7: Chapter 7: The Killing Never Stops, Gun Technique Breakthrough and Mastery

The Ability College Entrance Examination had officially begun. Su Mu was ready to start scouring the area for monsters to kill with all his might.

Su Mu opened the map function built into his scoring bracelet.

A virtual map floated in front of Su Mu.

The exam area was divided into three parts: the Outer Zone, the Central Zone, and the Core Zone.

The Outer Zone was green on the map, the Central Zone was yellow, and the Core Zone was red.

The types of fierce beasts in each area varied, but they followed the rule that the closer to the Core Zone, the more numerous and powerful the beasts became.

At present, Su Mu had already entered the Central Zone.

As expected.

After a short while, Su Mu was blocked by a Tier 1 Mid-Rank Tusked Wild Boar.

The Tusked Wild Boar was entirely black, with thick saliva dripping from the tusks in its mouth.

It primarily relied on the momentum generated by its massive body weight to ram its targets.

During the three years of high school, the school taught more than just combat techniques; wilderness terrain and the encyclopedia of fierce beasts were also mandatory courses.

As someone who held a blood feud with fierce beasts, Su Mu could not afford to be slack in his studies.

Since the Tusked Wild Boar was not a particularly rare beast, Su Mu naturally understood it very well.

The Tusked Wild Boar mainly possessed incredible impact force and strong defense.

For students with weak attack power and low agility...

Encountering a Tusked Wild Boar signaled an early end to their Ability College Entrance Examination.

"Hmph—"

Fierce beasts became exceptionally bloodthirsty upon seeing humans, and it charged directly at Su Mu.

If this hit landed solidly, Su Mu would be smashed directly into a pulp.

For a student who had just awakened an ability, encountering such a scene should have been terrifying.

However, it had encountered Su Mu, who had faced fierce beasts countless times three years ago.

Just as the Tusked Wild Boar charged within three meters of him, Su Mu leaped lightly into the air.

The Tusked Wild Boar's charge hit nothing but air.

Su Mu stood with his spear held horizontally, black electric arcs dancing continuously along the shaft, and thrust out with a single strike.

As the black current spread, the spear tip pierced into the Tusked Wild Boar's body.

'Zzzzt, zzzzt.' The current surged wildly inside the Tusked Wild Boar's body.

Su Mu pulled the spear tip out directly, and blood immediately sprayed out like a fountain.

The Tusked Wild Boar collapsed to the ground, dead as could be.

The mechanical voice of the system sounded in Su Mu's mind.

['Ding! Successfully killed a Tier 1 Mid-Rank fierce beast, Tusked Wild Boar. Conversion Value +8.']

After the beast was killed, Su Mu opened another function of the scoring bracelet.

The score ranking function; the scoring bracelet would track the scores of the top 100 students in the entire examination center in real-time.

[Name]: Su Mu

[School]: Jianglan City No. 1 High School

[Score]: 9

Su Mu glanced at his basic information first, then continued to check the rankings.

'1st Place: Luo Zhenyue, 10 points (Luohan Temple)'

'2nd Place: Su Mu, 9 points (Jianglan City No. 1 High School)'

'3rd Place: Zhou Yang, 6 points (Jianglan City No. 16 High School)'

'4th Place: Wu Shuang, 6 points (Jianglan City No. 16 High School)'

'...'

'100th Place: Li Hu, 1 point (Jianglan City No. 2 High School)'

'...'

"Someone actually has more points than me! There really are experts here.

But what's the deal with this 'Luohan Temple'?"

Su Mu closed the ranking list, picked up his silver-white long spear, and continued hunting fierce beasts.

Since this Luo Zhenyue could get 10 points in such a short time, he must have killed a Tier 1 High-Rank fierce beast.

It wasn't hard to deduce that this person must also be in the Central Zone.

The number of fierce beasts released for the Ability College Entrance Examination was limited and would not be replenished.

For average students, the number of beasts didn't matter at all.

Because they simply couldn't kill them all.

95% of students could only stay in the Outer Zone, killing some Entry-Rank and Tier 1 Low-Rank fierce beasts.

