Chapter 67: Slaying the Golden-Winged Roc King! The Attention of the True Higher-Ups of the Great Xia!

"Damn, this kid..."
"Huh?"
"Is this summon really only level 1?"
"That doesn't make sense. Why is this summon's combat technique so exquisite? To put it bluntly, Huzi, her swordsmanship and evasive maneuvering are better than yours, aren't they?"
"Shut the hell up!"

The person addressed as Huzi was a warrior-class professional under Li Qianye.
Li Qianye himself was a seventh-tier assassin-class professional.
The people under his command were also the elite of the elites.
Especially Sun Hu, whose combat skills could be called the absolute peak among the peak.
He had even achieved a terrifying thirty-six-game winning streak in the army-wide martial arts tournament.
He was practically invincible among peers of the same tier, and fully capable of fighting across tiers.

At this moment, Sun Hu stared at Lin You on the screen.
His expression couldn't be any more solemn.
His hands were trembling slightly.
On one hand, as a fellow melee professional wielding a sword and an expert himself, seeing Lin You's combat performance inevitably ignited his competitive fighting spirit.
On the other hand, when he mentally placed himself in the scenario, he realized that if he were to engage in a one-on-one duel with this summon, he honestly wouldn't be able to gain any upper hand in the short term!
Especially if he refrained from using various high-tier skills and relied purely on swordsmanship, he truly had no confidence in securing a definitive victory!

Seeing Sun Hu's reaction, Li Qianye felt a trace of shock in his heart.
He glanced at Lin Yi again.
If this undead summon did not possess independent consciousness, then the truly terrifying one was the young man before him!
Without independent consciousness, the one controlling the summon in combat was naturally the summoner himself.
Yet Lin Yi actually possessed such terrifying combat finesse!
This was impossible to develop without going through thousands of battles!
And the most crucial point was: his class was a mage!
He was not a warrior!
This kid was a bit too monstrous...

...

Imperial Capital, Ministry of Education.
The top floor.
The massive conference hall was solemn and dignified.
However, there were very few people inside the hall.
Even though Li Qianye was the chief examiner of this examination and held a high military rank, he was not qualified to be seated here.
Those who were qualified to sit here were figures who could make the entire Greater Xia professional community tremble with a single stomp of their feet.
The main seat in the conference room, along with the circle of seats surrounding it, remained completely vacant.
Because even the people qualified to sit here at this moment were not qualified to occupy the main seat or the observation seats directly beside it.

In the first two positions of the second row sat a middle-aged man in a black suit, alongside an elderly man with a stooped posture, a white beard and hair, and wearing a traditional Zhongshan suit.
The two of them looked at the screen displaying Lin You's battle with the Golden-Winged Roc King couple, yet their expressions did not reveal much astonishment.
Having stood at high altitudes, their horizons were naturally different.

"Is this handsome young man also the first place of the first four rounds of this examination?"
Though advanced in age, the old man still retained a majestic air between his brows.
He raised the sandalwood cane in his hand and pointed at Lin Yi, who was standing quietly in the corner of the big screen.

The suit-clad man sitting beside the old man revealed an elegant smile and said softly, "Yes, Elder Meng. His name is Lin Yi, hailing from Dongjiang Province, tied for first place alongside Xiaoyu Yan and Lu Yu whom you favored earlier."
"He's a mage-class professional, right? I see that this must be some kind of undead-type summon." Elder Meng said with sharp insight.

The elegant man in the suit nodded. "Yes. The magic specializations he has currently displayed reach as many as four distinct systems. In the previous four rounds, he demonstrated specializations in the fire, wind, and ice elemental systems, and the spell tiers he employed were quite high—all above the fourth tier."
"This handsome young man is not bad. Although he is just a common-tier professional, his professional specializations haven't fallen behind. He definitely hasn't slacked off in his daily training. Perhaps this year, he really has a chance to seize the crown."

