Chapter 4: Let's Compare And See Who Can Upgrade Faster

Most of those who became auxiliary support classes were girls.

When these young girls saw Lin Moyu's skeleton warriors, they were so frightened that they immediately formed teams.

Lin Moyu said lightly, "Mr. Lu, I also want to take the exam for Xiajing Academy."

The meaning was very clear - he didn't want to form a team; he wanted to solo.

Lu Yun was slightly surprised, "Do you know how difficult it is to get into Xia Jing Academy?"

Lin Moyu nodded, "I'm confident."

Lu Yun understood Lin Moyu's determination, "I hope you can succeed."

If you want to be admitted to Xia Jing Academy, the first requirement is the grade level.

At least level 12 or above, and the insurance point must be level 15.

Last year, Lin Mohan was admitted to Xiajing Academy as a 16th-level student.

In just one week, it is not easy to level up to 12.

As for level 15, it was even more difficult.

The highest level of monsters in the novice dungeon is level 8, making it impossible to reach level 12.

And the danger level in the wild is much higher than that of the novice dungeon. For novice professionals like them, going recklessly is just courting death.

In addition to grade requirements, there are some other conditions.

You will have to wait until the final exam to find out.

At Lu Yun's request, several main battle professions chose support classes to team up with.

Or formed teams of two or three.

Gao Yang chose a prophet to assist him.

The Prophet could give him some buff statuses and heal him properly, so they made a good pair.

After the formalities were completed, the school distributed weapons and equipment to everyone.

Soldiers were assigned different weapons according to their occupations.

"I look so handsome!"

Gao Yang got an iron sword and a shield, acting like a boss.

Lin Moyu also got a staff.

[Staff]

[Spiritual Power +1]

Not even a little bonus - sub-par weapons and equipment.

Oh well, beggars can't be choosers.

Xia Xue had her own weapon and didn't need the school's.

Her weapon was a Dharma book. Lin Moyu could feel there was powerful energy flowing within the Dharma book. It should be a great weapon.

Before entering the instance, Xia Xue said to Lin Moyu, "Let's see who can level up faster."

Lin Moyu was noncommittal, neither agreeing nor refusing.

Xia Xue snorted, raising her slender white neck, "If you don't answer, it will be considered your agreement."

As she spoke, she turned and entered the copy dungeon.

The corner of Lin Moyu's mouth twitched slightly, "So competitive."

He said something silently, and then entered the copy dungeon as well.

The novice dungeon's environment was a prairie with lush, waist-high grass.

Many smaller monsters hid in the grass and were hard to find.

The monster density here was not high, which kept it relatively safe, but also meant the time to find monsters was longer than the time to kill them.

The purpose of the novice dungeon was to let novices get used to fighting.

Lin Moyu released his four skeleton warriors.

"Go and kill monsters."

With just a thought, the four skeleton warriors ran out in four directions.

Click click click.

Gusts of wind accompanied their running.

"Their speed is so fast!"

With an agility attribute of up to 150 points, the skeleton warriors' running speed was incredibly quick.

In the blink of an eye, they had already run tens of meters away.

At this time, one skeleton warrior waved its broken sword.

[Successfully killed Big Ear Rabbit, experience +10]

The level 1 Big Ear Rabbit was instantly killed by the skeleton warrior.

Lin Moyu looked at the experience gain.

Experience increased by 1%.

Each level 1 monster could increase experience by 1%, so he could level up by killing 100 monsters.

[Successfully killed Big Ear Rabbit, experience +10]

[Successfully killed Big Ear Rabbit, experience +10]

Continuous notifications appeared as the four skeleton warriors kept finding and killing the Big Ear Rabbits.

In just a few minutes, Lin Moyu's experience had increased by 10%.

This efficiency was too high.

Lin Moyu had originally planned to stay in the novice dungeon for two days and leave after leveling up to level 8.

Now it seemed that wouldn't even take two days.

Lin Moyu activated his skill and summoned another black iron-level skeleton warrior.

Then the new skeleton warrior joined the team hunting monsters.

Lin Moyu sat down and began to meditate.

Half an hour later, Lin Moyu achieved his first level up.

[Name: Lin Moyu]

[Occupation: Necromancer (unique)]

[Level: 2 (1.00%)]

[Strength: 20]

[Agility: 20]

[Spirit: 40]

[Equipment: None]

[Summon Space: 5/20, Skeleton Warrior (Quantity: 5)]

[Talent: Comprehensive Amplification (Level 1, Uniqueness)]

[Passive Skill: Damage Transfer]

[Active skills: Soul Flame (Level 2), Summon Skeleton Warrior (Level 2)]

[Comprehensive Amplification (Level 1): All skill effects are increased by 10 times.]

