4: Chapter 4 Nirvana

Jiangcheng Professional University, Administration Building, Battle Team Management Office.

In stark contrast to the hustle and bustle of the Club Building, this place was exceptionally quiet.

Chen Xi stood at the open doorway of the office and politely knocked twice on the doorframe.

"Knock, knock."

The crisp sound of knocking was particularly clear in the quiet office.

Chen Xi's gaze swept across the entire office.

In the vast space, rows of workstations were empty, computer screens were pitch black, and chairs were tucked haphazardly under the desks.

Clearly, most of the staff had already clocked out or gone out.

Only at a workstation in the far corner was there a petite figure buried under a mountain of documents.

It was a girl who looked quite cute.

She had her hair tied in two buns, and a pair of slightly exaggerated large-framed glasses sat on her face, making her small heart-shaped face look even more delicate.

Dust motes danced in the sunlight beside her, enveloping her in a soft halo, making her look both dorky and focused.

On her chest hung a white intern ID badge, with elegant handwriting that read:

[Li Murou — intern clerk]

"Hello, I'm here to apply to form a new battle team."

Chen Xi's voice was calm and steady, breaking the silence of the room.

Li Murou, who had been battling through stacks of forms, seemed to be startled, her shoulders jerking up.

She hurriedly looked up, her large eyes hidden behind the giant lenses filled with pure surprise.

"Eh? Student, you... you mean you want to form a new battle team?"

She adjusted her glasses, which had almost slipped down the bridge of her nose, and asked with some uncertainty:

"But... hasn't it already been a month since the semester started?"

In this world, every student capable of entering a Professional University was one in ten thousand, a favored child of heaven who had awakened a combat class.

And the core of university life was to use the battle team as a unit to continuously clear dungeons, grind mobs for experience, and improve oneself.

The battle team was the cornerstone throughout a professional's entire university career and even their future career.

The battle team's point ranking was directly linked to the resource rewards distributed by the school every month.

Therefore, in the first week, or even the first day of school, all freshmen would use every trick in the book to either join a powerful veteran team or form a new one with like-minded partners.

Someone coming alone to apply for a new team a full month after the start of school was truly as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns—unheard of.

Li Murou naturally wouldn't know.

That just ten minutes ago, the Chen Xi before her had just experienced a bone-chilling betrayal and been kicked out like trash by his former teammates.

However, the school's regulations were quite humane.

Considering that a professional's career was full of variables.

Conflicts between members, injuries, or even differences in philosophy could lead to the dissolution or reorganization of a team.

Therefore, there were no time limits in the school rules regarding the formation and adjustment of battle teams.

Chen Xi had no intention of explaining his ordeal; he simply met Li Murou's curious gaze and nodded calmly:

"Yes."

"Ah... oh..."

Seeing that Chen Xi didn't seem to want to talk much, Li Murou tactfully refrained from further questioning.

She hurriedly pulled a brand new application form from a nearby document rack and handed it over with both hands.

"Then... then please fill out this basic information form first, and I'll help you enter it into the system later."

"Thank you."

Chen Xi nodded and took the form.

His gaze fell on the first line of the form.

[Battle Team Name: __________]

"Team name..."

Chen Xi murmured to himself, his fingers tightening slightly on the pen.

In his mind, Lin Feng's disdainful face, Zhang Xinyu's hypocritical concern, and Fang Yue and Sun Lin's evasive and cold gazes flashed uncontrollably.

Betrayal, abandonment, exploitation...

At this moment, he was undoubtedly at the darkest trough since his transmigration.

But this was definitely not the end!

"Only by being burned by fire can one welcome a new life. Only by rising from the ashes can one be called a divine bird."

A flame of revenge ignited in Chen Xi's eyes.

That flame was bright and scorching, enough to burn away all humiliation and resentment!

"One day, I will be like a phoenix rising from the ashes, reborn through fire, and reach a peak that no one can attain!"

"Then let's call it... Nirvana Battle Team!"

He made up his mind, his pen tip gliding across the paper, and two words full of power and determination appeared—

[Nirvana]!

