Chapter 41: The Monster Guarding the Mausoleum

  "Who dares disturb the old monk's long slumber?"

  With a harsh, unpleasant sound, four mummies awakened from their long slumber in the small coffins and walked stiffly towards the four people. This sudden change made Hu Si Ming and the others immediately tense up. No one had expected that they would drive away Ye Wu Fang's team only to disturb the creatures guarding the tomb.

  The only thing that reassured them was that the mummy moved at an extremely slow pace.

  If we say that the average speed of freshmen after physical examination is around 240 points. These mummies, their moving speed will not exceed 200 points. Even if they can't win a fight, freshmen can choose to leave at any time.

  Upon discovering this, Hu Siming let out a sigh of relief and activated the school emblem's probing ability. Since the target wasn't strong, Hu Siming easily obtained some of its attributes.

  Mummy

  Normal monster of LV2.

  Maximum life value 280 points, armor 2 points, attack with corpse poison effect.

  After a quick glance, Hu Siming read out several main attributes. Although the attack power is not clear, judging from its level and other attributes, even if it's high, it won't be too high.

  "Can fight!"

  Zhao Feng said this as he began to move his wrists.

  If it were another monster, after being caught by Hu Si Ming in Frost Ball, he would definitely be too lazy to move. But the Mummy is exactly the type specified by the optional task. For those 100 universal points, Zhao Feng didn't want to let it go either.

  The tomb, which had just been quiet for a short time, once again echoed with the sound of fighting.

  As the only ranged attacker among the five, Shao's charged shot hit the Mummy first. Taking damage, the Mummy immediately turned around and rushed towards Shao. Unfortunately, although it had 2 points of armor and decent health, it was too clumsy and didn't have any skills, doomed to be kited to death by Shao.

  Zhang Hao and Zhao Feng chose to join forces to deal with a mummy.

  With their strength, two against one is just as easy.

  The remaining two mummies were led away separately by Hu Shiming and Liu Feng.

  Among the four skilled team members, Liu Feng's combat power was undoubtedly the weakest, only slightly stronger than Zhang Hao who had not been strengthened. Taking on a single mummy alone would be very difficult for her. But before they could solve their respective goals, no one could help her.

  Hu Si Ming definitely prioritized the monster in front of him as his first target to attack.

  After mastering the basic movement, his speed has reached 255 points, enough to suppress the mummy. With the newly acquired equipment, the powerful frost effect also reduced the mummy's movement speed and attack speed by 10%. After being covered with a layer of frost, the clumsy mummy was already staggering, and its hand movements during attacks were also slower than normal.

  Such slow response gave Hu Siming a lot of room for operation.

  After applying a slow effect to the Mummy with one sword, Hu Si Ming took advantage of his speed and the opponent's slowness to quickly move left, causing the Mummy's attack to miss. Taking advantage of the long recovery time after the attack, he stepped forward and struck again with his sword. If he didn't mind consuming magic power, he could also add a Brave Charge at this moment. Using the extra damage from the skill and the not-so-obvious stun, he unleashed a stunning combo.

  Although the foundation of close combat is only LV1, the hard training for half a month has already shown initial results. Hu Shiming's grasp of attack rhythm, and the connection between attacks and dodges, are already well-practiced. With three swift sword strikes, the stiff and powerful arm of the mummy was unable to hit him once.

  Its own life value was knocked down by one quarter by Hu Si Ming.

  "It's this kind of rhythm!"

  A real fight with a real sword, he gradually connected the content instilled in training and memory, his movements became more and more smooth. Until the mummy's blood volume dropped by half, Hu Si Ming was caught by the clumsy mummy because of his slow dodge, and was heavily slapped on the shoulder.

  The school emblem's combat record shows: Received 18 points of damage!

  Assuming only 1 point of armor reduction, the mummy's average attack power is around 20 points, which is not high. Compared to direct physical attacks, Hu Si Ming thinks its corpse poison is more annoying. It causes 5 points/second of toxic damage, lasting for 3 seconds. If you are hit by multiple poisons, the cumulative damage is still quite impressive.

  Unfortunately, the mummy didn't get a second chance.

