Chapter 316
Chapter 317 Planning the Skill Tree
To deal with this, the academy offered flexible learning paths. Students were allowed to take sophomore and junior courses at the same time.
Joanna could even jump straight to senior-level classes. But taking five semesters’ worth of courses at once was too rushed.
If she spread the schedule out, the rewards would also stretch out. That meant more credits over time.
Still, compared to grinding credits for four full years as an undergraduate, becoming a graduate student was far more efficient.
At the academy, undergraduate credits started at 1 per task. Graduate-level credits started at 10 per task. And the items you could trade for were completely different.
So how to plan your growth, how to spend your time, and how to manage your learning path all mattered a lot.
Joanna wasn’t blindly farming credits.
Helen felt deeply relieved.
Every year, the academy enrolled around 20,000 new students.
But across the entire Space Alliance, there were tens of thousands of professions.
Among them, the Summoner profession produced fewer than 20 students per year.
Less than 100 Summoners were present in all four grades combined.
And Helen only trained growth-type Summoners, not mass-spawn Summoners.
She was a professional professor and had taught over 40 students. The most hardworking one she had ever seen-the one with the clearest goals-was Joanna.
Of course, the most outrageous one was also Joanna. She had secretly gone off to hunt gods.
“You’re on the right path,” Helen said. “I’ll help you submit the application. By the way, you previously unlocked one extra talent slot and three extra skill slots. Have you chosen your skills yet? Do you want me to help you filter and recommend some p>
Extra skill slots were a top student reward, but that didn’t mean other students couldn’t get them. Anyone could exchange credits for them.
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Chapter 317 Planning the Skill Tree
It just costs a lot. 50,000 credits for one skill slot. 100,000 credits for one talent slot.
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If a student spent credits this way, they might not be able to afford a Mythic-tier Upgrade Stone
later.
Credits had value everywhere. It all depended on how you used them.
“I’d like to hear your opinion,” Joanna said.
“Alright,” Helen smiled. “Then let’s all listen together p>
The other students nodded and gathered around.
Sitting next to Joanna was a student with rainbow-colored hair. He was holding a small clown mask in his hand. Clearly, wearing a mask in front of a professor was considered disrespectful, so he had taken it off.
His profession was beast tamer, which also belonged to the summoning sequence. It was his first time meeting Joanna, and he still looked a bit dazed.
He had just unlocked an extra talent slot, and now he was attending class with a freshman junior.
Was this what the top student world looks like?
If it were him-
He smiled bitterly and stopped the thought.
Every grade had its own top student. Last semester, the Year 3’s Comprehensive Studies top student was Haul Blaze, a Holy Knight.
A tank-class profession that every team loved. On top of that, his damage output was strong. Under Holy Judgment, no enemy could hide from him.
He was on a completely different level from ordinary students.
Last semester, he had also replaced Samantha as vice president of the Student Council. With Marlon and Samantha interning at the Divine Battlefield, Haul had held almost all the power himself.
This semester, with club reshuffles coming up, he was almost guaranteed to run for president.
A top student like Haul felt impossible to surpass. Maybe that was how the freshmen saw Joanna, too,
Helen’s voice pulled everyone back to focus.
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“Superior Growth (S Rank),” she said. “The starting value is low, but it can be upgraded with talent stones. This talent greatly increases the growth speed of your contract beasts and grants bonus elite attributes. It’s especially suitable for long-lived contract beasts p>
“For example,” Helen continued, “dragons or tortoises. A dragon could live 500 years and still be considered a baby. But the stat gap between a young dragon and a mature dragon was enormous. A dragon wouldn’t wait for its summoner to slowly grow stronger.
“As for tortoises, it was even more extreme. One beast could outlive several generations of summoners”
Clearly, this talent didn’t suit Joanna.
Helen went on to introduce several more talents.
Joanna listened carefully, but none of them felt right.
Her contract beasts already had their growth paths. They didn’t need her talents to force their development.
At that moment, a student glanced at Joanna and asked, “Professor, I feel like my contract beast doesn’t really listen to me. Should I learn an Affinity talent p>
Helen paused slightly and glanced at Joanna as well.
“There are no useless talents,” Helen said calmly. “Only professionals who don’t know how to use them. Considering your situation, have you thought about learning Pet Affinity p>
The real reason for his hesitation was simple. Joanna had gained an Affinity talent and ended up contracting humanoid beasts. He thought he could do the same.
But it wasn’t the same.
His soul wasn’t like Joanna’s.
“I’ll think about it again,” the student said.
Helen nodded. “If a Summoner-specific talent doesn’t suit you, you can choose a general- purpose top-tier talent instead p>
She raised one finger. “First Talent: Heart of the Hunt (SSS Rank). Its base form is Bloodlust (D Rank). To evolve from D to SSS rank, you need five Legendary-tier Talent Upgrade Stones and one Mythic-tier Talent Upgrade Stone. And even then, you may not fully comprehend it at the final stage p>
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