Chapter 3: Frenetically Grinding Skill Proficiency

【Dead Man's Contract LV2 Normal Difficulty (Current Proficiency 2/200, Max LV5): Can cast a Contract Curse on a Contract Material not exceeding D-Grade, contracting one D-Grade Undead Servant to fight for oneself. There is a 1% chance to make the contracted servant reach C-Grade; the probability is related to the material's quality. Consumes 10 points of Soul Power Value.】

【Swiftness LV2 Normal Difficulty (Current Proficiency 2/200, Max LV5): Increases the attack speed of contracted creatures by 20%.】

As Dead Man's Contract rose to level 2, there was actually a 1% possibility of contracting a higher-grade servant.

Contract quality is related to material quality.

To put it plainly, wanting to contract a C-Grade servant from a D-Grade material only has this tiny bit of probability.

This probability is truly outrageously low.

There is almost no hope of seeing a C-Grade Undead Servant.

Fortunately, after three minutes passed, Zhou Chu summoned another Corpse.

Now there are a total of three D-Grade Corpses, and under the attack speed bonus of level 2 Swiftness, the efficiency has become even higher.

Level 2 to level 3 requires 200 points of proficiency, which is enough in less than five minutes.

Zhou Chu smiled slightly, turned around, sat down, and leisurely began to drink tea.

The three Corpses tirelessly swung their arms, constantly striking the Training Dummy in front of them.

【Dead Man's Contract (LV2 Normal Difficulty) Proficiency +1】

【Swiftness (LV2 Normal Difficulty) Proficiency +1】

……

Four minutes later.

【Your Dead Man's Contract (LV2 Normal Difficulty) proficiency has reached 200, successfully upgrading to LV3.】

【Swiftness (LV2 Normal Difficulty) proficiency has reached 200, successfully upgrading to LV3.】

It took less than 10 minutes in total for Zhou Chu's two skills to reach level 3.

The whole process didn't require Zhou Chu to lift a finger; just relying on these few Undead Servants, it was easily accomplished.

It saves time and effort.

At this moment, Zhou Chu has a total of 7 Undead Servants.

He will be able to summon the 8th one immediately.

At the same time, under the bonus of level 3 Swiftness, the Corpses' attack speed is almost reaching one hit per second.

Looking at it this way, it won't even take half an hour to upgrade two Normal Difficulty skills to the maximum.

Zhou Chu was secretly delighted.

Thus, with the concerted efforts of 8 Corpses, this time it only took a little over two minutes.

The two Normal Difficulty skills were directly upgraded to the maximum level.

【Your Dead Man's Contract (LV4 Normal Difficulty) proficiency has reached 1000, successfully upgrading to LV5.】

【Swiftness (LV4 Normal Difficulty) proficiency has reached 1000, successfully upgrading to LV5.】

【Dead Man's Contract LV5 Normal Difficulty (Current Proficiency MAX): Can cast a Contract Curse on a Contract Material not exceeding D-Grade quality, contracting one D-Grade Undead Servant to fight for oneself. There is a 5% chance to make the contracted servant reach C-Grade; the probability is related to the material's quality.】

【Swiftness LV5 Normal Difficulty (Current Proficiency MAX): Increases the attack speed of contracted creatures by 80%.】

It can be seen that after Dead Man's Contract reached the max level, it increased from the initial 1% probability to 5%.

But the chance of seeing a C-Grade Undead Servant remains slim.

However, the effect of Swiftness is very obvious.

The 10 Corpses at this time do not have the listless state they had before.

They swing their arms with great force, and their attack speed has significantly increased.

It almost reaches the level of two attacks per second.

But it is still too far off.

Even if 30 D-Grade Corpses are summoned, they don't have much damage; it's like scraping skin.

Relying on 30 Corpses to clear the Novice Dungeon is generally a bit strenuous.

The upper limit of Normal Difficulty skills is indeed pitifully low!

However, as Zhou Chu's D-Grade Soul Profession became a God-level Soul Profession after Divine Fusion.

The Normal Difficulty skills have broken through the shackles of their grade.

At this moment, the two max-level Normal Difficulty skills have directly become Fine-Grade!

【Dead Man's Contract LV1 Fine-Grade (Current Proficiency 33/200): Can cast a Contract Curse on a Contract Material not exceeding C-Grade quality, contracting one Undead Servant not higher than C-Grade to fight for oneself. There is a 0.1% chance to make the contracted servant reach B-Grade; the probability is related to the material's quality.】

【Swiftness LV1 Fine-Grade (Current Proficiency 33/200): Increases the attack speed of contracted creatures by 100%.】

It can be clearly seen that the quality of Contract Material that can be contracted by Dead Man's Contract has increased from the lowest D-Grade to C-Grade.

But because it is a D-Grade Contract Material upgrading to B-Grade, the probability has once again plummeted to a pitiful 0.1%.

It is foreseeable that as the skill quality continues to improve, this probability will also continue to go down as the quality rises.

But regardless, the ability to contract higher-quality materials is improving step by step, and this is the most basic thing.

With this foundation as a guarantee, at least in the future when encountering higher-quality materials, Zhou Chu will not face a situation where he can only stare blankly.

The revolution has not yet succeeded; comrades still need to work hard.

Keep grinding!

Fortunately, the 10 Corpses can now launch 20 attacks per second.

