3: Chapter 3 [Sword Qi Slash]! The power of a Superior-grade attribute!

The two traveled together and soon arrived in front of the trial dungeon.

Here, there were already quite a few students who had just changed professions gathered together.

Seeing Zhang Jian's appearance, everyone had different expressions.

However, the former admiration and envy had already vanished.

Zhang Jian estimated that if it were not for the fear of offending Wang Fei, a rare Professional with infinite potential, he would likely have suffered quite a bit of ridicule.

However, he did not care in the least.

In front of the dungeon, there was specialized staff responsible for registering information.

When it was Zhang Jian's turn, upon hearing that he had changed professions into a Swordsman, the other party shook their head regretfully.

But they still dutifully handed over a set of the most basic trial equipment.

This included a piece of light armor, a helmet, a pair of boots, and a longsword.

The stats could only be considered better than nothing.

What Wang Fei received was slightly better, fully displaying the special treatment of a rare profession.

But there was no help for it. It was for the sake of a fair test for the professional college entrance examination.

Equipment before Rank 1 was basically drop-bound, unable to be traded or circulated.

This kind of trial-type equipment was already one of the very few standardized full sets of equipment.

It could be considered one of the few benefits provided by the school. Most people received the ordinary version.

After equipping them, Zhang Jian took a look at his panel.

[ Zhang Jian ]

Rank: 0 (0 / 1000)

Profession: Swordsman

Talents: King of Affixes [ Mythical ], Endless Progress [ Mythical ], Sword Heart Twin Radiance [ Mythical ], My Heart is the Sword [ Legendary ]

Strength: 5

Agility: 5

Stamina: 5

Vitality: 5

Spirit: 5

Qi/Blood: 100

Mana: 50

Attack: 10 (+ 5)

Physical Defense: 5 (+ 3)

Magic Defense: 5

Critical Hit Rate: 1%

Critical Damage: 150%

Evasion Rate: 1%

Equipment: Trial Longsword (Ordinary), Trial Light Armor (Ordinary), Trial Helmet (Ordinary), Trial Boots (Ordinary)

The bonuses from this equipment were negligible, almost only serving the purpose of covering one's shame.

As a student taking the professional college entrance exam, Zhang Jian could also obtain one professional skill for free.

While it was said to be a free choice, the quality of the actual skills was only the lowest, Excellent-grade.

Zhang Jian flipped through them one by one.

Those with high damage consumed too much mana, and as a Swordsman, his mana was too low to use them more than a few times.

Those with status effects were not useful in the early stages. Finally, he picked one up.

[ Broken Blade Slash ] (Excellent)

When using a two-handed weapon for a normal attack, there is a 50% chance to add an additional damage instance, causing damage equal to 50% of the original attack.

This skill looked like a passive type and did not consume mana. Although the trigger chance was not high and the damage bonus was low, Zhang Jian thought of his talents, and his heart stirred.

He registered it directly and took it. In front of the dungeon, countless people were swarming together, forming teams.

But after seeing Zhang Jian's figure, without exception, they all turned their heads away.

Swordsman? Even dogs would not bring one!

Wang Fei patted his chest, saying he wanted to be with Zhang Jian, but he was refused.

Great Master of Formations sounded nice, but it was actually a support profession. In the early stages, it needed slow development before having any combat capability.

Although his own talents had infinite potential, for now, they were inferior to others. If the two were together, they simply could not coordinate.

It was better to let his brother mix into someone else's team first. After being persuaded by Zhang Jian, Wang Fei found a strong team to join first.

Before parting, he shouted that when he became stronger, he would come back to carry Zhang Jian to success.

Zhang Jian smiled and came to the front of the dungeon alone. Before entering the dungeon, he first learned the skill.

" You have learned the Excellent-grade skill [ Broken Blade Slash ]. "

" [ My Heart is the Sword ] talent activated, this skill has been converted into an exclusive affix skill. "

Zhang Jian opened his panel with anticipation.

[ Sword Qi Slash ] (Excellent)

When using a sword-type weapon for a normal attack, there is a 100% chance to add an additional damage instance, causing damage equal to 100% of the original attack as Sword Qi attribute damage.

After reading the stats, Zhang Jian could hardly believe his eyes. Although the converted affix was still Excellent-grade, the effect was much stronger than before!

