Life Game In Other World
Chapter 139: Mercenary (Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 139: Chapter 139: Mercenary (Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Ticket)

The Talent Testing Room was a narrow silver room. At the entrance stood a small table laden with sheets of paper branded with forms and a pen holder with numerous pens.

Behind the table was a thick silver wall. The wall had no doors, its entirety seamless as if cast in one piece.

He Ao gazed at this wall, its material somewhat resembling the silver vial that housed his pitch-black sphere.

He Ao recalled the material that Liu Zhengyun had mentioned before, mithril.

This whole wall seemed to be made of mithril.

It looked rather valuable.

"All the Transcendents from Xidu, as well as most from the southwest of Central Earth, had their Talents tested right here."

Zhang Ansha walked proudly up to the silver wall and gently pressed a spot on its side.

Click—

Accompanied by a faint sound of movement, a circular gap the size of an eye split open in the silver wall, and from it popped a silver cylindrical column.

Zhang Ansha took out the silver column.

The interior of the wall remained unbreached, seemingly backed by another layer of silver metal.

"He Ao," Zhang Ansha waved He Ao over to stand beside him, "in a moment, gaze into this aperture with one eye, left or right, and close the other."

"Then my Talent will be displayed there?"

He Ao asked tentatively, actually probing to see if his Talent would be made public after the test.

"No," Zhang Ansha shook his head, "only you will know what your Talent is, others won’t be able to see. You can choose to tell us, or not."

Zhang Ansha’s words were still credible.

He Ao slowly approached the aperture, curious whether this device could truly detect his Talent. He wondered whether the Talents spoken of in the real world were the same thing as the Talent Sequences in the Copy World.

And whether it could detect the system.

He Ao, a bit nervous, placed his eye in front of the aperture.

"Ready?"

Zhang Ansha asked from the side.

"Mm."

He Ao responded.

Zhang Ansha pressed a button.

In that instant, metal that blocked He Ao’s view was violently withdrawn, revealing thick glass walls filled with dense, silver particles. These walls were layered upon each other, extending deep inside.

He Ao’s gaze followed the glass walls inward to their deepest point.

There, a piece of grey crystal the size of a thumb, which appeared to be a fragment of some object, was quietly floating in mid-air.

Hum—

The moment he saw the crystal, He Ao felt a resounding gong thunder in his mind.

In that instant, it was as though He Ao ’saw’ ’himself.’

He ’saw’ his own heartbeat, pulsing veins, skin, and internal organs all ’simultaneously’ within his field of vision.

A peculiar purple energy surfaced at He Ao’s brain, and almost at the same moment, he received information about this purple energy,

[Super Memory], Grade D.

Immediately after, He Ao felt another power coursing through his body, an intangible force flowing in his bloodstream and organs.

It was the power of Martial Arts.

As the device read this force,

the information appearing in He Ao’s mind momentarily stuttered.

It was like a CD reader trying to read a DVD, facing an unrecognizable dilemma.

After an indeterminate amount of time, two blurry characters slowly emerged in He Ao’s mind.

[Kingdom]

Then his vision darkened, followed by voices calling at his ear, "He Ao, He Ao, He Ao..."

He Ao felt the surroundings rapidly receding as the world in his eyes gradually returned to normal, and he saw Zhang Ansha’s anxious face.

He glanced at the aperture which had been sealed by Zhang Ansha.

"What’s the situation?" Zhang Ansha asked He Ao urgently, as He Ao had stared at that thing far longer than anyone else. "What did you see?"

"Nothing," He Ao shook his head, "just my own Talent."

He echoed the two words that had just crossed his mind, [Kingdom], the name of Martial Arts in the Talent Sequences. ’Kingdom’?

Each Talent Sequence name is related to its ability. For instance, Super Memory, Furious Man, or craftsman. But Kingdom, He Ao couldn’t see how it related to Martial Arts.

These two words seemed not a nickname for some ability, but rather a broad concept.

Of course, aside from this special finding of ’Kingdom’, He Ao was now also basically certain that the ’Talent’ of the main world was the ’Talent Sequence’ of the Copy World, it’s just that the main world hadn’t discovered the rules for Talent ranking yet.

"Are you really okay?"

Zhang Ansha couldn’t help but ask again when he saw He Ao’s bewildered look.

"Really, I’m fine."

He Ao shook his head and smiled.

The Research Institute seemed to test people’s Talents through that grey crystal fragment, which must be some sort of Transcendent item or pollutant, hence the need for it to be sealed in mithril. And since the crystal didn’t seem to detect the system’s trace, does that mean the system’s level was far above that of the crystal?

"If anything happens, tell me right away."

Zhang Ansha sighed. Although He Ao was a bit off time, he showed no physical reactions, not like someone contaminated by that thing. He walked to the small table, casually picked up a pen from the pen holder, took the paper with the form printed on it, placed his cell phone aside,

"Come on, kid, choose an alias for yourself. This alias is going to be your name when you log into the Research Institute’s internal network. From now on, official documents at the Institute will only show your alias, not your real name."

Choosing an online name, huh.

"Any requirements?" He Ao looked at Zhang Ansha. "Does it have to be a Talent name?"

"That was the initial requirement, but now many people have the same Talent, so there’s no such restriction anymore."

Zhang Ansha explained.

"Oh, then, all the good names have been taken by dogs."

He Ao stated calmly.

Zhang Ansha: ?

Ni Yu: ?

"Cough," Zhang Ansha coughed, "It’s better if your codename is related to your Talent. It makes it easier for the Research Institute to identify whether you meet the standards when assigning tasks, and if there’s a team mission, your teammates will be able to more easily discern your abilities and provide you with the appropriate cooperation."

"Oh."

He Ao pondered for a moment.

Related to Talent, ’Kingdom’ reversed to ’King’?

But ’King’ as a name wasn’t closely related to his ability; it could be said to be completely irrelevant.

After thinking, he said softly, "Then, Mercenary."

"That name hasn’t been taken," Zhang Ansha checked with his phone and then casually asked, "Is this your Talent?"

"It’s not."

He Ao answered calmly.

"Is your Talent related to a mercenary?"

Zhang Ansha was curious, of course, fearing that He Ao might be choosing a name arbitrarily again.

"Theoretically not at all, but practically speaking, not much different."

He Ao pondered and concluded.

All his abilities combined essentially equated to a supersized mercenary’s capabilities.

He Ao was telling the truth.

Zhang Ansha: ...

He always felt that the kid was talking nonsense, but he had no evidence.

After a thought, he decided not to argue with the kid.

While He Ao could sometimes be erratic, he was reliable on the big picture.

He swiftly completed the form and placed it into a file folder.

Then he glanced at his watch and looked at He Ao, "Let’s go, we can just make it in time for the selection of the Special Appointed Researcher."