Chapter 109

The Hex Heart triggered.

It meant Li Yao only needed one more Void chess piece to complete the bond and summon the Void Vanguard!

The three summoned Void Sea Worms aren't strong in combat, but their functionality is maxed out.

Li Yao couldn't help but look forward to it.

If he wasn't wrong, the Void Vanguard should be a unit with maxed-out combat power.

"At level thirty, I’ll try to find insect-type summoning skill books."

Li Yao pondered to himself, while wearing the [Space-Cutting Waistband] and [King’s Ring].

His attributes soared significantly!

The ring, like the other two [Royal Power] pieces of equipment, had an anti-control effect, and the attribute bonuses were about the same.

Li Yao didn't care and looked at the set effect.

[Goblin Supreme Royal Power (3/3): Spirit +220; after activation, gain the protection of Goblin Royal Power, immune to all control skills, duration 24 seconds, cooldown 45 minutes.]

"The set attribute is this exaggerated?"

"Just a level 15 Platinum-tier set, and it has a bonus of nearly two hundred attributes?"

Li Yao was surprised.

If an ordinary professional wore a full set of Bronze-tier equipment, the total bonus might just be this value.

No wonder the gap between ordinary professionals and family professionals is so large!

However.

Two hundred Spirit attributes were just an extra reward in Li Yao’s eyes.

The real big deal was the nearly half-minute of anti-control time.

It’s a perfect match for the Chess Player talent!

During this half-minute, he could output damage brainlessly.

Presumably, even the Dark Wings of the past would definitely not be able to withstand this half-minute!

"It wasn't a waste to look forward to it for so long."

Li Yao smiled with satisfaction.

Then he took out Qin Qin Xuehou’s Platinum weapon and transferred the desired equipment effect to the Successor’s Longsword.

[Swift Wind (Passive Skill): After a summoned creature kills a unit, the Summoner gains 1% movement speed, stackable up to 100 layers, duration 5 minutes, each stack refreshes the duration.]

This Platinum-tier Summoner staff was originally intended to give the Summoner an extra life-saving skill.

But on Li Yao, it became an offensive means.

Once fully stacked, it’s double movement speed.

At that time, Li Yao’s opponents would face—

A humanoid weapon with damage immunity, super-high movement speed, explosive damage, and its own anti-control!

After organizing his gains, Li Yao lay down on the bed.

Since changing jobs, he had roughly figured out the professional path he would take in the future.

The existence of the [Shackles] skill allowed the Summoner to not be limited to fighting with summoned creatures.

Cultivating chess pieces to feed back into himself, plus the unique Chess Player talent—

He could completely open up a promotion path that no one had ever taken before.

Li Yao fell asleep while thinking.

The night passed without incident.

As soon as dawn broke, Li Yao took a special Star Net vehicle to the largest middle school in Sangyu City, Shuyuan Martial Arts Middle School.

Fifteen days had passed since the job-change ceremony.

Within the main city of Sangyu.

All combat-type professionals had come here to prepare for the Martial Exam.

For a time, Shuyuan Martial Arts Middle School seemed extremely lively.

The Martial Exam was even more important than the college entrance exam in Li Yao’s previous life!

Besides determining whether a professional could go to a higher martial arts academy for further studies, there was another important reason.

Only by entering a higher martial arts academy could one get the entry qualifications for those rare dungeons.

Similar to the Goblin Nest, any professional who wants to farm it can farm it; it’s more like a welfare benefit provided by the Federation to various cities for new professionals to train.

Real rare dungeons, large multiplayer dungeons, and high-tier dungeons are all strategic resources controlled by the Federation and major forces.

After all, dungeons aren't perpetual motion machines; there will eventually be a day when their energy is exhausted.

So such resources naturally have to be given to people with more potential, that is, professionals qualified to be admitted to higher learning institutions.

Li Yao followed the signs and found the Jiangzhou area.

Then, following the guidance, he arrived at the gathering point for Yucai High School students.

Many classmates were excitedly discussing.

"You’re already level 14? I thought only I was this hardworking; you must have spent a lot of time leveling in the wild these days, right?"

"That’s for sure. I teamed up with my cousin and her husband, and they took me to level in the wild at the border. I didn't expect my level not to be the highest in our class!"

"Team up later?"

"No problem! I’m a Poison Mage, you’re a Swordsman; we have both physical and magical output. The efficiency of farming monsters shouldn't be low!"

"Take me with you; I’m a Priest, and one heal can heal nearly eight hundred HP! I was just worried about not having a team!"

"No problem, then we’re just missing a main tank-type profession."

"..."

Everyone was very excited.

However, Li Yao also discovered that Yucai Middle School had over a hundred combat-type professionals who changed jobs, and not even half were present today.

The others had clearly given up their Martial Exam qualifications.

Some went to the wild to farm monsters and become material hunters, some went to work as guards and bodyguards for big families, and some went to work in local Federation units.

Those who came to participate in the Martial Exam all had a certain amount of confidence in themselves.

Their family backgrounds were also relatively well-off, able to withstand the consumption.

Everyone has their own choices.

Li Yao stood in the corner, and it was inevitable that someone would notice him.

Suddenly.

The whole class quieted down, and they all looked at Li Yao in disbelief.

When Li Yao cleared the Nightmare-level difficulty, this group was still in the novice dungeon and hadn't farmed the Goblin dungeon, so they couldn't receive the system notification of Li Yao’s first clear of Nightmare-level difficulty.

But when Li Yao first cleared the Purgatory-level, these people had truly received that notification!

At first, they were still doubting how a Summoner could possibly first clear a Purgatory dungeon!

It was highly likely a case of the same name.

But when the Chess Player profession was announced later—

These students had to believe it!

They had witnessed the phenomenon when Li Yao changed jobs and had seen Li Yao change into the A-rank profession, Chess Player!

They had even mocked Li Yao because he was a Summoner!

The result was a direct reversal!

If the gap wasn't large, they could still use the excuse that Summoners are weak in the late game.

But the fact was that Li Yao first cleared the Purgatory-level.

While they were racking their brains to clear the Normal and Hard levels.

They didn't even dare to hope for Master-level difficulty.

This kind of gap is enough to make people feel intimidated.

The happier they were mocking him back then, the more inferior they felt facing Li Yao now!

If they had experienced the beatings of society, they might be begging to hug Li Yao’s thigh now.

But they were just students who had just graduated from high school; they knew they should go hug his thigh, but they couldn't save face in front of their classmates.

Both awkward and respectful.

Complex gazes watched Li Yao intentionally or unintentionally.

Carrying hope in their hearts.

Praying that Li Yao might have a sliver of possibility.

To care about classmate feelings and talk to them.

Even if it was just a polite remark.

However.

Their hope was destined to be impossible.