7: Chapter 7: His talent quality is guaranteed to be at least epic.

Feng Lide was a middle-aged man with a beard, a square face, and a tall, sturdy build.

With his hands behind his back, he spoke, "Diting, help me pull up the personal information of that young man from just now."

Blue Star Alliance Strategic Intelligent Terminal — — Diting.

This was currently the most powerful artificial intelligence of the Blue Star Alliance, with an extremely high security Rank.

All Alliance official institutions used this set of artificial intelligence.

Diting's voice was gentle and steady, sounding almost at the same time Feng Lide's voice fell, "Personal information has been pulled up."

As the words fell, a three-dimensional projection simultaneously appeared in front of everyone present.

Lu Yang's three-dimensional image floated in mid-air, surrounded by his various data: physical data, family situation within five generations, personal growth experience, professional registration data...

The data was detailed and exhaustive, covering almost the entire trajectory from birth to the present.

Several people quickly browsed through it.

Robert Baker, who had a tall and thin figure, deep facial contours, and a head of brown curly hair, raised an eyebrow, his tone carrying a hint of surprise, "Neither his parents' generation nor his grandparents' generation produced a combat profession, yet he is the only one? His background is very ordinary. It seems his equipment and skills shouldn't be too good."

Zhu Changye, with a cold and hard expression, swiped his fingers across the projection, stopping at the transaction record column, his tone calm, "Today, he bought five primary poisoned crystals in the trading area. It seems his attack capability is not strong, otherwise, he wouldn't need to use this kind of low-level weapon enchantment prop."

Robert raised the corners of his mouth, somewhat dismissively, "That's not necessarily the case. Perhaps he possesses a poison-type talent that can just amplify poison-type damage."

A hot-bodied young woman with long blue hair standing to the side crossed her arms, leaning lazily against the edge of the metal long table, and said with a smile that wasn't a smile, "The possibility is extremely low. Given his background, he doesn't have enough resources to get very strong defensive equipment. If his talent is an attack talent that amplifies poison-type damage, then his survivability must be extremely low. Such low survivability cannot survive in a Nightmare-Rank dungeon. Of course, unless this little fellow named Lu Yang is a fool."

This woman was the governing advisor of Yunmeng Star, Advisor Jiang Lan.

Robert shrugged, "Alright, you're always right."

Feng Lide looked at Advisor Jiang Lan thoughtfully, "So you mean, this Lu Yang possesses a very powerful survival-type talent?"

Advisor Jiang Lan smiled and nodded, "At the very least, it includes abilities in the direction of survival, and of course, compound-type or all-around talents are not ruled out."

She raised her hand, her fingertips tapping lightly in the air to bring up a transcript, "Look at his personal file; this little fellow's grades in the Monster Templates and Attributes course are not bad. If his brain is normal, combined with the knowledge he has mastered, then his talent quality is at least Epic Grade, which can support his courage to enter a Nightmare-Rank dungeon alone."

Speaking of this, Advisor Jiang Lan's gaze looking at the dungeon entrance gained a bit of intensity.

The entire observation room suddenly quieted down.

Zhu Changye was the first to break the silence, his voice crisp and decisive, "We want this kid for the Planetary Guardian Army."

Robert immediately rolled his eyes and snapped back unhappily, "Commander Zhu, an Epic-grade talent, and you want him to guard the home front inside the territory? That's simply wasting talent! He should go to the edge of the territory to expand the territory!"

Zhu Changye opened his mouth, about to retort, when Feng Lide hurriedly waved his hand to interrupt the two people's dispute, "Don't argue about this first, let's watch his performance first."

Advisor Jiang Lan smiled and said, "Old Feng is right. What if this little fellow dies and comes right back out?"

Hearing this, Zhu Changye and Robert looked at each other and respectively shut their mouths.

...

The red light slowly faded from his field of vision, and the nightmare screech originating from the depths of the Soul also dissipated.

Lu Yang's vision became clear again.

What came into view was a Withered Forest.

The sky was gray and murky, unable to distinguish whether it was daytime or dusk.

The ground was hard and grayish-white, like a riverbed that had dried up for countless years, making a slight crisp sound when stepped on.

Dense withered trees crowded together, their bare branches twisted and interlaced, weaving into a thick wall of withered wood.

The only passable way was the narrow entrance directly in front of him.

Whether on the branches of the withered trees or on the ground, not a single trace of a leaf could be found.

The entire forest was shrouded in a dull dead silence, and not even a hint of wind could be heard.

Lu Yang quickly recalled the dungeon data regarding the Withered Forest in his mind.

Withered Forest, a Nightmare-Rank difficulty dungeon among the free welfare dungeons.

