"?? A necromancer? Am I seeing things?"
"That's right. Although it's shocking for a very powerful mage to choose the nightmare level, it's also imaginable. However, how could a necromancer dare to choose the nightmare level?"
"Could it be that he's fooled by the fact that the dungeon is the Undead Swamp?"
When they saw that the next person to choose the nightmare level was a necromancer, the surroundings were in an uproar.
It was already very exaggerated for a mage to choose the nightmare level difficulty, let alone a necromancer.
When they saw Lu Yan's name, the surrounding students were stunned again.
"Lu Yan? Do you know this senior? Why haven't I heard of him before?"
"Of course you've never heard of him. This Lu Yan is in the accompanying class and is not from an ordinary class."
"What?! A necromancer and a student in the accompanying class actually dares to choose the nightmare difficulty? This senior is really ambitious."
"What do you mean by that? I think he's just using this method to attract attention. He knows that he can't get any good results as a necromancer, so he's using this method to attract attention. He's just a clown."
The principal of the Fourth High School, Zhang Fengyu, frowned slightly and was very dissatisfied with this behavior of treating the university entrance examination as a performance.
Wang Mude also frowned. Lu Yan was his student and it was not bad for him to be able to awaken a combat profession. Even as a necromancer, Wang Mude still felt that Lu Yan had some potential.
However, why did he choose the nightmare level?
Could it be that he was really trying to get everyone's attention?
However, he remembered that Lu Yan was usually careful and would not do such a thing.
Could it be that he was confident?
Then, Wang Mude shook his head. How was this possible?
The outcome was already decided when a necromancer chose the nightmare level.
He would probably end the university entrance examination by being teleported out from the secret realm.
…
At this moment, Lu Yan slowly opened his eyes and discovered that he had appeared in a swamp.
The surrounding environment was very damp, but there was a small path in the swamp ahead that the two of them could pass through.
On both sides of the tunnel, the dark swamp kept bubbling, emitting a faint stench.
It was the nightmare difficulty!
The attributes of the undead creatures here would be higher than ordinary and difficult. Basically, 99% of the candidates would not choose the nightmare difficulty.
After all, if they could not clear it, their score would be lower than if they had chosen the ordinary level. The risk was too high.
The countdown had already begun. Lu Yan did not hesitate. He took a deep breath and directly walked onto the small path in front of him.
As soon as he stepped on it, a large number of bubbles surged out of the swamp on both sides. Then, two skeleton soldiers appeared from the swamp.
These two skeleton soldiers emitted a dense undead aura. Their bones were white and they held long sabers, giving off an extremely dangerous feeling.
At the same time, the swamp behind him also began to surge, and skeleton soldiers began to reveal their heads.
Lu Yan did not hesitate and directly used his skill, Skeleton Elite.
His mental strength was instantly consumed a little. Then, two skeleton elites appeared under Lu Yan's feet.
Compared to the skeleton soldiers that appeared in the swamp beside him, the skeleton elites that appeared beside Lu Yan were clearly much taller. Moreover, they were wearing old bone armor and held white bone spears.
As he ordered the two skeleton elites to welcome the skeleton soldiers rushing over from both sides, Lu Yan checked the attributes of the skeleton soldiers that had appeared in the surrounding swamp.
[Skeleton Soldier]
[Level: 5]
[Strength: 16, Physique: 20, Agility: 7, Intelligence: 0]
As expected of the nightmare difficulty, the skeleton soldiers that had just come out were already at level 5. Moreover, their attributes were clearly higher than ordinary skeleton soldiers of the same level.
A strength of 16 was already far superior to most candidates. Coupled with a physique of 20, it was enough to make all the candidates despair.
Unfortunately, it was useless!
In front of Lu Yan, all the undead creatures' attack and defense were reduced by half.
In other words, the strength of the skeleton soldier Lu Yan faced was 8 and the physique was 10.
The attributes of the skeleton elites far surpassed the other party. Lu Yan did not even need the undead rage to kill the two skeleton soldiers beside him.
As the two skeleton soldiers died, two streams of light appeared from their corpses and quickly entered Lu Yan's body.
Killing demons could increase his level-up power.
The two skeleton soldiers directly increased Lu Yan's level by one level.
The university entrance examination was actually also a safe environment for the candidates to advance. After all, there was no protection mechanism when killing demon beasts in the real world. They would not be teleported away in the face of a death threat.
This could also be considered a benefit for the candidates.
