[X-Rank Talent Detected. Violator Elimination Failed...]
Qi Suian ignored the notification. As a Transmigrator who had been born and raised in this world, this was the first time he had seen such an incompetent system. It could actually fail an elimination attempt.
It seemed all high and mighty on the surface, but in reality, it was pretty mediocre.
As for why he had become a violator, it had little to do with him being a Transmigrator. The matter was a bit complicated.
Qi Suian wasn't actually a survivor in this Doomsday Game at all. Instead, he was a native of the Doomsday World. The survivors were people the Doomsday Game had brought from other worlds to survive in his.
That's right. His world had the unfortunate fate of becoming a Doomsday World overrun by zombies just seven days ago.
And the reason he became a violator was, to be honest, not by choice.
There was a reborn person in the Doomsday Game who possessed an SSS-rank item called a Spirit Fusion Card.
As the name suggested, it allowed one to fuse with another person and obtain everything they had.
Then, during the fusion process, his protagonist's halo erupted. No, that's not right. The protagonist's halo wasn't his, but rather belonged to his future self—the self that would become a zombie.
Once he turned into a zombie, he would become the Zombie Dominator, gaining the SSS-rank talent Devouring Evolution and a powerful boss template. In the reborn person's previous life, Qi Suian had been the nightmare of all survivors. Countless had died, directly or indirectly, at the hands of this future Zombie Dominator.
Even by the time they left that world, not a single survivor had managed to kill him, the final boss of the zombie world.
Relying on this protagonist's halo, Qi Suian counter-killed the reborn person, inherited everything from him, and was subsequently flagged as a violator by the Doomsday Game.
Apparently, the Doomsday Game had recognized the reborn person as the true survivor. Qi Suian was more like a virus that had hacked into the other party, and for now, there was no discernible difference between him, the violator, and a real survivor.
The reborn person had chosen to fuse with him, of course, for the SSS-rank talent Devouring Evolution that Qi Suian would possess after turning into a zombie.
This matter was also tied to another talent the reborn person had. In his past life, he had survived in the Doomsday Game for ten years, only to die in the end because of this very Spirit Fusion Card.
The cause of death... well, it was very typical for a rebirth story.
Before his rebirth, he was a total simp for his campus belle girlfriend, followed by the classic, cliché betrayal.
After he was reborn, he inexplicably obtained an X-rank talent, Super-Dimensional Evolution.
This talent could evolve anything—be it talents, skills, or items—to SSS-rank.
Therefore, as long as he could obtain the future Zombie Dominator Qi Suian's SSS-rank talent, Devouring Evolution, he could have countless SSS-rank talents.
He had the ability to upgrade the quality of talents but lacked a way to acquire them, which was why Qi Suian became his target.
In the Doomsday Game, the highest rank was SSS, while X represented the unknown. The reason Qi Suian hadn't been eliminated was precisely because of the X-rank talent he himself possessed—the Zombie Dominator's protagonist's halo.
In truth, he didn't covet the reborn person's X-rank talent, Super-Dimensional Evolution, at all. In fact, he was relieved that the Spirit Fusion Card could only fuse with things of SSS-rank or below and couldn't inherit X-rank abilities.
A talent that shouldn't exist but appeared out of nowhere, plus a baseless rebirth... Qi Suian himself wouldn't believe there wasn't something fishy going on.
So, not inheriting it was actually a good thing for Qi Suian.
With that, Qi Suian opened his attribute panel. Even though he was now a violator, the Doomsday Game seemed to have gone quiet after failing to eliminate him.
[Name: *** (Profound Virus · Severe Infection 30%)]
[Spirit: 1.5]
[Physique: 0.3]
The attribute panel was simple, with just two lines: Spirit and Physique.
According to the reborn person's memories, a normal person's attributes were both around 1.0. If nothing had gone wrong, after fusing with the reborn person, both his Spirit and Physique should have been 1.5.
He knew why his Physique was only 0.3, of course. It was because he was severely infected.
A series of symptoms—fever, weakness, headache, and more—all told him that his body was fighting against the virus known as Profound. For now, however, the symptoms had stabilized. If the reborn person hadn't shown up, he would have inevitably turned into the Zombie Dominator today.
He then scrolled down to see his three talents.
[X-Rank Talent: Celestial Fate: Profound]
[Enhancement +1: Super Adaptability]
[Hint: Race Mismatch. Talent's full effect cannot be utilized. Based on your Profound Virus infection level, the talent will fluctuate between E-rank and X-rank. The higher the infection level, the higher the talent's rank.]
[Note: After leaving your native world, this talent can only be maintained at X-rank while holding ???. Otherwise, its maximum rank will be permanently reduced to SSS-rank.]
[Warning: When encountering fortunate opportunities, surviving desperate situations, etc., there is a chance the talent's effects will be a double-edged sword (e.g., good luck may trigger conflict, intelligence reduction may affect friend and foe alike, taunts may be completely illogical, etc.).]
