3022, Jiangnan province.
Today was the annual Day of Awakening.
In the central square of Linhai City, hundreds of young men and women were waiting in an orderly line.
In the middle of the square was the altar that had been discovered a hundred years ago.
Linhai City was also built on this altar.
Lin Lei stood amidst the crowd. He stared at the altar in front of him, his mind filled with a myriad of thoughts.
It had been 18 years since he came to this era as a transmigrator.
A hundred years ago, the game fused with reality, and the Catacombs and the ferocious beasts descended.
In the beginning, humans fell into despair. The country sent troops to explore the Catacombs.
In the end, they suffered heavy casualties.
The ferocious beasts in the Catacombs were abnormally ferocious.
Even fully armed soldiers would not be able to defeat them.
Moreover, there were many complicated terrains in the Catacombs that even modern technology could not explore.
Faced with this dangerous situation, the various countries joined forces and formed a joint expedition team.
However, no one passed through the Catacombs.
Just as the world fell into despair.
Altars are gradually being discovered around the world.
As long as he performed the awakening ritual on the altar, he could change his class!
After years of research, people quickly understood its use.
There were many altars distributed throughout the world. Only young men and women who had reached the age of 18 could change professions.
After that, the various countries would organize an adult ceremony every year to send young men and women to the altar to undergo the awakening professional ceremony.
As long as one carried out the awakening ritual, they would obtain two talents, one positive and one negative.
Most people would choose to change their profession based on their talent.
The acquisition of negative talents was especially important.
It would affect the effects of one's profession and might even turn one into a cripple!
Someone had once awakened the negative talent [Cannot Eat], causing them to starve to death!
However, in most cases, negative talent would only determine the strength of the awakened profession.
After awakening a talent, one could choose many professions.
Warriors, Mages, Archers, Assassins, Priests…
However, different professions also had different grades.
Different professions also had their own profession skills level. If one was unspecialized, they would not be able to learn these skills.
In addition, different professions would also have different equipment, but they could only wear the equipment of their own profession.
After Lin Lei transmigrated, he began to gather information on the various catacombs.
The level of the Catacombs and the situation inside were public information.
Typically, students who had just transitioned would only be Class E. Those with better talent would be Class D.
Lin Lei secretly memorized the information regarding the various catacombs. The reason why he had come to this world in the first place.
It was when he was once an explorer on the Blue Planet and went deep into the Catacombs.
An accident happened. He came to this world from the Catacombs.
Only by returning to the Catacombs would there be a possibility of returning to the Blue Planet.
Therefore, no matter what, he had to go into the Catacombs!
To go home!
He looked at the altar again. It would change his fate in this world!
As the ceremony began.
Everyone could not help but tense up.
He was worried.
The students below the stage stretched their necks and looked at the altar where others had awakened their talents.
"Ji Qi, Year 1 Class 1 of Linhai City's No. 1 Middle School. Positive Talent [Extreme Strength], Negative Talent [Depression]."
"Li Hongfei, Year 1 Class 1 of Linhai City's No. 1 High School. Positive talent [Spiritual Energy]. Negative talent [Extremely poor comprehension]."
"Bai Kui Kui, Year 1 Class 1 of Linhai City's No. 1 Middle School. Positive talent [Flame Affinity], negative talent [Dissolve upon contact with water]."
"Zhang Yijian, Year 1 Class 1 of Linhai City's No. 1 Middle School. Positive talent [Strong Physique], negative talent [Low vision]."
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When everyone heard the talent announcement, they could not help but feel that it was a pity.
There were two talents, positive and negative. Sometimes, if the negative was used well, it could produce good effects.
Most people's positive talent was mediocre.
Therefore, the students were more concerned about negative talents. This was an important factor that affected how far through the Catacombs they could go!
However, this time, there did not seem to be any heaven-defying talent.
Only the person involved knew the specific effect of the talent. Others could only guess from the name.
As the team continued to move forward, everyone gradually quietened down.
They had already come this far. No matter what they awakened, they could only accept their fate.
Before it was their turn for the ceremony, everyone prepared to form teams.
Although there were many unknowns about talent awakening, those who usually performed well in school had good talent awakening.
Therefore, many people formed teams in advance.
Among the crowd, a beautiful girl with long hair was the most eye-catching.
There were several people surrounding her.
They all wanted to team up with her.
"Isn't this the genius of the Feng family, Feng Xinxue? That's great. She doesn't have to worry about teaming up in the dungeon."
"She's good-looking and strong. She'll definitely awaken a very strong talent. I'm envious."
Amidst everyone's whispers, Feng Xinxue smiled and rejected the person beside her, walking all the way to Lin Lei.
She extended her hand to Lin Lei. "After the awakening ceremony ends, let's enter the dungeon. Shall we form a team?"
Feng Xinxue chose Lin Lei because he was first in both theoretical knowledge and simulations in school.
No matter what talent he had awakened, with such a strong learning ability, he would definitely not be bad.
Feng Xinxue had long taken a fancy to Lin Lei's abilities. Even if he was a lifestyle class instead of a combat class, he could be a commander in the team.
Lin Lei had a good impression of Feng Xinxue.
As the Young Miss of the Feng family and a genius in school, she did not put on any airs.
Although she was still a little arrogant and valued benefits above all else, the people in big families were all like this.
Lin Lei didn't feel any ill will.
At this moment, upon receiving Feng Xinxue's invitation, Lin Lei happily agreed.
After a short commotion, almost everyone had chosen their teammates to enter the dungeon.
The team advanced very quickly, and it was soon Lin Lei's turn.
Seeing Lin Lei step forward, even those who had awakened good talent didn't leave.
They were all looking forward to seeing what kind of talent Lin Lei would awaken.
After all, this was a ruthless person who was number one in both theory and simulation!
It definitely wouldn't be bad.
Feng Xinxue watched from below the stage without blinking.
Lin Lei and the others stood at the center of the altar.
Under the guidance of the host of the ceremony, everyone closed their eyes.
Warm white light surrounded them.
A mechanical voice rang out in Lin Lei's mind.
[Welcome to the Talent Altar]
[Awakening talent…]
[Talent awakening successful!]
[Congratulations on obtaining a negative talent:
[Unspecialized]
You can't change your class to any class. You can only be an unspecialized.]
Lin Lei opened his eyes, a look of astonishment in them.
Was there a mistake? How did he awaken this?
However, this was the truth.
Lin Lei was unwilling to accept this. The negative talent he had awakened was actually a jobless talent!
Without a choice of profession, one would basically die in the Catacombs!
Seeing Lin Lei's appearance, the mentor by the altar shook his head.
It was a pity. He originally thought that he would awaken a very powerful talent, but he did not expect it to be [Unspecialized].
Lin Lei left the altar in a daze and walked to the side.
He opened the system interface and looked at the dazzling negative talent on it. He was visibly depressed.
He looked down and saw that below the negative talent was the positive talent!
Lin Lei impatiently opened it.