Kill one monster, stack one poison, and I alone will poison my way across the world!

The selection process officially began the next day.

A massive teleportation array shimmered with a ghostly blue light in the plaza behind the mountain.

As batches of new students stepped into the formation, the entire square quickly became empty.

After a slight feeling of weightlessness, Su Chen and Lin Shiqing landed in a dense forest.

The air was filled with the smell of damp, decaying leaves, and the distant growls of wild beasts could be heard faintly.

This is the simulation instance used by Sky Dome Academy for the freshman selection competition.

Lin Shiqing patted off non-existent dust from her robes and took out an exquisite staff from her backpack, inlaid with milky-white gemstones and radiating a rich purple light.

It's clearly epic.

Including her epic robe, she now has two epic-level pieces of equipment.

"Hey, Xiao Suzi."

She nudged Su Chen with her elbow and slightly raised her chin. "I haven't been idle these past seven days. I've successfully completed the first transformation."

"Oh? You've already changed jobs?"

Su Chen was idly looking around when he heard this and asked, "What new skills have you learned? Show them to us."

Lin Shiqing snorted softly, her face revealing undisguised smugness.

She raised her staff, and a soft white light shone from the tip of the staff.

Instead of directly targeting Su Chen, she displayed the attributes of her skill panel.

Desperate Refuge

[Mana Cost: 500 points]

[Cooldown: 120 seconds]

[Skill Description: Immediately applies the 'Desperate Refuge' status to a friendly target. The target will enter a state of absolute invulnerability (highest level of judgment, immune to all forms of damage) for 3 seconds. Simultaneously, all control effects on the target are removed, and they enter a forced stealth state, increasing their movement speed by 200%. The stealth state expires upon attacking or at the end of its duration.]

……

Su Chen stared wide-eyed at the semi-transparent data panel floating in mid-air.

Holy crap?

Invincible for 3 seconds, removes crowd control effects, and also grants invisibility and a 200% speed boost?

What kind of god-like skill is this?

This S-rank hidden support class is just too overpowered!

It's even more outstanding than the necklace Su Chen just obtained from the Tower of Babel.

After all, one cannot move while in the invincible state, but Lin Shiqing's skill not only makes her invincible, but also allows her to directly enter an invisible state, and then she can run away at lightning speed.

Su Chen looked at Lin Shiqing's pretty face, which was full of "praise me" written all over it, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

"How about it? Isn't my new skill amazing?"

Lin Shiqing felt incredibly pleased looking at Su Chen's expression.

"If you ever encounter a monster you can't defeat, just yell for help, and I'll save your life."

"Strong... truly strong."

Su Chen sighed sincerely.

Why is this girl's skill pool full of such outrageous things?

First it became invisible, and now it's invincible.

It's a pity we couldn't steal it.

"Alright, stop showing off and let's get to work."

Su Chen suppressed his envious and jealous gaze. "Let's finish our credits as soon as possible and go out for lunch. There's not even a place to sit in this lousy forest."

Lin Shiqing gripped her staff tightly and looked around warily.

"The monsters here are all between level 10 and 25. Let's advance slowly and avoid aggroing too many monsters..."

She hadn't finished speaking.

The bushes in front suddenly shook violently.

Three enormous wild boars, covered in black barbs, darted out.

Blackthorn Boar (Normal Monster)

[Level: 15]

……

Three level 15 monsters are not considered difficult for students who can get into Sky Dome Academy.

As for Su Chen, he didn't even bother to look at the attributes.

He didn't even stop walking, casually waving his staff.

"Snapped!"

A bright bolt of lightning shot out from the staff and struck a wild boar hard.

then.

Lightning swiftly struck the other two wild boars.

"Slap slap slap—!"

The golden lightning bolts bounced nine times between the three wild boars before stopping.

"-6452"

"-5807"

"-5226"

"..."

The damage of the chain lightning decreases by 10% with each tick.

In addition, Su Chen's damage was diluted by the Abyss Crystal, so he didn't deal much direct damage.

But that's enough for level 15 normal monsters.

The Blackthorn Boar, which had been charging aggressively just moments before, lost all its health before it could even let out a scream.

Its massive body was charred black from the electricity, emitting a strong aroma of roasted meat.

[Successfully defeated a level 15 Blackthorn Boar, gaining 150 experience points and 15 academic credits!]

[Successfully defeated a level 15 Blackthorn Boar, gaining 150 experience points and 15 academic credits!]

……

A system notification sounded in Su Chen's ear.

Lin Shiqing's hand, holding the staff, froze in mid-air.

Her mouth was slightly open as she stared blankly at the three puddles of pus on the ground, then looked at Su Chen.

"Where...where did you get this lightning from?!"

Lin Shiqing's eyes widened.

How did Su Chen, who uses poison techniques, start using electricity?

and.

That lightning damage is way too high!

"Making a fuss over nothing."

Su Chen shook his head and smiled.

"..."

Lin Shiqing was speechless for a moment.

After not seeing him for a few days, she understood Su Chen even less.

She had already witnessed Su Chen's insane damage when she was raiding dungeons before, but... that was the damage from a deadly poison DOT.

Su Chen's casual lightning bolt caused such high damage?

"Let's go, these credits aren't even enough to fill a tooth gap."

Su Chenchen carried her staff and walked slowly forward.

Lin Shiqing quickly jogged to catch up, watching Su Chen's retreating figure, and couldn't help but mutter under her breath, "Pervert..."

For the next half hour...

Su Chen led her straight ahead and charged recklessly.

A level 18 Berserker Wolf, a level 20 Poisonous Spider, a level 22 Raging Banshee... all were instantly killed by a single lightning bolt.

They didn't even have a chance to make an appearance.

"We don't have enough credits. We need to find some elite monsters."

Su Chen shook his head as he looked at the slowly increasing credits.

Ordinary monsters grant the same amount of credits and level.

Level 15 monsters give 15 points, and level 20 monsters give 20 points.

Even if you spend a whole day scrolling, you won't get much.

Needless to say, their experience points didn't even register; neither of their experience bars moved.

The only benefit is that it can be stacked.

Just as the two had finished clearing out a camp of enraged banshees and were preparing to venture deeper into the secret realm.

Suddenly, a series of rapid footsteps came from the woods ahead.

Lin Shiqing exclaimed, "Little Su, someone's coming!"