The moment Lu Fang saw the change in the skill description, his eyes burst with wild joy.
"The inheritance ratio increased?"
Originally, it was a 100% inheritance, meaning however many attributes Lu Fang had, the Money Wraith would have the same.
Now it had become 150%!
This meant the Money Wraith's attributes would directly surpass Lu Fang's own by half.
Lu Fang stood on the shattered ancient battlefield of Asura, surrounded by the gradually dissipating blood-red mist.
The dungeon settlement was complete; it was time to leave.
He glanced at the ten loyal golden demon gods guarding him.
"Return."
With a mere thought from Lu Fang, the ten Money Wraiths, which stood like iron towers, instantly transformed into streams of light and seamlessly returned to Lu Fang's body.
This was a hidden feature of the [Money Makes the Millstone Turn] skill: as long as the summoned creatures were alive, they could be recalled at any time.
Once recalled, the next summoning wouldn't require additional gold coins, allowing for true on-demand summoning.
As the Money Wraiths vanished, a white pillar of light descended from the sky, precisely enveloping Lu Fang.
In the next moment, his figure disappeared from this death-filled purgatory.
...
Jiangcheng No. 1 High School, Gymnasium.
The gymnasium, which had been momentarily paused due to the frenzied jumping of Lu Fang's dungeon-clearing progress on the light screen, now felt as if the air had completely solidified, becoming thick and heavy.
Everyone's gaze: the Principal, Vice Principal, Director of Education, class teachers, and the staff present, were all fixed intently on the teleportation array in the center of the gymnasium, covered in complex runes.
Just a minute ago, the number representing Lu Fang's progress on the light screen had been jumping crazily, finally freezing at a number that left everyone breathless: 15 floors.
Now, one more word appeared after that number: Cleared.
Immediately, the humming sound of the teleportation array began, and brilliant light shot up into the sky.
Buzz!
As the light receded like a tide, Lu Fang's figure slowly emerged.
His hands casually tucked into the pockets of his blue and white school uniform pants, his expression was as calm as still water, with not a ripple in his deep eyes.
The most incredible thing was that there wasn't even a speck of dust on him, his clothes were neat, without a single wrinkle.
His leisurely demeanor didn't resemble someone who had just ventured through a life-and-death dragon's den, but rather someone who had just gone downstairs to the convenience store to buy a bottle of water and took a stroll back. You are reading on novelping.com, the official source.
The entire venue was silent.
This silence carried an eerie quality, as if even the sound of a pin drop could be heard.
Dozens of eyes stared at Lu Fang as if looking at an unknown creature from another planet, filled with confusion, fear, stupor, and a deep questioning of life.
The Director of Education, responsible for recording data, clutched the special timer tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force, his fingers trembling uncontrollably.
He glanced at the frozen time on the timer, his pupils instantly contracting to pinpoints, his whole body frozen as if struck by lightning.
He opened his mouth, his throat feeling as if stuffed with cotton, his voice dry and hoarse, trembling noticeably, yet only daring to whisper in a voice only the Principal beside him could hear.
"Prin... Principal..."
"This... this time..."
The Principal, at this moment, couldn't maintain his dignified demeanor. He snatched the timer from the Director of Education's hand, took one look, and nearly had his heart stop.
His cloudy old eyes widened to the size of saucers, the sound of a sharp intake of breath was particularly clear in the quiet of the podium.
"Hiss!"
The Principal jerked his head up, looking at Lu Fang below, his gaze as if seeing a monster.
The next second, the massive light screen above the gymnasium trembled violently.
A line of golden text, as if cast from molten gold, slowly emerged, occupying the topmost position of the screen.
[First Place: Lu Fang]
[Cleared Floors: 15 (Cleared)]
With the appearance of this line, the previously dead-silent gymnasium suddenly erupted as if a deep-water bomb had been thrown in.
"15 floors?! Cleared?!"
"My God! Wasn't the previous school record only 12 floors? He cleared it directly?"
"This is impossible! Absolutely impossible! How much time has passed? Even if he ran straight through the map, it couldn't be this fast!"
The class teacher of Class Six clutched his head, his expression as if he'd seen a ghost, muttering incoherently.
"Crazy... the world has gone crazy... did the dungeon have a bug? Did it just teleport him to the end?"
"Are you stupid? The dungeon is a product controlled by the state, an embodiment of the supreme law, where would a cheat or a bug come from?"
Old Zhang stood among the crowd, his hand on his glasses frame, his palm full of cold sweat, not even bothering to wipe the mist off his lenses.
He looked at the calm young man not far away, feeling that the student he had taught for three years had suddenly become extremely unfamiliar. Read this novel at g.com for the best experience.
However, the shock didn't end there.
Just as everyone was still dizzy from the number 15, the light screen changed once again.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
The light screen trembled violently, and in the previously blank "Final Evaluation" section behind "Cleared Floors," an extremely dazzling purple-gold light burst forth.
The brilliance was so intense that it overshadowed the gymnasium's lights, making it hard for people to open their eyes.
In this radiant glow, three gigantic letters, carrying an ancient, noble, and inviolable aura, slowly formed.
[SSS!]
[Final Evaluation: SSS-rank!]
Boom!
If the previous "15 floors" was a bomb, then these three purple-gold "S" were a nuclear bomb, detonating directly above everyone's heads.
Everyone present, at this moment, completely lost the ability to speak.
SSS-rank!
What concept was this?
In the history of Jiangcheng, even in the entire province's college entrance examination history, an A-rank evaluation was already a rarity, hailed as a prodigy.
An S-rank evaluation was a realm that only a once-in-decades genius could touch.
As for SSS-rank...
That was simply beyond everyone's understanding!
It was the theoretical limit, synonymous with perfection!!!
This meant that Lu Fang not only cleared the dungeon but did so in an overwhelming, flawless, and perfect manner!
"Am I... am I blind?"
"SSS-rank? The legendary highest evaluation? Our Jiangcheng... actually produced an SSS-rank?"
"Is this still a human? This is practically a god!"
The Vice Principal's lips trembled, his whole body leaning back against the chair as if drained.
"Jiangcheng No. 1 High School, a century since its founding... never had this... never had this before..."