Chapter 63 : Chapter 63
Chapter 63: First Advancement Achieved! Exclusive Skill Chest!
This time, even Wu Ming, who was always at odds with Wan Feipeng, did not object.
After all, Wu Ming was one of only two people present who knew Ye Ze’s identity.
Ye Ze was one of East China’s people!
If Wan Feipeng handled his development poorly in the future, Wu Ming might still be able to take him under his own wing.
But if Ye Ze went to headquarters, then Wu Ming would have no connection to him at all!
Adjusting his gold-rimmed glasses, Wu Ming calmly advised, “All right, all right, Old Wan, stop yelling.”
“If that doesn’t work, we can just settle it by force...”
The headquarters official named Wei Ping immediately shut his mouth. “No, no. I won’t bring it up again.”
The others from the military and headquarters also fell silent at once.
This was Wan Feipeng, after all. There was a real chance he would actually start fighting right here!
Seeing that, even the nearby security personnel quietly let out sighs of relief.
Only Wei Zheng, the head of Central China, merely smiled, clearly long used to such scenes, and continued watching the dungeon projection in calm composure.
...
At that moment, the Three-Tailed Demon Fox’s spell damage had already stacked by 50%. She had originally thought she could kill them easily without needing to stack it any further.
Yet the five members of West China Team Two had still survived by relying on their exceptionally strong Shield Guard.
The little fox was furious and was just about to cast another wave of heavenly thunder.
At that very moment, a sharp tearing sound split the air!
It was Wang Jingyu the Swordsman’s Air-Splitting Slash, wrapped in howling wind as it shot straight at them like a bullet from the front!
Ye Ze scooped up the fox...and instantly switched places with the panda!
Bang!
The charging Swordsman was swatted flying by the panda with a single slap!
Wang Jingyu was completely dumbfounded.
In this close-range ambush, he had intended to take out at least one of them, either the mage, the fox, or the Summoner, Ye Ze.
But he had not even blinked. How had it suddenly turned into a panda?
He was given no time to think. The panda closed in on the heavily wounded Wang Jingyu in an instant and threw a punch.
Cling!
Unexpectedly, a clear, hollow sound rang out. It was the sound of a skill activating.
Wang Jingyu raised his sword and blocked the panda’s punch!
At the moment the force of the punch struck, the longsword emitted a white glow and suffered no damage at all!
“Not bad!”
Ye Ze praised him. “Even while heavily wounded, you still managed to execute a Perfect Guard!”
【Perfect Guard: When a Swordsman successfully defends the point of impact of an opponent’s attack, Perfect Guard is triggered, negating that instance of damage.】
Triggering Perfect Guard placed enormous demands on a Swordsman’s grasp of attack trajectories, reaction speed, and the like.
It was both the foundation and the pinnacle of a Swordsman’s craft.
And it was precisely because of this skill that he had barely managed to block the panda’s punch.
Yet Wang Jingyu felt no relief at all.
Because the panda merely tilted its head in confusion for a moment, then raised its second fist...
“Protect the captain!”
Seeing this, the members of West China Team Two all rushed over at full speed.
Especially the Shield Guard boy. He seemed to gain a movement speed bonus when approaching his teammates, and he flew toward his captain with shield raised.
However, the moment it sensed the Shield Guard drawing near, the panda casually turned and threw a punch.
Boom—!
That exceptionally strong Shield Guard who had withstood the heavenly thunder for the whole team was blown away, shield and all, by a single punch!
【You kill a Trial Participant and gain Experience +1000!】
Wang Jingyu’s pupils contracted once more.
Only now did he realize that if not for Perfect Guard, one punch from that panda would have left him owing several lives over!
At this point, only three members remained in West China Team Two: a Mage, a Priest, and a support.
No one had expected their captain to lose so quickly!
The only one with any damage output left was the Mage, and she was a lightning-element Mage.
Her skills landed on the panda without stirring the slightest ripple.
Of course, if not for the lightning-element damage-reduction buff she had added to the Shield Guard earlier, the whole team might not even have survived the heavenly thunder.
