A deluge of The Heavenly Path's Hints bombarded him. Before Chen Mo could even read them, Shen Rulong, huffing angrily, walked up to him and said with lingering fear, "You reckless brat! That was a red-named individual. If he had accidentally killed you, not even our resurrection ability could bring you back! How dare you act so recklessly!"
"Exactly! You scared me to death just now, you annoying kid," Su Tianxin also immediately stepped forward and pinched Chen Mo's cheek.
"Teacher, it hurts... It won't happen again." Chen Mo, wincing in pain, quickly begged for mercy.
Although he was scolded, both the Principal and his teacher were clearly angry out of concern for him, and Chen Mo naturally understood their feelings.
"The scare you received earlier might have affected your emotions, and that could potentially influence your performance today. Do you want to apply for a delay in the assessment?" Shen Rulong asked, looking at Chen Mo.
"That won't be necessary, Principal. We from Seaside Second Middle School aren't scared that easily," Chen Mo said, rubbing his cheek while smiling at the Principal.
"You do have some mettle, which probably explains your rash behavior earlier. But you can't act so recklessly anymore, got it?"
Shen Rulong lifted his Magic Wand and rapped Chen Mo on the head.
Professionals can unleash attacks with the power of their undefeated state with every move. However, reality and the game remain distinct. Even though the maximum of everyone's physical abilities is represented by data, they can still control their strength freely.
Take, for example, when Su Tianxin flicked Fang Datong's forehead earlier. If she had used her actual damage to attack Fang Datong, even as a Priest, she could have literally blown his head off.
"I understand." The pain on his face hadn't subsided yet, so Chen Mo immediately rubbed the spot on his head where the Principal had struck.
This time, the Principal's tap wasn't light. Although it didn't cause much damage, it definitely hurt.
It was obviously intended to make Chen Mo remember this lesson.
After he finished speaking, the Principal prepared to restart the assessment.
However, at this moment, Fang Datong noticed something unusual.
"How did you reach Level 5?"
Upon hearing this, Su Tianxin and Shen Rulong immediately turned their attention to Chen Mo.
Concerned for Chen Mo's safety, they hadn't noticed any other changes in him. However, Fang Datong was in a team with Chen Mo.
Being in a team meant that each member's Level, life value, and energy value were synchronously displayed above their heads.
This information was displayed so teammates could promptly assess each other's status and provide appropriate assistance.
Of course, if you were willing, you could also share this information with people outside your team.
Just like in today's assessment, everyone would voluntarily display their life bar and energy bar to the teachers protecting them, so the teachers could judge the situation in time.
As Su Tianxin and Shen Rulong cast a probing spell, they confirmed that Chen Mo's Level had indeed jumped directly to 5.
Name: Chen Mo
Level: 5
A person's attributes can only be probed by others if they choose to make them public. However, Level can be probed by others at will, unless you intentionally use some hiding-type abilities to conceal or alter it.
Seeing the information fed back by the Heavenly Dao, Su Tianxin was the first to show confusion. "Weren't you at Level 1 just a moment ago, kid?"
Shen Rulong, however, was the first to understand. "Perhaps all our Weaken skills earlier nullified Yang Weinan's defenses. This brat then had a skirmish with Yang Weinan and luckily managed to chip away some of his Health, thus gaining kill participation credit for the red-named individual."
"Kill participation for a red-named individual?" Fang Datong asked in confusion. "What does that have to do with Mo suddenly reaching Level 5?"
"Everyone knows that if you kill a red-named individual, you gain half of their total experience points.
But what many people don't know is that if multiple people participate in the kill, then half of the total experience points are distributed among all participants according to their degree of participation."
"Yang Weinan is a Level 30 professional with at least nearly ten million total experience points. Even if Chen Mo got only a thousandth of that, he would have received tens of thousands."
As soon as Shen Rulong finished speaking, the nearby students were dumbfounded.
"Wow, just by tagging a red-named individual, he can get so many experience points! That's way better than farming monsters!"
"No wonder red-named individuals are immediately ganged up on when discovered. Even a small assist earns a considerable amount of experience points."
"I initially thought Chen Mo was unlucky, but now I'm instantly envious. Why wasn't I the one taken hostage?"
"Don't jinx it! Chen Mo was lucky to survive. How can you still think about that? If a red-named individual kills you, resurrection isn't possible. Risking your life for experience points you can get sooner or later? Are you crazy?"
Regarding Chen Mo's accidental windfall, some were envious, while others remained indifferent...
Chen Mo himself, however, was ecstatic.
He had just been reprimanded by the Principal and hadn't had time to review all The Heavenly Path's Hints.
Opening The Heavenly Path's Hints now, he realized he had made a huge profit in experience points.
The Heavenly Path's Hint: You earned 76,880 experience points!
The Heavenly Path's Hint: Congratulations, your Level has increased. Current Level: 2!
The Heavenly Path's Hint: Congratulations, your Level has increased...
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The Heavenly Path's Hint: Congratulations, your Level has increased. Current Level: 5!
The Heavenly Path's Hint: Your Level has reached 5, and you have hit the first-tier bottleneck. You can now choose the Realm Breakthrough Assessment!
The Heavenly Path's Hint: The Realm Breakthrough Assessment can only be attempted once, regardless of success or failure. If you choose to challenge it, please do so in your best condition.
The Heavenly Path's Hint: If you do not wish to undergo the Realm Breakthrough Assessment, you can choose to break through autonomously. At this stage, you only need to wait one day to break through the Level limit on your own. However, you will be unable to gain or accumulate experience points during this period.
The Realm Breakthrough Assessment is a special challenge that occurs every five levels, which issues a challenge corresponding to your profession.
There are nine difficulties to choose from, ranging from F-Class to SSS-level.
Different challenge difficulties require different amounts of experience points to initiate them and offer varying rewards.
The F-Class difficulty allows for teaming up, so its difficulty is quite low. Basically, anyone can complete it. It only requires twice the experience points needed to level up from 5 to 6 to initiate the challenge.
Upon completion, your Level increases directly from 5 to 6, and your upgradeable level cap is raised to 10, but there are no other rewards.
Choosing the F-Class difficulty challenge might seem like a poor deal, as there are no rewards and it requires double the experience points for leveling up. However, the advantage is that you don't need to wait a day and can continue accumulating experience points to level up.
Otherwise, if you choose autonomous breakthrough, you won't be able to gain or accumulate experience points during that period, effectively wasting an entire day.
However, if you are confident in your abilities and want to seize this once-every-five-levels opportunity to gain benefits from the Realm Breakthrough Assessment, then you need to choose a higher-difficulty challenge.
Starting from E-Class difficulty, teaming up is not allowed; the challenge must be completed alone.
Upon passing, you will receive item rewards appropriate to the difficulty tier and a title reward corresponding to that difficulty.
These titles can enhance attributes, provide special characteristics, provide skills, and more. It occurs once every five levels; missing one chance means having less combat power than others.
So, it is very important to choose an assessment difficulty that matches your own abilities!