26 Talent and Job System

As Sebastian closes his blood red eyes, he wanders off into the darkness of sleep. Suddenly, a white glow appeared in his peripherals and expanded, turning the whole empty dream world into a white emptiness like when he was given dream training. He opened his eyes to find him laying on an invisible floor, 'Why am I here again?' He looked around as he entered back into the dream training world. He stood up and suddenly a divine, masculine robotic voice boomed, "Welcome back, Mortal!"

20 yards in front of him, a purple space tear appeared and a great being emerged. The being is a humanoid being in golden armor standing at 3m tall. The being's body is so black that only a black hole's darkness could compare to its color. Its face radiated black light with a few faint stars within the darkness of its form. The being had 6 white wings with faint purple tips and it radiated a holy aura. "I am Saphraim, the void treader."

He felt heavy pressure weighing on him, it feels like having 4 times gravity pushing on you. The being retracted its divine aura and continued to speak, "Future God, since you have gained much power too quickly, you have not gained any of the talents you should have acquired. As your teacher, I will be imparting you the talents of your choice and train you within the timeless dimension." Sebastian then asked it a question, "Sephraim, what do you mean by Future God and my teacher?"

The being replied, "As a god package player, you will be given the resources needed to nurture you into a God. A powerful and ancient god is always appointed to these players as their teachers. As 100 of you Future Gods have appeared, the job system has been activated for you Future Gods and I shall give you a warning. The Armaggedon Invasion shall start in seven years time, the clock will start on the eve of the new year." 'The Armaggedon invasion?'

From the name itself, Sebastian could feel that it would be something extremely major. He wanted to ask his new teacher about it but decided to postpone it to see what talents and the job system is all about. "Teacher, how do I get these talents?" The being replied, "I shall send you a list of talents that you can choose and the monster you must slay to gain them. You can choose up to a total of 7 talents that you have accumulated up to your rank. The monsters of choice can be up to 1 level above. As an Immortal-8 rank, you can choose any monster from iron rank to Eternal-8 rank."

A long list materialized in front of him, he could see the form and the talents each monster can give. From the tens of thousand monster species, he had managed to choose 6, all of Immortal rank and Eternal rank.

• Vampire King

Rank: Eternal-6

Talent:

- Vampire King Spirits

User receives 75% less damage from blood related attacks and deal 225% more damage using blood attacks. User can control up to 1000 separate blood constructs and hurl them at mach 6 speed.

- Blood Corruption

Targets that consume user's blood will be overtaken by the user's blood, erasing their will to rebel against user. Normally takes 1 minute, higher ranks take twice as long per rank above user and beings of 6 ranks and above are unaffected.

• Medusakin Witch

Rank: Immortal-4

Talent:

- Gorgon's Touch

User's attacks will petrify targets upon contact for 10 seconds at most. Petrification is permanent on targets with at least 6 ranks below and enemies that are 6 ranks or above are immune.

• Fallen Sword Sage

Rank: Eternal-3

Talent:

- Sword Summoner

The user would summon 10 to 100 illusory swords when executing any skill. Each sword will deal 70% of the skill's damage on one hit.

- Sword Scripture: Stage II, Form

User will receive a 50% increase in all combat attributes when using any sword as a weapon.

• Cursed Scholar

Rank: Eternal-8

Talent:

- Akashic Mind

User gains 50% more IQ, 50% more perception, 50% faster reaction speed and photographic memory. User's mental resistance and stamina is increased by 150%.

- Spellmaster

User casts spells 100% faster and can cast 3 spells at once.

• Demonic War Fiend

Rank: Eternal-7

Talent:

- Six Armed Master

User's dexterity, movement speed and accuracy increased by 100%.

• Holy Vessel

Rank: Immortal-4

Talent:

- Hierarchy of Light

User will receive 90% less damage from light and thunder attacks from enemies of the same rank and lower. Higher ranked enemies deal 25% more damage using light attacks.

- Restoration Aura

All allies around the user will regain 5% of the user's stats as health and stamina per second. Up to a range of 100m.

He pressed the confirm button and his teacher spoke, "You have selected a total of six monsters, however the total talents that can be accumulated are 10 instead of 7. Please choose what you need the most." Sebastian wanted to keep all of these talents, as they had many uses. Even though he's not a mage or a healer, he'd rather have those skills to aid his allies in a team fight because even if he is the strongest, having allies to help fight won't hurt his pride either. The spellcasting could be useful when he wants to use spells to strengthen his own prowess or distract enemies. He became interested to that since finding out about time magic.

To train and become stronger rapidly or to study things very quickly, he could just use time magic to make some kind of hyperbolic time chamber. Since he's not a master mage, he can only speed up time in the area by just up to 10 times and it'll last only a day at most. Thinking of a great idea he asked, "Teacher, can I combine the talents together when I get them?" The void treader nodded and announced to its student, "Now you will fight all of these monsters and slay them here. I will give you a few skill fusion cards that will automatically activate when it senses two talents. Also, before you start, all of the eternal monsters and above in the world's overall abilities are improved by at least 56.25%, and so it is here too so be careful. Begin!"

The being then vanished as it ended its announcement and a beautiful, young naked lady with slit pupils stood in its place. She had a seductive form and a green anaconda slithering along her torso and arms. His first opponent is the medusakin witch whose magic attacks can cause her enemy's bodyparts to turn to stone temporarily. She looked at Sebastian in a rather predatory way and licked her lips with her serpentine tongue.

