Absolute Beast Dominion

Chapter 441: Intuition Talents

Leo went through the status plates of each gnome and found that most were Low to Mid 1-star, with a few being High to Peak 1-star, and only a handful being Low 2-star.

And all the Low 2-star gnomes had one talent in common.

Talent: [Burdenbearer Frame] — 2★

Despite their small stature, gnomes with this talent possess dense musculature and exceptional bodily endurance suited for labour-intensive environments. They recover stamina steadily during repetitive work and can tolerate prolonged periods of mining, forging, hauling, or construction far better than their appearance would suggest.

The gnome that Leo had picked for guessing back at the slave market also had this talent, and he himself was a Peak 1-star Gnome. No wonder he looked better built than the others.

>Name: Torbin

Race: Gnome

Soul Rank: Common

Bond: Slave – Type: Equipment Bonded

Status: Peak 1-star [Low 2-star]

Talent: [Burdenbearer Frame] – 2 stars

Hmm? Low 2-star in brackets? Does that mean he was originally a Low 2-star but regressed due to not getting proper nutrients? Leo thought, which was true.

When a person doesn’t consume the minimum amount of nutrients required by the body, that person’s overall condition slowly begins to regress. But since the path to that level of strength had already been opened once, once proper nutrition is restored, it becomes much easier to reach that peak again.

He scrolled through the list and came to understand that the talents were divided according to their orientations.

For the nature-oriented ones, he sorted out a few talents:

[Earthroot Affinity] — 1 – 2★

A common racial talent found among many gnomes. It grants weak compatibility with the earth element, allowing the user to naturally resonate with soil, stone, and minerals. Though incapable of true elemental manipulation at this level, it slightly improves physical stability, underground awareness, and compatibility with mining, construction, and earth-attributed professions.

[Harvest Logic] — 1★

Unlike races that nurture plants emotionally or spiritually, gnomes with this talent approach agriculture through efficiency and observation. They naturally recognize patterns in soil quality, water distribution, crop exhaustion, and growth conditions, allowing them to manage farmland with remarkable precision and minimal waste.

As for the tech-oriented ones, there was only one talent exclusive to them.

[Mechanist Instinct] — 1★

Gnomes with this talent possess exceptional intuition toward mechanisms and structural logic. They naturally understand the relationship between moving parts, pressure balance, and tool functionality far faster than ordinary races or other gnomes. Even without formal education, they tend to excel in workshops, engineering fields, and the maintenance of complex devices.

As for the last category, the smith-oriented ones, they also had only one.

[Anvil Resonance] — 2★

A talent commonly found among gnome smiths and metalworkers. It grants a natural sensitivity toward the internal state of metals during forging, allowing the user to instinctively recognize temperature balance, structural stress, and impurity distribution through vibrations and sound. Though subtle at 1★, it greatly improves consistency and material handling during smithing work.

There were also two other talents shared between the tech and smith-oriented gnomes. Those were–

[Forgeborn Precision] — 1★

This talent grants extraordinary steadiness and control during crafting processes. Whether forging metal, engraving runes, or shaping delicate components, the user maintains unusually consistent hand movements and material balance. Gnome smiths with this talent are known for producing durable, highly refined work despite their limited physical strength.

[Rune Pattern Sensitivity] — 1★

This talent grants natural sensitivity toward engraved structures such as runes, formations, and magical circuitry. Users instinctively notice irregularities, instability, or incomplete patterns within crafted designs, making them highly valued in workshops involving enchantment, artifact maintenance, and magical engineering.

All of them were 1-star talents except [Burdenbearer Frame] and [Anvil Resonance]. Leo realized that these talents required more direct strength than the others, so their rankings were naturally higher.

He had read in the library that the higher the talent-star, the more likely the bearer was to grow strong in a literal sense. Whether physical, magical, mental, spiritual, soul-related, or overall combat capability, the higher the talent rank, the greater the potential.

So even if a talent was only ranked 1-star, it could still be extremely useful if it wasn’t related to attack or defence—known as an intuition talent. Much like the 1-star [Herb Mixing] talent that had been found in Kendru City alongside Leo and Lily. Though that talent wasn’t useful in combat, it was highly valuable in breweries and laboratories. Such people could even create entirely new compounds unknown to the world simply because their intuition—the blessing granted by their talents—opened the path toward it.

Seeing that, Leo had a stray thought.

What if I allow them to stay near the Titanbreath Lotus during its next advancement?

After the incident of Aeila’s talent rank-up, he had gone to the library to research it and discovered that there was a rare chance of receiving a boon while being near a Heaven and Earth Phenomenon. But that was only possible if the individual was inside the golden pillar when the official phenomenon began. Just before the phenomenon starts, an otherworldly energy imperceptible to normal senses is released, and direct contact with that energy is what allows an individual to receive a boon.

And that energy is released only in trace amounts, with most of it is absorbed by the treasure or the origin source itself, so one needed immense luck to obtain even a fraction of it.

And a boon could come in any form—a talent rank-up, breaking through a bottleneck, or even awakening an entirely new talent bound to be extraordinary or something new traits, anything.

As for why Leo was thinking in that direction, it was simple. Most of these talents seemed to be intuition-oriented talents, and if such talents received an advancing boon from a Heaven and Earth Phenomenon, that particular bearer could become an absolute genius in their field. One individual alone might be enough to usher civilization into its next era through their inventions.

It was as if the world itself helped talented individuals gain insights and inspiration to create new things.

But from the day the apocalypse began, only a handful of people had ever received boons from Heaven and Earth Phenomena, and now Aeila had become one of them. Even rarer were intuition talents boons, which could practically be counted on one’s fingers.

It was said that the invention of intricate magic circles had been accomplished by one such genius, which was why almost every field now made use of them. Leo had even seen Kaelion—a fighter—using them in his eye-enhancing magic.