However, just as Guan Ren was lost in confusion, a light orb emitting a white glow suddenly appeared in his mind.

Tentatively, he reached out to touch the orb, and to his surprise, a system interface directly sprouted up in his thoughts!

[Ultimate Acceleration System]

Level: 1

Plunder: Can plunder everything; currently unlocked: attribute plunder.

Acceleration: Can accelerate everything; currently unlocked: tenfold attack speed.

Experience: 0/10000 (Experience can be used to upgrade the system level and unlock more system functions.)

The simple description left Guan Ren, who had relived a lifetime, stunned and incapable of collecting his thoughts for a long while.

With the gaming experience from his five-year veteran past life, now combined with this system, wouldn't he be invincible at whim?

Guan Ren's heart was racing with excitement, and he couldn't help but erupt into laughter.

He had led an unsatisfactory life before, but this time, he was determined to live it to the fullest!

[Ding, data anomaly!]

[Ding, data anomaly!]

Suddenly, amid the engulfing darkness, a system notification echoed like thunder across the sky.

[Data Repairing…]

[Data Repair Failed!]

In less than a minute, system notifications continued to chime until, with one final repair failure alert, an overwhelming force descended from above, placing a mighty pressure directly upon Guan Ren!

Boom!

A bolt of red lightning struck from the sky, hitting Guan Ren squarely, causing him to collapse to the ground!

At the same time, a red, lightning-shaped gemstone embedded itself inside him, ultimately fusing with his heart!

Stolen novel; please report.

[Ding, successfully bound to the Heart of Divine Punishment!]

Amidst fading consciousness, a system notification sounded.

Before he could ponder further, the surrounding darkness dissipated, and in the next second, Guan Ren felt his world spin, finding himself atop a massive, archaic altar.

Before him was a small angel with fluttering white wings, donned in silver armor, and no bigger than the palm of a hand.

"Welcome, adventurer from another world, please choose your advancement path!"

A screen materialized before Guan Ren, displaying two major categories—Physical and Magical.

Having created a character in his previous life, Guan Ren was very familiar with this. In "Heaven's Arrival," professions were divided into two main factions, Physical and Magical, each with many sub-professions and a wealth of variety.

At character creation, players could only choose the faction. Specific performances in-game would determine future career possibilities.

"I choose the Physical faction."

Guan Ren made a decisive choice. He had been a swordsman in his past life, so from the standpoint of experience, this was the perfect fit.

"Selection failed, reason unknown."

What?

Guan Ren's gaze darkened. After hesitating for a long while, he exhaled deeply and chose the Magical faction.

"Selection failed, reason unknown."

"…"

Guan Ren fought the urge to curse, breathing heavily in frustration.

"I choose neither."

The corners of Guan Ren's mouth twitched with helplessness.

In his past life, only those lacking talents were unable to choose between the two professions, and the odds of this were one in a hundred thousand!

These people could still level up and fight but couldn't change jobs to become combat professions. As a result, they missed out on exclusive skills and professional bonuses, slowly trailing behind other players over time.

As compensation, however, the system would allow these individuals to turn into a wider range of life-based professions.

Typically, combat players could only change into one life-based profession, but non-combat players were different. Since they couldn't change into combat professions, the system allowed them to switch among six life-based professions.

While this seemed a fair compensation and made them highly sought after by major guilds, for Guan Ren, who knew what the future held, entrusting his fate to others was foolish!

He wanted to be powerful in his own right, not just surviving through someone else’s protection!

"Selection successful! Please allocate your initial attributes!"

Finally, a smile appeared on the small angel's face, and she waved her hand, casting a beam of pure white light upon Guan Ren.

[Ding, congratulations! You have received 10 free attribute points. Please allocate them at your discretion!]

Guan Ren’s mouth contorted fiercely. As a non-combat profession, he only had 10 initial attribute points, which was nowhere near the 20 free attribute points enjoyed by combat professions!

But there was no turning back. He opened the attribute panel to allocate his points, and that's when he was completely dumbfounded.

Next to his Charm and Luck attributes, there was a small "+" sign, indicating he could increase these two fixed attributes!

Generally, everyone's initial Luck and Charm are zero, only increasing later through equipment, special quests, or rare items.

But now, blessed by misfortune, Guan Ren discovered he could directly add points to these inherently fixed attributes!

He had never heard of non-combat players having this "privilege" during the initial phases in his past life. Could the system be bugged?

Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, he didn’t dwell on it, beginning to furiously add points to his Luck.

Charm affects the trigger rate for hidden quests, while Luck relates to the drop rate of items and the success rate of various actions.

For reborn Guan Ren, aside from the special missions requiring fixed Charm to trigger, he was intimately familiar with the methods to activate general hidden quests.

Thanks to the forums where he'd compensated for lagging behind others, these details were etched into his memory, as fresh as yesterday's recollections.

So to him, Luck was paramount!

But to his surprise, because of the capped initial attributes, he could only allocate 5 points to Luck before it refused more.

With the remaining 5 free attribute points, after some deliberation, he allocated all to Constitution.

The 5 points of Constitution increased his health points to 50, a necessary boost since, without any combat attribute bonuses, his initial health pool was a mere 1 point—a single touch from a monster could be the end.

As for attack and defense, with talents like Piercing and Blocking, he would still be quite powerful in the early stages of the game.

"Now, all you need is to choose a name, and you can head to the world of Heaven's Arrival!"

The little angel winked playfully at Guan Ren.

"Officer Guan!"

"Name selection successful! Enjoy your game!"

The little angel closed her hands in prayer, and a radiance blossomed from the altar. The next second, Guan Ren vanished from the altar.

"Who would have thought that someone cursed with the Heart of Divine Punishment truly existed..."