When he cleared the fifteenth floor, Lu PingAn's trial had actually ended ahead of schedule.
Lu PingAn had not lied. His hardest battle had actually been on the fifth floor of his second training session—the bitter fight against the Heroic Spirit Knight of the same school.
Intelligence had always been the foremost factor in a Professional's battle.
That shield-and-axe-wielding Heroic Spirit Knight understood his own school even better than Lu PingAn did, and he had actively avoided every effective hit.
At the same time, he had deliberately confined Lu PingAn's "resonance" power to his weapon, constantly using his own "resonance" to offset it during the battle.
Once both sides' abilities had been neutralized, it could only become a contest of skill.
The Double Layered Can on the fifteenth floor this time merely had the rank to show for it—slow, but powerful.
In truth, if they had really placed a Professional with standard Tier 3 combat strength there as a guard, they would not have been testing the examinees. They would have been trying to kill them.
Though it had a humanoid form and seemed intelligent, it was merely a template monster like Alex and the Wine Lake Bird. Its attack patterns were mechanical and rigid, lacking adaptability.
The gap between it and a true Professional was probably about the same as the gap between a Tier 1 Wine Lake Bird and Calamity Fist Xue En.
For qualified Professionals, hunting monsters of the same tier had never been particularly difficult.
Perhaps some of its raw attributes met Tier 3 standards, but the moment it relied on its metal body to take Lu PingAn's slashes head-on, its defeat had been inevitable.
The same applied to the other examinees. In many people's eyes, only after clearing the Tier 2 monsters on the tenth