56: The monsters in Chapter 56 are too weak; could you please adjust them?

Floor 38, Room 54.

Following the prompts on his personal terminal, Zhang Jian found his examination room.

In this building, every floor had 100 independent rooms. Each room could be considered a separate instance, allowing 100 individuals or teams to take the exam simultaneously.

And the Tianqi Building was a full two hundred stories high!

Even if all candidates chose to proceed solo, it was enough to support the simultaneous start of the exams.

But in reality, that was unlikely.

Almost 99% chose the random team mode.

Only a very few Professional types were suited for solo performance.

Or the favored children of heaven, who were extremely confident in their own strength and wanted to sprint for the top rankings in Long Province, would choose the solo mode.

And Zhang Jian, naturally, would not hide his talents because of this.

Only the strongest have the opportunity to access higher-level Professional academies, enter the Supreme Academy, and even the wider world.

Only in solo mode can one rack up high enough points in one go!

After entering the room, Zhang Jian was greeted by a stretch of darkness.

He received a standardized notification sound.

"Greetings, Candidate [Zhang Jian]!"

"This instance is the [Long Province Professional Unified Examination] special instance. Monsters have no drops, and base experience is increased to 1000%."

"Please complete a maximum of 20 waves of monster attacks within 120 minutes."

"Please choose your combat mode: Solo Mode or Team Mode?"

"You have selected Solo Mode."

"In this mode, the number of monsters is adjusted to normal, and you will receive 100% of the base points upon killing them."

"Each wave has a combat time limit of 5 minutes. If all monsters in the field are not killed within the time limit, you will automatically exit the exam."

"After each wave of combat ends, Health and Mana will automatically restore to full. Skill and equipment trait cooldowns are unaffected."

"Killing the monsters will end the current wave, and the next wave will automatically trigger after 1 minute."

"Completing in less than 50% or 10% of the normal combat time will grant additional point bonuses."

"After clearing all 20 waves, a hidden stage can be triggered, and extra points will be awarded based on performance as a percentage of the total score."

"If your own Vitality falls below 5%, the combat will be forcibly ended, and you will be teleported out of the Professional Unified Examination instance. The final result will be calculated based on the last wave successfully cleared."

The mechanical voice paused for a moment, and then a man's sonorous voice came through.

"Combat is the fate of a Professional."

"Go forth with indomitable will, young seed. I wish you success in this Professional Unified Examination and may you achieve great results!"

Zhang Jian took a deep breath.

It's starting!

The 1-minute preparation time passed quickly, and the darkness gradually became clear.

A wild dog with blood-red eyes appeared before him.

The instant the countdown ended, it barked and lunged toward him.

During his final year at Jincheng Vocational Trainee Academy, Zhang Jian had studied some basic knowledge about the Professional Unified Examination.

Just now, Ye Xun had also specifically given him some pointers on things to watch out for.

He naturally knew that the monster levels for the first 5 waves were not high, consisting of ordinary monsters between Rank 5 and Rank 9.

The main purpose was to let the candidates adapt to the exam atmosphere and find their combat rhythm.

Naturally, there was zero difficulty.

Zhang Jian killed it with a casual sword strike.

"Being 4 Ranks higher than the monster, your experience gain is reduced by 80%."

"You have gained 140 experience points."

"You have cleared the first wave and gained 100 base points."

"You successfully cleared within 10% of the normal combat time, receiving an additional 20% point bonus."

"You gained 120 points for this stage, with a total of 120 points accumulated."

Seeing the prompt, Zhang Jian's heart stirred.

Compared to before, when he was constantly killing monsters above his level and receiving corresponding experience bonuses.

If one's own Rank was higher than the monster's, there would naturally be a corresponding experience decay.

It would decrease by 20% for each Rank; if one was 5 Ranks higher, they simply wouldn't gain any experience at all.

The decay for drops was even more severe, decreasing by 40% for being one Rank higher. If a monster was killed by someone three Ranks higher, it wouldn't drop any items at any more.

This was why high-Rank Professionals rarely boosted low-Rank Professionals' levels.

