65: Chapter 65 Harvest: You don't want this stuff?

[Delayed Strike]!

Every attack would be followed by a second, identical attack!

After a one-second delay, it would deal secondary damage!

And it couldn't be dodged!

Extremely monstrous!

Murong Yan's finishing kick stunned the entire scene.

The massive body of the Wind Blade Wolf King collapsed with a crash, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Everyone widened their eyes, looking at Murong Yan in disbelief.

Lin Fan walked over with his hands in his pockets, strolling casually.

"If Sister Yan kicked someone with that, they'd probably be buried into the ground, and their ashes would take a second to remember to scatter."

Murong Yan brushed back her hair, which was dampened by sweat, and glanced at Lin Fan.

She was clearly in a good mood.

This battle had been truly exhilarating.

Her cultivation realm as a Level 3 Initial Martial Master, which had been stagnant for a long time, showed signs of loosening.

"Less glib talk."

Although Murong Yan said that, the smile at the corners of her eyes couldn't be hidden at all.

She truly enjoyed the thrill of a one-hit kill.

Especially this delayed burst, which was the essence of her A-Grade Talent [Delayed Strike].

"However..."

Lin Fan rubbed his chin, his eyes sweeping back and forth over Murong Yan's long legs.

"Sister Yan, these legs of yours..."

Murong Yan's eyes turned cold. "Do you want to die?"

Lin Fan chuckled. "I meant that your leg muscle explosive power is strong."

The corners of Murong Yan's mouth twitched.

She really wanted to kick this guy right now.

But she was afraid Lin Fan would stick out his tongue.

"Everyone, hurry up and clean up the battlefield!"

Instructor Chen Feng's weak voice came over.

He was pale now; maintaining the [Blood Demon] state for continuous combat had drained him significantly.

Fortunately, the battle was over.

The freshmen finally reacted.

Looking at the monster corpses covering the ground, their eyes turned red.

This was all money!

The materials on the monsters, and those glowing objects that dropped.

Those were equipment!

And potions!

And even skill books!

Usually, even if they went to a specialized secret realm, they wouldn't necessarily have such a high drop rate.

Today, these thousand-plus monsters were practically handing them benefits on a silver platter.

"Wow! Here's a blue wristguard!"

"I had a skill book drop! It's the Mage's Phoenix Fire Technique!"

"I have a Strength Potion here, increases strength by 10% for a short time!"

"..."

Cheers rang out one after another.

The fear and fatigue from moments ago vanished into thin air at this moment.

This was the world of the Awakened.

Danger and opportunity coexisted.

As long as you survived, there were plenty of benefits.

Lin Fan wasn't idle either.

Although he wasn't short on money—after all, he had fleeced Murong Yan quite a bit before, and on top of entering Magic City Ability University, Luo Cha had also deposited over ten million into his card.

But since this stuff was free for the taking, it would be a waste not to take it.

Especially regarding his younger sister, whose condition was still uncertain.

That was a Martial Artist's illness, very difficult to cure and requiring a huge amount of money.

Although his title as the national top scorer allowed him to get medical treatment for free now.

But he was used to it, and he wouldn't spend money recklessly.

Moreover, his dream was to one day be able to cure his sister's illness.

Even if she still couldn't become a Martial Artist, at least he wanted to let her not have to stay in that hospital room all the time.

And to realize such a dream, he didn't even know how much money he might need in the future.

As everyone searched through the glowing spots on the ground, Lin Fan looked left and right.

Suddenly, he kicked away a piece of white-tier equipment with disdain.

"How is there a broken pair of iron underpants here."

Equipment/Skill Book/Potion quality was divided into: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Gold, Red.

Suddenly.

A faint white light flickered on Lin Fan.

Immediately after.

Not far away, Xia Wanqiu, who was picking up monster cores, suddenly erupted with an astonishing aura.

Her previously somewhat withered spiritual power instantly became much fuller.

"I... I broke through?"

Xia Wanqiu looked at her own hands in pleasant surprise.

She had been stuck at a Level 2 Intermediate Martial Artist for some time.

She hadn't expected that this great battle today, where she had overdrawn her spiritual power to heal Lin Fan and everyone else, would actually help her break through the bottleneck.

She broke through directly to Level 2 High-Stage!

Although it was just a small realm improvement.

But for a Healing class, the healing output and spiritual power would grow exponentially!

On the other side.

The aura on Murong Yan was even more terrifying.

