Chapter 146: Heaven Artisan Sorcerer

"He's out! Gandalf is out!"

"Look quickly! It's the Devil King!"

Amidst the noisy discussions, Wang Xicheng was the first to rush in front of Gandalf.

His robust body was covered in dust and scratches, but his face carried the excitement of having survived a disaster.

"Gandalf!"

Wang Xicheng had an extremely loud voice, and as soon as he spoke, he attracted the attention of everyone around.

"How was it? Did you clear the level? What about that last BOSS? Did you kill it or not?"

A series of questions were fired off like machine gun fire.

Around them, other surviving students also gathered over one after another, their expectant gazes falling squarely onto Gandalf.

Zhou Huai, controlling Gandalf, glanced at the crowd and calmly shook his head.

"No."

He answered truthfully.

"I was one-shotted by that Hell-level BOSS."

As soon as those words were said, a chorus of regretful sighs immediately sounded around.

"Sigh, it still didn't work after all?"

"That's a level 40 Hell-level BOSS after all; getting one-shotted is normal."

Zhou Huai's gaze landed on Wang Xicheng, and he asked in return.

"What about you guys? Did the mission to guard the sanctuary fail as well?"

Hearing this, Wang Xicheng wore a trace of ashamed, bitter smile on his face, and he scratched the back of his head, looking a bit embarrassed.

"Don't even mention it."

"We hadn't even found a few sanctuaries before we were directly surrounded by an endless tide of beasts."

"If it weren't for the protection mechanism in this dungeon, which automatically teleports us out once our health drops to zero, people like us probably wouldn't know how many hundreds of times we'd have died."

As soon as his voice fell, a female student nearby chimed in with lingering fear.

"More than just dying hundreds of times, I feel like my mind is about to collapse."

"The designer of that dungeon is simply a devil!"

"Exactly! It's too outrageous! A level 30 hundred-player dungeon stuffing in a level 40 Hell-level BOSS, who can possibly fight this?"

"I seriously suspect that this dungeon doesn't have any possibility of being cleared at all!"

"I think it might be that we didn't find the real clearing conditions. For example, do we need to protect Old City Lord Chen to survive, or complete a certain hidden quest at a specific time point?"

Everyone chattered and discussed, all complaining about the outrageous difficulty of the dungeon.

Listening to their discussion, Zhou Huai was pondering another matter in his heart.

Although this dungeon was outrageous, it had to be said that it was definitely the most suitable leveling Holy Land for Gandalf currently.

The number of alien beasts inside was frighteningly high, and their Ranks were generally above level thirty.

As long as he was a bit careful and didn't provoke that final Hell-level BOSS, just guarding the city in the front would yield enough experience points to make his hands soft.

Thinking of this, he looked at the crowd and made a suggestion.

"How is it?"

"Do you want to… challenge it again?"

In his view, coming a few more times would eventually allow them to figure out some tricks.

However, as soon as these words left his mouth, the crowd, who had just been filled with righteous indignation, instantly became like ducks whose necks were choked, falling silent one by one.

Wang Xicheng shook his head like a rattle-drum even more.

"Don't, don't, don't!"

"I can't do it anymore, I really can't!"

His face wore a look of utter despair.

"I feel like these past few nights when I dream, I dream of being chased and run down by that catfish monster."

"I have to go back and properly recover for a few days, otherwise my Dao Heart will become unstable."

"Me too, me too; I certainly don't want to experience that feeling of despair a second time."

"Let's slip away, let's slip away. I'm going to the food district to eat something good to calm my nerves."

The crowd waved their hands one after another and scattered like birds and beasts.

Just kidding, that dual torture of mind and body was enough to experience once.

Seeing this, Zhou Huai simply stopped forcing the issue.

He hadn't planned to enter the field personally anyway.

Handing that boring monster-grinding over to the smart core ai to handle would be more efficient.

After arranging for Gandalf's smart core ai to continue finding a dungeon to level up and farm Materials.

Zhou Huai withdrew his consciousness and returned to his main body.

Yet right at this moment, Wang Xicheng cheerfully sauntered over again, wearing a somewhat familiar smile on his face.

"Gandalf, let's add contact info?"

"Anyway, we can still be considered friends who fought side by side."

"Next time there's such a high-difficulty dungeon, I'll contact you the first chance I get."

"If you're free, let's grab a meal together, my treat!"

Wang Xicheng didn't mean anything else; he simply felt that being able to know a big shot like Gandalf was something very worthy of bragging about.

