220: Chapter 220 What do you think I, the dean, do? Without Zhang Jian, there would be no me!

The Reception Envoy was named Zhou Quan.

As the top scorer of the national Unified Examination for Professionals that year, he was also the most outstanding freshman at Galaxy Academy at the time.

And he remained outstanding for four consecutive years.

Ultimately, with the strength of a Level 49 Second Job Change, he stayed at the school as an assistant counselor.

Then.

It was a smooth path of development.

Tutor assistant.

Tutor.

The youngest associate professor at Galaxy Academy.

Until he was handpicked by Xuan Jizi to serve as the permanent freshman Reception Envoy.

He had already held that position for a full five years.

He thought that based on his hard work, he might have a chance to become the youngest professor at Galaxy Academy or the head of a department.

Unexpectedly, he ascended to the heavens in a single bound and became the Dean!

Although.

This Dean position was only 'acting'.

But it was enough to make him feel like he was in a dream.

Of course.

He knew exactly how all of this came to be.

Zhang Jian's sudden emergence was not just about his own shockingly fast development.

It had also brought immense prestige and many potential benefits to Galaxy Academy.

And as the one who discovered Zhang Jian and served as his 'nanny' all along,

He had also basked in the other's glory, leaping to his current position.

Zhou Quan knew very well in his heart.

Though he was called the Acting Dean, he didn't actually need to manage things.

Every area and every matter in the academy had its corresponding specific manager.

From top to bottom, everything ran in perfect order.

There was no need for him to step in at all.

Even when Xuan Jizi was around,

Aside from occasionally signing a [star pivot decree] and appearing once a year for freshman selection,

At other times, his whereabouts were elusive, and he was rarely even in the academy.

He was basically busy with his own affairs.

Zhou Quan knew the main purpose of Xuan Jizi's temporary appointment of him to this position.

It was essentially to better serve Zhang Jian, ensuring he wouldn't be affected by other trivial matters and could grow as quickly as possible.

So.

When he received Director Yun Wenhong's cautious inquiry, saying that Zhang Jian's current condition wasn't great and he might need a little help from the Acting Dean,

He immediately put down the thick stack of documents in his hand and rushed to the scene.

He was instantly furious.

“Why wasn't such an important matter reported in time?”

Director Yun Wenhong lowered his head, “Zhang Jian gave a heads-up and then began the Fusion. I thought the process would be simple, but I didn't expect...”

“Simple?”

“Didn't expect?”

Zhou Quan's expression became even more unsightly.

Spittle flew directly onto Director Yun Wenhong's face.

“Nothing regarding Professor Zhang Jian is simple!”

“If you didn't expect it, you should have asked for instructions from your superiors! If something happened, you wouldn't have enough lives to pay for it!”

Zhou Quan looked at him with disappointment.

“What do you think I'm here for?”

Asked this, Director Yun Wenhong could only answer carefully.

“Managing the academy?”

“Bullshit!”

Zhou Quan's voice rose.

“We are all here to serve Professor Zhang Jian!”

Director Yun Wenhong was completely stunned.

It was one thing for me, a logistics director, to serve Zhang Jian.

But you, a grand Dean—even if only acting—you possess the corresponding power.

And you're telling me that you're also here to serve Zhang Jian?

Director Yun Wenhong suddenly felt the weight of his responsibility.

It turned out that being able to serve Zhang Jian was actually a plum job.

While Zhou Quan was berating Director Yun Wenhong, he had already used his authority to directly dispatch a large batch of epic-grade Materials from the material warehouse.

Two staff members sat around Zhang Jian, handing him Materials at the appropriate times for him to absorb.

After venting at Director Yun Wenhong for half an hour, Zhou Quan finally stopped.

Seeing that Zhang Jian's aura had stabilized, his mood also returned to calm.

Since Zhang Jian's Fusion was still ongoing, he simply decided to stay here and keep watch.

Director Yun Wenhong was quick to take the hint this time, immediately sending people to bring a temporary bed for him to rest.

Zhang Jian absorbed for an entire night.

More than half of the Materials Zhou Quan had allocated were absorbed, but there was still no sign of it ending.

Wang Wei and the other two also rushed over after hearing the news.

With Zhang Jian's previous help, their strength had increased significantly.

Wang Donghai's improvement, in particular, shocked Wang Xuri.

At the same time, he was overjoyed about the few Materials he had sent.

In such a short time, his investment had received a return.

Zhang Jian's strength was one thing.

But the fact that the other party could be so generous and look after his nephew was what he valued most.

Learning that the three wanted to go out and grind Dungeons, he directly took a day off and piloted his mythical level airship to act as their driver.

