Talent Swallowing Hero



'T-this is…really a fragment of the system.'

Looking at the familiar fragment of a ring, Leo was pleasantly surprised and soon became excited.

In his previous reincarnation, Leo had collected three such fragments. So, of course, he could recognize it with a glance.

Nevertheless, he still checked the information on it using his [Quasi-Divine Knowledge].

….

Item Name: System Fragment (1/5).

Information: Collect the remaining four fragments to unlock a minor system.

….

'Huh? Total five fragments? Is it because I used the [Direct God Ascending Ticket]?'

In Eldoria, Leo only needed three fragments to get a minor system; however, now, he had to collect a total of five fragments.

The only reason that Leo could think of for the increase in the difficulty was due to the usage of [Direct God Ascending Ticket].

'Who cares about it? Until a few moments ago, I was worried whether I could awaken a system in this world. Finally, I got an answer along with one of the five fragments.'

With that thought in mind, Leo carefully stored it in his robes before checking out the two bags he received from Gallant.

'I have to find a way to unlock my super special talent [Fundamental Merge].'

However, Leo didn't start anything; instead, he looked at Gallant for a moment.

"Sect Master, I will go back and start cultivating. If you need me, you can use the communication talisman."

Understanding the meaning behind his gaze, Gallant hurriedly bowed and quietly left the cultivation chambers.

'Let's start by trial and error and find a way to unlock [Fundamental Merge].'

Stretching his body a little, Leo opened a pill bottle and tossed 10 Qi Refinement pills into his hand.

'I don't know whether it will work or not; however, there is no harm in trying it.'

With that thought, Leo pressed those 10 Qi Refinement pills into a single larger pill and tried his best to make it into a perfectly round shape.

It took ten minutes; however, Leo didn't receive any announcement from [Heaven's Voice].

Thus, he knew that his first experiment failed and he successfully wasted 10 Qi refinement pills.

'The first experiment failed; however, I got an excellent idea for my second experiment and I am confident that it will work.'

Suddenly, Leo realized something and hurriedly started working on it.

'Since normal merging is useless, how about I merge them with the pill fire in the alchemy cauldron?'

This was what Leo had thought of and stood up from his place before moving to the next room.

In that room, there was a small alchemy cauldron with a simple design on it.

As soon as he entered the room, Leo threw a few fire crystals under the furnace that had its lid on it.

'It's time.'

Even though it was Leo's first time using an alchemy furnace, he was good at it thanks to the decades of experience from the old man.

Once Leo felt that the alchemy cauldron was heated enough, he opened the lid and tossed 10 Qi refinement pills into it.

At the same time, Leo placed his hands on the heated furnace; however, nothing happened to his hands because his hands were covered with pure moon energy from his dantian.

'Spiritual Manipulation'

Next, Leo closed his eyes and started feeling the insides of the heated alchemy furnace.

In it, he sensed that the moment he tossed the Qi Refinement pills into the alchemy furnace, they melted and turned into paste.

'Let's increase the fire.'

Soon, he added another two fire crystals below the furnace before placing his hands back onto the furnace to feel the insides again.

'Bubble'

With the addition of the fire crystals, the temperature inside the alchemy furnace reached the next level and soon, the paste of the 10 Qi Refinement Pills started releasing bubbles from overheating.

'It's time for condensation and solidification.'

Once he felt it was the right time, Leo removed the fire crystals from under the furnace and started injecting his moon energy into the heated furnace to cool it down.

At the same time, he controlled that moon energy to condense the paste into a single ball.

Time continued to pass and under the influence of the pure moon energy, it didn't take much time for the alchemy furnace to completely cool down and the condense ball inside the furnace had completely solidified.

[The Ascender has met the requirements to unlock his second talent [Fundamental Merge]]

[Congratuations to the Ascender for successfully unlocking [Fundamental Merge]]

Before Leo could open the lid to check out the final output of his alchemy experiment, Leo received the announcements from [Heaven's Voice] that made him heave a big sigh of relief.

'Finally….finally, I did it.'

Leo felt like he was tired and lay on the floor with a satisfied look on his face.

