Chapter 50: Stage Two, Increased Difficulty
Lin Moyu’s heart shook. The skeleton warriors stacked up to form a shield-like defensive line, firmly protecting him.
The meteor-like fireballs crashed onto the skeleton warriors, exploding into a dazzling shower of sparks.
Lin Moyu was very clear about his own weakness.
His constitution was too poor. If he took powerful attacks directly, massive damage would transfer to the skeleton warriors.
This would cause the skeleton warriors to take extreme damage.
If the skeleton warriors blocked for him instead, the result would be completely different.
With the skeleton warriors’ powerful constitution and ultra-high defense,
They could almost ignore this level of damage.
Lin Moyu stood behind the skeleton warriors, looking at the beastman troops appearing ahead.
A group of Feline Beastman Mages waved their wands, launching a rain of fire attack.
Large numbers of Feline Beastman Warriors charged forward wielding weapons.
These monsters appeared silently, without any warning.
Lin Moyu’s lips curved into a smile.
No matter how they appeared, it was good they didn’t need to wait for respawns.
The mage monsters in the back kept casting spells, the rain of fire never stopping.
To ensure his own safety, Lin Moyu had 10 skeletons form a shield to block the mage attacks.
At the same time, he sent out 10 more skeletons to engage the beastman warriors.
"Skill!"
At his mental command, the skeleton warriors’ hands lit up red.
Berserk Strike!
With the skeleton warriors’ strength attribute of 5000, using this skill doubled their attack power.
The Feline Beastman Warriors were instantly killed.
Lin Moyu’s palm glowed.
A thunderous roar erupted.
Corpse explosions spread wildly.
The Feline Beastman Warriors fell like cut wheat.
In just a few seconds, over a hundred charging Feline Beastman Warriors were dead.
10 skeleton warriors charged like lightning towards the Feline Beastman Mages.
Their 5000 agility gave them incredible speed.
With such a huge attribute gap, the skeleton warriors left afterimages in Lin Moyu’s eyes.
In the blink of an eye, the skeleton warriors crossed dozens of meters to appear before the Feline Beastman Mages.
Blades rose and fell, killing with one strike each.
The Feline Beastman Mages’ constitution was lower than the warriors’, allowing the skeleton warriors to kill them in one hit.
The fire rain disappeared, and everything returned to calm once more.
While things were peaceful for Lin Moyu, the examiners in the Trial Tower’s control room were still wide-eyed.
After pausing for just over 10 seconds, Lin Moyu’s score rocketed up again.
14,605 points. In less than 10 seconds, his score increased by 6000 points.
This meant another 120 monsters had been killed by Lin Moyu.
These two instances were enough to explain the situation.
"This guy has an area attack skill."
"This career is going to be overpowered. The single-target skills were already abnormal, and the area attack is just as crazy."
"It’s not just the skills that are powerful, the summons are equally strong."
"I think this career has surpassed legendary grade, it can be compared to those few careers."
"We can’t say that yet. After all, he’s still low level. We need to see how it develops later."
Being strong at low levels doesn’t necessarily mean being strong at high levels.
Similarly, being weak at low levels doesn’t mean being weak at high levels.
Some careers are mediocre until they obtain a certain godly skill, then become irreplaceable.
There’s one type of career that’s usually not very useful.
But once war breaks out, they become god-like existences.
All their skills are group skills that affect entire armies.
Having one such career professional in an army can double the entire army’s combat power.
Lin Moyu didn’t know what the examiners were thinking.
At this moment, he heard a rumbling sound.
The entire ground shook several times, as if in an earthquake.
The corpses disappeared in the shaking, as if swallowed by the earth.
An invisible gas arose from the ground, making the air even more bloody, even carrying a stench of corpses.
It was nauseating.
The sky became even more gloomy and dark.
The oppressive atmosphere made it hard to breathe.
"Stage two has begun."
Lin Moyu looked at the sky.
He seemed well-adapted to this atmosphere, showing no aversion.
Perhaps it was related to his career.
The aura of death didn’t make him uncomfortable.
Only the increasingly strong stench was unpleasant to him.
As the ground’s shaking gradually stopped, Lin Moyu had his skeleton warriors surround him, staying alert to all directions.
A few seconds later, footsteps sounded.
"They’re coming!"
Lin Moyu said to himself.
Large numbers of monsters suddenly appeared all around.
The monsters came from all directions, in groups of five forming small teams.
[Feline Beastman Fighter]
[Level: 16]
[Feline Beastman Archer]
[Level: 16]
Each small team had a 3:2 ratio, 3 fighters with 2 archers.
Both fighters and archers were level 16.
At least 40 teams were scattered around.
From afar, Lin Moyu looked like he was surrounded.
After entering the second stage, not only did the monsters’ level increase by one, but their numbers also doubled.
Lin Moyu wasn’t worried about this.
To him, they were just level 16 monsters.
Even without using Corpse Explosion, just 20 skeleton warriors could kill them all given some time.
He was currently pondering another question.
"At this difficulty, other careers would struggle to pass the second stage."
"Even if they could pass, it would take a lot of time."
The difficulty of the first stage wasn’t high in Lin Moyu’s eyes.
With some effort, most career professionals could pass it.
The second stage was much harder. Just increasing 1 level and doubling the monsters was enough to increase the difficulty several times over.
Add to that the appearance of archers, known as mages’ natural enemies.
This change would deter most mage-type career professionals.