Chu Jianghe’s gaze followed the two people on the surveillance feed as he personally watched He Wanying cleanly and decisively kill the Sand-Soaring Snake.
Her combat proficiency, which far surpassed that of a newcomer, and her use of ice-type power completely put his mind at ease, and he was certain that He Wanying had awakened a powerful second class, at least S-rank and possibly even SS-rank.
Besides that, given that He Wanying’s own hand-to-hand combat level was already quite high and enough to crush all her peers in Lanjiang City, now that she had a powerful class on top of that, she was definitely one of the very top rookie class holders in all of Lanjiang City.
As soon as he thought of this possibility, Chu Jianghe felt that this year’s students from Lanjiang No. 3 High School were guaranteed a solid result in the city-level rookie class holder league.
But very soon he noticed that something was off.
Something was off, very, very off.
Black lines seemed to appear on Chu Jianghe’s forehead.
The footage showed that Lu Sheng Team had already killed 4 Sand-Soaring Snakes, and every final blow was delivered by He Wanying, so under normal circumstances He Wanying’s individual points should have been 4, Lu Sheng’s should have been 0, and the team’s total score should have been 4.
Yet in reality, both Lu Sheng and He Wanying had 4 individual points, and the team points were actually 8.
“Did the leaderboard bug out?”
This was Chu Jianghe’s first reaction, but he immediately rejected it.
This points system had been designed by a Peak 5-turn SS-rank legendary powerhouse of Great Xia, and after being verified by countless tournaments, it had never once been wrong.
Moreover, that Lord-level figure already stood at the very peak of class holders and was said to have been a scholar by background, renowned for rigor, so how could such a small mistake possibly occur.
Furthermore, all of Great Xia’s tournaments now used this Lord figure’s leaderboard for ranking results, which was enough to prove how high the point leaderboard’s authority and value were.
Yet a problem had clearly appeared now.
The number of monsters killed and the points gained by Lu Sheng Team obviously did not match, and he clearly did nothing yet still obtained points equal to He Wanying’s.
He stared at Lu Sheng’s figure, and a thought grew clearer and clearer in his mind as he became certain that the problem had to lie with Lu Sheng, and that it was very likely due to his never-publicly-revealed second class.
A class holder’s class counted as personal privacy, and they had the right not to make it public.
“Could it be… that the effect of his second class is to share his teammate’s kill points?”
Chu Jianghe’s expression became extremely strange.
An E-rank class that had such a special ability was, if you said it was useless, practically a divine skill in a competition, but if you said it was useful, it was completely worthless once it left strong teammates.
What kind of bird-brained skill was that…
Chu Jianghe silently complained in his heart.
“The world really is big, and there is nothing it does not contain…”
He recalled all kinds of bizarre classes that had appeared throughout history, such as a strange E-rank class that appeared in the last century called Short Drama Enthusiast, which was also rated E-rank, but its ability was that as long as the holder watched short dramas on their phone, they would enter an invincible state that was immune to any form of attack, which could be said to be a very badass class.
Unfortunately, this class holder was later killed by a monster in a Secret Realm while watching short dramas because the short-drama merchant secretly lengthened the advertisement time and shortened their invincibility duration.
Although Lu Sheng’s way of doing things was a bit unique, as long as it still fell within the scope of class holder abilities, it was not considered a violation of the rules.
Chu Jianghe shook his head and pulled his attention back to the surveillance.
In the footage, Lu Sheng Team encountered another small group of 6 Sand-Soaring Snakes, which very clearly belonged to the same brood as the previous 4.
However, with Lu Sheng’s Data Eye plus the party’s shared vision, He Wanying could clearly see the movement trajectories of the 6 Sand-Soaring Snakes.
Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish…
The ice crystal longsword seemed to have grown eyes as it precisely stabbed into the yellow sand below, and those Sand-Soaring Snakes that excelled at hiding and ambushes did not even have a chance to poke out their heads before they turned into experience and materials amid streaks of ice-blue light.
In just over 1 minute, all 6 Sand-Soaring Snakes were wiped out.
