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After thinking about it, Kevin decided to use three skill points to activate the Time Stop function first.
After all, Kevin wasn't sure how long the job change would take.
And Kevin could afford the three skill points to unlock the new function.
A-Train's death just happened to give Kevin six more skill points, and counting the skill points he had accumulated before, Kevin had a total of ten skill points remaining.
He would use four for the job change, three to activate the Time Stop function, and Kevin would still have three left as a backup.
To use for new skills after the job change.
Before confirming the job change, Kevin looked in the mirror again to confirm his current attire, and with his prepared backpack on, he decided to set off.
Kevin's backpack contained quite a few items: special compressed food from Vought, water, some outdoor survival gear, and a set of thin but very warm thermal clothing.
These items ensured that Kevin could face most environments he might encounter to the greatest extent possible.
Unless this broken skill tree directly teleported Kevin into lava or outer space, otherwise, even if he was in the ground, Kevin could dig his way out little by little with the water in his backpack!
"Come on! This time, the job change is really starting!"
With everything prepared, Kevin kept clicking 'confirm' in the skill tree and finally initiated the job change.
The moment the job change was activated, Kevin's vision suddenly turned pure white.
Pure white light enveloped Kevin's body, making him unable to see anything.
When the blinding pure white light dissipated, the first thing that came into Kevin's sight was a relatively prosperous plaza, similar to a park.
In Kevin's eyes, at first glance, it was just an ordinary plaza.
There were various elevated pedestrian overpasses, strange-looking pedestrians coming and going, vendors selling things in the distance, well-trimmed green trees along the roadsides, and even decorative fountains in the middle.
Everything looked quite normal.
Until Kevin saw the flying vehicles in the sky.
"WTF...? !"
Kevin looked up at the flying vehicles shuttling back and forth in the sky, which could only be seen in science fiction movies.
Then he looked at the people on the roadside with various skin colors, some red, some blue, and even some with tentacles on their heads.
Kevin then understood one thing.
"Is this... an alien planet?!"
It took Kevin a while to close his open mouth.
For a moment, Kevin felt his skill tree was cursed.
You said that changing jobs to [The Deep Fighter], a profession that clearly looks like a combat-oriented, physical one, it's fine if you don't send me to some fantasy or even wuxia world for cultivating fighting skills.
But what the hell is it doing throwing me into a sci-fi world?!
Does the The Deep Fighter profession require mastery of high technology?!
Are there any prerequisite conditions that require mastering some profound alien technology?!
Or are you saying that you think the sea of stars is also a sea, which is why you threw me onto an alien planet?
Wait a minute...
Mentioning alien technology and aliens, and connecting it with the term 'martial arts', gave Kevin a very bad premonition.
This world... couldn't possibly be... Dragon Ball!?
At that moment, Kevin's cold sweat flowed down his head uncontrollably, like the water from the nearby fountain.
If it really was the Dragon Ball world, then what's the point of changing jobs?!
Who doesn't know that the Dragon Ball world is the most dangerous of all worlds? Not to mention planets, even universes can just disappear!
If this really was the Dragon Ball world, Kevin would just find a place to live out his life, perhaps dying with a bit more dignity.
"Please don't be Dragon Ball, please don't be Dragon Ball..."
Kevin prayed in his heart while opening the skill tree to look at the prerequisites for the job change.
According to the skill tree's prompt, once he entered the job change world, the prerequisites for the job change would change slightly.
The original condition of [Needs to absorb high-level energy] would specifically turn into a special energy available in the mission world, allowing Kevin to avoid many detours and directly find the energy-containing object required for the job change.
Therefore, if this world was truly Dragon Ball, then the prerequisite for the job change mission might become a condition like [Needs to absorb Dragon Ball energy].
Thus, by observing the prerequisite, he could determine the world he would be in after the job change.
Thinking this, Kevin looked at the job change conditions for the new profession.
And then—
— [Job Change Condition: Personally touch the power stone and absorb its energy (Not met)]
"Oh, Marvel..."
Kevin's hanging heart finally settled.
The power stone, from various works in the Marvel series, is one of the six Infinity Stones in the universe.
It is said to have been born from the Big Bang, a magical gem containing the universe's infinite energy, and gathering six of them can summon a Dragon God...
Ahem, wrong, it can change anything in the universe according to one's will.
The power stone is one of these six Infinity Stones, and its wielder will possess unparalleled power and defense.
It's reasonable that the [The Deep Fighter] job change requires the power stone.
Of course, that's not important. What's important is that through the power stone as a prerequisite, Kevin finally knew where his mission world was this time.
Undoubtedly, it was in the Marvel Universe.
And if nothing unexpected happened, it should be the movie universe.
"Good, good, it's not Dragon Ball... If it were Dragon Ball, I might seriously consider committing suicide on the spot."
Kevin sighed in relief.
