Chapter 2

When watching the anime, standing from the perspective of the "Great Tomb of Nazarick," it was a satisfying show, crushing and rolling over everything along the way.

But standing from the perspective of the humans in the other world, it was infinite despair; those guys from the Great Tomb were demons, existences that destroyed the world.

Of course.

Tang Zheng had no sense of belonging to either side; what he worried about was the situation he would face once his identity as a transmigrator was exposed after joining the Sorcerer Kingdom.

The Sorcerer Kingdom was, in the end, just a tool for Ainz to rule the world; whether it was Ainz or those Floor Guardians of the Great Tomb, they only cared about the Great Tomb.

Especially Ainz, who would destroy anyone or anything that could threaten the "Great Tomb of Nazarick" without hesitation.

Even if Tang Zheng posed no threat, once his identity as a transmigrator was exposed, it would represent a threat in Ainz's eyes, and he would be mercilessly erased.

And in this process.

Tang Zheng believed Ainz would definitely subject him to a set of Neuronist's interrogations; he was just an ordinary wage slave before transmigrating, never mind Neuronist, even if he were tortured slightly, Tang Zheng didn't think he could hold up.

Not to mention, the greater possibility was that Ainz would first perform some memory-searching magic on him, and then he would become an idiot before being killed.

Tang Zheng rubbed his cheeks hard, seemingly intending to use the pain to make himself realize this was a dream, yet the things before his eyes didn't change at all.

His miserable self!

Following the lively crowd, Tang Zheng found a corner of a shop wall in distress and sat down against the wall.

He wasn't tired.

In fact, his energy and physical strength far exceeded his sub-healthy state before transmigrating; looking at his arms, he could even see the exposed muscle lines.

Tang Zheng had already confirmed it: this was his body, and it was in the state of a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old, even though he was only twenty-five before transmigrating.

The reason for this situation should be related to his cheat—or more precisely, his "Talent"!

Tang Zheng squinted slightly, and an attribute panel that only he could see immediately appeared in his field of vision; the entire panel was divided into two parts.

【Attribute Table】

Player: Tang Zheng

Karma: 0 【Neutral】

HP: 13 (1%) MP: 13 (1%)

Physical Attack: 13 (1%)

Physical Defense: 13 (1%)

Agility: 13 (1%)

Magic Attack: 13 (1%)

Magic Defense: 13 (1%)

Overall Resistance: 0 (0%)

Specialization: 0 (0%)

Total: 7%

【Ability Table】

Talent: 【Player】

Overall Level: 0 (No Class)

Experience Bar: 0/100

Class: None

Skill Points: 0

Passive Skill: Item Box

Active Skill: None

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Tang Zheng focused his attention on the Talent on his ability table.

【Talent: Player—Gain Player characteristics. (Cannot be observed, cannot be stolen)】

The data introduction was very sparse.

The attribute panel before his eyes should be brought about by the Player characteristic.

As the saying goes, "The fewer the words, the bigger the matter."

Tang Zheng was an old gamer, after all, so he could roughly guess the abilities contained in the "Player" characteristic.

The so-called "Talent" did not exist at all in the game "Overlord"; it was a special ability possessed by the human race in this other world.

And the birth rate of Talents was very high, with one in every 200 people on average, but most were very weak abilities that were of no help to combat at all.

In game terms, it could be considered a special skill naturally carried by the human race in this world.

Not to mention anything else.

The "Player" characteristic could bring about an increase in level, allowing one to break free from the influence of the human race and innate talent. However!

Even knowing he possessed such a Talent, Tang Zheng's bewildered mood still didn't subside at all.

This was, after all, an other world, not the game "Overlord."

Even if he relied on his Talent to reach level 100 before the Great Tomb descended, he still wouldn't be a match for Ainz and the others.

How could a blank level 100 fight against Ainz, who was equipped with full divine-tier gear, cash-shop items, and World Items in the Great Tomb?

Not to mention!

There wasn't only one level 100 in the Great Tomb!

