Chapter 779: Physique Trial Begins

The trial participants outside the tower who were instantaneously transported were, like snowflakes swept away, suddenly cleared out more than half.

Dazed, dizzy.

After a brief recollection, Lin An finally found Jiang Haochen's information in the corner of his memory.

Jiang Haochen? He rose in the Huaxia War Zone three years after the apocalypse.

Among the tens of billions of survivors, he was at the peak of the Third Rank, second only to the Fourth Stage.

Because his talent carried the trait of a meme, he could almost infinitely recover, earning the title Eternal and dominating one side, and the Huaxia War Zone honored him as one of the Six Kings.

In the later stages of the apocalypse, the titles of these extreme powerhouses mostly replaced their names, which is why Lin An hardly had any impression of his name.

And Lin An's familiarity with Gao Tian is simply because Gao Tian is a Linjiang native who rose from Linjiang Academy.

Just...

A sense of absurdity rose in his heart.

In his past life, the Eternal, who was almost considered to have transcended humanity and could be called a combat creature of another species, how did his original self behave so...

Strange...

Recalling Jiang Haochen's words just now, to Lin An it sounded like a child throwing a tantrum.

This is completely different from the scene he imagined encountering such extreme powerhouses.

Isn't it, too lacking in style?

Moreover, when did I ever ignore or humiliate him?

Utterly bewildering.

To be honest, he Lin An really has no impression at all.

That guy, what exactly is he hostile toward me for?

"Lin Dui, what's wrong with you!!"

"This damn system, why hasn't it started yet?"

In the team chat, Zhang Tie was making a fuss.

Unlike previous trials, upon entering this trial's transmission, it unexpectedly separated everyone.

Upon entry, there was also no further indication of the distinction between group and individual.

The system prompt that should have appeared also never showed up for a long time.

Before his eyes, however, was a vast and empty plaza.

The sky was dim yellow, resembling the ruins of ancient Rome after its decay.

Looking further into the distance, there were strips of black space enveloping the whole world.

"Nothing..."

Lin An shook his head slightly, but after thinking for a long time he still couldn't recall when he had ever humiliated Jiang Haochen.

Although he felt a bit disappointed at encountering what seemed to be one of the Six Kings from his past life, perhaps it was just a namesake.

But he could barely understand it.

These extreme powerhouses of the early apocalypse were actually also transformed from ordinary people.

For example, Gao Tian.

In his past life, this demon hunter known for coldness and mystery, when Lin An first found him, this kid almost starved to death in the dormitory.

Timid, yet talkative.

A single steamed bun almost choked him to death.

Three years of apocalypse, with its cruelty and reality, were enough to forge a frail, timid boy into an iron-blooded, ruthless warrior.

Time is the best carving knife.

After waiting about a minute, the system seemed to be counting heads.

A white light flashed, and the trial prompt sounded as follows:

"This trial has no mission restrictions."

"During the trial, participants will continuously face system attacks."

"The longer one endures, the higher the score."

"Each round's attack intensity increases with time, and after each attack ends, there will be a 1-minute safety period."

"During the safety period, one can choose to exit the trial early."

"This trial adopts a semi-anonymous ranking system (by default showing the trial round, with the option to manually enable name and war zone display)."

"First place: extra 200 points reward.."

"Second to sixth place: extra 150 points reward.."

"100th to 199th place: extra 10 points."

An unusually brief trial explanation.

After the announcement ended, a white light brewed from the dim yellow horizon, foreshadowing that the first attack would be a strike from the sky.

After reading the information, Lin An slightly startled.

He never expected the physique trial to be so simple and brutal.

Who can withstand it, who can pass the trial?

But thinking about it, it's also normal.

Physique-system Awakened Ones are generally not good at scheming or thinking; although somewhat biased, this is indeed the reality.

Expecting them to clear puzzles or gather clues in tasks would be no less than contradicting the trial's purpose.

His heart felt a little lost.

Lin An is not inclined toward self-torture; a simple task instead feels unpleasant.

But rather because the simpler it is, the more purely it tests an individual's task, the less favorable it is for his point‑grinding plan.

They could only earn points by relying on their own abilities.

"Lord Lin An, it seems we can only rely on ourselves..."

As expected, in the temporarily established team channel, Zhang Yong sent a message with some guilt.

At the same time, Fiona and others also sent messages.

They are not idiots.

They originally thought that, before Lin An closed the exchange function, they could in one go raise their attributes to the maximum (ordinary Awakened Ones' max is 35 points), thereby helping Lin An in the upcoming trial and shining brightly.

Unexpectedly, the system seemed to be opposing them.

Although the longer one persists, the more points one earns.

But a little thought shows that to earn high points, one must inevitably compete for the leaderboard rankings.

More than seven thousand Awakened Ones, struggling to the end, surely only those who have unlocked the gene lock can make it to the end.

A max of 35 points is actually not enough.

Most of them were not physique Awakened Ones to begin with; even if their attributes were forcibly raised, they were unlikely to unlock the gene lock, and indeed, because of the forcibly raised attributes, it became even harder to unlock.

Specialization and "taking up the practice mid-way" are essentially different.

"It's fine."

"You don't have to force yourselves to hold on if you can't."

"As for the points, worst case we can settle it in the death match."

He gave a light comforting remark, and Lin An was not affected by the emotions.

He had actually considered the worst‑case plan, for example that the system would surely not let him grind points so easily and exchange for an sss‑level skill.

Hearing Lin An instead comfort them, Fiona felt an unstoppable warm current surge in her heart.

Lin An truly is the person with the best temper she has ever met.

"Lin Dui, I'm freaking invincible! Hahaha!"

"Let's compare, the two of us!"

Unlike Fiona's side, which was disheartened, after reading this trial's explanation Xiong Hanzi's mouth corners were almost splitting to the back of his head.

Getting hit?

He's too good at this!

What trial could be more suited to him than getting hit!

He can endure until he's beaten to death! Even dead he can keep taking hits!

Hearing Xiong Hanzi's unrestrained loud laughter, Lin An couldn't help but chuckle.

This guy, he finally ran into a task he's good at.

A smile touched his lips, and Lin An then looked thoughtfully at the perfect‑level trial requirements issued separately by the system.

"Perfect‑level trial:"

"Trial participants must obtain a top‑three ranking in this trial."

"Third place: trial evaluation B‑grade."

"Second place: trial evaluation A‑grade."

"First place: trial evaluation S‑grade!"

"Trial rewards???, to be distributed according to evaluation!"

The perfect‑level task likewise requires little thought, but the information it reveals makes Lin An unable to help pondering.

As an extreme‑level challenger, this is also the highest‑difficulty task.

But in the system's judgment, as long as one finishes in the top three, the task is considered complete.

That is to say, the system assumes that in this trial, at least at least...

There are two others whose physique attributes are stronger than his, or perhaps they are evenly matched?

"Looks like..."

"In the physique trial, many special beings have mixed in..."

Muttering to himself, Lin An closed the task panel, his gaze seeming to want to pierce the world barrier separating the trial participants.