Four Split Personalities

The next second

Bang!!

Motan felt himself violently crash onto the ground, and at the same time, he heard a short cry of pain. "Sorry, but you’re just too heavy." The petite apprentice Alchemist knelt beside Motan, her mouth slightly pursed with a trace of embarrassment in her ethereal and elusive voice, "I just wanted to help you sit up, after all, the ground is cold..." Motan didn’t catch the rest of her words because he couldn’t understand why he could still see Luna when time had already... An emotionless voice suddenly rang beside his ear again. [System Alert: Your Talent ’Premonition’ has evolved into: ’Sage’s Foresight’]

What’s this?

Motan shook his head, somewhat bewildered, and subconsciously opened his character panel...

[Sage’s Foresight]

Active Talent

Exclusive to Hei Fan

Usage Restriction: Can only be activated when you are about to be forcibly logged off due to unstable mental state.

Effect 1: Once activated, offline time is postponed for fifteen minutes. During this time, your Physical Strength Value consumption is locked at zero, mental strain is reduced to 1% (the normal rate is 35%), movement speed decreases by 10%, you receive a 30% damage mitigation, and are immune to any form of interruption/disturbance/control.

Effect 2: When [Sage’s Foresight] lasts until 14 minutes and 45 seconds, you will be able to foresee the state you are about to switch to in advance. This effect can be actively triggered, and at the 15th second after activation, you will be forcibly logged off.

Effect 3: When [Sage’s Foresight] reaches 14 minutes and 59 seconds, you will suffer damage equal to 95% of your Health Points maximum, which cannot be exempted in any form.

Effect 4: Upon the next login, you will gain the [Exhaustion] state for 1.5 times the duration of the current [Sage’s Foresight] period. During [Exhaustion], your Physical Strength Value consumption will be 200%, mental strain will not receive any system reductions, and all damage taken is increased by 60%.

Cooldown: 3 hours (of online time)

[Remark: In fact, instead of ’sage’... ’fool’ might be a more fitting definition for you.]

...

"Ha, hahaha..."

Motan rubbed his sweat-drenched hair, laughing nervously a couple of times, before slowly getting up again leaning on the table and murmuring softly, "I love you, System-chan~"

Because he had suddenly relieved his stress, he even felt like joking.

’Motan!’

"Hei Fan!"

Yu Chen’s message appeared in the center of Motan’s vision, and at the same time, Luna’s call reached him from behind.

’I’m okay, don’t worry, keep following the current route, everything will be fine.’

’What about you? How are you doing?’

’I’ve always been here.’

After replying to Yu Chen tangentially, Motan turned and smiled at Luna, who had just risen from the ground, "I’m fine, don’t worry about it."

The girl with a slight frown gently nodded and then pointed at the corner of Motan’s mouth in confusion, "Then why are you spitting blood?"

"Bit my tongue."

Motan answered casually, and rapidly scanned the intelligence continuously being fed back by Eagle Eye Team Seven. He replicated the location and surrounding status of Yu Chen and the others in his mind with unprecedented speed and began to deduce the situation.

Because both the mental strain and physical strength consumption were virtually at zero, he felt no burden at all. On the contrary, he fell into a surprisingly comfortable state, easily maintaining high concentration, scrutinizing the situation with clarity and composure. All the risks, flaws, and dangers became blatantly apparent, leaving no detail overlooked, no corner ignored. At least in this moment, centered on the two long bridges of the Southern Territory of Misha County, with the Princess’s Guard and the eight Eagle Eye squads within a hundred miles of coverage, for Motan...

There were no secrets!

It wasn’t that he had unlocked some kind of base X lock or triggered a mini X universe; in fact, all of the above had not exceeded the limits of Motan’s abilities. To be exact, it was something he could do easily when in top condition. However, a series of high-load, real-time commands had already pushed him to the edge of collapse, overdrawing both his body and mind to the limit. Maintaining optimal condition had been nothing short of a joke.

But the sudden evolution of [Premonition] provided a chance for that joke to become reality...

Within fifteen minutes, Physical Strength Value consumption is zero, and mental strain is reduced to 1%.

Clearly, these two effects, which made Motan spontaneously say ’I love you, System-chan,’ were strong and useful enough that now he could even give instructions to the four Eagle Eye squads while talking to Luna and guide Yu Chen and the rest with a frequency of fewer than ten seconds per instruction.

"I really just bit my tongue, that’s all. Speaking of which, is Basaka nearby?"

Motan asked Luna, who was sitting next to him, and then slightly squinted his eyes while standing in front of the map, rapidly editing commands in the five message boxes within his view—

’Team Three, you have fifty seconds to move to the next observation area. Contact me after reaching the high point, and watch out for the enemy.’

’Team Seven, except for the two Thieves, everyone else log off on the spot. Log back in after four minutes of real time. After reassembling at the previous observation area you were in charge of, rush back to the Hodiern Mountain Path. "Benboer Ba" and "Ba Boer Ben," you two take a detour to the left of this group of Mutants that we have locked on. Throw out all the revival powder stock you were given earlier and immediately use [Escape] to break away from combat. Log off as soon as possible without confirming the results of the battle; I’ve had Team Four watching you since thirty seconds ago.’