Chapter 107 Returning to the Beginning

Back at the mercenary stronghold in the Juberly Hub, Han Xiao entered the simulation room alone, closed the alloy door, took out the Mission Settlement Card, and used it for the advancement mission.

[You have used the Mission Settlement Card]

[The Strongest's Trial is being settled... Current progress: 1/1]

[Level 100 Advancement Mission complete! Endurance bonus increased! 1 Endurance = 50 Health = 60 Stamina]

"It's done."

With the dust settled, Han Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief. He calmed his mind. The level 60 advancement was the first racial sublimation, and the level 100 advancement was the second sublimation.

"I used Void Dragon Marrow to obtain the Void Gene specialization, which can increase the options for racial sublimation and add a new evolutionary path."

The racial evolution options are randomly generated according to the evolution tree route, selecting several options with higher compatibility. At the same time, there will also be an option with extremely low compatibility, providing players with the choice to take a completely different route.

At this moment, the information bar floating in front of him popped up with dense evolution prompts.

[You have taken another step on the road to evolution. You have obtained a sublimation of life level. Race detected: i-type Cosmic Human Race... Randomly drawing six compatible evolutionary directions... Drawing complete]

[Please select one of the following six options as your evolved race - Warning! The evolutionary process is irreversible, please choose carefully! [Appendix - Description of Evolutionary Direction Characteristics]]

[[2-type Cosmic Human Race] - 94% compatibility, [3-type Cosmic Human Race] - 92% compatibility, [Northern Wind God Race] - 75% compatibility, [Void Lurker (Human Form)] - 81% compatibility, [Half-Dragon Hybrid] - 64% compatibility, [Intermediate Mechanical Life] - 22% compatibility]

"Besides the regular 2-type and 3-type, the remaining ones are not bad, but compared to it, they all fall behind..." Han Xiao narrowed his eyes, already having made his choice.

[Selection complete, race evolving... Evolution complete]

[Race changed to: [Void Lurker (Human Form)], molecular structure perfected, organ structure strengthened, metabolism altered, adaptability enhanced... Your potential aptitude has increased!]

[You have obtained attribute completion: Strength +28, Dexterity +45, Endurance +15, Intelligence +24, Mystery +36, Charm +22, Stamina +570, Stamina level bonus attributes changed!]

[Your racial trait [Adaptable Collective] has been changed]

[You have obtained the racial trait [Void Shuttle]]

[You have obtained the racial trait [Void Mirror Image]]

[You have obtained the racial trait [Void Shadow]]

A skin-peeling, bone-crushing pain like a tsunami struck. Han Xiao was mentally prepared. Each racial evolution was a major change to his own genes and cells. Players could ignore the pain, but he couldn't. He gritted his teeth, the skin on his face tightened with dense blue veins, writhing wildly like blue snakes, his eyes blood red, all the capillaries in his eyeballs bursting open. The diamond-shaped skin on his brow, modified by the void gene, bloomed with a hazy light, extending cobweb-like gray lines that spread across his face and quickly covered his entire body, changing the cells throughout his body.

Zzzzzz—

The majestic stamina within his body was out of control, and wild electric light, like dozens of thunder whips, lashed out frantically, crackling and popping. The air was filled with the scorching smell of electricity, and the ground turned black.

"Pfft..." Han Xiao suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of old blood, the bright red blood bubbling as if boiling, turning bluish-purple at a visible rate.

This time, the pain lasted longer than ever before. The Void Lurker could almost be considered another life form, a world-shaking change. This was precisely the special evolutionary path brought to him by the Void Gene. Whether it was future potential or racial traits, it was the best of the six options.

The 2-type and 3-type Cosmic Human Races were conventional evolutionary paths, with different tendencies and generally moderate. The advantage was strong universality, meaning that many routes could be taken. Han Xiao chose this route at level 60 in order to discover a strong enough evolutionary system. Now he had found it. The Void class, like the Demon class and the Energy Life class, was an entire species evolution system, rare, powerful, and with great potential.

The other options, the Northern Wind God Race, were a special human race with naturally strong bodies, tenacious vitality, and explosive reproductive capabilities, calling themselves gods. The Half-Dragon Hybrid was also a representative of strong bodies, and these two were suitable for martial arts types. The Intermediate Mechanical Life, on the other hand, completely changed the species, turning into a mechanical life, no longer having stamina, and the compatibility was too low, so he definitely wouldn't choose it.

After a long time, the pain slowly subsided. Han Xiao looked as if he had been fished out of a sea of blood. In the last period of time, what seeped out of his pores was no longer sweat, but human blood. At this time, all the blood in his body had been completely replaced, and his senses were completely different. In addition to the five senses of humans, he had several new senses, able to perceive the flow of free energy and see the void vision, as if opening the door to a new world.

Taking out a mirror, Han Xiao looked at his current appearance. He had grown another ten centimeters taller. Fortunately, the structure of his limbs was still human, without an extra tail or arm, but inside his body, the structure of his bones, muscles, and organs had completely changed, several times more complex than that of humans.

