Danmaku, my skills refresh weekly.

She is the queen, and she never delegates tasks that she can accomplish herself!

Except for cooking.

Ciel leaned against Alfia's chest, inhaling the scent of hormones emanating from the teenage girl, and his whole body unconsciously relaxed.

Alfia called out in his ear, "Alright, didn't you want to upgrade? Great Achievement should be enough."

Charles nodded, his face unconsciously brushing against the bountiful granary.

"Yes. I almost forgot."

Reluctantly, Ciel broke free from the warm embrace, pondering how to upgrade.

There are two ways to upgrade Shire.

First, it uses divine authority to renew itself.

Second, use refresh to randomly upgrade.

The former is conventional, while the latter can randomly select a development capability.

After a moment's thought, Xia Er still chose the former. This upgrade interval was a full four months, which should be enough to incubate a development capability.

The latter's random ability, while incredibly powerful, could potentially cause problems.

The phrases "Old Deng reincarnated" and "table flip" served as a wake-up call for Ciel: the "Second Dimension Pandora" is risky. What if another skill with instantaneous explosion appeared? Would he still be able to play it?

In fact, Ciel's Minotaur module is already strong enough. After specializing in magic, Ciel, as a mage, has almost reached the pinnacle of the city.

While others were still using magic as a trump card, Ciel was already able to use magic to deal with all sorts of troubles, fully integrating it into the art of combat.

The only thing limiting his strength is his magic reserves.

……

Having made his decision, Charles pricked his finger, and blood dripped down.

The benefits behind it flow, the numbers change...

Xiaer lv2→lv3

Strength: SS1001→I0

Durability: SSS1452→I0

Dexterity: SS1001→I0

Agility: SS1001 → I0

Magic Power: S907→I0 (ps: [Seven-Seven Treasure Manual] Mental Training Method for Cultivation and Growth)

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Development Capabilities: [Divine Script H+3] [Food Chain I+3] [Godslayer G] [Healing H+3] [Choice I+3]

Magic: The Ring of Miracles, Mind Stealing

Skills: [Bearing Heavy Burden], [???], [Gambler's Instinct], [Godslayer]

Chapter 304 Development Capabilities: Choices

During the upgrade of the Shire, three optional development capabilities were developed:

[Cooking] [Abnormal Resistance] [Choice]

Judging from the text description, [Cooking] is unsurprisingly a secondary profession ability, and its effect should be similar to [Harmony].

The difference lies in the fact that "harmonization" is more detailed and microscopic, like adapting chemical reagents, and belongs to the category of Western medicine.

[Cooking] It's more like traditional Chinese medicine, balancing yin and yang, a stew in one pot.

It could also develop into a highly fantastical ability like alchemy.

For Charles, this is naturally excellent. With the three-level bonus from [Godslayer G], his initial [Cooking] skill can reach F level.

He could use this ability to research and create dishes for cultivation or to improve his own aptitude.

But Charles didn't choose it...

The [Cooking] ability requires research and development; it's a farming-style ability, which is slightly unsuitable for Xia Er's current situation.

At least after major events, Orario enters a more stable period, allowing this ability to proceed gradually to its full potential.

Moreover, as long as Sharl continues to research monster cuisine and seek the flavor balance between various monster ingredients, and combine them together, the ability to develop will not squeeze out [Cooking].

It will still appear in the next upgrade.

In addition, the ordinary [abnormal resistance] is also quite good, as it can directly increase the combat power of the Sharl and increase the margin for error.

However, since they've given up on cooking, their decent but mediocre abnormal resistance naturally can't compare to cooking.

Ciel values ​​the third ability, [Choice], more.

Although the effects of this ability are still unclear, Xia Er has a vague feeling that it is more suitable for him than [Cooking] and [Abnormal Resistance].

……

"Unprecedented development potential." Alfia took the smooth white paper. "What are your reasons for choosing it?"

“I admit there’s an element of gambling in my decision, but… I feel like I’d be at a huge disadvantage if I didn’t choose it.” Charles’s eyes flickered.

Development capabilities are generally subdivided into three categories based on their effectiveness.

One type of "passive": abilities that directly and passively increase combat power without any obvious effects, such as [Healing], [Cure Power], [Steel Body], [Abnormal Resistance], and [Luck].

