Chapter 139

You can tell this first round is a freebie round, meant to boost everyone's confidence and let them warm up.

The other students also knew captives were worth more points, so probably several thousand goblins had been captured in a short time, and the price of goblins might drop soon.

But no matter what, several dozen silver coins were definitely in hand.

Even after taxes, there were at least 50 silver coins.

The second round starts at 11, still over twenty minutes from now.

"Everyone rest where you are. The second batch of enemies will appear at 11."

The female soldiers sat down one after another.

Anyway, they were wearing leather armor, so they weren't afraid of bugs biting their butts.

Gu Qing asked, "My lord, will the next batch of enemies still appear here? Should we set up some traps?"

Zhao Chi shook his head: "In real combat we could, but this is an exam, so no. Setting traps would dock points. We have to fight normally."

"Oh." Gu Qing nodded.

Zhao Chi sat down on the spot, opened the system, and entered the exam information.

【337th Junior Lord Opening Test - Live Rankings】

【1st Place】 Class 3: Xiao Liu

【2nd Place】 Class 1: Hua Hua Yuyin

【3rd Place】 Class 7: Ye Zhong

【4th Place】 Class 2: You Yu

【5th Place】 Class 10: Yuan Zhao

Zhao Chi knew all of these people.

They were all regular top-rankers, the best of their respective classes.

He kept scrolling down.

He found the names of some people from his own class.

【21st Place】 Class 4: Duan Yun

【23rd Place】 Class 4: Cao Feng

【36th Place】 Class 4: Lu Yi

【53rd Place】 Class 4: Zhao Chi

【...】

【219th Place】 Class 4: Yang Xiong

Cao Feng and Lu Yi's rankings were both pretty good.

Cao Feng's Shadow Leopard had extreme sprint speed, and the Centaur Archers were also speed demons.

Leopards plus Centaurs could surround goblins in an instant.

They really could end fights fast.

But he hadn't expected Lu Yi's ranking to be good too.

Zhao Chi only knew her race was Elf, and last time fighting trolls she'd lost one.

Her family had definitely invested resources these past few days.

No need to mention Yang Xiong — charging in with a bunch of muscle-bound beastmen could scare the piss out of goblins.

Even if the goblins ran, they could still be pelted to death with thrown weapons.

Yang Xiong probably didn't capture that many.

He was ranked 219th in the year, 14th in Class 4.

And Duan Yun was also a regular top-ranker in Class 4.

But he was very low-key.

You could also say cold.

He was also from a commoner family, but extremely hardworking.

Zhao Chi sincerely wished him well in getting a good ranking.

Zhao Chi's 53rd place this time was already Class 4's 4th place.

The other Class 4 students were mostly clustered between 300th and 700th, with only a dozen or so between 100th and 300th.

Sure enough, Class 4's overall strength was mediocre, without any top-tier students.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Yang Xiong sent a message:

Yang Xiong 【Holy crap, Zhao Chi, you're badass! You're 53rd in the whole year? You're 4th in the class!】

Zhao Chi 【It's only the first round, you can't tell anything yet. The later rounds are what matter.】

Yang Xiong 【Still impressive. Go check the group chat.】

Zhao Chi's eyes flicked downward.

Several group chats in the bottom-right of the system were already all at 99+.

Of course, they were all private groups.

There was the Class 4 private group, and also the entire Junior Lord year-level private group.

But the year-level group wasn't complete — only six hundred-something people. Still, that was enough; every class had quite a few people in the year-level private group.

Zhao Chi tapped open the class private group.

Shi Juan 【Cao-ge is still the badass, Cao-ge is 23rd in the whole year】

Yang Xiong 【Your Cao-ge isn't as badass as Duan Yun — Duan Yun is 21st in the whole year, first in the class!】

Li Ke: 【Duan Yun is Duan Yun, not you, Yang Xiong. How many did you get? Let me see…】

Yang Xiong: 【Are you done looking, Mr. Li Ke, ranked 294 in the year? I'm Yang Xiong, ranked 219 in the year.】

Cao Feng: 【Yang Xiong, you son of a bitch, just wait. After the exam I'm coming for you first.】

Yang Xiong: 【Ooh ooh, scared me to death.】

Cao Feng: 【Zhao Chi, say something too. Heh heh, so you're rank 53, not bad — only 30 ranks below me.】

Zhao Chi: 【Cao Feng, rank 23 in the year? Badass! Brought glory to Class 4!】

Cao Feng: 【…Huh? Was this sent by Zhao Chi?】

Yang Xiong: 【Cao Feng, badass!】

Cao Feng: 【Damn you all! What are you trying to do?】

Zhao Chi: 【Hahahahahaha】

Cao Feng's defenses were broken by the praise.

After all, being praised by Zhao Chi and Yang Xiong, he always felt they were being sarcastic.

Zhao Chi was now very relaxed.

This was only the first hurdle.

His advantage hadn't been brought to bear at all yet.

Although his current rank was 53, that was still within the top 5.3% of the year — a very impressive result.

He was confident he could keep climbing the ranks from here on out.