CHAPTER 201: CHAPTER 164 POOR ACTING! (TWO IN ONE, 4/9)_1

Chen Mo strolled around the village and found that, apart from some professionals, there was nothing else that required his attention.

He headed directly to the Underground City Entrance.

[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: You have 1 minute to prepare. Do you want to start the Underworld City directly?]

[Yes!]

[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: We detected that you have not recruited any teammates. Once you enter the Underworld City, you cannot return! Are you sure you want to challenge the Underworld City solo?]

[Yes!]

[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Because you chose to challenge solo, the difficulty of this exam will be 100%, and you will receive an additional BUFF, "The Lonely Bravery."]

As The Heavenly Path’s Hint sounded, Chen Mo had already entered the first layer of the Underworld City.

[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: You have entered the first layer of the Mysterious Dungeon, and the countdown has officially begun! Please find the stairway to the next layer as soon as possible.]

Chen Mo glanced at the title "The Lonely Bravery."

["The Lonely Bravery"]: You recover 10% of Life and Energy per second.

"What an average title," Chen Mo muttered, rolling his eyes. He had thought it was some kind of powerful title.

With the Sage’s Ring and the Pioneer title he now possessed, his per-second recovery was already off the charts.

This title is practically useless.

After closing The Heavenly Path’s interface, Chen Mo fully activated his Pioneer perception ability, immediately sensing the situation on the first layer of the Underworld City.

Undoubtedly, this Underworld City is quite large.If every layer is this large, giving others only 24 hours seems a bit short.

Of course, he had also investigated this: killing the BOSS at the end of every five layers offered a reward choice to extend survival time, allowing one to stay in the instance longer. However, this conflicted with choosing to increase the reward rank. Ideally, the reward rank could be advanced with each BOSS killed every five layers. This way, the fifth layer could be upgraded to B-Class, the tenth layer to A-Class, the fifteenth to S-Class, the twentieth to SS level, and the twenty-fifth to SSS-level. However, no one in history had ever managed to do this, simply because there wasn’t enough time.

Chen Mo, however, was eager to try.

Through his Pioneer perception ability, Chen Mo could easily sense everything within a 400-meter radius. This ability, combined with Divine Flicker, allowed Chen Mo to advance by flickering 400 meters at a time, giving him a sensation akin to Land-Shrinking.

Perceiving no abnormalities within his sensory range, Chen Mo flickered 400 meters ahead, then immediately flickered again. During this, he sensed numerous mobs along the path. Killing them or not made little difference, so Chen Mo bypassed them, flickering all the way to the stairs leading to the second layer.

An Elite Beast guarded the staircase to the second layer. Chen Mo initially didn’t want to bother with it and planned to use Divine Flicker to go directly up the stairs to the next layer. However, he sensed that a special energy sealed the path before the stairs. This energy possessed The Great Path’s power; even Divine Flicker could not penetrate it.

[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Kill the Layer Guardian Elite to break the passage seal and enter the next layer.]

Receiving The Heavenly Path’s Hint, Chen Mo wasn’t concerned. With a casual wave of his hand, he summoned a large swarm of Skeleton Monsters, which launched a volley of attacks at the Elite Beast. The Elite Beast was still sleeping soundly before the staircase, never expecting to be suddenly assaulted by Chen Mo’s Skeleton Monster Army! It perished in its sleep.

"That’s a rather peaceful way to go," Chen Mo chuckled and flickered directly to the next layer.

「Meanwhile, outside」

The layer numbers and survival times of all candidates were being displayed. Among the tens of thousands of candidates, only one person’s layer number suddenly changed to ’2’.

"So fast!? How long has it been?"

"Could he be incredibly lucky? Did the entrance to the next layer happen to spawn near his entry point into the Underworld City?"

"That’s possible. There have been students like that before."

"Wait, look at the time! Isn’t everyone else basically still recruiting teammates right now?"

This statement prompted an immediate reaction from the crowd.

"Indeed! Did this kid recruit his team that fast?"

"Could it be that even the NPC locations were perfectly clustered, so he didn’t need to search the whole village?"

"He must have some incredible dumb luck then."

Chen Mo had entered the Underworld City a minute early, used a few quick flickers, and instantly killed the Elite Beast to reach the second layer. His total time on the first layer of the Underworld City didn’t even exceed 10 seconds. Indeed, he hadn’t even used up all the preparation time granted by The Heavenly Path.

Seeing his own Seaside Second Middle School make such a prominent showing right at the start, Shen Rulong felt an inexplicable surge of pride. Even though it was only a two-star Skeleton Mage who had achieved this, and even though he had probably just gotten lucky, this didn’t prevent Seaside Second Middle School’s name from being put out there.

Upon reaching the second layer, Chen Mo again found the entrance to the third layer with just a few flickers.

He had long anticipated that the Aliens would make a move after the college entrance exam. Since they had decided to burn their boats, everyone present would likely be implicated. Chen Mo wasn’t afraid of revealing his capabilities at this point. After all, he was just a two-star professional. The other party could easily confirm this with a little investigation; Aliens had witnessed it firsthand at their school gate that day. An awakened profession couldn’t be faked. Chen Mo wasn’t afraid of being targeted for this reason. A brilliant performance was one thing, but his actual foundation couldn’t be faked. The Aliens would understand this point.