『Kill Sand-Soaring Snake, EXP +60!』
『Obtained materials: Sand Snake Tail (D) *6!』
『Obtained materials: Venomous Snake Fang (D) *12!』
『Obtained equipment: Sand Snake Bracers (D) *1!』
『Obtained equipment: Sand Snake Pendant (D) *1!』
『Obtained equipment: Sand Snake Leather Armor (D) *1!』
Buzz!
In the monitoring room, Chu Jianghe clearly saw a soft white glow representing a level-up light up on both Lu Sheng and He Wanying at the same time.
『Congratulations, you reached Level 2!』
『Current Experience: 0/200!』
『You received 11 free attribute points!』
Lu Sheng looked at the prompt, and a hint of surprise flashed through his eyes.
“Master! I leveled up!”
He Wanying’s delighted voice rang out almost at the same time as she excitedly rushed to Lu Sheng and shared her joy together with him.
“I got 6 free attribute points!”
An SSS-rank class, as the highest grade of class, could grant 5 attribute points per level, while low-grade class holders could only obtain 1 or 2 attribute points.
As a class holder’s level rose, the attribute gap between different class grades would grow larger and larger.
Because He Wanying was dual-class, her E-rank 『masseur 』provided 1 attribute point, while her SSS-rank 『Eternal Winter Swordmaster 』provided 5 attribute points.
Lu Sheng habitually rubbed the top of her head and smiled as he said, “Not bad.”
He Wanying’s pretty face flushed slightly red, and she shyly stepped back a bit.
But right after, she curiously sized Lu Sheng up from head to toe.
“Huh? Master, you leveled up too?!”
Sensing that there was still some lingering white light from just now on Lu Sheng, He Wanying asked curiously, “Master, how many attribute points do you get when you level up?”
Yet in the next moment, she felt a sudden wave of awkwardness in her heart and only felt that she had asked a very silly question.
Master’s class was so special that it could help others awaken a second class, so there was no need to even think about it; it definitely had to be an SSS-rank class as well.
“Me… 11 points.”
Lu Sheng answered casually, but it was like a bolt from the blue that shocked He Wanying once again.
“E‑e‑eleven points?”
He Wanying subconsciously covered her mouth with her hand, and the joy from just getting 5 attribute points instantly faded quite a bit as she repeated in disbelief.
“Don’t the books say that the upper limit of free attribute points gained per level is 5?”
“Even for a dual-class holder, if both classes are SS-rank or above, the combined upper limit should only be 10 points at most.”
She subconsciously voiced the doubt in her heart.
“Have you forgotten who I am?”
Lu Sheng showed a confident smile and said, “How could I be the same as ordinary people?”
“That’s true!”
He Wanying nodded in a daze.
She then stepped back a few paces and opened her attributes panel as she began seriously thinking about how to allocate these precious attribute points.
“I didn’t expect to actually get 11 attribute points.”
As for Lu Sheng, he also looked at his own attributes panel.
His class combination was SS-rank 『Data God 』and E-rank 『Master 』.
According to convention, after leveling up, SSS-rank and SS-rank class holders could obtain 5 attribute points, S-rank class holders could obtain 4 attribute points, A‑rank and B‑rank class holders could obtain 3 attribute points, C‑rank and D‑rank class holders could obtain 2 attribute points, and E‑rank class holders could only obtain 1 attribute point.
A dual-class holder could obtain double the attribute points, so with his combination of an SS-rank and an E-rank dual class, he should have obtained a total of 6 attribute points, yet the system had given him 11.
Looking at He Wanying beside him, who was fully focused on distributing her points, a bold guess rose in Lu Sheng’s mind.
His eyes suddenly lit up.
“Could it be that the ‘Talent and Sweat’ skill of the 『Master 』 class doesn’t just share attributes but can also share the attribute points a servant gains when leveling up?”
This thought made Lu Sheng’s heartbeat suddenly speed up, and he could not help but wonder what that meant.
It meant that the higher a servant’s class grade, the more extra attribute points he, as Master, could gain whenever that servant leveled up.
The servant’s strength would directly and exponentially feed back to the Master, so how was this an E-rank class; this was practically a heaven-defying god-tier passive, with upgrade gains that were super multiplied.