[Damage transfer: All damage suffered by the wizard itself is borne by the summoned creatures.]

[Soul Flame (Level 2): Burns the target's soul, causing burning damage. The power depends on one's own spiritual power and skill level.]

[Summon Skeleton Warrior (Level 2): Summon a Black Iron Skeleton Warrior.]

Level up increased his attributes.

The summoning space had changed from 10 to 20, enough to hold 20 summons.

The skill levels also increased accordingly.

"I don't know if there are any changes to the skeleton warrior's attributes at level 2."

According to Lin Moyu's knowledge, as the skill level increases, the attributes of the summoned creatures should also increase.

Due to the level up, his mental power was completely restored.

Lin Moyu activated his skills and summoned another black iron skeleton warrior.

This time Lin Moyu noticed a difference.

The mental power consumed by level 2 skills had increased, and the cost of summoning a skeleton warrior went up from 10 points to 15 points.

Although still at the black iron level, the level 2 skeleton warrior's body was noticeably brighter.

The gray had faded significantly.

At the same time, there were fewer cracks on the body.

[Black Iron Skeleton Warrior]

[Power: 250]

[Agility: 250]

[Spirit: 250]

[Physique: 250]

[Skill: None]

[Level: 4 (99.00%)]

Lin Moyu was about to level up again. The 13 skeletons were steadily farming experience all around him.

Compared to the previous level, this one came faster - only 50 minutes.

"With more skeletons and higher monster density, but the killspeed unchanged, that's why the leveling rate has increased rather than decreased."

Lin Moyu analyzed his current situation. He had reached the depths of the novice dungeon, surrounded by levels 6 and 7 monsters everywhere. Only the max level 8 monsters were unseen.

The increased density allowed faster experience gains. The tireless skeleton warriors constantly reaped monster lives.

The only downside was the novice dungeon's lack of drops. As a training ground for adaptation, everything was weakened overall compared to the wild.

Only level 8 monsters maintained full wild strength here - a bridge allowing novices to preview true monster capabilities before venturing out.

The level up beam appeared again as Lin Moyu reached level 5. Attributes and skills improved.

The skeleton warriors' strength increased too, all attributes rising 100 points again.

[Killed level 7 brown bear, experience +70]

[Killed level 7 brown bear, experience +70]

The skeletons never stopped harvesting during Lin Moyu's levelups, tireless in their slaughter.

"Hey, the leveling has slowed down."

After reaching level 5, Lin Moyu found the pace greatly reduced.

At level 4, killing a level 7 bear gave around 0.2% experience.

Only 500 kills needed for a levelup.

But at level 5, the same bear only gave 0.1% experience.

Now 1000 kills were required to level.

The pace had doubled in slowness.

"At this rate, it would be very difficult for ordinary professionals to reach level 12 within a week."

"Even leaving this copy for the city outskirts, there's not enough time."

"Xiajing Academy's entry is really demanding. I don't know how my sister reached level 16 last year."

Lin Moyu calculated that to qualify for Xiajing's exam, reaching level 12 minimum was required.

To get to 12 in a week meant reaching 8 in the novice dungeon within 3 days at least.

Then venturing to the outskirts for tougher monsters to push to 12.

Only that way was a week's timeframe possible.

Thinking it through, Lin Mohan advancing to 16 last year was extremely fast.

Lin Moyu spent his mental power summoning 3 more skeletons, now 16 total constantly slaughtering.

For him, time finding targets far exceeded killing time.

Slaying over 1,000 was trivial distributed across 16 reapers. Another hour at most and he'd hit 6.

Why fight them directly?

Lin Moyu kept pushing forward as skeletons cleared his path, flushing out every grass-hider.

Eventually the terrain changed from prairie to forest - the novice dungeon's end.

The unweakened level 8 monsters dwelled within these woods.

"Six hours and 42 minutes in, I'm likely the only one who's reached the dungeon's end so far."

Just over 7 hours since opening, most were probably around level 3 still.

Even Xia Xue at most level 4, or less.

Lin Moyu believed he could outlevel anyone here.

He advanced into the woods, wanting to test the undiminished level 8 monsters' strength.

See if his skeletons could handle the same foes awaiting in the wild tomorrow.

The skeletons swiftly scouted ahead, seeking targets within the forest.

Clicking sounds but no enemies found.

"Nothing?"

Lin Moyu felt it strange and followed them in.

The moment he entered the trees, a branch whipped violently towards him.