The candidates could constantly kill demon beasts to level up. Then, they would face higher level demon beasts and finally kill the final demon beast boss to pass the assessment.
Ding… detected that the host has obtained combat experience to level up. As an undead monarch, you can completely control the level-up power. The system will transform your strength into free attribute points for the host to decide.
The voice that appeared in his mind stunned Lu Yan for a moment before a happy expression appeared on his face.
After changing to a combat profession, one could obtain combat experience to level up by killing demon beasts.
However, the distribution of the level-up power was automatic. According to the different professions, the focus would also be different. For example, when a warrior leveled up, the level-up power would prioritize on strength and physique. On the other hand, intelligence was prioritized for mages.
Of course, this was not absolute. The level-up power would be distributed differently every time and was uncontrollable.
However, Lu Yan could transform the level-up power into free attribute points and then freely assign them!
In this way, he could completely make up for his shortcomings and increase his strength.
Soon, Lu Yan could sense that he had four free attribute points and one skill point.
Every time he leveled up, he would obtain four free attribute points of strength and one skill point. After reaching the second level, the number of free attribute points and skill points he obtained would increase.
However, ordinary people would not be able to choose how the points were assigned. Lu Yan could choose for himself.
This was a huge advantage.
However, the increase in attributes was not only dependent on the level-up power obtained from leveling up, but also on the usual training and resources.
Therefore, there were cases where one would have higher attribute points despite having a lower level.
It was the same for skill points. One could rely on comprehension and training to increase their skill proficiency. One did not need to only rely on skill points to increase their skills.
After all, this was reality and not a game.
Lu Yan retracted his thoughts and ordered the two skeleton elites to attack the surrounding skeleton soldiers as he thought about how to increase his attributes.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Yan directly invested all his free attribute points into his strength.
The reason why he spent all his free attribute points on his strength was mainly because he did not have any killing skills now and it would not be effective to invest them into intelligence.
Moreover, he had the Undead Netherworld Armor and had enough defense. Now, he mainly considered the problem of attack power.
After all, the final boss was very difficult to kill. Moreover, it was a nightmare level boss.
If he wanted to kill the boss quickly, he had to increase his attack strength.
Lu Yan's current attack skills were only the Skeleton Elite and the Undead Rage. He did not have a direct attack skill. Therefore, it was better for him to directly increase his strength and attack strength.
In any case, the undead monarch cultivated both physical and magic.
[Strength: 15]
[Physique: 13]
[Agility: 12]
[Intelligence: 20]
After spending the four free attribute points, Lu Yan's strength directly became 15. Then, Lu Yan added the one skill point to the Skeleton Elite.
For the first three levels, leveling-up a skill only required one skill point. However, after level three, according to the difference in grade, more skill points were needed to increase the level.
Therefore, adding the skill points to the two skills he had just obtained, Skeleton Elite and Undead Rage, was the best choice now.
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows as he looked at the wooden staff in his hand. Then, he directly picked up the wooden staff and arrived behind the two skeleton elites. He began to attack the skeleton soldiers in front of him with the wooden staff in his hand.
In any case, he did not have any other attack skills and could only fight personally.
Lu Yan's current strength had already reached 15, and his attack was also very impressive.
As the skeleton soldiers in front of him were killed, Lu Yan kept leveling up and quickly reached level 5.
Lu Yan spent all the free attribute points he obtained to his strength.
Soon, Lu Yan's strength reached 31!
Generally speaking, when candidates advanced in the university entrance examination, their physical attributes would increase more evenly. In this way, they would have more room for error when facing the demon beasts behind them.
However, Lu Yan did not consider this at all.
He only had one consideration, which was the number of undead creatures he killed and the speed at which he cleared the level.
Therefore, without any other attack skills, Lu Yan directly piled up the strength attribute.
As for the Skeleton Elite skill, it had also been increased to level 3 by Lu Yan and the Undead Rage had been increased to level 2.
[Skeleton Elite (level 3): Summons two Skeleton Elites to fight for you. Skeleton Elite Attributes: Strength: 18, Physique: 20, Agility: 8, Intelligence: 0 (Skeleton Elites die in battle and enter cooldown. Cooldown time: 5 minutes.)]
[Undead Rage (level 2): Instantly doubles all attributes of controlled undead creatures, lasts for 40 seconds, and increases the movement speed of charging undead creatures by 35%. (Cooldown time is 3 minutes.)]
With the improvement of both skills, it was even easier for the current skeleton elites to face the skeleton soldiers in front.
