57: Chapter 57 The Unified Examination is in Progress! Everyone is trying their best to live...

-4172!

-4172!

-11639! (Critical Hit)

...

Streaks of sword light transformed into an overwhelming net, sweeping up every monster in Zhang Jian's line of sight.

"You have obtained..."

"You have obtained..."

"You have obtained 3500 (+7350) Experience Points."

"You have cleared waves 11, 12, and 13 consecutively, earning 660 base points."

"You cleared the stage in less than 10% of the standard time, earning an additional 20% point bonus."

"You earned 792 points this round, for a total of 2112 points."

Dense notification prompts unfolded one by one before Zhang Jian's eyes.

The more he looked, the more satisfied he became.

The experience gains were finally starting to look decent; even a random small mob gave over ten thousand experience points.

This was much easier than looking for monsters in the wild.

His points were maxed out once again, reaping the maximum additional bonus.

This total score also made him feel somewhat emotional.

Even if he quit now, this result would likely allow him to enter any key Professional University.

If his outstanding daily grades were also factored in, a top-tier Professional University should be no problem.

The ultimate goal of most ordinary Apprentice Professionals had been accomplished by him so easily.

Zhang Jian didn't feel much; it was still early.

He had to pick up the pace!

In his spare time, he recalled the damage numbers that had popped up during the battle just now.

Normal attacks over 4,000, and critical hits exceeding 10,000?

Was this still that average-damage [Whirlwind Sword Slash]? It looked more like the damage of [Sword Qi Slash].

This was a bit too fierce!

He checked his status panel and realized.

After equipping the [guardian medal] and two [abyssal ring]s.

Relying on the bonus from the epic-grade affix [Soul-Forge Resonance], these three legendary rank specialized equipment pieces had been further enhanced.

His current base attack power had reached a staggering 3,049 points!

That's why that shocking scene occurred just now.

Even a Rank 12 monster with 3,200 health couldn't withstand a single Sword Qi from his area-of-effect skill.

All three accessories had critical damage attributes, bringing the final value to a terrifying 279%!

Although.

His current critical hit rate was only 9.5%.

But with eighteen streaks of Sword Qi being unleashed, triggering one or two was quite easy.

And this was while all three accessories were still in their original state, without any growth or upgrades.

If they were upgraded, the effect would be even more terrifying!

Seeing the kill count progress for all three pieces of equipment increase by 40 simultaneously, Zhang Jian's heart stirred.

As the waves progressed, the number of monsters would increase, and their Ranks would rise.

Perhaps.

By relying on these monsters in the Unified Examination dungeon, he might have a chance to upgrade the [abyssal ring] by one Rank?

Thinking of this, he looked forward to the upcoming battles even more.

...

Floor 98, Room 55.

A youth with a face full of stubble was waving a staff, his expression extremely focused.

He was Wei Donglai.

The candidate Wang Fei had seen in front of the Tianqi Building, wondering why he looked older than himself.

Like Zhang Jian, he was also clearing stages in Solo Mode.

Currently, he had successfully reached the ninth wave.

In the field, a flame-shaped icon floated above a Rank 10 monster's head, with damage numbers continuously popping up.

-700!

-700!

Under the fixed damage occurring once per second, the monster collapsed with a scream after just two ticks.

Meanwhile, two green numbers continuously popped up over Wei Donglai's head.

+70!

+70!

The timely recovery restored the health Wei Donglai had accidentally lost from a monster's attack back to full.

His expression relaxed.

Checking the cooldown times of his other skills, he turned his gaze toward another monster.

With a change in his casting motion, he quickly unleashed a massive fireball.

The fireball descended from the sky with crushing force, instantly killing the other monster!

The entire process took less than ten seconds.

It was clean and efficient, a sight to behold.

Wei Donglai nodded with satisfaction at the experience gained and the additional bonus points.

As expected of a top-tier class known as the royalty of fire; it truly was extraordinary!

His gratitude toward his father deepened.

