Star Abyss Walker

Chapter 2 Practice makes perfect
Just as I was overjoyed, another notification icon popped up.

[Triggering the quest "Striving for Excellence" (Rank E)! Quest Objective: Upgrade Basic Repair Skill to Level 4. Quest Reward: Character Experience +2000.]

“Wuhu~~”

I couldn't help but laugh. The surprise came too quickly. While unlocking a secondary profession and acquiring its skills, I also triggered a daily quest, albeit a low-level E-rank quest...

Even a mosquito's leg is still meat, and a beggar has no reason to complain about spoiled food!

At this point, when you open the skill panel, you will see that the production skill experience column has 300 experience points.

The skill proficiency system in Star Abyss is different from other games. After you complete a skill operation, what you gain is not proficiency, but skill experience. This skill experience is then used to upgrade your skills.

Although it might seem like a waste of time, experience from the same type of skill can be used to upgrade skills, avoiding the awkward situation where some production skills are difficult to level up.

In addition, there is a feature in Star Abyss where players can gain extra attribute points when their skills reach levels 4, 7, and 10. Therefore, the higher the skill level, the stronger the player's attributes will be, which is beyond doubt.

As for the experience required to upgrade skills, it takes 1000 points to upgrade from level 1 to level 2, and 2000 points to upgrade from level 2 to level 3. In this way (not proportionally), it takes a total of 6000 experience points to upgrade a skill from level 1 to level 4, and 21000 experience points to upgrade from level 1 to level 7. As for upgrading from level 1 to level 10, it takes a terrifying 5.4 experience points!
During the closed beta, in order to ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness, most top-tier players upgraded all skills to level 7. As for level 10, many people gave up because it required too much time.

He quietly disassembled the tape recorder, unplugged the repaired wires to put the tape recorder into a damaged state, then glued the wires back together and tightened the screws.

Congratulations! You have successfully repaired the tape recorder. Skill experience +200!

……

it's over...

I frowned. The experience points had already decreased after just the second time, which meant that the approach of repeatedly repairing the same appliance to accumulate a lot of skill experience was not feasible.

However... if it's just about getting basic repairs to level 4, it shouldn't be a big problem!

So I began the process of disassembling and assembling the machine, repeatedly reassembling the tape recorder, and accumulating skills and experience along the way.

Tick-tock...tick-tock...

On the wall, the hands of the old-fashioned clock had reached about three in the morning. At this time, through my repeated disassembly and reassembly, I finally accumulated a full 6000 skill experience points!
"Whoo~~~"

Dedicate all your skills and experience to basic maintenance!

As the skill icons flashed continuously, a ding-dong sound rang in my ears.

Congratulations! Your skill "Basic Repair" (Rank C) has been successfully upgraded to Level 4, significantly increasing your repair capabilities and granting you an additional 1 point of Agility!

Meanwhile, the mission has been completed.

Congratulations! You have completed the "Striving for Excellence" (Level E) challenge, earning a reward of 2000 character experience points!

I was overjoyed.

In Star Abyss, character experience and skill experience are separate, and the experience gained is not immediately reflected; players need to click the "level up" button to level up.

2000 character experience points is just enough to level up to level 2.

Confirmed, upgrade in progress!
After pressing the upgrade button, a ray of golden light descended from the sky and bathed my body, giving me a feeling of comfort all over.

At this point, you have gained 3 freely distributable attribute points and 1 skill point.

As usual, all 3 attribute points are allocated to Strength. My class focuses on Strength in the later stages, and a pure Strength build will maximize the character's attributes. As for Agility, Stamina, and Spirit, these can be improved with equipment later on.

However, a level 4 repair is not enough to fully meet the requirements.

The next moment, I slowly turned around and turned my gaze to the broken clock on the wall, whose accuracy I didn't even know.

Fix it!
……

Before we knew it, it was already the next morning.

Irelia has not yet returned, while I am immersed in the passion of "crazy repairs". I have not only disassembled and reassembled the clock and radio countless times, but also ravaged the old mechanical watch in the drawer and the rusty alarm clock that has been damaged for many years countless times overnight.

At this point, I had finally accumulated over 17000 skill experience points!
That's enough to upgrade Basic Repair to level 7!

After inputting all the skill experience, a series of exciting ringtones rang in my ears.

Congratulations! Your skill "Basic Repair" (Rank C) has been successfully upgraded to Level 7, significantly increasing your repair capabilities and granting you an additional 2 point of Agility!

[Congratulations! As the first player on the entire server to raise a certain skill to level 7, you have received an additional reward: 〖Practice Makes Perfect〗 (S-rank)!]

A flash of golden light swept across the skill panel before my eyes.

"what?!"

I can hardly believe it, I was actually rewarded with an S-level skill?! No way, all S-level skills were considered god-tier skills in the beta version, and even my "pro player" account, ranked 99th in the entire server, only had two S-level skills!

The next moment, he turned his gaze to the skill he had just acquired.