The elegant man sitting beside Elder Meng merely chuckled softly. "Oh? Does Elder Meng hold him in such high regard? However, judging by what he has displayed so far, I'd say he's merely passable. He might have a chance at the top ten, but the top three? Impossible. Compared to Xiaoyu Yan and Lu Yu, his class is simply too far inferior. And as far as I know, not only are those two Epic-tier professionals, but their skill specialization levels have even broken through past the fifth tier!"

The elegant man was named Xiao Xuanyi.
He was primarily responsible for the annual national college enrollment approval work for top-tier professionals.
Although his official rank had not reached the sub-national level, he was still at the departmental bureau level.
Having been engaged in this line of work for a long time, his eyes were exceptionally sharp.
He had witnessed far too many geniuses.
To be honest, compared to those true monsters, this Lin Yi was nothing more than this.
He didn't understand why Elder Meng favored Lin Yi so much.
In short, he held a different opinion.

Elder Meng did not refute, merely chuckling softly as well, and continued to gaze intently at the battle on the big screen.
While the two prominent figures were "discussing heroes over brewed wine," the countless high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Education seated behind them did not dare to make a sound.
After all, this was not the proctoring room of Dongjiang's No. 1 Examination Center.
Serving in this place called for extreme caution in word and deed.
Since the big shots hadn't asked any questions, keeping one's mouth shut and not saying a single unnecessary word was always the right choice!
However, they naturally had their own views as well.
Their vision wasn't as lofty as Xiao Xuanyi's and Elder Meng's.
In their eyes, Lin Yi was already utterly absurd...
One had to remember, this was merely a level-1 summon!

Just as Elder Meng and Xiao Xuanyi were discussing amongst themselves, inside the dungeon, the battle situation took a sharp turn downward.
Of course, what plummeted sharply were the Roc couple.
Both Bosses had entered a berserk state, which under normal circumstances would only trigger when their health dropped below 50%.
However, Lin You's previous act of decapitating their chick with a single sword strike had driven them into a towering fury, causing them to enter the berserk state naturally from full health.
In the berserk state, their attack frequency and damage output increased drastically.
Yet this detestable human summon before them was frustratingly slippery.
It might take a hundred attacks for them to land a single hit.
And even when they did hit, the injuries she sustained seemed negligible; her movements remained agile and swift.
On the other hand, every time they suffered damage from the undead sword Qi, it caused both Roc Bosses to wail in agony!
That was a pain that life could hardly bear—heart-wrenching and piercing straight into the soul!

Therefore, although merely three minutes had elapsed since the start of the battle, the condition of the two roc birds had already deteriorated drastically.
Sensations of dizziness and exhaustion continually assailed them.
What they didn't know was that although their health bars were still in the healthy zone above 70%, their soul health had already entered Lin You's execution threshold!

Two more flashes of black-glowing undead sword Qi sliced through the air, accurately striking the waist and abdomen of the two helpless Roc Bosses.
Two shrill, echoing cries of the North Abyss resounded across the entire Northern Territory snow mountain.
Countless beasts and flying birds trembled in terror!
They sensed that the overlords of this snow mountain had fallen just like that!

In Lin Yi's field of vision, the health bars of the two Roc Bosses, still more than half full, were emptied at the speed of light!
Subsequently, two massive bird carcasses collapsed onto the peak of the mountain, and three or four pieces of equipment radiating golden radiance burst forth violently!
Simultaneously, a series of white lights erupted from Lin You's body!
She leveled up!
And she gained more than eight and a half levels in a single breath!

Amidst the astonished gazes of countless people, Lin Yi walked over to Lin You and said something. Beneath the helmet visor, in a corner where Lin Yi could not see, Lin You's cheeks were already flushed red.
Following that, Lin Yi picked up the equipment on the ground and raised a hand.
An undead magic array materialized beneath the two massive bird carcasses. Infused with surging black light, the two deceased Roc Bosses shockingly opened their scarlet pupils once more.
Flapping their wings, they took flight again!
As living beings, their avian lives had ended.
As the undead, their future was stretched into eternity by Lin Yi.
(End of this chapter)