Chapter 11 : Chapter 11
Chapter 11: Choosing Nightmare Difficulty?
A Summoner whose physical attack had actually reached 765—
how were physical classes supposed to face Lin Yuan?
Perhaps it was not only physical classes.
Perhaps no class at all could hold its head high before Lin Yuan.
This was an all-around suppression in terms of attributes.
I’m cheating. Do as you please.
That was the unreasonable tyranny of a stat monster.
One after another, students began to be teleported out onto the plaza.
These were all teams that had failed their attempts.
After failing, they had to wait for a period of time before they could challenge the dungeon again.
The first thing these people did after coming out was look toward a single person.
Lin Yuan.
Among them were even a few dejected F-Rank talent holders, their faces full of regret.
They were the melee class-holders who had refused Sun Xu’s invitation to team up.
Those people had missed a chance to break the record for nothing.
That had been a C-Rank skill!
Even awakening an A-Rank talent only earned someone a single C-Rank skill.
Now that they thought back on it, they wanted nothing more than to slap themselves several times across the face.
Unfortunately, there was no regret medicine in this world.
And reality had already slapped them mercilessly once.
After considering it for a moment, Principal Chen Qingshan still walked over to Lin Yuan.
“Well, Lin Yuan... I’d like to understand the details of how you and Sun Xu cleared the dungeon. Would that be convenient?”
“Of course. There’s nothing inconvenient about it.”
Lin Yuan told Chen Qingshan the explanation he had prepared beforehand. “My Summoned Beast mutated, and its bloodline rose to the Second Rank.”
“A Second-Rank Summoned Beast. No wonder.” Relief appeared in Chen Qingshan’s eyes.
If he remembered correctly, Lin Yuan had learned Summon Shield Guard.
And the final Boss of the beginner dungeon only possessed a Second-Rank bloodline.
A Second-Rank Shield Guard paired with a Priest who had an S-Rank talent—
it was still barely believable that they could speed-clear the Golden Fang Ruins.
After thinking for a moment, homeroom teacher Chen Hongwei offered a suggestion.
“Lin Yuan, now that you’ve already cleared the Beginner Difficulty Golden Fang Ruins, you should strike while the iron is hot and continue challenging the Normal difficulty.”
“With a Second-Rank Shield Guard tanking damage, plus an excellent healer like Sun Xu, all you need is three more damage dealers to form a perfect team.”
“Try to become the first among the other students to reach Level 10.”
“With the prize money, you can keep raising your Summoned Beast’s bloodline rank.”
“If you can raise the bloodlines of Summon Shield Guard and Summon Skeleton Warrior to the limit by the time you reach Level 20, then perhaps you’ll be able to pass the class advancement mission.”
This time, Chen Qingshan did not refute Chen Hongwei. Instead, he raised a difficult problem they would have to face.
“The possibility your homeroom teacher mentioned does indeed exist, but it’s very hard to realize.”
“It is extremely difficult to evolve a Summoned Beast’s bloodline. Just going from the First Rank to the Second Rank requires resources worth at least one million.”
“And that still doesn’t guarantee success.”
“If it fails, the Summoned Beast’s potential will be severely reduced.”
“If it fails twice, the Summoned Beast’s strength won’t even be half of what it was before.”
“I once saw the most tragic example of all—a Summoner who lost his entire fortune, spent ten million, and failed three consecutive advancements for his Summoned Beast. In the end, the beast’s attributes fell to single digits. It couldn’t even defeat a Level 1 monster.”
“In the end, the Summoner couldn’t bear the blow and jumped off a building.”
Chen Qingshan cleared his throat and continued,
“Lin Yuan, you can be counted as fortunate. Your Summoned Beast mutated and rose to the Second Rank.”
“You need to seize this opportunity and raise your level as quickly as possible.”
“Otherwise, once the other students’ levels rise and their equipment is filled out, the advantage of a Second-Rank Summoned Beast will vanish completely.”
Lin Yuan understood what Chen Hongwei meant.
