50: Take a gamble!

“So that’s how it is!”

The students below exclaimed in understanding, their gazes at the boy named Zhang Wei instantly filled with envy.

Although they were all white-tier professions, having a choice was always better than having none!

Apprentice Knight leaned towards offense, Shield Bearer specialized in defense, and Weapon Apprentice had a broader development path in the later stages.

This was practically a beginner’s grand gift package!

The boy named Zhang Wei himself went from initial confusion to wild joy.

He looked at the three runes, rubbing his hands excitedly, and then a bold thought suddenly popped into his head.

“Teacher!” he asked loudly, “Since I’m compatible with all three professions, then… can I have all three?”

As soon as he spoke, the entire venue fell silent.

Everyone looked at him with an expression as if he were an idiot.

The Dean’s face instantly darkened, and he sternly rebuked, “Nonsense!”

“Do you think this is a vegetable market where you can just pick and choose? And you want all three!”

“Profession awakening is a process of imprinting the soul, extremely perilous! Multiple compatibility is already a one-in-ten-thousand stroke of luck! You still want to forcibly merge them?”

“I’m telling you, the compatibility of these three professions is extremely poor. The success rate of forcibly merging them is infinitely close to zero! Once it fails, your mental sea will completely collapse, all three professions will disappear, and you will become a cripple, worse than an ordinary person! Can you bear the consequences?!”

A series of questions, like buckets of cold water, extinguished the unrealistic fantasies in Zhang Wei’s heart.

His face turned pale, and he dared not say another word, finally choosing the most imposing-looking [Apprentice Knight].

A small commotion thus subsided.

But everyone remembered that profession fusion was an extremely dangerous thing that absolutely should not be attempted lightly.

The awakening ceremony continued.

After more than a dozen more people, suddenly, the crowd on the main platform stirred again.

This time, a white light and a green light simultaneously lit up on the Awakening Stone!

[White Common Profession · Miner]

[Green Excellent Profession · Earth Element Affinity]

The clamor on the main platform was louder than any previous time.

Those well-dressed representatives of major powers could no longer maintain their composure, each craning their necks and whispering to each other.

“Miner and Earth Element Affinity? The compatibility is too good!”

“Exactly, one is responsible for basic excavation, and the other provides elemental perception and control. This is practically a natural partnership! As long as resources keep up, transitioning to [Earth Controller] or [Treasure Explorer] in the later stages won’t be a problem!”

“This is a good prospect, with a very solid foundation, and greater potential than that girl with only Wind Whisperer just now!”

Feng Rui, Vice President of Fengxing Technology, also temporarily put aside the company’s “small matters” and looked at the student on stage with interest.

His assistant immediately reported in a low voice, “President Feng, this student is Sun Yi. He has an ordinary family background; his parents are both laid-off workers from our Linzhou Steel Plant, and his grades are slightly below average.”

“Ordinary is good,” Feng Rui’s lips curved into a calculating smile. “Such a child knows how to be grateful and is easier to control. Give him a B-grade contract and sign him first.”

“Yes,” the assistant immediately nodded and wrote it down.

On the playground, the students’ eyes were red with envy.

“Holy cow, Sun Yi’s luck is too good!”

“Yeah, although Miner is a white-tier profession, combined with Earth Element Affinity, its value directly multiplies several times!”

“He’s going to take off now!”

Lin Yao also excitedly shook Lin Yu’s arm.

“Brother, did you see that? Sun Yi is usually quiet in class, but I didn’t expect him to be so amazing!”

Lin Yu just watched calmly.

Amazing?

Not enough.

White plus green, no matter how good the compatibility, the upper limit was already locked.

There was only one way to break this shackles… On the main platform, the boy named Sun Yi was immersed in immense joy. He looked at the two floating runes, trembling with excitement.

He could feel that those once high-and-mighty important figures below were now looking at him with a new, scrutinizing gaze.

He could also feel the expressions of his parents, who were so excited they were almost crying, in the distant parent section.

Is it enough?

Not enough!

He remembered his father, who had gone to carry bricks at construction sites for a living after being laid off; he remembered his mother, who worked three part-time jobs every day to supplement the family income.

A green excellent profession might make their family’s life a little better.

But, it was only a little.

He wanted more! He wanted his parents to completely escape that hard and tiring life!

A crazy thought uncontrollably rose in his mind.

Take them all, merge them!

Just like that classmate named Zhang Wei just now, but he wanted to take a gamble!

His two professions had such good compatibility; the probability of success should be much higher than those three unrelated professions, right?

Sun Yi’s breathing became heavy. He looked up at the Dean, his eyes filled with a desperate madness.

“Teacher!”

His voice was a little hoarse from nervousness.

“Can… can I try to take them all?”

As soon as these words came out, the entire venue fell into a deathly silence again.

The topic of “fusion” that had just subsided was reignited.

Everyone’s eyes were focused on this audacious boy.

The Dean’s face instantly darkened.

“Sun Yi! Do you know what you’re saying?!”

He reprimanded him sternly, even more severely than he had with Zhang Wei earlier.

“I just warned you about the dangers of profession fusion! Didn’t you hear him? Zhang Wei’s three professions merely had poor compatibility, but your two professions, one belonging to the physical system and one to the elemental system, have a fundamental conflict! Forcibly merging them will only cause your soul to be torn apart by two different forces!”

“Success rate? I’m telling you, it’s less than one percent! Once it fails, you won’t even keep the Miner profession; you’ll become a complete cripple! What are you going to gamble with?!”

One percent!

This number, like a heavy hammer, struck Sun Yi’s heart fiercely.

The students below also gasped.

“Is he crazy? He dares to gamble with a one percent chance?”

“Exactly, isn’t it better to just choose Earth Element Affinity honestly? It’s already a green excellent profession; how many people can’t even get that!”

“Too impulsive. If this fails, his life will be ruined.”

In the parent section, Sun Yi’s parents stood up in a panic, frantically waving their hands towards the stage, their faces filled with terror and pleading.

“No! Son! Don’t gamble!”

Sun Yi saw his parents’ expressions, and his heart bled.

But he knew even more clearly that if he didn’t gamble, his life would remain as it was.

He didn’t want to see his father’s hands, deformed from years of carrying heavy objects, nor did he want to see his mother’s feet, covered in cracks from long hours in cold water.