’Benjamin, an SS-Rank Unique Skill?’
His teammates stared at him, skeptical until he showed it to them.
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>Description: You played your role as the jester in the team, calming nerves with your unique sense of humor, and when it mattered, you came up clutch with your skill as an Elementalist. Also, you were part of the 2 last men standingDescription: You are an enigmatic Elementalist. With this unique skill, you can infuse your magic with humor, launching unpredictable attacks that deal damage based on the pun delivered. The ability randomly cycles through elements (fire, water, air, earth) while delivering a joke related to that element. The more groan-worthy the pun, the greater the chance of a critical hitIf an enemy audibly groans (a special sound cue), they take additional psychic damage from sheer embarrassmentWhen triggered, it also helps allies. Allies within range gain a morale boost, temporarily increasing their critical hit chance----
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Noah and the rest of his teammates were so shocked by what they saw that their jaws were left hanging. ’What the...!’
Reading their thoughts despite the fact that their monotonic in-game Avatars didn’t have much facial expressions like Noah’s reincarnated Avatar, Benjamin felt it. Definitely, there was a joke hiding here, somewhere.
He grinned. "Ya’ll didn’t believe in me?"
"Well God did," he chuckled. "Even the game server believes in this big brother’s sense of humor, you all need to grow up".
Caleb stared at him, totally impressed. "I didn’t see that coming".
Noah stared at him with wide eyes. "That..., that’s crazy!"
"Lucky bastard! Even I didn’t get an SS-Rank unique skill". Aria grumbled.
Staring at Benjamin as he basked in all the attention that suddenly went his way, Genevieve shivered, horrified. "To think even the game endorses your silly jokes..., the world has gone crazy!" She exclaimed.
"Even when it was not endorsed, you never stopped". She stared in horror. "God! I’d die from cringe at this rate".
Benjamin chuckled. "Come on baby girl, don’t be like that".
Despite being totally shocked by the first reveal, in the end, they managed to calm down, focusing on the next.
Aria went next, showing them her reward from the unique skill challenge.
Unlike Benjamin, she only got an S-ranked Unique Skill but it was a sufficiently powerful one, one suited for combat and her playing style.
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>Description: You played your role to perfection as the frontline attacker, one of the main DBS Avatars in the team. When it mattered, you came up clutch, forming a devastating attacking combo with your Combat Mage teammateDescription: A berserker’s defiance given form. When you are on the verge of death, you become an unstoppable war goddess, gaining immense power and refusing to fall until you’re either victorious or every last ounce of your strength is spent---
Despite the fact that Aria didn’t get an SS-Rank unique skill like Benjamin, clearly, what she got was unique.
Afterall, players were not supposed to enter red blood state.
What she got was essentially a Warstar boss inheritance.
Trust Benjamin, making another pun joke to make the reveal suddenly awkward, forcing Genevieve to almost attack him if not for a timely Caleb intervention. In the end, she revealed her reward next.
Just like Aria, Genevieve got an S-Rank Unique Skill.
To put this into perspective, S-Rank Unique Skills are not candies that are just found along the roadside. They were the pinnacle of Unique Skills in Warstar before the recent server update.
The previous team Cyber Squad had only 1 Avatar with an S-rank unique skill, Noah’s Stinger of War, but now his team already had 2 S-Rank unique skill holders and an SS-Rank unique skill holder.
Genevieve’s S-Rank unique skill was also an OP one.
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>Description: You played your role to perfection as the protector of the team. Despite how exhausting it was, you were always a reliable Cleric. Most importantly, you defeated death in a moment of God-like skill to escape deathDescription: A divine hymn passed down through the ages, allowing the Cleric to turn fallen allies into temporary holy revenants. Instead of reviving them permanently, they reawaken for a short duration in a state of divine overdrive, with enhanced stats and immunity to status effects, before ultimately fading back into death----
Genevieve stared at them, amused at their reactions. "So, basically, my job is still keeping everyone alive, except now I get to bring people back just to let them die again. Wonderful".
"Sensational!" Benjamin chipped in with a chuckle.
With almost all their rewards accounted for already, they could not help but pay attention to the last of them, Caleb even as his words the other time replayed in their heads.
Was Caleb maybe just joking?
Unfortunately, he was not. Caleb showed them his reward.
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>Description: You played your role in the team as the Summoner. Your summons helped in defeating the dungeon, acting as appropriate support for your teammates. But sometimes, you got too comfortable supporting. You were overshadowed by your teammatesDescription: A mathematical spellcraft that allows the Summoner to calculate and predict an enemy’s next attack, creating a one-time counterplay based on probability. However, the skill is unreliable as its entirely based on the accuracy of the calculations which means at a miscalculation, the effect could be completely useless----
The others finally reacted, understanding why Caleb only got an A-rank unique skill. It was subjective.
In the hand of any other player, indeed, this unique skill was properly useless, the weakest A-rank unique skill ever. But in Caleb’s hands?
Noah shuddered. ’This...!’
’The math genius just got wings to fly!’