【Practice Makes Perfect】(S-Rank): Passive skill. Experience gained from production and combat skills can be shared. This skill cannot be upgraded.

……

"Holy crap!" My eyes widened, my heart pounding even harder than when I first held a girl's hand in high school!
The skill of "practice makes perfect" may seem simple, but it is actually not simple at all.

There is a vast chasm between combat and production skills. They operate independently and do not interfere with each other. After all, experience for production skills is easier to gain, while experience for combat skills is acquired through repeated life-or-death battles and use, which is not only extremely costly but also extremely dangerous.

Therefore, after acquiring the passive skill "Practice Makes Perfect", I can sit in the safe zone and gain production skill experience by disassembling and assembling electrical appliances and machinery. I can then use this experience to improve all my combat skills, giving me an edge over other players in terms of attributes and skill damage!
Moreover, this S-level passive skill comes from the reward for being the top player in the entire server, and it is highly likely to be unique.

So cool!

Just as I was feeling incredibly happy, the door opened, and Popeye the Sailor Moon girl, Irelia, walked in, giving me a strange look.

"You look like you're recovering well, but why are your dark circles so bad?"

Seeing that I didn't speak, she frowned, picked up the hand axe hanging on the wall, and said, "Come on, I'll teach you some skills so you don't accidentally become food for some strange beast."

"okay……"

I did not refuse.

Following Irelia out of the room, the blinding sunlight poured down, making it almost impossible to open one's eyes.

It was only at this moment that I had the opportunity to see what the town looked like.

The dilapidated houses stretched out in a row, surrounded by a wall that encircled the entire town. The wall was covered with barbed wire, and even wild animal pelts were stuck to it.

There were slogans painted with lime on the wall; although they were faded, they were still faintly visible.

The wall on the left reads, "Fewer births, better births, a lifetime of happiness."

On the right side, it reads, "Break down feudal superstitions and advocate science and civilization."

Hmm, it has a very vintage feel!
"Given that you may become the next sheriff of the town in the future, I'll introduce you to the people in the town first."

Irelia waved her strong arms and pointed into the distance, introducing them one by one: "This is Aunt Liu Yumei, she used to be a primary school teacher, this is Grandma Alice, and this is Grandpa George, and that's his granddaughter Jenny..."

I nodded in agreement.

The people in the town were a bit like NPCs, nodding blankly at me without saying a word.

Irelia walked to a tree where she had drawn a circle of aiming points about a person's height. She weighed the hand axe in her hand, then suddenly shouted and threw it!
"Pong!"

The hand axe flew in an arc, hitting the bullseye precisely!
“Not only are there strange beasts and alien species in the wilderness, but also some ruthless desperados and that group of scum from the Dark Tide organization. If you want to survive, you must have the means to kill. Do you understand what I mean?” she coaxed patiently.

My attention was drawn to the double-barreled shotgun in her beat-up jeep; actually, I was more interested in learning marksmanship.

Basic Repair is a skill that comes with your secondary profession and does not consume skill points, while Practice Makes Perfect is a skill rewarded by the system and also does not consume skill points. Therefore, the skill points I gained at level 2 are quite precious, and I must carefully choose what to use them for.

"you try?"

Irelia handed over the hand axe.

I picked up the hand axe. On my first throw, the handle touched the target, resulting in an ineffective attack. On my second throw, the accuracy was much worse. But on my third throw, I heard a voice in my ear.

Should I learn the skill "Throwing Techniques" (Level C)?

I was slightly stunned.

Throwing skills are a basic skill. Coincidentally, my account also learned them during the closed beta. They were quite useful in the early game when there were no firearms, and they were still decent in the later game. They were also quite useful for throwing knives or energy blades.

More importantly, the extra attribute points gained after upgrading throwing skills are Strength, which can be used to stack one's own attack power!
In the early stages when you have nothing, you shouldn't be too ambitious. Building up your combat strength is the key!
Confirmed, learning!
The next moment, the throwing skill icon appeared in the skill bar, but unfortunately there was no more skill experience to upgrade it.

After teaching for a while, Irelia held her forehead, seemingly having given up on me, her apprentice.

"Just practice slowly."

She patted my shoulder and said earnestly, "I need to go to the Gray Stone Fortress settlement, which is more than 300 kilometers away, to exchange for some food. I won't be back until around this time tomorrow. The town is full of the elderly, women, and children. You need to protect them."

"rest assured."

I nodded: "I will do my best!"

"Ok!"

Irelia drove the jeep away from the town.

……

I wasn't tired at all, and I didn't even want to sleep. I just wanted to stack up my attributes as soon as possible, so I strode towards a group of original residents in the town.

"Oh, dear Ms. Liu Yumei, it seems there's something wrong with your old-fashioned color TV."

"Oh, my dear Grandma Alice, do you need me to clean some dust off your bread machine?"

"Dear Grandpa George, your wheelchair seems to need some repairs."

In just half an hour, I became the most popular handsome guy in town, frantically accumulating countless skill experience points in the newbie village, and was all the rage for a time.

(End of this chapter)