The Ability Ledger

The night he hit his head, a 【Ability Ledger】 appeared before Lin Ye's eyes. Observation, endurance, stealth... abilities are divided into five tiers: white, green, blue, purple, and orange. Proficiency levels up through repeated use; when ability slots are full, learning a new ability requires forgetting an old one, and all proficiency is permanently cleared, irreversible. In a world where awakened ones are increasing, hunters run rampant, and the black market coexists with the Control Bureau, he only wants to survive with two blank-slate skills. Until he picks up the first ability fragment in an abandoned warehouse and finds machine bite marks on it; until he sneaks into the Control Bureau's underground server room and sees thousands of fragments neatly displayed, mass-produced like merchandise; until a line of gray warning he has never seen pops up in his vision— 【Perception module deviation from standard threshold detected. Initiating retrieval protocol.】 Lin Ye then realizes: the ability ledger he thought was a cheat is not a gift at all, but a chain. And he is the malfunctioning sample that needs to be retrieved. Since there's no going back, then reverse it—drag the hidden hand behind this ledger, along with the entire secret, into the light. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Ability Ledger — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