Talent Swallowing Hero

<Humans of this gradeless world, listen carefully, you are pretty lucky to survive pre-asessment>

The ancient voice from the sky resounded everywhere in the human world, making everyone surprised, shocked, and afraid.

‘What is that?’

‘Is it Heaven?’

‘What is pre-assessment?’

‘I think the sudden appearance of the portals and monsters coming out of it must be the pre-assessment.’

‘That’s right! If not for the otherworldly beings who arrived promptly, the entire human race would have been wiped out.’

The regular humans and heroes started their own discussions regarding the voice from the sky.

<The humans of this world have successfully built five cities using the City Creatio Tokens. So, I decided to start the world assessment a little early for you>

<The world assessment for your world will be in a month. So, get ready for it…Haha.>_.

As for the ancient voice, it didn’t bother with what the humans and heroes of this world discussed; it started laughing while explaining the world assessment.

‘World assessment in a month?’

Leo frowned when he heard the ancient voice from the sky and muttered, ‘That’s sooner than I thought.’

He initially thought there would be five more months before the world assessment started, but the ancient voice told them it would be in a month.

“Moreover, I didn’t know two more man-made cities existed in this world.”

Another thing that made Leo frown was the number of man-made cities.

So far, Leo only knew about the three cities. They were: Golden Hawk City (Floating City), New Starlight City (Normal City), and City of the Slaves (Hidden City).

Hence, he was surprised and, at the same time, became serious about the remaining two cities.

“What? Isn’t the world assessment supposed to be one year after the five cities were created? Why is it only one month for this world?”

It was the elf fairy who said those words.

“What?” Leo frowned and suddenly thought of something, ‘Why is that ancient voice so adamant about destroying this human world?’

Except for Leo and a few other special existences, until now, no one in this world knew what they experienced in the past was a pre-assessment, and there would be an upcoming world assessment.

To be honest, they didn’t even know about the existence of the ancient voice until now.

According to what Leo learned from all the information he gathered from the war god’s remnant spirit, Flaming Lion King, Starlight Tribe Leader Fremont, the three Devil Goliath Kings, and the System, the ancient voice was adamant about destroying the human worlds.

First, he didn’t give the warning about the pre-assessment and didn’t help in awakening the talents of the humans; however, the ancient voice helped the beasts in the Beastnet with everything.

Second, even though the ancient voice helped the humans from the Starlight World a little, their grade 1 world assessment was difficult; even with their Starlight Cultivation plus Awakened talents, they could not pass the assessment.

And now, according to the elf fairy, a gradeless world was supposed to be given a time period of one year to prepare for the grade 1 world assessment; however, the human world was given only a single month.

‘Upon adding all these things together, it only shows how much the ancient voice or those behind that ancient voice hates humans.’

Even though Leo believed there was no fairness in this world, it was so cruel when the ancient voice was so obvious about eliminating the entire humans from the world.

‘Anyway, other than passing the world assessment, there was nothing I or the other human heroes could do.’

Even though Leo didn’t have much attachment to the world, he didn’t want to fail the assessment and turn into the monsters along with his friends and family in some unknown world.

Therefore, Leo decided to build his strength as much as possible before the world assessment started.

“Since the world assessment is only one month away, I think I should put forward my plan to complete what the otherworldly beings didn’t complete before leaving the world.”

Leo looked in the direction of the Starlight City and muttered, ‘After I eliminate the branch of the ‘Order of the Black Tower in the Starlight City, I will pay a visit to the City Leader of the Starlight City.’

‘I hope the system can complete its upgrade before the world assessment and unlock a good system ability while upgrading all the existing system abilities.’

Even though Leo had enough confidence to protect himself and his family during the assessment, if there were major changes in the system abilities and a powerful attack-type system ability, his chances of passing the world assessment would increase by another level.

‘Ding,

The host can speed up the system upgrade using the Fragments of the God Stones.

‘Ding,

With one Fragment of the God Stone, the host can decrease the upgrade time by one week.

‘Huh? I can even decrease the upgrade time for the system?’

When he saw the first system notification, Leo was excited; however, when he saw the second system notification, Leo revealed a bitter smile.

‘Even though I have enough Fragments of the God Stones on me, I am not rich enough to use the Fragments of the God Stones to decrease the time.’

Even though it was not a bad deal, Leo felt using a Fragment of the God Stone to decrease the upgrade time by a week seemed quite expensive.

‘Instead of using four Fragments of the God Stones to reduce the upgrade time by 28 days, I better wait and use those Fragments of the God Stones to unlock two new system abilities.’

Currently, Leo has seven Fragments of the God Stones, and he thought he could use them to unlock two new system abilities.

Moreover, he would get another system ability after the system upgrades anyway.

‘With the three new system abilities and with the upgraded existing abilities along with my talents and skills, it would be a difficult thing to contribute enough in passing the World Assessment.’

Finally, Leo revealed a slight smile and thought, ‘Moreover, my friends and followers would become more powerful in this month and if I give them some resources to speed up their progress even further, the world assessment might become quite easy to clear.’

Even though he said all those things, somewhere deep in his heart, Leo was worried about the Ancient Voice, who might make things difficult for them.

‘Whatever, if I feel the situation is hopeless, I will try to escape to some random grade 1 world with my family and friends using the talent [The World Traveller].’

Even though 10 percent of the surviving humans would be teleported to some random world, they would not be teleported to the same location in that random world.

Therefore, Leo decided to escape without any hesitation because from the second use of his [World Traveller], Leo could bring his family and followers with him to the other worlds.

‘I hope that will not happen because I don’t want to lose my Floating City and the New Starlight City.’

Leo clenched his fists and muttered, ‘I have to start farming my talents and skills while accomplishing the mission left behind by the Otherworldly Beings.’

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Next Bonus Chapter’s target:

1) An Inspiration Capsule, (or)

2) 700 Golden Tickets (697 / 700).