Soul Freeze, Immortal Dharma Body! Unprecedented Sense of Security!

Percentage vulnerability plus percentage damage!

This mechanic was a bit special, and also a bit strong.

Although it required breaking the ice with Fire Element to trigger, for other mages, it wasn't hard to trigger either.

Because even an Ice Element mage only needed to learn a basic Fireball to complete the ice break.

Dealing damage directly based on Max HP—if facing monsters with extremely high health but no frost resistance—the kill speed would be extremely fast.

It might even be faster than brute-forcing damage with fire spells.

Then came the Ice Element Tier 7 Spell.

It was also very different from the Fire and Wind elements.

The Tier 7 spells for Fire and Wind had large areas of effect and strong results.

But this Ice Element Tier 7 spell was actually a Single Target spell.

[Soul Freeze]

[Type: Active Skill]

[Tier: Tier 7]

[Element: Ice Element]

[Cost: 28,000 Mana]

[Chant Time: 15 seconds]

[Cooldown Time: 30 minutes]

[Effect: Channel terrifying cold to seal the target's soul within eternal ice, rendering them unable to move or use skills, and removing all Buff Effects on the target. Duration is infinite.]

[The target sealed in ice is immune to all damage except fire damage.]

[When affected by a Tier 6 or higher Fire Element skill, the ice will melt and shatter.]

[Note: Imprisoned soul, locked body, unmelting for eternity.]

Another skill with no damage.

But it stretched the control duration from limited to infinite.

As long as it wasn't broken by fire, it was permanent control!

Lin Yi was very satisfied.

Because he now had three full mage specializations.

He had no shortage of damage at all.

What he lacked were Control Skills.

Now Ice Element fully made up for that.

After adding Ice Element, Lin Yi looked at the other Passive Skill he had obtained from this successful Second Turn.

[Mana Shield]

[Type: Passive Skill]

[Tier: Basic]

[Element: General System]

[Effect: When you take damage, 10% of the damage value is instead borne by your Mana.]

A decent survival-oriented skill.

For a mage whose Mana far exceeded health, this skill could be considered a 10% universal damage reduction.

Lin Yi began allocating points.

Over ten minutes later.

This survival skill was completely transformed.

[Immortal Dharma Body]

[Type: Passive Skill]

[Tier: Tier 7]

[Element: General System]

[Effect 1: When you take damage, 40% of the damage value is instead borne by your Mana.]

[Effect 2: When you take elemental damage, based on your affinity with that element, additionally increase the corresponding damage reduction, with a minimum increase of 10% and a maximum increase of 100%.]

[Current Elemental Damage Reduction:]

[Fire: 80%]

[Ice: 80%]

[Storm: 80%]

[Effect 3: When you take a fatal hit that would reduce your HP to zero, this damage is fully absorbed by Mana instead.]

[After this effect triggers, your Mana drops to zero and your HP is reduced to 1.]

[This effect can only trigger once every 30 days. Remaining uses: 1]

So strong!

Not only did it come with a hefty damage reduction, it even gave Lin Yi a chance to cheat death!

This skill maxed out Lin Yi's sense of security.

To be honest, Lin Yi had felt a bit of pressure when facing a boss like the 200-level Mutated Necromancer Knight before.

He wasn't truly invincible, after all.

Sure, he had offensive power far beyond his current Turn level.

But his survivability had always been weak...

If he hadn't finished his chant and unleashed Thousand Mist Break before Ravennael swung that Deathly Void Slash, the Wind Orbs from his Tier 5 Wings of Gale alone wouldn't have been enough to block that strike.

He might have even wiped.

Now, if Lin Yi ran into a similar situation—or something even more intense—he wouldn't panic as much.

His survivability was up now, and he had control skills too.

Even if he ran into an enemy he couldn't one-shot, escaping shouldn't be too hard.

After adding the two new skills from Second Turn, Lin Yi still had over five hundred thousand Skill Points left.

More than enough to upgrade one of his Tier 7 skills to Tier 8.

It really was time to pick one and level it up.

But which one to choose, Lin Yi still wanted to think over.

Lost in thought, Lin Yi had already walked through the gates of Jiangcheng No. 2 High School.

Heading up to the teaching building, Lin Yi gradually noticed something was off.

Where is everyone?

Why isn't there a single person?

Normally, even after the entire senior year had gone through their class awakening, students would still occasionally come back to ask teachers about leveling or skills.

The school itself would even organize activities where teachers led students to grind levels.

But there's no way every student and teacher just vanished, right?

Puzzled, Lin Yi went to the staff building.

He knocked on the principal's office door.

"Come in."

An aged voice came from inside.

Lin Yi pushed the door open and entered.

The Old Principal of Jiangcheng No. 2 High School was named Zuo Qian. He was the one who had presided over the entire senior year's class transfer ceremony.

Seeing Lin Yi now, a flicker of surprise showed in the Old Principal's eyes.

"Lin Yi, you've finally moved past that blow!"

"I'm so relieved!"

"You've always been my favorite student. I really didn't want to see you fall into despair!"

Zuo Qian looked Lin Yi up and down.

He could sense that this young man seemed to have grown much stronger.

He was a mage himself.

There was an intangible psychic connection between mages.

He could tell that Lin Yi hadn't slacked off at all over the past half-month!

That put his mind at ease.

Lin Yi didn't explain anything. He just asked directly, "Principal Zuo, I heard my homeroom teacher had something urgent to discuss with me, something about my future. What is it?"

Zuo Qian took off his reading glasses, stood up, and his expression turned serious.

"It really does concern your future."

"Let's talk on the way!"

With that, Zuo Qian pulled Lin Yi out of his office.

Then Lin Yi heard an incredibly melodious flute sound, and the next moment, a scruffy-looking, somewhat shabby unknown Hoof Beast appeared.

This Hoof Beast had deer antlers, but its face was more like an ox, and its four hooves resembled those of a horse.

It was a perfect Four Unlike.

On both sides of its ribs, it also had mottled feathered wings.

Their Old Principal was only at Third Turn, and a Third Turn Class User could learn the Riding Skill and have a Mount Space.

So this was clearly his mount.

"Get on, what are you standing there for!"

Lin Yi swung his leg over the stirrup on the back of the Four Unlike and sat down.

The next moment, under Zuo Qian's control, the Four Unlike flapped its wings and took off, panting heavily.

Lin Yi: "..."

This Four Unlike was breathing so hard it seemed like it might keel over any second.

Not to mention its flying speed wasn't much different from an electric motorcycle...

"Ahem, Xiao Hua is old—when it was young, it flew really fast."

"Don't sweat the small stuff; let's get to the main topic."

"Long story short, this morning, in the Leveling Zone at the Eastern Suburbs of Jiangcheng, an unknown Abyssal Aura erupted, and a Limited-Time Trial Dungeon appeared. And this dungeon can only be entered by Mage Class Users."

"So I had the teachers from each class notify all the students in the school who successfully turned into Mages, and that includes you, of course."