Chapter 14: The Scarcity of Support System Superpower Users

The night passed without a word.

The next morning,

when Lu Heng woke, he saw Su Muyu sleeping soundly beside him, face down.

Due to the injuries on her back, she could only sleep face down, her chest pressing against the bedding, making it even more prominent and causing an indentation in the mattress.

Lu Heng lay on his side, watching her sleep, his mind filled with memories—only, many of those memories hadn't happened yet...

After a while, Su Muyu's eyebrows twitched, and she couldn't hold back a smile, quickly burying her head in the pillow and muttering, "Why are you staring at me?"

She hadn't opened her eyes from start to finish, but her strong perception allowed her to sense that Lu Heng was watching her.

"Did you fall asleep?" Lu Heng asked.

"Yes... I did."

Su Muyu nodded, confirming she had indeed fallen asleep the previous night, likely from exhaustion, or maybe because she felt safe; she slept soundly, surprisingly even to herself.

Upon waking, Lu Heng first checked her wounds and changed her dressing.

"The wounds are healing pretty well," Lu Heng said, helping her pull down her clothes after changing the dressing.

Lifting her clothing each time they changed the dressing wasn't something she thought about last night due to the pain, but today, with less pain, she began to feel shy, as lifting the clothes revealed her bra.

Moreover, her back was quite lean and from there the front curvature was somewhat visible.

Once the dressing was changed, her face was as flushed as if she had a high fever; she hurriedly grabbed a blanket and draped it over herself, looking like a startled deer.

Su Muyu shook her head quickly and found a topic to cover her embarrassment: "I feel my injuries are healing quickly."

Lu Heng explained lightly, "Superpower users definitely recover faster than ordinary people; you're already a superpower user."

"That's right."

Having awakened just last night, Su Muyu still found it hard to adjust her mentality.

She checked her physical state and said, "My spirit has also recovered."

As anticipated, Quenching Castle indeed isolated spiritual pollution.

Thus, after a night's rest, her spiritual power had returned to full capacity.

Lu Heng sat at the desk, took out last night's "Invisibility Veil" crystal core, and considered whether to use this skill crystal core.

Lu Heng currently had only three skill slots and had already learned two skills, "Thunder Weapon" and "Shadow Clone," leaving just one skill slot available.

If he used the "Invisibility Veil" crystal core, his skill slots would be filled, and any additional skill crystal cores obtained later couldn't be used.

From a practical standpoint, the skill "Invisibility Veil" was indeed very useful, but it didn't increase direct combat capabilities.

Thus, Lu Heng weighed the pros and cons of learning this skill.

Su Muyu leaned over, saw the skill crystal core, and asked, "What is this crystal core?"

"A very practical skill," Lu Heng answered, handing the crystal core to her to inspect.

Su Muyu took the crystal core, checked the skill effect, and commented, "This skill is really useful, similar to the invisible horned demon from last night."

Lu Heng agreed, "Indeed, it's very useful. However, I only have one skill slot left, so there's no space to learn this skill."

Su Muyu thought about it and asked, "Looking at the skill description, this skill can be applied to other objects, so can it also be used on other people?"

The effect of the "Invisibility Veil" was like a layer of invisible film covering the surface of an object, granting it optical invisibility.

Lu Heng nodded and replied, "Yes, it can be used on other people."

Su Muyu pondered a bit, then said, "Then I will learn this skill. Hmm... if it's not suitable, we can also sell it."

She had five skill slots and had already learned one skill, "Summoning Reconnaissance Hawk," leaving four skill slots available, which was quite sufficient for learning this skill.

Since this skill could be applied to others, it leaned towards a supportive skill.

"That is to say, if she learned this skill, she could provide Lu Heng with invisibility."

However, thinking that this Skill Crystal Core must be incredibly precious, she felt greedy for asking to learn it, so she finally retracted and suggested selling it instead.

Lu Heng thought for a moment and said, "Let's not sell it. Initially, it might fetch a few hundred thousand, but later, it might not be buyable even for tens of millions. If you want to learn it, then learn it.

"However, you need to understand that this skill cannot enhance your combat power.

"The Reconnaissance Hawk currently cannot provide combat power either. With this, your first two skills also lack combat power."

Su Muyu swung her legs, smiling beautifully, and said, "I'll support you. Don't all those online games you guys play have support roles?"

Hearing this, Lu Heng was slightly taken aback, feeling a sense of trust that came from her.

He even felt that this trust had come too quickly.

After all, it had been less than two weeks since he had returned. In her memory, he was just a stranger who she had never spoken to before.

It seemed that after her life trajectory had changed, having not experienced the hardships of her previous life, she was more trusting than he remembered.

She was even willing to take on support skills voluntarily, without worrying about not having attack skills.

In fact, most Superpower Users were reluctant to learn support skills.

Because the number of Skill Slots was limited, every slot used was one less available.

As the Abyss gradually devoured Blue Star, the human world would undergo earth-shattering changes.

The world's order and rules would be rewritten.

The human living environment would also become incredibly dangerous.

Thus, acquiring self-protection capabilities was the primary goal for most Superpower Users.

Especially at the onset of the Abyss Descent, almost all Superpower Users were looking for ways to increase their combat power.

After all, in an environment where order was collapsing, whoever held the power held the truth.

Therefore, Superpower Users willing to support others were rare unless they were part of a close-knit group of friends or relatives who would choose someone to learn support skills.

Even so, the person selected often was reluctant, as supporting others meant putting their lives in someone else's hands.

For this reason, during the early stages of the Abyss Descent, quality support system Superpower Users were extremely scarce.

Many Superpower Users, even if their Initial Talent leaned towards the support system, would forcefully develop towards combat systems.

However, excellent support system Superpower Users could bring significant enhancements to a team.

It could be said that a mature team of Superpower Users had to have someone make sacrifices.

When two Superpower User teams of equal levels encountered each other, if one had support personnel and the other did not, the team without support personnel would lose, no fighting required.

Not to mention anything else, just the Invisibility capability alone was enough to doom a team without the Detecting Invisibility capability.

To address this problem, some teams during the early stages of the Abyss Descent chose for each member to learn a support skill.

This approach indeed solved the issue of support capabilities, but it led to combat system Superpower Users in the team having one fewer skill in direct confrontations.

Moreover, most support system skills related to Spiritual and Perception Attributes.

For example, the "Detecting Invisibility" range of the Reconnaissance Hawk skill depended on the Perception Attribute; the higher the perception, the wider the range of detecting invisibility.

However, the Perception Attribute did not increase direct combat power.

Thus, teams where each member learned a support skill became weaker over time, not only deficient in skills for direct confrontation but also with less effective support skill effects due to low Spiritual and Perception Attributes, overwhelmed by the opposing team's support system Superpower Users.

Only in the second year of the Abyss Descent did this situation slowly begin to change.

Top-tier organizations of Superpower Users started investing resources to groom support system Superpower Users.

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