Unless there were huge benefits involved, it was fundamentally a waste of time.

Zhang Jian made an assessment in his mind.

The original experience for a Rank 5 monster was 50 points.

It wasn't considered high.

But in this special instance, it had been boosted to 500 points.

Adding the 40% boost from his excellence-grade affix [Experience Abundance], it instantly reached 700 points.

He was startled.

This was already equivalent to the base experience of a monster over Rank 20.

Even though he was currently 4 Ranks higher than the monster and the gain was decayed to only 20%.

He could actually still gain 140 experience points.

It was close to the experience of killing a Rank 11 ordinary monster.

Zhang Jian's spirits were immediately lifted.

Calculating it this way, just by killing his way through, the accumulated experience would be quite substantial.

Once the monster levels in the later waves increased, his affix for level-suppression bonuses would be able to display even greater power.

He was suddenly filled with fighting spirit.

No wonder some people jokingly called the Professional Unified Examination the greatest opportunity of a lifetime for ordinary Trainee Professionals.

Even if their results weren't ideal, they would still reap significant rewards.

Moreover, these first five waves were considered a universal benefit for newcomers.

After all, monsters below Rank 10 generally had a maximum health of only 1,000 points.

For candidates who had mostly reached Rank 9, they could successfully kill them with a little time.

For Zhang Jian, there was naturally no threat at all.

One sword per monster, he insta-killed them almost the moment they appeared.

In less than six minutes, he had cleared the first five waves in succession.

His accumulated points had reached 600.

He estimated that this was a score that the vast majority of candidates could easily obtain.

It wasn't until the sixth wave that Rank 10 monsters began to appear.

But their 1,800 Vitality still couldn't withstand the offensive of [Sword Qi Slash].

Continuing the insta-kills!

One wave after another.

In the eighth and ninth waves, the number of monsters increased to two, but that only made Zhang Jian swing his sword one more time.

It was almost no different from before.

Soon, it was the tenth wave.

This time, besides two Rank 10 ordinary monsters, there was also a Rank 10 Leader.

6,000 Vitality, and its base attributes were also improved compared to ordinary monsters.

But Zhang Jian could even insta-kill a Rank 20 BOSS; how could he be intimidated by a monster of this level?

Swinging a [Sword Qi Slash], he didn't even need to see the result before closing his eyes to rest his mind.

He even felt a bit bored.

He really wanted to appeal to the people who made the rules for the unified examination.

The strength of these monsters at the beginning is just too low, can it be adjusted upwards?

It's not enough for me to show off!

Just as he was thinking this, a voice prompt appeared in his ear.

"Candidate [Zhang Jian], congratulations!"

"You have successfully cleared 10 consecutive waves within 10% of the time, triggering the Active Summon option."

"Next, during the preparation phase, you may continuously summon monsters from no more than 3 waves higher than the current wave to appear collectively and battle them all at once."

"The battle time will be calculated as 5 minutes * number of waves, and the 50% and 10% extra point bonuses remain unchanged."

"Please note: The Rank and quantity of monsters in each wave will increase accordingly. Please proceed according to your own abilities."

Zhang Jian's spirits were instantly lifted.

That's more like it.

They're all just cannon fodder monsters; how long was I supposed to keep doing this?

He glanced at the monster information prompts for the next 3 waves.

Wave 11: 3 Rank 11 ordinary monsters.

Wave 12: 3 Rank 11 ordinary monsters.

Wave 13: 4 Rank 12 ordinary monsters.

Zhang Jian nodded. You guys will do.

Summon!

Summon!

Summon!

The 1-minute time passed in the blink of an eye.

Instantly.

11 monsters of different Ranks appeared not far away in three waves.

They merged together instantly, forming a group and moving toward Zhang Jian.

Instead of being alarmed, Zhang Jian was delighted.

Come on!

My [Whirlwind Sword Slash] has been waiting for a long time!

Endure the baptism of my sword light!

...

The first day of the exam!

I hope all candidates, like Zhang Jian, can easily face various exam questions and move forward with courage!