Proficiency is being ground faster.

However, after evolving to a higher grade, the proficiency required for each level of the skill will increase accordingly.

After all, the higher the quality of the skill, the more proficiency needs to be invested.

"I wonder if I can train these two skills to the highest God-level by tomorrow morning!"

Zhou Chu's heart could not help but feel a little uneasy.

It looks like I'll have to pull an all-nighter to grind skill proficiency today!

Zhou Chu was all too familiar with the business of grinding skill proficiency.

In the past, Zhou Chu played an online game called "Great Talk West Oil," where the spell proficiency of characters had to be "burned."

Back then, burning spells for several consecutive all-nighters was a common occurrence.

Therefore, this was nothing at all to Zhou Chu.

What's more, Zhou Chu didn't have to do anything while grinding proficiency; he could just sit to the side, drink some tea, and act as a supervisor.

As long as he could get his skill levels high enough before tomorrow morning's mock exam, then securing his eligibility for the College Entrance Exam would be a sure thing.

Zhou Chu had already prepared himself for a protracted war.

So, gritting his teeth, he spent 90,000 yuan directly to extend his training time by 18 hours.

At this moment, including the change, only 20,000 yuan remained in Zhou Chu's wallet.

This single expenditure wiped out the living expenses he had saved up by scrimping and saving for nearly three years.

He had truly gone all out to grind skill proficiency.

If he could successfully pass the mock exam, all of this would be worth it.

When the time came, he could just use Soul Fragments to trade for money.

Killing monsters would yield the rare material, Soul Fragment.

Even if he ended up penniless, as long as he went into a Copy once, his shriveled wallet would plump up in a matter of minutes.

But those were matters for later.

Zhou Chu estimated that from now on, once the 18 hours of training time were up, he should be able to catch the school bus to the exam site.

At this moment, 10 Corpses were surrounding three Training Dummies, striking them tirelessly.

The proficiency of the two skills continued to rise rapidly.

【Dead Man's Contract (LV1 Fine-Grade) proficiency +1】

【Swiftness (LV1 Fine-Grade) proficiency +1】

……

【Dead Man's Contract LV2 Fine-Grade (Current proficiency 39/400): Can cast a Contract Curse on a Contract Material of no higher than C-Grade quality, contracting one Undead Servant of no higher than C-Grade to fight for oneself. There is a 0.2% chance to make the contracted servant reach B-Grade……】

【Swiftness LV2 Fine-Grade (Current proficiency 39/400): Increases the attack speed of contracted creatures by 120%.】

This time, it only took about 20 seconds for the two Fine-Grade LV1 skills to rise to LV2.

With more workers and the attack speed constantly increasing, it was impossible for it not to be fast.

……

【Dead Man's Contract LV3 Fine-Grade (Current proficiency 54/800): Can cast a Contract Curse on a Contract Material of no higher than C-Grade quality, contracting one Undead Servant of no higher than C-Grade to fight for oneself. There is a 0.5% chance to make the contracted servant reach B-Grade……】

【Swiftness LV3 Fine-Grade (Current proficiency 54/800): Increases the attack speed of contracted creatures by 140%.】

……

【Dead Man's Contract LV4 Fine-Grade (Current proficiency 36/3200): Can cast a Contract Curse on a Contract Material of no higher than C-Grade quality, contracting one Undead Servant of no higher than C-Grade to fight for oneself. There is a 0.8% chance to make the contracted servant reach C-Grade……】

【Swiftness LV4 Fine-Grade (Current proficiency 36/3200): Increases the attack speed of contracted creatures by 170%.】

……

【Your Dead Man's Contract (LV4 Fine-Grade) proficiency has reached 3200, successfully upgrading to LV5.】

【Your Swiftness (LV4 Normal Difficulty) proficiency has reached 3200, successfully upgrading to LV5.】

This time, it took less than three minutes to grind to the max level of Fine-Grade.

This speed was simply like riding a rocket!

At the same time, the number of Corpses had reached 12.

The attack speed had even reached 200%.

This was equivalent to one Corpse landing 4 attacks per second.

The number of effective attacks per second had reached a terrifying 48.

Immediately following this, the Fine-Grade automatically upgraded to Epic.

【Dead Man's Contract LV1 Epic (Current proficiency 121/): Can cast a Contract Curse on a 【target】 of no higher than B-Grade quality, contracting one Undead Servant of no higher than B-Grade to fight for oneself. There is a 0.01% chance to make the contracted servant reach A-Grade……】

【Swiftness LV1 Epic (Current proficiency 121/): Increases the attack speed of contracted creatures by 220%.】

As expected, it was just as Zhou Chu had previously anticipated.

Once it reached A-Grade, the probability dropped significantly again.

This was like wanting a student ranked last in the class to become the student ranked first; it could be said to be truly too difficult.

At the same time, after the skill reached Epic quality, upgrading from LV1 to LV2 required 10,000 points of proficiency.

One could imagine how terrifying the required proficiency would be when the skill was upgraded to the higher Legendary or Immortal levels.

However, it had only taken a little over 3 minutes to upgrade from Epic LV1 to LV2.

Zhou Chu made a rough estimate; if things continued to develop according to the current situation, it was not impossible to grind the skill proficiency to the maximum by morning.

No need to say more, it was just one word: grind!