Talent Crystal

Hmm?

Henry looked up above the glass door. There indeed hung a wind chime. This is a common device used in stores. Every time someone comes in or leaves, the door opens and makes a sound, alerting the front desk that a customer needs to be greeted or sent off.

The sound of the wind chime was particularly clear and pleasant, with strong penetrating power. If it were accidentally triggered, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Fortunately, there was a prompt! Henry's heart pounded wildly with nervousness. He slowly stood up, exerted a little force, and snapped the string of the wind chime. Then he wrapped it in cloth, gently took it down, and placed it quietly on the table. He gently closed the door.

Through the glass door, he saw that the mutant zombies had not noticed anything unusual. Henry finally breathed a sigh of relief. With the music in the mall and the soundproofing of the glass door, even if there were zombies around, any noise he made would not be discovered!

Henry bypassed the reception and went straight to the equipment area. These fitness machines were currently the least useful things. With Energy Cores to rapidly enhance physical fitness, who would spend a lot of energy on working out? There was no supply box in the equipment area! No supply box in the treadmill area either!

Henry then walked into the bathing area. Finally, in the women's bathroom, he found the Level 2 supply box! It was a large, dark box with mysterious lined textures on it. The moment his hand touched the supply box, a prompt immediately popped up:

"Do you want to open it now? Yes/No?"

"Yes!"

The box responded to his command and opened by itself. Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained a Talent Crystal *1, a design for Durable Primary Energy Armor *1, Advanced Pet Food *1!

Talent Crystal: After use, it can add one talent point. In the case of dual talents, it adds one point to each talent!

Durable Primary Energy Armor Design: Requires [Energy Cores]*200, [Durable Leather]*20, [Clean Cloth]*500

Durable Primary Energy Armor: Automatically covers the entire body when sensing danger. Before it shatters, it can be immune to fall damage from heights up to 50 meters and equivalent levels of impact damage. Reduces 20% of other types of damage!

Advanced Pet Food: After use, it accelerates the growth of pets, effective only before adulthood (excluding adulthood)!

"Wow, is this what's inside a Level 2 supply box?" The contents are worlds apart compared to those in a Level 1 supply box!

Snow, looking at the Advanced Pet Food in Henry's hand, was drooling just from the smell alone. His front paws rested on Henry's legs, stretching his neck just to get closer to the food. His tail wagged like an electric fan!

"Alright, alright, I'll give it to you now!" Henry opened the box of pet food and placed it on the ground. Snow rushed over excitedly, almost stuffing his entire head into the box. He started eating noisily without looking up.

Henry picked up the Talent Crystal, a small red crystal. With a slight pressure of his fingers, the red crystal immediately shattered. A surge of energy instantly flowed through his fingers into his body!

Ding! Congratulations, you have gained a Genetic Evolution Direction talent point +1!

Ding! Congratulations, you have gained an Energy Evolution Direction talent point +1!

Then, Henry looked at the second row of talents. The talent tree required the first row to be illuminated before the second row would unlock! In the second row, there are two talent options for each direction:

Genetic Evolution Direction:

Feline Reflexes 0/3: Improves dodging, speed, and reaction ability by 33%!

Skill: Fury 0/1: Significantly boosts all attributes for a short period and reduces damage taken by 30%!

The duration and the attributes enhanced will increase with the survivor's level! The two talents in the Energy Evolution Direction are:

Skill: Energy Strike 0/1: Releases a powerful energy ray from the hands to destroy enemies! The damage depends on the upper limit of Energy Cores needed for the survivor's upgrade. The higher the limit, the stronger the damage inflicted.

Wealth Magnate 0/3: Increases the yield of non-special item resources gathered by 20%, and the initial 20% bonus also applies to other resources!

Now Henry has one talent point in each of these evolutionary directions! In this situation, what other choice is there, really?! Wouldn't it be wise to directly choose both skills?!

Upgrade talent: Skill: Energy Strike! Upgrade talent: Skill: Fury!

In an instant, two streams of energy, one red and one blue, surged into Henry's body. When he opened his eyes again, a sharp glint flashed through them! At this time, a small intertwining red and blue line appeared on the inside of his left wrist. It was only about one centimeter long. This small line is the talent line.

Survivors in the Genetic Evolution Direction have red lines on their wrists. Survivors in the Energy Evolution Direction have blue lines on their wrists. Henry's wrist displays intertwining red and blue lines. As more talent points are illuminated, this line will grow longer and the intertwined pattern will become more complex!

At this time, Snow also finished the Advanced Pet Food! Originally just a fluffy little bundle, the little fellow had now grown noticeably larger. Its body was now three to four decimeters long. Its vigorously wagging tail thumped against Henry's lower legs with quite some force!

The pet information immediately updated:

Pet Name: Snow 

Combat Pet Type: Metamorphosed Energy Beast - The Howling Wolf King 

Growth Stage: Juvenile Phase 1 

Favorite Food: Meat, zombies, mutant animals, mutant insects... 

Skills: 

Doubled Battle Prowess: Enters battle with a multiplied increase in size, strength, speed, and mass! 

Call of the Wild: Can summon two wolf cubs to join the battle; the cubs disappear after the battle!

"Can it also summon allies?" Henry smiled slightly. He hadn't expected this guy to be quite reliable! With this, it's four against four. At least in terms of numbers, the sides are now evenly matched!

"Let's go, let's see how strong we've become after this transformation!" Henry waved his hand! Snow shook his fur and suddenly, his size increased dozens of times! Previously, after doubling, his size was roughly equivalent to that of a large hunting dog like a Golden Retriever or an Alaskan Malamute. But this time, after doubling, he was as big as half a car, comparable to a strong male lion!

"Roar~" Snow bowed his head and nuzzled Henry's shoulder as a sign of submission! Together, the man and his pet approached the gym's entrance. At this time, three Crawlers had crawled over unknowingly.

One was on the ceiling outside the door, one on the ground, and another at the stairwell, voraciously chewing on the body of the Crawler that Henry had slain.

The music in the mall had increased a few notches, becoming somewhat noisy. This seemed to make the mutant zombies somewhat agitated.