Fireball and Freeze: Ten Casts in a Row

As everyone knew.

In a team.

Mages were responsible for massive damage output, healers for team healing, Assassins for eliminating targets...

Warriors, meanwhile, were known for their high defense and health, serving as the frontline of the team!

But they had another role: reducing defense and drawing enemy aggro!

Both of those roles were extremely important!

In difficult and unknown trials.

Monsters with high defense, powerful attacks, and massive health pools appeared one after another.

Without a Warrior to draw aggro and reduce defense, even the strongest damage dealers in a team might be unable to inflict any meaningful damage on the monsters.

The reason Ling Zhan switched to Warrior equipment now was naturally to weaken these twenty Defense Mutant Sewage Poison Crabs.

At this point, someone was probably asking again.

Why hadn't Ling Zhan used Prairie Fire and Freeze like before, creating a double assault of ice and fire to directly break down these monsters' defenses?

First, he had only faced three Sewage Poison Crabs before, but this time he was facing twenty Defense Mutants!

Although Prairie Fire and Freeze were both area-of-effect skills, the twenty Defense Mutants were somewhat spread out. He would need to cast the skills multiple times to hit them all, which was too troublesome.

Second, the Sewage Poison Crab Elites only had three hundred defense, while these Defense Mutant Sewage Poison Crabs had a full four hundred defense. They were not on the same level at all, and Prairie Fire and Freeze would have reduced effectiveness against them.

Therefore.

Ling Zhan chose the most reliable method: using the Warrior class's armor-breaking traits to reduce the targets' defense over an area!

After being affected by [Battle Roar] and [Shield-Breaking Sword Sweep].

The defense of these twenty Defense Mutants had already dropped by twenty-five percent!

Their four hundred defense had been reduced to three hundred, making them no different from Sewage Poison Crab Elites!

"Water Prison!"

Without any hesitation, Ling Zhan took out his mage's staff and used the skill to keep the Defense Mutants trapped.

At the same time.

He continuously took Scent Lure Clips from his pack and tossed them onto the ground.

But the Sewage Poison Crabs were not idiots.

Their rudimentary intelligence told them that they could not fall for the trick again.

At that moment.

The twenty Defense Mutant Sewage Poison Crabs had completely lost their minds and charged at Ling Zhan without regard for anything else.

They wanted to chew this damned human to pieces!

At that point, Ling Zhan was already holding his staff and beginning a spellcasting performance that left everyone dumbfounded!

"Prairie Fire!"

"Prairie Fire!"

"Prairie Fire!"

Ten consecutive Prairie Fire blasts illuminated the entire Water Prison with scorching flames, turning it as bright as day!

At this point, the Burning Effect of Prairie Fire could practically be ignored.

Ling Zhan had actually used it as a light bulb.

Then.

"Freeze!"

"Freeze!"

"Freeze!"

The bone-piercing cold wind instantly cooled the Water Prison, which had just been like a volcano, making it feel as though they had been thrown into the Arctic and Antarctic!

The lingering heat inside the Water Prison was suddenly met with extreme cold.

The twenty Defense Mutant Sewage Poison Crabs, whose defense had already been lowered to the same level as Sewage Poison Crab Elites, immediately found themselves in danger!

After this "scientific" assault, their prized hard shells had become incredibly fragile!

Unfortunately.

It was still just short of enough, because Prairie Fire's temperature was no longer sufficient to break the Sewage Poison Crabs' defenses.

"Spell—Swamp!"

"Spell—Collapse!"

"Spell—Slow!"

"Swordsman's Beginner Skill: Steel-Cutting Sword Qi!"

Finally, Ling Zhan took out the Knight's Longsword he had started with and unleashed a beginner skill belonging to the Swordsman class!

[Swordsman's Beginner Skill: Steel-Cutting Sword Qi]

[Skill Type: Defensive]

[Skill Description: Swing your sword to release sword qi, attacking targets in front of you over an area. Deals minor damage and applies the negative BUFF "Sword Qi Body Disorder" for one minute.]

[Note: If the target's level is higher than the caster's, the duration will be reduced.]

In a team, some people were needed for magical damage output, while others were needed for physical damage output.

Mages were the magical core, while Swordsmen were the physical core.

The high attack power possessed by Swordsmen was difficult for other physical classes to match, though their defense was also much lower than that of other classes.

Of course, some other physical classes could also serve as the core physical damage dealers.

For example, top student Sun Ze's Archer class.

