The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend-Chapter 387 - Choosing a Divine Skill
[Skill 1: Sacrifice (Exclusive) – Sacrifice any unit under your command to receive a random reward. Usable once per day.]
[Skill 2: Life Infusion – Consume Life Energy to bless any units. The blessing’s strength scales with the amount of Life Energy spent.]
[Skill 3: Merge (Exclusive) – Can merge objects or living beings. Targets with similar properties will be upgraded after merging. Targets with different properties may produce an unpredictable result. Three times a day.]
[Skill 4: Famine – Expend Spiritual Energy to inflict hunger on any living being. The intensity of hunger matches the energy used.]
[Skill 5: Thirty-Six Martial Castes – Transform into any of 36 races and gain their basic Skills. Usable three times per day, with a cumulative transformation limit of 100 minutes.]
[Skill 6: True Demon King Transformation – Transform into a Demon King. Usable once per day. Transformation time limited to 5 minutes.]
[Skill 7: Reincarnation – Absorb useful souls to reincarnate within the divine realm. Limited to three souls per day.]
[Skill 8: Replicate (Exclusive) – Duplicate any object or Skill. Usable once per day.]
Han Wu was presented with eight Divine Powers. Nearly all were excellent options, yet he only had enough points to select one. He started eliminating them one by one.
The first to go was Sacrifice. Though powerful, it only worked if he commanded units. In the Middle Realm he had no access to his core race, so the Skill was useless.
Next he dismissed Reincarnation. His current goal was to search for treasure, not to recruit souls for his divine realm. True Demon King Transformation also failed to impress him. Its five-minute duration was far too short to matter.
He set aside Famine as well. It lacked the strength to kill an enemy and would likely only provoke them. Life Infusion soon followed. Without guaranteed loyalty, blessing his followers posed a risk. Worse, it consumed his Life Energy, and the weaker he became, the weaker the blessing grew. For the early stages, it was a wasted choice.
In the end, only three remained: Merge, Thirty-Six Martial Castes, and Replicate. Each offered strong advantages in the early game. Han Wu weighed them carefully before selecting Thirty-Six Martial Castes. It was the most versatile and offered the longest duration, allowing him three transformations per day with a combined time of 100 minutes. It was the ideal choice for early development.
His points drained away the moment he confirmed his choice. Only then did he turn his attention to the world around him.
The cave was pitch black, and his clone’s eyes were useless against the darkness. He had no choice but to trace the walls with his hands to find a way out. Step by step, he followed the rough surface until his foot sank into something soft. The texture felt pliant on the outside yet firm within. A chill ran through him as he realized he had stepped on what seemed like a limb. The lack of movement suggested the creature it once belonged to was already dead.
He drew in a steadying breath and pressed on. More limbs littered the ground, and each step confirmed his suspicion: this cave was little more than a dumping ground for corpses.
His hunch proved right. At last, faint light outlined the exit, where two grotesque gnomes appeared, hauling another body. He slipped behind a jagged rock and watched as they heaved the corpse near the mouth of the cave before shuffling away.
The body belonged to a humanoid dressed in the same tattered linen outfit he wore. Filthy and ragged, it looked no better than a vagrant. Han Wu tried to piece together where he had ended up, but he needed more information. He spent one of his daily transformation slots and turned into a Dark Curse Bug, then took to the air.
The moment he transformed, the bug’s natural affinity for darkness enhanced and sharpened his sight. For the next thirty minutes, he scouted the area and committed every detail to memory. By the end, he had a clearer sense of where he was.
This place was a mine under gnome control, where humans were forced into slavery. The gnomes whipped and shouted at them to dig faster, driving them without pause. Day after day, the slaves mined under relentless strain, their bodies breaking down from exhaustion.
Food and water were scarce, never enough to sustain them. Many perished from hunger or fatigue, and when they did, the gnomes dragged the corpses away and dumped them into a nearby abandoned shaft.
This had nothing to do with Han Wu. What mattered now was earning more points. While he considered how to do that, he spotted a glowing wooden chest. Strangely, none of the gnomes or humans noticed it, which told him it was no ordinary chest. He landed on it, and the moment he touched it, the chest vanished.
[Congratulations, Han Wu. You’ve found a wooden chest left behind by the seniors. You’ve obtained a 1-Star God weapon, the Overlord Sabre. You’ve also obtained 2 points.]
[Overlord Sabre: 1-Star God Weapon – Incredibly tough. Can destroy most weapons beneath 1-Star; Requirements: 5 Strength.]
The weapon automatically appeared in Han Wu’s dedicated pocket dimension for the game. He stared at it, speechless. Without allocated points, he couldn’t even wield it. Thankfully, the chest granted him two points, which allowed him to enhance his stats slightly. To boost his exploration efficiency, he invested both points into Dexterity.
As soon as he did, his flight speed increased by roughly 20%. Motivated by this gain, he resumed searching for more treasures left by his seniors. He explored the mine thoroughly and retreated to a hidden area to transform back once his transformation timer reached ninety minutes.
Han Wu’s efforts had not been in vain. He discovered four wooden chests in the mine. Alongside the Overlord Sabre, he obtained the Rank 2 Sacred Object: Iron Star, the Skill Book: Silver Bladefall, and a Repeater Bow Tower, earning eight additional points in total.
He allocated six points to Strength and finally met the requirement to wield the Overlord Sabre. He also learned Silver Bladefall, giving him a way to fight back at last.
