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

As he touched it, the dark red card transformed into countless streams of light that flowed into his brow.

A semi-transparent pale blue light screen instantly unfolded in front of his vision.

Name: Su Chen

[Level: 1 (0%)]

[Class: Poison Mage (SSS-Rank Unique Hidden)]

【Strength: 5】

[Agility: 8]

[Stamina: 6]

【Spirit: 25】

……

Su Chen's gaze swept quickly across the basic panel.

Without a doubt, the Venom Mage is a mage-type class, with Spirit far exceeding other attributes.

But it jumped directly to 25 points? That's more than double the value of a typical magic-based class.

His gaze then moved down to the core class-specific trait section.

[Profession-Specific Characteristics:]

【Characteristic 1 - All Things Corrode: Any form of attack you make (including normal attacks, spells, etc.) will forcibly apply 1 stack of the undispellable 【Deadly Poison】 status to the target.】

(Note: [Violent Poison]: Deals true damage equal to [Spirit * number of stacks * 1] per second, ignoring armor and magic resistance. Duration: 10 seconds. Current maximum number of poison stacks: 1.)

【Trait 2 - Touch of the Poison God: The target's 【Violent Poison】 stacks are always at maximum.】

[Trait 3 - Doom Absorption: Each time you kill an enemy while in the [Poison] state, your maximum number of poison stacks will permanently increase by 1.]

Upon seeing these three characteristics, Su Chen's pupils suddenly contracted.

He instinctively held his breath.

What the hell!

Is this some kind of skill mechanism that carbon-based life forms could come up with?

Su Chen's brain began to work at lightning speed. His experience of having over 1000 items in his previous life's Stim inventory allowed him to instantly see through the terrifying nature of this profession.

The first characteristic is the forced application of true damage.

With his current 25 points of spirit, if he applies a layer of poison, he can deal 250 points of true damage that ignores defense within 10 seconds.

In this early game where even level 1 monsters only have a couple hundred HP, it means that if the target gets even a scratch, they can just wait to die.

But that's not the most bizarre thing.

What truly made Su Chen's scalp tingle were the second and third characteristics: forcibly stacking the poison layers to the maximum, and increasing the maximum number of layers upon killing!

Killing a monster increases the maximum level by 1.

If I kill a thousand monsters, the maximum level is 1001.

If a thousand layers of poison are stacked to the maximum, it will deal true damage equal to 1000 [Spirit] per second...

Su Chen took a deep breath.

There is no doubt that this profession has a very strong mechanism.

As we all know, true damage is the most realistic damage in the world, and being able to inflict true damage is already considered a god-like ability in terms of mechanics.

But the numbers are even more terrifying!

Unlimited growth brings even more terrifying numbers.

I'm a mechanics freak and a stats freak. Tell me, who can withstand one of my basic attacks in the late game?

Isn't this just plain cheating?

It's worth noting that there are quite a few professions in reality that allow the use of poison. For example, the ordinary combat profession of "Assassin" can also inflict a highly poisonous status on enemies.

However, the poison flow has never been considered strong – it inflicts damage slowly.

Generally speaking, assassins who use poison need to constantly attack enemies to stack up the [Poison] layer.

For example, you could throw a dagger to apply a layer of poison, and then do a backflip to apply another layer.

and.

There are strict restrictions on the number of layers of [Highly Toxic].

In addition, the monsters generally have high resistance to poison, so the final damage was only so-so.

How could those assassins bear to see me being so twisted?

Su Chen took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the wildly upturned corners of his mouth, and closed the panel.

He turned around and looked at the platform.

At this moment, the entire playground remained deathly silent.

Everyone stared at him with either envy or jealousy, as if to say, "You're a shill."

Everyone understands what the only hidden SSS-level class means.

On the high platform, Principal He Kaishan stood in an extremely awkward posture.

He was so excited that he sprang from his wheelchair.

Eyes facing each other.

The air suddenly became quiet.

He Kaishan blushed, coughed violently twice, bent his legs, and tried to quietly sit back in his wheelchair.

"Ouch, this old man's leg..." He Kaishan pretended to rub his knee.

"Principal He," Su Chen strolled leisurely down from the stage, revealing an extremely kind smile, "A medical miracle indeed. If the city's education bureau officials saw your agile figure, they'd probably transfer you to the front lines for inspection and guidance next month, wouldn't they?"

