Chapter 32: Last time you had me slay a dragon, and this time you're straight up having me kill a god?

Wang Jun looked at the stone wall and noticed that the row of ten rankings for low-level Summoners hadn't changed at all. He turned his head to look at Lu Zheng and sneered:

"You couldn't even make the top ten. Who gave you the courage to be this arrogant? And you dared to shove me! Today I'll teach you bumpkin a lesson!"

At this moment, his underling said even more urgently, "Boss, you're looking at the wrong one. Quick, look at the intermediate Summoner rankings."

Wang Jun looked over at his words, only to see that the name ranked first on the intermediate Summoner damage output leaderboard had conspicuously changed to a different person.

【First Place: Lu Zheng; Level: LV. 59; Total Damage Output: 17,365,988 points】

His eyes instantly went wide, and his lips trembled as he said:

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight — eight, eight digits!? Over seventeen million!"

Wang Jun rubbed his eyes hard. He was certain he hadn't misread it — the first place on the advanced Summoner leaderboard had only over twelve million damage output, yet the person before him, at the level of an intermediate Summoner, had dealt over seventeen million damage!

Even the remainder was over three hundred and sixty thousand — more than his own total output.

Lu Zheng looked at him and smiled, "Brother, thanks for clearing the way for me earlier, so I accept your challenge. But I'm in a hurry, so let's make this quick."

'Thud!'

Wang Jun dropped straight to his knees, clasped his fists, and said, "Big brother, I surrender! Don't hit me!"

Good heavens — his output wasn't even enough to match the other guy's remainder. If they actually fought, wouldn't he be instantly obliterated?! This surrender was decidedly decisive! Lu Zheng grinned, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Alright, then I'll count your challenge as failed. I'm still in a hurry — we'll meet again if fate allows."

Before he even finished speaking, Lu Zheng summoned his Crescent Carving, leapt onto its back, and flew toward an advanced dungeon he had already picked out. He needed to reach level 60 as quickly as possible and start his second Job Change Quest.

After watching Lu Zheng's back disappear, Wang Jun finally wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and was helped up from the ground by his two underlings.

"Good thing I reacted fast, or I really would've been beaten to death. Where did this monster come from? He doesn't look that old — probably about my age — and he's a Summoner too. How did he reach level 59? That's terrifying.

Are there any major aristocratic families surnamed Lu in Jianhua Commandery?"

Wang Jun looked at a guard at the intermediate Mage level beside him and asked.

The man shook his head and said, "Among the great families of Jianhua Commandery, there are none surnamed Lu. He's probably from out of town. This person is very likely a powerful Epic-tier professional who hasn't done his second job change yet. The damage output he dealt is higher than even an advanced Summoner's. Right now, the first place on the advanced Summoner leaderboard is a Rare-tier quality Summoner professional, and even that can't compare to him."

Wang Jun's eyes darted, and he immediately waved his hand, "Let's go, head back first. Have the old man look into it. If he really is a top expert from my same cohort, I've got to seize the opportunity, cling to his coattails, and get him to carry me!"

Lu Zheng had no idea that someone was scheming to cling to his coattails. He had already arrived at an advanced dungeon where the lowest-level monsters were level 65.

Dungeons of this tier didn't even exist outside Liyang City, but here outside the main city, they were very easy to find.

After entering and killing for half a day, Lu Zheng successfully raised both the Three-Tailed Spirit Fox and himself to level 60. In this kind of non-instanced dungeon, he didn't dare release his divine pets now — if he accidentally destroyed another dungeon, that would be far too troublesome.

As the sky grew dark, Lu Zheng placed rare and elite beast pets like the Crescent Carving, Phantom Spirit Cat, and Mystic Ice Turtle into an intermediate dungeon to let them keep grinding for experience through the night, while he himself found an inn to stay at.

Early the next morning, he went straight to the Job Change Temple in Red Guard City.

