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Being killed instantly is not the key point. The most important thing is that Ota, who played the vanguard role in the team, was killed instantly by Alfia, the defender who used magic to fight, with a knife in a hand-to-hand fight.
Alfia was not even older than Ota, and had never received any physical training. She just used the attack methods she learned from watching her fellow clan members fight to defeat Ota in seconds.
This gap is so big that it makes people despair.
——When Zeus and Hera's family faced the black dragon, the gap was so huge that it was despairing.
If we really gather all the current combat power of Orario to fight the Black Dragon, Livilia feels that the Black Dragon might be confused. Are these adventurers here to attack me, or to cheat me?
...Could it be a scout coming to investigate my whereabouts?
No way, the scouts can’t be so weak, right?
Ever since she realized the gap between herself and the Black Dragon during the turmoil a few years ago, Livilia has always had a question in mind.
Not only her, most people who knew about the turmoil at that time should have similar doubts in their hearts.
Is the gap between these adventurers and the heroes of the past so huge?
Aisi's father, the mercenary king from a thousand years ago, the last hero before the adventurer era, and the one who could blind a black dragon's eye.
A level 9 adventurer, with a group of level 8s, was crushed by a black dragon? The black dragon didn't even leave a scratch?
What about Orario now?
If adventurers in Orario were ranked by strength, Livilia would be able to rank in the top ten, even if she was being modest.
So what's her level?
I looked at the grace data and saw that I was at level 6.
——Then there’s the black dragon that’s going to hit your grandmother’s leg.
Livilia: ╰_╯!
The older generation who experienced the incident back then are unwilling to tell the younger generation the truth, because telling them would only make them more desperate, which would be meaningless.
When Su Qing said again, "God's grace will damage the potential of adventurers," the first impression of adventurers who had not experienced the incident that year was disbelief. We adventurers did suppress the monsters in the dungeon and brought peace to the surface.
Isn’t the life of humans on the earth much better now than it was thousands of years ago?
After experiencing that incident, Livilia suddenly felt that it might be the truth.
"God's Grace damages potential...Excuse me, what is that about?" Livilia asked.
“——Is it really that bad?” Loki scratched his head in confusion and said, “This is the result of the joint research of the gods.”
Su Qing waved his hand and said, "It's not just bad, it's wrong. I don't want to nitpick, but the way God's Grace becomes stronger is ridiculously wrong."
There is no need to compare the gods of the Dicuo world with the Box Garden. It is nitpicking. Compared with the favors of the Box Garden, the favors of the gods of this world are definitely not as good as others.
But God's grace has its own problems, and these are problems that the gods can remedy.
Su Qing held his chin with his hand, looked at Ai Si and said, "You should have skills against monsters?"
The members of Loki's clan around him couldn't help but gasp, and Loki nodded and said, "That's true."
"Then where does this skill come from?" Su Qing asked.
Loki tapped his head, thought for a moment, and said in confusion: "God's grace has brought out Ais's own potential...Isn't that right?"
Su Qing chuckled and said, "That's the problem."
"Ais's skills will be enhanced when facing monsters in the dungeon? The stronger the hatred towards the monster, the stronger the effect?"
"——This ability is because Aisi hates monsters. This will triggered the grace of God, and she gained this skill against monsters."
Su Qing shrugged and said, "Miracles don't come without a price. Gaining skills out of thin air... haha!"
Waving his hand gently, Su Qing said, "If it is a human, since they hate monsters, they will try to understand the nature of monsters, find out their weaknesses, and practice techniques against them. In the end, such people will probably be called monster killers."
"This is what ordinary people understand as 'skills', a skill."
"But the adventurer's skills, the skills that can improve attributes when facing monsters, that is not experience, but strength."
"Of course, power cannot be created out of thin air." Su Qing shrugged and said, "What is consumed is the potential of the adventurer."
"Depending on God's grace, the adventurer's potential is high enough and his intention is firm enough. God's grace responds to the adventurer's wishes, consumes the adventurer's potential, and guides the adventurer to obtain the desired skills."
"It's not that adventurers' potential is not as good as that of ancient heroes. It's that under the God's Grace mode, adventurers have traded their potential for skills and their future development prospects for the present. It would be strange if they could outdevelop ancient heroes."
After saying that, Su Qing picked up the teacup and shook his head slightly.
God's Favor is something that not only locks the upper limit but also destroys potential. Its advantage is quantitative growth and the ability to obtain skills that enhance oneself out of thin air based solely on the person's wishes, but the cost is destroying one's own potential and affecting future development.
The gods are not magnanimous enough to provide humans with the potential to create skills out of thin air.
Even the gods don't realize that doing so would undermine human potential.
Livilia frowned slightly, Finn bit his finger, and Loki tilted his head, thinking.
Aisi looked confused, and Diona raised her hand and said, "Young man, can you explain it to me? I don't understand at all."
Su Qing said leisurely: "In short, you just need to know that skills are what you exchange for your potential. God's grace will respond to your wishes, but things obtained out of thin air do not mean they are free."
"Most top adventurers have skills that can improve their attributes, and the potential of most adventurers has been greatly weakened."
