Chapter 54: Profession Promotion! Ability Strengthen! So That’s How It Is!
Seeing the puzzled look in Hu Xiang’s eyes, he explained again, “This involves some arrangements by Teacher, so we can’t use people from the Inspection Department.”
“Oh.” Hu Xiang had a look of sudden realization, not knowing what he had imagined, and explained, “My rotation period has ten days left, then I’ll conduct a major patrol lasting one and a half months.”
“I understand.” Su Chen nodded, gave a few more reminders, and then they each left.
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Potions were continuously consumed, and Su Chen’s Profession Development progress, as well as the Training Method progress, were also rising at a visible speed.
Boom!
The thunderclap resounding through the sky pulled Su Chen back from his immersed training.
Walking out of the Gravity Training Room and arriving at the window, he pulled open the curtain and couldn’t help but show a surprised expression.
“It’s actually raining…”
Having been in this world for so long, this was the first time Su Chen had seen rain, with thunder rolling in the sky, rendering large patches of incandescent white.
Su Chen opened the window, and immediately a rotten smell surged in. The raindrops were not transparent, appearing grayish-white, like they were mixed with mist.
“Today is the day.”
Su Chen closed the window, and the Panel appeared. After 【Gale Hunter】, the two large words “Promotion” shone brightly.
With the aid of potions and nonstop day-and-night training, all Job Appointment requirements had been met.
The Profession Development progress had reached 100% two days ago.
And the 【Snake Shadow Body Tempering Method】 had just reached Master Level, granting the ability named 【Snake Shadow】, which could leave afterimages during high-speed movement to interfere with enemies.
Su Chen took a deep breath and adjusted his posture.
“Promotion” turned into fine streams of light and dissipated on the Panel, just as thunder boomed at that moment!
Su Chen only felt a surge of heat erupting from somewhere unknown, rapidly spreading throughout his entire body.
First came numbness and itchiness, deep into the bones, like ants gnawing at his bones, but soon this numbness and itchiness was overtaken by pain.
Muscles, meridians, and even cells throughout his body were transforming. His face turned red, the exposed skin on his body turned bluish-white, and in the sealed room, wind currents arose from nowhere, causing the curtain to flutter.
【Void Ripper Warrior promotion to Gale Hunter successful】
【Wind Erosion strengthened—Wrath of the Gale: Attacks can attach highly compressed Wind Element power.】
【Wind Armor strengthened—Wind Barrier: Gathers Wind Element to form Armor.】
【Wind Walker strengthened—Shadow of the Hidden Wind: Accompanied by wind, hidden within the wind.】
【Obtained Professional Ability—Wild Hunt: Greatly increases speed, strength, and control and perception of Wind Element.】
Text kept appearing on the Panel, and the pain in Su Chen’s body grew increasingly intense, with cyan wind currents surging over his skin surface.
Gale winds howled in the room, tables, chairs, and benches clattering nonstop, and only after a long time did it subside.
“Hoo…” Su Chen exhaled, carrying fine cyan wind currents that swirled far away.
His body felt light as if it would float up, and the sense of power fullness made him feel like he could tear apart everything before him.
Only after a long while did he barely adapt to this feeling, his eyes dazed as he looked at the Panel, thoughtful: “So that’s how it is… abilities will be strengthened, not completely discarded.”
This resolved one of his doubts. According to the information he had grasped before, the gap between Ranks was very large, and the best method should be to find simple and easy Professions, then quickly climb to higher levels.
Top Tier Professions were very powerful at the current Rank, but far inferior to Upper Tier ones.
Only after this promotion did he understand that during Profession advancement, abilities from lower-tier Professions would also undergo strengthening and transformation.
The intensity of Top Tier Profession abilities definitely exceeded Lower Tier ones.
He rubbed his chin: “In this way, even for the same Second Order Upper Tier Profession, the strength of one promoted from a First Order Middle Tier Profession is actually lower than one promoted from a First Order Superior Profession. This is the importance of foundation.”