In the future, he would have capital to boast in front of friends.

However, as soon as his voice fell, he met a pair of icy, indifferent, and even somewhat contemptuous eyes.

At this moment, after Zhou Huai's consciousness withdrew, Gandalf had already switched back to the Devil King mode controlled by the smart core ai.

He slightly raised his chin, glancing at Wang Xicheng with a gaze that overlooked ants.

On that handsome face, there was not the slightest expression.

"Stupid human."

"Am I very familiar with you?"

"Don't waste my time here."

The cold voice without a trace of emotion pierced fiercely into Wang Xicheng's heart like an icicle from the depths of winter.

Finished speaking, Gandalf didn't look at him again and turned, walking straight towards the portal of a five-person dungeon not far away.

The teacher registering at the entrance saw him and didn't even dare say much, directly letting him pass.

Gandalf's figure quickly vanished within the light of the portal.

The whole process was smooth and flowing.

Leaving Wang Xicheng all alone, frozen in place.

The smile on his face was still frozen at the corners of his mouth, appearing incomparably comical.

He slowly and mechanically turned his head to look at Lu Zhiyi, who was similarly dumbfounded beside him.

"Lu… Senior Sister Lu…"

His voice sounded somewhat aggrieved.

"Gandalf… what is wrong with him?"

"Wasn't he completely fine just a moment ago? How come he suddenly… turned hostile and disowned acquaintances?"

Looking at Wang Xicheng's expression of doubting life, Lu Zhiyi smiled somewhat awkwardly.

She didn't know how to explain either.

She could only speak vaguely.

"I… I'm not too clear either."

"A few days ago, he had this attitude as well."

"I always feel… this person is a bit weird, as if he has two faces."

"Anyway, he is in this state, it's best if you try not to provoke him."

…

On the other side, Zhou Huai's consciousness had already returned to his main body.

Lying on the bed, his mind was still constantly reviewing his previous experiences in the dungeon.

That Hell-level BOSS, [Abyssal Demon Catfish Kraken].

The skill it released at the end was practically a full-screen one-shot, completely unreasonable.

Is this the strength of a Hell-level BOSS?

Truly terrifying.

Even for the SS-Class Forbidden Spell Master Gandalf, who currently had luxurious equipment and overpowered skills, he was as fragile as an ant in front of it.

However, what puzzled Zhou Huai the most was still that BOSS's health points.

He was very certain that the first time he saw Kraken's health bar, its maximum health value was clearly only a little over 8 million.

But why, after a roar, would the maximum health limit suddenly skyrocket to over 20 million?

Not just the health points, even the aura emanating from its body had become several times stronger than before.

This feeling was very bizarre.

Even if the BOSS entered some kind of berserk frenzy state, this numerical boost was simply too exaggerated.

It felt more like a scripted plot kill.

Zhou Huai shook his head, unable to figure out the reason for a moment.

He simply stopped wrestling with this issue.

The top priority was to use the newly acquired reward to draw a new Clone class.

He slowly closed his eyes, and his consciousness instantly sank into that familiar, vast starry sky.

A huge and mysterious dial machine quietly floated in front of him.

"Last time it was the Night Stalker, this time, what class will it be?"

Zhou Huai's heart was filled with anticipation.

He reached out and unhesitatingly pressed that antique button on the dial machine!

Hum——!

The dial machine rotated at high speed. On top of its body, countless balls of light were like stars all over the sky, flowing with brilliant colors and dazzling to the eyes.

In the end, a ball of light that was entirely azure blue, as if containing the entire ocean, shot out from the dial machine and slowly landed in his palm.

"Blue?"

Zhou Huai's eyes brightened instantly.

This was the first time a class orb of this color had appeared.

Through these few draws, Zhou Huai had also roughly figured out some patterns.

Gold represented S-Class combat classes, such as the Thunder Sword Master.

Red represented SS-Class combat classes, such as the Archmage and the Night Stalker.

Purple represented SS-Class lifestyle classes, such as the Myriad Forms Divine Craftsman Ou Yezi.

Then, what did this blue color that had never appeared before represent?

Just as Zhou Huai was pondering, that blue orb exploded with a boom in his palm.

It transformed into an antique scroll entirely composed of starlight and runes, quietly floating before his eyes.

Above the scroll, a line of mysterious text slowly emerged.

[Congratulations to the host for drawing the class: Unique Hidden Class, SS-Class Heaven Artisan Sorcerer!]