Chapter 14 - Bet

Chapter 14 - Bet The qualifiers continued without any incidents. The Flesh Golems continued their assault and many students suffered as a result. The twelve homeroom teachers could monitor every student’s divine realm from within the golden wheel. As the battles progressed, the teachers started voicing their complaints one after another. “Sigh. One of my students has been eliminated. I was hoping he would succeed.” “I’ve lost twenty students from my class. That’s one third of them getting expelled.” “I’m having it worse. Almost half of my students have been eliminated. Isn’t the test too hard this time?” Xu Mei coughed as a signal for them to stop complaining. “The principal is personally leading three deputy principals to fight at the frontlines of the Demonic Civilization to secure more resources for us. They must have their reasons for choosing the Flesh Golems as the test this time.” With that reminder, the teachers started voicing their support and approval for the principal’s actions, quickly forgetting their earlier dissent. “Yes, yes, yes, you are right. We just need to make sure to follow the principal’s order, isn’t that right?” “Yes, we will believe in our principal.” Xu Mei finally smiled a little when Tian Wen clapped happily and exclaimed, “Good job! To think that he’s using the nightmarish Flesh Golem as food for his race!” The other homeroom teachers quickly checked Tian Wen’s interface that was locked on Han Wu’s divine realm. They were shocked to see Han Wu’s locusts devouring the invading Flesh Golems. “I didn’t know there’s a race that could withstand the poison of the Flesh Golems.” “Haha! He’s even roasting them before feeding it to his race! I never thought he would be so sophisticated.” “The locusts can withstand Flesh Golem poison? This is a new discovery! We need to research it afterwards.” The homeroom teachers praised Han Wu as his locusts feasted on the Flesh Golems, but Liu Letian frowned. “Hmph! He’s just lucky. His locusts are weak when it comes to strength,” he said spitefully. “Mr. Liu, I disagree with what you’ve said,” Tian Wen immediately countered. He had never seen eye-to-eye with Liu Letian, so he seized every chance he got to tease the latter. Tian Wen continued, “Luck is also part of someone’s strength. Look carefully; his locusts are by no means weak.” Tian Wen enlarged his screen and showed Han Wu’s Sapper Locusts to everyone. One of the homeroom teachers with an inspection-type Divine Skill checked the information on the Sapper Locust. “Is that a Unique life form? Even though it’s on the bottom rung of the ladder, it’s still a Unique life form.” Liu Letian huffed indignantly. “It’s still a locust even if it’s a Unique life form. Its overall combat capabilities would be equivalent to a Common goblin. In fact, it might be weaker in some aspects.” “Mr. Liu, I don’t think that it's right to always compare the weak points of a locust with the strength of the other races. The locusts can reproduce hundreds of generations within a single year. Can the goblins do that?” “Tsk. I don’t want to argue with you about those useless facts. We will see who will win in the end. One of my students, Liu Mo, has goblins as his core race. Shall we bet and see who will score higher? I am positive that Liu Mo’s score will be better than Han Wu’s. Do you dare to step up and bet on Han Wu winning instead?” Liu Letian was already pissed and wanted to find a way to vent. Tian Wen and Liu Letian had been enemies for a long time, so Tian Wen couldn’t resist and fell for Liu Letian’s taunt. “Sure! I bet that Han Wu will score better than Liu Mo!” Liu Letian chuckled. “Alright. I want everyone here to oversee this bet. If I win, I want five Divine Essence from you. Can’t afford to stake five Divine Essence on your student?” Tian Wen did not back down. “Fine, but if you lose, you will owe me five Divine Essence instead.” Liu Letian clapped happily. “Alright, let’s do it. Whoever loses will hand over five Divine Essence to the winner.” Liu Letian was certain Liu Mo would score better. Liu Mo was his nephew and to gain an edge in the exam Liu Letian had given him a lot of resources in hopes that he would be able to excel. Liu Letian was also certain that Tian Wen wouldn’t give Han Wu too many resources, especially with so many talented students in his class. Han Wu’s performance still wasn’t quite enough yet to gain Tian Wen’s attention for preferential treatment when it came to resources. The two homeroom teachers came to an agreement for the price of their bet as the qualifier was ending. Only 430 students remained out of the 700 students. Their passing rate was barely 60%! The homeroom teachers frowned, reading the statistics within the golden wheel. It wasn’t a good result, especially when 130 more students decided to forfeit the ranked exam. One of the more temperamental homeroom teachers cried out, “Those useless cowards!” “Don’t blame them. The difficulty for the test is unusually high this time. It’s normal for someone to forfeit after everything.” “After this, we should focus on nurturing the students who survived the grueling exam.” The homeroom teachers nodded as they checked the names of the students who wanted to advance to the ranked exam. The cold machine-like voice announced to the remaining 300 students, “The ranked exam will now start.” An even more sinister presence started to emanate from the depths of the gate accompanied by the sound of a peculiar clacking. The students grew anxious, not knowing what they would be up against. Soon, the invading race revealed themselves for the first time. They were skeletons, and there were 100,000 of them. Both the homeroom teachers and the students were stupefied, sharing the same thought. Is that it? Skeletons were the weakest among the demon races. In a war they were almost always used as cannon fodder. Also, the first wave for the ranked exam was just a wave of Common skeletons, the weakest of them all. There wasn’t even a single Elite skeleton among them. It was basically a free win! The 130 students who gave up on the ranked exams instantly regretted their choice. They wouldn’t have given up if they knew they would be facing off against mere skeletons. Unfortunately, it was too late. The students could only admit that they had been too cowardly.