Chapter 70: New Talents
They were definitely not something that could be casually manufactured.
Even when considering supplies alone, once the game shop eventually opened, players would often still be able to buy items cheaper from other players than directly from the shop itself.
Because of that, having a stable weapons supplier was very important to Joo Joowon.
At the very least, it would save him a considerable amount of money.
He only hoped that his reputation would be enough to make the other party take his words seriously.
[ @CraftsmanMoonJungi: Thank you. ]
Other than those two words, the old man did not say anything else.
Joo Joowon did not continue persuading him either.
They were strangers to begin with and offering a single reminder was already enough.
To put it more coldly, as long as the old man did not die before delivering the arrows, whatever happened to him afterward had little to do with Joo Joowon at the moment.
After closing the trading platform, Joo Joowon immediately equipped the Compound Repeating Crossbow.
The increase from the belt and the decrease from replacing his previous weapon canceled each other out, allowing his Strength attribute to remain unchanged and preserving his Strength talent.
On the contrary, because of the one point of Agility provided by the Compound Repeating Crossbow, his Agility talent was successfully activated as well.
The five Agility talents were as follows.
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[ Eight Winds Cannot Move Me ]: You possess exceptional balance and can maintain your footing regardless of the situation.
[ Eyes Like Lightning, Hands Like Wind ]: Your reaction speed to any event far exceeds normal limits.
[ Windwalker of Ten Thousand Lightyear ]: You are a born runner. (For every additional point of Strength, movement speed increases by 2%.)
[ Body Faster Than Thought ]: Your ability to avoid danger is outstanding. Quite often, your body has already moved out of harm’s way before your brain even realizes the threat exists.
[ Three Attributes as One ]: You are capable of perfectly coordinating your three core attributes, allowing you to achieve an effect greater than one plus one in a short period of time. The exact duration depends on the amount of Spirit consumed.
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Joo Joowon chose the talent [ Body Faster Than Thought ] without a second thought.
In his eyes, it was obviously a divine skill for survival, making all the other talents seem far less impressive by comparison.
The fact that the talents under the Agility category were so diverse did not surprise Joo Joowon at all.
After all, Agility influenced more areas than almost any other attribute.
It affected neural response speed, balance, and the movement speed that most people instinctively associated with Agility.
[ Eight Winds Cannot Move Me ] granted outstanding balance, and balance was extremely important for human beings.
Most of a person’s sense of balance depended on the vestibular system, while the vestibular system itself relied heavily on a series of neural reflexes.
Some people could trip and fall while walking on perfectly flat ground, while others could walk across a tightrope without any difficulty.
The difference often came down to their natural sense of balance.
If someone happened to stumble while escaping from danger, a strong sense of balance might allow them to recover their footing and continue running instead of dying on the spot.
[ Eyes Like Lightning, Hands Like Wind ] was also an excellent support talent and was closely related to reaction speed.
For example, when people saw an object about to fall to the ground, their minds often wanted to catch it, but their bodies could not react quickly enough.
This talent solved that problem.
Moreover, it affected not only the limbs but also the eyes themselves.
Without training, people often overlooked important visual details while processing information.
With this talent, even if something flashed past his field of vision in an instant, Joo Joowon would not dismiss it as an illusion after it disappeared.
As for [ Windwalker of Ten Thousand Lightyear ], there was no need for further explanation.
It was an escape skill of the highest level.
The fact that it required Strength to fully utilize did not surprise Joo Joowon in the slightest.
Running speed was heavily influenced by leg muscles and tendons.
However, after obtaining the Spider Brand Running Shoes and the Spider Web Launcher, this talent was no longer particularly important to him.
The Spider Brand Running Shoes have already increased his movement speed by twenty percent.
As for [ Three Attributes as One ], Joo Joowon guessed that it was essentially a combination of the Strength talents [ Perfect Impact ] and [ Overdrive Surge ].
The difference was that [ Perfect Impact ] directly transformed a player into a combat genius.
The instincts granted by that talent alone were enough to rival trained fighters who had spent years mastering combat techniques.
[ Three Attributes as One ], on the other hand, merely allowed players to coordinate their own attributes more effectively.
If someone lacked actual combat knowledge and only knew how to throw wild punches, then this talent would be far less useful than [ Perfect Impact ].
To put it simply, this was a talent that truly shined in the hands of highly skilled players.
Ordinary players would be better off choosing something else instead.
Joo Joowon was self aware enough to know his own limits, so he never seriously considered that talent at all.
After confirming his choice of talent, there was currently nothing else that required his attention.
He picked up the Arm Shield he had unequipped earlier and strapped it back onto his arm to test it.
Just as Joo Joowon had expected, the Arm Shield could still be used normally.
It had simply lost its attribute bonuses.
Because he had previously used the Arm Shield to block attacks from the Spider Chimera, its surface had been corroded until it was full of pits and scars.
However, it had not been completely destroyed, and at the very least, its built in effects still remained.
The problem was that it was impossible to accurately estimate how much life the equipment still had left in it.
Equipment without durability values really did seem far less reliable.
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