[Common Talent — Ferocious Look]
[Effect: Anyone seeing your face for the first time will have their affection -5, fear +20.]
[Permanent: No.]
[Skill — Big Punch lv1.]
[Attack type: Fist and palm.]
[Effect: Basic physical attack. Enhanced by physique and spirit attributes. Critical strike on facial hit.]
[Permanent: Yes.]
[Note: Permanent equipment, skills, and talents are effective outside the Secret Realm, otherwise only within. Attribute points are unrestricted.]
"Are you kidding me? A common talent and a basic skill? And they don't even seem proper."
Li Rui twisted his hand, grabbing the puppet.
"No, no, no."
The puppet hurriedly explained, "I can only choose whether to grant you initial talents and skills, but the specific effects are random. It's not my fault, buddy. You're only level 1, so you can't possibly get any advanced abilities."
Not feeling any weakening of his power, it quickly continued, "Don't be fooled by the talent reducing affection; this is a game. You can clear it by persuading NPCs with affection or intimidating them. It works either way."
Li Rui agreed with this in his heart and then let go.
"Tell me more about this panel, what are those four attributes for?"
"Look carefully at the bottom; there's a detailed explanation... okay."
The puppet noticed the impatient look in his eyes, flinching as it explained, "Before your first class change, there are four attributes to choose from: Physique, Spirit, Luck, and Reaction."
"Physique determines the physical strength, endurance, and resilience to beatings, in short, the toughness of the body."
"Spirit determines the strength of skill usage, length of the mana bar, and the requirement threshold for learning some high-level skills. Of course, some attack skills, like your Big Punch, can be enhanced by both the first two attributes."
"Luck... is just luck."
The puppet couldn't help but show a cheeky smile, "If luck is high enough, it can affect the success rate of clearing a level, the chance of boss drops, etc. Very important."
"As for Reaction, it includes the perception of danger, intuition, and the ability to react on the spot in battle."
Li Rui understood, and his natural reaction was maxed out, while the Luck attribute seemed beyond salvation—no matter how much he adds to it, it's still a dull point.
So for him, the needed attributes were only Physique and Spirit.
The puppet smiled flatteringly, "You've just completed registration, equivalent to creating a new character. At the initial state, a single attribute can only be increased to a maximum of 6, so you should allocate them reasonably to lower the difficulty of the first dungeon."
As soon as Li Rui heard this, he raised an eyebrow, "Level? Can you give experience?"
"..... Buddy, I really can't do that. I don't have that ability." The puppet covered its face, afraid of getting hit again.
Li Rui patted it on the shoulder, "Don't be afraid, I'm reasonable. If it's really not possible, I won't force it."
Upon hearing this, the puppet was surprisingly moved and even felt that the person in front of them inexplicably became more approachable.
Then he heard another sentence.
"But I see your clothes are nice."
"..."
A few minutes later, Li Rui completed the registration and left the dungeon with the administrator's clothes. Before leaving, he gave it another Big Punch.
"This is an early punishment."
The puppet, now bare, didn't care about the words themselves and just sent the human off with a formulaic smile like a greeter out of the novice space.
"Gone, finally gone!"
"Damned human! You're doomed, just wait!"
The puppet raged, waving its arms as dark red screens appeared out of nowhere, filled with endless code and a profile box for Li Rui.
"Arrogant fool, you didn't realize I had a trick up my sleeve. True, I can't change most of the code, but there's one thing I can."
It let out a cruel smile, "I'm going to increase the difficulty of the dungeons you encounter! I'm going to make you face a hell that no Secret Realm agent has ever faced! You'll die in the Secret Realm, hahaha! Hahahahaha hiccup!!"
The puppet leaped between data frames, manipulating the data stream, but when they converged into Li Rui's profile box, they shattered like water hitting a surface of several thousand degrees Celsius, turning into smoke and disappearing.
The puppet's movements froze in midair, stunned for a long time, then collapsed to the ground.
"Why?"
"The core code... on him..."
"Who is he really..."
It muttered to itself, in disbelief.
It was only then that it recalled the last Big Punch and the words the young human said before leaving.
This is an early punishment.
"He knew all along I would do this."
"But he doesn't care."
.....
"Phew—"
Li Rui woke up from the massage chair, "How long has it been?"
"Three minutes, the time inside isn't the same as outside."
Wen Yan glanced at her watch and softly replied, "How was it? Some people feel nauseous or have headaches after entering the Secret Realm for the first time. If you have any symptoms, I have medication to relieve it."
"Thank you, Sister Yan. I'm fine."
Wen Yan smiled and then unlocked the iron rings on his hands and feet, then brought over a glass and a small bowl, "Come on, take out the mouth guard and rinse your mouth."
Li Rui reached out to take the glass, and then.
Crash!
The glass, which had done nothing wrong, suddenly cracked.
To be precise, it shattered.
Hearing this sound, everyone else in the office looked over instinctively, including Wang Ba, who was teasing a young girl at the side.
"Hahaha, another one with all points in Physique. How many attributes did you get? Since you couldn't control your strength, at least four points, right? I know these things well; I've seen at least thirty new registrations in this chair."
Brother Ba spoke as he walked over.
Li Rui looked at his hand; the impact of the Secret Realm's attributes on reality was surprisingly substantial.
With such power, no wonder Wu Sun can hold a kitchen knife with just two fingers.
"Don't just stand there, quickly tell us, how many initial attributes did you get? High Physique like that should be five or six points, right?" Wang Ba asked enthusiastically.
He didn't mention talents or skills at all, as most people don't get those when registering.
Others were also eavesdropping with perked ears; the tale of new players being tormented by the puppet administrator was always juicy gossip for everyone. One person even came over wearing small round sunglasses.
Wang Ba bluntly introduced, "Oh, by the way, let me introduce you, this is Prophet, he's the one who predicted you'd show up at the police station."
"Hi, I'm Wu Bing."
The man said, "Prophet is my profession. Once your agent level reaches level 10, you can also change jobs, though what you'll change into is uncertain."
"Don't jump into saying so much."
Wang Ba interrupted, "I still haven't finished asking. Xiaoli, how many attributes did you get after all?"
"Twelve initial attributes, one talent, one skill."
Li Rui calmly stated his gains, while taking out a jacket from the item slot in the bottom right corner of his vision, "It even insisted I take its clothes, so I couldn't refuse such hospitality."
"..."
Wen Yan, Wang Ba, and Wu Bing were silenced by these two statements.
After a few seconds, the Prophet squinted his small eyes hidden behind the sunglasses, "Did you really go there to register?"
Li Rui spread his hands, "What else?"
"Looked more like a robbery."
Wang Ba cut off the banter between them with eyes wide: "Stop fooling around, this is a record-breaking event, go report to the chairman! Now!"