Chapter 75: What kind of class is this?

Meanwhile.

Dongning Province, Jiangning City.

On the top floor of a heavily guarded building.

This was the main examination monitoring office for this year's grand examination.

With the activation of the Tower of Apocalypse, hundreds of computer screens inside the office lit up simultaneously, and dense streams of data refreshed like a waterfall.

Every single line of data represented the real-time movements of an examinee.

Staff members in uniforms sat in front of the computers with concentrated expressions, their fingers tapping rapidly on the keyboards to monitor any anomalies.

In the center of the office, beside a huge mahogany round table, several extraordinary-looking middle-aged men were leisurely sipping tea.

They were the chief examiners for this provincial examination.

"Old Li, do you think our Dongning Province has any presentable saplings this year?"

An examiner wearing a Zhongshan suit and having a refined appearance put down his teacup and asked softly.

The examiner called Old Li was the chief person in charge this time.

Hearing this, he sighed and shook his head.

"It's difficult."

"There are indeed a few A-Rank ones, and their talents are all quite good."

"But compared to S-Rank, it is ultimately a difference of heaven and earth."

He picked up his teacup, blew on the floating tea leaves, and his eyes revealed a bit of helplessness.

"During this year's National Examination, our Dongning Province is probably going to accompany the runners again."

"Not to mention other places, the Imperial Capital alone produced two S-Ranks this year."

"Over in Modu, one was also produced, and I heard it's an extremely rare unique hidden class."

Another slightly chubby examiner took over the conversation, his tone full of bitterness.

"In last year's National Examination, our Dongning Province ranked thirteenth, which was already the best result in the past decade."

"This year, I just hope we can keep our ranking and not drop out of the top fifteen."

A trace of regret flashed across the Zhongshan suit examiner's brows.

"Actually, we originally still had hope this year."

"I heard that a remarkable Genius appeared in Donghai City a while ago, suspected to be S-Rank."

"He cleared the Trial Tower in nineteen hours."

"He directly broke the record of our entire Dongning Province."

"And the result?"

He heavily slammed the teacup onto the table, making a dull "bang" sound.

"Not long after he came out of the Trial Tower, he was targeted by that bunch of scum from the Dawnbreaker Guild."

"Such a good sapling, just like that… gone."

"What a pity!"

"Dawnbreaker Guild!"

As soon as this name was mentioned, disgust and hatred involuntarily appeared on the faces of the chief examiners present.

"These people are a malignant tumor of our Great Xia Country!"

"Over the years, who knows how many good saplings with extraordinary potential have been abducted by them or directly strangled in the cradle!"

"If you ask me, the military department should directly dispatch a large army to uproot them and completely annihilate them!"

Chief Examiner Li snorted coldly.

"How can it be that easy."

"These people's whereabouts are erratic, and they are as cunning as rats in a ditch."

"Every single core member is powerful, coming without a shadow and going without a trace."

"If they could be caught, they would have been caught long ago."

"Now, we can only provide key protection to those outstanding saplings who show their heads, hoping to reduce some losses."

Everyone fell silent, and the atmosphere in the office became somewhat oppressive for a moment.

Just at this moment.

A staff member suddenly stood up from his seat, hurried over with a flustered expression.

"Li… Chief Examiner Li!"

He ran to the round table, bent down, lowered his voice, and spoke in a hurried tone.

"There… there seems to be a little problem with an examinee's data."

"You… you should go and take a look quickly."

Old Li frowned.

"What problem?"

"How long has it just started?"

Hearing this, the other examiners also became interested and stood up one after another.

"Let's go, go take a look."

Several people followed the staff member to a computer flickering with abnormal red light.

On the screen, a line of data was particularly eye-catching.

[Examinee Name: Gandalf]

[Examinee Rank: LV20]

[Class: Unknown]

[Current Floor: Seventh Floor]

Old Li subconsciously raised his wrist and glanced at the time on it.

Only seven minutes had just passed since the start of the assessment.

Seven minutes, climbed to the seventh floor?

"This isn't right, is it?"

The chubby examiner widened his eyes and was the first to voice doubt.

"Did the data get mixed up?"

"Seven minutes to the seventh floor? How is this possible? Who can be this fast?"

The staff member wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his voice carrying a bit of trembling.

"I… I also thought the monitoring data had an abnormality at first."

"But I checked it several times repeatedly, and everything in the System is very normal without any faults."

Old Li's expression instantly became solemn.