The second type of "granting": granting a certain action a special "sublimation" ability by using skills such as [Swordsman], [Magician], [Escape], [Diving], or even [Forging], [Gold Carving], [Harmony].

The third type of "change" is also somewhat mixed in with the first two: such as [mystery], [fire flash], [night struggle], [domineering light], etc...

They are more specialized abilities that evolved from a certain magic or skill.

The effect is to enhance, change, or distort a certain ability.

[Mysterious] Needless to say, the scope of his work is too broad: curses, gold carving, blending, and even specializing in magic to enhance its power and effects, etc. He is a jack-of-all-trades.

For example, there's Alicia's [Fire Flash].

It enhances her magic, specifically the small category of magic effects that utilizes fire for evasion.

This allows Alexandra to use the recoil of the flames to increase her movement speed.

During the battle with Zagnat, she, at only level 4, kept up with the speed of the agility-specialized [Destroyer] Zagnat, successfully using her super-fast flame flashes to suppress and strip away Zagnat's magical armor.

Charles guessed that [Choice] should also belong to the third category.

"Similar to your [Overlord's Light]. It can directly grant my magic an additional effect."

[Domineering Light] and [Domineering Strike] are development abilities that only appear at level 7, and are difficult to obtain. Their effects are simply splash damage, or in other words, critical hits.

Ciel secretly tested the effect of [Choice], and judging from the name, it was likely an ability specifically designed for the "card pool".

Instead of immediately 'refreshing', Xia Er had Alfia prepare five crumpled pieces of paper, each with a different message written on it.

As Ciel attempted to draw lots, just as his hand was about to touch the ball of paper, his eyes were enveloped by a magical light membrane, seemingly enhanced by visualization, emitting an eerie, chaotic glow.

The information behind the three crumpled pieces of paper unfolds in sequence.

They are: 【I'm hungry】, 【I like it】, and 【Defeat the Black Dragon】.

Ciel reached out and grabbed the note that read "Likes," unfolding it towards Alfia: "What do you like?"

Alfia didn't answer: "It seems to be an ability that allows you to avoid using 'luck.' No, it should be a branch ability that specializes in 'luck.'"

Development abilities do not repeat, and the "Luck E" added during Ciel's chanting will interfere with the selection process by Grace.

The hidden "mysterious" ability attached to the [Godslayer] will also hinder Ciel from obtaining his own "mysterious" ability.

"So, favors altered the expression of ability, thus giving rise to 'choices'?"

"Perhaps, I'll try magic again!"

Ciel attempted to chant the [Miracle Ring], the power of "Choice" filling his eyes, and a flood of complex information overwhelmed Ciel's mind in an instant.

With a "duang" sound,

Charles felt as if he had been hit on the head with a hammer. He staggered, conjured a fireball, and shot it toward the dining table.

"What's wrong?" Alfia reached out and dispersed the fireball, asking with concern.

"It's alright, the information was too complicated at first, I needed to change my approach." Charles shook his head and patted his face hard.

In the experiment just now, Charles sensed the magic that the Ring of Miracles was about to use, but because the changes were too rapid, thousands of spells appeared in an instant, leaving him no time to choose.

Charles changed his approach and began to chant slowly again...

This time, he did not observe directly from the start, but instead infused the magic with the sublime aura of "choice".

The chanting has ended.

His eyes changed from their original gray to red, yellow, and blue, sparkling with each other.

The aura of sublimation and magic in his eyes mingled and condensed into three cards of different colors.

The three categories are red for "Destruction", blue for "Support", and yellow for "Control".

Ciel grabbed the red card, but in the next instant, it turned into a blue "Support" card.

He didn't care...

The card shattered into magical fragments, transforming back into three cards with chaotic vortexes depicted on their backs.

The three cards are labeled with the spells 【Healing】, 【Clarity】, and 【Weakness】.

Xia Liang'er chose the Clarity spell, and the blue magic flowed into their bodies, restoring their lost mental energy.

Charles's face lit up with joy: "I really want to stop having to open blind boxes every time. Now I can play with roguelike characters!"

Being able to predict what kind of magic one is about to unleash is a huge boost for the [Miracle Ring].

At least, you don't have to start "whining," "wagging your tail," or shouting "the crow is flying" when fighting.

Upon hearing the result, Alfia slowly stood up: "While there are benefits, the advantages have also disappeared."