Not only had the trigger chance increased, becoming a guaranteed addition, but the added damage had also doubled.

Most importantly, the original normal damage had become Sword Qi attribute damage. You have to know, in this world of universal profession changing, various damage and defense types have priorities.

Attribute damage was already a tier higher than normal damage and normal defense, belonging to the rare level.

The effect of this converted affix, unless encountering corresponding attribute resistance, could bypass the influence of normal defense.

Zhang Jian was impatient to test it out. The trial dungeon had no team size limit; after activating his identity, he directly selected the most initial Normal difficulty and entered alone.

His vision blurred, and he was already standing on a vast prairie. Zhang Jian, holding his trial longsword, immediately searched ahead.

Soon, he discovered a hopping little rabbit. The information for monsters in the trial dungeon displayed automatically, and he saw it from far away.

[ Gluttonous Rabbit ] (Ordinary)

Rank: 0

Qi/Blood: 200

Attack: 10

Defense Value: 3

As the most Elementary monster, its base stats were about the same as a Rank 0 player. Zhang Jian steadied himself, and when he walked into attack range, he raised his hand and stabbed with his sword.

-12!

-15!

[ Sword Qi Slash ] affix triggered, and two damage numbers popped up in succession. The monster's Qi/Blood instantly dropped by a small chunk.

Zhang Jian nodded with satisfaction. The additional damage was even higher than the initial damage, which was equivalent to the damage directly doubling. This kind of efficiency was already comparable to some powerful special professions.

And this was just the beginning! He continued to attack the [ Gluttonous Rabbit ].

As the lowest-ranked monster, as long as one was a bit careful, it could be dealt with alone. Within a few hits, Zhang Jian successfully killed it.

" You have killed a Rank 0 Ordinary monster [ Gluttonous Rabbit ]. "

" You have gained 5 experience points. "

" You have used [ Sword Qi Slash ] to successfully kill a monster not lower than your own Rank; your affix has leveled up! "

For ordinary people, one monster gave 5 experience points; they only needed to kill 20 to gain 100 experience points to level up.

Even if the experience gained from teaming up was reduced, after teaming up, the overall experience increased, and if they coordinated to kill monsters, the speed and efficiency were higher. In reality, it was not slow at all.

This was also the main reason why it was easy to level up in the early stages when the Rank was low.

But because of his talent, Zhang Jian needed a full 10 times the experience points to level up. That meant 200 Gluttonous Rabbits of the same Rank.

Originally, he was a bit worried about his growth speed. But seeing the effect after the affix leveled up, he suddenly felt at ease.

[ Sword Qi Slash ] (Excellent) (+ 1)

LV0 / 2 (0 / 1000)

When using a sword-type weapon for a normal attack, there is a 100% chance to add two additional damage instances, causing damage equal to 100% of the original attack as Sword Qi attribute damage.

(Sword Qi quantity upgrade requirement: Use this affix to kill 0 / 10 monsters)

(Affix quality upgrade requirement: 1 Rare-grade attack skill book)

Zhang Jian's heart was shaken uncontrollably. He had originally thought that although the effect of [ Endless Progress ] was powerful, the conditions required to upgrade the affix must also be extremely difficult.

However, he did not expect that after killing just one Gluttonous Rabbit, it would directly level up. And to upgrade to the next level, he only needed to kill 10 more.

Furthermore, the skill's original level-up effect could still take effect. The experience consumed also had not changed.

An Excellent-grade skill could be upgraded by 2 levels; what would it be like if it were upgraded further? Zhang Jian was a bit expectant.

Besides these two items, the aspect of upgrading the affix quality was a bit more troublesome.

According to Zhang Jian's understanding, the price of one Rare-grade skill book was usually between 10,000 and 30,000, and attack types were basically around 20,000+ Huaxia currency.

Zhang Jian took a look at the personal terminal on his wrist. It showed that his personal bank account had been forcibly bound by that loan from the Professionals Association.

Tonight at 11 o'clock, 5 million would be automatically deducted. His brows furrowed tightly.

Right now, let alone 20,000 Huaxia currency, he could not even take out 200. The pressure was immense!

However, with several Heaven-Defying talents and an affix that had already started to improve, Zhang Jian believed that he would rise very soon! By then, the debt would not be a problem at all!

Full of confidence, he continued to search for monsters.