Chapter 50: Despair! Million-Level Heaven-Defying Output!
"Come on~ and hit me~ you stupid~ idiot~!"
The Goblin Giant was gigantic, standing seven to eight meters tall, towering even higher than Lin Yi's Molten Flame Fiend.
The moment it appeared, it opened its oversized mouth and began taunting.
Simultaneously, its right hand gave a friendly gesture universally recognized across both the Blue Star and planet Earth.
Combined with that expression, it was truly begging for a beating!
Lin Yi really felt like complaining about which absolute genius designed this dungeon!
Actually, Lin Yi's assumption was wrong.
All the monsters in this dungeon were modeled after a certain dungeon in reality.
And the Goblin Giant in reality was just this inherently punch-able.
Swish, swish, swish—
The sound of whistling wind rushed around Lin Yi.
The next instant, a green cyclone formed right above the Goblin Giant's head.
The violent wind formed needle-sharp spikes, continuously assaulting the Goblin Giant's skin and flesh.
Fourth-tier Wind Spell: Gale Cyclone!
The reason Lin Yi chose this spell was because, in a prolonged battle, this was the spell with the highest total damage output from a single casting.
[Gale Cyclone]
[Type: Active Skill]
[Tier: Fourth Tier]
[Element: Storm]
[Cost: 4,000 Mana]
[Casting Time: 3.5 seconds]
[Cooldown: None]
[Effect: Channels wind elements to form a massive tornado cyclone, attacking all targets within range and dealing Wind-attribute damage 5 times per second to all targets.]
[Upon hitting a target, the Gale Cyclone will remain stationary and continue spinning, constantly dealing damage. Maximum duration: 30 minutes.]
[Flavor Text: Furious winds, heed my command!]
All fourth-tier spells of elemental specializations.
Were all area-of-effect spells.
This was the characteristic of the Mage class.
The Wind element was no exception.
It was just that the damage of this spell inherited the consistent tradition of the Wind element.-
125!-
136!-
207 (Critical Hit)!
The damage numbers were merely one or two hundred!
Completely incomparable to the Fire element's damage numbers that easily reached the thousands or tens of thousands!
It was like scraping scales!
But it scraped very quickly!
And it lasted for a very long time!
Once summoned, a Gale Cyclone would persist for a full half-hour before dissipating.
For a clumsy monster like the Goblin Giant, which only knew how to stand in place and spit trash talk, it could take the full 30 minutes' worth of damage!
Leveraging this mechanic, Lin Yi continuously summoned Gale Cyclones.
Five, ten, twenty...
The number of Gale Cyclones enveloping the Goblin Giant skyrocketed at a terrifying speed!
Dozens of Gale Cyclones bombarded the Goblin Giant together.
The frequency of damage dealt per second was frighteningly high!
Twenty Gale Cyclones were enough to execute 100 attacks per second!
Such a high attack frequency.
Made the Goblin Giant, which had been frantically trash-talking just moments ago, tremble at the mouth, while its throat seemed jammed like a broken tape, unable to utter a single sound!
Its massive body was also shaking violently, looking both comical and ridiculous.
This scene left countless people at the Examination Affairs Center dumbfounded.
Qi Guoguang even stood up.
Looking at Lin Yi on the screen, his brain was racing furiously!
He still couldn't forget everything he had witnessed over ten days ago when he rushed to reinforce Blue City.
Was it him?
It was him!
Wait, is that right...?
No!
Right, right.
No, no!
In Qi Guoguang's mind, affirmations and negations clashed constantly.
Both dual-cultivated in Fire and Wind.
Both young mages.
Yet one possessed terrifying magic control and was capable of simultaneously casting seventh-tier Fire and seventh-tier Wind magic.
This kid right here, only level 42 and just completed his second class advancement.
Even with the blessing of a mysterious talent.
Could he achieve that?
The odds were far too slim!
However, his intuition as a mage kept reminding Qi Guoguang.
All of this was connected!
Even the incident involving Felicaide, the City of Lost Light, had something to do with this young man!
Yet rationality completely vetoed his guess!
"Elder Qi, what's wrong with you?" Although Li Yuanjing was also astonished that Lin Yi could actually use Wind spells.
After all, he was a class practitioner of the Archer branch.
He didn't know much about mage spells.
Qi Guoguang's train of thought was interrupted by Li Yuanjing, and in the end, he could only shake his head: "Nothing."
"I just had some... rather unrealistic guesses..."
Li Yuanjing wanted to ask more.
But after the third round began, the leaderboard in the upper right corner of the big screen refreshed again after a brief delay.
[Current Round: Third Round]
[Real-time Leaderboard:]
[NO.1, Examinee Lin Yi, Cumulative Damage: 53,696!]
[NO.2, Examinee Qi Xiaying, Cumulative Damage: 11,833!]
[NO.3, Examinee Li Zerui, Cumulative Damage: 10,236!]
[NO.4, Examinee Ding Chuching, Cumulative Damage: 9,691!]
[NO.5, Examinee Fang Ming, Cumulative Damage: 9,527!]
Because this round was based on damage output, the leaderboard updated in real-time.
What remained unchanged was that Lin Yi was still far in the lead.
Leaving a nearly five-fold generation gap between him and second place!
And anyone looking closely would notice that this gap was continuing to widen.
Because as the number of Gale Cyclones increased, Lin Yi's DPS (Damage Per Second) was steadily climbing!
The very second they saw the leaderboard.
Countless people gasped in exclamation once more.
"It's him again!!"
"He's still number one!!"
"Such high damage, what spell is he using?!"
"This kid is actually a dual-cultivation mage!"
"So heaven-defying, how did he get so many skill points!"
"Why isn't he using Fire spells though? Don't Fire spells deal higher damage?"
"Fire spells consume more mana, right? A test of endurance like this definitely prioritizes cost-effectiveness."
Inside the examination dungeon.
More than ten minutes had passed since the start of the third round.
Li Zerui felt like vomiting blood.
In the second round of group burst output, he narrowly lost to Qi Xiaying, and he accepted that.
But for this endurance-testing round, he was determined to win!
Because as an Alloy Super Cyborg, a legendary-class profession, his ammunition was infinite!
It just took time to reload.
As long as he managed his rhythm.
He could guarantee outputting damage anywhere, anytime throughout these thirty minutes.
Without a single pause!
As for other practitioners, by the latter half of this test, they would inevitably experience fatigue, interrupted output, and a state of exhaustion.
Relying on the score from this round, he was confident he could charge to the top of the rankings.
And he knew that Lin Yi, who ranked first in the first two rounds, had formidable burst damage.
So initially, seeing Lin Yi ranked first.
Even with a five-fold gap, he wasn't too anxious.
Because in his view, Lin Yi was merely fierce at the start.
He would definitely flag later on!
Who would have thought—
Right now on the leaderboard.
He was sitting in second place.
Having dealt over 100,000 damage.
Surpassing the third-place Qi Xiaying by nearly 20,000 damage!
And what about first place?
His damage had now broken through one million!
Too damn heaven-defying!
Even if Lin Yi stopped outputting damage right now.
Li Zerui admitted he could never catch up to his damage.
However, the very next second after he plunged into despair.
He suddenly saw on the floating leaderboard in the sky.
The total damage figure of Lin Yi, ranked first, suddenly flickered, and then plummeted from the million-tier damage straight down to zero!
Happy May Day Holiday!
Wishing all friends reading this book flourishing wealth and happiness!
(End of this chapter)