[Beep, skill "Healing Flash" proficiency has reached maximum, please select the upgrade direction.]

[Choice 1: Bathed in Flash, skill recovery speed increased by 50% per second.]

[Option 2: Penetrating Flash, the penetrating damage caused by the skill increases the attack power by 40%.]

[Option 3: Purification Flash, increases resistance effect, and resistance to negative buffs is increased by 20% during the skill duration.]

There are three options this time.

Looking at the pop-up windows on the skill panel, Gu Qiongsheng propped up his chin and fell into deep thought.

Unlike the subsequent branching of the first skill, if I remember correctly, her choice this time will directly determine the future development direction of the second skill.

If you choose the first one, the recovery amount of the second skill will increase with each upgrade, until it finally becomes a powerful continuous healing skill. As long as you are not killed instantly, you can slowly recover by relying on the treatment once per second.

If you choose the second one, the second skill will continuously strengthen its penetration effect, and will also have an armor-breaking effect. When the skill is finally released, the flash will spread everywhere, and the enemy in the center will be turned into a sieve in minutes.

As for the third one...

There is only a simple sentence "Resistance effect +20%."

Subsequent upgrades will only continue to increase the resistance until the purification effect is finally achieved.

Compared with the first two options, it can be said to be very insignificant.

But Gu Qiongsheng looked at the system panel and curled the corners of his lips cunningly.

"I choose direction three."

What’s the point of healing? Does she look like someone who lacks group healing skills?

The same goes for attacking. Even though the system panel doesn't have many attacking skills, she still has her own mental power.

Moreover, "Piercing Flash" has very strict requirements on the position. If the opponent stands a little further away, the penetrating effect of the skill will be difficult to trigger.

As a designer, Gu Qiongsheng knew very well that the first two options were designed to deceive players.

Although upgraded skills can be reset and reconstructed in the game, 20% of the proficiency will be lost, and you will also need to purchase the paid item "Reconstruction Stone", which requires purchasing as many stones as the level has been upgraded.

At the time, the planner was standing in Gu Qiongsheng's office, holding his hands on his waist and proudly announcing, "Once their characters have trained enough, I'll launch a new type of trial dungeon. It'll have full debuffs and poisoned bosses. Without practicing 'Purification', you'll be unable to move forward. Hahahaha!"

He looked so annoying that even his colleague Gu Qiongsheng wanted to hit him.

He is always cheating people out of their money.

Now Gu Qiongsheng certainly cannot fall into the trap herself, and she has no channels for in-game purchases. If she makes the wrong choice, she may not even have the chance to rebuild.

Although she was not quite sure what the effects of "resistance" and "purification" would be in reality, the particularity of "purification" was there, so Gu Qiongsheng had to choose it no matter what.

After the upgrade, both of her skills are of second-level rare quality.

In addition, Gu Qiongsheng also accumulated 5 skill points. She happily clicked on the new skill she had longed for -

[Learnable skills: Healing Light Array]

[Skill Quality: Rare]

[Skill Effect: Healing is performed within a one-meter radius centered on the caster, with recovery effect increased by 500 points/s, lasting for 10 seconds.]

[Learning consumes 5 skill points. Do you want to learn?]

"study!"

[Beep, the skill "Healing Light Array" has been acquired.]

[Proficiency required for upgrading: 0/1000]

Although this skill does not last as long as the healing flash, it has no limit on the number of people it can heal. It can heal as many people as can be squeezed into the circle area, and the amount of healing per second is large, making it a truly powerful healing skill.

With subsequent upgrades, its treatment range will be further expanded.

After glancing at the new skills for a while, Gu Qiongsheng closed the system panel and said, "Practice hard and try to gain enough experience to advance to the next level before the second round of competition."

This is equivalent to accumulating an extra blue bar on the field, and its importance is self-evident.

…

In the next two weeks, Gu Qiongsheng continued to nurse his classmates in Class F while doing intensive training with his teammates.

The F class as a whole has undergone earth-shaking changes. Almost all of them have been nurtured by Gu Qiong to the E level. A few of the top students with particularly strong training momentum have even been nurtured to the threshold of D.

Gu Qiongsheng only helped them recover quickly. How much their mental strength could actually increase depended on their own efforts. Some people were particularly hard on themselves, so they would gain more.

But the most ruthless ones are Gu Qiongsheng and his teammates.

They guarded Qin Yuan's training room and trained themselves to death every day. Under such high-intensity training, their mental strength naturally increased.

On the fifth day before the start of the second round of competition, Weng Yu's mental power officially broke through 1500 points.

He was the last student in Gu Qiongsheng's team to break through 1500 points.

This meant that from this day on, Team A1056 would be composed entirely of D-rank members. Although this configuration was still somewhat inferior to the seeded team of Class A, it was not much different.

What's more, Gu Qiongsheng has upgraded skills at hand.

After one shot of milk, mental strength is quickly restored, and the total amount is equivalent to several times that of D level.

"Huh, this result should be better than last time."

Having just finished a training session, Gu Qiongsheng wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel and smiled at Qin Yuan, who was waiting outside: "How's it going? Are you almost done opening up your advanced training chamber?"

Qin Yuan looked at the control panel, his slender fingers moving the screen, his eyes soft: "... Well, very impressive, I've already opened up a small part of it."

