Homeroom office, in front of the desk
"Teacher, can I not go to the Support System? I think the Warrior or Assassin paths are pretty good, they really suit me, and I'm sure I can achieve great things in the future."
Old Li glanced at him and tossed the documents in his hand onto the desk, saying, "Heh, want to switch to the Warrior or Assassin System? Sure, but your benefits will be downgraded and you'll be considered talentless, since your talent is unrelated to the Warrior or Mage, and only holds value when trained as part of the Support System."
"How much will the benefits be reduced?"
Ye Mingqiu asked.
"Not much, just the cancellation of special allowances, free use of training equipment, after-school tutoring subsidies, and direct admission to prestigious schools upon graduation." Old Li replied with a cold smile.
Then, he patted Ye Mingqiu on the shoulder and comforted him, "Although the early stages of the Support System are difficult, once you get through it, you will have an incredibly bright future. After all... in the group of Spiritualists, Supports are quite rare, and strong supports can easily find teammates who are much stronger than themselves."
"Uh... fine then."
Ye Mingqiu sighed as he walked out of the office, helplessly accepting reality.
Outside the office, a tall, skinny student wearing glasses stood not far away, looking at him with a grin, saying, "Failed to switch systems, right?"
"Yeah."
"I knew it, there aren't many promising students with attribute-increasing talents in the entire school, how could Old Li possibly let you go? You have to know, a strong Support can be directly admitted to a major university, and you're still thinking about running away?" Chen Ran said with a grin.
"Heh, you don't mention a word about the hardships of being in Support," Ye Mingqiu said with a dark expression.
The benefits in the Support System are good, because Spiritual Specialists themselves are very rare and hard to train, only those with excellent spiritual talents during their first trial in the Spirit Realm have a certain probability of receiving a Support System transition task.
Of course, if that were all, the number of people in the Support System wouldn't be too small, but the problem is whether they can successfully complete the transition task.
Everyone knows that the Support System requires spiritual talents, and when first entering the Spirit Realm, ordinary people have no skills, the effect of mental attributes is close to zero, while the basic condition for entering the Spirit Realm is a basic attribute of just over 20.
So here comes the problem, with total attributes of 20, the more mental attributes you have, the fewer other attributes you get, making your capability weaker. The first transition task can only be done alone, it's an indiscriminate Spirit Realm trial, can the Support System complete it?
This results in the difficulty of completing tasks in the Support System being much higher than other Combat Systems, the margin for error is very low, and the requirements for personal ability are particularly high.
In this situation, schools or even the nation will provide additional compensation to Support System students to encourage the cultivation of more supports being born, but even so, the number in the Support System is still extremely small.
After chatting nonsense with Chen Ran for a while, Ye Mingqiu left alone in melancholy.
"Open the panel."
Ye Mingqiu muttered internally.
Talent awakening, it's a large-scale event conducted uniformly at the beginning of the third year of high school. Those who successfully obtain talents gain the favor of the Spirit Realm's consciousness, and thus can access a temporary panel to view their talents and panel data until officially entering the Spirit Realm trial.
If the trial is successful, they officially become a Spiritualist; if they fail, the temporary permissions disappear, and barring surprises, they may never be associated with being a Spiritualist again in this lifetime.
Temporary Panel
Life: 26
Spiritual Power: 27.5
Basic Attributes: [Power: 2.3, Agility: 1.9, Constitution: 2.6, Spirit: 5.5, Total: 12.3]
Talent +
Spiritual Power - Fullness
Level: C
Effect: When the Spiritual Power Value reaches 100%, Power and Agility Attributes increase by 30%, when Spiritual Power drops below 100%, this effect will fade within a minute, once Spiritual Power is back to 100%, it gradually increases back to the maximum value within two minutes.
Yes, you're not mistaken, this is a talent that increases Power and Agility.
The so-called talent suitable for Support means having a talent that boosts other basic attributes or directly increases combat strength when the mental attribute is high; otherwise, the Support System struggles to even pass the most basic trials in the Spirit Realm.
"It's a pity my family is poor."
Ye Mingqiu said bitterly.
The path for a Spiritual Specialist is not only Support. There's also the Mage, though they are generally fondly referred to as Mages.
Because before entering the Spirit Realm, Mages typically spend a few million buying Skill Scrolls, learning Attack Skills in advance, then under professional teachers' guidance, train specialty levels ahead of time, and easily get the desired Magic System profession, and the Mage System rankings are often humorously called the "Forbes Rankings."
In short, they say: Don't have money but want to be a big shot? You must be dreaming!
It was for this reason that Ye Mingqiu, even when considering switching professions, didn't dare opt for the more spirit-talent-suited Mage System, as it's a domain commoners simply can't enter.
Why are Mages called big shots?
Because they not only need talent but also money and the ability to work hard, in basic magic theory, an immense amount of knowledge must be crammed. A mage not cultivated from a young age, who takes it up midway, is at best a magician—not a true mage, as the practical effect of understanding or misunderstanding magic theory can be vastly different, this profession is not something ordinary folks can dabble in casually.
"Huh? Am I seeing things, why is there a plus sign after this talent panel?"
Ye Mingqiu squinted his eyes, he was a hundred percent certain that when examining the panel before, the talent didn't have this plus sign, or he would have noticed earlier.
When did it appear?
Why did such a thing appear?
Since I'm already here, why not try clicking it?
With curiosity, Ye Mingqiu reached out and gently clicked on the plus sign on the talent panel.
[Second Talent Awakening...]
Huh?
The next moment, Ye Mingqiu felt a familiar wave rise within him, the same wave he felt when his talent was first awakened...
Holy crap!
Talent Awakening!
Accompanied by this, was the pain and weakness of talent awakening, this sensation was like breaking through a cocoon to become a butterfly, struggling to shatter the shackles and liberate the bound power.
Soon after, Ye Mingqiu collapsed directly onto a roadside bench, utterly drained of energy, feeling as though he could pass out at any moment.
Yet he was still incredibly excited, because he had actually awakened a second talent! And it was a more powerful B-level talent!
Talent: Spiritual Power - Limit Breaking
Level: B
Effect: Maximum Spiritual Power increases to 200%, Spiritual Power Recovery Speed increases by 50%, when the Total Spiritual Energy exceeds 100%, the efficiency of accumulating Spiritual Energy is halved.
"This talent seems to interact with my first talent, leading to even stronger effects... But the problem is, I have no skills! So painful!" Ye Mingqiu murmured in pain internally.
Forget it.
Better to settle down first!