Originally, he thought about taking them to a few suitable Dungeons in the areas neighboring Galaxy Academy.

As it turned out.

The combat power of the three far exceeded his imagination.

Especially after they obtained an SS-grade evaluation in the first Level 75 Dungeon.

A mythical level attack skill, [Extreme Cold Domain], dropped, which perfectly suited Wang Wei's class.

It had immense power and a wide area of effect.

After upgrading it to max level, its traits even had the miraculous effect of mass freezing plus mass health recovery.

Aside from a slightly high mana cost, it had no other drawbacks.

And in the previous Heavenly Dao rewards, what Wang Wei happened to obtain was [Mana Surge].

The mana coefficient increased by Mental Energy was boosted by 100%.

Skill mana consumption was also reduced by 30%.

On top of that.

In the previous Dungeons, by relying on the level-gap bonus and the extra bonus from Hell difficulty,

He had accumulated over 100,000 kills, directly upgrading the growth-type necklace Zhang Jian helped him craft by two levels.

The Mental Energy increase alone reached 2.02 million points.

This caused the [Extreme Cold Domain], which originally could only be sustained for 20 seconds, to skyrocket to 400 seconds.

With the mana recovery speed boost from his equipment and the [Mana Surge] effect,

While maintaining [Extreme Cold Domain], he could also cast other area-of-effect skills without loss.

He had effectively transformed into a perpetual motion machine of damage output!

The others only needed to be responsible for luring monsters and protecting themselves.

Wang Wei's output alone was enough to clear all types of monsters.

Although his attack power wasn't as exaggerated as Zhang Jian's, who could instantly kill even BOSS-level monsters,

With the coordination of the two [Fearless Sword Puppets], he was only slightly slower.

By the second Dungeon, they easily obtained an SSS-grade evaluation.

They even obtained another mythical level skill and three epic-grade skills.

In the third Dungeon, everyone coordinated tacitly and performed perfectly.

They even activated that Dungeon's Hell difficulty!

And when they attempted the challenge, they also performed quite well.

Although the time didn't reach the fastest judgment range because the monster clearing speed was slightly slower,

Due to the extra bonus for an incomplete party and various bonuses for no one being injured,

They still obtained an S-grade evaluation.

Ultimately.

From this Dungeon, they actually obtained four mythical level items and a full twelve epic-grade items!

When the group walked out of the Dungeon, they could hardly believe it.

Such efficiency and gains also greatly boosted their confidence.

After continuously learning skills suitable for themselves through drops,

They also selected suitable pieces from various grades of equipment to equip onto their beloved Sword Puppets.

One person's improvement might not have a noticeable effect.

But when three people and three Sword Puppets all began to challenge together, they erupted with immense energy.

In just three hours,

They had cleared all seven Dungeons of the same level across the three cities closest to Galaxy Academy.

And this was originally their plan for an entire day.

Wang Donghai also egged on his uncle Wang Xuri to continue heading toward the surrounding areas.

Level 70 Dungeon [Fallen Laboratory].

Level 75 Dungeon [Wailing Ancient Ruins].

Level 80 Dungeon...

The group fought with increasing courage.

And after the three of them simultaneously replaced all four of their Level 70 learnable skills with mythical level skills,

With each also having one or two passive skills,

Their combat power almost reached the upper limit for their current level.

And after each also gradually taught suitable mythical level skills to their respective Sword Puppets,

The entire team's combat power broke through the heavens.

Not only did they successively activate the Hell difficulty of the corresponding Dungeons,

But in the Level 75 small Dungeon [Guardian Glory Base],

They directly completed a limit-level clear.

Breaking the Water Blue Planet Professional level cap by another 1 level.

Each of them also obtained corresponding Dao-Grade attributes.

And each person obtained another Heavenly Dao reward.

The [Stamina Deification] obtained by Wang Donghai directly increased his original health conversion coefficient by 100%.

Causing his total health to nearly double!

While his resistances increased greatly, he also became the strongest tank in the team!

At the very least, his ability to lure monsters was no longer much worse than a [Guardian Sword Puppet].

By the time they received the news from Director Yun Wenhong, they had been out fighting for a full sixteen hours.

The results were also gratifying.

A total of 19 Dungeons cleared.

Among them, 10 had activated Hell difficulty.

8 had achieved perfect-grade evaluations, which could increase Dungeon drops.

Most importantly.

They had ultimately achieved limit-level difficulty and obtained Dao-Grade attributes and Heavenly Dao rewards twice!

Although during this period, their own health and mana states hadn't been depleted much and were basically at their Peak,

The massive consumption of stamina could not be quickly restored.

