Shen Xingyan emerged from his state of anxious anticipation and felt a pleasant sense of satisfaction.
He realized that the day had been extraordinarily exciting, though most of the excitement was caused by his own baseless fears. But the important thing was that everything ended well, and that was wonderful.
After these excitements, Shen Xingyan became interested in the fact that the little skeletons possessed a hidden skill.
He checked the description of his skeleton summoning skill on his stats panel but found no information about a "Berserk skill."
Moreover, when he had checked the stats of Wangcai and the other skeletons before, the skill section had always read "none," and now a hidden skill had suddenly appeared. This both delighted and puzzled him.
Shen Xingyan frowned slightly, trying to recall any information about "hidden skills." However, he couldn't find the slightest bit of information on the subject.
The school curriculum mainly covered practical exercises and basic knowledge, rarely touching upon such advanced topics. The materials he had studied on his own also made no mention of hidden skills, and he had never heard anyone talk about them.
A puzzled Shen Xingyan pondered this for a while but couldn't come to any conclusion and eventually gave up.
After all, only a little over a hundred years had passed since the Primal Energy explosion, and the world had completely changed. Much knowledge either remained unknown to humanity or was only available to a select few.
What was currently being revealed to people was only the tip of the iceberg of this new world.
Although Shen Xingyan stopped pondering this, he still decided to search the Star Source store for information on "hidden skills," hoping that the almost omnipotent store would give him some kind of a hint.
However, the search result was a cold phrase: [You do not have the rights to view the relevant information.]
Although Shen Xingyan had anticipated such a response, he was still disappointed. But it was logical—if the information were available at his current level of access, he surely would have been able to find it in the real world as well.
"I'll have to wait until my level increases to find out what this hidden skill is!" Shen Xingyan sighed in his mind.
Understanding that his little skeletons possessed a mysterious hidden skill, Shen Xingyan looked at Wangcai and the others with increasing astonishment.
He wondered for the first time where he was summoning these little skeletons from. What kind of place was this where even such weak creatures possessed skills like this?
If he hadn't panicked and ordered the skeletons to work at full capacity, specifically through the most reliable skeleton, Wangcai, he probably never would have discovered this hidden skill.
However, Shen Xingyan understood that it was pointless to dwell on this now. The important thing was that the little skeletons' work efficiency had increased, and this was a real advantage.
Using Wangcai as an example, Shen Xingyan checked the other skeletons and found that their stats were identical to Wangcai's—all were in a Berserk state, with a temporary 1-point increase in all attributes.
Still concerned, he carefully studied the final effect of this hidden skill, and only after a thorough analysis was he completely reassured.
The description of the Berserk skill clearly stated that it consumed 1 health point per minute, and when the skeletons had only one health point left, the skill would automatically deactivate.
Losing 1 health point wasn't a big deal for the little skeletons—after all, they didn't have stamina limits and didn't fall into a weakened state due to low health, like professionals did.
Moreover, during these 20 minutes, they received a 1-point increase in all their stats, which effectively doubled their base attributes.
Although the reason for such a significant effect was their initially low stats, for Shen Xingyan, this improvement was impressive.
On a battlefield, skeletons with this skill would still be just slightly enhanced cannon fodder.
But in the cultivation space, this skill was truly divine!
It not only more than doubled the skeletons' work efficiency but also provided powerful support in special situations like the current one. Such a timely skill was priceless for Shen Xingyan.
However, the skill also had a drawback—a very long cooldown time. A full two days of waiting didn't allow the skeletons to use it often to increase efficiency, which was very inconvenient.
Pondering this, an idea suddenly came to Shen Xingyan's mind. He quickly opened the Star Source store and bought a flask of the lowest-level health recovery potion, which slowly restored 100 health points per minute. It was cheap—just 200 copper coins.
Taking out the potion, Shen Xingyan instinctively moved to give it to Wangcai, intending to check if it was possible to simultaneously restore health and maintain the Berserk state. If it worked, the skill truly could be called divine.
But he immediately stopped and decided to test it on another skeleton. He didn't know if this experiment would harm the skeletons. It was better to be safe—his main assistant shouldn't be hurt.
He then walked up to another skeleton and told it to drink the potion. He opened the skeleton's stats panel and began to watch. Seeing the skeleton drink the potion as he commanded, Shen Xingyan rubbed his hands in anticipation and intently monitored the stats panel.
However, the skeleton that drank the potion showed no reaction, and Shen Xingyan saw no pop-up numbers indicating a health increase. The health indicator on the stats panel also did not change.
Even when a minute had passed and the potion's effect was over, Shen Xingyan still didn't see a health recovery notification. Instead, a message from the Star Source appeared:
[The current summoned object cannot use health recovery potions. Recovery has no effect!]
This message completely shattered Shen Xingyan's hopes of exploiting a system vulnerability. He shook his head in disappointment, thinking, "Looks like I was really just daydreaming."
After this idea failed, Shen Xingyan collected his thoughts. Since he couldn't circumvent the limitations, he would have to develop and expand his skeleton army. After all, even without this skill, once the skeletons became numerous enough, they would be able to handle any tasks!