It was precisely because Tang Zheng understood the terror of the Great Tomb better than anyone else in this world that he deeply understood the chasm of strength between the two sides.

"Are all the basic attributes 13 points? Although I haven't taken any class yet, in terms of pure values, it should already exceed ordinary people in this world."

Tang Zheng looked at the various values on the attribute table, feeling the sense of power and abundant energy brought by his current physique, thinking silently in his heart.

These weren't just simple numbers in a game, but values that could fully reflect his body!

Tang Zheng could even feel a unique energy existing within his body; that should be magic power.

According to the terminology of this other world, he possessed the talent of a "Magic Caster."

And the percentages behind each value.

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Were a calculation method unique to the game "Overlord."

If Tang Zheng remembered correctly, Ainz's overall value was "683.6% +? %", and the "?" was because Ainz's magic power value had already broken the limit.

The light novel mentioned that the average magic power value for a normal level 100 player was 1300 points, while Ainz's magic power value was 1.5 times the maximum value.

Hmm... this was the power of a whale!

Tang Zheng had specifically studied some settings of the game "Yggdrasil" in the "Overlord" world.

According to his guess, excluding the values added by equipment, the average attribute values for players of each race should be the same.

After all, only by having the same upper limit could the game's balance and fairness be maintained.

【PS: Setting the maximum value of each attribute percentage to 1300 is a personal setting, to facilitate comparison with the attribute tables of various characters in the light novel, and also to keep the novel's attributes from looking chaotic.】

Therefore!

Theoretically, every level up increases all attributes by 13 points, and after reaching level 100, all attribute values would be exactly 1300 points.

But this was only theoretical!

In reality, it wasn't calculated like that at all.

Because the attribute values increased by each class were different; for example, warrior-type classes would only increase HP, physical attack, physical defense, and agility, while caster-type classes would only increase MP, magic attack, magic defense, specialization, etc.

Additionally.

Among the races players could choose, besides the human race, demi-humans and heteromorphs all had independent racial classes.

Taking the most obvious example, the strongest dragon race in the other world, their racial classes totaled six (Juvenile, Young, Adult, Elder, Ancient, Dragon Lord).

Maxing out all six of these racial classes required 50 levels, meaning only 50 levels could be used for class construction.

While the human race didn't have the issue of racial classes, which was both a disadvantage and an advantage; for example, the entire 100 levels could be used for class construction.

Thereby catching up to demi-humans and heteromorphs; by the final stage of level 100, the gap between the three major races wouldn't be obvious.

Therefore.

Even Ainz had only raised the values of "MP" and "Specialization" to the 100% maximum.

Tang Zheng looked up slightly and glanced at the crowd on the street; seeing no one paying attention to him, he reached into the pocket of his rough clothes and took out a palm-sized piece of rye bread.

It was called black bread, but it was dark brown.

Besides being a bit hard and rough, it wasn't hard to eat.

One copper coin could buy two pieces; just from this point, the prices of basic necessities in this world weren't very high.

With the limited money he had on hand, he had to save where he could.

This piece of black bread wasn't in his pocket, but taken out from the "Item Box"; his original clothes and the gold coins he obtained were all placed inside.

It was named "Item Box," which was the spatial backpack in the game.

According to Tang Zheng's observation, the spatial area inside the "Item Box" was quite large, but there was still an upper limit; otherwise, in the game "Yggdrasil," there wouldn't exist magic items like "Infinite Backpacks."

Of course, although the name contained "Infinite," it actually had a storage limit as well, serving as a supplement when the "Item Box" storage space wasn't enough.

Tang Zheng stuffed the black bread to his mouth, bit off a piece hard, puffed out his cheeks, and ate it with a "crunch, crunch" sound.

His dinner last night was just a piece of black bread, so he was indeed a bit hungry by now.

This hunger made Tang Zheng realize that "Player" was just his Talent; this was a real, incomparable world!

He would get hungry, get tired... and even die!

(End of chapter)