CH 474

474: The End of the Great Escape

Melis’s reaction was good. She drew her sword the moment the bones around her disappeared. Sister Alpaca was also on alert, scraping the ground with her hoof.

Fortunately, most of the monsters had been cleared away, but that wasn’t to say all danger was gone.

Yifu was unlucky. She thought she had hidden away very well so she took no precautions and thus was taken completely by surprise. Zi Cheng was surprised by the geography change as well. She was focused on killing monsters and never thought the ground cover would disappear so there was no way for her to protect Yifu.

She was too far away. As a result, Yifu barely got a scream out before she was scratched and then chomped on by the monsters.

The final part of the desert challenge had been activated. Everything that could be used as shelter or hiding spots were taken away. The contestants had to survive the last half hour on their own.

The delicate magicians in the Magic division wanted to cry. They were just little magicians with fragile skin and thin blood. Why did they have to use weapons to fight these monsters?!

Woo! So unfair! They protested in their hearts.

“So unfair! Our Magic division has poor physique but we’re expected to compete in killing those monsters by hand alongside the Sword division guys?! There’s no reason for this!”

“This is not fair! Why should our Magic division kill these monsters the same way as the Sword division?! Why can’t we use magic?! How can we kill anything?!”

The two magicians began complaining to their friends as soon as they left the resurrection area. They felt the school was biased in favor of the Sword division. Otherwise, how could the challenge be shaped the way it was shaped?

Putting sealed magicians in the same arena as sword users where they had to fight monsters was unfair. Even if Sword division students couldn’t use their martial qi, they still had their stupid, strong, bodies, so obviously, their odds of surviving would be greater than any of the magicians.

And yet the administrators expected Magic division students to do the same thing as Sword division students! The magic students were not satisfied!

A chorus of dissatisfied voices rose from amongst the crowd. The loudest came from the Magic division students. They normally felt superior to the Sword division, after all, having the ability to become a magician was practically godly.

The Sword division guys were just a bunch of guys with no latent magic talent who had to resort to curating martial qi.

Who didn’t know magicians were the most respected? Pharmacists and alchemist chose to learn magic and rarely did any chose to learn sword mastery.

Because they had been endowed with talents others didn’t have, students in the Magic division felt they were more noble, a fact they were quite proud of. Their future achievements would most assuredly be greater than other departments.

But now they were being trampled on and by the Sword division no less! Most contestants still on the field were sword users and the only magicians still left were the dual magic/sword users.

They were all geniuses who stood on top of the school as all the average people had been eliminated.

It was just the second map and so many people were already out. Things could only get worse.

The half hour passed quickly. At the end of it all, only one person managed to make it through without killing a single monster. She had managed to stay hidden the entire night.

Thanks to her invisibility cloak, Zhu-en was the most relaxed that night. It helped her a lot. The God of the virtual world took away all the ground cover but he did not touch any of the contestants’ personal items. The invisibility cloak was an item Zhu-en found inside a chest, so the god left it alone and allowed her to use it on the field.

Zhu-en was the only person still on the field who managed to do so with zero points. The zero didn’t look good, but as long as she could stay in the challenge, she didn’t care.

“That invisibility cloak is too overpowered! How can such a cheat object be allowed?!” Someone in the audience who noticed Zhu-en’s invisibility cloak called out.

“Isn’t it? She can survive to the end as long as she has her cloak. That’s unfair to the other contestants.”

“Yes! Unfair!”

Some people began questioning whether the cloak should have been counted as a personal object. It was too much of a cheat item and really unfair to everyone else in the challenge.

Others thought luck was a kind of strength. A lot of people got chests as well, but it was Zhu-en who managed to get the chest with the invisibility cloak. It was fair; she was lucky!

Wasn’t luck a criterion in the school’s entrance exams as well? Therefore Zhu-en’s invisibility cloak was fair.

People on both sides argued.

Tamansha also asked the same question.

“Vice Principal, many in the audience question whether the invisibility cloak should exist as a personal item. The cloak’s ability is too powerful within the challenge and they are concerned if the person can use it to go all the way to the end of the challenge by wearing it, after all with it on, the person won’t have to worry about dangers such as monsters..”

“Actually, although the invisibility cloak seems advantageous at the beginning, it won’t be useful in the subsequent parts of the challenge, so the students need not worry. Various possibilities have already been taken into consideration.

We would never let someone win just because they had a powerful item. This is a very serious challenge and no such possibility was allowed to exist,” said the vice principal as he stroked his beard solemnly. He was thinking what a dignified and solemn image he must present. The students must admire him so much.

The audience: . . . Principal, we want to report the vice principal for posing again!

The audience was relieved to know the cloak wouldn’t be as useful in the later maps and that the challenge would be fair.

They believed what the vice principal said. He was often unreliable, but he wouldn’t cheat when it came to big events.

The smaller things though, you couldn’t be sure.

Those in the school who knew the vice principal were careful because they knew he liked to stab you with the trivial things. Anyone who offended him always suffered.

In the arena, the first rays of sunlight appeared in the sky and the contestants felt like they had survived a calamity when they saw it.

OMG! I thought I was going to expire! was a constant refrain from the contestants.

The guys nearly cried manly tears of relief. The girls were exhausted. Well, everyone was exhausted. They couldn’t remember how many monsters they had killed or how many times they had been injured. It didn’t even feel like their bodies were their own.