My career has infinite upgrades.

Hearing the notification sound in his ear, Gu Qing smiled.

As the saying goes, you reap what you sow. After these days of hard work, I can finally advance my Abyss Servant rank.

Without hesitation, Gu Qing confirmed immediately.

"Advance immediately!"

The moment he made his choice, a vast and profound power surged from his body, rapidly spreading throughout Gu Qing's body.

At the same time, a crisp notification sound rang in Gu Qing's ears.

[Ding~ Congratulations, host! Your D-rank class 'Abyss Attendant' has successfully crossed the rank barrier and advanced to a C-rank class: Phantom Contractor!]

Gu Qing raised an eyebrow. A Phantom Contractor?

Previously, the E-rank class was Phantom Contractor. I wonder what class abilities the Phantom Contractor will have after advancing two ranks.

Gu Qing couldn't wait to take a look.

[Occupation: Phantom Contractor]

[Rank: C]

[New Skill: Shared Perception: Allows real-time sharing of the contract target's vision, hearing, smell, and touch without any intermediary.]

[New Skill: Remote Summoning: Consumes mental energy to instantly summon a contracted target to your side within a 300-meter effective radius, ignoring all terrain and physical obstacles.]

Looking at the two skills of the Phantom Contractor, Gu Qing pondered for a moment.

Although neither skill has direct offensive power, they can definitely greatly enhance his combat system.

Although Melissand had sound wave perception before, she could only be considered a humanoid radar.

With this shared perception, it's like having two extra pairs of eyes, allowing for a more detailed understanding of what's happening in the distance.

The remote summoning is even more powerful, capable of instantly summoning the contracted target back to one's side.

This greatly enhances the mobility of their combat system and significantly improves their safety.

If there is danger, simply summon the contract target to your side.

Just as Gu Qing was getting excited, a notification sound rang out again.

[Ding! Career advancement successful. Passive skill Abyss Feedback effect enhanced: By forming a contract with any Abyss creature, you can unconditionally share 15% of its base attributes.]

A look of joy appeared on Gu Qing's face once again.

It increased from 10% to 15%.

Although it's only a five percent increase, Gu Qing is bound to an SS-rank and an S-rank abyssal creature. Their level and attribute increases are terrifying.

The later the game goes, the more noticeable this 5% enhancement will become.

Gu Qing checked his own attributes and found that he had gained a few more points.

Cecilia and Melissant, who were standing to the side, were stunned. They could clearly feel that the soul contract between Gu Qing and them had become even more profound.

Gu Qing clenched his fist, feeling the power surging through his body, and nodded in satisfaction.

Just as Gu Qing was about to wash up, the pleasant notification sound rang in her ears again.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have successfully advanced your profession, triggering the conditions for randomly unlocking a new profession.]

[Random job acquisition in progress...]

Gu Qing was slightly stunned, then her face lit up with ecstatic joy.

Unexpectedly, I was so lucky that I started a new career again.

A moment later, the notification sounded again.

[Ding! Random selection successful!]

[Congratulations, host, you have obtained a new profession: Rune Apprentice.]

[Rank: F (Life Skill)]

Gu Qing raised an eyebrow. It seemed that the new profession he randomly obtained could only be the lowest F-rank, and he would have to keep upgrading it.

Being a talisman apprentice is a pretty good profession, much better than being a chef.

Although it's a life skill profession, it allows you to create runes that you can sell, making it a decent F-rank life skill profession.

Moving up a rank, the next option should be a formation-based profession.

Gu Qing quickly checked the skills of this rune apprentice.

[Skill: Rune Perception: Consumes a small amount of mental energy to see through and analyze the structure and energy flow of low-level formations.]

It has only one skill, but it can draw runes by relying on rune perception.

Ordinary rune apprentices can also improve their rank, but it requires a lot of practice to create high-level runes.

Gu Qing guessed that the advancement requirement for this rune apprentice should also be the creation of high-level runes.

Gu Qing quickly checked the advancement requirements.

[Requirement for advancing as a Rune Apprentice: Successfully create a C-rank rune.]

As expected, the requirement for advancement is a high-level rune.

To successfully create a C-rank rune, it takes at least two and a half years of practice.

That's still fast.

Gu Qing directly viewed the simplified advancement conditions.

[Simplified requirements for Rune Apprentice Advancement: Craft a rune and gain experience points; advance by 100 experience points.]

[0/100]

It's okay after the simplification, but it's still a bit more difficult than cooking.

After all, rune creation has a certain failure rate, especially in the early stages when you're not yet proficient.

Gu Qing looked at the sky outside; it wasn't completely dark yet.

After thinking for a moment, Gu Qing went straight out and bought some talisman paper, talisman pens, and energy dyes, which are essential for making talismans, from a nearby talisman shop.

Then, Gu Qing reluctantly spent 10,000 energy crystals to purchase an F-rank fireball talisman copy template.

He had no lineage of rune masters, so he had to buy rune flow patterns.

Ordinary rune patterns aren't this expensive. The reason these copying templates are so pricey is because you can directly paste the talisman paper onto it for copying, which also increases the success rate.

After returning to his rented room, Gu Qing closed the door and immediately began to copy the calligraphy.

Because there was a template to copy, Gu Qing didn't need to use his rune perception at all.

After pasting a blank sheet onto the tracing template, dip a talisman brush in some fire-elemental energy dye and begin tracing directly along the outlined lines.

Gu Qing focused intently and copied the text very carefully.

Half a minute later, Gu Qing had already copied half of it.

However, just as the next stroke was being drawn, the fire-elemental energy dye suddenly surged, and a surge of heat appeared.

Gu Qing's expression changed, and he hurriedly threw the unfinished talisman into the air.

"boom!"

The talisman in mid-air burst into flames, quickly turning into ashes and slowly falling to the ground.

My first attempt at making a fireball talisman failed!

Without hesitation, Gu Qing picked up another talisman and covered it again, continuing to copy the design.

A minute later, when only the last stroke remained, the talisman burned again.

Gu Qing took a deep breath to calm herself down, and then picked up another talisman.

After failing five times in a row, Gu Qing finally succeeded in drawing a fireball talisman on the sixth attempt.

Even with a template, it took six attempts to succeed, which shows just how low the success rate of creating runes is.

However, it is worth mentioning that the value of this successful fireball talisman has exceeded that of the talisman paper and fire energy dye consumed in the previous failures.

Gu Qing sent Cecilia and Melissant back to the contract space so he could practice some more.

Late at night, two successful fireball talismans appeared beside Gu Qing.

Just as Gu Qing was preparing to draw the next rune, a thought suddenly struck him.

Cecilia actually activated the shared perception skill she had just acquired.

"Master, share my perspective, I'll show you something good."