CHAPTER 50: CHAPTER 50: CLINGING TO FANG ZHOU’S COATTAILS, NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF

Refining Stone is a peculiar ore discovered by humans in the Mythical World that can refine the equipment of Professionals.

If the equipment refinement is successful, its effects will be improved to a certain extent.

The success rate of refining equipment of different qualities, the number of possible refinements, and the amount of Refining Stones consumed vary greatly.

For example, a Gray Inferior Apprentice Magic Staff can only be refined to +1, and each refinement requires one Level 1 Refining Stone.

Just like inlaying a Gemstone, it’s best to employ the exclusive skill "Refinement" from the auxiliary Profession "Blacksmith" when using Refining Stones to refine equipment, to ensure a certain success rate.

Of course, Fang Zhou with his all-powerful attribute panel is naturally not restricted by this.

After tallying his gains, Fang Zhou left the Simulation Battlefield, satisfied, and climbed out of the Simulation Pod.

As with the previous day, a large crowd gathered around him.

Facing the praise and admiration of the students, Fang Zhou remained as humble and low-key as ever.

At Gu Zhiqiu’s invitation, he also gave a detailed explanation of his tactical insights to the students watching in the training field.

Although Fang Zhou’s process of passing the Abyss Difficulty "Horn Demon Outpost" had a strong personal touch, his tactical insights still gave many first-year students stuck in the regular difficulty "Little Inferior Demon Camp" a lot of inspiration.

They could not defeat the Little Inferior Demons head-on, but they could certainly make more use of environmental factors.

Even Ye Fan, Meng Hongzhuang, and others entered the Abyss Difficulty "Little Inferior Demon Camp" with thoughtful expressions, hoping to gain something.

Not to mention these freshmen who have only awakened for a month, even those high-level students maintaining order in the venue gained many insights after listening to Fang Zhou’s strategy sharing.

The senior female student, who was previously somewhat arrogant, was completely convinced by Fang Zhou.

She glanced at her teammates with a sideways look, mocking, "A genius like Fang Zhou is capable of surpassing prodigies like Senior Sister Wen Jiu and Senior Jianchi.

Ha, wasn’t there someone who looked down on this batch of freshmen before?"

Upon hearing this, the male student who previously looked down on the freshmen remained unfazed and boldly said, "I admit I was blind, so what?

Could you have imagined before that an Undead Mage, a seemingly worthless Profession, could produce such a prodigy as Fang Zhou?"

At this moment, another student proposed, "Why don’t we add Fang Zhou’s contact information?

He can reach the Middle Rank of an Apprentice within a month; I think it won’t take long before he breaks through to the Upper Rank.

If we establish a good relationship with him now, we’ll be in a prime position to invite him to join us in tackling the Apprentice Upper Rank Simulation Battlefield."

The second-year students exchanged glances, showing a look of intent on their faces.

"If we can indeed latch onto this junior Fang Zhou, perhaps we could make it into the Simulation Battlefield’s historical speed ranking ourselves."

"Brilliant, let’s go!"

"I was the one who suggested it first, don’t you dare compete with me!"

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Seeing the crowd slowly disperse, Fang Zhou breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as he was about to leave the training field with Bai Xiaochan, who had decided to slack off, a few strong presence, unfamiliar-looking students approached.

Bai Xiaochan whispered sideways, "Fang Zhou, they are second-year seniors who have taken on the task of maintaining order in the venue."

Fang Zhou nodded slightly and looked toward these second-year students.

Judging from their aura, each of them at least had the strength of an Apprentice Upper Rank.

Why are they looking for me?

Seeing the curious eyes of Fang Zhou and Bai Xiaochan, a refined male student leading the group greeted Fang Zhou politely, saying, "Hello, Junior Fang Zhou!

I am Lu Renjia, a Warrior Profession from the second year.

I’ve watched your battle broadcast over the past two days with great admiration, so I wanted to add your contact information so that we have the opportunity to team up in the future."

"I am Lu Yiyi..."

"I am..."

The other second-year students also crowded around, looking at Fang Zhou with enthusiasm.

Bai Xiaochan muttered to herself on the side.

Yesterday morning when the Simulation Battlefield just opened, this bunch of second-year seniors was quite arrogant and didn’t care to mingle with the freshmen at all.

To think they changed their attitude facing the awe-inspiring Fang Zhou today, it’s really realistic.

But Bai Xiaochan tilted her head and thought to herself.

Clinging to a thick thigh is not shameful!

A mythical-level thick thigh like Fang Zhou, I must hold on tight and not let others snatch it away.

Not one to hit a smiling face, Fang Zhou naturally did not refuse the goodwill of these second-year students.

He smiled and added their contact information, just to gather more information about the Sea City Military Academy.

After sending off these enthusiastic second-year students, Fang Zhou urged Bai Xiaochan to play a "Lullaby" for him.

This time, with Bai Xiaochan’s "Apprentice Lyre" acquired at great cost, the magic effect of the Lullaby significantly improved, wiping out Fang Zhou’s long-standing fatigue.

Fang Zhou contentedly bid farewell to Bai Xiaochan and walked back to his dorm with a light step.

Sitting on the bed, Fang Zhou took out a bottle filled with pale blue gel.

This was the "Apprentice Level Spiritual Secret Medicine" he had exchanged for.

Opening the cap, a scent of pinewood slowly wafted out.

Fang Zhou tilted his head back and drank the Spiritual Secret Medicine in one go, then began circulating the "Skeleton King Meditation Method" according to the usage instructions.

Thanks to his high meditation efficiency, the Spiritual Secret Medicine was swiftly absorbed.

"Spirit +0.6."

Fang Zhou opened his eyes and nodded quietly at the prompt on the attribute panel.

An enhancement of 0.6 was already equivalent to one-tenth of his Spiritual Power; the effect of this Spiritual Secret Medicine was quite remarkable.

With this, he was not far from the checkpoint of Apprentice Upper Rank.

According to Fang Zhou’s observations of his Skeleton Clone, the Four-dimensional Attributes at the Apprentice Stage range from 1 to 10.

The Lower Rank of an Apprentice is from 1 to 5.

The Middle Rank of an Apprentice is from 6 to 8.

The Upper Rank of an Apprentice is from 9 to 10.

The higher the attribute, the harder it is to grow, and most Apprentice-level Professionals find it difficult to increase their attributes to the limit value of 10 points.

However, with the endless feedback from the Skeleton Clone, Fang Zhou naturally did not worry about this issue.

He counted his earnings, accumulating as much as 260 contribution points from the Simulation Battlefield over the past two days, which was a massive fortune for a Junior Sergeant.

However, the majority of this contribution point income was from one-time first clearance rewards, which are unsustainable.

Adding the more than 200 contribution points he previously received from uploading new skills, he now had nearly 500 contribution points.

Even with Black Iron level Skills, that’s enough to exchange for 5 of them, not to mention Apprentice-level resources.

What troubled Fang Zhou now was the urgent need to quickly enhance his F-level permissions to unlock more resource exchange options and convert this accumulated contribution into combat power.

As for the newly deduced "Skeleton Wings" and "Skeleton Arrow Rain," and the previously acquired "Skeleton King Meditation Method," according to Su Xinyan’s suggestion, Fang Zhou was not planning to upload them immediately but would wait to apply for a research project to exploit the military academy’s resources.