138 The Correct Way to Use Mana Skills (1/2)
In the waiting hall of the Training Grounds in the dark, eerie Specter College.
A large Teleport Portal was placed in the middle of the hall. Occasionally, a few Goblins would appear and wander around. After seeing nobody around, they would leave.
But today, the Teleport Portal flashed. Two Gnomes and three Goblins walked out from it.
The five of them walked along the corridor connecting the waiting hall of the Training Grounds to the Teleport Portal at the end. They entered the Instance Dungeon via the Teleport Portal.
The five of them were Arthur's team.
The Academic Department of Specter College had an emergency meeting.
”What's the situation? Gnome? Why are Gnomes involved in the graduation examination?”
”What's there to be afraid of? If the candidates are unable to defeat Gnomes, they shouldn't graduate.”
”Didn't we recruit Gnomes and Orcs in the previous years?”
”What's in the contract? Are there any terms that state it's limited to Goblins?”
”There are no such terms, so Gnomes should be alright.”
”Director Bacon! Where's Director Bacon?”
”He's on a business trip!”
”Ah—!”
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”Backpack check, equipment check, shield check, weapon's sharpened, food and drinks taken…”
Arthur, NotWearingPants, BurningChestHair, Sylvanas, and Peasant squatted on the ground and performed checks on their equipment for the final preparation before battle.
They were very familiar with the preparations as they had played ”Dungeon” for more than two months. They were not highly experienced in battles, but after having died tens of times, they were no longer naive to charge recklessly into battle.
The gamers discovered that they had higher combat efficiency if they maintained silence during battle.
It was the same principle with not typing words when fighting a BOSS. Using voice chat for command and control had better efficiency.
While Arthur and his team were checking their equipment, the two examination candidates on the top level were frantically preparing.
No matter how they prepared, they could only use basic Skeleton Soldiers, and they were unable to fend off the advances of the elite team.
The five of them had strong tacit cooperation. Arthur and NotWearingPants had evolved into Gnomes, who had greater combat prowess. They had battles along the way, but there were no major obstacles.
They only suffered minor injuries when they arrived at Level 4.
There were no fatalities like previous times in which there was at least a dead team member when they arrived at Level 4.
After Arthur and NotWearingPants had reincarnated into Gnomes, their combat prowess improved by leaps and bounds.
The two Lich candidates were in total panic when they saw the combatants challenging the last elite Skeleton Soldier on Level 4.
”Senior! What shall we do? Are we failing? Is that the Black Armored Goblin?”
”That's not a Goblin, that's a Gnome! My elite Giant Skeleton Soldier is invincible!”
”Wait! Senior, what's that Goblin doing?”
A Goblin, Peasant, stripped himself of all equipment. Then, he followed his companion and took out a few bloated bladders from his backpack. He cut the bladders using his weapon.
Peasant was holding flint in his hands as he chanted, ”The Wind Fairy hidden in the air, hearken my summoning and cometh to my side!”
With Peasant's incantation, the gas near his body formed a visible magical wind protection barrier around him.
Peasant brought the magical wind with him and ignited the flint as he charged towards the Giant Skeleton Soldier.
”Pa!” Two pieces of flint struck against each other.
”Boom—!”
The Specter College Training Ground was filled with a sea of fire.
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”Team No. 2! Support the left flank!”
”Commander! Kill the opposing commander!”
”Concentrate firepower on that Gnome with the huge hammer! He crushed three of our members!”
”D*mn! Why is there a Gnome?”
”Chant our war cries! Advance! Advance! Don't retreat! Don't fear death!”
”Lalalala~lalalala~”