This was his—or rather, the Zombie Dominator's—protagonist's halo. The effects weren't explicitly stated, but the hints, notes, and warnings revealed quite a few clues.
As for the Enhancement +1, that shouldn't have been there originally. It was likely obtained from the reborn person, which meant he was probably a protagonist as well.
In the battle between two protagonists, the other's failure was most likely due to their X-rank talents. Qi Suian's Celestial Fate: Profound boosted his luck, and he had the home-field advantage. The other's Super-Dimensional Evolution, however, offered no such buff, ultimately allowing Qi Suian to come out slightly ahead.
In terms of aiding growth, the other talent was definitely more controllable and convenient. However, luck was something that could be ridiculously powerful at times, even if it couldn't be actively controlled—especially since Qi Suian was still in his own world.
Besides this one, Qi Suian had two other talents.
[SSS-Rank Talent: Death Recast]
[Hint: After death, recasting requires thirty seconds.]
[Note: A minimum Profound Virus infection level of 1% (Mild Infection) must be maintained. Below this level, the talent will not activate.]
[Warning: If Death Recast is triggered after reaching full Profound Virus infection, it will be influenced by the X-rank talent (Celestial Fate: Profound), resulting in unknown effects.]
The X-rank talent, Celestial Fate: Profound, belonged to the future Zombie Dominator, while this SSS-rank talent, Death Recast, came from the reborn person.
The reborn person's original talent was F-rank Basic Regeneration. He used Super-Dimensional Evolution to evolve it into the SSS-rank Indestructible Body. After fusing with Qi Suian, the Indestructible Body talent was influenced by the Profound Virus and Celestial Fate: Profound, transforming into Qi Suian's Death Recast.
Thus, the talent was inextricably linked to both the Profound Virus and Celestial Fate: Profound.
"Isn't this just 'watch an ad to revive'? Even the time is the same, thirty seconds..." Qi Suian was rather speechless. He finally turned his attention to his last talent.
It was an F-rank talent called Virus Resistance: Profound. It was quite shabby, lacking the hints, notes, and warnings of the previous two.
But he understood that this was the only talent that truly belonged to him. He even suspected that the Zombie Dominator's Devouring Evolution might have evolved from this very F-rank talent.
It couldn't have just appeared out of thin air.
As for its effect, since there was no detailed explanation, just a name, he wasn't entirely sure what it did.
However, he was certain that as an F-rank talent, it couldn't possibly have allowed him to hold out for seven days.
That's right. The Profound Virus had broken out seven days ago, and Qi Suian was infected on the very first day. Relying on this talent alone, he couldn't have survived until now.
The survivors from the Doomsday Game also arrived on the first day; they had already survived in this world for seven days. From the reborn person's memories, on the first day of the outbreak, 99% of the natives in Qi Suian's world had turned into zombies.
So it wasn't a disease-like contagion, but rather some kind of comprehensive, all-at-once outbreak.
During these seven days, the reborn person had used his foreknowledge to stay far ahead of the curve. While other survivors were still struggling to get by, he was already living the good life.
Then he timed it just right to come and fuse with Qi Suian. One could only say that his rebirth was truly ridiculous.
Before his rebirth, he was just a nobody simp. After he was reborn, he completely changed his ways... well, okay, he didn't actually change at all.
Right after his rebirth, he had indeed sealed his heart, but within a week, he was already hooking up with women again. And not just one—a gentle childhood sweetheart, an aloof CEO, a pair of lucky sisters, and so on...
As Qi Suian thought of this, he suddenly paused.
'Huh? A pair of lucky sisters?' Qi Suian had spotted a potential opportunity. 'If I kill them, would my Celestial Fate: Profound get an Enhancement +2 tag?'
What? Cooperate with them or add them to his harem?
Qi Suian had no such intentions. He was now a violator of the Doomsday Game. From his status alone, it was clear that they were on opposing sides.
Even if he were a survivor, the fundamental tone of the Doomsday Game was survival. Enemies weren't just the various doomsdays, but also fellow survivors from the same camp and the natives of each Doomsday World.
Especially when the simp had only been reborn for seven days. How could Qi Suian possibly make the same mistake he did?
'Forget it. I should take a look at the inheritance the reborn person left me.'
'Then I need to figure out why I haven't turned into a zombie after all this time. There's probably some external reason.'
'Although, it could also be due to my own constitution. After all, I'm destined to become the Zombie Dominator. It's unrealistic to think my constitution isn't special in some way.'
Qi Suian muttered to himself before he began to inspect the reborn person's legacy.
He already knew what it contained from the inherited memories, but some things just had to be seen with his own eyes.
For example, the SSS-rank piece of equipment the reborn person had left him: a powerful—well, not powerful right now—armor with infinite potential, named Tai Sui God.
When the reborn person obtained the Tai Sui Divine Armor, it wasn't SSS-rank. It was only D-rank, and he had used his X-rank talent, Super-Dimensional Evolution, to raise its rank.