117. Life Simulator 2.0
Yun Ling was idly flipping through extracurricular books. He had practically read through all the medical texts in his hands. While he wouldn't call himself a medical expert, he had gained a certain understanding of human anatomy.
Adding to this, he had experimented on mice and further developed his water manipulation abilities, creating a new power.
Although the new power had a significant limitation—it required physical contact to activate—
The effect was incredibly satisfying...
『Life Restart Simulator 2.0 Upgrade Complete』
A slightly languid female voice rang out.
"Did you switch the system assistant?" Yun Ling asked, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
While the previous system assistant occasionally mimicked different voices, this one was clearly unfamiliar to him.
『****** Received your request and felt you might be dissatisfied with the original system assistant, so they replaced it with me,』 the system explained.
『Of course, if you're still not satisfied with it, you can change it again.』
"Then where did the original system assistant go?" Yun Ling asked.
『I thought you, with your intelligence, should have been able to guess,』the system replied.
"It's already been destroyed?" Yun Ling was somewhat incredulous.
『That's the only possible outcome,』 the female voice replied matter-of-factly.
"...That's really true." Yun Ling felt a sense of helplessness.
It seems the creator of this system isn't exactly easy to talk to, except when it comes to him...
『They were originally ******'s creations. If they caused you dissatisfaction, destruction is only the natural outcome.』
"They?" Yun Ling became slightly curious about this term.
『Don't worry about it. There's more than one system assistant to begin with, and more than one system assistant has served you. After all this talk, don't you want to know what new features version 2.0 has?』 the languid female voice countered.
"Then please introduce them to me." Yun Ling nodded; this was indeed the most important thing at the moment.
『Life Restart Simulator 2.0 has added some small features designed to help you quickly improve your strength.』
『First, an upgrade function has been added, which can help you develop the abilities gained from the simulation.』
『Take the reward you received in your first simulation—Leviathan's 'Water Control Power'—as an example. Your Water Control Power development is currently at 2.7%, and you can use points to increase the development progress.』
"Can it be done like that? Can the development progress of the 'Taixu Sword Qi' and 'Void Unity True Technique' cultivated in reality be increased?"
Yun Ling was somewhat excited. Previously, the use of system points was indeed very limited; besides refreshing talents and buying simulation rewards, there was no other use for system points, and it was difficult to significantly improve his strength.
But with this function, he could quickly improve himself.
『These two techniques appeared in the simulation rewards, but because you didn't choose them, you need to spend a certain amount of points to include them in the system rewards.』
"How much exactly?" Yun Ling asked.
『Taixu Sword Qi requires 2000 points, and Void Unity True Technique requires 10000 points.』The system replied.
"Include it!" Yun Ling waved his hand, directly spending 12,000 points to add the two techniques to the system.
『Included, deducting 12,000 points, currently retaining 70,600 points.』
『The current progress of Taixu Sword Qi is 68.4%, and the current progress of Void Unity True Technique is 0.4%.』
"How are the points calculated for upgrade?" Yun Ling continued to ask.
『Leviathan's 'Water Control Power' requires 2,000 points for every 0.1%; Void Unity True Technique requires 2,000 points for every 0.1%; Taixu Sword Qi requires 400 points for every 0.1%.』
"Hiss, so expensive?" Yun Ling was shocked by the price.
Upgrading either Water Control Power or Void Unity True Technique to the maximum level requires 2 million points, and even the current Taixu Sword Qi requires 126,000 points to be fully upgraded.
However, judging solely by price, Leviathan's Water Control Power and the Void Unity True Technique are actually of the same quality.
Leviathan's Water Control Power is somewhat similar to Kevin's Chimera Power, but with different focuses.
Kevin's ability to stand out among so many MANTIS Warriors, besides his exceptional talent, is undoubtedly due in large part to his Chimera Power!
Therefore, Leviathan's Power, equivalent to Chimera Power... seems reasonably priced.
After all, the complete Chimera Power can even reach the barrier of the End.
As for the Void Unity True Technique, Yun Ling doesn't have a concrete understanding of it, as Yun Ling in the simulation is always in a weakened state, constantly plagued by debuffs, and its full strength has never been shown.
『If the Taixu Sword Qi is fully developed, few Herrschers will be able to rival it. If Leviathan's Power and the Void Unity True Technique are fully developed, it can even contend with the End. This system aims to help the host improve themselves, not to make them useless. Of course, it hopes the host will work harder.』
『The biggest use of this function is to help you overcome bottlenecks. Therefore, it's recommended that you use this function only when you feel stuck at a bottleneck and are unable to improve for a long time.』
"That's what I thought too." This was also the first thing Yun Ling thought of.
Take the Taixu Sword Qi, for example. Comprehending 'Divine Essence' was a huge bottleneck. If this function had been available then, and if there were enough points, he could have directly skipped that most difficult step and comprehended 'Divine Essence' directly.
After comprehending 'Divine Essence', there weren't any major bottlenecks anymore; he just needed to gradually improve his understanding of Divine Essence.
"Any other new functions besides this?" Yun Ling continued to ask.
『The second important function is the optimization of the scoring system. To allow some white and blue talents to also play a role, a scoring increase mechanism has been added. Just like in the fourth simulation, some negative talents can actually benefit the final evaluation.』
"That makes talent selection much more difficult," Yun Ling said, stroking his chin.
Before, he only needed to pursue good talents, but now he also had to consider their impact on the final score.
The key was choosing the right combination to minimize negative impacts and thus improve the final score.
『The rest are just some minor tweaks; they won't have a big impact on you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.』
『A new round of simulation attempts has been issued. Please use them as soon as possible.』
This system assistant was clearly much more user-friendly than before, at least making Yun Ling feel much more comfortable.
"OK, love you."
Yun Ling made a heart shape with his hands.
『...』
The system didn't reply.
A crumpled piece of paper was thrown at Yun Ling's head.
Yun Ling looked up and saw that his math teacher's face was red with anger.
He was chatting too enthusiastically with the system and had forgotten that he was in class. He was probably going to be called on to answer a question again and then ignored.
Unsurprisingly, Yun Ling once again received half a class time standing in the corridor as punishment.
What was worse was that Kiana wasn't with him this time.
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