bioinnovel Chapter 37: A Surge in Ability Points, A Horde of Controlled Monsters
Chapter 37: A Surge in Ability Points, A Horde of Controlled Monsters
Total score: 72 points; remaining ability points: 592.
The proficiency with "Thunder Walks Through the Nine Heavens" has also improved slightly.
I used the Sands of Time three times, and my proficiency improved slightly.
The cooldown time of Sands of Time is too long, only 30 seconds, so it can only be used once or twice in battle, and the proficiency increases slowly.
Lin Yuan sat on the roots of a large tree, placed the Purple Lightning horizontally on his lap, and used a soft cloth to wipe the demon bloodstains off the gun.
"It's good that I took this exam. My ability points are increasing rapidly, hahaha." Lin Yuan muttered to himself while cleaning his gun.
After cleaning the gun, he took out his phone and glanced at it.
There's no signal.
The app's map wouldn't load, but he had taken a screenshot before and remembered the general direction.
Further west is the area marked by the red diagonal line: "Entry is strictly prohibited for those above level three."
Lin Yuan put his phone away and jumped down from the tree root.
Just then, he heard a sound.
It wasn't the voice of a monster, it was the voice of a human.
People were shouting, many people were shouting, mixed with the sounds of supernatural powers exploding and the roars of monsters, coming from the east.
That's the direction he came from, the outer area.
Lin Yuan frowned.
The highest level of monsters in the outer area is only Tier 1 Level 7. Although most of the examinees are Tier 1 Level 2 or 3, a team of several people working together wouldn't need to shout like this to deal with a Tier 1 Level 7 monster.
Moreover, judging from the noise, it wasn't just one or two demons.
He hesitated for a second, then shouldered Zidian and sped off in the direction the sound came from.
Lightning-type ability users are unmatched in speed among their peers.
Silvery-white lightning exploded beneath his feet, leaving a trail of afterimages in the dense forest, with trees, bushes, and rocks rushing past on either side.
Three minutes later, he saw the chaotic scene.
In a relatively open clearing in the woods, more than twenty examinees were surrounded by a group of monsters.
The candidates stood back to back in a circle, weapons facing outwards, their faces covered in sweat and dirt, and some had blood on their clothes.
Several monster corpses lay on the ground, but the number of monsters surrounding them was much greater—at least thirty or more.
Monsters that are not of the same race.
There were gray-skinned jackals, blue-maned wolves, thorny boars, iron-spine porcupines, and even a second-tier, level 1 rock-armored lizard.
These monsters, which usually prey on each other, now seemed to be driven by something, and simultaneously attacked the group of examinees.
Lin Yuan's gaze passed over the wolf pack and landed on several familiar faces among the surrounded examinees.
Jiang Ran.
The round-faced boy's school uniform sleeve was torn off, revealing a claw mark on his exposed arm that was still bleeding.
He held a short knife in his right hand, and a ball of lightning gathered in his left palm, much smaller and dimmer than Lin Yuan's lightning.
Chen Mo stood beside him, his earth-elemental power forming a half-person-high earth shield in front of him, the shield surface already covered with cracks.
Song Zhiyi stood in the center, her longbow fully drawn, wind-based powers wrapped around the arrow tips, but she did not release an arrow. Her quiver was empty, with only the last arrow nocked on the bow remaining.
Their locators were still on their wrists, not pressed.
Lin Yuan stood on a branch of a large tree, looking down at the scene.
More than thirty monsters, the highest being Tier 2 Level 1.
He gripped the Purple Lightning tightly.
He made no attempt to conceal his presence, releasing the fluctuations of his lightning-based supernatural power without reservation.
A level 7 peak lightning-type cultivator is a rare find among all examinees in Hangzhou.
At the edge of the open space, the second-tier, level 1 rock armored lizard was the first to sense it.
It suddenly turned its head, its cold, vertical pupils staring in the direction where Lin Yuan was.
Then the second, the third, and the fourth.
All the monsters stopped attacking and turned their heads in unison.
The surrounded examinees also looked in the direction the monster was looking.
They saw the black-haired boy in the tree.
Jiang Ran's mouth dropped open.
"Forest--"
Before he could finish shouting, Lin Yuan had already disappeared from the tree.
Instead of jumping down, a flash of lightning appeared, and he was directly above the rock-armored lizard's head.
With the tip of the Purple Lightning Spear pointing downwards, carrying the force of its descent and the full burst of its lightning-based power, it pierced between the eyes of the Rock Armored Lizard.
"Thunder Moves Through the Nine Heavens - Third Form: Thunderous Movement"
The power of the Master-level Thunderclap is more than double that of the Proficient-level Thunderclap.
Before the rock-armored lizard could even let out a scream, its massive body crashed to the ground.
[Defeat the Tier 2, Level 1 monster, Rock Armored Lizard, and gain +65 Ability Points]
[Points +10]
One blow kills.
The entire room fell silent.
More than thirty monsters, more than twenty examinees—everyone seemed to have been put on pause.
Then Lin Yuan moved.
He didn't give the monster time to react.
Zi Dian spun in his hand, lightning spreading from the spear's tail to its tip, and he transformed into a silver-purple afterimage as he charged into the wolf pack.
With each thrust of the spear tip, a single stab precisely struck a monster.
There were no superfluous movements, no fancy moves; all of them were the simplest and most efficient killing techniques ingrained in his bones after killing hundreds of monsters in the wasteland.
The Sands of Time, activate.
The monsters within a three-meter radius all slowed down their movements by a beat.
Their claw strikes slowed, their bites slowed, and even their terrified roars were drawn out by half a beat.
Lin Yuan's speed remained unchanged. With the deceleration effect of the Sands of Time, the speed of a lightning-type ability user transformed into a silver-purple lightning bolt that reaped lives.
[Slayed a Tier 1, Level 7 Azure Mane Wolf, gaining 42 Ability Points and 5 Points]
[Defeat a Tier 1, Level 8 Ironback Porcupine, gain 45 Ability Points and 5 Points]
[Slayed a Tier 1, Level 7 Azure Mane Wolf, gaining 42 Ability Points and 5 Points]
[Defeat Tier 1, Level 9 Thorn Boar King: +50 Ability Points, +5 Points]
[Slayed a Tier 1, Level 8 Gray-skinned Jackal Leader, gaining 45 Ability Points and 5 Points]
The system notification kept flashing at the edge of his consciousness, like a never-ending barrage of bullets.
Lin Yuan didn't look at it; all his attention was focused on the tip of Zidian's spear.
More than 30 monsters fell, half of them in less than three minutes.
The remaining monsters finally collapsed.
They were not an organized army, but a mob temporarily driven together for some reason.
After Lin Yuan slaughtered the strongest wolves in the pack like chickens, the remaining monsters instinctively chose to flee.
A dozen or so gray jackals and thorny wild boars scattered and fled into the depths of the dense forest, disappearing completely in the blink of an eye.
Lin Yuan did not give chase.
He stood amidst the corpses of monsters scattered on the ground. His nine rounds of bone tempering endurance allowed him to remain calm and composed after the encounter.
He turned around and looked at the group of examinees.
The twenty-odd people maintained their defensive formation, watching him without moving.
No one speaks.