The Era of Gods

For this reason, although Dongning No. 5 High School ranks fifth in Dongning City, its actual strength is second only to First Level High School, which is directly under the city’s administration.

At this point, Vice Principal Xu Yundong continued:

“The rewards for the top ten places will be distributed automatically, and you have three minutes to choose the Five Star Card you want. As for the slots for the Super Newcomer Summer Camp, they are currently with the headmaster. The students who earn their places after the final exam will receive the official invitation to the Super Newcomer Summer Camp.”

As soon as these words were spoken, a light screen popped up in front of Lin Xiao, displaying:

“Congratulations, Lin Xiao, for achieving third place in this extra Endless Mode. You may select any one Five Star rare card, or any two regular Five Star cards. Please choose the type you need.”

“So it can be exchanged like this…”

He immediately said:

“I want two…”

“Excuse me, Vice Principal,”

Lin Xiao looked up in surprise, noticing that Yan Renjie didn’t even glance at his reward, but was instead questioning the vice principal.

Xu Yundong glanced at the homeroom teachers on both sides, pausing briefly on the teacher from Class 2, Zheng Yifan, before turning back and asking: “What do you want to ask?”

“I want to ask if the Vice Principal knows who got the slot.”

Lin Xiao looked up in surprise, his eyebrows quivering. In agreement with Vice Principal Xu Yundong, who shook his head and said:

“You’ll find out after your final exams are over.”

“Can’t you tell us now?”

The vice principal chuckled and said amusingly:

“The slot is with the headmaster, and he hasn’t told me either. How would 1 know who the headmaster has given the slot to? You’d better focus on performing well in the upcoming assessments, which might increase your chances of getting a slot, instead of asking all these questions here.”

By the end of his response, he sounded somewhat stern. Clearly, Yan Renjie’s ill-timed question had displeased the vice principal.

Lin Xiao watched as Yan Renjie walked away dejectedly and shrugged. Such matters didn’t need questioning. The school’s arrangements were to be followed. Probably due to being spoiled usually, he dared to question the vice principal. It was only because of his good grades that he received preferential treatment. Had it been an ordinary student… they likely wouldn’t even receive an answer.

As for the so-called slot at the Super Newcomer Summer Camp, Lin Xiao didn’t place too much emphasis on it, nor could he. After all, he was third, and normally, it shouldn’t be his turn. Instead of dwelling on that, he thought it better to focus on the upcoming exams and perform well. With good results, he could then go home after the final exams and ask his parents for nice things.

Or perhaps after the final exams were over and it was vacation time, he could visit his parents in the Outland plane they resided in and see if he could get hold of something good.

Coming back to his senses, he lowered his head.

“Two cards…”

Lin Xiao hesitated for a moment; with the options available, he couldn’t really choose any decent cards.

For instance, the Profession Cards he needed were at least of the legendary level, and while he could get Divine Realm Cards, the normal Five Star Divine Realm Cards only increased territory size by a small amount, which seemed hardly useful.

As for resources, the Divine Realm didn’t lack them for now, or rather, the resources useful for him couldn’t be obtained from ordinary cards.

Besides, whether it was Weapon Cards, Species Cards, Skills…

“Hmm, skill cards… that might actually be a possibility.”

Lin Xiao always felt that the Clan had too few skills with just one. Salted Fish Charge had a high burst potential, but its cooldown was too long, only suitable as an ultimate move. The Nagas needed a regular skill to use.

But he ran into a problem when searching for skills, not because there were too few skills, but because there were too many.

The school had a dedicated channel for acquiring skills. While not every skill was available, the variety was considerable. There were several hundred Five Star skill cards alone. Selecting a suitable skill for the Naga from among these, he checked the time and realized he had just over a minute left due to Yan Renjie’s earlier questioning of the vice principal, which had wasted some time.

After some thought, he first eliminated spell and long-range skills, significantly reducing the number.

He then ruled out close-combat skills with a cooldown time of more than one minute, halving the number again.

With less than one hundred remaining, he quickly skimmed through them, marking those that seemed feasible and eliminating those that were unusable. He narrowed down the selection to thirteen skills and was surprised to find that five of them had functions that overlapped with Salted Fish Charge, so he passed on those.

In the end, there were seven left: four passive skills and three active skills.

The three active skills were:

Following Stroke LV1 — After killing a target, any excess attack power accumulates and is added to the next attack.

Continuous Chop LV1 — Attack the same target twice in succession, using a small amount of stamina, cooldown thirty seconds.

Speed Up LV1 —Increase moving speed by 20%, continuously consumes stamina, cooldown one minute.

Heavy Strike LV1 — Charge for one second to deliver a heavy strike on the enemy, dealing double damage, with a chance to cause additional effects depending on the weapon and attack mode used.

Five passive skills:

Single-hand Sword Specialization LV1 — Enhances techniques when using single-hand swords.

Pole Weapons Specialization LV1 — Enhances techniques when using pole weapons.

Basic Footwork LV1 — Enhances techniques related to footwork in combat.

These were all Five Star cards, and the biggest difference from the Two Star Piercing card was that these skills could be upgraded, whereas Piercing could not be upgraded, which is why the skills had significant power even though the cards were low-level.

The Black Scale Naga had no foundation and could only learn these few skills. Lin Xiao glanced over and quickly chose two cards: Following Stroke and Basic Footwork.

He chose Following Stroke because it could work in conjunction with the Salted Fish Charge skill. Salted Fish Charge, with its five times critical hit, could easily take down opponents, often resulting in excessive damage. With the Following Stroke skill, any excess damage would be added to the next attack, making it quite powerful. If the enemy wasn’t too strong, it might be possible to take out an additional enemy after one charge—strong indeed.

As for Basic Footwork, it was to enable the Naga to better evade attacks in close combat.

In truth, he also wanted to collect the Pole Weapons Specialization, Speed Up, Continuous Chop, Heavy Strike, and so on.

Well, actually, he wanted them all, but now he could only pick two or rather find a way to collect a set of cards in the future.

Lin Xiao now had a fantastic idea: to gather all the basic skills and merge them into an ultra-rare All Weapon card.

For instance, collecting all the basic techniques for single-hand swords, two-handed swords, single-hand hammers, two-handed hammers, single-hand axes, two-handed axes, daggers, pole weapons, fist weapons, etc., and merging them into an All Weapons Basic Skills card would undoubtedly be very powerful.

He pocketed the two cards for now and would use them later.

Once the three minutes were up, all ten winners had made their selections. Contrary to Lin Xiao’s expectations, the vice principal did not announce the rankings; everyone only knew their own rank. Lin Xiao knew he was third but was unsure whether Yan Renjie or Wan Ying was first.

Endless Mode was about the number of enemies killed, not about who lasted the longest; otherwise, everyone would just be dragging out the time instead of fighting.

Therefore, although Lin Xiao was the third-to-last to return, it didn’t necessarily mean he ranked third.

Of course, there was still a significant suspicion.

For Lin Xiao, this was a good thing as it saved him some trouble..