64: Thunder, fall!

Extreme speed!

Endless lightning surged around Xia Qi.

On this vast, clear grassland, Xia Qi, enveloped in blue-purple lightning, continuously accelerated, sprinted, and ran wildly.

The intense sunlight could not obscure the dazzling lightning.

Xia Qi’s figure was like a sharp blade under the scorching sun. From afar, he looked like a leaping ray of light, rapidly jumping along an incredible path.

“Charge! Charge into the very center!”

Xia Qi grinned, his wild Battle Intent surging, his pupils flashing with colorful light, aiming for the center of the Goblin monster horde.

“Only the most terrifying thunder can shatter the heaviest darkness!”

In the blink of an eye, Xia Qi appeared in the center of the monsters, a rather chuunibyou line appearing in his mind.

“Haha, it’s broad daylight! How about calling it ‘Shattering the Daylight with Thunder’!”

“Humans, die!”

Countless Goblin warriors were enraged. Seeing Xia Qi laugh wildly, they felt their beastly hearts insulted.

Sword light, sword shadows, Spells.

Instantly, all the Goblins launched an attack against this arrogant invader.

“Come, all of you, surround me! Let me show you what despair is!”

Xia Qi’s gaze was like a knife. The moment his words fell, the surging lightning power around him reached its peak.

Boom!

A tremendous thunderous roar erupted from within Xia Qi, its sound reverberating throughout the entire hillside.

Boom!

Another explosion. Endless lightning seemed to open its eyes, glaring furiously at the green-skinned, low-Rank monsters.

Boom!

When the third thunderclap sounded, the entire battlefield was filled with the furious roars of thunder.

Nine Heavens Thunderclap!

Fall!

A gentle breeze ruffled Xia Qi’s clothes. The instant Xia Qi’s words fell.

All the Goblins present were frozen in place, extreme terror surging within their hearts.

Their bodies trembled uncontrollably, and their eyes, filled with fear, stared at the invader, as if a great horror was about to unfold at any moment.

Crash!

When the energy accumulated to its peak and erupted, with Xia Qi as the center, ‘raindrops’ began to fall rapidly within a hundred-meter radius.

Immediately after, dazzling lightning roared down, rushing towards all the Goblin monsters within the range.

Instant kill!

Widespread instant kills.

Amidst the violent ‘raindrops,’ the Goblins had no power to resist. They died upon contact.

“Not enough, still not enough!”

Xia Qi slowly floated into mid-air. The wildly dancing lightning still seemed to have no outlet. A hundred-meter radius was too small, utterly insufficient to contain his current Battle Intent.

And so, to the terrified gazes of the Great Examiners, the lightning-covered area began to expand.

One hundred meters.

One hundred fifty meters.

Two hundred meters...

Until it enveloped all the Goblin monsters.

“Ah~”

Countless screams followed. As the lightning’s range expanded, all one thousand Rank 15 Goblins, without exception, perished.

“Dead?”

“All dead?”

“This…”

The Great Examiners were dumbfounded, staring wide-eyed at Xia Qi’s image, their mouths agape, unable to close them.

“Clearance time: 15 seconds. Kills: one thousand!”

When one Great Examiner unconsciously read out the data.

Boom!

All the Great Examiners watching Xia Qi’s screen collectively felt as if they had been struck by lightning.

What kind of Prodigy was this?!

This was a horde of a thousand monsters!

And he annihilated them in fifteen seconds.

Was this… really the college entrance exam?

Several Great Examiners had this thought almost simultaneously.

“Hiss~ This kid, he hid his strength too well.”

“Damn it, I’ve invigilated the college entrance exam for over a decade, and I’ve never seen such a monstrous examinee. Xia Qi, oh Xia Qi, you can really put on an act. Just how strong are you?”

“This is definitely not S-Rank Talent; he… has SS-Rank Talent!”

“Good heavens, SS-Rank lightning talent. So, during the first three rounds of the exam, this kid didn’t even take it seriously.”

The impact on the Great Examiners in such a short time was too strong.

So much so that their eyes were fixed on the screen, their minds already drifting to who knows where.

“Boring, truly boring. He instantly killed everything in all four rounds. Might as well watch someone else.”

At this moment, a Great Examiner who had come to his senses quickly switched the screen, cutting to other examinees.

He was a Rank 70 person, yet he was so surprised by an 18-year-old student. He didn’t know where to put his old face.

“Right, right, right, let’s not watch him. This kid is no fun at all.”

“Exactly, might as well watch someone else.”

The other Great Examiners also reacted. This constant instant killing was indeed quite boring.

Watching others was much more interesting.

Of course, only they themselves knew how deeply shaken they were in those fifteen seconds.

Yun Qingyue’s face was currently brimming with confidence.

The fourth round might be particularly difficult for other examinees, but for her, it was a very easy stage.

Her S-Rank Fire-element Talent, Heart of Blazing Fire, seemed to be born for such monster hordes.

Powerful Fire-element Spells, coupled with the divine skill Fire Sea that came with her Talent.

These Rank 15 Goblin warriors would find it very difficult to withstand.

Area-of-effect attacks were a Mage’s strong suit.

Moreover, her Rank had reached Rank 18. Clearing monsters was a matter of a single skill, and passing the fourth round was no problem at all.

On Yu Qiu’s side, however, she was struggling greatly.

Assassins had strong burst damage and rich combat techniques, and she had also learned many control skills.

Whether it was for assassination or one-on-one combat, she was an excellent presence.

But facing a horde of a thousand, such advantages instead became weaknesses.

She was not good at group combat and had no area-of-effect skills.

Even with Yu Qiu’s high output, she could only kill them one by one.

Therefore, her idea of passing the fourth round to gain a large number of points and reverse her ranking might fall through.

“Alright, alright, no need to watch. Xia Qi will get first place in the fourth round again.”

“SS-Rank Talent, ah. The provincial top scorer is definitely secured, and it seems like even the national top scorer isn’t impossible.”

“Don’t speak too soon. There’s still the fifth round. Do you think other provinces don’t have Prodigy examinees?”

“Hmm, you’re right. Let’s discuss it again then.”

As time slowly passed, more and more people were eliminated.

This was not to blame the examinees; the intensity of the fourth round of the exam far exceeded that of the first three rounds.

Facing an increasing number of monsters, many people found it difficult to even avoid the monster horde’s attacks, let alone kill them.

With such terrifying numbers, only the absolute elites among the experts could survive.

These eliminated examinees were one by one teleported outside the examination hall, waiting with lingering fear for the exam to end.

For them, being eliminated in the fourth round was not shameful at all; in fact, it brought a sense of honor.

Anyone who heard of such terrifying exam content and still dared to challenge it had already surpassed many others.

But they did not know that there was another monstrous individual.

Who cleared the fourth round in fifteen seconds.

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