Chapter 81: Ode to Life, Epic Skill!
[Preparing rewards for the host...]
Within Song Qi's sea of consciousness, the gigantic lottery wheel he was so familiar with slowly emerged.
[Would you like to draw now?]
[Yes/No]
“Yes, yes, yes...”
Beep, beep, beep...
Song Qi couldn’t wait, pressing the button nine times in a row.
[Drawing...]
The wheel began to spin slowly, but Song Qi had no patience for the animation and double-tapped to skip it.
[Congratulations! You have received three Fivefold Experience Cards!]
[Congratulations! You have received ten Triple Experience Cards!]
[Congratulations! You have received five Triple Experience Cards!]
[Congratulations! You have received two Profession Item Selection Vouchers!]
[Congratulations! You have received a rare-grade piece of armor: Witch Helena’s Underwear!]
[Congratulations! You have received...]
...
[Ding! You have drawn nine times consecutively. The next draw is a guaranteed draw, removing all items below the Transcendent grade!]
Nine draws, and aside from the experience cards and profession item vouchers, everything else was a pile of rare or ordinary junk.
There was basically nothing of use.
“Fortunately, I only drew nine times and saved the guaranteed draw!”
“Perfect, I can use the selection voucher for a big win.”
Song Qi’s face lit up with a look of inevitability.
Anyone who often plays card-drawing games knows: if a game sets a guaranteed pool, it essentially means you only get good items from the guaranteed draw.
So Song Qi pinned all his hopes on the tenth draw from the very beginning.
“Profession Item Selection Voucher, use!”
He crushed the voucher without hesitation.
[Ding! You have used a Profession Item Selection Voucher. Please choose the profession you wish to specify.]
“Summoner.”
[Selection successful!]
[All non-Summoner profession items have been removed from the pool for this draw.]
[This draw is guaranteed; all items below the Transcendent grade have been eliminated!]
“Draw!”
“Skip!”
Song Qi clicked without hesitation, skipping the animation once more.
[Drawing for you...]
[Congratulations! You have drawn an Epic Skill Book: Hymn of Life!]
“Hmm?!”
Song Qi’s whole body instantly straightened.
“Epic grade?!”
“What the...?!”
“I actually drew an epic item?! And it’s the rarest kind—a skill book?!”
For a moment, he was at a loss, but then wild joy overtook him!
What does an epic item mean in current human society?
It is something that exists only in legends and stories.
But that doesn’t mean no one owns them.
It means ordinary people have no chance to ever see such items!
Epic items are considered strategic resources!
Song Qi, hands trembling with excitement, pulled out the skill book and opened its information.
[Skill Book: Hymn of Life]
[Grade: Epic]
[Usable by: Summoner, Priest, Paladin]
[Skill Description: Centers on the user, invoking the Hymn of Life! Allies within range recover 10% of their health, mental strength, and stamina per second. The skill’s range diameter is half the user’s mental attribute value (in meters). Duration: 300 seconds. Cooldown: 48 hours.]
[Maximum Level: Cannot be upgraded]
“What the...!”
“What the... what the... what the...?!”
Song Qi was stunned, his eyes nearly popping out.
He became a relentless “what the...” repeater.
He could describe this skill in just two words—invincible!
If someone else had obtained this skill, perhaps it would only be used as an area healing ability.
But in Song Qi’s hands, it was a qualitative leap!
To give a simple example: Lü Bu’s Sacrificial Strike.
This skill is Lü Bu’s most powerful burst ability!
Even at his peak, he could only use it twice per battle at most.
Normally, to avoid affecting combat performance, it’s used just once.
Each use of Sacrificial Strike consumes about 50% of Lü Bu’s stamina.
But now, with Hymn of Life active, 10% health and stamina are restored every second.
Lü Bu could use Sacrificial Strike with total abandon!
He could unleash it every five seconds!
A burst every five seconds!
And it’s a high-bonus explosive skill!
If he’d had this skill when fighting those high-ranking cultists from the Demon Worship Sect, things wouldn’t have been nearly as troublesome.
Lü Bu could have leapt in from afar, unleashed a burst in an instant, taking one out.
Then, landing, another burst, another instant kill.
Left and right, one ultimate after another, and then a counter move.
Done—Demon Worship Sect elite team, twenty-five seconds, cleared.
And that’s not all—Song Qi also has the Soul Link skill.
His combat skills may not match Lü Bu, but smashing things isn’t hard for anyone.
Lü Bu’s Reckless, combined with Ying Zheng’s skill Sweep Across the Realm—that’s an 800% boost to all attributes!
Add that to terrifying base stats, and every attribute easily breaks ten thousand.
Imagine...
Two Lü Bus, both with all attributes over ten thousand, eyes ablaze, wielding their halberds, with two demon god phantoms appearing every five seconds.
Each strike could trigger a small earthquake.
And this frenzied state lasts a full three hundred seconds!
No exaggeration—three hundred seconds is enough for the two of them to smash their way from one end of the city to the other.
Small hills a hundred meters tall could be flattened!
With this kind of power, how many professionals could stand against it?!
“Learn!”
Song Qi chose to use it without hesitation.
With a skill book of this caliber, he couldn’t bear to hold onto it even a second longer; it felt as if every flake of snow drifting down from the sky was coveting it.
And he’d just reached level thirty, with an empty skill slot.
[Ding! Congratulations, you have learned Hymn of Life!]
“Nice~~”
Song Qi finally relaxed.
If he’d previously felt uncertain about getting into the top three in the Genius Tournament, now he was nearly certain.
After calming himself, he glanced at his phone for the time.
“It’s... past three in the afternoon.”
“The last bus back leaves at six.”
“Time to head home.”
With that, he looked toward the gathering place, and vanished instantly from where he stood...