Mercenary System: I can increase innate potential !

[Please consult your ’Life Awakening’ talent for the latest update].

The notification window remained open for several seconds, during which time Maxime tried to contain his pain as best he could.

After getting very slightly used to the pain, he observed this latest notification, ignoring all the previous ones.

"A talent update?"

Without asking too many questions, Maxime went to his statistics page and then to the talent column.

Then he opened the details of his second talent.

[Second talent: Life Awakening level 1 (0/1000) (diamond rank) ]

"Diamond!?"

"It’s a diamond rank talent now?"

Maxime knew very well that his talent was platinum rank before!

As a reminder, talents were classified this way:

Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond and Legendary.

And as a further reminder, a talent of legendary rank was only held by a select few on the entire planet Earth!

Holders of gold-level talents could already be considered geniuses in a school.

Platinum-level talents were generally considered the best talents to be found in most cities.

Diamond-level talents were the pinnacle of genius in the vast majority of countries.

So with only his second talent, he was already one of the greatest geniuses on the planet, on a par with Kavasta!

"What kind of heaven-defying effect can improve an entire rank’s talent!?"

Maxime couldn’t wait to discover this new talent, so much so that it made him temporarily forget his pain.

[Awakening of Life :

First passive effect: Significantly improves the talent holder’s regeneration as well as that of his men.

Second passive effect: Slightly improves the lifespan of the talent holder and his men. This effect currently grants an additional 10 years of life.

Third passive effect: Gives the talent holder a very high affinity for the element of life].

"The first three effects are the same as before..."

"So this is a new effect that has enabled the qualitative improvement of the talent."

[First active effect: Saying ’Awakening of Life’ allows you and your men to restore your physical conditions to 100%.

Range: One kilometer.

Reload time: 30 minutes].

Seeing the new effect, Maxime was dumbstruck for a few seconds.

"Holy shit, that’s so cool!"

"It’s almost synonymous with having a tireless army at your side!"

Maxime quickly understood the advantages and disadvantages of this new effect.

The advantage was that it meant he and his mercenaries were rarely physically exhausted, thanks to a recharge time of just half an hour.

The first disadvantage was that it didn’t heal his men’s wounds, thus greatly reducing the effect’s effectiveness.

The second disadvantage was that it didn’t cure mental fatigue.

"But this is only the first level of this talent, and it already has such effects!"

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"Once I improve it, the disadvantages will gradually be erased in addition to strengthening existing effects and even adding new ones!"

"It’s really worthy of a diamond-level talent, it’s definitely very strong!"

As an example, when the talent was used, it was as if his men were reaching their best form.

But since they were all currently injured, they would quickly lose fitness when using the talent’s active effect.

However, it was still very strong!

Knowing that most people were usually at 60 or 70% of their fitness when an ordinary day was already well underway.

It often happened that the percentage was even lower, depending on the fatigue accumulated during the day and on previous days.

And on the battlefield, it was even more dramatic.

Physical condition dropped extremely quickly due to the adrenalin and effort required to fight with one’s life on the line.

Hence the extremely exaggerated effect of talent at first level alone.

Imagine a tired army fighting for several hours, whose soldiers were now struggling to raise their weapons?

And that these same soldiers were so tired, they could easily see that their strength, agility, combat skills and even reaction time had significantly diminished?

They were gradually becoming food ready to be slaughtered on a chopping board!

But as the opponents finally saw the opportunity to easily slaughter their opponents after several hours of fighting, all these men immediately regained their full fitness?

And that they were even stronger than at the start of the fight?

Knowing, on top of all this, that their opponents were also exhausted by the prolonged fighting and pressure present on the battlefield?

It was definitely a devastating blow to the morale of the opposing army!

The positions of winner and loser could immediately be reversed!

That was the power of a diamond-rank talent!

Not to mention the passive effects, each stronger than the last.

And that was clearly what was going to happen on the battlefield to the south.

Meanwhile, the pillar of light disappeared, giving way only to the gray clouds that continued to pour down rain.

As the rain fell to the ground, the water mixed with the blood, creating pools of blood all over the southern battlefield.

Human and Dravak soldiers would unwittingly step into these pools when fighting hand-to-hand.

Somehow, this changed the mood of the battlefield.

A few lightning bolts began to flash here and there.

Maxime stood looking up at the sky.

He watched the water droplets falling above him, and the lightning flashing here and there.

All around him, explosions, screams and the sound of weapons clashing could be heard here and there.

He spread his arms wide, as if welcoming nature, which was now turbulent, to come and console itself in his arms.

At that moment, he murmured:

"Awakening of life."

Suddenly, a translucent tree appeared behind Maxime’s back and grew to the naked eye.

One meter, two meters, three meters...

It grew with the naked eye.

