Survival Game: Unlock Billions of Talents at the Start!

John was enthralled by the talent of permanent invisibility.

But when he glanced at the talent exchange list...

He was immediately shocked.

[You have unlocked "SSS-Level Talent: Permanent Stealth"! The survival points required to extract to reality are: 2.56 million!]

More than two million survival points!

John had just earned 397 survival points after winning a match. If he wanted to extract this talent into reality, wouldn't he have to win thousands of matches?

[Hello host! As your rank increases, you will earn more and more survival points in a single game, please be aware!]

The system reminded him at the right time.

John felt relieved when he heard this.

"If you want to extract talent, you must first unlock it."

"And the survival points consumed by extracting talents are 100 times as much as unlocking them!"

John glanced at the unlock list:

- Unlocking a random F-rank talent requires 100 Survival Points! Extraction requires 10,000 points.

- Unlocking a random E-level talent requires 200 Survival Points! Extraction requires 20,000 points.

- Unlocking a random D-rank talent requires 400 Survival Points! Extraction requires 40,000 points.

...

The cost doubles with each rank!

If there are unwanted talents, they can be recycled (only actively unlocked talents can be recycled), and 80% of the survival points will be returned.

However, now everyone is in the Bronze rank.

You can only unlock D-level talents at most, and they are unlocked randomly, so you might get useless talents.

Even if you rank up, the unlock list only goes up to A-level talents.

There's no way to unlock any talent that reaches S rank!

"This shows that my full talent system is strong!"

"Unexpectedly, all talents from F-level to SSS-level are unlocked, and the highest-level talents are automatically extracted when entering the game!"

"Low-level talents may be useless."

"But each of the SSS-level talents is very strong! At most, the gameplay differs."

"It's a pity they can't be recycled... Otherwise, some useless talents could be recycled directly and used to strengthen genes, becoming superhuman."

John felt a sense of loss.

[Host, this system is not just like that! When your rank increases, this system will unlock more talents for you, such as god-level talents and so on!]

This news made John's eyes light up.

This is not bad!

It means his system can also be upgraded.

Now everyone else is using F-level talent, and he's using SSS-level talent.

When others use A-level talents, he will have already moved beyond even SSS-level talents and will be using god-level or even stronger talents!

This also means that in the survival game, he will always have the advantage.

He looked around.

The room made of concrete, a dark cage, trapping him and locking him up.

He began to think about the fastest way to escape from here.

"There are two paths."

"First, from the billions of talents I unlocked, look for talents that can be used to escape the mental hospital, and then save enough survival points to extract!"

"Second, search for skills in the game. If you encounter skills that can be used to escape from a mental hospital, you can directly extract them."

These two ways can be pursued simultaneously.

Anyway, just save the survival points.

If you haven't acquired the skills, wait for the talent to be extracted.

If he acquires skills in the middle, he can extract the skills. It does not need to be permanently extracted. A one-day extraction is enough for him to escape.

On the other hand, there's a third way, which is to strengthen genes.

But...

Who knows how much strength is needed to escape from this mental hospital?

Breaking out directly is too risky!

To ensure escape from here, focusing on skills or talents is essential.

"System, can you search for the talent that will allow me to escape from the sealed space?"

John asked in his mind.

[Host, please explore by yourself!]

The system responded quickly.

John couldn't help but curse the "useless" system, which didn't even have a search function... but it was quite understandable.

There are so many talents in this survival game!

The system probably doesn't know any talents that can allow him to escape from the sealed space.

"Hey, this talent is good."

John quickly found a D-level talent from the talent list: Shifting Souls!

[D-Level Talent: Shifting Souls! A mental imprint can be affixed to an object, and then you can swap places with that object at any time!]

John thought of the plate that the woman carefully took away.

"I brand the spirit and attach it to the plate."

"After she takes it away, quietly switch places with the plate?"

John was lost in thought.

A plan slowly formed in his mind... Of course, there are many details, and this is just a preliminary idea.

"It takes 40,000 survival points to extract D-level talents."

"If you get more and more points from winning, a few dozen games will be enough."

"Before that... accumulate points and search for skills in the game."

John's thinking was clear.

So, he chose to enter the game again!

397 survival points, not used for the time being.

If it were someone else, they'd be eager to exchange it for lifespan or to enhance their genes...

But for John.

None of this is needed!

[Welcome to the Survival Game!]

[Notification! Detected that you have activated billions of talents!]

[Congratulations, you have won the talent in this game: Crazy Evolution (SSS Level) - every 30 seconds, you can choose an equipment or skill to evolve its attributes!]

(Note: The same piece of equipment or skill can be evolved up to 12 times!)

SSS-level talent, Crazy Evolution!

John's eyes lit up.

As the name implies, to evolve equipment or skills is to improve the attributes of equipment or skills, and even add some special effects, and it can be improved 12 times in a row!

"With this talent, even the worst F-level equipment will eventually far surpass platinum-level equipment!"

"It seems that this is for me to play with equipment and skills."

John thought to himself.

At this moment, he just raised his head and observed the front, and found that it was a ruined arena.

He was standing on the edge of the ruins.

Outside the arena, it seemed to be the ruins of an ancient city, appearing very old...

Suddenly, a cold female voice came from behind him:

"Number 00497, are you my teammate?"

As soon as the cold female voice came out, John's expression changed immediately.

Teammate?

Could this voice be...

The cold woman who just brought him food?

If he was not mistaken, this woman was his chief caretaker.

Unexpectedly, this woman had also become one of the 10,000 testers of the survival game?

Not only in the same field as himself.

She was his teammate!

This is bad!