“And this advantage, if accumulated layer by layer to higher Ranks, would probably be even more pronounced. No wonder First Order Top-tier is so precious—it’s the foundation of foundations.”
Su Chen carefully sensed it. “Hmm… the ability gained from the Body Tempering Method has also disappeared. No… not disappeared, but deeply fused into the body as foundation.”
“Even the same Profession has gaps, and the gaps lie in these accumulations.”
The last bit of discomfort in his body receded, and Su Chen stood up, moving his body. With a slight exertion, he could leap to the ceiling.
Trying to activate the new ability 【Wrath of the Gale】, merely clenching his fist and raising his arm formed a small reverse tornado nearby, instantly drawing all the air in the room, toppling tables and chairs.
“So fierce…” Su Chen hurriedly dispersed it. After a brief experience, the lethality had absolutely increased by more than tenfold.
This piqued his interest greatly, and he quickly tested the other abilities, finding they had all clearly strengthened significantly.
【Wind Barrier】 transformed from a close-fitting small wind field into an almost substantial illusory Armor.
【Shadow of the Hidden Wind】 was even more obvious. With a slight movement, cyan wind currents followed under Su Chen’s feet, gradually covering him, his figure becoming increasingly blurry.
The concealment ability even surpassed 【Shadow-Evading Clothes】.
As for the exclusive Professional Ability 【Wild Hunt】 of 【Gale Hunter】.
“This seems like an all-around enhancement method…” After activating it, Su Chen felt himself enter a peculiar state.
His heartbeat accelerated, the sense of swelling power became more pronounced, senses elevated to the extreme—he could even feel air flowing over his skin and the mixed various smells.
Even his mental perception couldn’t achieve such fine detail.
“In this state, if an enemy attacks, he can react very quickly too…” Su Chen carefully felt it, then quickly exited. The consumption was also very high.
Having just completed the promotion, his body was still very weak, and after testing various abilities for a bit, he faintly felt fatigued.
But the improvement in strength still left him in quite a good mood.
The heavy rain showed no sign of stopping, and the entire world seemed covered with a gray filter.
Su Chen tried to continue training but found that both Black Flame Potion and First Order Body Tempering Method had efficiency low to an infuriating degree.
“Second Order potions… and Body Tempering Methods also need to be added to the agenda, but those things are too hard to obtain normally.”
Having experienced the benefits of Auxiliary Potions, it was hard to go back to laborious grinding.
Su Chen pondered, his eyes dim: “But for now, there’s still one trouble to resolve.”
………
“It’s basically confirmed that on the night Qi Chuan died, the Seventeenth Patrol Team did go out.”
Inspection Department, Patrol Section, Deputy Section Chief’s Office. Pan Yu’s fingers unconsciously scratched the desk, his eyes dazed:
“If Qi Chuan was really targeted by Yuan Chenyang, why would he mobilize the Patrol Team to surround and kill?”
It had been over half a month since Yuan Chenyang left, and he faintly felt he was approaching the truth of the matter.
The people behind had him investigate the events of the night Qi Chuan died, emphasizing that Su Chen might be a breakthrough.
But he also knew that as the Minister’s student, Su Chen’s identity was very sensitive, so at first he could only probe indirectly and got some information from the Seventeenth Patrol Team.
He had planned to trick Su Chen out and find an opportunity to act, but this kid was unusually lazy and determined not to go out.
He could only turn his gaze to the Seventeenth Patrol Team. After several days of probing, he had confirmed many things, but to get more, he had to act.
“Su Chen…” He took out a white chess piece and placed it on the table, staring at it for a long time.
Then, he took out several black chess pieces and scattered them on the table, shaking his head: “Can only blame you all for happening to be grouped with him.”
He didn’t want to act against these small fries, as it would easily alert Su Chen, but now there was no other way.