Speaking of which, this was already his third year participating in the Professional Unified Examination, and it was also his last year.

If he didn't pass this year, it would be the same as cutting off his path for future improvement.

In his first year as a Fresh Graduate.

After Awakening as the rare class Flame Mage, his goal at the time was to get into a key Professional University.

During the Unified Examination, he chose Team Mode, wanting to earn results steadily.

But the team members fought individually without a leader, and their cooperation was a complete mess.

This led to him underperforming as well, stopping at the 10th wave.

Furthermore, because of his low team contribution, he only earned a measly amount of points.

Unwilling to just attend an ordinary college, he wanted to prepare for another year.

In the second year, he became a Social Candidate.

Relying on his daily results of clearing a Rank 10 Difficult Rank dungeon and the confidence of having two excellence-level skills at max level, he made another push.

This time he learned his lesson and chose Solo Mode.

As a result.

Because of insufficient resistance, he ended up in a mutual defeat with a Rank 10 Boss and stopped at the 11th wave.

Although this result was slightly higher than the previous year, it was only enough to barely get into a key Professional University in the province.

He still missed out on his dream Professional University.

In his helplessness, he was originally prepared to accept his fate.

But his father was unwilling and wanted to fight for him one last time.

Behind his back, his father risked exploring a dungeon that had only appeared a few years ago with several other Professionals.

In the end, facing the final BOSS's frenzy, the other team members died one after another; his father only survived until the end by relying on a life-saving item.

After killing the BOSS and clearing the dungeon, his father's luck exploded, and he obtained two top-tier exquisite items.

One was a recipe for a Medicinal Pill, which brought his nearly bankrupt pharmaceutical company back to life.

The other item was an epic-grade Awakening scroll, which changed Wei Donglai's life.

After using the scroll, Wei Donglai's class underwent a transformation.

From a rare-tier Flame Mage, he Advanced directly into the top-tier class [Flame Controller].

Not only that, but it also activated a powerful talent.

[Endless Life]: Cooldown for all fire-type skills is reduced by 50%, and the duration of continuous damage skills is increased by 100%.

After the class quality improved, his original talent [Flame Enhancement] was also passively upgraded by a level.

[Passing the Torch]: All fire-type skill effects are increased by 100%.

Additionally, there was a legendary rank skill his father obtained from the dungeon.

[Cursed Flame]

Inflicts a fire-penetrating curse on the target for 5 seconds, dealing 100% of Spell attack power as damage every second and recovering 2.5% of the damage dealt as health to oneself every second. Cooldown: 30 seconds. Casting range and skill effects increase with Rank.

Under the talent's bonus, this skill was strengthened once again.

Wei Donglai felt that even a Divine-Grade fire mage class would be at roughly this level.

Over the past year, he had completely hardened his heart and pushed himself to the limit.

Every day he was leveling up crazily in the wild, constantly grinding dungeons suitable for his Rank.

Until the day before the Professional Unified Examination.

Among his three major fire skills, besides the two excellence-level ones being at max level.

This legendary rank skill had also reached Rank 5, and the experience required for max level was not much.

He worked so hard not just for himself, but also for his father.

Although his father had luckily survived the dungeon that time.

He was hit by an epic-grade curse from the BOSS right before it died, which had never been removed.

Now he had to suffer through two hours of agonizing torture every day, which pained Wei Donglai to see.

His family wanted to pay someone to help, but they had no connections at all.

Wei Donglai thought that in those top-tier Professional Universities, especially the nine Supreme Academies, there must be someone who could remove his father's curse.

He made a vow that he must display his strongest strength in this year's Unified Examination.

He wanted to take one of the top spots in Long Province, perhaps even the top scorer title.

To enter a Supreme Academy.

Only then would he have a chance to come into contact with truly powerful figures.

Those Third-Turn Venerables or even Saint-level existences who possessed mythical level skills.

Seeing the next wave of monsters approaching, Wei Donglai couldn't help but pump his fist to cheer himself on.

He was determined to win this Unified Examination!