203: Chapter 203 Your mentor is simply not worthy of your abilities! You've been promoted to associate professor again!

A Rank 107 defensive Puppet!

Xuan Jizi simply could not believe his eyes.

The same Rank as him?

He repeatedly looked at the Rank of the Sword Puppet, quickly calculated in his mind, and his gaze became somewhat dull.

Looking at Zhang Jian, his eyes held a hint of awe.

His voice was even a bit hoarse.

"This... how much experience must this consume?"

Zhang Jian waved his hand, "Experience is just a small matter."

The way Xuan Jizi looked at Zhang Jian had completely changed.

Previously, he had always regarded Zhang Jian as just a junior with potential.

Although the other party had repeatedly cleared Dungeons, achieving a feat that no one had completed for hundreds of years.

But after all, he was still within the range of a low-level Professional.

He had also evaluated Zhang Jian's true strength.

He believed that at the same Rank, he was naturally invincible.

Even if he were 20 or 30 Ranks higher than himself, or even considered a top-tier existence among all Second Job Change Professionals.

But when combining the attribute points, number of skills, and equipment caps brought by the Rank.

As well as the accumulation in all aspects.

No matter how strong, he could not be stronger than a third job change Professional who could learn mythical level skills and equip mythical level weapons.

Compared to an old-school Venerable-level like himself, that was an even greater difference, like heaven and earth.

There was simply no need for comparison.

Although, previously in the siege battle, Zhang Jian had demonstrated the ability to withstand the powerful attacks of a mythical level BOSS.

But he only thought it was due to a special mechanism.

The BOSS's Rank was only at the limit of the Second Job Change.

Zhang Jian must have relied on skills with higher priority and, by a stroke of Opportunity, resolved the variable of the extraterrestrial alien race.

In actual combat, if facing any third job change Professional, he would definitely fall at a disadvantage.

To say he could have a relationship with him, or even provide effective help, he would probably need to reach the third job change himself to have a chance.

But now, he found that he couldn't see through Zhang Jian a bit.

Or rather, he had underestimated the other party too much.

Not to mention anything else, the wave of experience Zhang Jian just consumed completely exceeded his own capabilities.

Zhang Jian was actually so relaxed?

And looking at his expression, it seemed like he really didn't take it seriously.

Thinking about how he himself couldn't increase his Rank or Fusion destructive power because he lacked billions of experience, his face instantly flushed with embarrassment.

And he claimed to be the number one person in China, a top powerhouse of the Water Blue Planet.

Bah!

He wasn't even as good as a newly enrolled freshman.

Looking at the Sword Puppet in front of him with more restrained eyes, Xuan Jizi felt increasingly excited.

Although the specific data on it stated that it exceeded the base Puppet limit and could not be displayed, this precisely illustrated the power brought by the Rank increase.

The attributes at just Rank 50 were stunning enough.

Hundreds of thousands in defense were equivalent to a third job change epic-grade BOSS.

Even if it became harder to improve later on, upon reaching Rank 99, it would definitely not be inferior to any Professional he had ever seen.

As for the specific effects, it would depend on its performance in the Dungeon.

Xuan Jizi felt a burning sensation in his heart and nodded secretly.

Now, he could be considered to owe Zhang Jian a favor.

When he successfully brings people out from that place, he would repay it properly.

Thinking of this, the more he looked at Zhang Jian, the more pleasing he found him.

When the instructors from the logistics department arrived and lined up to bind the Sword Puppet, Xuan Jizi felt a bit unbalanced in his heart.

He was the Dean, and he had specifically taken care of Zhang Jian and promoted him, only then could he enjoy this treatment.

You people, looking so reluctant one by one, do you know what kind of treasure you are binding?

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and his attitude towards the instructors became much worse.

Terrified, they didn't dare to breathe, all lowering their heads and not daring to look directly at Xuan Jizi.

They quickly bound the Rank 0 defensive Sword Puppets refined by Zhang Jian one by one, then left.

Until everyone's figures disappeared, Xuan Jizi was still in a huff.

