Chapter 113: Chapter 113: Determine Ability, Change Jobs!
He only needed about a thousand blue ability balls to have a five percent chance of refining a golden ability ball!
This probability, actually, was not much of a problem.
After all, refining ability balls required at least ten white ability balls and only had a twenty-five percent chance of appearing blue.
That’s to say, under normal circumstances, refining white ability balls into blue ones and then using blue ability balls to gamble on golden ones, didn’t make much difference.
However, Shen Hao possessed a “Ability Ball Furnace” cheat, which could lock in probabilities greater than five percent!
This meant he could exchange forty thousand white ability balls for four thousand blue ones, and then further exchange them for four golden ability balls!
The efficiency of obtaining golden ability balls directly quadrupled!
Yet this wasn’t even maximizing use, twenty-five percent could be locked in just like five percent!
Essentially, each use of the cheat, in terms of probability, was equivalent to doubling the quantity of the ability balls.
White to blue might increase fourfold, but white to purple, or even white to blue then to purple…
It was more than just a fourfold increase; it was multiplication!
At most, it would just use up more points.
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But it was still a huge gain!
“Just locking in five percent is already powerful enough,” Shen Hao couldn’t help but sigh.
Ability balls were not only useful to him but to all the Chosen Ones of the entire civilization!
Moreover, the same type of higher-level ability balls could directly replace the original low-level ability balls, and for Shen Hao, having five golden ability balls was already predetermined!
Plus, “Power Projection” itself belonged to the transmission category of abilities.
“Let’s begin.” Shen Hao didn’t waste any time and started to gamble immediately.
With the cheat, white ability balls almost became unnecessary, but considering upgrading to higher quality ability balls required more input, it wasn’t possible to have all purple, but all blue became a reality!
Shen Hao began his gamble with a hundred percent win rate and contacted Dong Gong.
“Start collecting ability balls from all Chosen Ones and adjust the exchange rate of ability balls to contribution points; you decide the specifics, but I demand that delivering twelve white ability balls should earn enough contribution points to choose to exchange for one blue ability ball.”
“President? If that’s the case…”
Dong Gong thought Shen Hao planned to use his own massive number of ability balls to compensate for the huge loss in this exchange rate, but Shen Hao cut him off.
“Do it.”
“Yes!” Dong Gong responded emphatically!
This exchange rate naturally thrilled all the Chosen Ones!
The gap between twelve white ability balls and one blue ability ball was more than just a little bit!
Frankly speaking, any Chosen One who had fought in wars against Blood Demons and killed a few hundred had at least a dozen white ability balls!
Gu Qiuyue relied on killing a Blood Demon first to earn a blue ability ball reward, and it was this blue ability that made her stand out early on.
And now, a future where all Chosen Ones had blue abilities was within reach!
Crucially, Shen Hao didn’t suffer a loss, only spending some points, but wasn’t that just collecting two more white ability balls?
Even the points weren’t a loss, as in future trials, these Chosen Ones would bring him even more points feedback!
Indeed, once the news was released, all Chosen Ones were incredibly excited, and some experts even worried about Shen Hao’s points reserves, but no one could refuse the opportunity to enhance the strength of civilization!
During this period, after Shen Hao gambled and obtained over fifty golden legendary ability balls, he finally chose four that he liked.
“Purple Cloud Divine Thunder,” “Divine Descent,” “Heavenly Eye,” “Song of Miracle”
Among these four golden legendary abilities, “Purple Cloud Divine Thunder” was to replace his current “Thunder,” “Divine Descent” was to replace “Power Projection,” and “Heavenly Eye” and “Song of Miracle” represented perception and enhancement respectively.
Especially the latter two.
The perception and enhancement category of golden talents Shen Hao gambled for were actually far more than just these two, but he was selective, as golden legendary abilities wouldn’t go to waste even if used for feeding his abilities to raise levels— the efficiency was many times higher than directly feeding white ability balls.
So the two he chose were very powerful.
“Heavenly Eye” could open up a godlike perspective for wide-range observation, making it so various hidden presences could hardly escape detection.
After installing it, Shen Hao immediately used the Blood Demons for testing, and although the range of detection was far less than a map cheat due to being lower level, its strength was much more powerful than the singular map cheat!
He could easily discern the hidden strength of Blood Demons, and even unearth their Mother!
