"Wait! What is this?"
He could swear that this mysterious plus sign (+) had just popped up.
Staring at the plus sign next to his talent, he felt a strange power tempting him to click it.
Zhang Tian also sensed instinctively that he only needed a thought to press the plus sign.
"Could it be... this is the cheat ability I got after rebirth?"
After a moment of shock, he immediately recovered, a wave of excitement and impulse surging in his heart.
In his previous life, he had never heard of such bizarre circumstances; the attribute panel was merely a data visualization of a player's strength and had never shown any other anomalies.
However, since rebirth had happened to him, it wasn't surprising for the attribute panel to display something different.
"What will happen after allocating points? Will the talent be reset... or directly strengthened?"
Zhang Tian couldn't help but feel anticipation.
Humans on Blue Star would awaken a unique talent belonging only to them after their first entry into transcendence.
Based on the talent's strength and ability, they are divided from lowest to highest into F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS.
A player's initial strength and ultimate potential are directly related to their talent.
Every level difference in talent rank creates an insurmountable gap.
In his previous life, he had awakened an E-rank Talent, immediately becoming one of the lowest-tier players in transcendence.
Even so, that E-rank Talent still provided him with considerable help, giving him the qualification to fight monsters and grow stronger alone in transcendence.
"If this mysterious point allocation can truly upgrade my talent, then..."
Zhang Tian involuntarily thought of the players who had awakened extremely powerful talents. In the later stages, those players, without exception, possessed the terrifying ability to move mountains and suppress seas, becoming the new ruling class after the transcendence Era.
"This might be my only hope of breaking the deadlock."
He muttered to himself. Although he didn't know the origin of this mysterious plus sign, he couldn't worry about it now.
Judging by the situation in the Ant Nest and the moisture filling the air, the nest must have recently been washed out by heavy rain. Since he had just emerged from the Pupa, he was already one of the weakest beings among the Ants.
If his luck was slightly worse, he could die at any moment.
Looking at the constantly flashing plus sign, Zhang Tian's gaze grew firmer.
"Allocate points!"
He focused intently on the talent and silently repeated the command in his heart without hesitation.
The next second, endless light enveloped Zhang Tian's vision.
At that moment, his body and soul seemed to be crushed, then rapidly rearranged and reorganized in a superior manner, yet he felt nothing throughout the entire process.
In the blink of an eye, the change was complete.
"That... that's it?"
The light before Zhang Tian's eyes vanished, as if nothing had happened.
The Ant Nest was still the same Ant Nest, and hundreds of Ants were still orderly transporting Insect Eggs and repairing the nest just as before, as if everything had been his illusion.
However, Zhang Tian could clearly feel the changes that had occurred in his body.
Although he was in the exact same environment, he had many completely different sensations!
He immediately reacted, opened the attribute panel, and focused his gaze on the talent section.
The previously unremarkable talent had undergone earth-shattering changes!
[Environmental Adaptation (C): Affected by unknown power, possesses strong adaptability to all environments. health points +100, all damage received is reduced by 10%, and there is a certain chance to generate resistance in extremely harsh environments.]
"C-rank Talent!"
Zhang Tian looked at his attribute panel and couldn't help but exclaim.
He hadn't expected the unknown power of the mysterious point allocation to truly upgrade his talent, elevating the previously subpar talent to the C-rank level in one fell swoop!
A C-rank talent, among the billions of players in his previous life, was already considered a one-in-ten-thousand genius!
Every one who matured became a pillar of strength among human players.
He carefully reviewed the talent description, afraid of missing a single word, then moved his body, which had just broken out of the Pupa and was still covered in a layer of mucus.
The bonus of 100 health points filled his Ant body, which was smaller than a soybean, with intense vitality.
Zhang Tian was certain that he was absolutely the Ant with the highest health points in history!
No! He was the insect with the highest health points!
The anxiety and unease he had felt since his rebirth vanished at this moment.
"Is this the power of a C-rank Talent? It's truly formidable..."
If he were still human, his eyes would be filled with excitement right now.
In his previous life, he only possessed an ordinary E-rank Talent, not even D-rank, so how could he possibly grasp the power of a higher-rank Talent?
He never expected that after being reborn as an Ant, he would encounter such a miracle!
At the same time, Zhang Tian gained a clearer understanding of the chasm created by talents.
Setting aside the talent's adaptability to the environment, the 100 health points bonus alone was enough to completely crush his E-rank Talent.
One must know that players who just entered transcendence generally only had 50 health points.
Although dying in the world of transcendence did not mean truly dying in reality, it would lower their level, reduce their lifespan, and prevent them from re-entering for three days.
Therefore, this 100 health points bonus allowed players to have extremely high fault tolerance and vitality, gaining a huge advantage in the early stages, which they could then gradually expand to become stronger and stronger.
"No wonder I couldn't catch up to those people no matter how hard I tried in my previous life. The gap was destined from the start."
Amidst his excitement, Zhang Tian couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"If even a C-rank Talent is this powerful, how strong would a B-rank Talent, or even an A-rank Talent, or an S-rank Talent be?"
According to the data released later, among the nearly seven billion players on Blue Star, only a few hundred achieved S-rank Talent, a ratio of one in ten million.
Not to mention SS-rank; they were the strongest echelon on the entire Blue Star, demonstrating immense potential the moment they entered transcendence.
Before he was smashed to death by a Spiked Club, he had even heard that those powerhouses had entered an even vaster place.
At that moment, something occurred to him. He quickly focused his attention on the attribute panel, staring intently at the area behind the Environmental Adaptation talent, feeling quite nervous.
[Talent: Environmental Adaptation (C)] +
Seeing that familiar plus sign, he let out a huge sigh of relief.
"It's still here, that's good, that's good..."
Just one point allocation raised a subpar talent to C-rank. If he allocated points a few more times, wouldn't he be able to forcibly upgrade it to S-rank, or even higher-rank talents!?