His appearance was not much different from before, still as handsome as ever. The diamond-shaped skin on his brow had become an indigo crystal, a new organ that could be controlled to sense the void vision. His skin was whiter than before, and he exuded a mysterious aura.

"Not bad, still a human appearance. This is a human-form Void Lurker. Whatever species it was originally, after becoming a Lurker, it can still maintain its original appearance in a normal state. Only when it is contaminated with the void gene can most species mutate into Void Lurkers."

Han Xiao was knowledgeable. All three racial traits were talents of the Void Lurker, among which Void Shuttle was the core ability.

"Let's see what it feels like."

The world in front of him suddenly changed, all turning into a hazy state, as if observing the real world through a medium. This was the void vision, entering a mirrored dimension that reflected reality. The flow of time was different. When Han Xiao acted, the real world was basically still, but he could not cause any real impact on reality, only pass through material entities. The two dimensions were like closely adjacent mirrors, unable to interfere with each other, equivalent to a freely moving stealth mode. Void Shuttle had no duration limit, but continuously consumed a lot of stamina during the skill, with a cooldown of five minutes.

Han Xiao walked from one corner of the room to the other, silently counting a few seconds before canceling the skill and returning to reality. He looked at his watch and found that this movement had consumed almost no time.

"So this ability in reality is similar to a flash, teleport, or short-range jump." Han Xiao nodded secretly. According to his senses, this talent was like a weakened version of the time slowdown ability, the difference being that it could not affect real things.

At this time, he looked in the mirror and discovered the changes in his body. When using the racial traits of the Void Lurker, he would leave his usual human form and enter the void form, because this was the only way to contact the void dimension. His entire body turned a crystalline gray, and starlight-like light flowed through his skin, while the original white skin would contract into war pattern-like lines, spreading all over his body along the bone structure. The end of the white lines gathered in the crystal on his brow.

Han Xiao waited for a while, and his body automatically returned to its original state. The white lines spread out again, covering his skin and returning to human form, while the gray skin in the void form, like rivers flowing into the sea, was sucked back by the crystal.

"What a magical life form, I'm not a human anymore!"

Han Xiao kept switching between the two forms, familiarizing himself with them for a while.

The other two racial traits were one to form a mirror image clone, without any combat ability, only to confuse the enemy, and the other was to summon a Void Shadow that existed for thirty minutes, appearing as a black, paste-like shadow, immune to damage, without attack ability, moving extremely fast, which could be used to scout or interfere with the enemy's vision. These two racial traits also consumed a lot of stamina.

Most races only had one or two talents, and three talents were considered many. The Void Lurker's talent abilities were mainly interference, confusion, and evasion, among which Void Shuttle was the most critical, a super-strong evasion skill with extremely strong life-saving effects, and a cooldown of only five minutes.

On the panel, the advancement conditions for the main class had been completed before, prompting him that he had obtained the next stage class.

[You have obtained the new class War Mechanic lv1, Stamina +120, Dexterity +3, Endurance +3, Intelligence +5, you have obtained 6 free attribute points, 1 potential point]

[You have comprehended the skill Applied Mechanical Affinity]

[You have comprehended the skill Scrap Modification]

[You have comprehended the skill Mech Force Overload]

[You have obtained the skill Practical Mech Force Skills (unlocked)]

[You have comprehended the specialization Battlefield Rationality]

War Mechanic, this was the sixth stage class of the Mechanic class, already in a stable mid-stage. This was when the Mechanic class began to exert its strength. The level limit of this class was 20. As the name suggests, at this stage, the Mechanic class finally began to lean towards practical combat abilities. In addition to the new Mechanical Affinity, the other skills were all combat skills.

He invested experience into the main class, leveling up again and again.

[War Mechanic has been raised to lv16, Stamina +120, Dexterity +3, Endurance +3, Intelligence +5, obtained 6 free attribute points, obtained 1 potential point]

Above level 100, each level required more experience. Han Xiao now had almost sixteen billion experience points, spending thirteen billion of them, continuously leveling up more than a dozen levels, four levels away from the level 20 limit of War Mechanic, and the experience was no longer enough.

The experience he harvested from players in Version 1.0 was finally coming to an end!

"There are still nearly three hundred million experience points left, enough to level up once more, but the cost-effectiveness is not as good as using it to upgrade skills. Also, two high-end knowledges must be synthesized into new blueprints, which is more useful to keep... Haha, I'm finally going to use up this large pile of experience."

Han Xiao revealed a satisfied smile. He hadn't felt the lack of experience for a long time. Not only was he not uncomfortable, but he was also very happy, very nostalgic. When playing in his previous life, the most comfortable moment was when all the experience was used up.

—Earning money is not as good as spending it!! Consume! Squander! Spoil!

Now that he had finally completely digested his accumulation in Version 1.0, a strong sense of fulfillment arose in his heart.

During the version update, the players were not around, and there was no way to quickly harvest experience. When the next version opened, it would be time for him to madly harvest experience again.

"After spending all these accumulations, I am now level 116, very good. When the players reappear, it will be an opportunity for my strength to increase again."

Han Xiao narrowed his eyes, looking forward even more to the upcoming Version 2.0 in a year.