Chapter 3: Glitching Becomes Addictive
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[Notice: Consecutive promotion of the exclusive talent skill "Ascend" three times requires the consumption of ??? years of lifespan in total.]
[Insufficient remaining lifespan.]
[You have three free usage opportunities left. Do you confirm to consume all these opportunities to promote the exclusive talent skill "Ascend" to a higher tier?]
Wow, even the Multiverse Game doesn’t know how many years of lifespan it consumes? They just put three question marks!
Hearing the system prompt, Su Mubai was startled, then a gleam of joy appeared on his face.
Just as he thought, exclusive talents could also be promoted!
Moreover, upon promotion, the tier of the target also rose accordingly.
An S-tier talent, promoted once becomes SS-tier, twice becomes SSS-tier.
So what happens if you promote three times in a row? Would it surpass SSS-tier?
In the information provided by the Multiverse Game, there is no such tier above SSS.
No wonder the cost was represented by three question marks.
Perhaps even the Multiverse Game never imagined a gambler like Su Mubai, who would go all-in like this.
His maximum health permanently fixed at one point, combined with only one year of lifespan remaining, made Su Mubai decide to take the gamble.
After all, he could only live up to one year at most; if he won this bet, the payoff would be huge!
With this thought, Su Mubai didn’t hesitate and made his choice.
“Confirm consumption of all opportunities!”
However, the system prompt did not immediately respond, as if it had crashed due to this audacious move.
Su Mubai grew nervous.
If this gamble failed, he would have no choice but to take it step by step.
After a few tense minutes, Su Mubai suddenly felt a heart-pounding force erupt from within him.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three beams of light shot upward, overlapping and stirring the dark space outside the Starry Sky Hall.
Within the intertwining beams, multiple colors alternated and shifted.
When all the lights faded, the long-awaited system prompt finally appeared again.
[Notice: Exclusive talent skill "Ascend" successfully promoted consecutively to a higher tier.]
[Congratulations to player "White Night" for acquiring the unique Forbidden-tier exclusive talent skill—"Cataclysm."]
“I won the bet!”
Su Mubai clenched his fists, his excitement evident.
Unique Forbidden-tier!
That title alone sounded extraordinary.
Exclusive talent skills meant only he possessed it. So does “unique” imply that across the entire Multiverse Game, "Cataclysm" is the only Forbidden-tier talent?
Thinking of this, Su Mubai eagerly opened the talent description.
[Cataclysm]: Unique Forbidden-tier exclusive talent skill
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Skill Effects:
1. Ascend: Permanently promote any object by one tier, no cost.
2. Sublimate: Consume certain resources to permanently promote any object by two tiers.
3. Cataclysm: Consume a certain amount of lifespan to permanently promote any object by three tiers and attach the Cataclysm trait.
(Tier cannot exceed limits, cannot be detected, copied, or stolen, and disappears upon the complete death of player “White Night.”)
The terrifying power of Cataclysm left Su Mubai dumbfounded.
Promoting one tier costs nothing at all.
And the promotion target changed from any skill to any object!
This was utterly outrageous.
Money, equipment, skills—all are objects in the game.
Even… professions, and himself!
After carefully reviewing the skill description multiple times, Su Mubai took a deep breath.
Even he, the instigator of this, felt this talent was ridiculously overpowered!
“Wait… no cost to promote one tier?”
Suddenly, Su Mubai’s eyes widened with wild joy. Acting on impulse, he immediately used Cataclysm.
Promotion target: Cataclysm!
Exploiting bugs like this was addictive.
Yet this time, his plan failed.
No beams of light appeared, and the cold system voice sounded.
[Sorry, this skill’s tier has exceeded the limit and cannot undergo Cataclysm.]
“Looks like I was too greedy.”
Su Mubai smiled faintly, unsurprised by the failed promotion.
If he were allowed infinite promotions like this, wouldn’t the Multiverse Game just collapse?
He began to suspect the game hadn’t been around for long; otherwise, such a glaring bug wouldn’t exist.
Just as he prepared to check his other skills, the system prompt sounded again.
[Notice: Your unique Forbidden-tier exclusive talent “Cataclysm” has gained new usage restrictions.] (Click to view details)
[Cataclysm]: Unique Forbidden-tier exclusive talent skill
Usage Restrictions: Cannot be applied to the talent itself, cannot be applied to the player’s body, cannot be applied to the Cataclysm trait, repeated use on the same target will overwrite previous promotion effects.
“Damn…”
Su Mubai was dumbfounded.
He had tried to cheat but ended up worse off.
Not only did he fail to promote, but four new usage restrictions had been added.
It seemed the Multiverse Game had already patched this bug.
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“But I’m not without gains.”
Looking at the last line of the skill description, Su Mubai’s eyes brightened.
(One free usage of the Cataclysm effect without consumption.)
He had anticipated restrictions appearing on Cataclysm.
If repeated use did not overwrite the effects, wouldn’t it allow him to upgrade all low-level objects to the highest level for free?
That was unrealistic to imagine.
Now, having one free, no-cost use of Cataclysm was already satisfying enough for Su Mubai.
“Besides talents and my own body, the most worthwhile target to promote is this.”
Gazing at his pitiful attribute panel, Su Mubai made up his mind and used Cataclysm again.
[Notice: Promoting the profession Necromancer by three tiers requires consuming 100,000 years of lifespan.]
[Insufficient remaining lifespan.]
[You have one free usage opportunity for Cataclysm effect. Do you confirm to consume this opportunity to promote the profession Necromancer to a higher tier and attach the Cataclysm effect?]
100,000 years of lifespan!?
This outrageous cost made Su Mubai’s eyes widen.
But with free usage, the higher the cost, the better.
Professions differ from skills in tiers.
According to the information in his mind, the Multiverse Game has three tier levels for professions: normal profession, hidden profession, and unique hidden profession.
He wondered what would happen after three consecutive promotions.
Would it, like the Cataclysm talent, become a unique Forbidden-tier profession?
Suppressing his inner excitement, Su Mubai took a deep breath and made his choice.
“Confirm consumption of this opportunity!”
Hum~
The Cataclysm talent activated, and Su Mubai felt instantly enveloped by a mysterious force.
Then a series of system prompts sounded in his ears.
[Notice: Your profession “Necromancer” successfully promoted to a higher tier.]
[Congratulations to player “White Night” on changing profession to the exclusive hidden profession—“Death Sovereign.”]
[Your attribute growth has changed.]
[You have learned a new skill “Life Link.”]
[You have learned a new skill “Summon Amplification.”]
[You have obtained the exclusive item “Book of Death.”]
[Your exclusive hidden profession “Death Sovereign” has gained the Cataclysm effect.] (Click to view details)
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