Chapter 3: A sad start

Su Nian never imagined that he would encounter unsolvable problems at the beginning.

Before being drafted into the world of decay, he had fantasies about the initial supernatural abilities that were randomly drawn.

The most anticipated thing is to draw the transformation ability.

This type of supernatural ability is characterized by a significant increase in combat power over a period of time after activation, and is recognized as one of the strongest initial supernatural ability types in the group of returnees.

For example, on the Internet, there is a returnee from the corrupted world who has drawn a transformation system initial supernatural ability called "armor".

After activating this ability, the body will be quickly armored, and the physical fitness and defense will be greatly improved.

This ability allows the returnee to complete the main quest of the initial faction with ease.

But after all, the initial supernatural ability was obtained randomly, and Su Nian could not guarantee that he would definitely be able to extract the desired combat talent ability.

For this reason, he also prepared in advance and learned in detail about the characteristics of various extraordinary abilities.

The worst-case scenario is to draw functional supernatural abilities.

Functional supernatural abilities refer to abilities that are purely functional effects, and these abilities mainly serve as auxiliary effects.

The representative ability is "mind reading".

It is possible to read the voices of targets at close range and obtain intelligence information, but these abilities do not improve combat power in any way.

Especially when he was recruited into the Decaying World for the first time, he couldn't solve the existential crisis he encountered at the beginning.

But that's not to say that these innate abilities aren't valuable.

What impressed Su Nian was a functional talent called "Mechanic", although it was useless at the beginning, but the recruits who obtained this talent subsequently created a mechanical army, and they were one of the strongest human warriors on the bright side at this stage.

Functional Transcendent Talents are characterized by a high upper limit and a very low lower limit.

In contrast, the talents of the combat department are generally in the upper middle range.

This is also the reason why Su Nian wants to obtain combat talents, he thinks that he is not the type of person who is particularly lucky, even if he does not draw the transformation amplification type extraordinary talent, as long as it is a combat talent, he can accept it.

But he never imagined that he would encounter a "failure in extraction".

In order for the recruits to quickly adapt to the harsh living environment of the corrupt world, the Tiandu City where he is located has collected a large number of intelligence information provided by the returnees, and sorted it out and posted it on the Internet to help the newcomers who are about to go to the corrupt world.

In a large number of cases, Su Nian has never seen a failure in extraction.

There are two possibilities here.

First, there have been such cases, but the losers in the extraction all died in the initial main quest, resulting in no such cases recorded in the real world.

Second, he was the only one who had a failed draw.

In either case, it was very bad in Su Nian's opinion.

This means that he lacks an important starting advantage compared to other Levies, and even less a shortcut to future growth.

After all, upgrading the initial supernatural ability is an important growth path for a recruited soldier.

The abilities obtained after exploring the decaying world are generally less valuable than the initial supernatural abilities.

How to solve the current dilemma, Su Nian couldn't think of a way.

He couldn't get access to the Purgatory God in his faction, and it was impossible for him to regain his innate abilities.

The problem had already arisen, and what to do next to complete the initial task was the top issue for him to consider.

This is not a game, and when the mentality collapses, he can hang up and wait for the game to restart, and he feels that he must pick himself up and face the challenges that are coming.

Taking a deep breath, Su Nian looked around and observed the environment.

He stood on a beach covered with fine white sand, and in front of him was a plain, and as far as the eye could see, blood-colored flowers bloomed, and the blood-colored ripples in the wind burned and spread like flames.

To the west of the plain is a black forest.

The forest was shrouded in heavy dark clouds, and it was raining heavily, and the withered trees were woven into a large black web in the storm.

To the east of the plain are rugged mountains shrouded in white mist, and you can see large red and black lines dancing in the white mist.

After observing, Su Nian closed his eyes, and a selectable consciousness panel appeared in his mind, with three options on it.

They are [Personal Information], [World Information], and [Task Information].

Consciousness touches the list of personal information, and suddenly a stream of information floods into the mind.

【Su Nian (Human)】

Faction: Purgatory City

Satiety: 78 (Hunger below 50)

Ember Fire: 47 hours, 55 minutes, 23 seconds.

Physical fitness: 8 (judged by strength, physical strength, endurance, explosiveness, etc.)

Spirit Power: 7 (affects Mental Recovery, Cast Speed, and Spell Power)

Elemental Resistance: 0 (affects the final damage determination of Elemental Damage)

Extraordinary Talents: None

Skill: None.

Comprehensive strength evaluation: Blackstone (one star).

……

Below the personal information, there are two rows of space bags, each row of ten space grids, a total of 20 space spaces.

It is used to carry equipment, props, and other items.

When he saw that the suffix of his extraordinary talent was "none" in the list of personal information, Su Nian felt a heartache again.

"That's bad luck."

Closing the profile panel, he uses his consciousness to open the second option in the interface, [World Information].

[World Information: Decaying World]:

The world shrouded in corrupt power, made up of countless dark worlds, will randomly change the difficulty of world survival over time, and randomly descend on the dark world realm, decaying monsters, special events, ancient ruins, etc. in the world scene.

Current World difficulty level: Waning Moon

Scene difficulty level: Waning Moon (1 star)

World difficulty refresh time remaining: 2 hours, 54 minutes, and 12 seconds.

……

The content displayed in the world information interface was understood by Su Nian in advance.

It is mainly divided into two parts: the world difficulty level and the scene difficulty level.

Among them, the world difficulty level is divided into four levels, from weak to strong, which are the waning moon, the last quarter moon, the first quarter moon, and the full moon.

The strength of the monsters refreshed in different scenes can be described as vastly different, and even the scenes of the decaying world will be switched after the world difficulty is switched.

For example, he is now standing on the edge of the beach in the waning moon level scene.

When the difficulty of the decayed world is switched to the second quarter moon, the beach where he is located may turn into a continuous mountain, the scene will be covered and switched, and the strength of the monsters born from the refresh will also be greatly increased.

As for the difficulty level of the scene, it is also easy to understand.

There are a large number of independent special dark world realm scenes in the decaying world, which have their own difficulty levels, but are generally affected by the world difficulty level.

These special scenarios are also known as special events and are easy to encounter while exploring the decaying world.

The risk factor is higher in special scenarios, but the general benefit is also higher.

As a first-time recruiter, entering the Decay World will be sent to a region of the Waxing Moon level, which is known as the Novice Protection Period on the Internet.

The difficulty of the initial main quest is generally low, but there are certain risks.

There are too many random factors in the process of exploring the decaying world, and there are many unknown risks even in the waning moon difficulty level.

This is also the reason why there are no detailed survival strategies on the Internet about being drafted for the first time.

Turn off World Info, and Su Nian opens the third option, [Mission Info].

【Quest Information】:

Initial Main Quest: Kill three Corrosive creatures and return to the main city of the faction (0/3)

……

The initial main quest is pretty much the same, and it's no surprise.

He was even a little glad that there were no problems with the initial main quest, and if the initial quest had changed, the situation might have been even worse.

Turning his gaze to the vast expanse of the Scarlet Plains, he decided to explore the Scarlet Plains next, hunting for corrosive creatures.