Chapter 7: Lu Qingyu's competitive spirit—she wants to face off against Jiang Chen again

For now we're still in the newbie stage, but later when we go into higher-level instances, we'll definitely need to bring a support class.

By then, begging grandparents to find unfamiliar professionals would be worse than now building a good relationship with our support-class peers.

Jiang Chen and Lu Qingyu were about to follow the crowd into Luolan Forest when Cheng Rushan stopped them.

"Jiang Chen, Lu Qingyu, you two don't need to team up with others; you can solo run..."

"You are the school's key students, aiming to get into Shenlong University, so you need to level up quickly..."

"According to past convention, in the newbie instance, after about two days your monster kills will yield less experience..."

"Of course, you can also choose to team up with others."

Cheng Rushan's meaning was clear: Jiang Chen and Lu Qingyu have full freedom to arrange their own leveling process.

But Jiang Chen glanced at the nearby support-class players, who all showed a worried expression and automatically stepped away from him.

Most support classes are priests, and these priest players are mostly delicate girls.

At yesterday's job transfer ceremony, they had seen Jiang Chen's skeleton warriors, which were too gloomy and terrifying.

They certainly don't want to team up with those undead creatures—how scary!

Jiang Chen took it all in, his heart undisturbed; he had originally intended to grind monsters alone.

He nodded at Cheng Rushan.

"Principal, if there's nothing else, I'll go inside to level up."

Cheng Rushan was startled, but thinking of Jiang Chen's personality, he understood.

His hope for Lu Qingyu and Jiang Chen is that they get into Shenlong University.

But

Shenlong University has a high admission difficulty; the minimum level requirement is at least level 12, and the higher the better.

Based on recent years' admission levels, accepted students are generally around level 15.

Jiang Chen's sister Jiang Ruo also rushed straight to level 16 last year before entering Shenlong University.

Now there are seven days left until the college entrance exam, and wanting to reach level 12 in that time is truly not easy.

Above level 15, it's even harder—like climbing to heaven.

In the Luolan Forest instance, the highest monster level is only 9, and as the level gap narrows, the experience gained dwindlesperience gained dwindles.

In the newbie instance, students can only level up to about 8; to go higher, they must grind wild monsters in the outdoors.

But the outdoors are quite dangerous; without a high-level professional leading, newcomers face more peril than safety.

In the end, neither Jiang Chen nor Lu Qingyu teamed up with a support class.

Yue Dapeng chose to team with a shaman priest, which is a highly sought-after support profession.

Its skill buffs also heal teammates.

To improve freshmen's monster‑grinding efficiency, the school also prepared novice weapons for them.

Jiang Chen is a summoner, a magic‑class profession, and he received a plain, unremarkable staff.

Yue Dapeng, as a knight, received quite a bit: a short sword and a shield.

Jiang Chen checked the staff's attributes and found it was just a plain staff with no stat bonuses.

This...

It's basically just a cosplay prop....

As for Lu Qingyu's side, the Lu family in Bai

Yun City is also one of the top major families, so they don't need the school‑issued weapons.

Lu Qingyu pulled out her own weapon, a pink wand.

Jiang Chen blinked slightly; it was obvious he could feel strong spiritual power flowing through the wand.

If nothing unexpected, it's a weapon that enhances spiritual power.

"Jiang Chen, we've been competing for three years; now I still want to see who reaches level 8 first!"

They both know that in Luolan Forest the highest monster level is only 9, so reaching level 8 is already quite an achievement.

She said this, then without waiting for Jiang Chen's agreement, she turned her head haughtily and entered the instance.

"Her competitive spirit is really strong!"

Jiang Chen ignored her and also walked straight into the instance.

Passing through the white energy‑flowing mist gate, they entered the instance.

Different instances have different entrance effect colors.

Like their current newbie instance, the lowest level, which shows a pale white.

Upon entering the instance, before their eyes lay a dense forest, lush and verdant, looking very spectacular.

Towering trees and waist‑high grass patches; many new job‑changers, having just entered, start anxiously looking for monsters, but the lush vegetation makes finding them extremely difficult.

Often they search for half an hour without finding a single monster in such a complex environment.

Many small monsters easily hide in such lush foliage.

Jiang Chen moved his mind and instantly released the four skeleton warriors from his summon queue.

He then directly commanded them to go find and kill monsters.

Crack‑crack, unexpectedly these ragged skeletons looked sickly.

But when they actually moved

their actions were unusually swift and quick.

Their agility attribute has already reached 80; in the blink of an eye, a skeleton warrior spotted an anomaly in the grass.

It raised the axe in its hand and cleanly chopped down.

"Slain Six‑Eared Magic Rabbit, experience +20"

Just entered the Instance, the monsters encountered were only the lowest level, and were instantly killed by the Skeleton Warrior with one axe blow without any suspense.

This is actually quite easy!

Immediately after, another three Skeleton Monsters also swung their blades not far away.

"Kill Six-Eared Magic Rabbit, Experience Value +20"

"Kill Six-Eared Magic Rabbit, Experience Value +20"

"Kill Six-Eared Magic Rabbit, Experience Value +20"

From entering the Instance, less than three minutes had passed when Jiang Chen saw his Experience Bar rise to halfway.

Looks like the efficiency is not bad.

Jiang Chen and Lu Qingyu share the same idea: first quickly raise their own level to 8 in the Newbie Dungeon.

Now it seems, the Skeleton Warrior's high efficiency could allow one to quickly reach level 8.

After checking his Spiritual Power, Jiang Chen waved his staff and quickly summoned another Skeleton Monster.

Now the summoning party has five Skeleton Monsters to slay monsters.

Jiang Chen essentially doesn't need to do anything; just wait to harvest experience.

He simply sat on the ground, began Meditation, and five minutes later golden light burst from his body, and he leveled up.

After another ten minutes, another golden light appeared on his body, and he leveled up again.

Open the attribute panel.

"Name: Jiang Chen"

"Class: Necromancer SummonerOnlyone"

"Level: 2"

"Strength: 20"

"Agility: 20"

"Spirit: 40"

"Constitution: 20"

Summon

Summon Team List: 5/20"

"Skill:"

1、Soul Scorch LV2；

2、Skeleton Revive LV2。」

"Talent:"

1、Perfect Boost LV1；

2、Damage Transfer LV1。」

Seeing the attributes, Jiang Chen's eyes lit up; he didn't expect that after leveling up twice, the attribute changes would be this huge!