Talent Swallowing Hero

‘I think to find the answers to these questions; I have to survive the world assessments and become more powerful.’

Leo clenched his fists and thought about finding answers to those questions.

“Enough about the cultivation. Can you tell me more about your Starlight Cultivation?”

Since the ‘Starlight Cutivation’ was within his reach, Leo wanted to know more about it, how it would benefit the cultivator, and how powerful it could make someone.

“As I said, we, the starlight cultivators, use the pure starlight energy to increase our strength. With the help of ‘Starlight Refining Technique’, you can absorb the starlight energy available in the world to increase your strength.”

Until now, Fremont had explained the different types of cultivation, and now, he started explaining the cultivation path they follow, which was ‘Starlight Cultivation’.

“Our starlight cultivation is similar to the ‘Path of the Heroes’. It starts from rank 1 starlight warrior who is equivalent to rank 1 hero; however, compared to a rank 1 hero, a rank 1 starlight warrior is a little bit stronger.”

Since all rank 1 heroes don’t have attacking-type talents, they were obviously not as strong as the same ranked starlight warrior.

Even so, the heroes could use their talents to gain an advantage over the same ranked cultivators.

‘However, these people follow both paths, giving him an advantage over both cultivators and the heroes.’

Leo silently added his thoughts to the explanation given by Fremont.

“Even though the ‘Starlight Refining Technique’ is a top-notch cultivation technique, the speed of absorbing the pure starlight energy depends entirely on the cultivation talent.

However, the good thing about being a starlight cultivator is that even if you don’t have any cultivation talent, you can still cultivate at a slow pace._.

Therefore, compared to the ‘Path of the Heroes’ where the unawakened beings remain weak, the starlight cultivators could still pursue their cultivation path.

Moreover, you can cultivate as many cultivation techniques as possible to increase your battle prowess. In short, these cultivation techniques could be considered talents and skills. As long as you have patience and good cultivation talent, you can learn multiple cultivation techniques.”

The tribe leader Fremont explained one thing after another, opening Leo’s mind to a whole new world.

‘I think it is much better than the ‘Path of Heroes’ where a cultivator could learn various cultivation techniques.’

After learning more and more about the cultivation…to be more specific, learning more and more about the starlight cultivation, Leo felt it was better to become a cultivator rather than a hero.

‘However, for me, being a hero is the best thing as I can swallow the talents of other heroes and awaken both talents and skills by devouring the huge number of corpses.’

For regular beings, being a cultivator was best; however, for Leo, without a doubt, being a hero was the wisest decision.

‘Nevertheless, the system had already informed me that I can follow different paths after healing my soul. Since my soul is fully healed, I will try learning this starlight cultivation and become a starlight cultivator.’

After hearing the benefits of becoming a cultivator, Leo wanted to try it.

‘If I can’t cultivate faster or feel it becomes a burden to my ‘Path of the Heroes’, I will just stop cultivating.’

Leo didn’t want to give up on cultivating without giving it a try, lest he regrets his decision not to cultivate in the future.

“Open it. I will enter the library now.”

After learning a few more things about the cultivation and the starlight cultivation, Leo asked the tribe leader to open the thick door.

‘Since the system has already promised to help me, there is no need to continue listening to the old man’s words.’

With that thought in mind, Leo asked the tribe leader to open the door to the ‘Starlight Library’.

He was eager to enter the ‘Starlight Library’ because the system had promised to help him in his cultivation.

“Sure.”

Fremont nodded and placed his palm on the thick door made up of an unknown metal.

‘Swiish’

Soon, tiny light particles came out of his plan and spread across the entire door.

‘Kacha’

‘Ting’

‘Swoosh’

Few noises came out of the door as the door to the Starlight Library opened; however, it was too dark for Leo to see inside it.

“Saviour Leo, after entering this room, walk in a straight direction, and you will see a shining book in the center of the room. To become a starlight cultivator, you need to touch and read the words that appear in the book. Only after that will you gain access to the Starlight Library’s various cultivation techniques.”

The tribe leader explained as he sent Leo into the dark room.

…..

Inside the pitch-black room,

‘Where is the shining room.’

After entering the ‘Starlight Library’, Leo walked in the dark, searching for the so-called shining book.

Even his [Super Vision] that was upgraded from [Night Vision] could not see anything inside the room.

Nevertheless, he continued to walk in the straight direction; however, after walking for a few minutes, Leo didn’t know whether he was walking in the straight direction or not any longer.

‘There is it.’

Finally, after walking in the dark for a few more minutes, Leo saw a light dot in the distance and started running in that direction.

Soon, Leo saw a shining book floating in the mid-air just as the tribe leader said.

It was purple-coloured with a white border, and there were so many mysterious runes in golden colour.

The thick book shone because of the golden runes as they emitted bright golden light that filled a few meters around it with brightness.

At the center of the book cover, three big words [Starlight Cultivation Manual] could be seen from a distance.

‘Swoosh’

As it sensed Leo’s presence, it flew towards him and hovered in front of him.

‘I have to hold it and read the words that appeared in the book.’

Leo muttered what he had to do and slowly held the book.

‘Swiish’

Soon, the book opened on its own, and three words appeared on the center page of the book.

“Starlight Refining Technique”

After hesitating a bit, Leo read the three words that appeared in the book.

‘I don’t know how reading these words will make me a starlight cultivator. But, let’s….’

‘Swoosh’

‘Aargh’

Before he could finish his words, a golden beam shot out of the book and entered his forehead.

Even though the pain was not as bad as the pains he had endured, Leo was not expecting the book to shoot lasers into his forehead.

Nevertheless, it took some time for Leo to maintain his composure; however, the pain in his head was still there.

‘Swiish’

As Leo was enduring the pain as though it was nothing, the ‘Starlight Cultivation Manual’ shone with a bright light, and the words on the center page of the book also shone with it.

<I have high hopes for you>

In the next second, the words from the center page disappeared as a line of text appeared in the place of those words.

‘Swoosh’

Before he could realize what was happening, the pain in his head disappeared along with the floating manual; however, the floating manual left shining light dots behind, which entered Leo’s body.

‘Ding,

Congratulations to the host for becoming a Starlight cultivator.

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