She was originally a Level 3 Initial Martial Master.

At this moment.

That sharp momentum climbed once again.

She rushed directly to Level 3 Intermediate Martial Master!

A nineteen-year-old Level 3 Intermediate Martial Master!

This was considered quite good nationwide.

Of course, it couldn't be counted as a genius.

After all, this person chose not to go to school and insisted on going to some martial arts gym.

Wasting quite a few opportunities to hone herself.

But even so, the surrounding freshmen were still so envious their eyes went straight.

"Damn, this leveling speed is too fast, right?"

"As expected, actual combat is the only standard for testing the truth."

"I also feel like I'm about to break through; the killing just now was so satisfying."

Lin Fan curled his lips.

He looked at his panel.

His Defense Level was still hovering at LV25.

That faint white light just now was just a tiny manifestation of natural physical fitness growth.

For a monster like him who possessed an independent leveling system.

The breakthrough methods of ordinary people didn't work for him.

If one only felt his aura, he still had the aura of a Level 1 Martial Apprentice.

He looked like an existence that could be crushed with one hand.

His current physical strength had long exceeded the limits of the ordinary martial arts system.

If one only looked at the Defense attribute on his panel, his Defense could already go toe-to-toe with a Level 4 Grandmaster.

As for strength and speed, don't even ask!

"Everyone is leveling up, yet I can't level up at all. Is it because my skin is too thick?"

Lin Fan muttered.

He just wanted to find a stronger place quickly to grind his Defense Level.

After all, he had gained over a level in one hour on the periphery.

If he took a stroll in the core area, even without turning on the Taunt Aura, he would probably gain at least two levels.

Just then.

He kicked something hard under his foot.

He picked it up to look.

It was a book emitting a faint blue light.

[Skill Book: Wild Charge (Warrior Class)]

[Effect: Launch a charge forward, dealing physical damage to the impact target. If your own Defense is higher than the target's attack power, deal additional true damage equal to 10% of your own Defense.]

Lin Fan's eyes brightened instantly.

Defense converted to damage?

Although it was only 10%.

But for other people, their Defense was only a few hundred points, converting to a few dozen points of damage, which was just chicken ribs.

But for him, Lin Fan...

His current Defense was 2135.

10% meant over 200 points of damage.

And it was true damage!

The only limiting condition was that his own Defense had to be higher than the opponent's!

In the same realm, absolutely no one could have higher Defense than him!

Before, he was Defense-invincible in the same realm; now he even had a means to kill enemies!

He would never have to use the turtle scraping-sha fist again.

Two hundred-plus damage at a time was actually quite painful!

And his Defense had no upper limit!

Once his Defense surpassed ten thousand, or a hundred thousand in the future.

Then this damage could keep stacking!

"Good stuff! This is definitely good stuff!"

Lin Fan immediately tucked the skill book into his bosom.

Although this thing was just a trash skill in other people's eyes.

After all, what serious Warrior would stack Defense?

They all wanted to stack Attack and Critical Hit.

Only a weirdo like Lin Fan would think this was a god-tier skill.

Besides this skill book.

There was still quite a bit of equipment on the ground.

Lin Fan scanned the area.

He discovered that most people were scrambling for equipment that increased Strength and Speed.

Things like [Tiger Gauntlets], which could provide +10 Strength.

[Boots of Gale] could provide +5 Speed.

They were fighting over them so hard it was like they were about to brawl.

And those equipment pieces that added Spiritual Power were lying lonely on the ground, basically ignored by everyone.

Only Support-type and Mage-type Awakened would occasionally glance at them and pick them up if they were interested.

After all, for Awakened, Spiritual Power would become less scarce as their realm improved.

The lack of Spiritual Power in the early stages was a limitation on the strength of the Mage type.

What's more, most of these nearly one thousand students were Warriors.

Lin Fan chuckled.

Wouldn't this just be convenient for him?

Although he was a Tank.

But his [Taunt Aura] was a huge consumer of mana.

Over a hundred points of Spiritual Power wasn't enough for him to use at all, and as for the natural recovery speed of Spiritual Power, that was even more negligible.

Currently, the limit for how long he could keep the Taunt Aura active was one hour.

If he aggroed higher-level monsters, the time would be reduced even more.

His only advantage was that this Taunt Aura had no cooldown, and could be cast instantly!

Thus.

Lin Fan began his journey of "picking up trash."

What you don't want, I want!

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