At that moment, from an extremely long distance away, the Priest placed a damage-reduction shield on Wang Jingyu.
Meanwhile, the lightning-element Mage set her sights on Ye Ze.
But before she could cast, a squirrel holding a blade rose out of her shadow.
Slash— The Crimson Demon Blade swept across the Mage’s throat.
With the squirrel’s current attributes, even without using a skill, it could still effortlessly one-shot a backline class user of the same level.
Seeing this, the expressions of the remaining two female team members changed in shock.
One of them, the support class user who also served as the team’s Tactician, immediately hit send on the message she had already prepared.
In the next instant, Shadow Clone squirrels appeared behind the two of them and took them out with a single slash...
...
Elsewhere on the Ancient Battlefield, West China Team One had just defeated another trainee team.
Zhu Xiao, with his red hair and bare, muscular upper body, had transformed his right hand into a massive tiger claw and snapped an opponent’s neck.
A message suddenly beeped on his phone.
Zhu Xiao’s right hand returned to normal as he casually opened the phone and found only two short lines on the screen:
【There’s an Instructor, a Summoner, who instantly killed Wang Jingyu.】
【Summoned Beasts: one super strength-type, one lightning mage】
The rest had not been finished.
But Zhu Xiao understood why, because the Tactician from Team Two who had sent the message now had a grayed-out profile icon.
A grayed-out icon meant they had already left the dungeon.
People outside the dungeon could not send messages to those still inside it.
So this was the final piece of intelligence Team Two had sent them before dying, knowing they could not win...
“Instructor?”
Zhu Xiao suddenly remembered the Instructor Fu Wanjun had mentioned before the dungeon started...
A fierce light shone in his tiger-like eyes.
“I’d like to see what kind of strength he has!”
...
【You kill Trial Participants x3 and gain Experience +3000!】
【You kill Trial Participants x1 and gain Experience +1000!】
【Level: 14 (15275/22100)】
Of the four remaining enemies, it was unexpectedly the heavily wounded Swordsman who lasted the longest.
Even while badly injured, he executed Perfect Guard four times in a row before finally being eliminated...
What made Ye Ze even happier, however, was that his Supreme Advancement Quest had finally been completed!
【Supreme Advancement Quest — “The Summoner on the Offensive” completed!】
【Class Advancement increases: 0th Advancement → 1st Advancement!】
【Your Summoned Beast Space +2. Current space count: 4/6!】
【Growth of All Four Attributes for the Summoner +5, Growth of All Four Attributes for Summoned Beasts +5!】
【You obtain Exclusive Skill Chest x1!】
He could contract two more Summoned Beasts now!
Seeing that final line, Ye Ze immediately pulled the chest out of his backpack.
The Exclusive Skill Chest obtained from a Supreme Advancement Quest would always yield a skill of Outstanding-grade or above!
Ye Ze was filled with anticipation and opened it directly!
【Ding! You open the Exclusive Skill Chest and obtain Exclusive Skill Book: Holy Protection (Epic)!】
【Holy Protection: All Summoned Beasts gain a permanent shield. While the shield exists, they are immune to control effects. After the shield is broken, it recovers after 1 hour.】
(Shield Value = Summoner Spirit * 2000%)
The moment he saw this skill, Ye Ze learned it without hesitation.
It perfectly made up for the lack of defense among his Summoned Beasts.
Take the Three-Tailed Demon Fox, for example. As a mage-type Summoned Beast, she had almost no defensive methods at all. If Ye Ze were not present, something could easily happen to her.
Now that she had an extra shield, he could feel much more at ease.
And on top of that, it granted immunity to control effects!
The only downside was that the Shield Value was a little low, and it still depended on Ye Ze’s own Spirit...Then, the chest lit up once more!
【The “Fortune Smiles Upon You!” Trait takes effect. You will receive a second chest reward!】
【Ding! You obtain Exclusive Skill Book: Skill Enhancement - Super (Legend)!】
【Skill Enhancement - Super: Temporarily supercharges any one talent or skill of a Summoned Beast. Cooldown: 5 minutes!】
(Only one talent or skill can be affected at a time.)