If there was no problem with the data.

Then there was only one possibility.

This examinee named Gandalf used some unknown means to openly cheat!

"Can we pull up the real-time footage of this examinee?" he asked in a deep voice.

The staff member shook his head.

"Not yet for the time being."

"The monitoring footage of the Tower of Apocalypse can only be turned on after the examinee reaches the tenth floor."

"Then let's wait a bit longer."

The Zhongshan suit examiner crossed his arms and stared at the screen with great interest.

"At his speed, it won't be long before he can reach the tenth floor."

As soon as his voice fell.

On the screen, the floor where Gandalf was located shockingly jumped again.

[Current Floor: Eighth Floor]

The time had passed exactly eight minutes.

"…"

There was dead silence in the office.

Everyone stared at that string of numbers as if they had seen a ghost.

Really one floor per minute, huh?

At this point, the slight suspicion in everyone's hearts almost turned into certainty.

This was definitely cheating!

And it was the most arrogant, most unscrupulous kind of cheating!

"Inconceivable…"

The chubby examiner muttered to himself, completely unable to understand.

"Even if he used some shady cheating method, this speed is simply too fast."

"Although the strange beasts on the first few floors of the Tower of Apocalypse are not strong, their numbers are quite large."

"Not to mention a group of fierce and powerful strange beasts."

"Even if they were all pigs tied to the ground unable to move and letting him kill them."

"Wanting to slaughter through eight floors in eight minutes is simply impossible to achieve, right?"

Old Li's expression was already so gloomy that water was about to drip out.

He stared fixedly at the screen without saying a word.

In his heart, he had already sentenced this examinee named Gandalf to death.

Once they reached the tenth floor and got the evidence.

He would definitely let this audacious fellow know what regret meant!

He must be dealt with severely! Make an example of him to warn others!

Time passed minute by minute.

In the office, a pin drop could be heard.

Everyone's gaze converged on that tiny screen.

Two minutes later.

Under everyone's tense gaze.

The numbers on the screen finally jumped to double digits.

[Current Floor: Tenth Floor]

"It's here!"

"Quick! Immediately pull up his real-time footage for me!"

Old Li almost roared out these words.

"Yes!"

The staff member did not dare to neglect in the slightest, his hands turning into an afterimage on the keyboard, operating at high speed.

The next second.

The computer screen flickered once, and the image switched.

The scene inside the tenth floor of the Tower of Apocalypse was clearly presented in front of everyone.

In the image.

A young man draped in a star moon robe was unhurriedly stepping onto the last step leading to the tenth floor.

His figure was upright, his pace calm, and no tension or fatigue could be seen at all.

And in front of him, on the wide corridor, it was densely packed with various forms of strange beasts.

Shadow Marsh Hunting Lizard, Bloodthirsty Mad Wolf, Spiked Porcupine…

Over a hundred of them!

Their crimson eyes locked dead onto that intruder who had just stepped into their territory.

"Roar—!"

Amidst the earth-shaking roars, the beast horde, like a black tide, surged crazily toward that slightly thin figure!

Facing this battle array that was enough to make any examinee's scalp tingle.

The man in the image simply calmly raised the staff in his hand.

He didn't even move a single step.

Everyone only saw his lips move slightly, as if he were chanting something.

The next instant.

Rumbling—!

The entire screen trembled violently!

Five huge meteors burning with eerie green flames tore through the dim sky inside the tower, carrying an earth-shattering momentum as they fiercely smashed down!

The meteors accurately covered the entire beast horde!

The earth cracked and gravel splashed!

The eerie green flames, like bone-gnawing maggots, instantly turned the entire tenth floor into a wailing purgatory on earth!

Countless strange beasts struggled and rolled in the flames, eventually being burned into charred charcoal corpses.

The entire process took no more than five seconds.

When the flames gradually dispersed.

The tenth floor, which was originally crowded with over a hundred strange beasts, was now riddled with scars.

Only less than a third of the strange beasts remained, still lingering on their last breaths.

Inside the invigilation office.

Death-like silence.

Everyone was as if cast with a body-freezing spell, stiff in place, their mouths opened wide enough to stuff an egg.

Chief Examiner Old Li's eyeballs were practically about to pop out.

He stared fixedly at the nonchalant figure on the screen, his Adam's apple rolling once, and after a long while, he squeezed out a dry and hoarse sentence from between his teeth.

"This… what… class is this?"