Chapter 1786: Chapter X+2: Diverging Choices

Returning to the village to hand in the task, receiving his parents’ approval, Yang Yu officially set off on his journey.

Sitting in the carriage heading to the nearest town, he couldn’t forget that special slime that suddenly appeared.

“People usually see monsters as weak. Was that special slime a reminder that this world is far more complex than imagined?”

Realizing the game’s difficulty, Yang Yu, who didn’t want to be eliminated early, was unexpectedly steady.

Upon reaching the adventurer’s guild, he didn’t immediately decide on a profession or recruit partners. Instead, he carefully researched while bullying weak goblins to get familiar with the controls.

In just a few days, he reached the twenty-level cap as a poor.

Faced with four options for breakthrough, Yang Yu originally wanted to choose “not being human.”

However.

Upon a series of investigations, ninety percent of the “not being human” option involved accepting subhuman racial essence for mutation.

Yang Yu glanced at his luck, which was only at one, and the pile of junk in his inventory, and decisively gave up “not being human.”

Mutations, the upper and lower limits between the not lucky and the Luck Emperor are too vast.

The not lucky mutation is definitely a negative enhancement.

The path of mutation is not feasible, and the path of “doing tech” is also hard to achieve.

As the saying goes: the poor rely on mutation, the rich rely on technology.

No money to play with technology.

Yang Yu had no wealthy patron; though he managed to trick a gem merchant into buying glass marbles with his glib tongue, using that method too many times could easily get him beaten down.

Creating useful tech and then selling it is the only way to establish a virtuous cycle.

Now he doesn’t even know where the machines are needed, or where to get the blueprints.

It’s heard that the All Things Library might have them, but this thing is a pitfall, requiring a lot of money just for a single consultation.

Rather than looking up blueprints, Yang Yu was more interested in researching skills, determining skill sets, and seeking the best career for clearance.

So, Yang Yu gave up on doing tech.

The remaining options…..

Working in the field or going to work, how weird. After going through such an ordeal, choosing to go back to farming wouldn’t attract the village’s scorn?

By the process of elimination, only training was left.

Just training oneself sounds time-consuming at first glance.

Anyway, he hadn’t been in this world for many days.

If he wasted some time for no reason, Yang Yu might choose not to be human, but now with plenty of time to squander, he naturally wanted to be as stable as a veteran fox.

After making a choice, the system added a new feature.

——[Self-discipline Check-in].

As the name implies, as long as the set training goals are completed daily, free attribute points and skill points can be obtained. A certain amount of skill points can be spent to raise the level cap by one, up to two hundred levels, after which skill points can be exchanged for free attribute points at a certain ratio.

Yang Yu rolled his eyes, wishing to go back and choose again.

It turns out each option corresponds to a growth function. If he could go back and choose again, he would definitely want to see which option corresponds to which function, to choose the best function among them.

But it doesn’t matter.

[Self-discipline Check-in]seems to be a late-stage function, just dragging in the Demon King, slowly piling up attributes and skills, eventually, he could flip the Demon King, quite suitable for first-time clearance.

At first, Yang Yu was disdainful, almost accepting this feature with his nose pinched.

After using it, he could only say, “It’s truly fragrant.”

Learning skills, especially cross-professional skills, requires a large number of skill points.

The skill points given by tasks and leveling up are scanty, altogether not enough to learn many skills, each requiring careful calculation.

[Self-discipline Check-in]after completing the minimum self-discipline requirements, provides challenge tasks. As long as training accumulates points, a large amount of experience and skill points can be obtained.

As long as there is time, you can become stronger at any time and place.

It can be said, aside from a small liver, this feature has no drawbacks.

And…

This drawback can be overcome.

Yang Yu went to the All Things Library, made connections with Princess Latis of the Luo Ze Empire, and successfully passed the martial arts exam of the All Things Library, gaining the qualification to check the library’s interior.

The All Things Library is intricate, but with special devices guiding, finding the charts wasn’t difficult.

In a certain corner, Yang Yu found the record of the [Magic Source Breathing Technique].

[Magic Source Breathing Technique]is not a skill but an ancient martial cultivation method,

It uses a special breathing technique to inhale and exhale the magic in the air, honing the body through magical power.

Ordinary people need years or even decades to master it. Skill points can’t learn even a bit of it.

Yang Yu originally intended to shelve this time-consuming ancient martial cultivation method, only to unexpectedly trigger a task: [New Self-discipline Method].

As long as he obtained the [Magic Source Breathing Technique], with each breath, training points could be accumulated, truly becoming stronger even while eating and sleeping.

Moreover, [Magic Source Breathing Technique] can increase mana regeneration speed, as long as stable breathing is maintained, adding a bit more intelligence, mana can be used endlessly, without worrying about sustainability issues.

When attributes go up in the late stage, mastering all necessary and unnecessary skills, this breathing method is incredibly invincible.

With such a powerful skill, how could Yang Yu not be tempted, immediately setting the next itinerary, and thereby determining his profession as well.

——[Magic Swordsman].

A Magic Swordsman is a profession between a Mage and a Swordsman, belonging to a very rare adventurer profession. It can both use enhancement magic to strengthen sword blade attacks, and use remote magic to interfere with enemies.

Finding familiar young men and women to learn skills, preparing adequately, Yang Yu took Latis’ letter and headed north.

During the search for the [Magic Source Breathing Technique], he visited numerous Ancient Martial Arts Sects, challenging their younger generations, amassing a lot of experience value.

Upon obtaining the [Magic Source Breathing Technique], he had already become a rising star, attracting countless sideways glances.

Even the Broken Wind Style’s ninth place on the so-called Genius List, Qiuye Dorain, bowed under his blade, with her heart secretly promised.

The family head of the Broken Wind Style taught Yang Yu a series of unsecret teachings, hoping to recruit Yang Yu as a son-in-law.

Yang Yu learned the skills and fled immediately, as women would only slow down the speed of drawing his sword.

How could the family head of the Broken Wind Style allow such a prized son-in-law to escape? He pursued relentlessly, but it was Latis, returning home, who suddenly appeared to rescue Yang Yu from the siege.

Latis often held tea parties, enjoying making acquaintances without any ulterior motives, but…

Recently, the situation between the Luo Ze Empire and the Wansheng Country took a sharp turn for the worse.

The rules set by the giant dragon are complicated and impossible to manipulate. Latis saw hope in Yang Yu for stabilizing the situation, and thus, humbly invited Yang Yu to join the war between the two countries.

Yang Yu was worrying about having a good place to gain experience, and he readily agreed.

However, wars are long, so he planned to go to the Holy City Helogig to learn some useful healing skills before heading to the front line.

At that time, he had no idea that the path he was on would usher in a significant turn there.