Although the Marvel movie universe is also very dangerous, compared to the Dragon Ball world, it's far less so.
In the Marvel movie universe, the person with the highest perceived power level so far should be Loki, who eventually became the Story God. Compared to him, The Watcher seems like a junior.
Then there's Dark Strange, and after that, Infinity Ultron...
During this time, there might also be some out-of-spec guys like Kang the Conqueror, Infinite Thanos, Celestial, etc., but Kevin doesn't need to worry about them.
At least not for now.
Excluding these top powerhouses of the universe, the rest are not too dangerous.
Kevin doesn't claim to become a top-tier expert among them, but he can at least be considered of moderate strength, and self-preservation is absolutely no problem.
But if Kevin were placed in the Dragon Ball world...
A world where planets explode at the drop of a hat, Kevin really couldn't stand it!
So the Marvel World is very good, very good! Kevin likes the Marvel World!
"Okay, now let's organize the information."
Understanding what kind of world he was in, Kevin, relieved, simply found a spring and sat down, beginning to sort out the current situation.
The skill tree required Kevin to touch the power stone, which meant Kevin was currently in the place where it was easiest to access the power stone.
And Kevin recalled the Marvel series plot he had watched years ago and concluded that this place was very likely Xandar from Guardians of the Galaxy.
Because the power stone's first appearance was in the plot of Guardians of the Galaxy 1.
Or rather, the entire plot of Guardians of the Galaxy revolved around the power stone.
Furthermore, the power stone, apart from its initial planet, only appeared at Knowhere, where the Collector was, and Xandar.
Especially Xandar, where the cosmic orb containing the power stone first appeared.
After Ronan obtained the power stone, he even brought it to Xandar, intending to destroy it.
Adding to that, among the three locations, only Xandar was the most prosperous and populous, which perfectly matched the scene Kevin was currently seeing.
Therefore, Kevin speculated that, if nothing unexpected happened, this was Xandar.
"Hmm, so what's the current timeline? Has Star-Lord just obtained the cosmic orb, or is Ronan already preparing a major invasion? Please don't be the latter...?"
Kevin thought, looking up to see if there were any spaceship fleets preparing to invade.
As soon as he looked up, he saw a round object fall from the pedestrian overpass above and land precisely on Kevin's head.
Thud—
Instinctively catching the round sphere with his hand, Kevin glanced at the leather-jacketed man and green-skinned woman fighting in a brawl on the overpass, then looked at the sphere in his hand, falling silent.
This... couldn't be...
The cosmic orb containing the power stone, could it?
I just got it?!
Huh??
...
Star-Lord, Peter Quill, felt that today was definitely not his lucky day.
He thought that by sneaking away from Yondu, the Ravager leader, and preemptively snatching the cosmic orb that Yondu was supposed to get, he could sell the cosmic orb to the buyer and get paid before Yondu.
But who would have thought that the middleman responsible for issuing missions and rewards, upon hearing the name of Ronan the Accuser, would be so scared that he threw both him and the orb out!
Star-Lord also didn't expect that just casually mentioning 'Ronan the Accuser's subordinates were also present when the orb was snatched' would scare that middleman so much.
And that wasn't all!
As soon as he was thrown out, Star-Lord was beaten up by a green-skinned woman, who also snatched the cosmic orb from him.
Damn it, Star-Lord had originally wanted to ask her out after earning money, but instead, he was robbed by this hot-bodied woman?!
But putting aside whether the girl was hot or not, that mysterious orb was something Star-Lord had painstakingly acquired, even offending Ronan's subordinates to get it back.
He absolutely couldn't hand it over to anyone else!
Not even this beautiful green-skinned woman!
So, naturally and inevitably, Star-Lord fought with this woman.
Then, during the fight, the cosmic orb accidentally fell to the ground, rolled off the rooftop, and dropped onto a lower platform.
The green-skinned woman was the first to break free from Star-Lord, leaping down from the high rooftop to snatch the cosmic orb.
Star-Lord, unwilling to give up, followed closely, also jumping from the rooftop, ready to continue fighting the woman to get the sphere back.
But then he saw that the woman, who had been so arrogant just a moment ago, was now like prey caught in a spider web, bound tightly by transparent water ropes.
And she was bound quite artistically.
Not far from the woman, a guy with a large backpack, who looked like a cosmic adventurer, was forcefully prying open the cosmic orb.
As he pried, he muttered:
..."This shouldn't be, didn't Ronan just pry this thing open? Why can't I open it?"
"Hey! Hey hey! Buddy!! Stop for a second, that's my stuff! I advise you to give it back to me!"
Peter Quill said, picking up the element guns Yondu had given him as a birthday present, a pair he had used for years, and aimed them at the 'adventurer' in front of him.
He wanted to use this method to threaten the other party into returning the orb.
But the result was...
Another idiot was trapped in the water-flow spider web.
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