My God-Level System Can Rebuild Civilization in the Apocalypse!

The problem was that once the words were put together, he could barely understand what they meant.

After flipping through the pages for a while, Joo Joowon did not give up.

He read the same section over and over again until his head began to feel slightly dizzy.

It felt like the mental exhaustion that came after prolonged thinking.

He glanced at the Mental Power and Physique values on his status panel.

Feeling that they were still within the range he could tolerate, Joo Joowon continued reading.

Only then did he finally manage to understand the contents of the first Chapter.

Simply put, the person who had written this textbook was a mage apprentice with considerable potential.

While still an apprentice, the author had gained inspiration through dissecting and studying plants.

That inspiration had eventually led to the creation of the Life Drain skill.

This skill was based on Quanta Energy, Death Drain and precise Mental Power manipulation.

It minimized the use of Quanta Energy as much as possible.

Instead, it relied primarily on Mental Power, attaching a special form of energy to attacks in order to achieve the goal of harming the enemy while benefiting the user.

In the preface of the textbook, the mage apprentice emphasized that only those with sufficiently refined control over Mental Power had any chance of mastering this skill.

Otherwise, not only would they fail to achieve the ideal effect envisioned when the skill was created, they would instead suffer backlash themselves.

In the end, the skill still drained energy that belonged to someone else.

After drawing that energy into the body, it could not immediately benefit the user.

The harmful substances first had to be removed through Mental Power.

Otherwise, they would damage the user’s foundation.

Anyone who lacked sufficient understanding of energy or did not possess enough control over their Mental Power would be unable to meet the requirements to use this spell.

Because of this, after the mage apprentice first created the skill, the academy judged it to be nothing more than a useless spell fit only for storage in the library.

It could not be popularized.

The mage apprentice was furious about that decision and believed the instructors simply lacked vision.

Looking at the skill book, Joo Joowon’s emotions became rather complicated.

This was obviously a translated skill book.

The original version was probably the mage apprentice’s diary or memoir.

That much could be seen from the writing style and the way the text was presented.

From the scattered details within the book, Joo Joowon almost had the illusion that this mage apprentice had truly existed and lived in another world.

That also made reading the book much more difficult.

What the mage apprentice considered common knowledge could be roughly understood after the system’s translation, but Joo Joowon still found it difficult to fully grasp how important that knowledge was within the context of each passage or how much influence it actually had.

In other words, the skill book was much like the classical texts of ancient times before punctuation existed.

Every great scholar had their own interpretation of where sentences should be divided.

As a result, even when reading the exact same book, different people could arrive at different conclusions, sometimes with only minor differences, sometimes with major ones.

However, Joo Joowon glanced at the system notifications.

[ Ding! ]

[ You are reading Skill Book • Life Drain! ]

[ You have gained some insight! ]

[ Your current learning progress: Beginner (3/50) ]

[ Note: This skill can be learned directly. ]

Of course, Joo Joowon already knew that skill books could be learned directly.

He did not even need to take them out of the card.

All he had to do was silently choose to use them.

The only reason he had taken it out was because the image shown on the card was a book, making it difficult for him not to become curious enough to see what it actually looked like.

After taking out the skill book, a very obvious Learn icon still remained visible within Joo Joowon’s field of vision.

Beneath it was a system prompt stating that the skill could only be learned while in an absolutely safe environment or by simply going to sleep.

If learned while asleep, the skill would be mastered naturally upon waking the next morning.

If learned while awake, however, it required a progress bar.

For this common grade skill, it would take an entire hour before it was fully learned.

During that time, the player could not do anything else.

Otherwise, the progress bar would either slow down or be interrupted completely.

An hour of waiting was not impossible to accept.

However, since the Age of Apocalypse had given players the option to bypass the system and learn the skill on their own, Joo Joowon found it difficult to completely abandon the path of self study.

Even if players themselves were ultimately destined to lack the ability to truly oppose the game, at the very least, the upper limit of a self learned skill should be higher than the fixed limit imposed by the system, shouldn’t it?

Of course, Joo Joowon also understood that self study required talent.

Therefore, it would not be surprising if someone ended up learning the skill even worse than the system’s guaranteed minimum.

Just as the preface of the skill book emphasized, without the assistance of the game, this skill had extremely poor compatibility.

In reality, it belonged to the domain of geniuses.

Because of that, for ordinary players, it would be far better to let the game system do the work for them than to sit there studying the book by themselves.

At least for now, Joo Joowon had no intention of doing that.

It was not because he found the skill particularly easy to learn.

Rather, he was worried that choosing to learn it directly would cause the book itself to disappear.

The methods of using Mental Power described in the skill book had already given Joo Joowon countless new ideas.

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