Abnormal, Simply Abnormal

Plop.

The spear fell.

The tip of the Scorpion King Tail Needle Spear felt as if it had pierced into a gargantuan balloon.

With a soft pop, the Flame Demon Overlord's massive body began to shrink at an incredible speed, its terrifying pressure rapidly withering away.

"It's as brittle as a sheet of paper!?"

Ling Zhan was stunned.

Subconsciously, he triggered the archer skill Flash Step, then frantically chained other skills.

Speed Up

Shadow Stealth

He retreated rapidly like a bolt of lightning.

Ling Zhan emerged from his Shadow Stealth state, his eyes watching the Flame Demon Overlord vigilantly. He gripped the Town Portal Scroll tightly in his palm, ready to teleport out of the trial stage at any moment.

The Flame Demon Overlord's massive body had shrunk, transforming into a basin-sized, four-colored magic flower... which then burst like a bubble.

Ding!

"Congratulations to candidate Ling Zhan for successfully clearing the Endless Trial!"

"Trial ended!"

"Your trial performance has been recorded in the archives."

"Analyzing candidate's combat record, calculating final grade based on data and performance..."

"Cleared, it's cleared?"

"Why?"

The final boss, the red monster, died?

Fine.

At this moment, a string of monster information had appeared above the shattered four-colored magic flower.

[Monster: Dream Illusion Demon Flower]

[Level: 10]

[Skills: Illusion, Pressure]

[HP: 100/100]

[Defense: 10/10]

[Status: Dead]

[Potential: Blue.]

"A fake?"

"Then what was up with that 99% mortality rate?"

"Damn it, is this a scam?"

Ling Zhan was a bit bewildered.

Before Ling Zhan could think further, the mechanical voice of the trial announcement sounded again.

"Combining candidate Ling Zhan's clear time, combat performance, and other factors, the final trial grade is: SSS-rank!"

"Your trial results have been recorded, provincial ranking in progress..."

At the same time, the rewards for clearing the stage arrived.

[Trial Clear Reward ①: Level +3, current level is 14.]

[Trial Clear Reward ②: Allocatable four-dimensional attribute points +38.]

[Trial Clear Reward ③: Crab King Fang Spear (Purple).]

[Trial Clear Reward ④: Title: Fearless Heart.]

[Trial Clear Reward ⑤: Unlocked trial talent "Magic Resonance".]

Rewards have been distributed!

Ling Zhan quickly opened his personal panel.

[Name: Ling Zhan.]

[HP: 1000/1000.]

[Mana: 2700/3000 (continuously recovering).]

[Talent: 62.]

[Age: Eighteen.]

[Race: Human.]

[Level: 14 (2920/10000)]

[Class: None.]

[Strength: 35; Physique: 35; Intelligence: 35; Agility: 35.] (No bonuses from items or equipment)

[Innate Talent: Equipment Controller (F), Mana Controller (E), Omnipotent (F)]

[Trial Talent: Magic Resonance (B+).]

[Owned Class Skills: Prairie Fire (F+), Freeze (F+), Shield-Breaking Sword Sweep (F+)...]

[Allocatable four-dimensional points: 58.]

[Allocatable skill points: 1018.]

A new entry, [Trial Talent], had appeared on the panel.

His free four-dimensional attribute points had increased from 20 to 58.

His free skill points had gone from 1010 to 1018.

Ling Zhan distributed the four-dimensional attribute points reasonably and evenly across his stats.

[Strength: 50; Physique: 49; Intelligence: 50; Agility: 49.]

As for the skill points... Ling Zhan had no use for them for the time being.

Because all the skills he currently possessed were beginner-level, and beginner-level skills could not be upgraded.

Unless they were skill points specifically allocated by the system.

Only the system could break the rules of common sense.

Of course, skill points rewarded from the system's daily tasks did not count as special skill points; only those rewarded from achievement tasks counted as special.

"The harvest after clearing this trial is quite good!"

Moreover, the highlight was the trial talent reward!

Trial talent, as the name suggests, is something a challenger has a probability of obtaining after clearing a trial stage.

Of course, this probability is determined by the quality of your performance.

In other words, the better your performance, the higher the probability of obtaining a trial talent!

When your performance reaches the best record for that Secret Realm, you are 100% guaranteed to receive a trial talent reward!

However, some lucky individuals might trigger the low probability and obtain a trial talent even if their performance isn't great!

It should be noted here that the rewards for each trial stage can only be claimed once.

That is to say, once you clear it and receive the rewards, you won't get any more rewards for clearing the same trial stage again.

No matter how many times better your performance is compared to before, there are no rewards for you.

It is a one-time claim.

Ling Zhan looked at the "Magic Resonance" trial talent and began to read its description.

[Magic Resonance (B+): Reduces the cooldown of all your magic skills by 30%, and makes the cooldown time of all your beginner magic skills 0 seconds.]

For many magic-based classes, only the 30% cooldown reduction would be useful.

But for Ling Zhan, the first part was actually useless!

The latter part was what was truly useful!

All beginner magic skills have a 0-second cooldown!

In other words, no cooldown time!

"Magic Resonance" + "Mana Controller"...

He was taking off!

Completely taking off!

And there was also Fearless Heart...

This was a title reward.

Title effect: Increases one's own courage, and can, to a certain extent, grant immunity to "Intimidation" type skills from those of the same level.

Outside.

Let's rewind time a bit.

During this period, many candidates had also emerged safely from the stages.

Some had dejected expressions, likely far from the results they had dreamed of.

Others were all smiles, high-spirited, likely having achieved results they were very satisfied with.

"Su Rou is out!"

But no one paid her any mind.

Everyone was staring intently at the image on the giant screen.

Su Rou was quite famous at City No. 1 High School.

First, she was very beautiful.

Second, her talent value was 78, she had transferred into the Assassin class, and her usual assessment scores ranked in the top ten of the school.

Delicate, beautiful, and naturally gifted, Su Rou naturally had a constant stream of suitors.

Her expression at this moment was a gentle smile.

Clearly, her results must have been quite good.

Not all top students had such poor mentalities.

Top students with good mentalities also achieved extremely good results.

"Sigh, I was just a little bit away from defeating that monster, but I still got an SS-rank rating. Getting into a key combat academy shouldn't be a problem."

Su Rou's bright smile hung on that porcelain-like face, which would normally have left the surrounding boys dizzy.

But at this moment, except for her teacher, no one was talking to her.

Su Rou: "..."

She turned her head to look at the candidate seating area first.

She saw Bai Wushuang at a glance.

She was a bit suspicious: "It seems this trial is indeed difficult; even Bai Wushuang didn't defeat that boss monster."

"Eh? Why are these people all looking up at the screen? Is Sun Ze wreaking havoc in there?"

Thinking this, she turned her beautiful eyes toward the screen in mid-air.

On the screen, the figure that appeared was not the expected Sun Ze.

Instead, it was the unexpected Ling Zhan!

"Why is it him..."

Su Rou's willow-leaf eyebrows arched slightly, her bright, gem-like eyes flashing with confusion.

Ling Zhan.

He was in the same class as her.

For Su Rou, who had good relationships with her classmates, she remembered the names and appearances of everyone in the class.

But in her impression, Ling Zhan was just an ordinary student, as ordinary as could be.

This ordinary student sat in the last row of the classroom and was close with Lei Feng.

As classmates, Su Rou and Ling Zhan had only ever said one thing to each other, which was "Hello."

Other than that, they had never said a single word.

This was enough to show just how much of a background character Ling Zhan was in the class.

But today, the figure of this background character was displayed on the screen.