After the Reception Envoy persuaded him for a while, he shook his head and gave up.

Looking at Zhang Jian again, he suddenly felt a bit ashamed.

Giving away so many treasures for free, even if the Materials were provided by the academy, it was truly too extravagant!

No.

A mere Instructor Rank was simply not enough to highlight Zhang Jian's achievements!

He immediately opened his personal terminal, used his authority, and issued another star pivot decree.

After the operation was completed, Zhang Jian's personal terminal dinged.

"You have a new message!"

He looked at it suspiciously and looked up abruptly.

"Associate Professor?"

He pointed at himself.

"Dean, school hasn't even started yet, and I've been promoted to Associate Professor again?"

Seeing that Zhang Jian seemed a bit startled, Xuan Jizi chuckled.

Back in his own Domain, he finally felt much more at ease.

"A mere Associate Professor Rank, you deserve it!"

"If it weren't for the fact that the Professor level requires not only contribution points but also hard strength reaching third job change Rank 85 or above, I would have promoted you directly to Professor!"

After speaking, he looked a bit regretful.

Zhang Jian waved his hands repeatedly.

"Please don't overpraise me, I haven't really done anything."

"Beep beep beep!"

Just as Xuan Jizi was about to speak, his personal terminal rang abruptly, flashing with dazzling red light.

He looked down and his eyes lit up.

"I don't have time to chat with you anymore, I have to go get busy!"

He patted the Reception Envoy on the shoulder, "Keep a close eye on the academy."

"Most importantly, provide good service to Zhang Jian!"

The Reception Envoy made a bitter face and nodded reluctantly.

In his heart, he was on the verge of tears.

Boss, that was not your attitude before.

At that time, you were still cautiously evaluating Zhang Jian.

How did he suddenly become a treasure to be pampered in the blink of an eye?

He was at least an acting Dean now, and with Zhang Jian, he was only fit to provide services?

However, although he was complaining like this in his heart, through what just happened, he naturally saw Zhang Jian's strategic value.

Therefore, as soon as Xuan Jizi turned into starlight and left the Materials warehouse, the Reception Envoy faced Zhang Jian, rubbing his hands, and put on a flattering expression.

"Professor Zhang, what about my Sword Puppet?"

Seeing him like this, Zhang Jian instantly got goosebumps.

"Yes, you have one too, I'll make it for you right away!"

...

Galaxy Academy, wild hunting zone.

Two instructors were patrolling.

As high-level Professionals who had just completed their third job change within the last three years, they had also just settled into their positions as instructors not long ago.

Because their strength and contributions were limited, they were temporarily sent by the logistics department to be responsible for this map area where monsters up to Rank 69 of the Second Job Change appeared.

Only, the shift that originally required four people divided into two teams to hunt had now become two people.

Behind them, they each carried a Sword Puppet, which followed them closely.

Among the two instructors, one tall man was frowning and chattering incessantly.

"I don't know what the leaders are thinking, giving us this piece of junk, what can it do?"

"If there really is a need to take action, won't we still have to bite the bullet and do it?"

The other round-faced man persuaded, "Don't say that."

"This is a matter personally supervised by the Dean and the acting Dean, it definitely isn't that simple."

"This so-called [Guardian Sword Puppet] definitely isn't as simple as we think, I'm prepared to increase its Rank to see the situation."

The tall man looked sarcastic.

"You really treat this thing as a treasure?"

"With such a large size, and it's supposedly epic-grade, if it could really exert normal combat power, how many rare Materials would it consume? Its value would be sky-high, would they issue it to us for patrol?"

"I just learned an epic-grade skill recently, and I'm still lacking quite a bit of experience to increase its Rank, I won't waste experience on this!"

The round-faced man hesitated slightly, but gritted his teeth.

"I still trust the leaders' judgment."

As he spoke, he operated it and had already begun to slowly increase it.

As the two were walking, they suddenly heard an exclamation from not far away.

"Run quickly, an epic-grade BOSS has gone berserk!"

Both of them looked shocked.

Something happened?