My career aspirations have come true.

Chapter 4 Death is the Best Coach

Chen Han is very efficient.

One phone call later, someone delivered the cards in less than ten minutes.

Lin Ze suppressed the urge to use it immediately, put away the card, and smiled at the two women:

"Come on, I'll treat you to dinner."

Sun Youyu raised her hand and cheered, "Yay! I want steak!"

After saying that, she grabbed Chen Han's arm and skipped forward.

Lin Ze chuckled and followed.

After dinner, Lin Ze parted ways with the two girls at the college gate and left alone.

On the way, he bought some things and then headed straight for the training hall.

Most professionals need to train their skills and talents, but installing special facilities for a particular skill or talent would be too wasteful and extravagant, so training centers were born.

The training center offers a wide variety of training venues and facilities for a fee, and even allows for the private customization of training equipment.

If possible, Lin Ze would prefer to use the academy's free facilities, but considering that his training methods were a bit too extreme and the academy was crowded and noisy, it would be better to spend more money to rent the training hall to avoid any unforeseen problems.

There are at least dozens of training centers in the central area. Lin Ze chose one with a high online rating and that was close to the Second Academy.

Upon arriving at the training center, Lin Ze quickly obtained his chip card after showing his ID card, registering, selecting a training room, and paying. He then went to his training room.

The spacious and bright room is about 200 square meters in area. The floor is covered with a non-slip elastic floor mat, and the walls are covered with pieces of leather filling.

If you look closely, you can see many square-shaped machines embedded in the wall, with dark holes in the very center of each machine.

These are all high-speed transmitters.

It can rotate freely and launch objects quickly from all directions without blind spots, and is specifically designed for training and developing skills or talents related to dodging, reaction speed, intuition, etc.

Under normal circumstances, high-speed launchers fire latex balls, which may cause some pain if they hit the body, but will not pose a life-threatening danger.

However, Lin Ze does not plan to use latex balls.

With only one month left until graduation, it's impossible to master lightning reflexes in such a short time using normal methods.

We have to use some serious ingredients!

Clang!

Lin Ze threw the bag he had been carrying all the way to the ground with a dull thud, then opened the bag to reveal a dense array of long metal needles inside.

"If you get hit by this thing, you'll be lucky to be injured; if it hits a vital spot, you might die instantly."

Lin Ze muttered to himself, but showed no fear on his face.

After all, it wasn't him who needed to train.

With a slight thought, a phantom image suddenly separated from Lin Ze's body, landing two or three meters away, and rapidly solidified at an astonishing speed.

In the blink of an eye, another person appeared in the training room.

An ordinary, average-looking face, about seventeen or eighteen years old, of medium build, the kind of person who would easily blend into a crowd.

The clones created from the external avatar can freely change facial features, skeleton, height, and even gender.

She could look exactly like him, yet there would be no resemblance whatsoever.

In addition, the clone can be revived after only half an hour after it dies.

It's practically a wall hanging!

Lin Ze intended to use this to train his lightning reflexes.

Death is the best coach.

Under the real threat of death, forcing the body to push beyond its reaction limits and ingraining dodging into instinct will undoubtedly allow one to master the talent of lightning reflexes more quickly.

"We need to give you a code name."

Lin Ze stared at the clone for a moment and quickly made a decision.

"Let's call you Jingzhe (Awakening of Insects)."

Although only one clone can be created now, the number of clones will definitely increase gradually as my strength improves in the future, so naming them after the twenty-four solar terms is just right.

Lin Ze summoned Jingzhe's panel, and the attributes, skills, and talents on it were exactly the same as his.

Apart from some job-specific skills and talents, the main body and the clone can share common skills and talents.

Therefore, as long as the clone masters lightning reflection, it is equivalent to him also mastering it.

Lin Ze turned off the panel, had his clone install the metal needles, and then took out the Swift Slash card and slapped it onto the professional mark on the back of his hand.

As the card transforms into light and merges into the mark, a hint appears.

You have mastered the skill 'Swift Slash Lv1' (Normal), Strength +0.1, Agility +0.2.

A warm current instantly flowed through his body, and Lin Ze could clearly feel some kind of positive change taking place in his body.

Name: Lin Ze

Occupation: None

【属性】：力量1.4、敏捷1.6、体质1.2、精神1.6（+0.3）、感知1.3

[Skill]: Swift Slash Lv1 (0/100)

[Talents]: Avatar, Overclocked Soul, Death Echo, Sword Mastery

"Now all that's missing is the lightning reflex."

After the long metal needle was installed, the training officially began.

With a sharp beep, the machines on the surrounding walls immediately moved their launch ports, aiming at Jingzhe and firing long metal needles.

The training room was immediately filled with sharp, hissing sounds.

On average, every second, two to three long needles are shot out, attacking the Awakening of Insects from different directions.

Less than half a minute into the training session, Jingzhe was injured, and the injury would affect his agility, making it even more difficult for him to dodge the long needles.

A little over three minutes later, Jingzhe was struck between the eyebrows by a long needle, fell backward, struggled for a while, and then fell silent.

As the clone died and returned to the main body, a new piece of information instantly appeared in Lin Ze's mind.

Part of it was the training experience that gave me a deeper understanding of how to dodge attacks from all directions.

Part of it is the intense feeling of death.

Pain, coldness, emptiness... Even knowing it's not real death, the feeling in that instant is still unbearable.

Fortunately, the overclocked soul's enhancement of his spirit and will allowed Lin Ze to quickly shake off this emotion and regain his clarity.

After calming himself down, Lin Ze didn't waste any time. Taking advantage of the brief moment when his clone revived, he replaced the metal needle with the latex ball and began training.

After the clone revived, it immediately switched back to death mode and continued training.

As the number of training sessions increased, Jingzhe was able to persist for longer and longer.

It started at three minutes, then four or five minutes, and then seven or eight minutes.

Just as the training room announced the end of its rental period, Jingzhe finished her last training session.

The time also increased to as much as twelve minutes.

"The effect is good."

Lin Ze nodded in satisfaction.

At this rate, I'll definitely be able to master lightning reflexes within a month.

"In the next training session, increase the machine's launch speed."

Lin Ze glanced at the time; it was already past 1 a.m., so he didn't linger any longer and turned to leave the training room.

Emerging from the training hall, the streets were quiet and deserted.

The silver moon hangs in the night sky, casting its bright light like a jade plate.

Lin Ze stretched, feeling mentally exhausted but physically and mentally refreshed.

The sense of fulfillment and accomplishment that comes from steady improvement in one's skills is more enjoyable than playing games or watching short videos.

Only at this moment did he truly feel a sense of belonging to this world.