The annual assessment for white-tier students had seen an unexpected Cheng Yaojin charge out halfway through, snatching first place away by a Jobless Freelancer from beyond the Holy Continent.
It was an earth-shattering upset.
The key was that this Jobless Freelancer had not even spent a single day studying at Asal Academy, the institution hailed as the strongest academy in the world.
That was what left the job-changers of the Holy Continent most speechless.
One had to know...
As the world's strongest academy, Asal Academy's combat instructors were all at least Level 160.
Some exceptionally formidable and renowned instructors were even above Level 170.
Thus, its faculty lineup could only be called luxurious beyond luxury.
And yet?
The job-changers personally taught by these top-tier instructors had actually lost to an outsider!
What made it even harder to swallow was...
This outsider was a Jobless Freelancer who had not changed jobs!
Oh!
My heavens!
Anyone living in this job-changing world should have known what it meant not to change jobs!
Not changing jobs was practically the same as being trash.
Because the string of negative effects brought by not changing jobs could not be eliminated, no matter what one did.
First, every time one leveled up, they received far, far fewer attribute points than others.
Second, they could not learn advanced skills.
Lastly, even upon reaching Level 100, they could not obtain the absurdly powerful passive skill, "Order Bestowal."
Taking all that together.
In many people's eyes, Jobless Freelancers really were no different from trash!
Yet this very piece of trash...
Had crushed every white-tier student present!
And had instantly killed a Level 121 high-ranking demon soldier in one strike!
Before that, he had even accomplished the feat of one versus three!
Was that truly something a Jobless Freelancer could do?