Even an S-Rank Was Just Dead Weight!

What's more, the one Duan Ya had outdone was Qin Zhixue.

The first SS-Rank Class-Changer Cloud Sea City had managed to produce in all these years!

Almost everyone had thought Qin Zhixue would shine across Cloud Sea City—and even all of Jiangnan Province—this year.

But...

Shine she certainly had.

So far, Qin Zhixue's scores had been more than worthy of her SS-Rank.

But then Cloud Sea City had produced a "sun."

No matter how brightly she shone, it was useless...

Who would believe it if you told them that the SS-Rank Holy Radiance Angel, with a score of 949, had come in second, while first place belonged to some damn monster with over 6,000 points?!

Even an SSS-Rank Class-Changer couldn't dominate this completely, could they?

"Chen Ming is so strong it's... almost unreal."

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes today, I wouldn't believe it even if you beat me to death."

Someone spoke up.

He wasn't the only one. Most people felt the same way.

During the defense test, Chen Ming had effortlessly withstood a level 10 attack.

And he clearly hadn't reached his limit yet.

As for the attack test, they had watched with their own eyes as his score leaped from 300 to 3,000.

Each time, it increased by exactly 300 points. Not a single point more or less.

Anyone with half a brain could see it.

Chen Ming definitely had some powerful skill that increased his attack attribute.

And the key was, it freaking multiplied it!

What kind of skill could have such a heaven-defying effect?

And just how high could Chen Ming's attack power actually go?

Exactly ten times?

Or even higher...

No one knew the answer.

On the platform.

After the test ended, Chen Ming flicked his long blade.

Azure Flame swirled and roared around him, then abruptly vanished.

He returned to his normal state.

He had complete control over it.

"Overall, this ability feels really great."

Taking advantage of the attack test, Chen Ming had gotten his first taste of Annihilation Strike's effects.

He already knew what the result would be, but experiencing it firsthand was something else.

After ten strikes, his attack damage had increased tenfold!

One slash carried astonishing force, comparable to unleashing a skill outright.

A tenfold increase.

That was already a greater boost to his power than many Class Changers got from their attack skills.

Generally speaking,

a Class Changer's attack skills dealt damage based on their Strength attribute.

The higher the skill level and the greater their proficiency, the more their Strength attribute was amplified.

Powerful Class Changers could boost it tenfold with an attack skill!

But Chen Ming only needed ten attacks to reach a tenfold increase.

And that was nowhere near the limit.

"I can finally say goodbye to those miserable fights I used to have."

Chen Ming walked down from the testing platform.

Even if the attack test could have continued, he had no intention of continuing to stack attacks.

A taste was enough.

He did want to see what it felt like to stack Annihilation Strike to its maximum,

but this was overkill for a place like this.

Besides, there was no guarantee the testing platform could withstand a fully stacked attack.

If one slash split it in half, that would be quite a show.

Although Chen Ming had finished his test, the storm he had stirred up at the border hadn't died down.

If anything, it was growing fiercer.

By now, the winds of gossip were about to sweep across all of Cloud Sea City.

This year's Class Changers had awakened a... monster!

As for all the talk, Chen Ming didn't care in the slightest.

At that moment,

Chen Ming's Bright Morning team had finally gathered at the border for the first time.

[Captain: Chen Ming—C-Rank Shield Guard]

[Member: Qin Zhixue—SS-Rank Holy Radiance Angel]

[Member: Lin Wei—A-Rank Contractor]

[Member: Sun Yang—B-Rank Shadow-Hiding Blade]

"Holy crap, Brother Chen, you're unbelievably badass!"

Sun Yang was already worked up the moment they met.

He'd gotten so excited watching from below.

After witnessing Chen Ming's performance on the testing platform, he finally understood why Brother Chen had told him not to worry about being dead weight.

You had to be able to keep up before you could drag anyone down.

Put simply, forget about him being a B-Rank.

Even if an S-Rank Class-Changer showed up,

they'd probably be nothing but dead weight in Brother Chen's Bright Morning team.

So, by comparison, it didn't matter whether he quit or not.

Sun Yang suddenly felt that maybe he did have what it took to take part in the so-called Special Assessment.

With Brother Chen's strength,

every S-Rank Class-Changer from every city could step aside.

"6,500 points? What's going on?"

Behind Qin Zhixue, Lin Wei stared up at the overall test rankings on the testing platform.

She had just arrived, so she hadn't seen Chen Ming take the test.

Lin Wei had arrived just as the test ended.

On the way over, she'd heard everyone talking about Chen Ming and thought something had happened.

Now that she saw it...

A score of 6,500?

And his defense had reached 9,999?!

"Miss, is that real?"

Lin Wei looked at Qin Zhixue, her big eyes filled with disbelief.

The score was so high it seemed absurd, as though someone had just made it up.

Qin Zhixue nodded lightly without offering an explanation.

There wasn't much she could say, even if she tried.

To be honest, Qin Zhixue had expected Chen Ming to be strong.

She just hadn't expected him to be this absurdly powerful.

Judging from how quickly he had leveled up, she'd thought Chen Ming's true strength was only at the SS-Rank level.

Now, though, it seemed she had underestimated him.

SS-Rank?

It felt more like SSSS-Rank...

She didn't dwell on it.

Instead, she took a palm-sized rune stone from her clothes and handed it to Chen Ming.

"What's this?"

Chen Ming took it and instinctively scanned it with his mental power.

[Fusion Dungeon Rune Stone]

"Fusion Dungeon Rune Stone?"

Chen Ming blinked, surprised.

What was this?

He'd never seen this kind of Dungeon Rune Stone before.

Sun Yang also leaned in curiously.

Fusion Dungeon?

He'd never heard of one.

"In the Exotic Beast Forest, if several outdoor dungeons appear in the same area, there's a chance they'll merge into a Fusion Dungeon,"

Qin Zhixue explained.

"Fusion Dungeons are usually extremely difficult. Even if it's only a first-tier dungeon, a team of level 10 Class Changers is generally the minimum required to dare challenge it."

"I'd originally planned to wait until you and I reached level 10 before heading to this dungeon, but now..."

Qin Zhixue's meaning was clear.

After seeing Chen Ming's strength during the test,

she didn't think there was any need to wait.