Upon such comparison, it becomes understandable why everyone acknowledges the Skeleton Mage as the weakest among the two-star professions.
It's even worse than one-star professions, and it's unclear how it even got rated as two-star.
Since no remarkable Skeleton Mages have emerged so far, the profession has earned a rather poor reputation.
Any dramatic future changes are simply unforeseeable.
For a Skeleton Mage to have good damage output, his skeleton needs to be powerful. However, if he focuses solely on improving his skeleton's attributes by adding points to Wisdom and Spirit, this will make him extremely frail.
Once frail, it becomes easier to die.
This is not a game—it's the real world, and once you die, that's it. You're actually dead.
Unless, of course, someone with resurrection abilities can resurrect you, but that's not an easy feat.
Firstly, whether anyone will find your body if you die in the wild is uncertain.
Secondly, even if someone does find you, they must be willing to waste their energy to bring you back to the city.
Lastly, even if you're brought back to the city, your family needs to have enough wealth to afford the high price of hiring a person who can resurrect you.
Of course, if you have family and friends with resurrection abilities, you would have a better chance of survival compared to ordinary people.
If more than 24 hours pass after death without resurrection, the chance is lost forever. Therefore, without powerful connections, everyone must strive to enhance their survivability.
But, as previously mentioned, a Skeleton Mage is caught between a rock and a hard place. If he adds points to his physical durability, then his skeleton is at a disadvantage. If he adds points to his skeleton, then his physical durability is at a disadvantage.
Furthermore, his talent depends on striking monsters himself to apply the Focus Fire status, which enhances his skeleton's damage output.
The attack Spells available for a Skeleton Mage are top-tier, way beyond what an ordinary person can obtain and learn.
This makes the talent of a Skeleton Mage practically nonexistent.
After all, how is a fragile Skeleton Mage supposed to tough it out with monsters?
Unlike other professions, their talents are truly effective.
Whether it's a Mage's increase in magic damage, the Knight's growth in toughness, or the Warrior's enhanced damage output.
According to the current data available, all low-grade Skills of a Skeleton Mage are linked to Skeleton Monsters. If the Skeleton Monsters are not strong enough, the Skeleton Mage would be useless in the early stages, barely stronger than a lifestyle profession.
Even Chen Mo himself despised his own two-star combat profession at this point.
Fortunately, he was now a seven-star professional, completely different from ordinary two-star professionals. He possessed an abundance of attribute points. Boosted by these high attributes, his Skeleton Monsters would become more formidable than those of ordinary Skeleton Mages once they gained strength.
Disregarding this two-star worthless profession for now, Chen Mo shifted his attention to his hidden profession.
[Initial Hidden Profession·Lifestyle]: Infinite Fusion Master★★★★★
[Occupational Talent]: Infinite Fusion
〖Infinite Fusion〗: You can freely choose three materials of the same grade for fusion according to the fusion rules to get a new and better material. You can also combine different materials by learning the corresponding recipes.
Lifestyle professions generally don't have Skills, only a talent effect.
Looking at this talent alone, it may seem hard to perceive the power of this lifestyle profession.
However, once you understand the rarity of high-grade items, you would realize just how powerful this talent is.
This is especially true for the Skeleton Mage profession. With top-tier Skills at its disposal, it could overturn its decline and at least live up to its two-star rating.
With the Infinite Fusion Master profession, obtaining top-tier Skills wouldn't be difficult anymore.
Chen Mo was even eager to test it out now.
After inspecting his five-star lifestyle profession, Chen Mo, in high spirits, slowly stepped out of the Awakening Array.
Next to him, Yan Yingyue, who had just awakened to a five-star combat profession, had barely recovered from her recent shock.
Just recently, an Alien had attempted to disrupt her Awakening vision. If that person had succeeded in dissipating her Awakening vision, Yan Yingyue's five-star profession Awakening would have failed, very likely causing her five-star profession to vanish and degrade into a mere one-star profession.
The gap between a one-star and a five-star profession is vast, so their future prospects would also differ greatly.
It was only natural for Yan Yingyue to feel frightened after the incident.
After calming her emotions, her face finally revealed an undeniable joy.
A five-star combat profession! It's an honor that brings glory to my ancestors!
I can hardly wait to rush home and share this news with my entire family!
Not only was Yan Yingyue thrilled to have awakened a five-star combat profession, but both her homeroom teacher and the school Principal were also overjoyed at this moment.
Many people congratulated her, gathered around Yan Yingyue like stars around the moon.
Meanwhile, Chen Mo quietly returned to his class's waiting area, largely unnoticed.
The first six students who had finished awakening were casually sitting in various postures. When Chen Mo walked over, Shen Bingbing opened her mouth as if wanting to say something, but she didn't.
Instead, the boy sitting next to her said to Chen Mo, "Mr. Mo, don't feel disheartened. It's common for students who perform well in daily training to falter during the awakening process. Don't take it to heart. It's at least better than my pathetic one-star profession."
Upon hearing these words, a girl sitting nearby immediately slapped the boy on his back in disdain and scoffed, "With a mouth like that, you should go buy some 'mute medicine' and take it!"
After scolding him, she turned to Chen Mo and said, "Don't worry, at least you have a combat profession, which is way better than having a lifestyle profession. It doesn't matter if you aren't impressive now; once you have your first transition, there will be plenty of chances to change your destiny."
Although what the girl said made sense, everyone knew that the chances of elevating a profession's star level through a transition were slim.
Getting an extra star through a profession transition is simple, but if you want to add several stars, that's a daunting task.
The most one can add during a single transition is five stars. However, most people only dare to challenge for an additional two stars. Even a two-star challenge carries a 10% mortality rate. For higher star level transition trials, the mortality rate is significantly higher. To protect their lives, many people don't dare attempt such demanding challenges.
Chen Mo knew his classmates were trying to comfort him. He offered a small smile and said, "You guys don't need to comfort me; I'm fine. I've been prepared for this."
After that, he quietly sat down near them.
Seeing Chen Mo's calm demeanor, everyone felt he was just pretending to be composed and that he was probably resigned to his fate. Thus, they tactfully avoided saying anything further.
However, Shen Bingbing became slightly worried after seeing Chen Mo's reaction.
She slowly shifted closer to Chen Mo and, after a brief hesitation, gently asked, "Chen Mo, do you have a fixed team for tomorrow's rookie examination?"