Chapter 127
Seeing this, Ye Bai decided not to waste any more game coins on lodging at the inn in the city. Instead, she prepared to log off directly and check if her mental strength in reality had improved.
Before logging off, Ye Bai took a moment to review her current status panel.
After her job change, her health points and mana points had increased. Before reaching level 40 and undergoing the job change, her health points rose from 2889 to 3089, gaining an additional 200 health points upon successful job change. Her mana points also increased by 100, going from 750 to 850.
During the transition from level 40 to 60, each level-up would double the increase in health and mana points compared to the previous range of levels 20 to 40. Health points would increase from 50 to 100, and mana points from 25 to 50.
Of course, aside from the skill points she had already used, Ye Bai also received one talent point for reaching level 40.
The talents at level 40 were different from the first and second-tier talents, introducing a new third-tier talent.
However, since the effects of the third-tier talents involved mana, Ye Bai decided to hold off on allocating that point for now and instead wanted to see the changes brought about by her job change in reality.
As she opened her eyes from the soft bed, she noticed the dim light outside; the giant sea star in reality was also shrouded in night.
Ye Bai carefully sensed her physical body in reality.
There was an indescribable subtle feeling; she sensed that her perception of magical energy had become sharper.
Previously, when she reached level 20 and underwent her first job change, Ye Bai could manipulate her mental strength to draw upon the surrounding environment's power to manifest magic. That sense of "control" was a characteristic of her magical bloodline.
Now, Ye Bai could perceive the delicate flow of energy that resembled both particles and waves more clearly than before.
As for her mental strength level, her personal terminal could no longer detect it. Beyond 50 nanometers, it could only indicate a value above D-level, and anything more would require more specialized methods for testing.
This wasn’t too difficult, though. Ye Bai spent 263 star coins to order a personal mental strength detector, capable of measuring up to B-level mental strength.
Previously, through trading in the currency of the Dan Di civilization, she had preemptively purchased over five million Luo Yuan with an investment of ten thousand star coins before the news broke. She later sold it for forty thousand star coins, tripling her investment in a short-term financial maneuver.
Now, with the additional star coins she had, she totaled over fifty-four thousand star coins, currently engaged in stable financial management, with daily earnings roughly covering her living expenses.
Thus, Ye Bai was quite financially comfortable in reality, and she could afford a detector.
Within minutes, the ordered item arrived.
The mental strength detector was a spherical device about the size of a head. After reading the instructions, Ye Bai curiously used her skill, [Insight], to check its information, discovering that it contained a special material called "Youci" (幽磁), which also appeared in mental strength suppressors.
This material was indeed special for mental strength; she wondered how such a miraculous substance came to be.
With a mix of anticipation and nervousness, Ye Bai placed her hand on the detector and unleashed a pure mental impact.
After releasing her mental strength at full capacity five times in a row, the red light on the sphere turned green.
“Ding! Mental strength detection complete.”
The information from the mental strength detector was sent directly to Ye Bai's personal terminal.
“Current mental strength level (average of 5 attempts): 316 nanometers, rating: C-level medium (300-400).”
So it really is C-level!
And not just at the lower end of C-level, but right in the middle.
Ye Bai clenched her fist in excitement. As an adult member of the Huanhai clan, her mental strength was at this level. Not only among her own civilization, but most civilizations ranked higher in the Star Alliance typically saw newborns at D-level, with ordinary citizens reaching C-level upon adulthood.
If she could advance to B-level, she would be regarded as an elite within her clan. Achieving A-level would mean becoming a core pillar of civilization, much like the A-level powerhouse of the Huanhai civilization that Aurora had once mentioned, who was also a leader of their civilization.
If D-level was the basic threshold for entering the universe, then C-level represented the level of an ordinary warrior capable of traversing the cosmos. Even if they couldn’t float in space like B-level mentalists, they could withstand most natural radiation and survive in environments hostile to carbon-based life.
Confirming her earlier suspicions, Ye Bai turned her gaze to the fluid sandbag in the room.
While the changes in mental strength after her job change could be tested, the skills acquired post-job change were not as easily evaluated.
The Breaker, originally a hidden first-tier class, was stronger than other classes, especially adept at countering area spells. However, its class panel could hardly be deemed invincible.
The unique characteristics of this class meant it didn’t possess its own core skills for the second job change like other classes did, and it had to endure attacks before it could strike back.
There was no cooldown for skill release; the cooldown was determined by her health and the frequency of enemy attacks.
Just like when Ye Bai faced the Alchemical Golem during her job change quest, as long as the damage was high enough, she could eventually wear it down.
The core skill, [Disruption Return], might seem perplexing at first glance without understanding the class's foundation, but in reality, it could only be activated by unleashing a full physical assault, which would result in taking damage.
The first-tier Breaker had only one spell return slot, allowing her to choose a spell from a specific school to reduce damage and return it, and then expand to other schools through skill points.
Without additional skill books, she could ultimately enhance it to four spell slots.
This meant that a first-tier Breaker could select spells from four schools, storing four instant-cast spells in battle, akin to starting with four spell scrolls. However, the damage from these scrolls could not exceed her maximum health, and casting them required additional mana.
In practical application, if a skill was stored but not released, it could not be retained after being attacked again. Thus, aside from the first wave of attacks, the frequency of enemy attacks determined the Breaker's attack frequency, and the damage dealt by enemies dictated the Breaker's attack strength.
Compared to a first-tier Breaker, Ye Bai directly gained eight return slots for the eight schools of magic she had mastered, equivalent to acquiring eight rewritable spell scrolls (mana-consuming version). However, the challenge she faced was finding powerful enemies from so many schools and storing strong spells while managing her mana.
Moreover, in actual combat, it was unlikely that every enemy would be proficient in all schools of magic, capable of filling all eight slots with skills at once. In each battle, she could store only one skill from a single school.
There was no need to store weak skills, and strong skills might not be storable. This class could only unleash its full potential because Ye Bai had resistance and health far exceeding her peers, along with the support of a high-level map filled with monsters, but the cost...
“Whoosh!”
Ye Bai cast an Ice Spike spell on the fluid sandbag. Even though her mental strength had risen to C-level, the damage she dealt to the sandbag with her full attack didn’t show a dramatic change compared to before.
After the Breaker class absorbed the Whisperer class, Ye Bai could only use the spells she had already mastered; she could no longer learn the powerful and practical second-tier spells like Frost Nova, Flame Dragon, Earthquake, Mind Plague, and others that second-tier mages could acquire.
Even though first-tier spells could still be effective with her C-level mental strength and high-level attributes in the game, they were clearly not as complex and powerful as true second-tier spells.
However, considering that if she could fulfill her agreement with the paper doll, after reaching level 60 and equipping the Codex of Death, the elemental magic she mastered would be overshadowed by necromantic magic, the final outcome might not differ much.
‘What a pity, I can’t experiment with how [Disruption Return] would work in reality...’
If she were to speculate based on her previous experiences, she would need to encounter attacks in reality that had similar properties to the magic she had mastered, allowing her to store them within her body and then release them like a mirror’s reflection.
Ye Bai pondered this, and then with a thought, the mercury-like fluid sandbag began to fold according to her imagination, eventually shrinking into a small mass.
Suddenly, the folding of the sandbag paused.
Ye Bai stood frozen in place, her breath becoming heavy and uncontrollable.
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