91: Chapter 91 Unified Examination (Part Two)

The Sand Scorpions, Sand Rats, and other ferocious beasts that were originally hiding in the sand all abnormally ran to the surface; even the Desert Lizards, Sand Foxes, and other beasts hiding in their dens emerged one after another.

The entire sand dune was instantly crowded with a dense, swarming mass.

Wang Kaiwen and the other two had never seen such a sight. They were startled at first, but after seeing that the beasts didn't seem to be attacking them, they relaxed.

One by one, they took out their weapons and began to attack the ferocious beasts.

Wang Kaiwen was mainly responsible for the Level 12 and 13 Sand Rats, while the Level 17 and 18 Sand Foxes and other beasts were left to Tu Xiaoxia. Even Yang Shiyu raised her novice staff and attacked the Sand Rats.

Fortunately, these beasts were affected by Tang Mo's Hallucinogenic Gas and had no power to fight back, which was why Wang Kaiwen and Yang Shiyu could be so unscrupulous.

“Killed a Level 13 Gray Sand Rat, Points +1.”

“Killed a Level 18 Green Sand Fox, Points +3.”

...

As the scorers scanned the area, the scores of Tang Mo and his team began to rise slowly.

“Sigh, I finally understand what it means to be in painful bliss. Ow, my poor back~”

Wang Kaiwen leaned one hand on his novice greatsword and the other on his waist, his face wearing an expression that was either pain or happiness.

Yang Shiyu was also too exhausted to bicker with him, leaning on her novice staff with both hands while gasping for breath.

Tu Xiaoxia's condition was much better. With her domain fully active, she swung forcefully, instantly felling a patch of Sand Rats. Even when facing slightly higher-level beasts like Sand Foxes, she could deal with them easily.

There was no helping it; the equipment gap between the two sides was simply too large!

Novice-level equipment barely increased damage at all, and since Wang Kaiwen and Yang Shiyu's levels weren't high to begin with, they didn't have the slightest advantage even against Sand Rats.

Tang Mo, on the other hand, controlled Venomous Touch to pick off the beasts that were further away; he didn't dare use any of his other skills.

Although Tang Mo had agreed to team up with Wang Kaiwen and the others...

There were no special settings in this examination hall to make teammates immune to his toxins, so Tang Mo was somewhat restricted in his actions.

He didn't dare use large-scale damaging skills, only using Venomous Touch to strike through the gaps between his teammates.

Fortunately, Tang Mo's level was absolutely overwhelming, so he handled things cleanly and efficiently.

However, not all of these beasts were Point Beasts. Many of them were just ordinary ferocious beasts that lived here naturally, and killing them wouldn't grant any points.

Looking at the dense mass of hallucinating beasts before him, Tang Mo could only feel that there was no end to the killing—he simply couldn't kill them all.

Meanwhile, in Examination Hall 35, Gao Jun's face was ashen. He never expected these beasts to be so cunning; he couldn't even see a shadow of them.

There were clearly so many Sand Rats yesterday, so why were they all hiding today?

Gao Jun had intended to show off his skills in this Unified Examination. Even if he couldn't beat that Tang Mo, he should at least be able to easily break into the top ten.

That was why he specifically didn't team up with Guan Yushi and the others, but he never expected to meet his Waterloo, not seeing a single beast, let alone a Point Beast.

“It's okay, everyone should be in a similar situation. I don't see their names on the scorer either.”

“And that guy named Tang Mo doesn't have a single point either.”

Thinking of this, Gao Jun's expression improved significantly.

No matter how strong his power was, he still couldn't find any Point Beasts.

When Gao Jun picked up the scorer again, he could no longer maintain his composure.

He saw that Tang Mo's ranking was slowly rising.

First, it went from over a thousandth place with a dozen points, then slowly rose to over four hundredth place with thirty-odd points, and then to over a hundredth place with fifty-odd points...

Although the score growth was slow, it gave off an unstoppable feeling, like small streams gradually converging together, unable to be stopped.

Following closely behind Tang Mo were Tu Xiaoxia and the others; their scores weren't far apart.

Besides Gao Jun, Guan Yushi and the others also noticed the change in Tang Mo's team's scores.

It was mainly because there were so few people who could obtain points at this stage that it was hard for Tang Mo and his team not to attract attention.

Furthermore, others obtained points intermittently, unlike Tang Mo and his team, whose scores rose continuously.

“Could they have found a nest of Point Beasts?”

Guan Yushi, Feng Yuankai, and Ji Lianlei looked at each other.

“This luck is just too heaven-defying.”

In the invigilation room, the proctors and the recruitment heads of various universities who had been watching the examination situation also noticed this. They immediately pulled up the surveillance for Examination Hall 26 where Tang Mo was located.

Under the reconnaissance of omnidirectional drones, they soon found the figures of Tang Mo and his team in the vast Examination Hall 26.

Upon seeing the group surrounded by a large number of beasts, everyone was worried for them. However, after seeing clearly that the beasts were only surrounding them without attacking, as if they were delivering their lives, they all became puzzled.

“What's going on? Why aren't those beasts attacking them?”

“Perhaps they have some special crowd-control skill.”

It had to be said that these proctors and recruitment heads were people who had seen the world; they guessed the truth of the matter instantly.

Shi Yuanlong, sitting in the front row of the monitoring room, let out a cold snort. “This kind of method works fine against low-level beasts, but once they encounter high-level ones, it won't have the slightest effect. It would be better to learn a skill for escaping; that would offer a higher chance of survival later on.”

“Regardless, my Tianhai University won't take such a fellow; he's wasting his own potential for nothing.”

After hearing Shi Yuanlong's words, no one in the monitoring room spoke up to refute him. After all, Tianhai University was one of the five top-tier institutions in Great Xia besides Xiafu University; his words naturally carried some weight.

To judge a Professional's potential, first is their class grade, and second is the grade of the skills they have learned.

The potential of an Ordinary-grade class naturally couldn't compare to a Rare-grade class.

But if an Ordinary-grade class learned a powerful Legendary-grade skill, its potential would naturally be greater than a Rare-grade class that had only learned Ordinary-grade skills.

Therefore, skills played a massive role for Professionals.

A confusion-type skill like Tang Mo's might produce some unexpected effects in the early stages, but in the later stages, the mental resistance of extremely high-level beasts would be very strong. Such confusion skills would have almost no effect on them, making them less practical than an attack or movement skill.

This was why the recruitment heads of all the top universities remained silent after Shi Yuanlong spoke.

In their eyes, missing a useful skill meant his future achievements would be limited.

However, there were still many recruitment heads from other universities who looked favorably upon Tang Mo.

In their eyes, future achievements weren't that important; as long as Tang Mo could achieve a good result, he could be used to promote their schools.