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Chapter 114: Talent Sequence 29: Mercenary (Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 114: Chapter 114: Talent Sequence 29: Mercenary (Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Talent Sequence 29: Mercenary

He Ao removed the silicone stopper from the silver test tube and drained the green secret medicine in one gulp.

Intense corrosive powers once again invaded his body, this time the pain was several times more severe than when he had taken ’Onlooker’.

His hand pressed against the platform as veins on his arm bulged out, his face twisted in agony.

This was a reaction from the body itself; He Ao’s mental state remained very stable. This kind of pain wasn’t too strong for him, it was still bearable.

This time the power surged not primarily towards the brain but mostly towards his body. He Ao could clearly feel his muscles being torn apart by a formidable force before being reconnected. His originally somewhat coarse and aged skin was also torn apart by this immense power, constantly giving rise to new, delicate skin.

His muscles, his skin, his nerves—all were becoming stronger and more sensitive in this tearing and reassembling process. At the same time, he was guiding this energy along the correct ’circuit’ to strengthen his body.

While the majority of the secret medicine’s power was transforming He Ao’s body, a smaller portion also rushed towards his brain.

But this time he did not fall into a temporary state of blindness. He could distinctly feel the massive power remodeling his cerebellum and some of the brain structures.

During this entire transformation process, He Ao felt a clear synergy with the original power from ’Onlooker,’ which made the transformation smoother, enabling the power to reach the desired locations for change without being blocked and rampaging halfway.

Perhaps this is why the better one’s Talent is mastered, the smoother the promotion.

This transformation process lasted for several minutes.

When those tide-like surges of pain gradually subsided like a retreating tide, He Ao regained full control over his body.

His first feeling was comfort.

His five senses were further enhanced, but what felt the best was the improvement in his physical functions.

He Ao casually took down a lightweight sniper rifle hanging nearby.

Time, disassemble, assemble, stop timing.

Five seconds.

Even though the rifle had a quick disassembly structure, such speed would be among the top even for the sharpshooters within the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

And this was while He Ao had not yet adapted to the new strength.

Previously, when He Ao used firearms, it was not actually that easy; there was a clear ’time lag’ between his soul and his body.

It was very much like, Brain: I think I can do this, Hand: No, you can’t.

Like playing a game with a consistent 460ms delay, he could only rely on predicting the location and timing of shots in advance to counteract the asynchrony between the soul and the body.

However, after advancing to become a ’Mercenary,’ his physical qualities had greatly improved, and his motor nerves were enhanced as well, nearly perfectly fitting the basic firearm mastery Talent.

He Ao pulled out the short sword from inside his coat and spun it to form a sword flower.

Silky smooth, without any hindrance.

He could now use some of Regit’s sword moves from his memories.

A direct and rocket-like major upgrade.

Compared to the direct ingestion of secret medicine to enhance Talent Sequences, the step-by-step cultivation method of Martial Arts was indeed too slow and much more painful.

Perhaps this is why not many people in the Copy World practiced Martial Arts.

So far, He Ao had met quite a few Transcendents who possessed Talent Sequences, but only Regit was a practitioner of Martial Arts, still a Martial Artist stuck before the Transcendent bottleneck.

Putting down the short sword in his hand, He Ao once again opened his personal attribute panel.

[He Ao (Roy)]

[Permission Level: Ordinary Player]

[Physical Condition: 80 (90)]

[Skills: Talent Sequence 272: Super Memory (Soul Binding) (E-level), Basic Firearms Mastery (soul part)]

[Mechanical Modification: None]

[Martial Arts: Essence Refinement and Qi Transformation (E-level) (Unavailable)]

[Character Skill: Talent Sequence 29: Mercenary (E-level)]

His physical condition soared directly from 25 to 90, thanks to He Ao’s active guidance of energy circulating within his body and the great synergy his skills had with ’Mercenary.’ Although he had just completed his promotion, he had actually mostly mastered ’Mercenary.’

Another change on the attribute panel was that in the character skills, ’Onlooker’ was overlaid by ’Mercenary,’ and there was no case of two Talent Sequences coexisting.

Of course, He Ao still possessed the abilities of an Onlooker, even receiving a certain enhancement.

But this suggested that a higher-level Talent Sequence from the same path would ’devour’ or replace a lower-level Talent Sequence?

He Ao thought back to the first official Copy World, when he had taken the ’waiter’ Secret Medicine.

Super Memory devoured the power of ’waiter,’ completing the promotion. After that, whenever He Ao activated Super Memory, he received the power boost of the waiter.

Could this also be a case where a higher-level Talent Sequence from the same path devours a lower-level Talent Sequence?

In this sense, is ’Super Memory’ one of the subsequent Talent Sequences in the path of the waiter?

Are Talent Sequences not just promotable from low to high? In some cases, could one first acquire a higher Talent Sequence and then be promoted by devouring the lower ones?

Is Super Memory unique, or is this a commonality of higher-level Talent Sequences?

After all, the rank of Super Memory’s Talent Sequence is as high as 272, and if the content of that book is true, then there are nine Talent Sequences of F-level and twenty-seven of E and D-levels.

Even the last Talent Sequence of D-level only ranks up to Talent Sequence 63, leaving more than two hundred Talent Sequences between it and Super Memory.

However, given the various peculiar powers of Talent Sequences, it wouldn’t be unusual for anything to happen.

He Ao felt that he was facing more and more questions about Talent Sequences now.

But it’s good to have questions; having questions means they can be addressed, as opposed to being completely ignorant and not even able to ask them.

After briefly sorting through the information he currently knew, He Ao refocused his attention on the secret room.

In front of him was the box that previously contained the Secret Medicine, which was now used up, leaving only two empty test tubes inside. He Ao moved the box aside, revealing a small platform underneath, where a very hidden switch appeared in his sight.

He had discovered this switch the day after taking the ’Onlooker’ Secret Medicine. The position of the switch was very secretive, almost merging with the platform, and could only be detected by an observational ability at the Onlooker level.

It served as a form of security.

He Ao pressed the switch, and the top surface of the platform slowly opened, revealing two items hidden below.

One was a black bracelet that looked unremarkable, and the other was a cool-looking car key.

He Ao put on the bracelet, replacing his own smart bracelet.

The function of this bracelet was simple; it could only send messages and make calls, and considering it had still been operational after so many years, He Ao guessed it was some kind of ’secure communication device’ that could operate free of the syndicate’s surveillance.

Indeed, Roy’s father’s identity had not been completely unraveled to date; after all, the chances of Vianne’s grandfather casually hiring a bodyguard with a fortune of millions, full professional skills, and still being an E-level Transcendent was a bit too low.

However, He Ao had more or less guessed the truth in his heart.

He picked up the bracelet, followed the contact method written in the book, and sent a message to Vianne:

[Contact me directly at this number once you buy the ticket tomorrow.]

The response came almost immediately:

[Uncle, haven’t you gone to bed yet?]