Chapter 77

The entrance to the Second Assessment Ground.

Xiu Si and Mu's expressions appeared slightly irritable.

"Brother Shisi, why hasn't Li Cheng Da Ren come back yet?"

"Brother Mu, I don't know either." Xiu Si frowned, wiping his nose.

Just now, for some reason, he actually sneezed fourteen times in a row, and that weight-limit sensation on his back, as if carrying a pot, also intensified by a few degrees.

This was a situation that had never happened before.

——Perhaps the Abyss Magic Dragon is cursing me.

Xiu Si Da Er couldn't help but feel a lingering fear.

Just then, footsteps resounded.

Only to see Li Cheng, wearing the Chief Examiner's clothes, wearing the Chief Examiner's hat, and with a face identical to the Chief Examiner's, walking slowly toward the crowd with hands behind his back.

His chest-out, head-up appearance was extremely like a Leader inspecting work.

Upon seeing the Chief Examiner arrive, the candidates' whispered discussions came to an abrupt halt.

And the other few invigilator staff members also hurriedly straightened their postures.

"Cough, cough." Li Cheng walked to the front of the crowd, dry coughed twice: "Now please have the Examiner announce the rules for the Second Round."

Having spoken, he casually glanced at the staff member beside him, and walked into the room behind him.

That staff member's heart tightened.

Not right, according to every year's convention, aren't these rules all personally announced by the Chief Examiner? Could it be……

Is the Chief Examiner testing whether he takes his work seriously?

The staff member instantly sweated profusely, no longer daring the slightest negligence, stepped forward: "The Second Round Exam mainly assesses the candidates' survival capability under harsh conditions."

"Your objective for this exam is to traverse the Special Secret Realm——the Forbidden Magic Forest and reach the end point, which is the Abyss Secret Realm entrance where the Third Round Assessment is located."

"The Forbidden Magic Forest, as the name implies, renders all magic except Title Techniques unusable."

"That's not fair, right?" A candidate raised a questioning voice on the spot: "In that case, those of us without Divine Favor Titles can only engage in hand-to-hand combat?"

"Will the Abyss speak fairness to you?" The staff member sneered: "If you have opinions on the exam, feel free to file a complaint in the Dean's mailbox after enrollment, provided you can enroll."

This sentence instantly plugged up the candidate; the originally somewhat dissatisfied crowd instantly fell silent.

"Then announcing the exam's second detail, which is also the most important rule." The staff member spoke again: "We will randomly issue an Identity Badge to each candidate."

"What you must do is protect your own identity as much as possible, while simultaneously acquiring as many other people's identities as possible."

"Everyone's initial Points System score is 1 point; each acquisition of another's identity gains 1 point; each time your identity is acquired by another, deduct 1 point."

"After the assessment ends, the top 80 in ranking successfully obtain enrollment qualification; the top 40 enter the Third Round to compete for the Chief seat!"

"Additionally, the candidate who obtains first place in the Second Round Exam will receive a Magic Source Stone!"

"Magic Source Stone!"

Hearing this, the candidates' eyes instantly went straight.

This stone is a precious Treasure that can be used to upgrade Skills, able to let Skills break through their own bottlenecks!

Not to mention for ordinary candidates, even for Full Moon Academy teachers, it counts as a considerably rare Reward! This is also one of the reasons why Li Cheng refused the Full Moon Dean.

For players, the Magic Source Stone is equivalent to a Skill Upgrade Point; with this, he can upgrade abstract Skills like "Crooked Mouth Dragon King" and "Sorry, You Didn't Let Me Have Fun" to the next level.

"Then now……" The staff member took a deep breath, pointing toward the room Li Cheng had just entered: "Please enter the waiting room in turn to receive your own Identity Badge!"

"Finally, I remind everyone once more: Full Moon Academy's enrollment has never been playing house."

"Although you are nominally still students, in essence, you are already warriors who can step onto the Battlefield at any time."

"Injury is unavoidable; death constantly accompanies you."

"Seek promotion and wealth by another path; if you cling to life and fear death, do not enter this gate!"

"That is all!"

