its main function was to provide a “pathway,” allowing the Transcendent to continue acquiring abilities and mastering new powers along that road.
At this moment, by transferring to the Rumor Bearer profession, Jiang He gained his first ability.
【Universal Lingual Intuition: Your linguistic sense is greatly enhanced, making it easier to understand the meaning of all beings’ tongues.】
Linguistic sense itself was something mysterious and elusive.
After acquiring this ability, Jiang He carefully tried to perceive it, yet he felt little difference.
He had no choice but to seek help from White Crane.
“What does ‘Tongue of All Beings’ mean?”
“To understand the Tongue of All Beings, you must first understand the essence of the Word-Spirit talent—”
“As an S-rank talent, Word-Spirit could use the power of words to issue commands to all beings in the world, compelling them to act according to one’s will.”
“‘Flame,’ ‘paper,’ even ‘cells’… these are what we call ‘all beings.’”
“When you have Universal Lingual Intuition, you can hear the joy or fury within the rhythm of fire, and from the traces of the wind, sense its memories and laments…”
White Crane spoke at length to himself, not caring whether Jiang He understood—
Once Jiang He grew stronger, he would naturally grasp the meaning behind these words.
In the end, he concluded: “When you release Word-Spirit in the future, you will be able to express meanings more accurately, increasing its effect and power… by about thirty percent.”
Got it!
Thirty percent Word-Spirit enhancement, with additional proficiency in natural languages.
Enlightened, Jiang He turned his attention back to his Transcendent profession.
After transferring to Rumor Bearer, he received one exclusive skill point. Just like the Student profession, this could be used to learn profession skills.
Upon reviewing the Rumor Bearer’s skill tree, he found there were two paths.
The first path was called: Rumor.
The skills along this path were all related to “Spell Words.”
They could improve the effects, number of uses, and duration of Spell Words.
The second path was called: Sound Transmission.
The skills in this path were related to “sound.”
They could simplify Word-Spirit or Spell Word pronunciations, changing specific spells into specific sounds, thereby greatly improving casting speed and concealment—though at the cost of reduced power.
However, within this path, there were also skills that boosted power to offset this drawback.
Moreover, both paths had growth-type skills among their starting abilities.
“You’ve just completed your transfer, so you only have one skill point.”
“I suggest you learn the Rumor path skill, 【Babble】.”
Following White Crane’s words, Jiang He checked the corresponding skill.
【Babble lv1: When using Word-Spirit abilities, your mind is trained, slightly increasing mental strength.】
Jiang He’s eyes lit up.
Every time he used Word-Spirit, he could permanently increase his mental strength? That was way too strong!
Furthermore, the leveling method for the Rumor Bearer profession was also 【using Word-Spirit】.
Combined, didn’t that mean he could become stronger just by “talking”?
The Rumor Bearer profession was simply broken!
Wait, no…
Jiang He suddenly realized.
He thought this skill was strong only because he had the Word-Spirit talent, allowing him to freely use Word-Spirit with just some mental energy consumption.
But if a Transcendent without the Word-Spirit talent transferred to the 【Rumor Bearer】 profession, they could only use Word-Spirit by relying on “Spell Words.”
Not to mention, drawing Spell Words required consuming Spiritual Blood.
Jiang He had just checked—there were indeed no skills related to drawing Spell Words in the Rumor Bearer’s skill tree.
In other words, for Rumor Bearers to grow stronger, they had no choice but to seek Spell Words from advanced Word-Spirit users, so that they could complete 【Rumor】…
Both their profession progression and their strength advancement were entirely in the hands of advanced Word-Spirit users.
“…White Crane, I forgot to ask—what do you do in the future?”
“Teacher,” White Crane replied, “An S-rank Word-Spirit profession mentor, wholeheartedly at your service.”
“…”
Jiang He stared at White Crane’s smiling face, feeling that he was hiding something.
But that wasn’t the main point.
He spent his one skill point to unlock 【Babble】.
As knowledge rose from deep within his heart, a faint joy welled up inside him.
Talent, profession, growth skill.
From this moment onward, he was finally a true Transcendent professional!
Inspired, Jiang He stretched out his finger toward the mist rising in the room and spoke in succession.
“Effect Enhance.”
“Effect Enhance.”
“Effect Enhance”!!
In that instant, his mental energy was drained, but in exchange, power flooded into his body!
【Medicinal bath accepted, Body +0.5】
【Skill triggered, Mind +0.9】
【Profession growth, EXP +3】
……
Name: Jiang He
Attributes: Body 2.8, Mind 2.0, Energy 1.0
Talents: Ferryman of Time, Word-Spirit (temp)
Professions: Student lv11, Rumor Bearer lv1 (3/20)
Specialties: Focus, Universal Lingual Intuition
Skills: Power Burst lv3, Strong Body lv3, Athletic Cells lv3, Abundant Stamina lv2, Babble lv1
Overall Power Level: 8.2 (G-rank)
……
The core effect of the Blood Refining Chamber came from the Spiritual Blood of exotic beasts.
But since most of the blood in the medicinal mist had been taken away by White Crane to draw the Spell Word “Lord Flame,” the refining effect was extremely poor.
Even though Jiang He drained his energy and used Word-Spirit to strengthen the blood refining effect, in the end, his body strength only increased by 0.5.
On the other hand, his mental strength, due to using Word-Spirit three times in a row, increased by a full 0.9!
This was the true efficiency of Transcendent growth!
Additionally, with his attribute boosts and skill acquisition, Jiang He’s overall power level had risen as well, reaching 8.2—
The maximum power level of a G-rank Transcendent was 10.0.
Upon reaching this limit, a Transcendent would encounter a bottleneck. As long as they broke through, their overall attributes would greatly increase, and their comprehensive power level would rise significantly.
This was the so-called 【Advancement】.
“Talents also influence power level—an ordinary person awakening for the first time usually starts around 1.0, but you started directly at 5.2, with skyrocketing growth speed.”
“So, you can already attempt to break through your bottleneck today and advance to an F-rank Transcendent.”
“This way, when you face the Arc Light Organization’s attack tomorrow, you’ll have a much better chance.”
The Arc Light Organization attack White Crane spoke of was not the one twenty-six days later.
In truth, as a Transcendent terrorist organization, Arc Light carried out multiple attacks within the coming month to achieve certain goals. The one that killed Uncle Cui’s family was just one of them.
The ritual for the Fire Controller transfer that Jiang He would attend tomorrow was the very first of these attacks!
White Crane had told Jiang He to spend all his Student profession points on boosting his physical strength, and even drew the Spell Word “Lord Flame” for him, all in preparation for this coming attack.
“Advance to an F-rank Transcendent, huh…”
Jiang He had just transferred professions, and his confidence was at its peak. He agreed without hesitation.
“No problem!”