He Kaishan froze instantly as he sat down.

In order to avoid the heavy administrative tasks assigned by the city, he pretended to be paralyzed for several years.

I gave myself away in my excitement.

"You brat!"

He Kaishan glared at Su Chen, then dropped the pretense and cursed in a low voice, "I've protected you for three years, and you dare to mess with me?"

"How could that be?" Su Chen rubbed his fingers together and said with a grin, "It's just that I just changed jobs, and I don't even have decent equipment or starting capital. What if I faint from hunger on the roadside one day and accidentally talk nonsense..."

"Alright, alright! Shut up!"

He Kaishan, annoyed, pulled a gleaming silver card from his storage ring and threw it at Su Chen. "This is a bank card from the Professional Merchants' Guild. There are 10,000 gold coins in it. That should be enough for you to get started, right? Get lost, don't get in my way!"

"Oh dear, how could I accept this?" Su Chen quickly caught the card and put it in his pocket.

The value of gold coins in this world is about the same as that of RMB in my previous life.

The average monthly salary for a worker is around 3000.

Ten thousand gold coins was a huge sum of money for him.

"The principal is so kind; may your legs never be weak again."

"Get out! Get out! Get out!"

Su Chen waved and returned to the group.

Lin Shiqing was looking at him with an extremely complicated expression.

His expression practically screamed "what a pity!"

Su Chen was speechless.

No, young lady, what are you regretting here?!

Are you a pervert?!

"Hmph, you're such a big idiot!"

Lin Shiqing bit her lip, gave Su Chen a playful glare, and said, "Little Su, what kind of effect does your profession have? It's not like those thieves who throw poisoned daggers, is it? The poison flow inflicts damage very slowly. Yours is an SSS-level unique hidden skill, it should be different, right?"

"Yeah, Brother Chen, show us!" Wang Xiaoli chimed in. "Wait a minute, I'll go get a wooden stake!"

Wang Xiaoli quickly brought over a fine iron wooden dummy.

Su Chen also wanted to test the effect of his professional traits, so he raised his hand and aimed it at the wooden dummy.

Whoosh-!

A dark green ball of light struck the wooden figure.

Snapped.

The sound wasn't loud.

A gray damage number floated up above the wooden dummy.

"-25!"

The students who were craning their necks to watch were stunned.

Everyone stared wide-eyed.

"Holy crap?! 25 points of damage? How high is your spirit level, kid?"

"Holy crap, that's just a normal attack, right? And without a weapon at all!"

"..."

Everyone was startled by Su Chen's basic attack.

25 attack points... that's an extremely high number at level 1.

However, before the gasps of astonishment from the crowd could subside...

Suddenly, a strange dark green light emanated from the surface of the ironwood dummy.

Immediately afterwards, a chilling hissing sound rang out.

The incredibly hard ironwood began to melt rapidly, much like ice and snow encountering magma.

Above the wooden dummy's head, crimson damage numbers began to jump wildly!

"-25!"

"-25!"

"-25!"

"..."

It beats once every second, continuously!

There is no resistance that can be reduced!

Ten seconds later.

The ironwood dummy, which originally required a level three warrior to exert all his strength for several hours to break, was reduced to a pile of black residue emitting black smoke.

The entire room fell silent.

Everyone stared wide-eyed at the pile of debris.

"Holy crap..."

I don't know who swallowed first.

"That's a fine ironwood dummy! It has extremely high magic resistance!"

"Damn it, I'm kneeling before the Poison Master!"

"You better stay away from me again, kid. If you get poisoned, you'll suffer terribly!"

"..."

Lin Shiqing's mouth formed an "O" shape as she stared blankly at the pile of wooden stakes that had turned into a heap, unable to utter a word for a long time.

A few seconds later, she pinched Su Chen and said coquettishly, "Are you stupid? Why did you reveal your trump card?"

"It's okay, we're all brothers."

Ignoring the envious and jealous gazes around him, Su Chen put his hands back in his pockets and forcibly suppressed the corners of his mouth.

This is nothing.

This is only one layer of damage.

Once I get back from farming a thousand stacks of my passive in the jungle, I can melt not only the training dummy, but this entire playground!