Then, in the team leader name column, he solemnly wrote down his own name—Chen Xi.

He didn't fill in any more member information.

Because right now, there was only one person in this team.

He handed the form back to Li Murou: "It's done."

Li Murou took the form and habitually scanned the information on it.

The next second, her already large eyes widened even further.

"Ah...? Student, your team... has only one person?"

She asked with a slight stutter, then her gaze fell on Chen Xi's class column, and the expression on her face became even stranger:

"And... you're a support class?"

Chen Xi couldn't help but smile at her expression, which looked like she'd seen a ghost:

"What's wrong? Is a support class not allowed?"

"No, no, no! I didn't mean it like that!"

Li Murou seemed to realize her reaction was a bit rude and waved her hands hurriedly.

She lowered her head sheepishly, her voice dropping significantly, carrying a hint of the helplessness shared by those in similar circumstances.

"I didn't mean anything else... it's just... just because I'm like you, a support class too. And... and I'm the kind of Rhythm Musician who can only give teammates buffs; I can't fight, and I can't help teammates heal..."

At this point, her eyes dimmed, filled with disappointment:

"Because of this, when I enrolled, I looked at every team, but no one wanted me... so, so I could only end up coming to the Battle Team Management Office to be an intern clerk to earn some credits and living expenses..."

Rhythm Musician?

Hearing this unfamiliar class, a hint of curiosity couldn't help but rise in Chen Xi's heart.

He looked at the girl before him, who was dejected and lost because she couldn't find a team, and his heart stirred.

"Card Affinity Reflection!"

A flash of ethereal blue light, visible only to him, instantly passed through his eyes and landed on Li Murou.

The next second, a deep blue virtual panel burst open in Chen Xi's retina!

[Name: Li Murou]

[Level: Lv.1]

[Class: Rhythm Musician (Unique Hidden)]

[Card Affinity Reflection — Reversal Movement: All your buff skills, after being enhanced by special cards, can be reversed into super powerful debuff effects on enemies! This effect will ignore enemy level and resistance, causing a hundredfold amplification of negative status! Growth Rating: SSS!]

Boom!!!

When he saw the glittering gold "SSS" rating on the last line, Chen Xi's brain felt as if it had been struck by a thunderbolt, instantly going blank!

SSS-rank!!!

This was the highest potential rating!

A hundredfold amplification of negative status? Ignoring level and resistance? What kind of god-tier skill was this!

If an initial skill only slowed a monster by 10%, after using card growth, it could directly slow the monster by 99.99%, which was almost equivalent to absolute stillness!

If an initial skill only increased a teammate's attack power by 10%, after reversal, it could directly strip away 99.99% of an enemy's defense—wouldn't that be a one-shot kill!?

This wasn't some pure support; this was clearly a top-tier class with infinite potential, capable of controlling the entire battlefield!

And such a favored daughter of heaven with such terrifying potential.

Was actually here acting as an obscure intern clerk because she couldn't find a team!?

What a waste! This was simply the biggest mistake in the history of Jiang University!

Chen Xi's heart began to pound uncontrollably.

He had just been abandoned by a group of self-righteous "elites."

In the blink of an eye.

A true treasure, an abandoned SSS-rank genius, had appeared right before his eyes in the flesh!

Was this an arrangement of fate?

To hell with fate!

This was my chance!

Among his previous teammates, only Lin Feng had reached an A-rank evaluation; the others were only B-rank.

But he had only used one month to lead that team to the third position in the entire grade.

If he could find an SSS-rank teammate, then the ceiling of this team...

He didn't dare to imagine!

Unprecedented excitement and ecstasy rushed to his head, making him instantly forget all etiquette.

He suddenly took a step forward.

Amidst Li Murou's stunned, panicked, and slightly shy gaze.

He grabbed her small hand, which was slightly cold from organizing documents for a long time.

"In that case!"

Chen Xi's voice trembled slightly, his eyes brighter than ever before, like stars burning in the dark night!

"Right now, an opportunity to join a battle team is right in front of you!"

"Do you want it?"