Chapter 299: Chapter 299

With the mission submission, Du You this time didn’t withdraw immediately, but with a flash of light before his eyes, he arrived in another world.

In the original world, Du You had already dissolved into Spirit Energy Particles and disappeared, reassembling once again in this new world. This world was the same as the previous one, desolate all around with virtually no scenery to speak of.

In front of him was still a machine, but it was a different one this time. The machine was simpler in structure, much like a steel column. Upon closer look, it was evident that it wasn’t made of metal, but some special material.

Unable to discern what this material was, Du You could only refer to the panel.

World: High Exam World - Level Two

Main mission first stage: Please choose from attack, defense, support, and special abilities.

Du You immediately dismissed special abilities as he wasn’t of a unique profession and did not possess any extraordinary capabilities, testing those would be suicidal. As for support, he decided to opt it out as well.

The only support power he had was the unreliable Cursed Crow King that could weaken opponents. It could arguably be effective, but could that really be counted as support?

Only attack and defense were left. His defensive strength was pretty commendable, at least the Shield Spell was considerably powerful. But apart from that spell, he did not have any other spell for defense.

His primary focus was on offense. Despite not possessing a super-powerful Attack Spell, the effectiveness of his spells should be satisfactory. With these thoughts in mind, Du You could only opt for attack.

After his choice, the mainline mission underwent a transformation.

Mainline mission, stage two: Attack the target in front of you. The stronger your attack power, the higher your score.

A simple, straightforward rule, Du You mumbled to himself. There was no time limit anyway and there were no restrictions on his attack type aside from prohibiting the use of tools.

Immediately, Du You unleashed the Mucus Swamp, covering the transformed steel column before him. As soon as he chose ’attack’, the column shot upwards, reaching over three meters, much thicker than two of him combined. Thᴇ link to the origɪn of this information rᴇsts ɪn 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡⚑𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚⚑𝙣𝙚𝙩

The mucus engulfed the column, creating an immediate digit jump to 10 on its surface.

"What does that mean? An attack index? What is it based on?" Du You didn’t understand. The Swamp wasn’t devoid of attack capabilities, after all, it had some corrosive power.

This corrosiveness wasn’t of exceptional strength though, and Du You didn’t know whether this figure represented the corrosiveness or the poison attack. If the poison attack was this low, getting a high score wouldn’t be so easy.

With this thought in mind, Du You released the Fire Snake Curse. The fire snake rolled out and within seconds there was a massive fire. As the fire continued, the number above the steel column shot up. The original number 10 reached 700 at the pinnacle of the fire’s intensity.

"From these figures, it seems that the previous calculation was about the corrosive power. Poison might be powerful but does not include overtly offensive power, perhaps it should be categorized under ’special’ or ’support’."

Fine as his most lethal offense was not the poison, Du You had nobody else to blame.

"Haha, it’s not over yet. Explode for me." With Du You’s command, the nine fire snakes instantaneously exploded. The colossal heat wave forced Du You to back off half a step involuntarily. The figure above shot up in an instant to 2049.

"Over two thousand! Not bad, pretty impressive. This number should be high. Let’s see how my other techniques fare."

Du You didn’t stop but continued testing his abilities. Up until now, he had not found a suitable way to test his various abilities, only being able to estimate based on his conjectures. But now, he could precisely experiment.

Du You waved his hand and cast the Disintegration Spell. Upon landing on the column, the indicator on it began to plunge unexpectedly, finally stopping at 58 and continuing to decrease.

With the fire gone, the number incredibly turned to 0, which was completely inconceivable.

Du You was a bit embarrassed, but it was a good thing he was alone and there was no one else around.

"Impossible, the Disintegration Spell’s power is formidable. Unless it has high magic resistance, its effect can be more powerful than the explosion. Could it be that the column has high magic resistance? No, that’s normal for something with high magic resistance, but it shouldn’t be counted this way. So, it’s possible that the Disintegration Spell does not possess an inherent attack power."

The Disintegration Spell falls under the category of rule-based attacks. It disintegrates the opponent and the target into fragments.

In light of such circumstances, the Disintegration Spell probably does not hold any offensive power and its effect might belong to the special category.

Du You slapped his head, his type seemed rather peculiar. As a Spellcaster, he seemed to always veer toward special development. Always trying to make up for weaknesses and adapt to various scenarios had resulted in him not having any advantages now. If it were not for his high star rating and dual professions, he might have been done for.

Du You reflected inwardly, resolving to exploit his advantages in future. The strength of a profession does not lie in how comprehensive one’s abilities are, but in how prominent their advantages are.

Well, for now, he needed to deal with the High Exam first. He had still got plenty of his spells to test for attack potency.

He waved his hand and the Holy Light Arrow Array unleashed, shooting ninety arrows towards the column. At this close range, there was no way Du You was going to miss.

The arrow attacks caused the number, which had reset to 0, to rise again. The count increased by 100 with the first arrow, but it increased by only 70 with the second one.

"It seems that the calculation is based on the overall destructive power and not the lethal power against the organism. If it were the latter, two arrows are definitely more dangerous than one, but regarding the former, it doesn’t seem to be the case."

As the arrows flew by, Du You was surprised to find that the Holy Light Arrow Array only resulted in a meager figure slightly over 300. This far from reflected the true lethal power of the Array, the difference was too drastic.

"It seems that this exam is purely for evaluating destructive power. It’s not that my skills aren’t powerful, but few of them are purely destructive in nature. Turns out, the High Exam isn’t entirely flawless."

But then again, given its existence for a few hundred years without any alterations goes on to show its significance. His special case was but a rare instance, which doesn’t apply to everyone else.