adventurers in the sewers

It took 2 points of magic power, a lot of mental effort, and a full ten minutes for the fusion of the two skills to finally end.

【Fusion is successful! 】

【未命名（2/5）：发动时消耗1点魔力，获得力量+1，耐力-1的效果，持续3分钟。】

[Upon activation, clears all infected status effects. During the skill's duration, greatly increases resistance to all physical negative status effects.]

Skill Proficiency: Master (1/50)

After reading the description of the new skill, Louis nodded in satisfaction.

He named the new skill "Physical Enhancement".

The new skill only adds 1 point of strength after activation, not because "physical enhancement" has been weakened, but because the upper limit of a level 0 skill is simply there.

The disappearance of the weakness side effect after fifteen minutes is probably due to this as well.

Level 1 professionals are immune to the negative effects of level 0 skills.

Once you've fully fused all five level 0 skills and leveled up, there should be some new changes.

The effect of "Sewer Creature" has been retained in the second paragraph of the skill description and has been optimized.

In exchange for canceling the long-term passive skill, it grants three minutes of extremely strong resistance to negative status effects.

These two effects have their own advantages and disadvantages.

At least in high-intensity, high-pollution environments, the active skill 'physical enhancement' has a greater advantage.

Besides... "Sewer creatures" is an essential skill for gray rot rats. If he misses this skill, he can just kill a couple of gray rot rats and get it back, right?

What's there to feel sorry about?

However, Louis had a vague sense of the upper limit of the hero talent "Skill Fusion". Even if he picked up a new sewer creature, he definitely could not fuse it with the upgraded "Physical Enhancement". It could only be crushed into free proficiency for use.

The reason is simple: the upgraded 'physical enhancement' has perfectly absorbed all the advantages of 'sewer creatures,' and no matter how many times it is absorbed, it will be useless.

Trying to repeatedly merge a bunch of useless skills and exploit bugs is not feasible.

Moreover, even if it were possible to exploit the bug, Louis wouldn't be willing to do so.

After all, each fusion slot for a skill is quite precious. While it might feel great to fuse four useless skills in a row, it would significantly lower the skill's potential.

He wouldn't do something like forcing growth unless he was forced to.

Louis looked at the other skills again, and after a moment's thought, he focused on 'Basic Swordsmanship' and combined it with 'Scent Concealment'.

Ten minutes later.

【Fusion is successful! 】

[Unnamed (2/5): Consumes 1 point of mana upon activation. Increases sword speed and makes the sword path unpredictable. The user's aura is significantly reduced before the sword is drawn. Lasts 10 minutes.]

[Note: Skill effects are enhanced across the board in dark environments.]

Skill Proficiency: Master (30/50)

Basic swordsmanship is a skill that can be learned and developed into muscle memory.

Louis could clearly sense that even though he had integrated the basic sword techniques, his swordsmanship skills had not declined.

The reason why the proficiency level of the new skill has dropped to the master level is because the swordsmanship contained in the new skill is more exquisite.

"Have the sword techniques become faster and more unpredictable, and are they always in stealth mode before unleashing their attacks?"

Louis stroked his chin and named the new skill "Shadow Sword Technique".

Continue to integrate.

With a thought, Louis focused on Shadow Sword Technique, incorporating the 'Magic Light Blade' as well.

[Unnamed (3/5): Consumes 1 point of mana upon activation. Greatly increases sword speed and unpredictable sword path. The user's aura is significantly reduced before the sword is drawn. Lasts 10 minutes.]

[During skill activation, an invisible magical light blade remains on the sword. This magical light blade can be thrown as a ranged attack. Each use of the light blade consumes magical energy to replenish it.]

[Note: Skill effects are enhanced across the board in dark environments.]

Skill Proficiency: Perfect (1/100)

Having already reached perfection with her proficiency in the 'Magic Blade', her proficiency in the new skill also increased.

The effects of the Magic Blade itself have also been enhanced in the new skill, with greatly improved stealth and increased power and strength in dark environments.

Enemies with poor perception might never discover the magical light blade on the sword, let alone use it for long-range throwing, making it an even more sinister attack.

Louis still named the new skill "Shadow Sword Technique".

After the fusion, Louis's level 0 skill slots looked like this.

【0级：肉体强化（精通：1/50）影剑术（完美：1/100）亲和气质（精通：15/50）】

The skill bar has become much cleaner.

It's a pity that "High-Speed ​​Thinking" and "Super-Speed ​​Thinking" have been merged and classified as Level 1 skills, otherwise there would have been another fusion option.

"I wonder when I'll get a 'Life Skills Fusion' talent. It would be even better if I could combine all life skills into a vocational school like Lanxiang Technical School."

Louis couldn't help but let his imagination run wild.

However, he was only thinking about it; the strength of 'skill fusion' was much higher than that of 'life profession fusion'.

If he acquires the latter personal talent, he will be in deep trouble.

The individual talent "Skill Fusion" has proven its strength in testing and exploration.

Next, let's take a look at the effects of the team talent 'Cultivation Acceleration'.

However, it was already very late, so Louis didn't wake his teammates up for testing, planning to study it properly tomorrow morning.

Silent all night.

The next morning, Louis was the last one to get up because he had gone to bed late the night before and the fusion skill had consumed a lot of magic and mental energy.

He was woken up by hunger.

After changing jobs, he seemed to enter a second growth spurt, consuming more than three times the nutrients he did during his semi-professional years.

Rubbing his rumbling stomach, Louis casually washed his face and leaned against the wall as he left the room.

We arrived at a farmhouse courtyard.

The stone dining table in the courtyard was already laden with delicious dishes.

It was truly a delicacy, with a table full of various dishes made with beef. And it seemed that to cater to their tastes, a lot of spices were added when stewing the beef, which effectively masked the gamey smell.

By this time, Dana and Nora were already seated, and Merry was setting the table with bowls and chopsticks.

"Louis, you're finally up! If you hadn't gotten up, we would have had to wake you up."

Dina smiled and waved to Louis.

Louis swallowed hard, quickly sat down, grabbed a fork and spoon, and began to eat voraciously.

To be honest, the meat of the giant horned cow is actually quite tough, but the villagers have been stewing it since last night.

Even the toughest meat will melt in your mouth after stewing it overnight.

If you can't tame it by raising it, can't you at least cook it by stewing it?

Under the astonished gazes of the three people at the table, Louis devoured ten large pieces of black bread in one go, and also finished off more than half of the meat and vegetables on the table.

Daina strongly suspected that Louis didn't finish the meat and vegetables in one go because he was afraid they would go hungry; otherwise, this whole table wouldn't have been enough for him.

What's going on?

I've never seen Louis eat this much before.

At that moment, Nora seemed to realize something, raised her head from under her hood, and stared intently at Louis.

"Louis, you... changed jobs?"