When You Become an NPC That Might Die Any Moment in the Novice Village

The Dark Domain Insect Clan Empress hesitated for a moment but still charged towards those three Catastrophe ranked individuals.

Acid surged around her body, creating high walls like giant waves, carving out a space for the Secret Tower Master.

The members of the Alliance immediately realized what the Secret Tower Master intended to do.

"No way!"

They launched an attack on the wall of acid together, with the three Catastrophe ranked individuals leading the charge. The wall of acid trembled, clearly unable to hold for much longer. The situation was extremely tense.

"Just a minute, no, give me half a minute!"

The Secret Tower Master sneered.

He stared at the display of the detector and, after a few seconds, along with two soft beeps, his gaze locked onto an empty area of space.

It had to be there, Bai Fu was hiding right there!

"Bai Fu, you can run..."

He cut himself off halfway through the shout.

There was a problem!

He clearly saw the stable numbers on the detector beginning to fluctuate again, rising rapidly, far faster than he had imagined!

"This..."

The Secret Tower Master suddenly thought of a possibility and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

Seeing him like this, the Dark Domain Insect Clan Empress, who was facing off against three opponents, couldn't help but roar in urgency.

"What are you standing there for?"

"I..."

The Secret Tower Master wanted to say something, but it was as if something was stuck in his throat.

...

In reality, the moment Bai Fu used Shadow Substitute to evade an attack from the Secret Tower Master, she pressed the level-up button.

A series of prompts followed.

[Awakening successful]

[You have unlocked the new profession 'Apostle Walker', current Level Lv1, Power +1, Agility +2, Constitution +3, Inspiration +8, attribute points +7]

[You have completed your first Awakening, each point of Constitution now converts to +15 Life Value and +20 Spiritual Ability Value]

[You have gained the Catastrophe ranked Talent 'Catastrophe Crown']

[You have comprehended new Skills 'Advanced Spiritual Energy Precision Control', 'Prayer Card Fusion']

[You have comprehended the new Skill 'Dark Force Field']

[Your exclusive Talent 'Dual Moon' has advanced to 'Sovereign Moon']

In that instant, Bai Fu felt every cell in her body, every energy, every component, bursting with elation.

Elation for the Awakening!

Elation for the ascension of life!

It was coming, it was truly coming!

Whoosh—

Terrifying power surged from the depths of Bai Fu's body like a tidal wave.

When her main profession's Total Level rose from 110 to 111, she felt as if she had finally emerged from the tumultuous undercurrents and arrived on the boundless surface of the ocean. The ultimate feeling of refreshment soaked into her, and she felt as if the world had become much more vivid.

"Is this what it feels like to be at the Catastrophe level?"

After Awakening, her conversion ratio of Constitution to Life Value rose to 1:85, Inspiration to Spiritual Ability Value to 1:70, and her base recovery rates for Life Value and Spiritual Ability Value also significantly increased. Compared to before the Awakening, it was a radical change.

But the changes brought about by the Awakening were far from just these.

New Skills, new Talents, special rank bonuses... it was the combination of all these that truly made one Catastrophe Level!

Bai Fu quickly reviewed the game prompts she had received.

First off was the bonus for reaching Catastrophe rank.

Catastrophe, Dominator, and Super Supreme ranks, these three awakenings, each would bring various bonuses to attributes, Resistance, and more.

The bonuses obtained by different individuals during Awakening varied. Bai Fu gained five bonuses from the Talent 'Catastrophe Crown':

1. All Attributes +10%;

2. All Resistance +10%;

3. Physical Damage Reduction Rate +5%.

4. All Spiritual Ability Skills' energy consumption -20%, effect +25%;

5. Prayer Card effects +25% (with level progression, the bonus effect would continue to increase).

Each bonus was crucial, either increasing her durability, damage output, or endurance. Because these bonuses were percentage-based, their effects wouldn't become outdated as she leveled up.

Next, Bai Fu reviewed her newly unlocked Skills and her evolved exclusive Talent.

'Advanced Spiritual Energy Precision Control', when leveled up to Lv10, reduced the energy cost from 25% to 40% compared to the intermediate skill, and if she willed it, the Skill would no longer cause any damage to "friendly forces", which could be described as a Divine Skill.

'Prayer Card Fusion' had two effects.

One was that it could fuse two identical Prayer Cards into a more powerful card of the same type, and this Skill wasn't limited by the level cap of the Prayer Cards. For instance, a Lv10 little Black Fu could be fused into a Lv11 super little Black Fu.

Of course, this fusion wasn't endlessly stackable; one couldn't combine two Lv11 super little Black Fus to make a Lv12 super little Black Fu 2.

The second effect was being able to fuse summoned True Spirits from Prayer Cards. This fusion wouldn't enhance a True Spirit's attributes, but it could heal them through Fusion; broken + broken = new, an effect that was quite useful for large-scale Spiritual Ability Army combat.

'Dark Force Field' was an even more advanced version of 'Advanced Force Field', with a larger area of coverage, higher Damage Bonus, and most importantly, Bai Fu could now freely manipulate the "force" within the Field.

Previously, she could only apply overall effects such as compression, tearing, and repulsion to targets through the Force Field, but now she could control each part of it as freely as her hands. She could apply a compression effect on a target's thumb while tearing at the index finger and exerting a different effect elsewhere.