City No. 1 High School.
The 234th National Unified Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination was about to begin.
There was one day left.
The podium.
"Students, the results of our final mock exam before the Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination are in. I'll now announce the final results."
Su Rou.
Job Level: 11.
Class: Assassin
Talent: 78
Xu Hao.
Job Level: 9.
Class: Freelancer
Talent: 58
Sun Ze.
Job Level: 12.
Class: Archer
Talent: 90
The rankings are in no particular order.
There were fifty-three students in the graduating class. Forty of them had reached Job Level 10 and completed their first job transfer quest.
Of those forty, twenty had scored at least 60 in talent, and five had scored at least 80.
Sun Ze was the only one whose talent score reached 90.
The results had all been announced.
A commotion broke out beneath the podium.
"Oh my god, Sun Ze's talent score is actually 90!"
"That's insanely awesome. No wonder he's the top student at First High School."
"His first job transfer is Archer, a pure combat class. Top students really are something else. I'm so jealous~"
At the podium.
The homeroom teacher pressed both hands down. "All right, quiet down. I'll hand out your score reports now."
The score reports were gradually passed out to everyone.
At the desk in the very last row on the left.
Ling Zhan accepted his score report.
Ling Zhan.
Job Level: 11.
Class: None
Talent: 62
"Job Level 11 and no class? Ling Zhan, you still haven't decided what class to transfer to?" His deskmate, Lei Feng, turned around and glanced at Ling Zhan's score report, looking rather surprised.
Normally, once someone reached Job Level 10, they would choose a first-transfer class.
For instance, Su Rou's Assassin and Sun Ze's Archer.
The difference in an individual's strength before and after a job transfer could be described as night and day.
Ling Zhan had already reached Job Level 10, so he should have been able to complete his first transfer.
"I haven't decided what class to transfer to yet," Ling Zhan replied calmly.
"All right. You'd better hurry up and decide."
Lei Feng turned back around.
He had already completed his first transfer and become a Warrior.
He had been getting used to his first-transfer skills lately. Lei Feng also had a high talent score, so he was confident about the checkpoint quests in tomorrow's Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination.
The only thing he was concerned about was choosing a party.
After all, the National Unified Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination was no small matter. The strength of one's teammates and the compatibility of their classes could have a huge impact on whether a challenge succeeded or failed.
It would also affect whether he could get into a Key Combat Academy.
At the podium.
Seeing that everyone had received their score reports, the homeroom teacher nodded and offered one last word of encouragement before class ended:
"All right, tomorrow is the Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination."
"The day that will determine your fates is finally here. Students, I hope you seize control of your destinies, make yourselves proud, make your teachers proud, and make your school proud."
"Class dismissed."
The school bell rang, and the students began filing out of the classroom in twos and threes.
The graduating class.
Ling Zhan was the only one still sitting at his desk.
"System. Activate the Simulation Illusion."
Ding.
"Simulation Illusion function activated."
At his desk, Ling Zhan took a deep breath when he heard the system's quest notification.
The next second.
He vanished from his seat.
In the virtual space.
Ling Zhan trained alone, drenched in sweat.
Sword swings: 100. Complete.
Sword swings: 1,000. Complete.
Archery practice.
100 arrows.
1,000 arrows.
Ding!
Daily challenge completed!
Strength: +5
Shooting Precision: +5%
Maximum Mana: +5%
Mana Recovery Speed: +5%
Rewards have been issued. Please collect them promptly.
Listening to the system notification in the virtual space,
Ling Zhan wiped the sweat from his brow.
"It's been three years since I transmigrated to this world of job transfers."
That was right.
Ling Zhan was a transmigrator, and this world was much like a parallel timeline.
The culture was the same, and so were the people.
The difference was that this world was full of unknown dangers...
Over the past three years, Ling Zhan had encountered demon invasions more than once.
Demons that escaped from trial realms would break into cities where people lived and slaughter them without restraint.
Countless people fell victim to these disasters.
Ling Zhan's birth parents were among them.
If he wanted to survive, if he wanted to stop the disasters,
he had to get stronger.
He had to become a great job transferee!
In this world, only job transferees were qualified to enter the checkpoints and fight demons and monsters to the death.
Tomorrow was a crucial day: the Dragon Kingdom's unified screening for the Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination.
Of the countless students, only a tiny fraction might become true job transferees.
After the trial, students would receive their final Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination ratings based on their performance.
If they failed the quest,
they could choose to repeat the year.
Or they could give up on the entrance exam altogether, transfer to an ordinary high school, and continue studying math, physics, and chemistry.
Giving up
meant going from a powerful fighter back to an ordinary person.
At least at this school, more than ninety percent of the students couldn't accept that outcome.
So,
tomorrow's Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination would determine the course of Ling Zhan's future.
Fortunately, a few months ago, he had bound himself to this Strongest All-Class System.
The system issued quests at regular intervals.
Ling Zhan only needed to keep practicing the professional skills of different classes in the Simulation Illusion.
Once he completed the system's quests, he would receive various rewards.
The catch was
that Ling Zhan had to follow the system's requirements and was forbidden from transferring to a class.
He would have liked to become a mighty mage.
But the system wanted him to become the strongest classless fighter!
"Open the personal status panel."
Ling Zhan.
Job Level: 11.
Class: None
Talent: 62
This was only a very brief status panel.
Strength, Intelligence, Shooting Precision... and so on
were all hidden by Ling Zhan.
That was right. Personal status panels could be hidden.
Just like the privacy settings Ling Zhan had used in games in his previous life, other people couldn't view his equipment or status panel.
For months, Ling Zhan had completed the system's quests every single day without fail.
Now,
his maximum mana was six times that of a regular first-transfer player.
His mana recovery speed was ten times that of a regular first-transfer player.
High mana recovery meant he could keep going indefinitely. That was what gave Ling Zhan the confidence to challenge first-, second-, and even third-transfer players as a classless Freelancer.
Aside from the daily quests, the true purpose of the Strongest All-Class System was to make its host stronger across every class.
Ding!
A new challenge quest has been issued!
Please complete the following challenge quests in tomorrow's trial realm!
Slaying Challenge:
① Kill White-Rank Monsters alone: 0/1000
② Kill Blue-Rank Monsters alone: 0/500
③ Kill a Purple-Rank Monster alone: 0/1
System Rewards:
① Experience points.
② Four core attribute points.
③ If you exceed the quest requirements and receive a system rating of S rank or higher, you will receive bonus experience points and attribute points, as well as an additional Rare or Legendary Reward Chest from the system!
Quest Failure Penalty: Host's life will be erased!
"Legendary rewards!?"
This was the first time Ling Zhan had seen the system offer such generous rewards.
The system had never given out reward chests for its previous challenge quests!
Of course, the previous challenges might simply have been too easy.
Tomorrow,
all the job transferees in the Dragon Kingdom would face a momentous day!
Standing out among so many job transferees would naturally be no easy task.
"I'll just have to give it everything I've got."
Ling Zhan's eyes burned with excitement. The main draw was the Legendary Reward Chest, which was simply too tempting. Besides, if he failed the quest, he'd be dead.
With a Legendary reward to back him up,
Ling Zhan might undergo another transformation.
"Everyone else just needs to clear the trial. I'm going to claim the trial's top spot! I hope tomorrow's trial won't scare the kids to tears."
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