Astonishment, Doubt, Curiosity

On the podium.

King Yama Zhou sat up straight.

The principals and deans from each school also frowned as they stared at the screen.

"Why does this kid still have mana?"

"He's already cast Sword Dance three times in a row!"

"Why is he still casting it?!"

"..."

Originally, they had all assumed.

That casting a Sword Dance with such tremendous power would consume an enormous amount of mana.

At most, Ling Zhan should have only been able to cast it three or four times.

Yet even now, Ling Zhan's mana bar still had not bottomed out!

What was going on?

Just as everyone was stunned.

On the light screen.

Facing the three Sewage Poison Crab Elites, Ling Zhan unleashed his fifth Sword Dance.

Clang!

The Knight's Sword struck the Sewage Poison Crab Elite's hard shell, bursting with brilliant sparks.

Yet it still failed to break through the Sewage Poison Crab Elite's defense.

The sixth Sword Dance was unleashed!

Clang!

It still could not break through!

"Although swordsman skills have high attack power, even casting Sword Dance ten more times won't be enough to break the Sewage Poison Crab Elite's defense."

At that moment, King Yama Zhou spoke indifferently from the podium.

The other principals and deans nodded in agreement.

The Sewage Poison Crab Elites were different from ordinary Poison Crab Monsters.

Not only were they larger than ordinary Poison Crab Monsters, but they also had higher defense and health!

Sword Dance alone could not break through the Sewage Poison Crab Elite's defenses.

"Even if his mana is unlimited, he's still just a Jobless Freelancer. He'll probably go no further than this."

King Yama Zhou reached his conclusion.

The other principals and deans had no objections.

In their eyes, this examinee named Ling Zhan had actually dared to participate in the nationwide Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination alone, and as a Freelancer at that!

If you don't fail, who will?

"Haha, looks like casting Sword Dance a few more times still won't defeat the Sewage Poison Crab Elites."

"Ling Zhan is probably going to die here!"

"No one can save him. This is a Trial Stage, not child's play!"

"Heh, what a show-off. He dared enter the trial as a Freelancer. Did he really think he couldn't die?"

"..."

The watching students began discussing among themselves, most of them wearing cold, contemptuous smiles.

Almost no one thought highly of Ling Zhan.

At that moment, within the stage.

"Looks like Sword Dance can't break the Sewage Poison Crab Elites' defenses. I'll have to switch skills!"

Ling Zhan, who had already cast Sword Dance for the sixth time, muttered inwardly.

And at that very moment.

The three Sewage Poison Crab Elites seized the opening after Ling Zhan's skill cast and pounced!

Their tail stingers, stained with purple venom, shot toward Ling Zhan like lightning!

The students watching outside immediately tensed up.

However.

Even in such a dangerous situation, Ling Zhan remained completely calm. He directly took out his staff and instantly activated a skill.

"Thunder Flash!"

Blue arcs of electricity emerged across his body.

At that moment, his speed increased tremendously!

Whoosh!

Ling Zhan took a single step, and his figure vanished from the spot like lightning, dodging the Sewage Poison Crab Elites' fatal attack.

The next second.

His figure appeared some distance away, his expression still incomparably calm.

[Mage Beginner Skill: Thunder Flash]

[Skill Type: Support.]

[Skill Description: Blue electric arcs can be applied to oneself or allies, significantly increasing the speed of oneself or allies.]

"Isn't that the Mage beginner skill, Thunder Flash?!"

"Something's wrong. Why does his Thunder Flash boost his speed so much?"

"My heart nearly stopped! That venomous stinger was only three centimeters away from Ling Zhan!"

"How does he still have enough mana to cast Thunder Flash?!"

"..."

Outside.

Countless students stared at the screen in shock, their faces full of disbelief.

This Jobless Freelancer had already cast Sword Dance six times, plus Thunder Flash once.

How could he have so much mana?

More importantly, why did his Thunder Flash provide such a massive speed boost?

He was still a Freelancer!

Even the students present who had chosen the mage class could not achieve a greater Thunder Flash boost than Ling Zhan!

However.

The next scene shocked them even more.

Within the stage.

After perfectly evading the Sewage Poison Crab Elites' attack, Ling Zhan did not stop.

Instead, he continued chanting a spell.

"Water Prison!"

Crack, crack...

The river water beneath the three Sewage Poison Crab Elites turned into enormous spheres of water, rapidly wrapping around their limbs and swiftly trapping them.

Hisss...

The three Sewage Poison Crab Elites let out shrieks and struggled desperately, but Water Prison had already enclosed them within huge water bubbles, temporarily robbing them of their freedom of movement.

"Earth Split!"

Ling Zhan continued chanting.

The ground trembled, earth and stone flew through the air, and the river churned violently.

A fissure more than ten meters wide spread wildly from beneath Ling Zhan's feet.

The crack accumulated the tearing power of the earth...

Boom!

The three trapped Sewage Poison Crab Elites fell directly into Earth Split without the slightest deviation, as though plunging into the Abyss.

In that instant.

Ling Zhan's spellcasting reached its limit.

"Explode!"

With a low shout, the fissure abruptly closed before bursting apart again. Terrifying earthen force instantly swept through it, relentlessly battering the shells of the three Sewage Poison Crab Elites.

The fissure crushed inward.

Massive rocks pounded down wildly.

Squeak, squeak...

Yet the three Sewage Poison Crab Elites still did not die. Even their shell defenses remained unbroken!

"Ling Zhan's combat experience is so rich!"

"Yeah, his use of Water Prison and Earth Split is even better than mine, and I'm a mage!"

"Are the Sewage Poison Crab Elites' defenses really that high?"

"They're elite monsters in this stage, after all. If their defenses were so easy to break, could they still be called elites?"

"Just how high is Ling Zhan's maximum mana?! Does anyone know?"

"Why can he cast so many skills?"

"..."

Outside.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Ling Zhan's smooth, flowing combat maneuvers, along with that unfathomable mana bar, made him seem like a monster!

But why had no one ever heard of someone like him before?

Was he personally keeping a low profile?

Or had the First High School principal, that old fox, deliberately hidden his strength?

Either way, Ling Zhan truly was an oddity at First High School.

On the podium.

"This..."

The principals and deans were also stunned to see that the three Sewage Poison Crab Elites' defenses had still not been broken.

Clearly.

They felt that this Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination stage might be too difficult.

These Sewage Poison Crab Elites appearing at the outer edge of the stage already had such high defense.

Wouldn't the monsters deeper inside have even higher defenses?

Of course.

Although they were dissatisfied with the difficulty of this Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination, they did not dare voice it in front of King Yama Zhou.

King Yama Zhou's expression had already turned impassive.

"The purpose of this stage is to test the cooperation of each student team! The Sewage Poison Crab Elites' high defense only proves that this stage is even less likely to be cleared alone!"

"And Water City's water is not simply underground river water. You can understand it this way: anywhere within Water City that has water will constantly inflict slowing and weakening debuffs."

"This student is presumptuous and arrogantly entered as a Freelancer, which would have been bad enough. Yet he did not even look for teammates!"

"This simply shows that he is taking this Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination far too lightly!"

Listening to King Yama Zhou's harsh words.

The principals and deans from the various schools all shrank back.

Meanwhile, the First High School principal and dean were nearly in tears.

After all, Ling Zhan was a student from their school.