Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Useless Talent?
Why not store it?
Blue Star.
Central Province.
Breeze City High School No. 3.
On the school stage, Principal Mark Long was speaking.
"Today is the day of the annual awakening. Without further ado, I hope that all of you students here can awaken to your profession, become masters, and live better lives. The awakening ceremony will now begin."
When the principal announced the start of the awakening ceremony, the students below lined up in an orderly manner to begin their awakening process.
In the long, snake-like queue, a chubby boy poked the handsome young man behind him.
"Alex, do you think I'll awaken as a mage? If I do, you can hang out with me and keep your favorite things."
Hearing the chubby boy's words, Alex smiled but didn't answer, as his thoughts were elsewhere.
Alex wasn't from this world. He had traveled to this world just a week ago.
In his previous life, Alex was a social worker who made screws in a factory. His usual hobbies were playing games and surfing the Internet.
Before his time travel, Alex was playing a single-player game. This game was very difficult, especially the final boss level, which stumped 99% of players.
Alex was naturally one of those players. It wouldn't have mattered if he couldn't pass the level, but this game had the annoying feature of the boss taunting you after defeating you, which could really raise your blood pressure.
When Alex was killed by the boss for the hundredth time, the boss's ruthless and mocking voice stimulated him.
So, Alex used a cheat, adjusted the game values, and boosted his attributes to be more powerful than the boss.
Then, Alex gleefully tortured and defeated the boss two hundred times before he finally felt satisfied.
But just when Alex turned off his computer, it exploded, and he was transported to this new world.
From what he learned in the past few days, this world is called Blue Star, and its technology and lifestyle are similar to his previous life.
The difference is that a hundred years ago, various abysses appeared in this world. Monsters from these abysses could emerge into Blue Star, seriously threatening the human living environment.
Fortunately, not long after the abysses appeared, a structure called the Holy Tower suddenly appeared in human cities.
After the Holy Tower's appearance, humans could awaken to become professionals after the age of eighteen.
Professionals are divided into combat professionals and life professionals.
Combat professionals have the power to deal with monsters from the abyss.
"Ethan Lee's awakening failed."
"Jack Hu has successfully awakened as a professional blacksmith."
After the students took the stage one by one, it was Alex's turn.
"Alex, wait until I awaken and become a master, then I'll take you to soar!" Tom, the chubby boy, smiled and walked onto the ceremony stage.
After a while, news came that Tom had successfully awakened.
"Tom has successfully awakened as a Shield Warrior."
Hearing that he had awakened as a Shield Warrior, Tom's face fell, and he burst into heart-wrenching tears.
"My dream of being a mage is shattered. Alex, you have to awaken as a mage. Then it will be up to you to take me soaring!"
After waiting for a long time, it was finally Alex's turn.
Walking onto the awakening stage, Alex suddenly felt a force entering his body.
At the moment he awakened his talent, an ancient existence slowly opened its eyes and looked in the direction of Blue Star, "Abnormal data has appeared, and cleanup measures have been initiated."
Standing on the ceremony stage, Alex's body suddenly burst into a colorful light.
When the teacher who was presiding over the ceremony saw Alex's profession, his voice couldn't help but raise a few notches.
"Alex has successfully awakened as a mage!"
Alex didn't react immediately, but the students below were shocked.
"Wow, someone actually awakened to the mage profession. This is a golden opportunity."
"I wonder if Alex needs any companions. I can be charming and warm up to him, useful throughout the day and night."
Although many professionals awaken every year, mages are still very rare.
Compared to other professions, mages are uniquely gifted.
They have super high damage and group attacks.
A powerful high-level mage can defeat an entire army by himself.
And the most important thing is,
Other professionals have bottleneck restrictions.
At most, they can only become demigods.
The mage is the only profession that can break through to become a true god.
Therefore, the students were envious, jealous, and resentful of Alex's awakening as a mage.
"..."
Alex was naturally unaware of the sounds outside. He had just successfully changed his profession when he heard a notification sound in his ear:
"Ding, it has been detected that the player has successfully changed his profession and the value has been modified."