To his surprise, he saw a familiar face — none other than that fat man from yesterday, Wang Jun!

When Wang Jun saw Lu Zheng, he eagerly came forward in pleasant surprise.

"Boss, are you here for your job change too? You leveled up again in just half a day? As expected of you!"

Lu Zheng nodded and said, "I'm here for my job change, but why are you calling me boss?"

"Hehe! I, Wang Jun, have already been won over by you, boss, so from now on I plan to follow you. Boss, please don't refuse me, okay?"

As he spoke, the fat man actually squeezed out a pitiful expression, which made Lu Zheng feel rather nauseated.

"Cut it out! Don't do that! I'm afraid I won't be able to resist punching you."

Wang Jun immediately dropped the act and said seriously:

"I'll listen to whatever you say, boss — however you tell me to be, that's how I'll be!" Lu Zheng couldn't be bothered to deal with him and waved his hand, saying:

"Don't bother me, I need to accept my quest ASAP."

Saying that, he walked over to the job change station and placed his hand on the Job Change Spirit Altar.

【Detected current professional level: 60. Second job change requirements have been met.】

【Congratulations! You have received a 5-star Hell-difficulty Job Change Quest: Battle! Wrath of the Fire God!】

【Quest Description: In four hours, a Fire God projection will appear on Fire God Island. At that time, the entire Fire God Island will face the wrath of the Fire God Laban. You must fight the Fire God for three hours until the Fire God projection disappears, dealing at least ten million damage.】

【Quest Requirements: Fight the Fire God Laban's projection for 3 hours, dealing no less than 10,000,000 points of damage.】

Holy shit!

A 5-star Hell difficulty again! Last time you had me slay a dragon, and this time you're straight up having me kill a god!?

Is this a joke!?

Deal ten million damage to the Fire God — as if I could even break his defense! And the Fire God projection would appear in four hours, leaving him no extra time to prepare. He'd just have to bite the bullet and go in directly.

Wang Jun, standing to the side, saw Lu Zheng's expression suddenly darken and asked cautiously:

"Boss, my Job Change Quest is on Fire God Island, difficulty level Dangerous 3-star. Where's yours?"

Hearing that Wang Jun was also on Fire God Island, Lu Zheng turned his head and asked in return, "What exactly is your quest, and is there a time limit?"

Generally speaking, to prevent others from sabotaging their Job Change Quest, no one would tell anyone else about their quest.

But Wang Jun only hesitated briefly before answering directly:

"I need to kill a Fire God Guardian, within a time limit of four hours."

Lu Zheng nodded upon hearing this and said:

"Let's go. Finish the quest as quickly as possible, then get out right away. Otherwise, you might not be able to get out."

Wang Jun immediately exclaimed in alarm, "Boss, is your Job Change Quest to destroy the Fire God Island dungeon!?"

Lu Zheng, who had already reached the doorway, paused in his steps and answered without looking back:

"Not quite, but close enough."

He needed to raise Taotie and the Nine-Headed Undying Phoenix's levels as quickly as possible within the limited four hours. As for the monsters on Fire God Island, he'd kill as many as he could — which was basically the same as destroying the entire dungeon.

With his life on the line, he couldn't worry about all that. If the dungeon got destroyed, so be it. After all, he now had a Sage-tier master backing him. After pulling this off, he'd run. Once he successfully advanced, he'd flee to his master's estate — would anyone actually dare to show up at a Sage's estate to demand him!?

Of course, the prerequisite for all of this was that he had to survive first.

Wang Jun was stunned by these words, then hurriedly chased after him, following right behind Lu Zheng, lost in his own thoughts.

Half an hour later, the two entered the Fire God Island dungeon. As a famous leveling dungeon for fire-type Mages, there were quite a few people here.

They headed straight for the core area, reaching the island's center, where they saw a large group of people besieging a dungeon boss, LV. 150 Flame Lord!

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