Outside the playground.
Lu Ran wandered around for a few circles and finally found Wang Yujiao.
"Jiaojiao, over here, over here!" Lu Ran saw Wang Yujiao standing prettily under the tree not far away and immediately waved and called out.
Wang Yujiao turned her head and saw Lu Ran, suddenly stunned.
But the usually gentle and delicate Wang Yujiao, who would run over like a little bird, stood still today.
Lu Ran didn't think much, and actively ran over.
His excitement couldn't be contained, and he said, "Let's go level up, I just saw you have awakened the rare profession Magic Archer, if we team up, we'll surely..."
"Lu Ran, I was just looking for you, I have something to tell you," Wang Yujiao interrupted Lu Ran's enthusiasm.
"What?" Lu Ran was taken aback.
But Wang Yujiao hesitated for a long time without saying a word.
Just as Lu Ran was puzzled.
A few people walked over from the side.
The young man leading them glanced at Lu Ran casually and said, "What's the point of wasting words with him, let's go level up."
The person was Liang Shaoyu.
During their time at the academy, he often pestered Wang Yujiao.
But today, not only did Wang Yujiao not resist, she even leaned slightly toward Liang Shaoyu.
This is when she said to Lu Ran, "I was just about to tell you, Liang Shaoyu asked me to team up, so I won't be joining you."
Lu Ran stood stunned in place, looking at Liang Shaoyu, and the slightly older youths beside him.
Four eyes met, Liang Shaoyu's lips curled slightly, and he said, "My dad has arranged for someone to help me and Jiaojiao level up, Lu Ran, why don't you go hang out somewhere cool, after all, you have your skeletons to keep you company, you're not alone, haha..."
Liang Shaoyu's teasing made the youths around him burst into laughter.
Lu Ran ignored Liang Shaoyu and instead looked at Wang Yujiao, his expression gradually becoming cold.
He asked, "So, what are we now? Breaking up?"
After graduation, countless couples break up due to profession differences, but Lu Ran never thought this would happen to him!
Wang Yujiao took a deep breath.
Her eyes revealed a hint of determination.
She nodded and said, "I have a rare profession, you have a regular profession, the gap between us will only widen, don't you understand? We're ultimately not in the same world, and in a month, when the Celestial Path Alliance recruits, there are only three spots, but five rare professions this graduation awakening, Qin Wuyao has already taken one, and the remaining five will compete for those two spots, I... I can't bet my future on you."
Lu Ran's heart completely froze.
After Wang Yujiao finished speaking, she didn't wait for Lu Ran to respond and reached out to hold Liang Shaoyu's arm.
She said, "Shaoyu, let's go, to level up."
Liang Shaoyu showed a face full of pride and superiority, naturally wrapping his arms around Wang Yujiao's slender waist and rubbing it.
He also said, "Alright, I'll take you to my family's warehouse to pick out some good beginner equipment, though we don't need it, since we have high-level professionals to help level up, we don't need to do it ourselves."
After speaking, they walked away boastingly.
Lu Ran stood in place in a daze, suddenly finding it a bit laughable.
He thought he knew Wang Yujiao well, but in the end...
Snap~
Just as he was feeling silently hurt, a hand suddenly tapped Lu Ran's shoulder, startling him.
He turned his head and found that the person was actually Qin Wuyao.
"Tsk tsk tsk... Just graduated and already breaking up, that's truly heart-wrenching," Qin Wuyao said, looking at the backs of Wang Yujiao and the others, in a sarcastic tone.
Lu Ran rolled his eyes.
He slapped her hand away and turned to leave.
"Hey, can't take a joke now? Shouldn't you feel happy that such a person is gone? It's a small loss after all," Qin Wuyao caught up with Lu Ran's steps and said.
Usually, Lu Ran and Qin Wuyao's relationship was quite good.
After all, they were the only two at the academy with Spiritual Power over 100.
"Do you have anything else?" Lu Ran wasn't in the mood to continue this topic with Qin Wuyao.
"Why don't we team up to level up, what do you think?" Qin Wuyao smiled and said.
"Not interested." Lu Ran directly shook his head, "You're a hidden profession, what good is teaming up with me, a regular profession."
Qin Wuyao didn't mind.
She tilted her head and said, "What's wrong with regular professions, your Spiritual Power is 130, it's rare even nationwide, I don't believe you're just an Undead Mage."
This remark surprised Lu Ran.
To most people, awakening a profession defines future development.
Few have thoughts like Qin Wuyao.
But Lu Ran still shook his head and said, "I'm not interested."
After speaking, he walked away on his own.
In the equipment shop on the street, he spent three hundred Gold Coins on a set of Blank Equipment, Lu Ran didn't leave the city but went to Black Fire City's Central Square.
The Dungeon Hall was located here.
Of course, Lu Ran wasn't going to clear team dungeons, as he couldn't enter them now, given the lowest five-person dungeon was level five, and Lu Ran was level 0, unable to enter yet.
But on the dungeon plaza, there was a beginner leveling dungeon: the Novice Trial Ground.
There were many monsters inside, and it was a solo dungeon, the difficulty was slightly higher than the wild, and the experience was higher than wild monsters.
However, beginners rarely wanted to tackle it.
Because in this globally digitized world, even with various professions, the resurrection mechanism doesn't exist.
If you die, you're truly dead!
Even healing professions can only ensure teammates' health as much as possible.
But if you accidentally don't heal in time, and a teammate's health bar empties, they're actually dead, even for hidden healing professions, there's no talk of resurrection skills!
So you can imagine, beginners who have never fought monsters rarely dare to enter the Novice Trial Ground alone.
After all, each profession initially only has one skill, and if several monsters target you in the trial ground, you're truly done for!
But Lu Ran was different, his skills had No Cooldown!
Lu Ran grew up as an orphan, working while studying to support himself until now, with just over four hundred Gold Coins in his pocket.
Now he spent three hundred Gold Coins on Blank Equipment, leaving some money for meals.
But it was worth it!
This set of blank attributes was pitiful, but Lu Ran valued the Mana Value.
The whole set gave Lu Ran an additional 100 points to his Mana Value limit.
Adding Lu Ran's original 100 Mana points, he now had 200 Mana points!
Not counting automatic Mana Value recovery, Lu Ran could immediately summon twenty times, two summons per time, totaling forty summons!
This was a terrifying amount!
Not to mention, Lu Ran's Mana Value could naturally recover, continuously replenishing!
Forty skeletons charging around wildly, this was much more comfortable than a team of five novices going out to fights!
After making up his mind, Lu Ran arrived at the dungeon hall.
It was crowded here, full of people of different levels and professions, very lively.
Lu Ran went straight to the northeast corner of the hall, to the entrance of the Novice Trial Ground, where no one was present.
Lu Ran decisively stepped forward, his figure flickering and disappearing into the portal.
He just didn't notice that among the crowd, a young man in black tight-fitting clothes saw Lu Ran's figure disappear and immediately opened his Communication Device, sending a message to Qin Wuyao: "Miss, Lu Ran went into the Novice Trial Ground."