Changing Life And Career? I Planted The World Tree At The Beginning

On the screen displaying the rankings, countless names were rapidly changing, but two names consistently held the top positions.

First place. Candidate number 00128. Current progress in the exam: Level 12. Total time for the first 11 levels: 115 seconds.

Second place. Candidate number 13987. Current progress in the exam: Level 12. Total time for the first 11 levels: 127 seconds.

After another minute, the first-place candidate had already reached Level 15, while the second-place candidate was still on Level 14.

Seeing this scene, the middle-aged man in blue raised the corner of his lips.

"Now it seems that Throne of Fire's forbidden curse was released in vain."

There was a hint of mockery in his tone.

"Hehe, how long has the exam been going on? Overlord of Frost, did you get too excited too early?"

A cold voice came from under the black robe.

"And!" The woman's voice went from cold to angry. "I've said it before, I didn't release any forbidden curses in your Cloud River Province!"

"I didn't release any?" The middle-aged man in blue sneered. "How many fire-type forbidden curse mages are there in the Soaring Dragon Empire? If it wasn't you, then who released it?"

"Was it the Red Flame Lord who is stationed on the battlefield, or the Heavenly Fire Lord who is overseas? Or, more absurdly, the Sun Venerable who is developing the Secret Realm? Oh, right, our current Great Emperor of the Soaring Dragon Empire seems to be able to use the Judgment of Doomsday too?"

"I guess the Great Emperor has been idle lately and came to our Cloud River Province to study some skills?"

"... " The person in the black robe suddenly fell silent and could only coldly say, "If I say it wasn't me, then it wasn't me! As a Rank Eight professional, I wouldn't lie like that!"

"Fine!" The middle-aged man in blue sneered. "If you say it wasn't you, then it wasn't you, alright?"

"Since it's already done, and your younger generation has also come, there's no point in discussing this further."

"Let's just see if your younger generation can save face for you."

"Let's see then." The person in the black robe said coldly.

The two stopped talking and continued to look at the rankings on the screen.

The first few levels were highly random.

The monsters were weak, and any skilled professional could kill them in an instant.

But after the tenth level, the rankings would stabilize, especially the top positions on the leaderboard.

However, after a short period of time, two names shot up like rockets.

In just a few seconds, they respectively occupied the first and second places.

The previous first and second places were directly pushed down to the third and fourth.

First place. Candidate number 36589. Current progress in the exam: Completed all 30 levels. Total time: 205 seconds.

Second place. Candidate number 36329. Current progress in the exam: Level 18. Total time for the first 17 levels: 292 seconds.

"Who are these two?" Throne of Fire, wearing a black robe, exclaimed in surprise. "They completed all 30 levels in 205 seconds. Does your Cloud River have such monsters? If I had known, why would I come to Cloud River?"

"I don't know either!" Overlord of Frost looked innocent. "If I knew there were people like this, I would have taken my child to another province long ago!"

After the tenth level, the difficulty of the levels increased rapidly, in order to screen and divert the candidates.

Even for geniuses, the resistance would become greater, and the time required would become longer.

Completing all 30 levels in 205 seconds truly shocked the two forbidden experts.

"And this second place is much more powerful than your little girl." Throne of Fire's expression was strange. "It seems that your Cloud River Province is hiding many talents this year!"

At this time, the third-place candidate, who was Overlord of Frost's younger generation, had only reached Level 17, and the total time for the first 16 levels had already exceeded 300 seconds.

And the fourth-place candidate, who was Throne of Fire's younger generation, hadn't even completed the sixteenth level yet.

"This shouldn't be, right?" Overlord of Frost looked puzzled.

"With the scores of these two candidates, they should have been ranked in the top two a long time ago. How did they just climb to the top now?"

"Let's see what's going on."

Overlord of Frost opened the records of the top two rankings.

First is the first place.

"Hmm? 12 seconds for the first level, only a good evaluation."

"5 seconds for the second level, excellent evaluation, the third level is also excellent, and it's only perfect from the fifth level onwards."

"So, the evaluations of the previous levels brought down the overall score."

"However, the overall score only affects the real-time ranking during the exam process, making it convenient for us to view, but it doesn't affect the final score."

"After completing all the levels, it will only be recorded as a full score for the basic levels, so the ranking will automatically rise."

"Wait a minute..."

Overlord of Frost noticed that this candidate, apart from taking a relatively long time in the early levels, had almost the same time for the later levels.

"This..."

He could understand what was going on.

It's probably that after the monsters respawn, they determine their location, and then the candidate goes over and kills them instantly.

But understanding doesn't mean accepting.

You see, the assessment content for level 30 is five level 30 elite monsters!

Even if it were placed in the Kyoto exam venue, those abnormal monsters would still require some effort to deal with.

And this candidate with the ID 36589 can actually kill them instantly?

In other words, in his hands, there's no difference between five level 30 elite monsters and a normal monster in their teens?

"And this second place."

Overlord of Frost opened the progress of candidate 36329 and found that they took a little more time in the first two levels, but then made rapid progress.

However, this person is still within reason, unlike the first place which is so outrageous.

"This first place should start playing the scoring levels, right? Retrieve his real-time data," Overlord of Frost said to the assistant next to him.

"Yes, sir."

The assistant in the examiner's uniform quickly instructed the staff below to perform the operation.

...

In the exam venue.

Chen Yu had just rested for a little over two minutes when he heard the sound of a prompt:

"You have completed all 30 basic levels. You can choose to end the exam, exit the venue, or choose to start the endless mode."

"In the endless mode, monsters will continuously respawn, and you will earn corresponding points based on the number of monsters you kill."

"The points obtained in the endless mode will serve as the initial score for the college entrance exam rankings."

"Before the endless mode begins, you have 10 minutes of rest time."

"Note: The final score in the rankings can be exchanged for various resources after the ranking competition ends."

"It can also be converted into internal points within the university system after confirming admission to a university, for internal consumption within the university."

"Note: Message from the Ministry of Education of the Soaring Dragon Empire: Our ministry encourages capable candidates to fully challenge the endless mode."

"Then let's begin." Chen Yu chose to directly start the endless mode.

According to the announcement, this endless mode is designed to give strong candidates an advantage, it's like a reward level, and it's not worth playing if you don't play it!