If he had such an ability during the previous Blood Demon War, he undoubtedly could have ended the war more easily—all he would need was to search for Matrices around the world.
Even now, treating it as a minor test, he easily captured some remnants of Matrices that were despairing and bewildered.
The number of Blood Demon remnants once again greatly diminished.
As for “Song of Miracle,” this Enhancement-type ability was also something Shen Hao picked carefully and was very fond of.
Just as the name suggests, it could bring about miracles.
Whether it allowed the user to continuously explode with power in desperate situations or to inspire the soldiers on the battlefield time and again, this kind of Enhancement ability could possibly create miracles that originally seemed impossible!
Even not just for combat enhancement; even if used in training, cultivation, research, or various other aspects, it could achieve multi-functional, comprehensive enhancements!
Even if the strength of the enhancement was somewhat reduced due to this comprehensiveness, and it could not compare to some Golden Legendary abilities specifically designed to enhance combat power, what Shen Hao wanted was exactly this kind of comprehensiveness!
After all, his own power was already strong enough. After this round of rewards and cheats through enhancement, he would become even stronger.
What he lacked was the kind of power that could strengthen others from multiple angles, which would be more advantageous in facing the still completely unknown trials!
Even the ability bar that Shen Hao still had empty was also prepared for this reason.
He needed to leave himself some leeway so that when facing the specifics of the trials, he could choose the suitable ability that might produce remarkable effects!
Once he met the requirements for the profession change, Shen Hao did not hesitate to change his profession.
At that moment, there was no dazzling scene, not even any dramatic changes; Shen Hao only had a peculiar feeling as if some mystical and special power linked him with all humans in the entire civilization.
Not just humans but also the newly recruited Erin Ellie, as well as some Blood Demons!
Yes, Blood Demons!
Shen Hao was somewhat surprised to find that some Blood Demons had completely abandoned the revival of their own civilization, carefully disguising themselves in an attempt to survive by assimilating into human civilization.
However—
“That’s impossible,” without hesitation, Shen Hao extended his power, and in just an instant, several bolts of thunder appeared simultaneously across different parts of the world.
Leveraging this connection to bridge vast distances, though he experienced some power loss, he still killed that segment of Blood Demons.
It’s not just that they do not have the qualifications to assimilate into this civilization, even if they had, the sins of the past also needed to be settled.
Still, Shen Hao also developed a deep understanding of this profession.
Just as described during the professional draw, rather than saying it was a predetermined profession, it was more like it simply pointed him in a direction. Even this power, linking him and the entire civilization together, while mystical and extraordinarily strong—even letting him somewhat perceive the entire civilization’s condition—was not completely incomprehensible.
This was just a beginning; the path ahead, he needed to forge on his own.
But even so, a profession change was a profession change.
He had found a path and a direction.
At this moment, Shen Hao could clearly feel a change in his own life level, a true, all-around leap, rather than just that kind of “status” deeply hidden within the soul that only showed itself under specific circumstances.
His level had reached Level 11!
His three-dimensional values also generally surged by about eight points!
Considering that each point increased his strength by 1.2 times, it was as if his three-dimensional figures had all quadrupled!
This was not just a simple four-fold increase in power! You see, at Levels 8 to 9, you typically only need to increase each value by two or three points on average to level up!
The current Shen Hao, not to mention abilities, just his basic strength alone far surpassed what it used to be!
More importantly, during this process, he could feel that his connection with civilization had also become closer.
He could vaguely sense some indescribable blessing.
This blessing came from the remaining seven billion humans themselves, but also from their confidence, aspirations, adoration towards him… all sorts of emotions were enhancing his power and also the speed of his strength improvement.
“Looking at it this way, it does seem somewhat similar to the Blood Demon Mother.” Shen Hao thought, and couldn’t help but laugh to himself.
That was, of course, a joke.
It may have seemed a bit similar at a low level, but in essence, it was far too different.
The strength of a Blood Demon Mother actually relied on the Spiritual Power provided by Blood Demon Subordinates through the Spiritual Network to enhance its Spirit and thus its level and strength; essentially, the Blood Demon Subordinates were working for the Blood Demon Mother.
What Shen Hao experienced was an incredibly mystical mutual nurturing which was not on the same level!
He even felt he could gain blessings from the continually growing science, technology, and industrial levels!