Its ranged physical damage output was maxed out, and its attack power was even more terrifying. It was said that after the second job transfer, it would also gain a certain degree of supportive ability to buff teammates.

But the Steel-Cutting Sword Qi Ling Zhan had used now clearly had little to do with attack power.

The key was that Steel-Cutting Sword Qi was an area attack with a negative BUFF that lasted one minute.

The twenty Defense Mutant Sewage Poison Crabs only had time to let out a shriek before they were struck by a single sword slash!

Swamp, Collapse, Slow, Enrage...

The twenty Defense Mutant Sewage Poison Crabs had gone mad, gone berserk. They wanted nothing more than to tear the human before them apart!

But...

They could not move.

Swamps, traps... countless negative effects had been piled onto them.

Monsters: "%￥#*%##~~"

Whew.

On the other side, Ling Zhan let out a long breath and smiled faintly.

Then he immediately began slaughtering them!

Inside the Water Prison, Sewage Poison Crab corpses lay scattered everywhere. Every last one had been killed!

"Have to say, their shells really are pretty hard."

"But they were still fairly convenient to deal with."

"This place is done. Time to head to the next one."

Whoosh.

The next second.

Ling Zhan shot forward like a rabbit.

He had to continue toward the next group of poison crabs and complete the first-stage mission as soon as possible.

Outside the trial.

In the audience seats, every student looked utterly bewildered.

"Fuck..."

"What did I just see? It was over just like that!?"

"Levitation, Dark Night Stealth, Prairie Fire, Freeze, Water Prison, Battle Roar, Shield-Breaking Sword Sweep, Steel-Cutting Sword Qi... oh my god!"

"Who the hell could withstand that combo!?"

"I don't know why, but I suddenly feel kind of bad for the Sewage Poison Crabs."

"..."

Seriously.

Senior Ling Zhan's final sequence had been way too ruthless.

"Put yourself in their place. If I were a Sewage Poison Crab, I'd probably be cursing out Senior's ancestors right now!"

Many people's worldviews seemed to have been overturned.

It was also the first time they had seen the Job Transfer Trial Entrance Examination handled like this.

They had never seen anything like it.

There were plenty of videos online of people showing off their moves and damage output.

All kinds of bloody life-or-death battles against monsters.

But this scene before them...

It just felt so effortless!!

"Excellent!"

Suddenly.

King Yama Zhou let out such an exclamation from the podium.

The other principals, directors, and teachers beside him all nodded in agreement.

The younger students were equally stunned.

"You all saw Ling Zhan's performance just now, didn't you?"

King Yama Zhou swept his gaze across the students below the stage.

"Ling Zhan's skill combinations and combat techniques are well worth learning from."

"And..."

He suddenly fell silent and pointed at the giant screen. "See for yourselves how many monsters your senior killed in that battle, and what price he paid himself."

As soon as those words fell.

Quite a few students were the first to react.

"That's right, the essence of the trial is to clear it and complete the examination."

"I counted earlier. Senior Ling Zhan killed over two hundred Sewage Poison Crabs in the Water Prison alone. Adding the ones he killed before..."

"Hiss~ Without realizing it, Senior Ling Zhan is already close to completing the first monster-killing mission."

"Hiss, hiss! That's insane."

"You kids can't just focus on watching his chained combos. You also need to study Ling Zhan's combat setup."

At that moment, a veteran teacher turned and reminded the students in his class.

"If you carefully recorded every point where Ling Zhan stepped inside the Water Prison, you would find that every landing point perfectly ensured his safety."

"Most importantly, from the very beginning, he had already made a plan for how this battle would be fought."

"And there was also his equipment-switching speed. When you saw him take out weapons like longswords, shields, and greatswords, did it ever take more than a second?"

"Not even half a second! He had already completed the equipment switch! Switching from a Warrior to a Mage took only half a second."

"What does that mean? It means that whenever you fight Ling Zhan, he only needs half a second to turn from an Assassin into a Mage and blast your face with a Prairie Fire!"

"With such practiced equipment-switching techniques and combat experience, who knows how much effort this student put in behind the scenes?"

The veteran teacher's sigh and explanation.

Raised the students' admiration for Ling Zhan to a whole new level!

"It's over, Senior Ling Zhan is so handsome. I'm about to become his fangirl!"

"I apologize to Senior. I was even calling him unmanly and a cowardly runner in my head just now."

"+1"

"The most incredible part is that Senior Ling Zhan soloed hundreds of monsters without getting injured even once!"