He wanted Lin Yuan to bring along a few damage dealers and grind the dungeon like mad.
Secure the school’s prize money first.
As a homeroom teacher, Chen Hongwei truly was responsible. Based on the actual circumstances, he had given the best possible choice.
At the very least, it was a sliver of hope.
If it had been any other student, they would already have been moved to tears with gratitude.
But Lin Yuan knew his own situation.
I’ve got a cheat. What am I afraid of?
Other people failed because they were other people. What did that have to do with me?
With a God-Tier Talent in hand, Ali would soon advance to the Third Rank.
And the Third Rank was far from Ali’s limit.
By the time Lin Yuan reached Level 20, Ali could at the very least advance to the Fourth Rank.
And by then, Lin Yuan would already have his second Summon Slot.
Two top-tier Fourth-Rank Summoned Beasts.
He refused to believe they could be stumped by some tiny class advancement mission.
If even Lin Yuan could not pass it, then no one in this world should be able to.
They might as well delete the Summoner class altogether.
Since his homeroom teacher had already spoken, Lin Yuan called out to Sun Xu and headed toward the dungeon entrance.
As he brushed past Chen Hongwei, Lin Yuan suddenly said,
“Old Chen, you’ve been a homeroom teacher for so many years. It must have been pretty hard on you. Have you ever thought about becoming a Vice Principal?”
That question left Chen Hongwei dumbfounded.
A Vice Principal?
How could he not want that?
But he needed the opportunity.
This year’s opportunity was not bad. Three students in his class had awakened S-Rank talents. If things went well, he might become a Grade Director.
Vice Principal, however, was still far too difficult.
Unless one of his students could clear a Warrior difficulty dungeon.
But that was simply unrealistic.
Only those freakish geniuses who had awakened SS-Rank talents had any chance of doing such a thing.
And with the principal standing right beside him, was Lin Yuan not deliberately smearing eye drops in front of him?
“Why are you worrying about such nonsense? Hurry up and go grind the dungeon.” Chen Hongwei deliberately put on a stern face. “A Normal dungeon isn’t a beginner dungeon. If you don’t take it seriously, you’ll fail.”
“Got it. Just watch.”
Lin Yuan waved at Chen Hongwei and vanished into the dungeon entrance.
“Chen Hongwei, you’ve been at No. 1 High School for seven or eight years now, haven’t you? You’ve taught quite a few excellent seedlings.”
With his hands clasped behind his back, Chen Qingshan spoke softly.
“This year, three S-Rank class-holders have awakened, and it just so happens that the position of Grade Director is still vacant...”
Before he could finish, the teacher in charge of guarding the dungeon entrance came running over in a panic.
“Principal, this is bad! Lin Yuan and Sun Xu chose Nightmare difficulty!”
“What did you say?”
“Nightmare difficulty!”
Chen Qingshan’s expression changed at once. “Is this child out of his mind?”
“So everything I said just now was for nothing.”
“Chen Hongwei, these are the good students you taught.”
Chen Qingshan was furious. If not for his own considerable self-restraint, he would already have burst into curses.
Nightmare difficulty—
was that something a mere Level 5 Summoner could choose?
Had breaking one record made him forget his own name?
Nightmare, nightmare—as the name implied,
it was the nightmare class-holders least wanted to face.
Only the most top-tier class-holder teams had any chance of conquering a Nightmare difficulty dungeon.
Looking across the whole of Xia Country, or even the entirety of Blue Star,
there were not many teams who could claim with certainty that they had a one hundred percent chance of clearing a Nightmare difficulty dungeon.
The most terrifying part of Nightmare difficulty was this:
once you entered, you could not leave again until half an hour had passed.
A newly awakened Summoner plus a newly awakened Priest—
there was no way they could endure it.
And if they could not endure it, there was only one outcome.
Death.
If you died inside a Nightmare difficulty dungeon, then you truly died.
At the thought that on the very first day the dungeon opened, students might die—and not just any students, but two S-Rank class-holders—
Chen Qingshan’s face darkened like ink.