Chapter 517: The Innate Ability Shengzai Possesses

“Does it happen once every hundred years?”

Yes, based on the information I’ve gathered, that’s likely true. The reason why the Descenders other than the “Six Gods,” “Eight Desires Kings,” and “Thirteen Heroes” left no mark in history is probably because they remained low-key or died shortly after arriving due to other reasons.

After all, those who arrive in this world due to the ‘Hundred-Year Aftershock’ aren’t all strong from the start.”

“I’m sure you’ve heard this too? The ‘Thirteen Heroes’ were only slightly stronger than ordinary adventurers at first—they reached their later heights through constant adventures.”

While making this explanation, Shengzai silently added to himself: “The YGGDRASIL players brought by this Hundred-Year Aftershock are indeed representatives of the chaotic side.”

Perhaps to Bone King and the others, they were simply trying to live better in this world—but their actions caused massive innocent casualties.

Shengzai makes no judgment on those who deserve to die, but to treat life as worthless grass, trampling and harvesting it for personal gain, is deeply repulsive.

Even in Shengzai’s view, after arriving in this world, Suzuki Satoru’s human mind and body have been corroded, gradually becoming a true undead.

After days of continuous travel, Shengzai’s party reached the southern desert, where they first encountered the target monster: the Desert Giant Scorpion.

The Desert Giant Scorpion is a level-25 monster; with its hard shell and a venomous tail that strikes with extreme speed, even a bronze-tier adventurer team can barely handle one.

Yet right now, across the vast expanse of yellow sand, five such Desert Giant Scorpions had surrounded Shengzai and his party.

“Everyone, prepare for battle—I’ll take one with Gerglan, and Shengzai will take another; Tia and Tina, you…”

As Lachesis was about to give orders upon seeing the Desert Giant Scorpions, Shengzai suddenly reached out and stopped her.

“Lachesis, since this is the quest we accepted, let us handle it.”

“Besides, your ‘Azure Rose’ has a reputation—I’m somewhat familiar with your strength and specialties.”

“But aside from you, your teammates probably don’t know much about me. To ensure better cooperation later, these Desert Giant Scorpions are perfect for me to show what I can do.”

Shengzai took on the monster-clearing task partly because, as he said, he wanted the ‘Azure Rose’ members to understand him better—so they wouldn’t think of him as just Lachesis’s pretty face being carried along.

On another level, his current level of only 32 meant he urgently needed to level up.

The Desert Giant Scorpion is a rare large monster; with his Evolution Power, he now effectively has a YGGDRASIL player panel—this much EXP should easily raise him several levels.

“Lachesis, are we really just going to watch?”

“Yeah, even for us, defeating one Desert Giant Scorpion one-on-one takes considerable effort, right?

They’re both taking on five at once—isn’t that pushing it?”

Hearing that Shengzai and Kanglelong intended to complete the quest alone, Warrior Gerglan and Thief Tia couldn’t help but look worriedly at their leader and ask.

Prince Shengzai Trance Ignis Lail Vanserv of the kingdom is a genius swordsman—his talent even surpasses the kingdom’s War Master Gajeel and Anglaus, a fact they’d heard.

But no matter how great his talent, in Gerglan’s view, Shengzai was still just a prince raised within palace walls.

An adventurer who has never faced true life-or-death peril isn’t a true adventurer.

Talent and strength without matching combat experience are easily disastrous.

“Rest easy—if it were other royal nobles, I couldn’t guarantee it.”

But Shengzai? I can vouch for him—he’s no greenhouse flower.

And you probably don't know yet: Shengzai is a user of innate supernatural ability. Sometimes I even think heaven is truly unfair—it gave him outstanding warrior talent, and also that kind of innate supernatural ability.

What kind of innate ability does he have? Hearing Lachesis’s words, Ibireu also asked curiously.

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Meanwhile, as Shengzai’s party reached the southern desert, Bone King, as in the original plot, arrived at the kingdom’s capital Yerantir’s Adventurer’s Guild with Nabe and registered as an adventurer.

After becoming an adventurer, Bone King, due to his exaggerated full armor and greatsword, came into contact with the silver-tier adventurer “Black Sword.”

During their introduction, Bone King learned from “Black Sword” about the existence of innate abilities.

Simply put, some beings in this world are born with exceptional talent, as if favored by the gods, granted special gifts and abilities.

Some can see others’ mana, some can use any magic item, some can shorten the time needed to learn magic—these innate talents and abilities are called innate abilities.

“That’s quite impressive.”

In response to Bone King’s praise, Nia of the “Black Sword” team immediately gave a modest expression and said: “If you’re talking about famous innate ability users, it’s definitely Enferea of Yerantir and Prince Shengzai of the kingdom.”

“Enferea? The kingdom’s third prince?”

Yes, Enferea is the grandson of the town’s strongest alchemist; his innate ability lets him use any magic item.

Hearing how powerful Enferea’s innate ability was, Bone King and Nabe both showed serious expressions.

Then what about the kingdom’s third prince? If he’s mentioned alongside Enferea, his innate ability must be equally powerful, right?

At Bone King’s question, the four members of “Black Sword” exchanged strange glances, then their leader Peter spoke: “Mr. MoMo, you’re not from around here, are you?”

“After all, anyone living in the kingdom should know about Prince Shengzai, right?”

“Hahaha, Nabe and I are indeed from the east.” Bone King laughed it off, and the “Black Sword” members didn’t press further.

Nia, the team’s innate ability user, continued: “Prince Shengzai isn’t just an innate ability user—he’s a rare dual-ability user.”

And both of his innate abilities are extremely powerful!

“One allows him to instantly master any martial technique the moment he sees or touches it.”

“The other—being a warrior—he also possesses the qualities of a spellcaster, able to use both martial techniques and magic.”

(End of Chapter)