"Why did I awaken as an undead mage..."
At the edge of the playground,
Lu Ran sat dejectedly on the steps, turning his head to watch the students not far away, enthusiastically lining up to awaken, sighing deeply.
Actually, being an undead mage wasn't bad; it was considered a conventional profession in the magic series.
But for it to happen to Lu Ran was unreasonable.
After three years at the academy, Lu Ran's spiritual power had already reached a staggering 130 points!
Spiritual power was the only measurable value to indicate potential before everyone awakened their profession.
Normally,
with 10-80 spiritual power, one could awaken to a conventional profession.
With 80-100, there was a chance to awaken to a rare profession.
With over 100 spiritual power, there was a chance to awaken an SSS-level hidden profession!
And Lu Ran's spiritual power was as high as 130 points!
To know, of this year's graduates, only two people had spiritual power over 100 points!
Apart from Lu Ran, there was the esteemed girl of heaven, Qin Wuyao!
But even so, Qin Wuyao's spiritual power was only 104 points, completely overshadowed by Lu Ran!
All eyes were on him, everyone eagerly awaiting to see what hidden profession Lu Ran would awaken to at the graduation ceremony.
But the result...
Undead mage!
At this moment, suddenly, a voice from the crowd cried out excitedly: "Class Five's Qin Wuyao has successfully awakened the SSS hidden profession: Space Walker!"
In an instant, the entire venue erupted in cheers!
Lu Ran felt his heart tighten, looking up to see Qin Wuyao on the platform, petite, wearing a red skirt and black tank top, her long hair flowing, capturing everyone's attention!
Lu Ran's heart grew even more bitter.
Both were geniuses with spiritual power over 100, yet Qin Wuyao became an SSS-level Space Walker while Lu Ran became an ordinary undead mage.
Although both were mages, the disparity between them was as vast as the sky; it was truly dramatic.
"When the Celestial Path Alliance comes to recruit in a month, I'm afraid I won't stand a chance," Lu Ran sighed.
The Celestial Path Alliance, as the first guild in Huaxia, and the only large guild affiliated with the country, was a dream guild for countless professionals!
According to tradition, from the day of awakening, a month later the Celestial Path Alliance would recruit from various academies.
Although they claimed to be looking at each professional's comprehensive performance over the month, everyone knew they primarily absorbed rare and hidden professions.
Conventional professions couldn't possibly qualify to join!
And Qin Wuyao, even if she slept for a month and didn't level up, would receive an invitation from the Celestial Path Alliance without any hindrance!
The strength of a profession was innate and couldn't be simply changed by effort.
"Never mind, a conventional profession is just that. At least it's not a useless one," Lu Ran had to console himself this way.
Actually, the situation for an undead mage wasn't bad; it was just far from what Lu Ran had expected.
As for becoming a member of the Celestial Path Alliance, Lu Ran no longer thought about it.
High combat undead mages, with high levels and good equipment, might have a chance to enter the Celestial Path Alliance. After all, not everyone in the alliance had rare and hidden professions.
But as a novice undead mage, there was no chance at all.
With this in mind,
Lu Ran calmed himself and opened his attribute panel to check.
After global dataization, the attribute panel could only be opened after awakening a profession, and this was Lu Ran's first time opening it.
[Name: Lu Ran]
[Profession: Undead Mage]
[Level: 0]
[Life: 100]
[Mana: 100]
[Strength: 10]
[Intelligence: 10]
[Agility: 10]
[Constitution: 10]
Utterly unremarkable!
A basic initial attribute panel that couldn't be more basic!
The expected initial attribute bonus from high spiritual power was nonexistent!
Lu Ran strongly suspected that his 130 spiritual power was fake.
Then, he checked his skills.
Because he had just awakened, he had only one initial skill, which was also the signature skill of an undead mage: [Summon Undead]
[Skill: Summon Undead]
[Cooldown: 10 minutes]
[Consumption: 10 Mana]
[Effect: Summon two skeletons to assist in battle, with attributes at 50% of the player's current attributes!]
Still utterly unremarkable.
Lu Ran sighed again, about to close the panel.
When suddenly he noticed a small panel below the skills panel.
[Current Golden Entry: Celestial Master's Borrowing Skill (Unlock one golden entry every 5 levels as the player grows)]
Huh?
Lu Ran was puzzled. What was this, what was a golden entry?
Three years of theoretical classes at the academy and he had never heard of this!
Meanwhile, in the golden entry list on the panel, there was indeed one entry.
[Entry: Celestial Master's Borrowing Skill]
[Effect: All skills have no cooldown]
Seeing this, Lu Ran's mind exploded.
All skills having no cooldown!
What did this mean? For professions in the magic series, skill cooldown was especially important. Any equipment reducing skill cooldown was always highly expensive!
Yet the reduction in cooldown was often extremely limited.
But now, Lu Ran with just an initial entry had all skills with no cooldown!
No matter if it was a minor skill, major skill, awakening skill, all had no cooldown!
Currently, Lu Ran's Undead Summoning could only summon two undead, with a ten-minute cooldown.
It appeared that after ten minutes, they could be replenished endlessly, but skeleton attributes were very low, and if they perished, he would have to wait for a cooldown.
This was why low-level undead mages were not favored.
After all, teaming up with a low-level undead mage only provided two skeletons, and if they died, during the ten-minute cooldown, it was like losing a teammate!
Whereas other professions could provide continuous output or support!
But now, Lu Ran's skills had no cooldown!
This meant Lu Ran's 100 mana could summon ten times in one go, twenty skeletons!
Along with natural mana recovery, constantly replenishing, truly endless!
If his mana value was high enough, he could even summon an infinite skeleton army!
And what about when Lu Ran's level rose?
He could summon evil spirit knights, skeleton tyrants, and even... the abyss bone dragon!
With the same support of no cooldown skills, Lu Ran couldn't imagine the scene: one person as a match for a thousand troops!
"Damn, is this skyrocketing?" Lu Ran's head instantly heated up, jumping up.
Never mind future unlocked golden entries, this current no cooldown skill alone was enough to let Lu Ran surpass all SSS-level hidden professions!
Lu Ran instantly grew excited.
This way, when the Celestial Path Alliance came in a month, Lu Ran would crush everyone and earn membership!
Including Qin Wuyao, the Space Walker of hidden professions!
Thinking of this, Lu Ran could no longer hold back his restless heart.
"Level up, start leveling up immediately!"