Su Qing took a sip of tea and concluded, "Divine power is omnipotent. For the gods, as long as they want, divine power can give birth to all abilities that are inferior to divine power. What restricts the gods is their imagination."
"To the gods, acquiring skills out of thin air is a natural thing."
"But for humanity, this is an unmitigated disaster."
"The gods can control divine power, can use divine power to create skills, and can also restore skills back to divine power."
"But not for adventurers."
"God's grace complies with the adventurer's wishes and replaces the adventurer's potential with skills, but there is no way to convert skills back to potential."
Su Qing couldn't help but complain: "Trading potential for skills, trading the future for the present... This doesn't look like a god, but more like a devil."
Chapter 2 Potential
In Su Qing's opinion, the God's Grace system in the Dicuo world is either stupid or evil.
Even if we don't compare it with the small garden, but only compare it with the ancient martial arts in the dark bullet world, the problems of this God's Grace system are huge.
It's not that God's Grace can't grow stronger quickly. After all, it comes from the hands of gods, and the upper limit of God's Grace is definitely higher than the ancient martial arts in the world of Dark Bullets.
But the intention of God’s grace is not acceptable.
Even the most low-end martial artists know that they should teach students in accordance with their aptitude. Men practice masculine techniques with masculine moves, while women do the opposite: those with strong bodies practice physical training, while those with thin bodies practice speed-enhancing techniques.
All human beings know that they should choose the abilities that suit them according to their own conditions.
What about God's grace?
On the surface, God's Grace is the possibility of guiding adventurers, allowing adventurers to awaken different skills.
But Su Qing saw clearly that when adventurers acquire skills, in the sense of becoming stronger, they do not "acquire abilities" but "acquire additional conditions."
The biggest difference is that ability is acquired through training. You can practice it slowly and master it gradually, from the shallower to the deeper.
Conditions should be innate, such as being born strong, having strong logical thinking ability, having good eyesight and a sensitive sense of smell.
The adventurer's skills are acquired through the grace of God.
To what extent can adventurers master their skills?
Aisi has the skill to improve her attributes when facing monsters. Can she practice her skills slowly, and when her attributes reach the current LV limit, stop training her attributes and turn to training her skills to kill monsters?
Diona has a skill that can improve all abilities when she is dying. Can she trigger her skills by mentally suggesting that she is in danger? Can she even grasp the essence of the skills and use them even when she is not dying?
Can't do it.
To put it bluntly, when an adventurer awakens the so-called skills through God's grace, it is no longer the adventurer's own ability, but the adventurer's own "conditions".
Ability is something that the person concerned can fully master.
Conditions are innate and the parties involved cannot change them, they can only adapt to them.
The abilities that adventurers gain through God's grace, although acquired later, are still attributes that cannot be changed by the person concerned.
Taking Ai Si as an example, before she obtained the skill of the 'Princess of Revenge' against monsters, she was a highly qualified half-immortal.
After acquiring the skill of 'Princess of Revenge', she becomes a 'half-fairy spirit capable of targeting monsters'.
The ability to target monsters is not a strength that Aisi has developed through training, but has become an attribute that Aisi cannot change - no matter whether she wants to target monsters in the future or not, even if Aisi feels that it is too pitiful for monsters to be killed in the future, she will still be an adventurer who can only burst out her power when facing monsters.
No matter in which world, becoming stronger is a process in which a person gradually understands and masters himself.
Everyone has different potential and conditions, but if you don’t compare yourself with others and only compare yourself with yourself, the more you understand yourself, the stronger you will be.
With the same body shape and muscles of the same strength, a person who is familiar with the force limit and impact resistance of each muscle of his or her own will be stronger than a person who knows nothing about it - even if both sides are unaware of fear, are fully motivated to fight, and will never retreat until the other side is killed, the former is still stronger.
The biggest problem with God's favor is that it creates 'conditions' for adventurers, adding areas that are beyond their control.
Aisi hates monsters, and God's grace does not make Aisi strong enough to defeat monsters, but makes her "someone who can restrain monsters."
If you look at it this way, it may not be too outrageous.
Looking at it from another angle, if someone wants to climb a mountain, God's grace is not to allow this person to continuously improve his or her ability to resist the cold during exercise, but to directly change this person's physique, making him or her naturally cold-resistant.
…What about the side effects?
The reason why life is in its current form is because its current form is the most reasonable.
If someone who wants to climb mountains gradually improves his physical fitness through exercise and becomes resistant to drought and hypoxia, he will be able to survive normally when he returns to land.
But if it is because of the development of God's grace that the person concerned has become a person who can tolerate cold and lack of oxygen, and is naturally accustomed to living in the mountains, and returns to land...
People who have lived in plains for many years cannot adapt to the mountain environment. Can people who have grown up in the mountains for many years adapt instantly when they first come to the ground?
But unfortunately, there is no similar situation with God's Grace - it is not that God's Grace solves the sequelae, but that only a very small number of geniuses can awaken the ability, so that it seems that there are no side effects.
The person involved had no idea that without the awakened ability of God's Grace, his physique on the ground would be even stronger.
When Ais faces monsters, she can unleash even greater power. People who don't understand the true nature of God's Grace will think, "Wow, this skill is so powerful."
But Su Qing would wonder where her strength came from when facing monsters?