My Ability Pool is Superior-Chapter 16: Second Round Ability Pool

Department Store, Rooftop.
Guo Mi threw away the cigarette in her hand and tiptoed to stamp it out: “Why hasn’t he come back yet?”
“He’s probably delayed by that kid Peng Qi again. Yang Bo went down with him too. What’s there to worry about.” Old Song smiled ingratiatingly.
But he didn’t say it was fine; once he said it, it instead made Guo Mi’s expression somewhat unsettled.
“Yang Bo isn’t as unreliable as Peng Qi.”
……
Ding-dong~
Lu Bai walked out of the elevator door, scanned the area, and muttered: “If there’s no one on this floor either, then only the rooftop is left.”
After resolving Yang Bo and Peng Qi, he had searched floor by floor like this.
Midway, he even took time to wash his face and change clothes, just like returning to his own home.
A normal elevator definitely couldn’t go straight to the rooftop. Once out of the elevator, Lu Bai headed straight for the nearby emergency exit.
The corridor handrails were somewhat dilapidated and old, with the tile gaps on the steps full of black stains.
When this department store was in operation, the rooftop had always been sealed off for safety reasons; it was no exaggeration to say it was rarely visited.
It all felt pretty ordinary, except for… the bloody smell so thick it was nauseating!
It was as if a pungent cocktail mixed with rust had been heated to a boil on an induction cooker; the bloody smell was so dense and heavy, filling every inch of space in the passage.
It was hard to imagine how many corpses were the source of this bloody smell.
Lu Bai held his breath and quickened his pace.
After the corner, what came into view were fragmented meat chunks, bones with blood-red tendons, and other objects piled up filling the entire escape passage; the blood flowing everywhere made it impossible to find any footing.
The “emergency exit” at his feet emitted a faint green glow, making this area look like a ghostly realm.
Lu Bai exhaled a breath of stale air, passing through this space in two steps instead of three, and ran up to the rooftop.
“Who are you?” Old Song stared at Lu Bai who had suddenly run out, stunned.
Having suffered a loss before, Lu Bai didn’t let his guard down.
Without a word, he first slashed a sword at Old Song.
“Run!”
However, the moment Guo Mi saw Lu Bai, she swiftly lit a cigarette.
[Drifting to Immortality (Silver): During smoking, you can reduce your own mass, down to as low as one percent.]
With no illusions, she directly sidestepped and flipped over the railing.
“This is the tenth floor…” Seeing this, Lu Bai felt a toothache.
Although he figured that if he jumped after her, as long as it wasn’t headfirst, he could probably still be saved, the risk was really high: “…No need, no need.”
He turned to glance at Old Song, who was mostly out of breath, then went back to deliver a finishing sword to Old Song, ending his suffering.
[Points +1, Current Points: 6, Current Rank 1/200]
Almost simultaneously in Lu Bai’s mind rang a mechanical prompt; he’d heard this prompt several times already and was very familiar with it.
However, this time the prompt didn’t end there.
A series of similarly mechanical prompts followed closely.
[Ding!]
[Current Death Fighter elimination rate has reached sixty percent.]
[Attention! Second Round Ability Pool has opened, selection available]
……
“3.”
“6.”
“King Bomb!”
“No.” “Pass.”
“Against 2.”
“Damn, do you even know how to play? Playing like this, huh?!”
In a reception room, three men in black suits and sunglasses sat around playing Fight the Landlord.
Compared to the hide-and-seek style of most Death Fighters, these three were relaxed as if on vacation.
Suddenly, all three fell silent.
After a moment, the bald man looked at the man across from him and said: “Boss, I’ve lost first place.”
“Didn’t you take out five already?”
The boss raised an eyebrow; his gaze was unreadable behind the sunglasses: “There’s still someone like that in the initial round? Could he be here to bomb the fish too?”
……
Teaching Building, first floor restroom.
A burst of uncontrollable laughter came from the stall in the corner.
“Hahaha! Bet right! Take off!! Wuhu!!!”
On this guy’s ability panel, there was a line of ability description.
【Three Surnames Traitor (Silver): No family ties to speak of, but you can rightfully become everyone’s adopted son.】
Just looking at this ability description, honestly, few things could be more useless.
Without this ability, shamelessly calling others daddy works too.
But his excitement wasn’t due to going mad.
Rather, in the second round’s ability pool, he saw another useless ability.
【Unemployed Youth (Silver): Your parents will automatically avoid topics about you during conversations with others, deliberately neglecting your existence.】
“Haha, no useless abilities, only useless death fighters! Even with just silver-grade abilities, I can use them like rainbow-grade!”
……
“Hmm? Gold again.”
Lu Bai sat with his legs dangling in the air on the outer side of the rooftop railing, a cool breeze blowing, feeling quite comfortable.
Though Guo Mi got away, taking out three death fighters was still worth it in his view.
No need to rush anyway, might as well wait for the next round’s positioning to be announced before taking action.
Taking advantage of this free time, Lu Bai felt he could properly consider what to pick for his second ability.
Just like the first round’s ability pool, the second round’s ability pool also provided three abilities for him to choose from.
【Great Fireball Technique (Gold): Consume a certain amount of stamina to spit a massive high-temperature fireball forward from the mouth.】
【Blood Rage (Gold): Consume blood to gain a certain degree of combat power boost.】
【Sign-in System (Gold): Can sign in once per day to randomly obtain a reward.】
Lu Bai had been hesitating over these three abilities for a long time.
When he first picked an ability, he was more skeptical, best if it worked, but acceptable if it didn’t.
But after personally experiencing 【Super Regeneration】 and knowing how exaggerated these abilities are, it wasn’t so easy to decide.
After all, from the descriptions, all three abilities seemed pretty good.
After agonizing for a while, he eliminated the overly random 【Sign-in System】.
Lu Bai slowly rubbed his chin: “These two left seem like they could both be used as ultimate moves, so… pick this one.”
No choice, the description of 【Great Fireball Technique】 was a bit too supernatural, making him vaguely feel it couldn’t kill people.
【Blood Rage】 at least matched somewhat better with 【Super Regeneration】.
Lu Bai’s pupils unfocused, his personal panel appearing before his retinas.
【Deathmatch Arena Number: 87****0023】
【User Initial Name: (Unavailable)】
【Title: None】
【Talent: 8】
【Current Points: 6】
【Current Rank: 1/200】
【Ability: Super Regeneration, Blood Rage】
Compared to the start, this crude personal panel hadn’t changed much.
Who knows when that user initial name would become available.