The distant training ground, venue for the second-year monthly exam.

The first semester's monthly exam for freshmen is somewhat special, divided by the chosen Summoner skills.

From the second semester, the monthly exam becomes a regular professional assessment.

Generally speaking, it's divided by the specific department.

Except for the combat department, where all students must go to the ring for a PK assessment.

The biggest difference is that students from other departments can participate in the monthly exam across disciplines.

This system considers that some students from life or cultivation departments are equally skilled in combat.

If confident that their combat skills surpass their own major, they can apply to cross disciplines.

Conversely, combat department students, if confident, can also participate in the monthly exams of life or cultivation departments.

However, such occurrences are generally rare and usually involve top students or those with peculiar skills within their major.

But today, the second-year combat department's monthly exam welcomed a cross-discipline student.

That student is Cai Yan from the life department's gathering major.

And the ring he is joining is not just an ordinary 1V1 match.

The combat department's monthly exams feature several types of matches, such as Summoner beasts 1V1, Summoner beasts 2V2, human-beast 1+1V1+1, and human-beast 1+2V1+2.

The most competitive among these is Summoner beasts 2V2.

Because in the second year, many Summoners themselves lack combat abilities and become unstable factors when entering the ring.

For most, the most reliable is Summoner beasts 2V2.

And Cai Yan's choice is precisely Summoner beasts 2V2.

His arrival naturally drew quite a bit of attention.

After more than a year together, students within the combat department have become familiar faces to each other, making this new face quite conspicuous.

"Oh, isn't this Cai Yan from the gathering major."

"Are you planning to participate in the 2V2 ring? No way, right?"

"Hehe, interesting, someone actually dares to challenge us."

"It's not too late to go back now, this isn't your life department's monthly exam."

"Probably grew an ego from the life department, thinking you can also shine here in the combat department."

As one of the standout students in the gathering major, Cai Yan is somewhat known.

So some students recognized him immediately.

However, the words spoken were mostly sarcastic.

After all, small skirmishes among the three departments are continuous.

No matter how much internal competition exists within the combat department, they unite when facing other departments.

"Hey, Cai, why are you here?"

At this moment, a local combat department student hurried over.

He generally had a decent relationship with Cai Yan, after all, they both hail from the eastern capital.

In his understanding, Cai Yan's combat capability was rather average.

Completing the Immaculate Salt gathering task was merely leveraging his gathering major's advantage.

If placed in the combat department, he would be at best a middling level.

For cross-discipline students, the tolerance isn't high.

For average results, nobody says much, but for cross-discipline monthly exam participants, not placing in the top 5% means being ridiculed.

"I'm confident, so I'm here."

Yet, in the face of the fellow student's doubt, Cai Yan merely smiled slightly.

"Who dares to come up and fight me!"

Coincidentally, a rough voice resounded on the ring.

A big guy stood on it, looking down at everyone.

The rule of the monthly exam ring is simple; pair up, the winner advances.

No drawing lots; it's decided entirely by personal choice.

If no one dares challenge, the person automatically advances.

This repeats until all rankings are decided.

"Why is this big guy so eager today."

"Who's going up there? I don't want to face him."

"Isn't that obvious? It's not like anyone wants to."

"His iron-walled bull and venomous snake combination is too strong. He wiped out several people in Determined Hall's ring a few days ago."

"Plus, I heard he just leveled up both Summoner beasts to LV11 yesterday!"

"Wow, that strong?!"

People whispered below the ring, but no one went up.

Currently, among students with a second Summoner beast in the combat department, the average level is around 9+9.

And this big guy reached 11+11.

He's above the average line by a notch, comfortably at an upper echelon level.

It's not that there aren't students stronger than him, but some aren't at this ring, and some don't want to lower themselves to join.

"I'll go."

Yet, as everyone thought the big guy would automatically advance, Cai Yan stepped onto the ring.

[Buzzing~]

[Honey Honey~]

Upon reaching the ring, he immediately released his Summoner beasts.

The Bee Maiden and Honey Flower.

"Hmm?"xN

At the cross-department student's entrance, all the students nearby were stunned.

Instinctively, they raised their wristwatches and aimed invisible lasers at the two Summoner beasts.

Always ready to gather first-hand information is the combat department's practice.

This motion might seem impolite elsewhere, but in the combat department's monthly exam setting, there are no such taboos.

"Eh?!"xN

But as the watch's information fed back, most students voiced surprise.

Some even doubted if they saw it wrong.

"Uh, 1st shift LV16, 0 shift LV14?"

"What kind of devilish level is this?"

"Whoa, no wonder he dared to join the combat department's monthly exam."

"Damn, does anyone in our department have an average level higher than him?"

"Hard to say. I guess the strongest might be just on par with him."

"Is he really from the life department? Sure he's not one of those cultivation department upgrade specialists?"

Amid these murmurs, some students didn't look too pleased.

They belonged to the elite of the combat department, but their Summoner beasts' average level didn't have an advantage over Cai Yan.

They had heard of this guy before, but never that his Summoner beasts were so high leveled or that he was so skilled at breeding Summoner beasts!

Listening to the surrounding voices, Cai Yan felt absolutely thrilled.

He even wondered if his shoulders seemed raised in others' eyes.

Is this how satisfying it is to use combat power to stun the combat department students?

(Junior Brother, thank you!)

At this moment, he thought of someone.

...

"Ah-choo!"

Li Pu sneezed and rubbed his nose.

"What the heck is this."

He stood within the monthly exam site, somewhat bewildered.

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