In an instant, two forces, one golden and one black-red, erupted from within his body.
The two completely opposite forces surprisingly did not repel each other within the same body!
First, the black-red energy quietly receded.
Then came the golden energy.
The two energies slowly returned into Zhang Chen's body.
*Ding! The world's first Transcended One is born, with a worldwide announcement!*
This sentence, as a system message, immediately appeared on the operation interfaces of all survivors.
In an instant, the chat channels in all regions worldwide exploded!
??? What did I just see? Transcended One? What level is that? Never heard of it, is it a bug?
!!! This is the level below the advanced Awakener Stage 3. You must be at a low enough level, so you can't see it!
Damn, no way. I was just celebrating with people from my camp for reaching Intermediate Awakener Stage 1, and now someone is six levels higher than me? Is this even fair?! My celebratory mood is completely gone...
I originally thought that Advanced Awakener Stage 1 was already invincible, but I didn't expect there to be existences like Transcended Ones. Which area's big shot is this?
By the way, why wasn't there a world announcement when reaching the Awakener stage?
Even if there was an announcement, it wouldn't be for you. And judging by now, upgrading to Awakener is really too effortless!
Transcended One Level 1... It's an unimaginable existence. Only when you reach Advanced Awakener will you understand. The crystal cores needed for previous upgrades were nothing, but now the number of crystal cores needed is the real ancestor!
I wonder if this big shot is in this area? If you see him, contact me. I'll apply to join your organization. We can discuss any tribute. Please take me in!
...
For a time, the entire world was in an uproar because of the birth of the first Transcended One.
But no one knew who this powerful individual was!
At this moment, Zhang Chen had no intention of paying attention to his operation interface.
He was intently focused on his talent tree.
It was a vast, tree-like talent map, half golden and half a black-red gradient.
The two talent maps were not independent but were connected by a gray talent in the middle.
This means some talents require meeting both dark and holy talent conditions simultaneously to be activated.
Of course, such talent abilities are often even more powerful!
This set of talent charts is the eternally unique Divine Talent Tree.
Therefore, all the talent skills here are the highest-level existences.
Even if someone has talent abilities similar to Zhang Chen's, their levels will definitely be below the divine level.
It's like a neutered version of the skills.
Zhang Chen briefly scanned the entire talent tree and couldn't help but marvel.
Any single skill within it was simply heaven-defying!
If other survivors were to occasionally obtain a neutered version of any of these skills, they would probably be laughing in their dreams!
Zhang Chen focused his mind.
He shifted his attention to the upgrade conditions.
Current Level: God · Novice Transcended Stage 1. To advance to the next level, God · Novice Transcended Stage 2, requires [Energy Gathering Crystal Core] 2500*4!
Seeing this number, Zhang Chen almost spat blood!
Holy cow, am I seeing this right?
The upgrade requirement has changed from double to quadruple?!!
Just then, the prompt reappeared.
[The eternally unique Divine Dual Talent Tree, each illumination requires the consumption of 4 talent points. Absorbing 1 Talent Crystal grants 2 talent points!]
[God · Novice Transcended Stage 1, each upgrade requires 4 times the crystal cores, but each upgrade will yield 6 times the attribute bonuses of the same level!]
[In the Transcended stage, level is not the sole indicator of strength. Reasonable talent point allocation and skill combinations may allow you to defeat opponents of higher levels!]
Especially seeing the last sentence, Zhang Chen nodded in agreement.
The previous double upgrade requirement was already exhausting.
Now it's a monstrous quadruple increase, it's simply killing him!
Despite his confidence, Zhang Chen couldn't guarantee that in the new environment, he could maintain the number one position on the global level rankings at four times the speed.
But... a low level does not mean weak strength!
For Zhang Chen, who gained a 6x attribute bonus for each level up, coupled with his divine talent...
Any strong opponent of any level would be a paper tiger in front of him!
Let's upgrade the talents first!
Zhang Chen focused his attention on the talents at the very bottom of the vast talent tree.
The golden holy talent has an initial talent:
[Holy Burn]: 0/1 Passive Skill. When activated, it generates a burning field around the skill owner that deals continuous damage to hostile targets. All hostile targets that approach the burning field will continuously suffer burning damage until they leave or die.
The burning field deals double damage to hostile mutated creatures and zombie-type creatures!
The range and damage increase with the skill owner's strength!
...
The black-red dark talent has an initial talent:
[Dark Drain]: 0/1 Passive Skill. When activated, the skill owner will slowly absorb surrounding biological energy and form an energy field on the surface of their body. Enveloped by the energy field, defense, speed, and attack power will all be enhanced!
If a hostile target dies due to [Dark Drain], the skill owner will receive 20% extra crystal cores (regardless of crystal core type).
The range and damage increase with the skill owner's strength!
These two talent skills each extended a line towards the other's direction.
At their intersection was a gray talent skill.
[Soul Reaper]: 0/3. Each successful attack has a 0.5%/1%/2% chance to directly kill the target (ineffective against survivors)!
Seeing this skill, Zhang Chen's jaw nearly dropped.
This skill is simply too outrageous!
Upon maxing it out, there's a 2% chance to instantly kill any monster!
This means, under normal circumstances, no matter how powerful the opponent, as long as he attacks about 50 times (exceptions apply), the opponent will be instantly killed!
Even if his 50 attacks felt like a tickle, it wouldn't matter.
Once the probability hits, the opponent is guaranteed to die!
As for being ineffective against survivors...
Heh heh...
Given Zhang Chen's strength, it's unlikely any survivor could withstand even one of his [Annihilation Finger] strikes.
Let alone fifty times!
That would be overestimating them!
Upgrade, all of them!
*Ding! You have lost 20 talent points. All talents in the current tier have been maxed out. Remaining talent points: 8.*
With these skills, Zhang Chen gained more confidence for the suppression release in two days!
He lowered his head and checked the time. It was exactly midnight.
*Knock knock knock!*
Suddenly, there was a rapid knocking sound from outside the villa's main door...