Skills remained unchanged.

The tier did not increase, but all attributes directly doubled by nearly eighty percent.

Su Mu could not help raising an eyebrow.

Merely expanding Lion Camel Ridge from one square kilometer to eight square kilometers and tidying up the mountains a bit doubled Little Drill-Wind's attributes. And this was still under the condition that the tier had not moved.

If it could be expanded to eighty miles, this card would probably breakthrough to S-grade.

"The growth potential is truly ridiculously high," Su Mu sighed with emotion.

Immediately afterward, he glanced at his soul power.

0.

Not a single bit was left.

The corner of Su Mu's mouth twitched.

His original plan was to spend it all, but when he truly saw that glaring "0", he still felt an indescribable sense of emptiness.

From Awakening until now, 210 points of soul power had been burned completely clean in over an hour.

"However, it was worth it."

Su Mu's consciousness withdrew from the dungeon space and switched to the combat index interface.

dungeon Combat Power Index: 13796.

Among them, the architectural category contributed 2100 points, the remnant stone of patching heaven contributed 1200 points, and the remaining 10496 points all came from Little Drill-Wind.

Su Mu stared at that number for a few seconds.

A combat power index exceeding ten thousand was already at a middle-upper standard among newly Awakened students.

Yet he knew that within this number, Little Drill-Wind alone accounted for over seventy percent.

The true combat strength of the entire dungeon was almost entirely bet on this single card.

Strong it truly was.

Fragile it also truly was.

Once Little Drill-Wind was suppressed or focused down, the entire dungeon would be left with only two stones and a few barren mountains, completely devoid of any ability to fight back.

"A single-core system; the early stage is always like this," Su Mu comforted himself with a sentence.

He certainly knew that this was not secure, but with the resources currently in his hands being so limited, being able to pile Little Drill-Wind up to A-grade was already a huge dividend brought by the Journey to the West concept.

If it were anyone else holding an E-grade Patrol Minor Demon, let alone A-grade, being able to rise to D-grade would already be considered good luck.

The problem now was that his soul power had returned to zero. If he wanted to replenish anything afterward, he had to obtain experience points by killing monsters to increase his Level, allowing his soul power to naturally recover or even breakthrough its upper limit.

Meanwhile, in the administrative building, in the principal's office.

Principal Zhao Jianguo and several teachers were still sitting in front of the observation screen.

The images on the screen were no longer switching as frequently as before.

The dungeon spaces of most students had completed their preliminary construction, and the images were gradually stabilizing.

Only a sporadic few students were still carrying out final adjustments.

Principal Zhao Jianguo switched the screen to the statistics interface.

A leaderboard popped out.

【Rong City First High School - Awakening Day dungeon Combat Power Leaderboard】

First place: Ye Qingxue... 18574

Second place: Wang Hao... 14630

Third place: Lin Yuan... 14220

Fourth place: Chen Zimo... 14180

Fifth place: Zhou Xiang... 13555

Sixth place: Li Ming 456

Seventh place: Fang Yan 270

Eighth place: Han Li... 8985

Principal Zhao Jianguo looked at the leaderboard and nodded slightly: "The top five have all broken ten thousand, and the tenth place also has eighty-five hundred. Although many people are bad at designing copies, the quality of the top students is a notch higher than in previous years."

"Principal is right."

The Bespectacled Teacher took over the conversation, her tone carrying a bit of joy: "Especially the top three; the composition of their combat power index is very healthy. Look, besides the bonuses from the core card and the ice and snow Domain, Ye Qingxue's over eighteen thousand combat value also features a very reasonable combination of three ice-type trap cards and one elemental card, almost entirely consisting of solid output and crowd control capabilities."

"Wang Hao is also not bad."

The Female Teacher pointed at the data of the second place: "The Martial Soul resonance link has pulled up the combat power of all six F-grade combat creature cards, plus the high-attack System Panel of the Disheveled Cloak Hammer itself, making its burst power very prominent within the same Level."

"Following this trend, this year those who can pass the Nightmare-grade trial within seven days will likely number at least ten people," the Old Instructor slowly spoke, his tone carrying a sense of emotion: "In past years, having three or five would have been pretty good."

Principal Zhao Jianguo hearing this nodded slightly, not rushing to draw a conclusion, but instead pulling the leaderboard down.

He roughly glanced at the data past fiftieth place.

The combat values of those students were mostly between three thousand and six thousand, mostly piled up relying on the core card plus basic terrain, with the proportion of creature cards and trap cards being relatively low.

Principal Zhao Jianguo continued to flip downward.

When he flipped to over one hundred and seventieth place, his fingers paused for a moment.

Su Mu, 178th place.

Combat value: 1172.

Principal Zhao Jianguo furrowed his brow slightly.

"Su Mu's ranking has dropped this low?" He instinctively said a sentence.

Several teachers nearby leaned over to take a look.

"Normal."

The Dean sighed: "His core card is an F-grade stone card, and its combat value is inherently low. Being able to rank in the top two hundred is already because his soul power is high, allowing him to build an extra mountain.

Even if other students' core cards are a bit worse, at least they are creature cards or weapon cards, and their combat value is composed of solid attack or defense capabilities. What does he count as? A mountain plus a stone, when monsters come, will he fight them with his head?"

"Doesn't he still have an E-grade card he can claim?" someone asked.

"An E-grade creature card, put into the dungeon, will at most increase around five hundred points of combat value."

The Bespectacled Teacher pushed up their glasses, calculating extremely fast: "And given Su Mu's current soul power reserves, he should have already used up quite a bit. When he puts the card in, his ranking will at most float forward by a dozen or twenty places, no more than that."

"When all is said and done, the core card is just too trashy."

"What a pity."

The Female Teacher gently sighed: "Su Mu's Talent, placed in the history of our school, is also ranked quite high. soul power 210, dungeon design first in the entire city, his understanding and application of the theme are stronger than many teachers. Such a seedling, as long as the core card is slightly normal, even if it's C-grade, his upper limit would be boundless."

"Yet it just had to be a piece of stone."

The Dean shook his head: "Still an F-grade stone. This kind of core card conceptually has nothing to do with 'combat'. And special themes have no precedents to follow; wanting to turn the tables by design is harder than ascending to heaven."

The atmosphere in the office became somewhat gloomy.

Principal Zhao Jianguo was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke: "Heavenly Dao is unfair. But when all is said and done, the road of a Dungeon Master is too long, and Awakening is only the starting point. If Su Mu can find flaws in the rules within the special theme, it is not necessarily impossible for him to have a chance."

Although when he said these words himself, he felt like he didn't have much confidence.

"Alright," Principal Zhao Jianguo stood up, "it's getting late. I see most students have already gone to the Trial Ground. Let's go over and take a look, and by the way, collect some firsthand data."

Everyone stood up one after another and tidied up their things.

The Old Instructor walked at the very back, glanced at the screen, and just as he was about to turn it off, his fingers paused mid-air.

"Wait."

His voice was not loud, but it made everyone stop in their tracks.

"Look at Su Mu's data."