Lu Yan himself was even more terrifying. At the beginning, he needed to hide behind the skeleton elite and attack with a wooden staff. Even with the help of the skeleton elite, he could only kill a skeleton soldier after several attacks.
Now, Lu Yan only needed to raise the wooden staff in his hand to send the skeleton soldiers in front flying and kill them.
After all, Lu Yan's strength had already reached a terrifying 31!
Coupled with the fact that his talent skill, Undead Intimidation, had reduced the other party's defense by half, those skeleton soldiers were as fragile as paper in front of Lu Yan.
More and more skeleton soldiers appeared in the swamp in front of him. Dozens of skeleton soldiers directly rushed towards Lu Yan.
"Perfect timing!"
Lu Yan got the skeleton elites to defend against the skeleton soldiers on both sides. He only stepped forward and waved the wooden staff in his hand like a long sword.
Bang!
Crack!
A violent muffled sound sounded. The skeleton soldiers gathered by the wooden staff gritted their teeth and their bodies directly shattered.
The six skeleton soldiers were instantly killed by Lu Yan!
Soon, Lu Yan passed through a section of the Undead Swamp in front of him, and skeletons scattered behind him.
Unfortunately, these skeleton soldiers did not have soul power. Otherwise, his other talent skill, the Netherworld Soul Devouring, could be used.
At this moment, the swamp in front of them had already turned green and gray. The skeletons that surged out were covered in green and gray moss, but their auras were even stronger.
[Skeleton Captain]
[Level: 7]
[Strength: 25, Physique: 20, Agility: 8, Intelligence: 2]
[Skill: Bone Poison: Creatures attacked by the skeleton captain will be poisoned by the Bone Poison, causing the body part to turn into bones. Defense decreased by 10.]
Lu Yan's enemy was no longer the skeleton soldier but the skeleton captain. Its strength was a lot higher and it also had more skills.
However, Lu Yan was happy to see that the other party's intelligence was 2.
With the intelligence attribute, it meant that the other party had soul power. His other talent skill, the Netherworld Soul Devouring, could now be used.
Lu Yan rushed forward impatiently, wanting to test his talent skill, the Netherworld Soul Devouring.
Lu Yan quickly rushed out and directly arrived in front of a skeleton captain who had yet to crawl out of the swamp. He raised the wooden staff in his hand and directly smashed it onto the other party's head.
Bang!
The head of this skeleton captain that had yet to completely crawl out flew out. Its body that appeared from the swamp froze for a moment before stopping.
Another instant kill!
A wisp of fluorescence appeared from the skeleton captain's body and entered Lu Yan's body.
At the same time, a gray aura also appeared from the skeleton captain's body and quickly entered Lu Yan's body.
Ding ~ Congratulations to the host for successfully obtaining soul fragments (2/100). After gathering the soul fragments, you can obtain the soul crystal.
"Soul crystals can be used to increase one's exclusive skills and weapons. They can also increase one's strength. They're an important resource for the undead monarch."
Hearing the voice in his mind, Lu Yan touched his chin.
It turned out that the 1% of the other party's strength he had obtained was manifested in the form of soul fragments.
Previously, Lu Yan had thought that he would directly obtain 1% of the other party's four attributes.
Exclusive skills and exclusive weapons? He wondered when he could obtain them.
Killing one skeleton soldier could allow him to obtain 2% of the soul fragments needed for a soul crystal. This meant that he needed to kill 50 skeleton captains to condense a soul crystal.
Of course, if he killed high level demon beasts and obtained more soul power, he would obtain more soul fragments.
Lu Yan's thoughts surged before he shook his head.
Forget it, he had to clear the level first.
Lu Yan summoned the two skeleton elites. With the wooden staff in hand, he began to kill the surrounding skeleton captains constantly, wanting to speed up the clearing.
What Lu Yan did not know was that the scene of him clearing the level had already been broadcasted live and had attracted the attention of all the teachers and students.
In the eyes of the other teachers and students, Lu Yan was only a necromancer.
In their eyes, he was a necromancer holding a wooden staff and fighting at close range with a wooden staff against the undead skeletons.
This was simply the most ridiculous thing they had ever seen.
What was even more ridiculous was that this guy was really effective.
Perhaps because he had already gotten familiar with it, this guy actually directly killed an undead skeleton with a wooden staff.
It simply seemed as easy as cutting vegetables.
The teachers and students of the entire school were in a mess when they saw this.
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