From Ant to Abyssal Demon - Chapter 35

Chapter 35: First Player Skill!

Investing 5 soul points resulted in the passive skill 【Devourer of Demon Insects】.

After checking the new skill description, Su Bai summoned the Demon Insect Lance again and pierced it into the Frost Wolf’s corpse.

In the next moment!

The Frost Wolf’s corpse shriveled and blackened at an extremely fast speed, as if it had been thrown into a pool of acid, eventually leaving only a pile of gray powder on the ground.

After several upgrades, apart from a negligible loss, the devouring ability of the Demon Insect Lance far surpassed what he had in his first form!

Finally, it was time for skill extraction after this evolution.

Unlike before, this time the system offered two choices for skill extraction.

He could choose to extract skills in ant form to further enhance his combat power in that form, or he could extract skills in Heavy Armored Knight form to enhance his combat power in that form.

With the emergence of the second form, Su Bai would have to invest more effort in skill selection in the future.

Currently, the skills he had were usable in both forms, but as his strength increased, there would be powerful skills usable only in a specific form.

For this skill extraction, Su Bai chose a skill for the Heavy Armored Knight form.

【Armor Piercing】: Passive skill. Your attacks have a certain chance to penetrate the enemy’s defenses, dealing armor-piercing damage that ignores their defenses.

【Charge】: Active skill. Consumes half of your stamina to cross a distance at twice your agility attribute speed, quickly appearing in front of the enemy. The current maximum charge distance is 20 meters.

【Thrust】: Active skill. Consumes half of your stamina to release a sharp spear light, causing physical damage equal to twice your strength attribute to enemies in front.

【Inspection】: Active skill. Consumes 50 mana points to release a light that can identify the enemy’s identity, level, and health points.

One passive skill and three active skills.

Whether it was 【Armor Piercing】, 【Charge】, or 【Thrust】, all could further enhance Su Bai’s strength.

However, after reviewing all four skills, Su Bai chose the fourth skill, Inspection, without hesitation!

For players in the game, Inspection was a passive skill they had from the beginning. The identities, levels, and health points of monsters were just basic information for them.

Any player facing these four skills probably wouldn’t choose Inspection.

But Su Bai was different.

Growing from a fledgling ant to now, he had almost groped his way forward blindly. Unable to check the identity, level, and health of enemies, he had to rely on sensing the aura between monsters and making guesses.

Unable to check equipment information, he had to roughly distinguish based on the energy fluctuations from the equipment.

One could say.

An Inspection skill turned Su Bai from a blind man in the game to a normal person!

It allowed him to have a player’s advantage when facing monsters!

He could slowly acquire skills that enhanced his strength later. But this kind of auxiliary skill unique to players might only appear once!

If he missed this chance, Su Bai wouldn’t know if he would get another chance to obtain a similar skill.

With Su Bai’s choice, the options disappeared, and his skill bar successfully gained a new auxiliary active skill.

Glancing at his secondary panel, he immediately added his last soul point to Inspection. With the addition of 1 soul point, Inspection evolved into a new skill, Scouting!

【Scouting】: Active skill. Consumes 100 mana points to release a light that can identify the enemy’s identity, level, health points, and mana points. There is a certain chance to discern the enemy’s attributes and a slight chance to discern the enemy’s skills.

The upgraded Scouting was much more powerful than Inspection.

Not only could it identify the enemy’s identity, level, health, and mana points, but it also had a chance to reveal the enemy’s attributes and skills.

Thus, when facing unfamiliar monsters, Su Bai could also gain the upper hand.

Closing the attribute panel, he looked at the little worker ant staring blankly up at him and tentatively used Scouting.

Immediately, he saw the little worker ant’s data.

【Identity】: Worker Ant

【Race】: Ant

【Level】: Level 10

【Attributes】: Strength 100, Agility 70, Constitution 100, Spirit 80

【Skills】: Rapid Healing, Malice Sense

Perhaps because the power gap between the little worker ant and himself was too large, or maybe he was just lucky, Su Bai saw a lot of information with just one use of Scouting.

At the same time, a clear health bar appeared above the little worker ant’s head, representing its health points.

Honestly, through his attribute panel, Su Bai could see more detailed and accurate information, but that was because the little worker ant was his minion.

The information in front of him was identified through Scouting.

The significance of the two was entirely different.

“As expected of the first god-level skill for players. It feels great to have information in advance.”

Unconsciously, Su Bai sighed in admiration and then focused on the corpses dragged back by the little worker ants in the cave.

They were already at the edge of the Gloomy Forest, and moving forward would take them to a new region. In game terms, it was a higher-level map.

“Swamp or lake?” looking at the blue-skinned, fish-scaled humanoid monster in the cave, Su Bai murmured.