Chapter 19 Post-Apocalyptic Professions
In addition to the normal roulettes from the first level to the ninth level, there were some very special roulettes in the doomsday, one of which was the Mirage Roulette, which had different colored divided areas. People in the previous world would name them based on the number of colors on these Roulettes, with three colors being called the Tri-Color Roulette, which was what William was facing now.
Apart from this, there was also the Five-Color Roulette, Seven-Color Roulette, and Nine-Color Roulette.
There were only odd-numbered Mirage Roulettes, no even numbers, and no one knoew why that was.
William was very excited because these colored Roulettes played a significant role for survivors, enabling them to have professions.
Perhaps it seemed somewhat like a game, but this was the reality of existence.
Essentially, the Earth in the doomsday was like a game field, where survivors were like tiny players, either struggling to survive under the rules or dying painfully while looking for loopholes.
The professions provided by the Doomsday Roulette were numerous and generally divided into two types. Primary professions that grant survivors powerful combat abilities, such as William's previous profession as a Marksman and a Swordsman, where his Marksman profession had already reached the advanced level, granting him formidable combat prowess when using firearms. The Swordsman was only at the intermediate level, not as high as the Marksman, but still decent. With these two primary professions, William had survived in the doomsday for ten years.
The other type was the secondary profession, which complemented the primary profession. These professions were more diverse and served to assist in combat with various skills, such as Gourmet, Pharmacist, Medic, and more.
To obtain a profession, one needed to acquire a Professional Badge and a Covenant Parchment, both of which were obtained by spinning these colored Roulettes!
In his previous life, William did not have the luck to encounter colored Roulettes, so the badges and parchments needed for his profession were purchased from others, depleting all his savings and even leaving him in debt, which he only cleared much later. He couldn't afford the scrolls to advance to higher-level professions. He could only advance his primary professions to advanced Marksman and intermediate Swordsman, with no extra money to purchase secondary professions.
This situation was not unique to William. Over ten years in the doomsday, only about a third of survivors were able to obtain professions, and even fewer could advance their professions to higher levels. It was why, as a Six-Star Evolver, William could undertake many high-difficulty tasks with his war group. As an advanced Marksman, he could provide powerful fire support to the team.
Of course, this was also the reason for his death in battle. Because he had to face targets with evolution levels higher than his own during missions, leaving him with little resistance when ambushed.
However, in this life, William not only reincarnated but also had the excellent fortune to encounter the Tri-Color Roulette!
It was indeed a pleasant surprise. Although he hadn't found the key to the enclave yet, he unexpectedly encountered the Tri-Color Roulette first.
Even with the calm demeanor cultivated by William over his ten years in the doomsday, he couldn't help but be a little emotional at this moment, continuously touching the Tri-Color Roulette in front of him like a child.
This Tri-Color Roulette had three colors, Metallic Yellow, Ink Black, and Flame Red.
Unlike regular Roulettes, the Tri-Color Roulette not only had three areas but also had different operations. This type of Roulette did not specify the level of Magic Crystal required to spin it. It only required the total energy contained in the Magic Crystal.
In other words, whether it was a Tri-Color, Five-Color, Seven-Color, or Nine-Color Roulette, even if you only used a First-Level Magic Crystal, as long as you reached the required total energy, you could spin it.
It was like a coin-operated arcade game. If the game required seven coins, you had to insert seven. Inserting six or none at all yielded the same result.
It introduced a risk, revealing the first downside of the Mirage Roulette.
Survivors who discovered these colored Roulettes were lucky. But if you didn't have enough Magic Crystals prepared and invested in them all but failed to meet the requirements, it was a pity that the previous investment went to waste, and you needed to reinvest the Magic Crystals to spin again.
Of course, there was a time limit to this, maybe a few minutes, maybe a dozen minutes, as long as you invested enough Magic Crystals within this time frame. William didn't know the specific time interval, as he had never encountered this type of colored Roulette before his reincarnation.
Another downside of the colored Roulettes was that each colored Roulette contained one or several dark areas. The Tri-Color and Five-Color Roulettes had one, the Seven-Color Roulette had two, and the Nine-Color Roulette had three.
These dark areas, occupying almost a third of the colored Roulette, did not represent primary or secondary professions. They symbolized death.
If the pointer landed on a dark area when you spun this colored Roulette, your good luck turned into bad luck. Not only did you get nothing, but the colored Roulette would explode with a force so great that even a Nine-Star Powerhouse couldn't resist it, and you would disappear along with the colored Roulette.
So, the colored Roulette could make you rich overnight or lead to instant death, regardless of how powerful you were.
The reason why Professional Badges and Covenant Parchments had always been very expensive was that obtaining them not only required luck but also involved brushing shoulders with death.
If it were the previous life, even if William encountered a colored Roulette, he wouldn't have been so ecstatic because opportunities and risks coexist. You might gain, but you might also die.
But in this life, he was trembling with joy.
A few hours ago, he acquired a skill, the Basic Exclusion Technique!
He didn't know how useful this skill would be with the colored Roulette, but if he could use it, then this colored Roulette would pose no danger to William, only benefits!
The benefits were so huge that they would make him wake up laughing from his dreams!
After grinning foolishly at the Roulette for a while, William composed himself, took a deep breath, and then used the Basic Exclusion Technique on the Tri-Color Roulette. The prompt he received was that he could exclude one item.
William laughed heartily, his eyes even a bit moist.
After his rebirth, he not only gained a new lease on life but also had an incredible stroke of luck that he never had in his previous life.
Now, the remaining question was how he could accumulate enough Magic Crystals to meet the requirements of the Tri-Color Roulette. He had no intention of letting go of the two professions represented by Metallic Yellow and Flame Red.
With a knife in hand, an axe on his back, and a gun on his side, William felt a surge of power within him as he pushed open the door and stepped out of the broadcasting room.