What a sound!
Alex was stunned. Why did this voice sound so similar to his cheat voice prompt in his previous life?
Could it be that I not only awakened my profession but also awakened the cheat?
Walking down the awakening stage in a daze, Alex saw Principal Mark Long walking to his side and asking with a pleasant face:
"Your name is Alex, right? You have awakened as a mage. I wonder if you would mind letting me see the talents and skills that come with your profession?"
Seeing Alex's confused look, Mark Long explained: "Don't get me wrong. When you awaken as a mage, the school will reward you with a C-level skill book. Of course, if the talents and skills attached to your profession are relatively powerful, there will be more rewards."
Alex was overjoyed when he heard that there were more rewards and quickly looked at the talents and skills that came with his profession.
It didn't matter. Alex froze on the spot and didn't speak for a long time.
Open the panel.
**Name:** Alex
**Level:** lv1
**Life:** 100
**Mana:** 600
**Strength:** 5 (affects physical attack, physical defense)
**Agility:** 6 (affects critical hit rate, speed)
**Intelligence:** 12 (affects spell attack, spell defense)
**Physical strength:** 7 (affects health, resistance)
**Skill points:** 1000
**Evolution points:** 0
**[Talent]:** Cooldown reduction (G level)
**[Skill]:** Magic surge (C level)
After seeing his own panel, Alex was shocked by his talent.
His expression fell silent for a moment,
The reason for silence is
It's because the talent is so poor.
**[Talent]:** Cooldown reduction (G level)
**Effect:** Reduce skill release time and cooldown time by 5%, but reduce skill damage by 90%.
???
This is not a talent,
Is this some kind of curse?
This essentially makes me a first-class cripple.
Are you kidding me?
Alex cursed angrily in his heart.
Why is he so angry?
Because those who change professions and become professionals will face trials.
Fortunately, life professionals do not need to fight. For example, awakened merchants only need to do business to gain experience. The same is true for blacksmiths and other professions.
But it is different if you awaken as a combat professional. You must enter the trial abyss to fight monsters.
Professionals with average talent can form a team of five and if they are lucky, they can clear the Trial Abyss.
But Alex's talent is not only poor, it's simply terrible.
This talent can be described as the king of garbage.
At the same level, Alex couldn't even defeat monsters.
You could forgive this talent for a priest, as priests do not focus on dealing damage.
But as a mage, Alex awakened with this rubbish talent. It can only be said that fate is playing tricks on him.
Awakening the noble mage profession,
The talent that comes with it is worse than useless.
Glancing at the talent again, Alex sighed,
Feeling that his professional career would be bleak.
The future did not seem bright.
When he was feeling dejected, Alex noticed something: "What is this!"
Alex was suddenly shocked by the number of skill points on his panel.
He muttered to himself: The game cheat really traveled through time with me, is there still hope?
Through feedback from the panel, Alex learned that he could now get 1,000 skill points for each level he upgraded.
Skill points can be doubled each time you change jobs.
There are additional rewards every 10 levels.
"This is amazing. How many skills do I have to learn to consume so many skill points!" Alex was ecstatic.
The importance of skill points is self-evident. Except for a few professions, normal professionals can only get 5 points when they upgrade.
But Alex's level-up actually reached 1,000 points, putting him hundreds of miles ahead of other professionals.
With the mentality of giving it a try, Alex used skill points to add to the magic surge.
After adding a little more, the skills changed.
**[Skill]:** Magic surge (C level) lv2
**Effect:** Increase MP by 600 points.
Level one can increase mana by 100 points, which is not bad.
Then Alex clicked it 9 times in a row, raising the magic surge to the full level.
**[Skill]:** Magic surge (C level) lvmax
**Effect:** Increase MP by 1500 points.
Just one skill alone increases the amount of mana by 1,500 points, which is already extremely impressive.
A level 10 whiteboard mage only has about the same amount of mana.
Alex already had it at level 1.