Chapter 896 - Talent Upgrade (2/2)
This skill… is a little overpowered.
If a civilization’s Beyond Grade A has this ability, it would be equivalent to an unlimited number of Esper Ability Potential Enhancing Fluid shots. Even if this could only be used on Espers, it was enough to raise the prowess of the Espers in the entire civilization by one whole level.
This was a strategic level ability!
A pity, the one who obtained this was EsGod. With his stingy character, chances were low that he would help his subordinates raise their strength.
EsGod had collected all these abilities, which was equivalent to killing off a lot of potential geniuses. If the original owners of this ability did not fall to EsGod, it was likely that they would have become distinguished guests of the Universal Civilizations.
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Additional mission requirements have been completed.
You have received an additional reward: Random draw of three skills of EsGod (Talent/Ability)
Alert: EsGod is an Esper. Part of the possible abilities have been automatically adjusted to your class.
You have three chances to draw, and at least one ability will be randomly selected each time. Please select your type of draw (Talent / Ability / Both).
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Han Xiao rubbed his hands, choosing the Talent option.
Since the Esper class was incompatible with his due to the different sources of strength, he knew that many Esper Abilities could not be extracted.
Since he could obtain abilities this time, he should by right utilize it. However, it would likely be more beneficial for him to obtain a good talent first.
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Randomizing… complete.
Please select one to three options from the five below as the reward:
1. Talent: Particle Structure Reinforcement – Immunity to True Damage.
2. Talent: Crazed Devotee – +20% Resistance to abnormal mental status.
3. Talent: Cell Division Control – Consumes energy to stimulate cell division and achieve powerful self-healing properties. Converts energy into HP at a 1:3 ratio, capped at 15% HP per second.
4. Talent: Endurance Enhancement – +40% Physical and Energy resistance.
5. Talent: Combat Instincts – Upon entering a combat state, +1% to all attributes, capped at 12%.
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Han Xiao’s eyes sparkled. He drew two Molding Talents this time, which were the first and third options.
His gaze was firmly locked on the [Cell Division Control]. This talent should have been converted from the ‘strengthened self-recovery’ of EsGod, which was similar to his [Middle Grade Cell Proliferation Control]. It was just that the efficiency was not as high as his.
His own HP had now broken through 500,000, and even if he converted all of his energy, it would not even reach ten percent of his total HP. It was far from achieving the cap of twenty-eight percent per second. Thus, he would benefit by increasing the efficiency of the conversion.
As for the ability to be immune to true damage, he already had it, and there was no need to reselect it.
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You have chosen [Cell Division Control].
Your [Middle Grade Cell Proliferation Control] is similar to [Cell Division Control], and the two talents will be combined.
Talents can be upgraded! Han Xiao was excited.
Certain similar talents could be merged together to form a stronger talent, which was equivalent to an upgrade.
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Combination complete.
You have lost [Cell Division Control].
Your talent [Middle Grade Cell Proliferation Control] has been upgraded to [High Grade Cell Proliferation Control].
High Grade Cell Proliferation Control: Make use of energy to proliferate cells, heal wounds, and convert energy into HP at a ratio of 1:9. Recovery rate capped at 35% of total HP per second.
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His conversation rate had now increased from 1:5 to 1:9, almost doubling the recovery speed. The cap had also increased from twenty-eight percent to thirty-five percent.
Han Xiao exhaled before continuing with the second draw. He still stuck to the Talent option.
Another five random talents were drawn, and after a glance, Han Xiao chose the Talent [Spiritual Onsen], which gave him an added twenty percent psychological resistance, as well as accelerated the removal of any abnormal mental statuses and soul damage.
Mental attacks were his shortcoming, so there was a need to stack his psychological resistance.
For his third draw, he still chose Talent. Sweeping the randomized reward, his eyes lit up.
Among the five, one of them seemed to be the adjusted version of EsGod’s Esper ability [Black Hole], which could convert a portion of the incoming damage into energy values.
After choosing this talent, the [Intermediate Energy Absorption] combined with this to form a new talent.
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Your [Intermediate Energy Absorption] has been promoted to [Expert Energy Absorption].
Expert Energy Absorption: When subject to any physical, energy, magical, or other attacks, incoming damage is reduced by 25% and converted to energy. The absorbed damage value is not counted as offset by resistance, and the remaining 75% of damage received will be used to calculate the resistance instead. 60% of the damage offset by resistance will be converted into energy.
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Han Xiao roughly did a calculation.
“If I count it like this, my efficiency in converting damage to energy will have increased by more than 1.5 times, and the upgraded talent now offers twenty-five percent more absolute resistance.”
With the addition of the [Black Hole] specialty, it directly converted part of the damage into energy, which was equivalent to saving the energy required to restore this amount of HP.
If his resistance was fifty percent and he received ten thousand damage in theory, then the initial talent effect would mean he received five thousand damage and absorbed three thousand energy.
After the upgrade, the effect now was receiving 3,750 damage and absorbing 4,750 energy.
The energy obtained was more than the HP lost!