Tokyo underground city

Chapter 26 Four Silver Skills

“I’ve already given you four silver skills, why can’t I give you one gold skill?!”

Yuan Xiaole complained loudly.

But Aizen comforted him: "Don't be fooled by those statements on Wilderness House. The acquisition rate of gold skills is not as high as the forum boasts."

She paused briefly: "The entire Pioneers can be considered excellent, but there are only two people who have obtained gold skills."

"Which two?" Yuan Xiaole asked subconsciously.

Lin Huai'en nodded aside: "I know one of them, Ah Jiu, the Golden Vine Technique. Where is the other one?"

"Captain Moriyan, golden swordsmanship." Aizen said lightly, "She studied abroad in Tokyo during high school and college, and won the kendo rank."

"I see..." Lin Huai'en was stunned for a moment and sighed a little, "I thought she gained command skills, but I didn't expect it was golden swordsmanship."

Aizen replied calmly: "At level 5, Captain Mori did get the silver command skill, but after the dissuasion of other team members, she still chose the golden swordsmanship."

"Why?" Lin Huai'en was a little confused: "For the whole team, the silver command skills should be much better than the golden swordsmanship, right?"

Aizen paused briefly: "In the corporate culture of 'Millions', everything is profit-oriented. None of us can guarantee whether we will leave Captain Mori in the future. So instead of letting her choose, leaving her teammates will be useless. For command skills, it is better to choose golden swordsmanship that can protect yourself."

"...Is that so..." Lin Huaien suddenly understood after hearing Aizen's answer.

The fat knight had a worried expression on his face, while Yuan Xiaole had a gloomy face, but he didn't know what he was thinking of.

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When Lin Huai'en and the others returned to the home team, Sen Yan did not show any disappointment that Lin Huai'en did not obtain the golden skill. She was still very emotional:

"The four silver skills are not as rare as the gold skills, but among the explorers I know, you are the only one."

In order to satisfy the curiosity of others, Lin Huaien gave a rough description of the four skills. There was no change except that [Cursed Body] was described as a silver skill.

Sen Yan just listened briefly and made a quick judgment:

"'Sensitive', 'Blood-drenched'...these two are very good skills."

"In our company's internal instruction manual, skill types are divided into three types: [Physical Type], [Performance Type], and [Functional Type]."

"The skills that are sorted further forward have less clear performance, but the advantage is that the improvement for explorers is all-round; while the skills that are sorted further back, the performance is more single, just like Aizen's 'Ice Conjugation Technique'" ', 'Vine Control' are all [Functional] skills; while my 'Sword Skill' and your 'Sensitive' and 'Bloodbath' are all [Performance] skills."

"[Functionality] and [Performance]?" Lin Huai'en was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect to hear this statement.

Senyan nodded and further explained:

"Yes, take my [Sword Skill] as an example. Although my [Sword Skill] is a golden skill, it cannot emit light waves to hit the enemy like Mu Yaya's [Acid Injection]. From my point of view, the golden [Sword Skill] 】It just makes it easier for me to enter the 'microscopic' realm of swordsmanship when I'm holding a sword-like weapon against the enemy, and I can realize the enemy's intentions from some of the enemy's tiny moves, so I can react quickly."

Yuan Xiaole, who was next to Lin Huaien, muttered in a low voice with some hindsight: "My [Tail Feather Stability] should be like this..."

When Lin Huai'en heard Sen Yan say [Physique Type], his heart had already skipped a beat.

He took the initiative and asked:

"It sounds like the [Functional Type] is much better than the [Performance Type]... but isn't that actually the case?"

"Yes." Senyan nodded and explained:

"No matter how powerful the [Functional Type] is, it has only one use. When it can be used, it will be very powerful, but when it is not used, it will be useless."

Hearing this, Lin Huai'en already understood what Sen Yan meant: "In other words, as a [performance-type] 'swordsmanship', Captain Sen Yan will always activate it as long as he holds the sword, and things like [Strong Strike], [ An ability like [Piercing Attack], when you don’t use the skill, is almost as good as not having it at all, is that what you mean?”

"Yes." Sen Yan nodded, "According to the data we collected, the more [Physique] and [Performance] skills an explorer possesses, the easier it will be to break through the shackles of high-level explorers and move towards those below the 35th floor. Deep forward.”

“Even if we don’t take into account the deep dungeons below the 35th floor, only in the mid-level dungeons from the 20th to 25th floors, the [performance] explorers are still far behind the [functional] explorers.”

"Then, on top of this, there is [Physique Type]..." Yuan Xiaole muttered softly, and then suddenly realized: "Then Brother Lin's 'cursed body'...?!"

"Yes, that should be correct." Sen Yan nodded, "The 'cursed body' Lin obtained should be the [Physique Skill]."

"But what about its side effects?!" This time, it was the Fat Knight's turn to speak out.

Lin Huai'en can feel that Fat Knight is a person who is more afraid of "losing" than "getting".

Therefore, he is more worried about the "negative effects" of unclear conditions than powerful performance.

Sen Yan also hesitated.

"This is the first time I've heard of a skill with side effects."

"But I think if Lin really intends to go to the deep dungeon, from a long-term perspective, it would be better to choose the [Physique] skill. If he just wants to move before the 35th floor, [Sensitive] and [Bloodbath] will be better." Two skills are already pretty good.”

"I see."

After listening to Sen Yan's explanation, Lin Huai'en took a breath, moved his fingers to the [Sensitive], suddenly made a sharp turn, pointed at the [Cursed Body], and clicked hard!

Since he can't go down to the deep dungeon, he thinks he can think about it later. Anyway, he chose [Cursed Body], so he won't be too upset if he doesn't go to the 35th floor in the future. On the contrary, he may try to find ways to travel back because he didn't choose [Cursed Body]. Kill yourself with a knife.

When I click the skill button, nothing happens.

There was neither a flash of golden light that filled his body with strength, nor a strong man in red leather tights suddenly jumped out of the void and chopped off his head.

Everything was ordinary, time was passing, the team was moving forward, and others were watching him, wanting to see the results of his choice of skills.

So...what did you choose?

Lin Huai'en seemed to be able to read curiosity about himself from other people's eyes.

He was not in a hurry to answer, but instead reached into his arms and found the culprit.

This time, the 'third eye' was no longer a series of question marks in his eyes, and even its name had changed.

[Someone’s left pupil (aqua)]

[Catalyst/Summoning Item]

[Performance: Curse resistance +5; can summon a cursed corpse with the same level as the summoner to assist in combat. 】

[The type of cursed corpse that can currently be summoned: wolf form. 】

Lin Huai'en looked at the eyeballs in his hands and suddenly had the urge to look up to the sky and laugh.

Especially when he saw [can summon a cursed skeleton with the same level as the summoner], he knew that he had made the right bet!

"It's actually a summoning item! This is equivalent to me alone and two explorers without skills!"

Lin Huai'en took a deep breath to calm down his excitement.

He held the eyeball in his hand and chanted softly according to the method flowing in his consciousness——

"Curse...Summon!"

The next second, a large black mist suddenly appeared in the open space in front of Lin Huai'en!

And the entire team stopped because of his actions.

Yuan Xiaole and Fat Knight stared at his actions dumbfounded, while Sen Yan also directed the team with a cautious look on her face, slightly distancing herself from Lin Huai'en.

Only Aizen silently raised his staff and was ready to use his skills——

The next two chapters will continue to talk about skills, and then they will enter the suppression space battle.