CHAPTER 32: CHAPTER 32: MAGEBANE, A MAN’S ROMANCE

Fang Zhou gave a command, and 40 skeletons charged towards the flimsy wooden fence of the Little Inferior Demon camp.

The three Little Inferior Demons huddled behind it looked at the sea of skeletons in despair.

Two of the Little Inferior Demons with tridents roared and rushed towards the skeletons destroying the fence.

Meanwhile, the Little Inferior Demon with a stone throwing rope tried to shoot at Fang Zhou, but its stone projectiles were effortlessly blocked by Fang Zhou’s Skeleton Shield.

Soon, the wooden fence was completely destroyed by the 40 skeletons.

The three Little Inferior Demons were fully exposed to Fang Zhou’s sight.

Fang Zhou smiled coldly and snapped his fingers. To clear the level quickly, he didn’t waste time with these three Little Inferior Demons.

Skeleton Shackles!

Skeleton Flying Spear!

It was another familiar set of consecutive Skeleton Series moves.

In the midst of pitiful howling, two Little Inferior Demons were easily pierced to death by the Skeleton Flying Spears.

The last one was submerged by the sea of skeletons, torn apart alive.

Amidst the clattering sounds, the Little Inferior Demon camp was thoroughly dismantled.

"Task completed in 2 minutes and 20 seconds, clearing evaluation [Perfect], reward of 4.5 contribution points."

"First completion of [Little Inferior Demon Camp] difficulty level, first clear reward: 6 contribution points."

"Congratulations Fang Zhou Junior Sergeant, you are the first in your grade to clear the [Little Inferior Demon Camp] difficulty level. You have received the grade’s first clear ranking reward of 15 contribution points, and earned the achievement blessing: Simulation Battlefield loot drop rate +1% (accumulated 4%)."

"Congratulations Fang Zhou Junior Sergeant, for clearing the [Little Inferior Demon Camp] difficulty level in 2 minutes and 20 seconds, placing first on the historical speed ranking. Expected reward for the month: 9 contribution points."

"Loot drop triggered, received [Fireball Skill] Skill Book*1, redeemable for 10 contribution points."

"After waiting for 5 minutes, you may continue challenging the Abyss Difficulty."

A series of pleasant notifications echoed in Fang Zhou’s ears.

Fireball Skill? Fang Zhou was mildly delighted, a skill book had actually dropped!

This skill book is the signature skill of the [Flame Mage], known for its flame damage and explosion damage.

He wondered if his [Skeleton Flying Spear] could absorb its explosive attribute?

With doubt, Fang Zhou looked at his own attribute panel and was pleasantly surprised to find a prompt on the skills bar.

"Detected sufficient skill materials to enhance the skill, expected to consume 10 points of soul power."

"Proceed with enhancement?"

Fang Zhou immediately confirmed.

In a burst of inspiration, Fang Zhou quickly mastered the casting principle of the [Fireball Skill].

Although he couldn’t learn [Fireball Skill] due to profession restrictions, he could absorb its essence into his own skills.

Attribute panel, run the simulation for me!

"Skill enhancement for [Skeleton Flying Spear] successful!"

[Skeleton Flying Spear] (Apprentice level, Mastery): Condenses a Skeleton Flying Spear to throw at enemies, dealing armor-piercing physical damage, corrosive poison damage, and death energy damage. Explodes upon hitting the enemy, with quantity, power, range, etc., based on Spirit Attribute and Skill Proficiency.

The Skeleton Flying Spear gained the attribute "explodes upon hitting the enemy," enhancing its damage capability.

Explosions are a man’s true passion!

Fang Zhou nodded satisfactorily, adding the net gain of 34.5 contribution points from clearing the level made a hefty profit!

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"Look! Fang Zhou has cleared the difficulty level again!"

"2 minutes and 20 seconds? He’s practically inhuman!"

"Ye Fan and Meng Hongzhuang are still attempting the normal difficulty, while Fang Zhou is about to challenge the Abyss Difficulty."

"Let me watch Fang Zhou’s battle recording. My god, three Little Inferior Demons?! And they even use defensive structures? If it were me, it might take another few months to clear it!"

"Ye Fan also finished, taking 5 minutes and 10 seconds on the normal difficulty, which is much slower than Fang Zhou."

"Is it possible that it’s not Ye Fan being weak, but Fang Zhou being too strong? Those of us who haven’t even cleared the normal difficulty should just worship those gods from down here."

Just as Fang Zhou anticipated, most first-year trainees could manage to kill the severely injured Little Inferior Demons with all their might, clearing the simple difficulty.

Upon clearing the simple difficulty, they witnessed Fang Zhou swiftly clear all three difficulties, continuously dominating the grade’s first clear leaderboard and historical speed leaderboard, placing first.

These dazzling achievements unknowingly raised the psychological expectations of the new trainees, creating the illusion of ’if I were in their position, I could do it too.’

However, the furious Little Inferior Demons would strike back.

Facing the undamaged Little Inferior Demons at normal difficulty, the elimination rate significantly increased.

Among nearly ten thousand freshmen, fewer than a thousand had the hope of clearing normal difficulty.

Under the trident strikes of the Little Inferior Demons, these somewhat overconfident trainees calmed down.

Even the most arrogant ones had to begrudgingly admit that Fang Zhou’s strength was far superior to theirs.

Meanwhile, on the simulation battlefield, Fang Zhou was gearing up to challenge the Abyss Difficulty.

After paying 4 contribution points as a ticket, he stepped into the Teleportation Gate.

"Task: Kill the Little Inferior Demon Scout Team, destroy the Little Inferior Demon Camp."

Fang Zhou looked ahead, and despite being mentally prepared, he was slightly surprised.

Ahead, in the more solid camp, 8 demons were on high alert.

Among them, 6 were Little Inferior Demons wielding tridents, and the other two were a new breed.

On the arrow tower behind the wooden fence, two short and sturdy figures were standing there.

They held large obsidian magic balls in their hands, their skin black and polished, woven with dark red veins.

Although their facial features were juvenile, their eyes were like abyssal vortexes, shimmering with deep, cold red light.

Upon seeing these signature appearances, Fang Zhou immediately recognized them, they were [Abyss Demon Children].

These Abyss Demon Children could absorb the Spiritual Power of Mage Professionals and release Desecration Beams with strong penetration, a noble caster unit, occupying a higher position in the Abyssal Demon Army than Little Inferior Demons.

Upon seeing Fang Zhou, those two Demon Children bared grim smiles.

They pointed at Fang Zhou, spewing filthy Abyssal language, and the obsidian magic balls in their hands glowed with desecrated black light.

Fang Zhou felt a chill run through his body, as if his Spiritual Power had suddenly decreased by a tenth.

He immediately realized the difficulty posed by these two Demon Children.

He had to attack aggressively, preventing these two Demon Children from absorbing more Spiritual Power.

Fang Zhou hesitated no more and decisively waved the Magic Staff, summoning 40 skeletons.

Seeing Fang Zhou’s actions, the two Demon Children shouted and frantically shook their obsidian magic balls.

Then, two foul-smelling beams shot from the magic balls towards Fang Zhou.

Fang Zhou immediately summoned a Bone Shield, intercepting the Desecration Beams’ trajectory.

Crackle!

Amidst intense corrosive sounds, the Skeleton Shield barely held off the two Desecration Beams.

Next, Fang Zhou swiftly launched two Skeleton Flying Spears.

Anticipating this, the two Demon Children ducked, and the Skeleton Flying Spears struck the arrow tower.