The entire forest area was about ten square kilometers, roughly equivalent to the scale of a small town.

The elite-Rank monsters inside the dungeon mainly included Withered Treants, as well as various skeleton professionals of the undead system.

Boss-Rank monsters were similar in species to elite-Rank monsters, just with a higher template tier.

There were two Hero-Rank monsters in total: Black Treant · Kezhi, and Undead Skeleton Knight · Gu Feng.

Lu Yang couldn't be considered a top honor student, but his grades had always been decent.

Especially for courses related to combat professions, he had always studied very attentively.

After all, he had been aiming to go for Awakening a combat profession from the very beginning, so of course he had to study the corresponding courses well.

As for the Withered Forest dungeon, he could be called thoroughly familiar with it.

He cast his gaze toward the direction of the forest entrance.

It looked empty there, with nothing, but in reality, the two withered trees on both sides of the entrance were two Withered Treants.

[Withered Treant (Elite)]: Rank 1, Health 150, Attack 15

Lu Yang recalled the panel data of the Withered Treant in his mind.

These two treants belonged to tethered aggro; hitting one would inevitably attract the other.

With this attack power, his meager health pool would at most withstand two rounds before kicking the bucket.

But it didn't matter; dead was dead.

Anyway, I respawn infinitely.

Heh heh~

He took out a primary poisoned crystal and used it, and the blade of that trashy white-board small sword suddenly glowed with a greenish shimmer.

He gripped the hilt tightly, took a deep breath, and charged straight toward the entrance.

When he approached about three meters from the entrance, the withered wood on both sides suddenly moved.

The withered branches stabbed over rapidly like long swords, so fast that they brought up a faint sound of breaking wind.

At the same time, wrinkled human faces emerged on the trunks of the two withered trees, and two dim lights lit up in their sunken eye sockets.

The roots under the trees pulled themselves up from the hard soil, intertwining into the form of legs, and stood up with a rustling of dirt crumbs.

Lu Yang had learned combat skills in school, but his stats were not enough; facing the strike speed of the elite monster, it was simply too late to dodge.

He simply couldn't be bothered to dodge anymore.

-12!

-12!

Two high damage numbers floated up, and Lu Yang's health was instantly shaved off by more than half.

This was the reality of a commoner professional facing two elite monsters simultaneously.

As fragile as a Bugles snack.

After all, this wasn't a game; two withered branches stabbed over, and the real pain instantly spread throughout his body, sharp and clear.

Lu Yang frowned in pain, but his feet didn't stop, rushing in front of the Withered Treant on the right, his hand raised and sword falling.

The greenish blade chopped onto the rough trunk of the Withered Treant, making a dull, muffled sound.

-1!

-1! (Poisoned)

Lu Yang: "Emmm..."

Awesome!

The damage of this trashy little sword was truly touching.

Fortunately, he had bought a poisoned crystal, otherwise with this kind of damage, hacking a single monster would take until the end of time.

Just as his internal grumbling bubbled up, the two withered branches had already whipped back with the sound of the wind.

After a wave of intense pain, Lu Yang's vision suddenly went dark, and his body collapsed uncontrollably.

However, before his knees could even touch the ground, the darkness before his eyes receded like a tide, and his vision lit up again.

He propped himself up with one hand on the ground and stood straight up cleanly and decisively.

Lu Yang grimaced in pain, but a ferocious smile appeared on his face: "Hahaha! Didn't expect that, did you? I, Lu Yang, am back again!!"

The two Withered Treants hadn't had time to recover into the camouflage form of withered trees yet.

Seeing this little dot standing up and bouncing around again in front of them, their movements clearly showed a momentary stagnation.

However, as elite monsters, their intelligence was limited after all.

After a brief daze, the two distorted tree faces let out angry screeches and launched an attack on Lu Yang again.

And so, you hit me once, I hit you once, you hit me once, I die once...

Lu Yang could roughly pull off two sword strikes every time he died, his own damage pitifully low.

But stacking poison to three layers was still quite pleasant.

3 points of poison damage per second, quite comfortable.

Coupled with his own 1-point output per sword strike, after about thirty seconds, the Withered Treant on the right finally let out a piercing screech and collapsed swaying.

The withered tree trunk smashed onto the hard ground, shattering into a pile of gray-white debris.

The prompt sound in Lu Yang's ear sounded accordingly.

[Ding! You killed a Withered Treant, gained a certain amount of experience, Withered Branch (Normal) * 1, withered bark boots (Normal) * 1]

Lu Yang's eyes lit up.

Goodness gracious, it actually dropped equipment?!

Is this the beginner protection period?

Luck is so top-tier!