  After adjusting his stance, Hu Shiming's attack pattern became even more familiar. Along with the last sword light falling down, the mummy was beheaded by Hu Shiming on the spot. A black aura dissipated and disappeared into thin air, which was the curse that the mummy had suffered. Another white glow transformed into pure energy, surging into Hu Shiming's body.

  Battlefield Prompt: Killed Mummy, gained 15 experience points.

  Purify evil The progress of this optional task also became Kill Mummy 1/5.

  "Not bad."

  The experience value is higher than Hu Shiming thought. He originally thought that killing a LV2 monster like this could give 10 points of experience, which was already pretty good. Calculating it this way, if he can kill a few more, directly leveling up in the unified exam isn't impossible either.

  Realizing this, a thought that even he himself couldn't grasp floated into Hu Shiming's mind.

  After learning from the assistant teacher that unified exams would deduct life, many new students scolded loudly on the war network, thinking that the Death Academy was forcing them to die, cruel and merciless, taking pleasure in playing with new students. But at this moment, Hu Siming felt that the unified exam was not a kind of difficulty, but provided a place for all students to show their skills. Those who performed well could stand out and grow rapidly. Only those students who performed mediocrely and were unwilling to work hard would be brushed down by the college and severely punished.

  This is very likely!

  When they were brought to the Academy, the assistant had already told them: The purpose of the Academy is to cultivate them into heroes. Although the motivation for doing so is still unclear, if it starts from this purpose, it actually coincides with Hu Siming's conclusion just now.

  Is higher risk associated with higher return?

  Hú Sī Míng suddenly had some enlightenment.

  The death penalty set by the college in the unified exam is just a means of urging and intimidating. The real intention is to let them strive to perform well in the unified exam and gain as much growth as possible. If they only work hard to avoid punishment, it goes against the original intention of the college.

  The root of everything lies in these two words: "get stronger"!

  "Hey, don't be stunned, come and help!"

  Liu Feng's slightly anxious voice awakened Hu Si Ming from his contemplation. After fighting against the Nightmares team, her blood volume was already not full, and the skill of putting Mummy to sleep didn't work either. In a few rounds, although Mummy's life value had been reduced by several tens of points, Liu Feng was even more miserable, with the continuous damage from the Corpse Poison bringing her to the edge of low health.

  His teammate actively sought help, and Hu Siming naturally couldn't stay still, swinging his sword to kill him.

  With his help, killing the mummy became much easier. The powerful effect of Frostbite's slow and the stun from their consecutive attacks greatly reduced the mummy's threat. Hu Si Ming's 29-point maximum attack power even dealt more damage than Liu Feng's total damage. Soon, the second mummy followed its companion to its demise.

  As one of the collaborators in the kill, Hu Shiming unexpectedly received 8 points of experience.

  At this time, Zhao Feng, Zhang Hao and Yan Shao Ou also completed their kills. Hu Si Ming's relaxed performance earlier was seen by them. From the envy and admiration in their eyes, it can be seen that more than half of the reason was attributed to Frost Ball. "If I had gotten that thing...", two people couldn't help but fantasize like this.

  However, jealousy is just that - jealousy. Zhao Feng and Zhang Hao had no way to do anything about it. As fellow examinees in the same camp, they were not allowed to attack each other. Even if someone did harbor evil intentions, there was nothing they could do in front of the rules!

  "Alas, what a person..."

  After sighing for the nth time, Zhao Feng finally gathered his emotions of admiration, jealousy and hatred, and prepared to set off again.

  The four poor devils didn't drop anything, so there was no need to sweep the battlefield. Having already wasted nearly 10 minutes here, they had no more time to waste and quickly returned by the original route. Since the traps had been cleared, this short 50-meter passageway was walked very quickly.

  As the Frost Orb was taken back by Hu Si Ming, the chilly atmosphere in the tomb had dissipated a lot and the temperature was gradually rising. However, the faint blue light at the entrance of the tunnel was still there.

  After passing by here twice, Yan Shao finally discovered something was off.

  "That's strange."

  He muttered to himself and couldn't help but stop in his tracks.