The gameplay style of an Unclassed Drifter is truly unique—truly unprecedented, with no followers after it.
So it's perfectly normal that the dean and the instructors couldn't fully grasp its hidden essence.
Before this, many online games did feature such willful wealthy players, or simply casual drifters who played for fun.
But now that the game has become reality, who would willingly choose an Unclassed Drifter purely for fun—sacrificing countless free attribute points and skill points, ending up with no powerful skills late-game?
Even Yun Chen, with his awakened talent "All-Rounder" and his incredibly sharp combat intuition...
With such excellent innate conditions, if not for the final arrival of the cheat-like advantage, he would have hesitated whether to choose the Unclassed Drifter path.
So...
It's no surprise the magic instructors misjudged it.
...
Meanwhile, Yun Chen's figure had already passed through the withered, burning forest.
Under the recent devastating shockwave, he even saw castle bricks lifted into the air and the traces of a fortress buried beneath numerous plant roots and grasses.
Clearly... the entire Troll Nest was built inside an abandoned ancient castle.
Time had caused the once magnificent fortress to be covered with creeping vines and roots, completely swallowed by dense vegetation.
Boom!
As Yun Chen's footsteps approached, it seemed to trigger the activation condition for the next level.
With a thunderous rumble...
The front tiles completely collapsed with the soil, revealing a huge underground passageway right before Yun Chen's eyes.
Without hesitation, he jumped down.
About seven or eight meters in height difference, Yun Chen's feet finally landed steadily on the ground below.
His excellent physique and control over gravity balance ensured not a single tremor the moment he touched down.
Entering the tunnel, a chilling and decayed stench hit him.
The tunnel was pitch-black, so dark he couldn't even see his own hand.
It was impossible to tell which way to go.
Vision was useless here.
Perception felt like wading through thick mud, painfully slow.
"This is a dungeon environment effect..."
Debuff!
A field debuff.
Of course, this was a debuff specifically targeting intruders.
For the trolls living here, however, it was a real buff, giving them a permanent state akin to frenzy or bloodlust.
First things first: identify the direction...
Otherwise, if he couldn't find the next entrance, all his efforts would be in vain.
Knowing what he had to do, Yun Chen immediately began searching for a way out.
Less than a second later, an inexplicable wave of perception spread from his mind, as if resonating with the surrounding environment.
The entire underground passage, covered with tree roots, green moss, and layers of fungal mats, suddenly established an indistinct but undeniable connection with Yun Chen.
Buzz!
"Nature Affinity!"
The starting skill for the Druid class.
Druids are children of nature—they can transform into various forest beasts, and their innate talent allows them to communicate with forests and grasslands.
At this moment, this small skill in Yun Chen's hand, rated B- quality, connected him with the surrounding plants.
"I just want to know the direction of the next entrance..."
With this thought, the fungal mat beneath his feet trembled faintly, and a vine breaking through the wall stretched slightly backward.
"I understand."
Yun Chen nodded lightly and immediately turned to move swiftly into the darkness behind him.
Thanks to Nature Affinity, in Yun Chen's vision, the green energy flowing through plant roots vividly outlined their shapes from the darkness.
This conveniently showed him the way in the pitch-black.
At the same time, this gave him a kind of full-map hack: all the trolls lurking in the dark also revealed their shapes clearly.
Yun Chen's steps never slowed.
He held his silver-white staff—actually the staff form of the Eerie Breakthrough weapon—lightly tapping into the empty air on his side.
"Grow!"
This was another basic prerequisite skill for the Druid class.
If it were E-rank quality, the effect might be similar to pushing growth faster, making a plant sprout rapidly.
But in Yun Chen's hands, boosted to B- quality, the growth effect was terrifying.
Swish!
The plants and roots lining the tunnel suddenly exploded in growth.
Each vine thickened like a python, rapidly binding the trolls hiding in the shadows.
"Ugh!"
The trolls lying in ambush had no idea this would be their fate.
The wildly growing vines not only restrained their limbs but also crushed their necks with bone-cracking force.
No doubt, these conditions were a natural boon to the Druid class.
The underground tunnels, abandoned for over a thousand years, had long been deeply rooted through by forest plants.
This dark and eerie environment also made it perfect for the trolls to take residence, turning it into their lair.
But now...
The trolls had no idea their comfortable underground home would become their death trap.
"This is basically an underground maze."
Yun Chen didn't slow down and ran swiftly.
From the perspective granted by Nature Affinity, he increasingly realized the whole underground layout resembled a maze.
Many paths, originally passable, were completely blocked due to ceiling collapses.
Detours!
He could only keep detouring, winding through twisting paths to reach the final destination.
"This tests our perception ability!"
If he lost his sense of direction, or if his perception were weak, he might have immediately run in the wrong direction after jumping down.
That would mean going farther and farther away.
Going farther wasn't just a matter of distance; it also meant facing more trolls, increasing his resource consumption.
Being in such a dark underground environment without an exit was a huge mental and physical strain.
Fortunately, "Nature Affinity" worked perfectly here.
This one skill alone caused the green energy flowing through plant roots to disperse the darkness in a twisted way.
At the same time, it clearly showed him the way.
"Found the level door..."
After rounding a bend underground and quickly dispatching a few lurking trolls, Yun Chen's figure entered a straight corridor.
At the end of the corridor, a forest troll about 2.4 meters tall sat cross-legged blocking the entrance.
This was the gatekeeper boss.
Of course...
Yun Chen's arrival gradually woke the forest troll from its slumber.
But before it could stand up completely, a barrage of fireballs roaring from the end of the corridor struck it, blasting it off the ground.
The powerful impact, along with its flying form, smashed through the dungeon door behind it.
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