My Ability Is Role-playing-Chapter 280 - 279: The Most Terrifying Superpower Erosion

Judge.

Judge!

Subconsciously walking over to Wu Di's side, Wang Shuyin finally snapped back to reality. What exactly does this word mean?

It sounds like a title such as Prophet or Martial God...

Yet it also somehow makes one think of Superpower names like "God" or "Yin Yang Master" that match the title.

If it were someone else saying this, Wang Shuyin would just assume they were simply having a bout of adolescent fantasy.

But the person who said this is Prophet Ma Ran!

A person with the Limited Foreknowledge ability, Ma Ran!

Wang Shuyin's heart was pounding wildly, his breath becoming rapid, his pupils slightly dilated, and he felt sweat beginning to form in his palms.

He moved forward a couple of steps, reaching the mouth of the well.

By this time, a Victory Stone had already been absorbed by Wu Di, completely shattered and vanished without a trace.

A brand new Victory Stone was forming in the Octagonal Stone Well.

Wang Shuyin took a deep breath: "I can do it!"

"Since Senior Ma Ran says I can, then…I can definitely do it!"

In the next moment, he slowly reached his right hand toward the mouth of the well.

From within the icy Octagonal Stone Well, a chilling air exuded, penetrating into the depths of the bone marrow, causing one's body to tremble slightly.

A strangely shaped stone slowly floated out from the well's mouth, flew into Wang Shuyin's palm, to be absorbed and fused by him.

A massive amount of information and brand new instincts surged into his mind.

"Is this my superpower?"

Instinctively, Wang Shuyin closed his eyes, attempting to quickly absorb and master these new elements.

From a distance, the sound of the seniors' discussions arose.

"Wu Di, what superpower did you awaken?"

"Taunt, can force enemies within a hundred meters to attack oneself. The stronger the enemy's spiritual will, the weaker the taunt effect. The superpower erosion phenomenon is… personality change, gradually becoming habitually sarcastic and having a sharp tongue."

"???

"Hey, no, this ability sounds alright. Although it's not a rule-enforcing type of ability, the superpower erosion phenomenon seems pretty weak too. For anyone else, it should be considered Pillar Level, right?"

"More or less."

"Yeah, but on Wu Di, it just… seems quite strange."

"Does this ability provide any enhancement to one's defense power?"

"No."

"Alright then!"

An otherwise powerful tanking ability, anyone who awakened this ability, as long as they wore special protective gear, could become their comrades' most solid shield on the battlefield, judged as Pillar Level without any issue.

But…

The overlap of this ability with Wu Di's inherent skills seems to be nearing a hundred percent…

He already possessed similar skills, and now with the Taunt ability, it seems somewhat redundant.

The same ability bestowed upon Wu Di gives off an under development feeling.

Wang Shuyin slowly opened his eyes.

Ma Ran happened to speak, giving an evaluation of Wu Di's ability: "It's alright."

"Consider those who failed to awaken their abilities."

Failing to awaken and not meeting the awakening standard are two different concepts.

Listening to Ma Ran's words, everyone's attitude changed slightly, the person involved, Wu Di, also breathed a sigh of relief, feeling much better.

So what if the ability is weak?

As long as he's alive!

After all, he can still cultivate the Seven Vortex Swordsmanship and Inner Qi Martial Arts, there's a long path on the extraordinary road that hasn't been walked.

Wu Di's situation is clearly not the most unlucky.

Anyone who successfully awakens a superpower can be considered lucky.

The most unfortunate are those who come into contact with wild Victory Stones but whose spirit and belief do not meet the standard.

They absorb the Victory Stone, fail to awaken superpowers, and instead invite disaster.

It might be a body bursting, a heart rotting, brain matter solidifying, or internal organs disappearing entirely…

Ways of dying varied dramatically.

The Super Bureau has done quite a bit of extraordinary knowledge dissemination and promotion regarding this issue.

Now, "Spiritual will must meet the standard for superpower awakening" has become common knowledge.

Only a few conspiracy theorists believe this to be an official conspiracy, not wanting to see the emergence of strong civil superpower users.

Such people…

Generally speaking, their ways of dying are not pleasant.

Besides, there are those with severe persecution delusions who, after obtaining a Victory Stone, cautiously isolate and store it, training their spiritual will before attempting self-awakening.

Doing so depends on luck.

After all, human subjective judgment is relatively vague and not clear or intuitive enough, unable to determine if they truly meet the standard.

The lucky ones successfully awaken their superpower.

The unlucky ones still meet the inevitable outcome of death.

The key issue is…

Such people really don't need to be so clever.

Anyone, as long as their spiritual will reaches the standard line, can pass mask detection assessments, be recruited into an Academic Society, all of which arrange for interaction with the Victory Stone and superpower awakening much more safely, with standardized processes, and hardly any accidents occur.

Moreover, the superpower recruitment channel doesn't consider gender or age. As long as there's no criminal record and one is a citizen of China, one can smoothly go through formal processes to become a new member of the Academic Society.

Taking Henan's "Yingchuan Academy" that focuses on superpowers as an example, as one of the country's earliest academies, Yingchuan Academy has already recruited members in three terms, the youngest previously in sixth grade, and the oldest, aged fifty-eight this year.

Of course, most members are between fifteen and forty years old.

In conclusion, people who "failed to awaken superpowers" end up miserably, but most are not deserving of sympathy.

Being overly stubborn, egotistical, and assuming the worst of others naturally warrants taking responsibility for one's actions and words.

Within the group that decides on self-awakening, weren't there those who succeeded?

The same task, carried out by those individuals, can be termed "self-confidence."

The World is indeed this harsh.

Everyone ultimately has to be responsible for themselves.

Only…

Some people have been spoiled by a stable and peaceful society, believing the whole world ought to indulge them.

Even President Huang Weiguo and the "Holy Father" He Nanguang of Fulan Academy couldn't bring themselves to sympathize with such people.

"Senior Ma Ran!"

Wang Shuyin walked dreamily in front of Ma Ran, a complex expression crossing his face: "The superpower I awakened is exactly as you predicted, called 'Judge.'

It is still in a non-activated state."

"I won't discuss the specific abilities for now, but let's talk about the superpower erosion…"

Speaking of this, Wang Shuyin's tone turned somber: "The superpower erosion of 'Judge' consists of two parts."

"The first part is the price that must be paid upon the initial activation of the ability—physical death."

"Once the body dies, only the soul remains, and it can never possess another body, even if it's its own clone, it cannot assimilate."

"The second part is when the total capacity of the superpower reaches its limit, causing the spiritual will to be crushed, resulting in the soul being lost."