"Only half?" Gu Qiongsheng buried his face in the towel and took a breath. "Hmm, it seems that there is still a long way to go."

Qin Yuan gave her a thumbs up and said, "This is already great. Don't forget that this is a training cabin prepared for students at the War Academy."

"Even if you can't pass the level now, it shouldn't be a problem for you to win the inter-school league championship."

Gu Qiongsheng murmured softly: "Actually, I don't think it's a big problem..."

But then she covered her cheeks again: "No, no, I can't be so arrogant. I have to be low-key in life and high-profile in work."

Qin Yuan smiled and shook his head.

"Anyway, I wish you all victory in advance."

After saying that, he looked at the training results records on the screen, which were getting better and better, with his eyes slightly lowered.

Ever since Gu Qiongsheng said to put his name in the substitute column, this inter-school league became different for him.

...want to win.

I want to make every effort to help the girl win easily.

Even if he only plays a supporting role from a distance, he is still considered to have participated in this league.

Even if his name could not appear in the announcement, it seemed as if he had joined Gu Qiongsheng's team, just like in a dream, and fought side by side with the girl in front of him.

"Please."

Qin Yuan's voice was very soft, a voice that only he could hear: "Take me... to experience it again."

——That feeling of tit-for-tat and accelerated heartbeat on the field.

He is really, really missed.

Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, only three days were left.

Gu Qiongsheng finally received a message from the organizer, informing them of the location of the new round of competition: Weilun Star.

A spaceship ticket will also be given for 12 noon three days later.

"Wei Lun Star..."

Qin Yuan tapped his slender fingers on the stone table. "It's quite far from Tianyuan Star, but closer to the Great Sally Galaxy. If I remember correctly, that was the recaptured area a few years ago."

Before the emergence of the psychic warriors, the human coalition was defeated by the powerful and seemingly inexhaustible Zerg, and was on the verge of being reached by the enemy. Many planets were lost, including Weilun.

Later, relying on the brand-new mental power system, humans launched a Jedi counterattack, caught the Zerg off guard, recaptured many planets one by one, and pushed the front line back to the Great Sally Galaxy.

It was also at that time that the planet Weilun returned to the embrace of mankind.

"But when the three legions set foot on that planet, they found that it had become a dead star."

Qin Yuan's voice was a little heavy: "All the energy in the core was sucked away, and replaced by a strange gravitational force. The entire planet collapsed inwards."

"All the buildings collapsed, all life on the surface was killed by the Zerg, and the corpses were torn apart by the chaotic magnetic field. The entire surface of the planet was covered with a thick layer of white ash..."

His voice gradually faded.

Gu Qiongsheng listened quietly, his hands hanging under the table clenched quietly.

Qin Yuan smiled bitterly and raised his head: "There's nothing I can do. This is the Zerg. Greedy, cruel, vicious, and without the slightest empathy."

"Our mortal enemy, the mortal enemy of the universe."

"The organizers chose the second round of the competition on Planet Weilun, probably to let everyone see more clearly the consequences of humanity's failure."

Gu Qiongsheng lowered his head and said "hmm" softly.

The atmosphere is a bit depressing.

Qin Yuan looked off into the distance and changed the subject: "By the way, why didn't that boy come today?"

Gu Qiongsheng raised his head: "Weng Wei?"

Qin Yuan nodded.

Gu Qiongsheng: "Well, he asked for a few days off. He said he received a communication from home and had to go back for something urgent."

"It just so happens that his home isn't far away, on the nearby Pure Stone Planet. The round trip by spacecraft takes two days, and he has half a day in between to handle things. Time is a bit tight, but it's enough."

…

In Gu Qiongsheng's heart, Weng Wei is a very reliable person.

Although the little fat boy has a gentle temperament, he is never hesitant when putting up his shield during training, and his timing is very accurate. He is a very good defensive partner.

When Weng Wei just arrived home, he sent them a message to let them know he was safe and promised that he would get back to school on time the next day.

But the next morning, Gu Qiongsheng and his group waited for several hours, and even when the spaceship was about to take off, there was no sign of Weng Wei.

All the messages sent fell on deaf ears.

Weng Wei unilaterally cut off contact with them.

The team members waited anxiously. Tan Yao was so anxious that he kept pacing around, asking, "Is it possible?"

"Did he get on the spaceship?"

"How long will it take? We're going to be too late!"

Gu Qiongsheng was also very anxious, but as the team leader, she still tried to comfort the team members and said, "Don't worry, wait a little longer."

"Could it be that the communication flow on the spacecraft is poor and the message cannot be received?"

As soon as she finished speaking, her personal terminal suddenly vibrated several times.

It is an unfamiliar temporary communication request.

Several people hurried over and watched Gu Qiongsheng open the communication.

A chaotic buzzing sound of electricity came from the screen, along with Weng Wei's painful cry: "Captain! I can't go back. I'm sorry!"

The signal was extremely poor. The entire screen was flickering with patterns, and with half of Weng Wei's fat face crying loudly, the buzzing sound of the electric current made his voice fragmented.

"My parents took money from others and locked me in the house, not allowing me to go out. My personal terminal was also confiscated. I took advantage of them being out at work to break the door lock and escape, but it was too late. I missed the spaceship..."

"I'm sorry, Captain. I'm holding the team back. I'm sorry!"