Finished speaking, the staff member cleared the Passage.

And on the faces of all the candidates, expressions of boiling hot blood also surfaced.

The afraid ones had already left last night.

The young men remaining here, some crave fame, some crave profit, some yearn for peace, and some can only feel the meaning of being alive in the Horror of the life-and-death line.

They resolutely and decisively stepped through the waiting room's grand doors.

And inside the waiting room doors, Li Cheng was on two small notebooks, meticulously registering each candidate's Identity Badge.

One notebook must be handed over to Full Moon Academy; the other notebook must also be handed over to Full Moon Academy. As an Examiner, he needs to distribute suitable Identity Badges to each candidate.

As a candidate, he needs to remember every candidate's Identity Badge.

One person doing two jobs, he Li Cheng, is really too hardworking!

And Lilith was floating behind Li Cheng, covering her stomach and laughing loudly.

"Hahahaha, Li Cheng, defying heaven, you really are too defying heaven."

"Told you to take the exam, result you ran off to be an Examiner!"

"Hahahaha, those competitors of yours, never in their dreams would they imagine you know all their information, right!"

"Hahahahaha!!! I can't wait to see their expressions when they learn your score!"

Li Cheng glanced at Lilith: "Basic operation, don't 666."

Then, he looked toward Mu who had walked in, and handed over the long-prepared "Boss Identity Card" Identity Badge.

"Hiss, Boss Identity Card, this Identity Badge, really suits me quite well!"

Mu accepted the card, and that card then transformed into radiance, imprinting onto the back of his hand, but the pattern then disappeared.

As long as a thought moves, the identity on the card will be revealed.

The competition does not require candidates to forcibly seize other people's cards; just knowing what the identity is suffices.

Of course, if someone fought to the death and refused to surrender, then the cards on their corpses would naturally no longer have the effect of hiding their identity.

"By the way, Chief Examiner Adult, my roommate hasn't arrived yet, may I ask—"

"Do you and your roommate have a good relationship?" Big Boss glanced at him.

"Of course, he's my boss!" Mu Shi made a fist and squeezed it hard.

Hmm, kid, you're getting too bold… Big Boss nodded: "Alright, go in quickly, your roommate will come, I guarantee it."

"Uh, okay…" Mu Si Tu Er walked toward the teleportation gate of the examination hall with an uneasy mind, muttering as he walked: "Why does the Chief Examiner's voice sound so familiar."

"Next."

Minutes later, Xiu Si Da Er walked in.

Big Boss glanced at him and handed him the "Coward Identity Card" identity badge.

Xiu Si Da Er still wanted to say something, but Big Boss didn't give him a chance, waved his hand twice, and just sent this old silver coin away.

Two minutes later, Karenina walked in.

"Hello, may I have my identity badge?"

The seventeen-year-old girl seemed a bit nervous, pink hair strands sticking to her forehead, her voice also somewhat dry.

"Don't be nervous, you'll pass."

Big Boss smiled gently and handed her the "Queen Consort Identity Card" identity badge.

"Q-Queen Consort?"

Not knowing what she thought of, Karenina's face was covered in red clouds, and she dove into the teleportation gate as if fleeing.

Her face turned red like a bubble teapot? Inexplicable… Big Boss shook his head: "Next."

Just like that, after nearly three hours of identity badge distribution, all candidates except Big Boss entered the secret realm—the Forbidden Magic Forest—via the teleportation gate.

The secret realm was a special space where the operating rules of all things differed from the ordinary world.

Although the candidates entered in batches, they would face the forest at the same moment.

To prevent cheating, except for the Chief Examiner, no one had relics to monitor the candidates' positions.

And Big Boss was now the Chief Examiner, and that relic was in his hands.

What a coincidence, right?

He stretched, loosening his slightly stiff waist and back from writing for a long time, then tidied up the candidate roster on the desk.

That meticulous appearance was simply the most competent teacher in this world.

Finally, he wrote his own name and identity badge on the candidate roster—

Big Boss, Chief Examiner.

"So, let's begin, and it's time to let the students feel what great love is."

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