Chapter 47: Still a One-Hit Kill! Shocking the Examiners for an Entire Year!

Both of them were thinking the exact same thing.

On the massive main screen, the countdown to the start of the second round showed less than ten seconds remaining.

Most of the examinees were already making preparations in advance for the second round.

On the big screen, Li Zerui was standing still, his eyes sharp and filled with extreme focus. All of his weapon systems had already finished charging.

He was simply waiting for the monsters to respawn so he could instantly unleash his firepower!

On the other side, Qi Xiaying was not to be outdone.

At this moment, she had already activated an area-of-effect skill beforehand.

The four-meter radius surrounding her was glowing with a fierce, crimson light.

The moment the monsters appeared, they would instantly be afflicted with the burn effect from this domain, making them much quicker to hunt down.

"That girl from the Lan family seems to have a shot at claiming the top spot this round as well!"

Someone suddenly noticed a corner of the big screen.

It was the live broadcast feed belonging to Lan Ruoyi.

In the footage, the cold and elegant Lan Ruoyi was continuously chanting magical incantations.

Then, stone spheres flashing with a purple light steadily took shape in the sky, hovering above!

"Why are so many stone spheres suspended in the air?"

"She is a rare class advancement from the Mage lineage—a Gravity Mage!"

"Isn't this a Tier 2 skill from the gravity branch?"

"She hasn't even undergone her second class advancement yet, and she's already mastered this kind of spell?"

"This skill gives her such a massive head start. When the monsters respawn, she can just direct those seven or eight stone spheres to crash down at once. The instantly erupted AOE damage is bound to be terrifying!"

Li Yuanjing and Qi Guoguang also noticed this detail.

Their hearts skipped a beat.

You have to admit, with that many stone spheres crashing down, anyone would find it hard to believe if it wasn't considered area-of-effect damage.

Suddenly, the question of who would take first place in this round became completely unpredictable.

Just as all the geniuses of Dongjiang were pulling out all their tricks and displaying their boundless magical powers,

Lin Yi, positioned right on the main screen, stood out by refusing to follow the conventional path!

In the footage, Lin Yi was already sitting on the pristine ground, looking bored out of his mind as he drew circles with his finger.

Lin Yi was genuinely bored.

He had originally thought that the National College Entrance Examination, especially on Purgatory difficulty, would at least be enough to make him take things seriously.

Who would have guessed it would feel like a game played by children?

Twenty Goblins, each with 1,000 HP?

Are you fucking kidding me?

Isn't this something that a single Flame Storm would instantly wipe out entirely?

Any difficulty at all?

And so, he couldn't even be bothered to stand.

He sat straight down on the ground.

Inside the examination command center,

countless prominent figures wore expressions of simultaneous laughter and tears upon seeing Lin Yi's posture.

"This kid... why do I feel like he isn't taking this National College Entrance Examination very seriously...?" Li Yuanjing muttered, staring at Lin Yi in the dead center of the massive screen.

Qi Guoguang also nodded. "Could it be that he doesn't have any AOE methods, and knowing his performance this round will inevitably be poor, he has simply given up on himself?"

As soon as Qi Guoguang's hypothesis was put forward,

it instantly won the agreement of many present.

Although Lin Yi's level was very high.

Although Lin Yi was able to cast Fireball instantly.

Yet, in a scenario like this that demanded the rapid elimination of multiple targets scattered across a large area, he should still find himself stretched thin.

Fireball required aiming!

Even though the newly spawned Goblins would not move,

their spatial distribution was completely random.

If you frantically spammed instant Fireballs, at the very beginning, you might hit your targets without needing to aim much.

Later on, however, you would definitely need to aim to score a hit.

Wanting to wipe out so many Goblins within two or three seconds would already be an impossible task.

When all was said and done, this kid was merely of an ordinary class.

He couldn't even compare to rare classes,

let alone surpass legendary-tier classes.

On the huge screen,

the countdown hit zero.

The next instant,

within every single trial realm, a full twenty Goblins respawned in the blink of an eye.

Li Zerui, who had long been standing by in full readiness, unleashed his firepower without reservation.

The deafening roars echoed endlessly.

Gunsmoke billowed, making the interior of his trial realm resemble some sort of Middle Eastern battlefield.

On the other side, Qi Xiaying's domain had also completely enveloped all the Goblin monsters. At this moment, the passive skills of the Battle Spirit Fighter class triggered frantically.

As long as a certain number of damage instances were dealt to a given monster, a decorative crest would be generated.

The burning effect of her domain, combined with her own close-range, wide-sweeping AOE attacks,

caused the rate at which crests were produced to multiply to dozens of times their previous speed.

Amidst the explosive discharges of countless crests and the scorching state of her domain, her monster-clearing efficiency was not the least bit inferior to Li Zerui's.

Meanwhile, Lan Ruoyi's approach was even more direct.

A full ten stone spheres crashed down with a thunderous roar.

She could already picture the moment in the very next second when her name would appear at the pinnacle of the leaderboard.

However, right at that moment,

an incomparably intense orange-red radiance suddenly erupted across the massive screen of the examination command center.

The brilliance originated from the screen right in the center.

Countless burning heatwaves carrying blazing embers cascaded down from the sky,

slamming fiercely into the bodies of those twenty Goblin monsters!

The next second,

the ground was scorched to a dark, glowing red,

while those twenty Goblins simply vanished, as if they had melted away entirely!

This time, Qi Guoguang found it difficult to remain seated.

His eyes widened instantly.

The leaderboard flickered once more.

[Current Test Round: Round Two]

[Rank: NO.1, Examinee Lin Yi. Time taken to clear Round Two: 0.1 seconds. Score obtained: 1000!]

All the high-ranking officials of Dongjiang stared with unblinking eyes.

"???"

"Holy shit!"

"What the fuck!"

Someone even began swearing openly in front of their superiors.

Their usual image of modest civility instantly shattered completely.

Wiped out instantly!

Another instant kill!

And this time, because Lin Yi happened to occupy the prime central position,

they saw it far more clearly than anyone else.

Almost the exact moment those twenty Goblins respawned,

a storm composed of boundless blazing fire and high-temperature airflow came crashing down with earth-shattering force.

Lin Yi remained seated on the ground.

He didn't even spare those twenty Goblins a second glance.

Everything seemed entirely natural and expected.

With a flick of his hand, destruction descended!

Within the examination grounds, countless examinees also experienced a brief flash before their eyes.

Only to see that a name had once again materialized on the previously blank leaderboard.

It was the same two familiar characters—

Lin Yi!

Followed by an unfamiliar score that defied all logic—

0.1 seconds!!

What the hell! It's him again!!

The battle for the top spot in the second round had lost all suspense the very instant the examination began.

"How the hell is this even possible?!"

"Has some supreme powerhouse successfully reincarnated? Damn it, 0.1 seconds!"

"Lord Lin, please spare us and put away your divine powers! Every time you pull off scores that look straight-up like cheating, my heart just can't take it!"

Countless examinees felt their minds breaking down inside.

At this point, they were even considering lodging a protest with the proctoring authorities.

Could you please stop displaying this leaderboard in the trial realms of us lowly plebs?

Our mental states are going to shatter!

Inside the examination command center, Li Yuanjing stared fixedly at Lin Yi's ranking in the upper right corner of the big screen, along with the score attached to it.

His heart was beating rapidly.

A sudden thought occurred to him.

More than six hundred years had passed since the inception of the Great Xia National College Entrance Examination.

In these six hundred years, had there ever been a single examinee who could achieve such a score in the Purgatory-difficulty second round?

If not...

Was he witnessing a piece of history unfold during his own lifetime?!