The entire venue, without exception, was familiar with Lu Ran.
As the student with the highest spiritual power in the history of Black Fire Academy, all the instructors had high hopes for Lu Ran.
The principal, Jiang Zhenbei, had already made contact with the Celestial Path Alliance.
As the Grand Steward of the Celestial Path Alliance's Black Fire City branch, Qin Lie had also been paying attention to Lu Ran for a long time.
Yesterday's awakening ceremony.
Countless people were focused on Lu Ran as well.
But the result was that Lu Ran awakened as an Undead Mage.
In an instant, all the previous attention practically vanished at the same time.
However, after the regret passed, their attention shifted to Qin Wuyao and those rare Professionals.
Unexpectedly.
In just one day—no, less than a day—
Lu Ran had already reached level eight!
This leveling speed was too exaggerated!
In previous years, on the first day of the rookie rankings, the top was typically level five at most, which was already the extreme.
Unless a big family was extremely aggressive about leveling speed on the first day, driving other newcomers away in the wild and occupying vast areas of monsters, combined with expensive team contracts to reduce experience penalties.
And they would have to cooperate fully, optimizing the monster-killing speed to the extreme, with a four-to-one setup, to potentially reach level six on the first day!
Reaching level seven on the first day was almost unheard of in history!
Let alone level eight; it was unheard of!
No one knew how Lu Ran accomplished it.
As everyone knows, the further you level up, the more exaggerated the required experience becomes.
The experience needed to go from level seven to eight exceeds the total required for all the previous levels combined!
Compared to the experience needed to reach level five, it's almost five times as much!
In front of Lu Ran, the four-to-one leveling strategy of various families yesterday seemed like a joke!
Beside Lu Ran, Liang Shaoyu was dumbfounded, staring at the leaderboard.
Wang Yujiao was also taken aback.
Then she looked at Lu Ran, her eyes flickering.
She didn't know how Lu Ran did it, but she thought, if she had leveled up with Lu Ran yesterday, she would surely have a spot in the top three today!
Thinking of this.
Wang Yujiao leaned forward and bypassed Liang Shaoyu to speak to Lu Ran: "Lu Ran, congratulations! I didn't expect you'd level up so fast. I wonder how you..."
Before she could finish, Lu Ran interrupted her directly.
Lu Ran glanced at Wang Yujiao and said, "No need to get chummy. You're right; we're not people of the same world."
Wang Yujiao opened her mouth, and the last ounce of hope in her heart disappeared.
She had been planning to team up with Lu Ran today!
Even though she didn't know how Lu Ran managed to level up, she thought that by teaming up with him, she could also gain experience!
Unfortunately, Lu Ran looked at Wang Yujiao with indifference, even showing a hint of disgust.
At this moment, the most awkward person was Liang Shaoyu.
His body was stiff, caught between the two.
It was evident that Wang Yujiao wanted to reconcile with Lu Ran due to his ranking, but unfortunately, she was rejected by him.
The effort to pull Wang Yujiao away felt like she was discarded garbage by Lu Ran.
Especially after Liang Shaoyu's previous mockery at Lu Ran.
A mere level four, flaunting in front of Lu Ran for half a day, mockingly ranking twenty-second and still sneering at Lu Ran.
In retrospect, in front of the level eight Lu Ran, Liang Shaoyu's actions were downright clownish!
At this moment.
Lu Ran looked at Liang Shaoyu with interest and said, "Young Master Liang, why aren't you speaking? Your ranking isn't bad; at least you made it. Many classmates don't even have the qualification to rank. Congratulations, just that the gap is quite large. Keep working hard."
This lecturing tone made Liang Shaoyu's face turn livid!
But he couldn't say a word in retort.
The facts were laid bare: level eight Lu Ran, level four Liang Shaoyu, this gap was not merely double.
It was dozens of times!
On stage, everyone returned to their senses.
Jiang Zhenbei chuckled and said, "It seems, indeed, that our students this year are full of hidden talents, not bad, not bad, commendable."
Qin Lie's gaze swept over the stage, searching for Lu Ran among the crowd.
Because he suddenly recalled Qin Wuyao's strange behavior yesterday.
During the meal, repeatedly mentioning the Undead Mage!
This morning, she firmly stated that it was impossible for her to take first place!
Qin Wuyao must know something!
That's why they call it being a shrewd old fox, instantly integrating all information and reaching a conclusion.
But even Qin Lie couldn't figure out how Lu Ran achieved it.
Following that, as usual, Jiang Zhenbei briefly explained the details to note after awakening a new profession, regarding dungeons and wild monsters.
Finally, he said, "Time's about up. If students from any class have questions, feel free to ask your instructors for detailed inquiries. Dismissed."
After the meeting, Lu Ran was about to leave the field.
Suddenly, Wang Yujiao, appearing innocent, blocked Lu Ran's path.
She apologized, "Lu Ran, I'm sorry for what happened yesterday..."
"What's up?" Lu Ran interrupted her directly.
"Are you going to level up? Let's team up." Wang Yujiao said eagerly.
Lu Ran chuckled softly.
He said, "What, Young Master Liang didn't team up with you? I'm just a regular Undead Mage; what kind of team can we form? Besides, didn't you say we're not people from the same world."
"You..." Wang Yujiao's face turned ugly, "You're still mad at me, aren't you? I... I didn't willingly go with Liang Shaoyu last night; I was drunk. If you want, I can be with you now! Can we go to your place?"
In truth, at this moment, Lu Ran felt relieved.
Seeing Wang Yujiao like this broke his last bit of attachment to her.
To deal with such a person, as Qin Wuyao had said, it's best to break up after graduation, minimizing losses, which is a good thing!
"This is useless to me," Lu Ran said flatly.
"I know you still like me, and I'm willing to give you a chance. We can be together again. How about teaming up to level up?" Wang Yujiao said almost pleadingly.
But as soon as she finished speaking.
Lu Ran hadn't even had time to reply.
Qin Wuyao quickly ran to Lu Ran's side.
Intimately holding onto Lu Ran's arm, she said, "What are you doing here? Let's go, team up and run a dungeon."
Instantly, Wang Yujiao's expression froze.
After saying that, Qin Wuyao glanced at Wang Yujiao, feigning surprise. "Isn't this Wang Yujiao? What, Young Master Liang didn't take you to level up?"
Wang Yujiao's expression turned even uglier.
She knew Qin Wuyao's status; even Liang Shaoyu dared not confront Qin Wuyao, let alone her.
"Shaoyu went to the restroom, he'll be right back, I... I'll go first."
After speaking, she left in disgrace.
Lu Ran looked at Qin Wuyao, bemused.
In his heart, he was quite grateful; he could clearly see that Qin Wuyao acted like this upon seeing Wang Yujiao come over to pester him.