Starting with the awakened Poison God: I choose the Master Thief.

Wait a minute? I think I've created something incredible!

Starting at level 1, it grants 2 stealth levels? It doesn't have the long cooldown of disappearing, perfectly inherits its abilities, and has a cooldown of only 10 minutes. You can even use it while it's cooling down—it's practically a bug!

This can't even be considered a low-level professional skill, right? Even a high-level professional skill like Reality Intersection can't compare to this. The most important thing is that Illusory Stealth can be upgraded. Upgrade, you know?!

"Judging from your expression, you must have gotten something good, right?" Bors's voice came from behind him, interrupting him.

"Huh? How did you know?"

"Nonsense! The way you're smiling is so lewd, anyone who didn't know better would think you've done something inhuman."

Ah! Is it that obvious?

Well, this trip was indeed quite fruitful.

"Thank you so much, Master," Chu Ci said sincerely.

"Tch, no need for thanks, just don't forget your roots later." Bors put on a disdainful look and lowered his head to drink his tea again.

Chu Ci scratched his face, looking at the exchange area again with some embarrassment.

After all, he was originally planning to find an area-of-effect attack skill that would cause forced health deduction.

After browsing through the skills section for several more minutes, he finally spotted something else good.

【Night Shadow Afterimage】(Low-level Class Skill): When near death, teleport 100 meters away, leaving a clone at the original location. The clone has 20% of the user's attributes. Cooldown: 24 hours

Suitable professions: Assassin, Thief.

A life-saving skill, definitely a passive skill for survival!

"I never expected to find such a rare skill here. Is today my lucky day?"

Although Night Shadow is not among the top five most useful skills, that does not mean its abilities are not outstanding.

The most important reason is that this thing is so rare that it's hard to find even one in 100,000 thieves and assassins. Since most people can't get their hands on it, it can't be categorized as a practical skill.

"Wow, even though I was prepared for this to be expensive, this is still a bit too expensive."

Chu Ci pointed to the screen and began counting them one by one.

One, ten, hundred, thousand... a hundred thousand, a full hundred thousand gold coins!

"No wonder nobody buys them, they're too expensive."

Among low-level professionals, 100,000 gold coins is definitely a huge sum of money; even a fifth-tier expert probably couldn't afford it.

Intermediate professionals above the fifth rank wouldn't go to such great lengths to learn a low-level skill, so this thing has been lingering in the exchange area.

"Hehe, since you guys aren't buying, then I'll gladly accept it. It's just ten Mainland Currency, I'll buy it!"

[Ding, Main Continent Coins successfully exchanged, Skill - Night Shadow Afterimage has been added...]

Forget about income, get back to studying.

[Ding, Night Shadow Afterimage has been learned.]

"Great! This significantly improves our survival ability!"

Although I didn't get the area-of-effect damage skill I wanted, this is still a pretty good result.

"By the way, should I test this thing's life-saving effect? ​​And I don't even know how this 100-meter range is controlled."

As she pondered this, Chu Ci looked up at Bors across from her.

"What? What are you up to now, kid?"

……

Chu Ci explained his purpose, and the two got up from the long table.

"Testing the skill's effect? ​​That's easy. It's just a near-death state, right? Leave it to me, Master." Bors gentlemanly tugged at his black gloves, and a dark blue blade appeared out of thin air in his hand, which he then twirled.

The sharp blade light made Chu Ci tremble uncontrollably.

Gurgle~

"Actually, I don't really want to take the test. I'll be going now if there's nothing else, haha."

But before he could take a few steps, a deadly sense of crisis came from behind him.

Before he could react...

[Night Shadow Afterimage has been triggered.]

The next instant, the dark blue blade light arrived, and "Chu Ci" was instantly split in two, disappearing into light and shadow.

Seeing this, Bors sheathed his blade and briefly assessed the situation.

"Oh? It's there."

The next second, his figure also disappeared.

In a dark alley near the dilapidated clock tower, Chu Ci's figure suddenly appeared.

"It can even dodge attacks from a ninth-tier expert? This skill is truly impressive."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Bors' voice came from behind him.

"If you can dodge the first blow, can you dodge the second?"

Swish!

"Master, ah!"

As soon as Chu Ci turned around, the dark blue blade was already pressed against his eye, only 1 millimeter apart, and Bors's voice came faintly.

"In the eyes of the strong, a hundred meters is still too small. They can easily detect your location with a simple probe. If you don't have any means of concealment, you'll only die a second later."

With that, Bors sheathed his blade.

"Um...you're right, I'll be more careful next time."

Chu Ci understood that the other party was reminding him that even after escaping, he could not be careless and had to immediately find a way to hide himself.

"Okay, that's good. Go and complete your breakthrough mission. Don't keep bothering me while I'm resting lately."

With that, Bors turned around, waved, and walked toward the clock tower.

Behind him, Chu Ci watched his back until he disappeared. This time, the distance between the two seemed to have been shortened a lot.

"Alright, now that we've finished our business, it's time to head to the Holy See to hatch the dragon eggs."

After Chu Ci left, Bors sat at a long table in the dilapidated clock tower. Light shone through the old glass onto the table in front of him, where a large bag of gold coins lay—the very thousand coins Chu Ci had exchanged when he bought the Fusion Scroll.

Suddenly, a smile flashed across his face, and he muttered something under his breath.

"You brat, your master spent 30,000 Main Continent Coins to buy the Fusion Scroll from those high-level Chosen Ones, and you still complain it's too expensive for 1,000 Gold Coins? You're incredibly stingy!"

"However, you do look a bit like me when I was young. Sigh, time really does catch up with you. In the past, I would never have done such a losing business. Kid, you'd better grow up quickly."

The Holy See of Dawn City.

Chu Ci met Krend the moment she arrived at the Papacy.

Since his religious taboo was restricted, this guy has spent his days leading his followers in daily prayers and then reading ancient books; his days are anything but leisurely.

The forbidden area of ​​the Papacy, before the seal of God.

Chu Ci took out the two-meter-tall dragon egg.

Although he already knew about the dragon egg, Krend was still surprised and went forward to stroke it.

The fine scales on the eggshell faintly glowed with an eerie light, and a rich elemental aura emanated from it. Krend even sensed a faint dragon's might.

Without a doubt, this is the egg of a pure-blooded dragon, and cannot be compared to those mixed-blood dragons.

Chu Ci stretched out his hand, and drops of pure dragon blood floated in his palm.

"Bishop Krend, I'm about to begin."