It wasn’t until it was some ten meters high that it finally stopped, overlooking the entire battlefield.

Its imposing silhouette almost pierced the sky, its wide, powerful branches reaching out in all directions, forming a veritable dome of protection over Maxime, his men and the human and Dravak soldiers!

In fact, the dome had a diameter of one kilometer!

It covered the entire battlefield.

All the Dravaks avoided the branches for fear of the tree’s mysterious effects.

Only human soldiers and mercenaries dared touch the branches that appeared around them.

But when they came into contact with them, their hands literally pierced the branches.

They were immaterial.

Yet the tree seemed alive, vibrating with palpable energy.

Its massive, deep-brown trunk was streaked with luminous veins of shimmering emerald green.

Its veins pulsed slowly, like a beating heart, illuminating the immediate surroundings with a soft, soothing light that contrasted with the chaos of the battlefield.

The almost unreal green leaves caught the raindrops, transforming them into beads of luminous energy that slid down the branches before disappearing in an ethereal mist.

The ground around the tree, previously gorged with mud mixed with blood, had been transformed.

Bright green grass suddenly sprang up, forming an almost unreal carpet in the midst of the desolation.

Flowers of subtle hues - blue, white and yellow - sprang up from the earth as if in homage to this ancient, majestic being.

An aura of serenity and power seemed to extend from the tree, reaching Maxime’s mercenaries.

Kaite, Andrew, Charles, Terry, Tena, Henry, Ultia, Romuald and Rodrigo, tired and out of breath only moments earlier, felt a wave pass through their bodies.

Their tired muscles relaxed immediately, their panting breaths becoming regular again.

They straightened up, their weapons firmly in their hands, and a new glint in their eyes.

It wasn’t just their physical strength that was returning, but a feeling of clarity, as if the tree was instilling in them the will to keep on fighting.

Combined with the Nox Limit talent, they felt more powerful than ever.

Maxime stood with an imposing tree behind him, his pupils glowing with a translucent white light.

Just by standing there, he intimidated the Daraks nearby.

These Daraks seemed to be dealing with an extremely terrifying existence at the time.

They had already fought on the same battlefields as many captains of regiments of all races.

But never before had they felt such fear coming from a single person!

Ytan distanced himself from Orvari, equally afraid of the effects this tree could inflict.

The unknown is the most frightening.

He looked directly in Maxime’s direction, incredulous at the whole scene.

"Is this a human or a God?"

Orvari also glanced around, incredulous.

"So this is what geniuses look like when they give it their all? It is indeed unlike anything I’ve seen in my entire life."

He thought back to that half-dead, half-burnt man clinging to a tree to keep himself upright.

The same man who, in this state, had dared to threaten him if he killed his subordinate Dravak.

Seeing this scene, he felt a shiver of fear run through his body.

"If I’d wanted to kill Dravus, would I really have succeeded? I could have..."

But Orvari immediately suppressed the thoughts that appeared in his mind. They were too frightening.

The Dravaks of the Eighth Regiment began to desert the battlefield.

Some of them even began to lose their sanity, all the while shouting:

"No, no, no, this is the form in which that human killed Oscar in a single blow!"

"Run if you value your lives!"

"Stay if you think you’re as strong as a Dravak with an awakened bloodline!"

...

In the command center, the soldiers couldn’t believe it either.

They’d been leading regiments in yellow-level battlefields for years, but they’d never seen anything like this.

"What’s that?"

"Is it the effect of a talent?"

"No I think it’s the effect of some mysterious skill he must have gotten in Eternity."

...

Many of the soldiers were talking amongst themselves about what they were seeing on the screen.

Kavasta, who was also watching the situation on the screen, was equally impressed.

"This kind of scene can generally only be seen on battlefields of black or higher. On a yellow-level battlefield, it’s truly unique."

This was to be expected, since geniuses who possessed such rare and impressive talents or skills didn’t go to dimensional battlefields when they were high school students.

It was only when they became university students that some of them came to dimensional battlefields.

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By then, they’d all spent a lot of time in Eternity, so their strength was no longer compatible with yellow-level battlefields, unless they were applying to be regiment captains or fortress commanders.

But the human authorities were not going to entrust the lives of thousands or tens of thousands of people into the hands of students with little or no combat experience.

...

The battlefield to the south remained chaotic for about ten seconds, then the tree disappeared as if it had never appeared.

The battlefield scenery returned to normal, all the flowers and greenery that had sprung up out of nowhere disappearing with the tree.

Puddles of mud, blood and water reappeared naturally, as if they had never been there.

For those ten seconds, some felt as if they’d fallen into paradise.

But as soon as the tree disappeared, they felt as if they’d fallen back into hell.

This created a violent mental shift, whether on the human or Dravak side.

Some were even beginning to wonder why they were fighting here?

What were they fighting for?