[Quasi Divine Knowledge]

While lying down on the floor, Leo used his talent to check the information on his newly unlocked talent.

Even though Leo had the experience of using this talent, he knew there would be some minor or even complete changes with their basic usage remaining the same.

Also, he could just learn about his talent, it would take at least a couple of days to completely learn about it; however, Leo didn't have the luxury to waste time when he could live for only one year without his breakthrough.

Therefore, Leo used [Quasi Divine Knowledge] to know about it.

….

Talent Name: Fundamental Merge (Level 1).

Effect: The user can merge 10 similar low-level items into a higher-level item and it can be used three items a day.

Note: He can't use the three uses on one particular type of item and can only use it once.

Number of uses left for the day: 0 / 3.

Note: There is a 50 percent chance of failure while merging them. So, try to use low-level items to increase your success rate.

…..

Soon, detailed information appeared in his head about his talent, making Leo nod his head.

'Only three times per day and it is limited to one merge per one type of item.'

Leo was not disappointed much about it because, in his current situation, he was happy with whatever he got.

With the current [Fundamental Merge], he could at least have the chance to change his current situation even by a little bit.

'Let's start merging.'

Since there were only three uses per day, Leo wanted to use them first and then, think about what he had to do next.

Moreover, he had already decided which things to merge today as he quickly returned to his cultivation chamber.

'Let's start with the Low-level Spirit Stones.'

Currently, he had 1000 low-level spirit stones and he took 10 of them and sat cross-legged.

[Fundament….]

'Wait a second.'

Just as Leo was about to use the [Fundamental Merge], Leo thought of something, 'I hope it works.'

'What is the success rate of the merge?'

[Quasi Divine Knowledge]

Leo asked the question in his head as he used his talent to see whether he would get an answer to it.

….

Success rate: 100 percent.

….

'It worked. The Quasi Divine Knowledge is showing me the success rate.'

Compared to the 100 percent success rate, Leo was excited because he could see the success rate of the things that he was going to merge.

'With this, I can take risks with high-level items in the future.'

Currently, Leo doesn't have any high-level items to merge with.

Therefore, he could only merge the low-level items like low-level spirit stones.

[Fundament Merge]

With the full confirmation from the Quasi Divine Knowledge, Leo no longer hesitated as he activated the talent with 10 low-level spirit stones in his hands.

'Swoosh'

Soon, a mysterious energy came out of Leo's body and covered the ten low-level spirit stones before starting melting and mixing before turning into a crystal that was double the size of a low-level Spirit Stone.

[Congratulations to the ascender for successfully merging ten low-level items into a higher-level item]

[The ascender can select one of the two rewards:

1) Additional two uses for the talent [Fundamental Merge]

2) Unlock the third talent [Quasi Divine Presence]]

Before Leo could check out the newly merged Spirit Stones, he received a couple of announcements from [Heaven's Voice].

In which, Leo was given a choice to accept one of the two rewards.

'Both of them are useful.'

Even though Leo was pleasantly surprised with the sudden rewards from [Heaven's Voice], Leo guessed it might be related to the difficulty of this world.

However, now, he fell into a dilemma to select which one of the rewards he should choose from.

'With two additional uses for the [Fundamental Merge], I can obtain the high-level cultivation resources at a faster pace.'

Soon, Leo started thinking, 'Whereas with other rewards, I can not only survive the cultivation pressure from the other cultivators but I can emit a Godly presence for two seconds.'

'Since this is a cultivation world, having a [Quasi Divine Presence] could be useful to increase my chances of survival by bluffing; however, the thing is I can unlock it eventually.'

That's right!

As long as he met the requirements, the talent could be unlocked just like how he unlocked the [Quasi Divine Knowledge] and [Fundamental Merge].

'Moreover, [Quasi Divine Presence] is only a bluff-type talent without any attack power.'

Leo muttered, 'If the other party was just a mad cultivator and was adamant on killing me, that talent is useless.'

With all these disadvantages, Leo took a deep breath and selected the first option from the two rewards offered by [Heaven's Voice].