The group had never ground Dungeons with such high intensity before, and they were indeed exhausted.

They had originally planned to

Keep their momentum going, rest for a few hours on Wang Xuri's airship, and then continue fighting.

But upon learning that Zhang Jian was in danger, they immediately made a decision.

They rushed back quickly.

Along the way, the group was burning with anxiety.

After returning to the academy, they couldn't wait to charge toward the Materials Academy.

Wang Xuri was a bit uneasy and followed along as well.

When the four arrived at the area where Zhang Jian was,

They found that not only was Director Yun Wenhong keeping watch on the side,

But Acting Dean Zhou Quan was actually holding Materials, carefully helping Zhang Jian with the Fusion.

Their current feelings of worry had already overridden the shock of seeing this.

They immediately came over to start helping as well.

Zhou Quan nodded, treating it as a greeting.

Wang Xuri stepped forward and looked closely several times before realizing he hadn't recognized the wrong person.

“Dean Zhou, you're...”

Zhou Quan's body didn't move; he only gave a serious greeting.

“It's Director Wang. I've got something going on here, so it's not convenient for me to get up.”

“As you can see, I'm guarding our 'Great Treasure'.”

Hearing this nickname, Wang Xuri's expression was strange.

But after thinking about it, it seemed that was exactly the case.

As the first person to open the Professional level cap Breakthrough,

Zhang Jian's role was irreplaceable by anyone.

He was not only the pioneer but also the most important executor.

And right now.

Wang Donghai and the others, whom he had casually helped, had already embarked on the same journey.

Not only were they growing rapidly themselves,

But they were also contributing to the collective progress of Water Blue Planet Professionals.

Such a contribution was something that even a highly respected department director like himself, or a powerful Acting Dean like Zhou Quan, could not achieve.

In other words.

Zhang Jian was the 'father' of the Water Blue Planet Professionals.

It was just that he was younger than them, so calling him 'Great Treasure' didn't seem wrong either...

Thinking of this, Wang Xuri couldn't help but look at his own status panel.

[Strive to Catch Up] BUFF: After killing monsters, gain an additional (number of planet-level Professionals * %) experience. Currently: 52%.

[More Work, More Reward] BUFF: After killing monsters, gain an additional (number of domestic planet-level Professionals * %) drop bonus. Currently: 14%.

These two permanent BUFFs, shimmering with rainbow light, had appeared on the panel after the last System update.

As the number of planet-level experts increased, they constantly changed and updated in real-time.

However, the numbers before him caused Wang Xuri's pupils to dilate.

He hadn't paid attention for a few days; were there already this many planet-level Professionals?

Fortunately.

Although the number was large,

Huaxia occupied a quarter of them, so the advantage was still very obvious.

And at the very top of the panel, at the level cap,

What was originally Level 99 had already become 99 (+33).

This was a newly added option that had just appeared after a sudden tremor in his mind.

And after seeing this number,

Wang Xuri's body swayed slightly, and his heart was shaken.

In such a short time, the Professional level cap had already increased by 33 levels?

This represented that 33 Hell difficulty Dungeons had already been cleared at the highest difficulty!

Wang Xuri was somewhat puzzled.

Previously, this number seemed to be only a dozen or so.

How could it have grown so much in less than two days?

The joyful excitement he felt just now for his nephew clearing two Hell difficulty Dungeons instantly faded quite a bit.

It seemed there were so many influential figures in the world; they could not be underestimated!

What Wang Xuri didn't know was

That among these, Zhang Jian alone had led the team to clear 20 times.

Wang Fei and the others, divided into three teams, had cleared a total of 9 times.

Add to that the two just completed by Wang Donghai and the others.

In reality,

Other Professionals in Huaxia, and even all Professionals from other countries on Water Blue Planet,

Had only cleared four times during this period.

Because information from various parties was not interconnected before, the news of Zhang Jian's consecutive clears only circulated among a small group of people.

Most importantly,

Things that countless Genius experts had failed to accomplish in a hundred years were being completed one after another by Zhang Jian.

It sounded too absurd, and no one would believe it even if it were said.

This resulted in the specific Dungeon clear numbers being a complete secret.

Perhaps only old monsters above Level 99 like Xuan Jizi knew that the cap had increased significantly after continuous Fusion and improvement.

But as for exactly how much, no one could say for sure.

However, as Zhang Jian began to fuse attribute points before even reaching Level 99,

And was fusing them early to an unprecedented degree that reached the Water Blue Planet cap,

The real-time level cap quietly appeared on every Professional's panel.

Only then did the major forces begin to understand the truth.

At the same time,

The appearance of this information whipped up a powerful storm in the outside world.