"Whew..."
Lu Fang took a deep breath, flexing his fingers slightly inside his sleeves.
He was only level 13 now, but all his attributes were as high as 2,200.
The Money Ghosts had 1.5 times his attributes-3,300 points!
With attributes like those, they could definitely put up a fight against the enemies below.
Lu Fang stepped forward, ready to summon the Money Ghosts to clear the field.
Just then.
Two hands suddenly reached over from either side and clamped onto his arms.
"Lu Fang! Have you lost your mind?!"
Wang Yixing's face was covered in blood that had splashed onto him during the chaos, but he had no time to wipe it off. He glared at Lu Fang and shouted.
"What are you doing? Going up there to get yourself killed?!"
On the other side, Jiang Xia also clung tightly to Lu Fang, eyes red and voice choked with tears.
"Brother Fang! Don't do anything rash! I know you cleared fifteen floors, but... but you only just awakened!"
In their eyes, Lu Fang was indeed strong-absurdly strong.
But that strength was still within the bounds of a newcomer.
A newcomer who had awakened less than half a day ago would have, at the absolute most, a hundred attribute points, no matter how heaven-defying his talent was. How could he possibly fight powerhouses who had been awakened for years, or even decades?
Although Wang Yixing usually couldn't stand Lu Fang, he gritted his teeth and said.
"You'll get one-shotted if you charge in!!!"
Looking at the two people clinging tightly to him, Lu Fang felt something stir slightly within him.
He could feel that both of them were genuinely worried about his safety.
Even though their judgment was wrong.
Lu Fang stopped and turned to look at Wang Yixing and Jiang Xia, his gaze calm and deep.
"Don't worry."
Lu Fang gently pulled free of their hands.
His strength attribute was as high as 2,200. Even with that gentle tug, Wang Yixing and Jiang Xia felt as though a massive beast had pushed them away. They couldn't hold on at all.
"I never go looking for death."
With that, he turned around, ignoring the startled cries behind him. Facing the brutal battlefield ahead, his gaze suddenly sharpened.
"Money Ghosts, come out."
With a thought from Lu Fang.
Ten surges of intensely sinister cold erupted inside the gymnasium without warning. The surrounding temperature plummeted instantly, and even the smell of blood hanging in the air seemed to freeze at that moment.
Immediately afterward, the space before Lu Fang began to warp, and ten figures slowly materialized.
They were not ordinary human figures.
They stood over three meters tall, their burly bodies like iron towers. A dark golden luster flowed over their entire bodies, but that light held no warmth. Instead, it radiated a heart-chilling cold.
Their faces had no features, only an enormous copper coin mark deeply branded into the center of each face, still dripping with black aura.
Ten Money Ghosts.
They stood silently beside Lu Fang, each radiating a suffocating aura of greed and death.
Their terrifying pressure spread outward, actually matching that of the battle-hardened level 40 class holders opposite them!
"Wh-what are those things?!"
The students who had been hiding behind Lu Fang, trembling, were left dumbstruck by this sudden sight.
Their teeth chattered as they stared at the hideous, terrifying Money Ghosts and the ominous aura they exuded.
"Are... are they monsters summoned by the enemy?"
"But why did they appear beside Lu Fang?"
Unable to tell whether these were allies or even more terrifying demons summoned by the Blood Wolf Association, the students backed away repeatedly, their eyes filled with fear.
Lu Fang ignored the strange looks around him. He raised his hand and pointed his index finger at the Blood Wolf Association members wreaking havoc ahead.
"Kill."
Just one word.
Boom!
The ten Money Ghosts moved instantly.
They let out no roars, only explosive cracks as the air was ripped apart in an instant.
Ten dark golden afterimages surged into the battle below like tigers released from their cages, carrying unstoppable momentum.
A level 45 Blood Wolf Association elite was overwhelming a teacher, the long saber in his hand about to slash down.
Suddenly, a large hand covered in dark golden patterns appeared out of thin air and seized his blade.
"What?!"
The elite paled in shock and tried to pull his saber free, only to discover that the enormous hand possessed mountain-like strength. It wouldn't budge.
The next second.
The Money Ghost brought its featureless face close to his, and a sinister gleam flashed across its enormous copper coin mark.
Bang!
Its other fist slammed heavily into his chest.
A terrifying 2,700 points of strength erupted instantly!
The level 45 elite didn't even have time to scream. As though struck by a speeding train, his chest instantly caved in, and his body flew backward like a cannonball, smashing into a distant wall and dying on the spot.
An instant kill!
The same scene played out simultaneously across every corner of the battlefield.
The ten Money Ghosts were like tigers among sheep, completely ignoring the defensive skills of those level 40 class holders.
Wind blades?
They tanked them head-on!
Fireballs?
They punched them apart!
Shadow arrows?
They couldn't even break through their defenses!
With their overwhelmingly superior attributes, the ten Money Ghosts instantly tore apart the Blood Wolf Association's previously impenetrable defensive line.
The battle, which had been completely one-sided and on the verge of collapse, was forcibly brought to a stalemate at that moment. They even... began pushing back!
"Th-this... how is this possible?!"
The teachers who had been struggling desperately to hold on watched in shock. The black-clad figures who had just driven them into a hopeless situation were now being casually crushed to death like chicks by those golden monsters.
"These monsters... were summoned by Lu Fang?"
Everyone's eyes involuntarily converged on the calm-faced boy at the rear.
Shock, horror, disbelief.
At that moment, a flash of realization struck the minds of teachers and students alike, and they finally understood.
"No wonder... no wonder he could clear fifteen floors!"
"No wonder he earned an SSS rating!"
"This is absolute strength!"
"Every single one of these summons has what it takes to sweep through the starter dungeon, let alone ten of them!"
Wang Yixing and Jiang Xia, who had thought Lu Fang was going to his death, now stood with their mouths hanging open, staring blankly at his back, unable to utter a word.
Naturally, this turn of events also drew the attention of the three leaders in the sky.
They had been toying with the principal and vice principal when they suddenly sensed the terrifying auras rising from below.
The moment they looked down, all three of their expressions changed.
"Those are... summons?"
"How could there be summons this strong? Those attribute fluctuations... they're even stronger than the teachers!"