"My my what a handsome young man you are, why don't you come-Aaargh!" Before she could finish her sentence and enchant him, a red flash pierced through her body and she dropped dead, her body sliced cleanly in half. Upon her death, a notification appeared.

You have received the talent, Gorgon's Touch. You have killed a gorgon without suffering any injuries, poison element acquired.

'Poison element?' He had never heard of elements else than from skill descriptions and monster descriptions. All he knew are that elements increased the effects of element based skills and increased those skills effects on weaker elements. According to the void treader's words, he could guess that he had no elements at all. When this session ended, he planned to take a visit to the library.

After acquiring his first element, he continued his fight until he defeated all six of them. Due to the 56.25% increase in overall abilities, he could barely contend against his eternal level enemies. If he had not gained the Gorgon's Touch and Archangel's Grace which was created by combining the Hierarchy of Light and Restoration Aura, he would not have been able to defeat the intelligent, triple mutated Sword Sage who's sword mastery had reached the Advanced Master Rank. Not to mention factoring the overall increase that made it 56.25% more faster and stronger than it should be.

After gaining the Fallen Sword Sage's talents they are combined into the talent, Sword Sage. The sword scripture is actually a mastery and because of that, the merged talent had only half of what the scripture had but Sebastian gained a free sword mastery but of the first stage, Flowing instead of the second. The new talent is of unimaginable help, he could now feel that the swords he used in combat felt immensely lighter and his movements become more flexible, allowing sudden changes and dodging more complex attacks.

Despite having a rank of Eternal-6, the Vampire King is the last and the hardest. His own vampire spirits are incomparably weak compared to the vampire king's. He had lost miserably to it twice. Luckily, when he died here, he would respawn immediately and the fight would restart, allowing him to train without worrying that he'll suddenly perish. His combat standards and technique had improved overall and with his new talents, his power skyrocketed. However, due to the increased strength of monsters, his power is only equal to that of an Eternal-6 rank.

His teacher also explained that the genius scale had been altered. Now the scale is using power instead of ranks to calculate. A genius is at least 4 times stronger than people of the same rank, they generally are equal to opponents that are two ranks above. A prodigy is twice of that of a genius being either two or three ranks above depending on the rank multiplier. A great genius is twice of a prodigy with a combat power equal to around three or four ranks above. A super genius or peak genius is at least 64 times stronger than the average of the same rank. They are capable of combatting beings of at least five or six ranks above them.

With his new abilities, he would easily qualify as a peak genius as he could fight equally with a being that is 8 ranks above him. After gaining all the seven talents, Saphraim started explaining about the job system. "The job system is a new update that is about to be released in 3 years. Due to your existence that will become a future God, you have been graced alongside 100 others to use this system starting from this moment in time. The job system allows you to get skills and enhancements to your abilities by acquiring and changing into the chosen job. Jobs give both combat and non combat abilities so it has universal uses."

It continued, "You will be given a job. You have three choices, sword squire, martial student or dark acolyte." He instantly picked sword squire as he plans to increase his sword mastery quickly into stage II. The void treader explained that jobs require a minimum of 100 job mastery which is gained by performing certain feats. Higher values of job mastery like 200, 300, 500 or 1000 will allow the user to access more advanced jobs much earlier and give hidden benefits. Combat jobs require the user to kill monsters. Same rank monsters give 1 point while the points multiply by 2 per 2 ranks. Odd ranks just give 50% more points than the last.

After changing jobs, he checked his status again.

Name: Sebastian Adrian Cain

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Race: Vampire (Progenitor)

Title: Duke (and below)

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Servants: Skadia, Gusion, Crystalline Titan, Hailyn, Azulong, Lilith, Theresa

Alignment: Unknown

Occupation: Duke

Job: Sword Squire (0)

Element: Poison, Light, Holy, Dark, Blood

Talents:

- Gorgon's Touch

- Archangel's Grace

- Sword Sage

- Six Armed Master

- Akashic Mind

- Spellmaster

- True Vampire's Blood

Mastery:

- Sword Scripture: Stage I, Flowing

Active Skills:

- Vampire Spirits

- Call of the Progenitor

- Unsealed Abyss

- Crippling Thorns

- Dance of Swords

- Sensual Bite

- Dark Shapeshifting

Passive Skills:

- Dominant Charm

- Minor Divine Regeneration

- Blessed Darkness

- Mark of Cain

- Greater Intelligence

- Advanced Vampirism

Power Rank: Immortal-8 (Eternal-6)

'Wow, I've improved a lot.' After checking out his status, Saphraim vanished and he returned to his body. The mechanical voice linking his changes to his body. Once he had returned, he felt something sleeping next to him, cuddling him. He opened his eyes and found a sleeping lilith cuddling him like a pillow. He found out that she had tried to **** him in his sleep when he noticed stains on the bedsheet. Using shadow manipulation, he checked out what those stains are. He sighed in relief when none of them are semen stains, he wanted to stay a virgin until his harem had six girls already.

He looked towards his body and found that his shirt is unbuttoned and found that Lilith's hand is rubbing his abs. He got turned on when she started to touch his 'little friend' but held back and woke her up with a little pinch on her neck. She opened her purple eyes and greeted him with a seductive face, "Morning Handsome."