As a white light flashed, Su Mu stood once again inside his own dungeon space.

Under the hazy sky, three massive mountains echoed from afar. When a chilling wind blew across Lion Camel Ridge, bone powder filled the air.

At the peak of Flower-Fruit Mountain, the remnant stone of patching heaven emitted a warm glow, with seven-colored patterns slowly flowing across the stone's surface.

On White Tiger Ridge, White Bone Demon stood beside the mountain path in Transformation Technique: Human Form, her plain robes quiet, with a bone whip vaguely visible at her waist.

At the bottom of Bibo Pool, the figures of Benboerba and Babobaben swam silently among the aquatic weeds.

A line of text popped up on the System Panel:

【College Entrance Examination · Stage 2 · Lord Crusade】

【Preparation Time: 2 minutes and 57 seconds】

【Current Wave: 0】

【Total BOSS Defeated: 0】

【Points Coefficient: 100】

Su Mu glanced at the rules, and he already had a clear idea in his mind.

For BOSS battles, there was one BOSS per wave, with the Level starting at Level 10 and increasing progressively. After the eleventh wave, the Level would no longer increase, but the quantity and overall quality would rise significantly.

With a thought, he issued instructions simultaneously to Little Drill-Wind and White Bone Demon via Soul Link.

"The first wave begins, Little Drill-Wind in the front, White Bone Demon on the flanks. Once the BOSS appears, prioritize focused fire and end the battle quickly."

Little Drill-Wind sprang up from beside the Lion Camel Ridge stele, his short blade drawn as his cyan-black figure landed at the valley entrance in the front section of Lion Camel Ridge. White Bone Demon walked down from White Tiger Ridge, gently flicking the bone whip at her waist as grayish-white flame patterns lit up.

The countdown reached zero.

A rift tore open, and the first BOSS walked out.

A Level 10 Goblin Warlord, nearly three meters tall, wielding a giant axe, its grayish-green skin covered in scars.

Little Drill-Wind didn't even wait for it to fully step out of the rift.

The cyan-black figure flashed past, and the short blade swept upward from the warlord's jaw, piercing straight through its skull. The warlord's massive body stiffened for a split second before collapsing with a crash.

【Kills: 1】

【Current Wave: 1】

【Points Coefficient: 100】

【Next wave refresh countdown: 3... 2... 1...】

The second wave, Level 11.

The third wave, Level 12.

The fourth wave, Level 13.

Su Mu stood high in the air, overlooking the entire battlefield.

He noticed one thing.

Little Drill-Wind and White Bone Demon's speed in fighting the BOSS was even faster than when they fought small monsters earlier.

The reason was very simple.

Although the BOSS had higher attributes and a more complete skill set, there was only one of them.

Little Drill-Wind didn't need to charge back and forth through the monster tide, judge positioning, or prevent leaking monsters.

It only needed to face a single target, concentrating all its energy and combat instincts onto one point.

One slash.

If one slash wasn't enough, two slashes.

If two weren't enough, three.

White Bone Demon's bone whip continuously compressed the BOSS's dodging space from the flank, and the grayish-white flames sealed off all retreats.

The two monsters cooperated seamlessly, and almost no BOSS took more than fifteen seconds from appearance to collapse.

The fifth wave, the sixth wave, the seventh wave... all the way to the tenth wave.

For ten BOSSes, Su Mu used less than three minutes.

He glanced at the System Panel.

【Current Wave: 10】

【Total BOSS Defeated: 10】

【Points Coefficient: 100】

【Core Card Status: Intact】

Ten waves of BOSSes took a total of two minutes and forty-seven seconds.

Every wave was a limit clear, without wasting a single breath of time. The points coefficient consistently remained at 1.0.

...

Meanwhile, on the floating platform, the invigilating teachers stared at the data on the light screen, falling into a brief silence.

"From the first to the tenth wave, all were limit clears. The points coefficient is 1.0, without any decay."

The middle-aged teacher looked at the panel, his voice somewhat dry, "And look at his time taken. Ten waves of BOSSes, two minutes and forty-seven seconds. On average, each BOSS took less than seventeen seconds."

"Seventeen seconds." Another teacher repeated, a trace of disbelief in his tone, "Although these BOSSes are not high in Level, each of them has a complete skill set and combat intelligence. A Level 10 Goblin Warlord normally takes a Grade S examinee over a minute to solo. He did it in seventeen seconds."

"It's not just fast." Elder Xiu slowly spoke, "Look at the status of his cards. After finishing ten waves, Little Drill-Wind and White Bone Demon's health had almost zero depletion. Zero errors throughout, zero hits taken, zero error margin allowed. What does this indicate? It indicates that the base attributes of his two cards have completely crushed these BOSSes. No skills needed, no tactics needed, purely a crushing victory of base numerical values."

Everyone nodded one after another.

"But the real test is yet to come."

Elder Xiu stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze calm.

"After the eleventh wave, the BOSSes' Levels will no longer increase, but their quantity and overall quality will increase significantly. Starting from the eleventh wave, the BOSSes' intelligence and combat skills will experience a leap. Monsters that could originally only display a combat power of 1, once they have intelligence and cooperation, can pull off an effect of 1.5 or even higher. The further back it goes, the more exaggerated this amplification becomes."

"Correct."

The middle-aged teacher took over, "Starting from the eleventh wave, BOSSes will no longer appear one by one, but in groups. Two in the eleventh wave, three in the twelfth, four in the thirteenth, five in the fourteenth. By the fifteenth wave, five BOSSes will unite to form a complete combat system.

Ranged, tank, support, assassin, commander, each performing their own duties and cooperating with one another. That kind of intensity is infinitely close to the BOSS battle of a Hell-grade lair."

"Normally speaking, the fifteenth wave is the ceiling line.

Grade S examinees can kill one. Double Grade S can kill 2, and SSS can put up a fight."

"Can he pass the fifteenth wave?" someone asked.

"He should be able to."

The old man mused, "Little Drill-Wind has a combat index of 540,000, and White Bone Demon has 748,000. Putting these attributes in front of the fifteenth wave BOSSes gives them an advantage.

But an advantage is an advantage; once five BOSSes unite, their mechanics and cooperation will vastly magnify their overall strength. Whether Su Mu can pass depends on his dungeon's true combat capability, not just the panel."

"In other words, Stage 2 is the place that truly tests his dungeon depth."

The middle-aged teacher concluded, "In the first stage of mob farming, the monsters had no intelligence; it was merely a preliminary check of scores to accommodate the majority of people. Starting from Stage 2, it is a screening of elite examinees. The BOSSes after the tenth wave are already infinitely close to the strength of a real lair."

Everyone looked at the light screen once again.

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