Too fast for him to react, the powerful branch-whip struck Lin Moyu directly.

Yet he felt not even the slightest impact, as if an invisible shield protected his body.

The Passive Skill: Damage Transfer.

Any damage he took would automatically transfer to his summons instead.

He remained unharmed until they perished.

Truly a divine ability, rivaling his God-tier talent.

Lin Moyu clearly saw the source of the branch attack - a large tree about three meters tall.

His fingertips glowed slightly as he released a detection technique, a basic skill everyone knows to obtain target information.

[Long Whip Tree]

[Level: 8]

[Description: Usually dormant, it will attack passing life forms.]

He realized why the skeleton warriors avoided attacking it when scouting - they lacked any lifeforce to trigger the tree's hostility.

But when Lin Moyu himself entered, the Long Whip Tree attacked him.

Although the strikes caused no actual harm, Lin Moyu wasn't foolish enough to stand there and let it continue.

He quickly retreated tens of meters outside its attack range. The tree didn't pursue once he withdrew.

The long branches continued dancing vigilantly.

"It's really well-designed."

Lin Moyu understood the good intentions of the dungeon creators.

From greatly weakened low-level monsters to level 8 threats matching the wild.

And selecting a plant-type sneak attacker unable to give chase.

The Long Whip Tree embodied a sneak attack danger, allowing novices early exposure.

Yet being immobile, once in range novices could calmly retreat unharmed.

Moreover, its attack range matched typical long-ranged job attack distances.

Preventing any profession from trivially cheesing it from safety.

It enabled novices to challenge a real level 8 threat in a controlled safe situation.

The entire novice dungeon fostered an atmosphere protecting newcomers while cultivating actual combat adaptation with minimal risk.

The skeletons scuttled back amidst bursts of clattering sounds.

Sixteen warriors now guarded Lin Moyu like an army.

With a thought, one rushed the Long Whip Tree.

To the non-living skeleton, the tree remained inert.

Only when the skeleton struck first did the tree retaliate wildly.

Huge branches whipped like crazed tentacles, three or four blows landing per second.

But the skeleton's 550 physique granted superhuman vitality and defense.

Some cracks appeared but quickly resealed.

"Huh? It didn't get one-shot?"

Lin Moyu felt surprised. From level 1 to 7, everything died in an instant.

This level 8 monster could actually endure attacks.

"So this is wild monster strength? Let's see how many hits you can take."

One strike, two, three...

After four hits, the Long Whip Tree stopped moving.

[Killed level 8 Long Whip Tree, experience +160]

Seeing the large experience gain compared to a level 7 brown bear at 70, Lin Moyu calculated the cost-effectiveness favored level 7 targets.

One hit for 70 exp was better value than four hits for 160 exp.

However, this ignored the time spent finding monsters.

Hunting low levels would be uneconomical with so much search time.

Looking ahead through the dense forest, most trees appeared to be level 8 Long Whip Trees.

Easily distinguishable from normal trees if observed carefully.

Hundreds were visible as far as the eye could see here.

This was simply a leveling treasure trove for him.

Even the usually stoic Lin Moyu felt excited.

With a thought, his skeletons immediately dispersed to swarm the trees.

Four straightforward hits ending each Whip Tree.

Experience gains soared again.

While others' rates slowed greatly after level 5, Lin Moyu's just accelerated further.

Originally expecting over an hour for the next levelup.

Instead, only 50 minutes later Lin Moyu dinged level 6.

Outside the dungeon, the sky gradually darkened to evening.

It was now 7 PM, a full 10 hours since entering at 9 AM.

Lu Yun, the principals, and Xia Dongyang remained stationed.

Having already taken tea and meals brought to them during the day.

The principals guarded students this way every first novice day.

Though accidents were rare, there was no guarantee none would occur.

Real combat meant injuries were unavoidable, even student deaths had happened before.

Xia Dongyang didn't leave either, worried for his daughter Xia Xue inside.

Missing her job change ceremony, he refused to miss this first foray too.

The dungeon entrance suddenly flashed brilliantly.

Everyone turned towards the light at once.

"Someone's coming out."

"It's not time yet, there must be an accident."

The dungeon had two exits - the depths guarded by level 8 monsters, and the entrance area.

Lin Moyu stepped out from the light.

Lu Yun rushed over. "Moyu, why did you come out?"

Lin Moyu said softly, "If you kill them all, you get expelled."

Kill them all and leave.

Lu Yun couldn't comprehend those calm words for a moment.

No expression crossed Lin Moyu's face.

In the next second, Lu Yun saw Lin Moyu's level:

[Lin Moyu, Necromancer, Level 7]