"You're quite impressive, but did you just see my Twelve-winged Angel Goddess, so you can transform into her too?"
After reverting to his original form, Tang Xichen asked.
Rosen nodded.
"I thought so." The girl had an enigmatic smile on her face and said, "Could you show me?"
Rosen realized that as a man, transforming into a Twelve-winged Angel Goddess in a dress might be a bit awkward.
So, Rosen transformed into a Twelve-winged Angel God!
Tang Xichen was astonished once again: "So, you can even change a hero's gender?"
Her Twelve-winged Angel Goddess was a female hero.
Originally, she wanted to see Rosen turn into a female hero and then give him a compliment on how beautiful he looked to pay back the earlier slight.
Unexpectedly, she failed.
"How about I cooperate with you as the Angel God in the competition, and we take the championship by storm?" Rosen suggested.
Tang Xichen's face blushed slightly, and she quickly shook her head, saying, "No need, you just need to participate as the Demon Hunter, and we're already set to win!"
If the God and Goddess took the stage together, it would definitely cause a huge stir, and she feared netizens might stir things up, thinking the two were a couple.
Then she wouldn't be able to clear her name even by jumping into the Yellow River.
"Oh, I forgot to ask your name?" At this moment, Tang Xichen finally realized she needed to ask for the other's name.
After all, they were about to team up, right?
"Just call me Xiaozhang." Rosen casually used a name.
Confirming that the Slime hero in front of her wasn't the Rosen who awakened as a D-level hero in the elite class,
Tang Xichen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "At first, I thought your hero looked like a Slime, mistook you for Rosen, but it seems you're not."
Rosen, upon hearing this, was puzzled: "If I were Rosen, would you be disappointed?"
"No, you misunderstand, if you were Rosen, I would be happy for him. I've heard things aren't too good for his family."
Tang Xichen explained.
What a warm-hearted girl, appearing cold to strangers but truly warm inside after getting to know her.
"So, are you Rosen?" Tang Xichen looked earnestly at the man with the half-mask, feeling a sense of familiarity.
Even though she and Rosen were both in the advanced class, they were in different classes and rarely met.
Still, no matter how face-blind you are, you'll have some impression if you've met once.
Faced with her probing gaze, Rosen thought it over and decided not to reveal his identity.
His hero's transformation ability was so strong that if foreign forces discovered it, the consequences would be dire.
He could use a fake name in the competition, but using Rosen's name would openly expose him.
To prevent any risk, it was better to continue hiding his identity.
At the same time, a system voice sounded in his mind:
"Please do not reveal your identity to Tang Xichen, and you will be rewarded with a Hero Upgrade Scroll!"
The long-missed system voice reappeared, and this time, the reward was a Hero Upgrade Scroll!
You should know, such an item was impossible to find in the Lord World, not even for sale in the Lord Mall!
It's essentially a bug in the system!
Typically, heroes did not have the concept of leveling up.
Starting at D-level, they'd remain D-level for life, with no chance of improvement.
Otherwise, Rosen's Golden Slime wouldn't be hailed as a rare, growable hero in a millennium!
Since he didn't want to reveal his identity and the system offered a reward, Rosen immediately said, "Of course, I'm not Rosen, but I also don't want others to know who I am. Being powerful makes you a target for assassination, especially when you don't have a family to protect you."
Tang Xichen nodded understandingly, comprehending Rosen's point.
Foreign powers were rampant, often openly assassinating Chinese heroes.
This time, one of the classes in their school's advanced program achieved an unprecedented all-pass A-rank, attracting foreign forces to dispatch Robert, the top-ranked assassin, to kill them.
If the Tang Family didn't need Tang Xichen's S-level hero to boost their prestige and attract more strong individuals, they would have pressured the school to conceal her hero level.
But the Tang Family had the power to protect Tang Xichen, and considering family politics, there was no reason to hide it.
Rosen, however, had no big family backing him, only able to choose to hide his identity.
Out of mutual respect for fellow strong individuals, Tang Xichen also shared some information with Rosen.
"Xiaozhang, your hero's transformation ability is potent, but if you don't enhance the attributes later on, you'll soon be surpassed by other heroes. Like the world's strongest, Ms. Nangong Wan, who has a family behind her, was the first to learn how to enhance attributes by collecting certain items called Attribute Enhancement Stones from dungeons and adding them to her own attributes."
Tang Xichen said.
Hero levels couldn't be increased, but attributes could be enhanced, giving weaker heroes a chance to grow stronger.
Of course, enhancing attributes wasn't as fast as leveling up, so for Rosen, the early significance was minor.
It was only later that the issue would need consideration.
Obviously, with Rosen's current strength, he was just one smack away from being crushed by Ms. Nangong Wan.
Clearly, accumulating attributes over time could lead to significant qualitative changes!
This information would be available just seven days after the newbie period, but Tang Xichen told him early, as a favor, to show respect for a fellow strong individual.
"I have two Demon Dungeon entry tickets. If you help me win the championship in the competition a month from now, I'll give you one as a personal reward." Tang Xichen added.
A dungeon ticket was nothing to the Tang Family, but it could be used as a favor.
From a family perspective, Tang Xichen also wanted to recruit Rosen.
She could clearly see that Rosen's hero was extremely special!
Definitely not a common talent!
If the Tang Family could bring such a potential powerhouse into their fold, it would be greatly beneficial.
After leaving the Tang Family,
Rosen directly teleported back to his Lord World, appearing in the main city's control room.
He withdrew the system reward he had just received from the Lord's Storage Realm: the Hero Upgrade Scroll!
"Previously, when the Golden Slime was upgraded to C-level, not only did the attributes increase significantly, but it also gained two extra skills. I wonder how many skills this upgrade will bring?"
Rosen was full of anticipation.
He used the Hero Upgrade Scroll!
A burst of golden light like breaking through darkness surged up from the Golden Slime.
The Golden Slime's form underwent an unprecedented change!
It actually began growing a tail from its rear!
"Is this... a dragon tail?" Rosen's face lit up with delight.
"Could it be that my guess is correct, and the ultimate evolution endpoint of the Golden Slime is a Golden Dragon?!"
This speculation seemed about to be confirmed.
It already had dragon horns, and now, a tail. Though the dragon's shape wasn't yet obvious, it was nearing completion.
He then opened the hero attribute panel for examination.
[Hero: Golden Slime]
[Potential: Supreme]
[Level: B (Growable)]
[Race: Magical Beast]
[Ability 1: Transformation]
[Description: Slime mutation]
[Ability 2: Frenzy]
[Description: Enter a frenzied state, doubling all attributes]
[Ability 3: Invincible]
[Description: Enter a five-second invincible state, immune to all damage, with a one-minute cooldown]
[Ability 4: Clone]
[Description: Create a clone within five minutes, with attributes and skills identical to the original, with a 20-minute cooldown]
[Ability 5: Evasion Mastery]
[Description: Passively increases evasion by 50% permanently]
[Ability 6: Thorns Damage]
[Description: Thorny shadow appears on the surface, dealing thorn damage equal to 1/20 of hero damage per second to nearby targets]
[Health: 3600/4600]
[Attack: 225]
[Defense: 70]