Death Train: SSS-level talent right from the start!

Chen Ye didn't rush to choose; this was essentially a complete skill manual, so naturally he wanted to take a good look at it.

He first clicked on the mental health category tag.

The light screen switched to the mental skill selection panel, which was further divided into two subcategories: Elemental and Telekinesis.

Elemental skills are related to innate abilities. For example, Wen Ning can only learn light and dark skills, while Zhou Yating can learn lightning, wind, water, and fire skills.

Compared to the numerous skills in the elemental category, the other category, telekinesis, only has one skill, and its name is quite straightforward: "Telekinesis Training Manual".

Chen Ye opened the skill details.

[S-Rank Skill: Psychic Power Training Manual]

[Skill Description: Increases mental power to six times the base mental power. Higher-grade mental power training manuals will override the effects of lower-grade manuals. The higher the mental power multiplier, the greater the energy consumption.]

He stared at the skill for two seconds, and the first thing that came to his mind was Gu Qinghuan.

Gu Qinghuan's method of controlling the throwing knives is undoubtedly telekinesis, and her talent and mental strength growth are obviously extremely high.

Chen Ye exited the Mental category and then opened the Physical Constitution and Agility categories.

The skills in these two categories are also concise and clear: the constitution category increases defense, while the agility category increases movement speed and reaction speed. The skill effects can also be stacked with talent abilities.

He glanced at the descriptions and then exited both categories.

Finally, he clicked on the Strength category.

The skill branches under the Strength category are significantly more abundant, divided into multiple sub-tags according to weapon type, such as swords, axes and hammers, polearms, short weapons, and fist techniques, with each tag displaying corresponding S-level skills.

Chen Ye's gaze lingered on fist techniques for a moment before shifting away; what he needed now was a skill that could be used with a spear.

He clicked on the polearms category, and the screen scrolled to display several different S-rank polearms skill books, each with its own focus.

There are group skills focused on sweeping attacks, and single-target burst skills focused on stabbing attacks.

"Hey bro, which skill do you want to choose?"

Seeing that Chen Ye hadn't made a choice yet, Qin Zhaoyang leaned forward a bit more, almost touching Chen Ye's shoulder.

"Once you choose this skill, you can only use one type of weapon. If you want to change weapons midway, the skill will be wasted."

Wen Ning rested her hands on the back of the seat, her gaze fixed on the light screen in front of Chen Ye.

"I'll choose a polearm skill. I'll be using a spear from now on."

Chen Ye has been using the Demon-Slaying Halberd for a long time. From the time he got it from the insect hive until now, he has become quite comfortable with it.

As the saying goes, "an inch longer, an inch stronger," and the spear is the king of all weapons and the head of all lengths; there's no reason not to use it.

His finger slid across the light screen, quickly browsing through the list of polearm skills, before stopping at a skill book titled "Ferryman to the Underworld".

Clicking on the skill details reveals lines of text that appear clearly.

[S-Rank Skill: Passage to the Underworld]

[Skill Description: Polearm skill, consumes 100 stamina points, unleashes a thrust attack dealing damage equal to six times the base strength, stacks with talents.]

Six times the base.

Chen Ye's gaze lingered on that line of numbers for two seconds.

B-level skills have a multiplier of three times, A-level skills have a multiplier of four times, and S-level skills jump directly to six times.

Of course, the energy consumption also increases significantly. A-level skills only consume 40 energy points, while S-level skills consume 100 energy points.

This means that one energy potion can only be used to unleash an S-rank skill once.

His current base strength is 80 points, and a six-times burst would deal 480 points of strength damage.

Chen Ye's talent directly increases his base attributes, so skill multipliers are multiplicative for him.

Zhao Hai's talent is an active multiplier trigger, which is stacked with the skill multiplier.

Even his active talent, which grants five times the strength, is far less powerful than the upper limit of his passive base attributes.

The logic is simple: starting with a full 5 points of strength, reaching level 16 will give you 20 base strength.

Even with five times the talent and six times the skill, it's only 11 times, which is only 220 points of power burst, less than half of his 480 points of power burst. That's the charm of numbers.

One is superposition, the other is multiplication; the difference is self-evident, and the gap will widen as the level increases.

With his S-rank high-level skills, his SSS-rank talent truly revealed its full value.

Chen Ye didn't look at any other skills.

He extended his finger and clicked to redeem.

The text on the screen flickered, and then the entire interface shrank and disappeared.

The lid of the dark gold skill chest in his hand popped open automatically, making a soft clicking sound.

Inside lay the skill book, "Ferryman to the Underworld".

The cover is a deep black with an image of a long spear.

Chen Ye picked up the skill book and opened the cover.

A blue light screen popped up again, with confirmation information for the learning process floating in the center of the screen.

He selected "Study".

The skill book in his hand turned into countless tiny specks of light and vanished.

Chen Ye checked his attribute panel again and found that a new S-rank skill, "Netherworld Transfer," had been added to the skills section.

Qin Zhaoyang's gaze fell on Chen Ye's attribute panel, and he clicked his tongue in amazement at the exaggerated 80 points of basic strength and constitution and the S-level skill that could unleash six times the basic strength.

He felt that if Gu Qinghuan were removed from the list of people still alive, even if they were all tied together, they probably wouldn't be enough to defeat Chen Ye.

As for why Gu Qinghuan was removed, it's because Gu Qinghuan was the only one who could keep up with Chen Ye's pace, and her abilities were unfathomable. If her points were enough to exchange for an S-level skill, she would be no less capable than Chen Ye.

Qin Zhaoyang withdrew his gaze: "With this S-level skill, even if the next survival trial is only three stars, Brother Ye will still have a fighting chance."

"The Samsung Trial involves multiple trains participating simultaneously. If there are passengers at level 20, they may also have S-level skills. It all depends on what happens after the trains are merged."

As Chen Ye spoke, he switched to the system leaderboard.

He dropped to second place, while Gu Qinghuan became the number one, also at level 16.

Gu Qinghuan finally killed a BOSS-level monster, while he chatted with the Tree God the whole time. Although he obtained skill books and treasure chest keys, he didn't get any points, so it's normal that he was surpassed by Gu Qinghuan.

Zhao Hai moved up to third place, reaching level 15, and finally killed a BOSS-level monster.

On the night of the monster attack, Chen Ye, Gu Qinghuan, and Zhao Hai scored the most points.

Fourth on the list is Lei Xing, who defeated the final boss of the hall where he was located, and his level also reached 15.

Next up are Su Jin, Li Tianran, Wen Ning, and Jiang Ning, who have reached level 14.

Wang Ze and Xia Yan both reached level 13.

Qin Zhaoyang and Zhou Yating in his team also leveled up twice, reaching level 11.

Li Jiahao is still at the bottom of the list. He has reached level 9 by consistently getting the minimum reward. It's just unknown whether he will be able to survive the next survival trial.

After checking the rankings, Chen Ye switched to the system chat group. There were only 18 members in the group, no new members had joined, and the train had not yet started.

Zhao Hai, who was standing to the side, spoke up: "The trains should be merging soon."

Chen Ye nodded slightly: "Last time, the trains were merged when there were only 18 people left. Now there are only 18 people left, and the merging of trains is unstoppable."

The moment he finished speaking, wisps of grayish-white mist silently seeped out from the gaps in the seats, from the edges of the floor, and from the air vents overhead.