Set a Small Goal: First, Upgrade Fireball to a Forbidden Spell!

Set a small goal: first, upgrade Fireball to a Forbidden Spell!

What?

One Skill Point per second?

Wasn't this cheat a little too overpowered?

Lin Yi was completely stunned.

According to what he had learned from textbooks,

most Class User skills in this world were acquired in their most basic form.

Even if you were a Grandmaster Level expert at the Fifth Turn or Sixth Turn,

when you obtained a new skill, it would still only be a Tier 1 skill.

Afterward, you had to earn Skill Points by Grinding Dungeons, completing quests, finding Natural Treasures, or encountering lucky opportunities.

And Skill Points were acquired at an extremely low rate!

At least before the Third Turn, even clearing most difficult Dungeons only earned you single-digit Skill Points per run.

As for ordinary Dungeons, sorry, their clear rewards did not include Skill Points at all!

Therefore, for Class Users in this world, Skill Tier was, to a great extent, the most direct representation of combat strength.

If my Skill Tier was higher, then even if my level was lower than yours, I could still easily defeat the strong while weak.

That was why most Class Users in this world were such grinding maniacs.

Because if they wanted to increase their skill strength, they had no choice but to grind themselves to the bone!

But Lin Yi?

He quickly did some calculations in his head.

He did not need to do anything.

He did not need to Grind Dungeons or complete quests.

Just by idling for a day, he could obtain 86,400 Skill Points!

What the hell kind of concept was that?!

It meant that after Lin Yi acquired a new skill, he would likely need only one day to upgrade it to its highest tier, perhaps even its maximum tier!

Lin Yi's dazed shock,

looked like disbelief and an enormous psychological blow to everyone else.

Nothing was scarier than comparison!

With Jiang Ya's Rare Grade profession setting the bar, along with everyone's anticipation and waiting, this was the result they got.

They even began worrying that Lin Yi might not be able to withstand such disappointment and disparity.

Below the stage, Zhang Shan clenched his fists.

After the initial shock, he felt even more heartbroken for his good brother.

In his eyes, even if Lin Yi could not awaken a Rare Grade profession as well, he should at least have awakened a Rare Profession, right?

Who would have thought it would just be an ordinary Mage?

And the first skill he received was even Fireball.

The characteristics of the Mage profession were very obvious.

It was a violent, high-damage profession with wide-area attacks.

But it also had quite a few flaws.

Long casting times and a fragile body!

Therefore, for most Mage Class Users, the best skill to obtain at the start was actually Ice Arrow.

Because Ice Element Skills came with slowing and crowd-control effects.

They made it easier for Mages to level through Kiting.

Although Fire Mages dealt higher damage, they needed too much protection.

They practically had no ability to level alone.

"Lin Yi, I don't think you need to feel so disappointed. This is already very good."

"The Mage profession also has limitless potential. The road ahead is still long, so don't dwell on a temporary gap!"

Onstage, the Old Principal forced a smile, patted Lin Yi on the shoulder, and earnestly tried to comfort him.

At the same time, countless people below the stage, along with the media, began discussing it.

"He was first in the grade, yet he only awakened a Common Profession in the end..."

"Hehe, I just love watching plots where geniuses fall from grace!"

"I've disliked that kid for ages. Just because he's a little more handsome and gets slightly better grades, he acts like he's such hot stuff!"

"Now he's hit a wall, huh? Look at him, he definitely can't take the blow!"

"He's going to become just another nobody!"

"You're talking bullshit! As if all of you are guaranteed to awaken Combat Professions. Maybe you'll be worse than A'Yi!"

Zhang Shan also began arguing with the classmates around him who were making snide remarks.

His neck was stiff, and his face was flushed red.

Jiang Ya, standing among the crowd, looked at Lin Yi on the stage, a trace of regret appearing in her eyes.

She did not make any snide remarks.

Nor did she look down on Lin Yi just because he had awakened a Common Profession.

She knew this man too well.

Three years as desk mates, three years as rivals.

Jiang Ya had developed incredibly complicated feelings toward Lin Yi.

She had to admit that she had finally beaten Lin Yi this time, but why did she still feel so disappointed?

Lin Yi was also taken aback by the Old Principal's consolation.

When was I feeling down?

Can't you tell that I'm excited out of my mind right now?

Uh, it was better to keep a low profile.

No, he could not stay here any longer. Lin Yi was afraid he would not be able to stop himself from laughing.

With this talent, he already had a crazy plan in mind.

According to the knowledge he had learned from textbooks,

all Class User skills were divided into a total of nine tiers.

Above Tier 9 was the ultimate form of each profession's skills!

Taking Mages as an example, a Tier 9 skill was a Forbidden Spell!

Lin Yi did not know what lay beyond a Forbidden Spell.

But he had a small goal: first, upgrade his Fireball to a Forbidden Spell!

Upgrading from Tier 1 to Tier 9 required Skill Points in the millions!

For most Class Users, it would likely take hundreds of years, and some might never achieve it even in their entire lives.

But for Lin Yi, it was only a matter of a dozen or so days.

Lin Yi did not participate in the latter half of the awakening ceremony.

Everyone thought he was depressed anyway.

Then I'll just pretend.

Getting out of class early felt great!

Lin Yi left school and returned home.

The one who opened the door was Lin Yi's father, Lin Guodong.

"How did it go? What profession did you awaken?"

"Your mom made a whole table of delicious food and is waiting for you to come home!"

Lin Guodong smiled at his son.

Although he was only an ordinary Life Professioner, and a miner at that—the hardest and lowest-status kind among Life Professioners—

he was proud to have a son like Lin Yi.

When Lin Yi's mother, Xu Qingfang, heard the door open, she also came out and looked at Lin Yi with a face full of anticipation.

Lin Yi said, "Mage!"

Lin Guodong and Xu Qingfang exchanged a glance, and both saw delight on the other's face.

"Not bad, not bad!"

"Hahaha, I never expected the Lin family to produce a Combat Profession!"

"A Mage is great! High damage, and no worries about finding work!"

"Come on, wash your hands and eat!"

The family of three had a very happy dinner.

Lin Guodong even brought out some old liquor he had treasured for years and greedily drank a few extra cups.

He even poured Lin Yi a cup. After all, he was considered an adult now and could drink.

Lin Yi did not want to spoil his father's mood, so he could only drink a little with him.

Time flowed like water, and seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

During those seven days, Lin Yi did not go anywhere.

He just played games and scrolled through his phone at home.

He lived an incredibly comfortable life.

After awakening their professions, the school's theory classes and related practical classes had all been suspended.

For all newly awakened Class Users in Great Xia,

awakening a profession was effectively the same as graduating from high school. The following month was for everyone to work overtime leveling up and grinding their skills.

One month later would be Great Xia's annual National Professional College Entrance Examination.

Passing the exam and getting into a better Professional University would be greatly beneficial for one's future life.

Over these seven days, the other students had probably worked themselves half to death and earned, at most, a dozen or so Skill Points, right?

Who knew how many times ahead of them he already was!