At this moment, seeing these comments, George didn't know what to say. He was confused about the surname of this man.
More importantly, his words were quite surprising. Both of them shared the same name and also the same face.
That was quite a coincidence.
But he wasn't interested in that. He simply started asking.
"System, are you there? System, do you have any newbie pack? System! System!"
He shouted several times, but there was no moment on the screen. Finally, dejected, he checked the screen, only to find new comments.
[George Roku- So, this is your system? No wait, it's mine as well, right? I mean, we awakened it at the same time. Strange, I can only see your livestream, comment, and donate.]
[George Roku- Wait, don't tell me this is seriously just a chat group? Is there a shop? No, there is no shop, but there seems to be an option to donate stream coins.]
[George Roku- Huh? I have zero balance. Wait, how do I load a new balance? There is a plus button. Let's see what this does.]
[George Roku- Wow, dude! This is showing me my ability, skills, and weapons. I clicked on weapon and selected my sword.]
[George Roku- What the hell? Only a hundred stream coins? So, I can't donate my sword, but I need to transform my weapon into stream coins before donating them?]
[George Roku- huh? Wait, there are also tickets that can be donated. What the fuck? One bronze ticket costs ten swords?]
While reading these comments, George was also checking his screen. He found several things different than what this man claimed.
First of all, there was a shop. The currency of that shop was a ticket. He needed to buy a ticket using stream coins.
There were three types of tickets.
Bronze ticket costing a thousand stream coins, Silver ticket costing ten thousand stream coins, Gold ticket costing one hundred thousand stream coins, and Diamond ticket costing a million stream coins.
More importantly, the sword in his hand and the broken crystal on his necklace could only be sold for a thousand stream coins.
That meant even a broken crystal on his necklace was five times more precious than the sword in George Roku's hand.
Now, he had two choices. Either sell both of them, get a thousand stream coins, and buy a Bronze Ticket.
Or, he could convince George Roku to get him five hundred stream coins so that he could buy a Bronze Ticket.
At this moment, he immediately put on a begging look as he said.
"Bro, please! I need five hundred stream coins. That Ant Lord isn't dead. If I don't kill it, I won't survive."
"Please, send me five hundred screams! Please! Please!"
There was a small silence on the screen before a comment appeared.
[George Roku- Okay! I will donate this number, but you have to pay me back one day. By the way, what can you do with those stream coins?]
This time, George didn't stay silent and immediately informed him about the shop.
Most of the items in the shop were incredible abilities and powers that he could buy. More importantly, there was a special card.
It was an Upgrade Card. If he used this card, his ability would improve, giving him a significant boost in strength.
Of course, he could also buy other abilities, but he knew buying and learning to use these abilities wouldn't be the same.
It would take days, if not months, to master those abilities. So, even if they were better than his current abilities, he couldn't buy them.
At this moment, he received a new notification on the screen.
[Ding! You received 500 Stream Coins]
Then, he checked the balance and clicked on the plus icon. Soon, three different options appeared in front of him.
[Ability] [Skill Book] [Equipment]
He clicked on equipment, and the same two options appeared in front of him.
Without much hesitation, he clicked on the broken necklace, and suddenly, it disappeared from his neck.
At this moment, the Ant Lord suddenly let out a screech.
It was a scream of joy. Seeing that thing disappear, there was no fear in its eyes. It wanted to kill and devour the human in front of it.
George wasted not a single second, opening the shop and buying the Ability Upgrade Card.
The moment it appeared in his hand, he crushed the card, and his mind suddenly went blank for a moment.
It wasn't that he lost consciousness, but rather his mind was pulled inside a special space of consciousness where a strange tree with three branches resided.
This was known as the Ability Tree.
It existed in everyone's body in the form of a seed during their birth. When a person reached eighteen, this seed would fully grow into a tree.
Thus, giving birth to an ability. Currently, his tree stem was only three inches thick. This was graded as Grade D.
It wasn't the lowest grade, as Grade E had just an inch-thick stem. The size of the stem mattered.
Humans could absorb a special energy in the air known as genesis energy. Upon absorbing this energy, they could transform it into spirit energy.
Spirit Energy wasn't just an energy transformed from Genesis Energy. It was a mixture of one's ability merging with genesis energy and one's Will tempering it.
Thus, humans had a great level of control over Spirit Energy, and it could also be used to enhance their bodies.
Then, this energy was also used to grow branches. The branches had another name- skill.
Only those who had the Skill Book could generate a branch. But producing a branch required a large amount of spirit energy.
Since every skill requires a large amount of spirit energy to utilize.
Not only that, skills could grow stronger with practice, which meant they constantly required energy support from the tree.
If the stem was too weak, it couldn't produce enough spirit energy to support those branches.
The higher the skill, the more energy it would need. Thus, those with weaker ability couldn't learn higher level skill in their lifetime.
A person with D-Grade Ability could only learn a D-Grade Skill.
His Silver Sword Flow was a D-Grade Skill. He also had another two skills, giving his Ability Tree a total of three branches.
At this moment, George realized an extremely potent energy was penetrating the thick bark of his ability tree and slowly vitalizing it.
The tree shone brightly, and the stem started growing thicker.
At the same time, the branches also grew thicker and bigger, giving a lot of information to his mind.
This was the benefit of having a higher Grade Ability Tree. If a person with a Grade A Ability Tree learned a Grade D Skill, he could master it in just a day.
But if a person with a Grade D Ability Tree tried learning a Grade D Skill, he wouldn't even be able to learn it, much less master it.
Those three branches reflected three of his skills.
[Silver Sword Flow- Minor Completion]
[Eagle Speed Form- Minor Completion]
[Iron Skin Body- Minor Completion]
These three skills started producing an effective result.
The mastery of a skill was broken into five parts: Basic Insight, Small Mastery, Great Mastery, Minor Completion, and Perfection.
Normally, people of his background could only get one free skill book upon their awakening, but he had three thanks to Yelena.
If there were no innate restriction on learning higher-grade skills, he would have gotten several of those as well.
At this moment, the transformation of his Ability Tree ended. A strong silver light emerged from his body, and the golden light around the tree disappeared.
A new piece of information entered his mind in the form of a panel. This was a unique thing he discovered upon awakening his ability.
Originally, he thought this was his cheat until he realized it was just his thoughts being transformed thanks to the ability tree.
[Ability- Mercury Essence
Grade- C
Effect- Medium Toxicity, Greatly Versatile, and Mercury Creation
Skills- Silver Sword Flow (Minor Completion), Eagle Speed Form (Minor Completion), and Iron Skin Body (Minor Completion)
Spirit Energy Reserve- 15
Spirit Energy Production Rate- 1/2min
Strength- 2
Agility- 2
Defense- 2
Vitality- 2]
Looking at his current status, he couldn't help but remember his previous one.
[Ability- Mercury Essence
Grade- D
Effect- Low Toxicity and Slightly Versatile
Skills- Silver Sword Flow (Great Mastery), Eagle Speed Form (Great Mastery), and Iron Skin Body (Great Mastery)
Spirit Energy Reserve- 5
Spirit Energy Production Rate- 1/5min
Strength- 2
Agility- 2
Defense- 2
Vitality- 2]
He couldn't help but feel speechless thinking about his previous condition. One point of Spirit Energy was enough to use his skill one time.
But it would take five minutes just to get that one point, and more importantly, his reserves were only five.
Even though it was just an improvement of one single grade, the difference it made was more than enough.
Now, he had greater confidence in killing the Ant Lord.