But for the top 5% of elite students, it was completely different; their goal was to compete for the City Top Scorer or even the Provincial Top Scorer.

The fierce beasts in the Central Zone provided considerable points, but they were not infinite.

This meant that the beasts in the Central Zone had to be fought over.

The area of the Central Zone was only about one-twentieth the size of the Outer Zone.

Small area, few beasts—they had to compete.

Su Mu moved rapidly through the Central Zone, killing every beast he encountered.

['Ding! Killed a Tier 1 Low-Rank fierce beast, Sundering Claw Rat. Conversion Value +6.']

['Ding! Killed an Entry-Rank fierce beast, Black-Toothed Rabbit. Conversion Value +3.']

['Ding! Killed a Tier 1 Mid-Rank fierce beast, Rock-Horned Rhino. Conversion Value +7.']

'...'

The more Su Mu killed, the more energized he became. Wherever his eyes landed, not a single beast was left alive.

Nearly an hour had passed since he entered the exam area.

Su Mu opened his system information panel to take a look.

[Name]: Su Mu

[Level]: Entry-Rank

[Source Power]: 184

[Divine Soul]: 146

[Ability]: S-Rank Thunder-Dark Domain

[Combat Skill]: Thunder Cloud Spear (Proficient)

[Weapon]: Spear Technique (Skilled)

[Conversion Value]: 57

'Note: Each spin of the lottery wheel consumes 100 Conversion Value.'

"Conversion Value still isn't enough. After killing for an hour, I've gained less than 60 points.

But fortunately, I can draw once with 100 Conversion Value.

Thinking back to the last free draw the system gave me, it directly granted me a B-Rank alloy combat spear."

One had to know that most students were using C or D-Rank weapons.

Su Mu could resolve most fierce beasts using only a B-Rank weapon combined with the Spear Technique attached to his Proficient-level Thunder Cloud Spear.

Ever since he discovered that killing beasts without using his ability was also quite easy, Su Mu had stopped using it.

He relied solely on his physical body and Spear Technique to kill the beasts.

Of course, this wasn't just to train his physique; using an ability consumed Source Power.

The higher the grade of the ability, the greater the power and the correspondingly higher consumption.

If he used his ability for every kill, Su Mu's Source Power would be depleted within an hour.

The Ability College Entrance Examination would last for 8 hours, starting at 10 AM and ending at 6 PM.

There were even more powerful beasts waiting for him to kill in the Core Zone.

His ability had to be saved for the more powerful beasts in the Core Zone that provided more points.

Furthermore, weapons also had proficiency levels.

After three years of practice in high school, Su Mu's Spear Technique was already at the Skilled level.

Through the continuous use of the long spear in battle, Su Mu gradually felt the spear in his hand becoming lighter.

His swings became smoother, and he even began to develop some unique insights.

"My Spear Technique proficiency seems to have increased. If I could pull another Proficiency Upgrade Card...

My Spear Technique could enter the Perfect level.

A Perfect-level Spear Technique is a realm that even the school teachers haven't reached."

'Puchi—'

Su Mu pulled his silver-white long spear out of a black fierce beast.

That beast was a full three meters long, with a horn on its head that looked like a sharp blade.

It was precisely the beast the students had been discussing most intensely before the exam—the Blood Moon Wolf.

['Ding! Killed a Tier 1 High-Rank fierce beast, Blood Moon Wolf. Conversion Value +10.']

There was no trace of fatigue on Su Mu's face, because with these 10 points, he now had 100 Conversion Value.

Open System!

Draw!!!

The large lottery wheel appeared in Su Mu's mind once again, the pointer spinning incessantly on the wheel.

'Clack, clack, clack.'

Finally, the pointer stopped in a green area.

['Congratulations! You have obtained Source Power Potion ×1.']

Source Power Potion: Restores 50% of the user's Source Power within 10 seconds.

Executing a beautiful spear flourish, Su Mu continued toward the Core Zone.

In the monitoring room backstage outside the examination center, He Kui and Cui Yuyu, who were staring intently at Su Mu's live stream screen, were both extremely shocked.

The same thought appeared in both of their minds simultaneously.

Proficient-level Spear Technique!!!!!