Chapter 46: The Night Before the College Entrance Exam, Grinding Hard to Pull Three Divine‑Grade Spirit Pets!

As someone who slays dragons before betraying gods, Lu Zheng has absolutely no interest in these level‑100 boss‑quality monsters.

Back when he hadn't changed professions yet, amid the beast tide, he personally stepped in and single‑handedly killed a level‑100 boss‑quality monster, the Torch Demon Monkey, in an instant; now a creature of this caliber is as easy for him to crush as pinching an ant! Yang Dong and Dan Tai Mingyue were clearly frightened when the level‑100 instance BOSS Terrifying Knight appeared, and now facing such a being they are certainly not a match.

Just that sense of oppression already prevents them from unleashing their full combat power.

As a result, the monster they regarded as a flood‑like beast was instantly slain by a single strike from Lu Zheng's summoned beast, which shocked them immensely!

We're all the same age!

How can the gap between people be so huge? "Boss, how many levels are you at now? You can't already be at third transformation, can you?!"

Yang Dong asked with a shiver.

Dan Tai Mingyue also showed a curious look, but Lu Zheng merely smiled and gave no answer.

"Open the chest!"

Ding! You successfully killed the level‑100 instance BOSS Terrifying Knight, completed the quest, and earned the title 'Death Conqueror'.

Ding! You obtained a golden chest ×1.

Title: Death Conqueror.

Effect: Killing Undead‑type monsters has a 5% chance to restore a certain amount of HP; Spirit +100, Constitution +200.

As Lu Zheng expected, the title is rather ordinary; after all, everyone in the raid gets it, it's easy to obtain, just a standard level.

Titles come in different colors according to rarity: white, crimson, silver, gold, purple‑gold, and black‑gold—six tiers. The Death Conqueror is merely a white‑rank title.

The base attribute boost is minimal, and the HP‑restore chance is extremely low, so the effect is weak; being white‑rank is normal.

Nevertheless, every title is hard to come by; even a white‑rank title isn't something just anyone can get.

Take this instance as an example: a boss‑quality level‑100 instance BOSS is still somewhat difficult to defeat even for a team of ten hundred‑level elite professionals.

Open the chest!

Lu Zheng came here not for the title but for this chest; more precisely, for the team‑support skill book that might be inside.

When the chest opened, there were three items, and Lu Zheng immediately spotted the skill book inside.

Skill Book: Critical Hit Aura.

Effect: Consumes at least 1000 mana to release a Critical Hit Aura on a single target; while active, each attack has at least a 10% chance to crit, dealing an additional 100% damage.

The 10% crit chance is a minimum; increasing mana consumption raises the chance, up to a maximum of 50% at 10,000 mana.

That's pretty good, equivalent to landing a crit twice; the damage output is absolutely explosive!

It can be called a Divine Skill.

With this, the trip was not in vain! After taking the skill book, he looked at the remaining two items.

Item: Undead Plane Pass.

Effect: Possessing this allows entry into Undead Plane instances of Saint level or higher.

This thing is just a credential; keep it for now, it might be useful later.

Item: Terrifying Knight Summoning Scroll. Effect: Upon use, summons a level‑100 Terrifying Knight to fight for you, lasting three hours before dying.

Useless junk.

The only use of this scroll for Lu Zheng is to sell it for money, and he never had any other expectations.

Lu Zheng took all the chest's contents for himself, while Dan Tai Mingyue and Yang Dong merely glanced at them.

As Lu Zheng had said at the start, the two just came along to snag a title; whatever is in the chest has nothing to do with them.

So Lu Zheng took everything away, and they said nothing.

Leaving the instance, they returned to Fengdu City and continued leveling.

Four days later, today being the first and final day before the college entrance exam, Lu Zheng split from Dan Tai Mingyue and the others in the afternoon and entered an instance alone.

It's been over twenty days without a satisfactory new summoned beast; tomorrow is the exam, so today he will run a hundred thousand summons to see if he can get something good.

Consume 100 mana, successfully activate the Advanced Summoning Technique, congratulations you obtained a one‑star common beast pet 'Blazing Rabbit' ×1…

Consume 100 mana, successfully activate the Advanced Summoning Technique, congratulations you obtained a two‑star elite beast pet 'Steel Helmet Exploding Bear' ×1…

All of a sudden, dusk fell; Lu Zheng had performed over ninety thousand summons, his spirit exhausted beyond measure, yet a fire burned inside him that refused to give up. He would keep going; if he didn't get a satisfactory summoned beast today, he wouldn't go back…

Suddenly, three melodious sounds, like celestial music, rang in his ears one after another.

Consume 100 mana, successfully activate the Advanced Summoning Technique, congratulations you obtained a three‑star Divine‑grade spirit pet 'Cloud‑Rising Crane' ×1 【Hidden talent 'Summon the Gods' passive effect 2 triggered, you gained the skill 'Ride the Clouds and Command the Mist'】.

Consume 100 mana, successfully activate the Advanced Summoning Technique, congratulations you obtained a four‑star Divine‑grade spirit pet 'Six‑Wing Frost Wug' ×1 【Hidden talent 'Summon the Gods' passive effect 2 triggered, you gained the skill 'Ice Seal Ten Thousand Miles'】.

Consume 100 mana, successfully activate the Advanced Summoning Technique, congratulations you obtained a three‑star Divine‑grade spirit pet 'Twin‑Head Mystic Ice Jiao' ×1 【Hidden talent 'Summon the Gods' passive effect 2 triggered, you gained the skill 'Raging Sea Surge'】.

Three Divine‑grade spirit pets!

Lu Zheng's previously languid spirit suddenly surged with boundless excitement; after a hundred thousand summons, his hard work was not in vain, and it wasn't for nothing that he had been listening to the broadcast until his ears were ringing; finally the drop came! Moreover, he got three in one go.

The feedback granted three skills; 'Ice Seal Ten Thousand Miles' and 'Raging Sea Surge' are clearly AoE damage ultimates, and with these two abilities, Lu Zheng can act as a mage and no one would doubt it.

Meanwhile, the 'Ride the Clouds and Command the Mist' one is rather interesting.

Skill: Ride the Clouds and Command the Mist.

Effect: Consumes a certain amount of mana to create and command clouds and mist, which can be used for flight, defense, or attack.

This is truly a vague skill: the mana cost is unknown, its uses unclear; it can be used for flight, defense, or attack. In short, with this skill, spending mana lets you control clouds and shape them however you wish! Lu Zheng loves this skill, falling for it the first time he used it.

Nothing else—it's just very classy!

With this skill, he becomes a man who comes with his own entrance effect.

The sky roared, the clouds burst, and Lu Zheng made a dazzling entrance! It's exactly the legendary aura of a deity descending; the other effects can wait, the coolness is all‑in.

With three Divine‑grade spirit pets and such an explosive skill, Lu Zheng finally returned home satisfied, awaiting tomorrow's college entrance exam!

It's just the college entrance exam, something he can ace in minutes.

(End of Chapter)