Chapter 148
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Volume 3 + Chapter 148: Where Did He Go?
Biden was about to announce the exam results to everyone.
The corners of his mouth uncontrollably rose skyward, practically reaching the sun.
This was his moment to settle accounts with Xia Yi.
Next, he would announce Xia Yi’s results, then tell everyone about all the misdeeds this failing student had committed over the past month, thoroughly humiliating her and making her lose all face.
This was why Biden had endured Xia Yi all this time.
That’s why he chose to announce from last place first, he couldn’t wait to begin the execution!
However…
When he saw the rankings on the results sheet, he fell into stunned silence.
“IMPOSSIBLE!!”
Biden immediately screamed involuntarily.
In all his years teaching at Laurel Academy, this was the first time he’d encountered such an absurd situation. He even began doubting his own eyesight.
He took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, and put them back on, but the same string of names greeted him.
James, Kobe, Frank, Brand…
Every single team’s name was listed at the bottom, all with identical scores, every one of them tied for last place!!
“Teachers in charge of tallying, where did you make a mistake?!”
Biden shouted angrily.
“If you’re playing jokes, you must consider the occasion!! This is Laurel Academy’s freshman monthly exam, not some April Fools’ event!!”
The teachers responsible for tallying immediately clarified: “Teacher Biden, we’re not joking! This is real! We don’t know what happened, but according to the points from each team’s magical beast badges, they all ended up with the same score!!”
“Then… is there no first place?”
Biden looked at the results sheet again, nearly all teams were recorded with the same score, except for one.
Xia Yi – Lawrence.
Dun-dun-dun!
This name nearly gave Biden a heart attack.
His face filled with disbelief as he practically pressed his eyeballs against the paper. No matter how many times he checked, it wasn’t a mistake.
There it was, the most problematic failing student from the Magic Department, Xia Yi, with an astonishing score that left all other teams far behind. Topping the list.
“Mistake! There must be some mistake!!”
Biden completely lost composure now.
“How could SHE be first?!!”
“Teacher Biden, we made no mistake. The top student indeed collected all the highest-scoring magical beast badges, far surpassing other students,” the tallying teacher replied. “This constitutes exceptionally outstanding performance qualifying for Laurel Academy’s special reward.”
“Ah…ah…ugh…!!”
Biden staggered back as if having a heart attack, clutching his chest, his wrinkled face twisting like tangled hemp rope.
Just as he was about to collapse, the senior Combat Department teacher supported him.
“Teacher Biden, what’s wrong? Why aren’t you announcing the results?”
“What happened?”
Hill watched from the side, equally confused. She’d never seen Biden lose composure like this.
As the teachers stood perplexed, a light shone.
It was the magical device that had previously displayed student conditions, now activated by the tallying teacher to show the exam results summary.
Everyone who saw it gasped in astonishment.
Exactly as Biden had seen on the results sheet.
Nearly everyone clustered together, with only Xia Yi far ahead alone.
“Just what…happened…during this exam?!!”
Biden desperately pulled himself together and looked at the students.
Strangely, none seemed surprised by this outcome, as if they’d long accepted it.
“Failing student! How could YOU possibly be first? It makes no sense!”
Biden pointed at Xia Yi, not even bothering with a polite address now.
“Teacher Biden, I did indeed collect all the strongest attribute badges myself. Isn’t it only natural that I’d rank first?” Xia Yi replied cheerfully.
“You were alone! Without any teammates! How could one person possibly collect so many badges? Those badges should’ve been taken by other teams long ago! It’s absolutely impossible for one person to collect them all!! The Ruins Forest’s magical beasts were all strictly controlled by Laurel Academy!”
“Mmm-hmm, Teacher Biden, you’re absolutely right! Alone, I couldn’t possibly hunt so many beasts simultaneously, I can’t clone myself after all! But…there were ways,” Xia Yi smiled slyly. “I came up with a good method. After all, the exam handbook never prohibited this approach.”
Biden sensed something amiss and immediately grabbed a nearby student, Brand.
“You! Tell us what happened in the Ruins Forest!”
“Well…alright, Teacher Biden,” Brand scratched his cheek awkwardly. “Student Xia Yi challenged all exam participants to duels in the name of combat, and by winning these duels, took all their magical beast badges…”
“This…”
Biden was speechless.
The other teachers were equally shocked.
The exam rules indeed never explicitly forbade duels between students.
But, this situation was fundamentally impossible.
Why would every team accept duels with a failing student?
There was no obligation to do so.
“Nonsense! Why would you all agree to duel a failing student?”
“Student Xia Yi…she camped the exits!” Brand covered his face. “She camped and farmed every single team!!”
Now the teachers could more or less deduce what had happened during the exam.
Xia Yi had exit-camped, forced duels on everyone, then coerced them into siding with her for score manipulation, leading to this situation.
All the teachers fell silent.
This exam situation was truly unprecedented, this loli had made Laurel Academy history.
The most devastated was Biden.
Just when he’d prepared to settle accounts with Xia Yi, not only had his expectations been dashed by the failing student taking first place, but she would even receive Laurel Academy’s special reward.
Suddenly, a widely circulated phrase surfaced in his mind—
“On death’s bed he jolts upright, only to find the clown was himself all along!”
“I…I…WAAAH!!” Biden finally collapsed.
“…”
Even Hill looked shaken while observing Xia Yi.
Truthfully, she’d predicted from the start that Xia Yi couldn’t possibly perform poorly in this exam, with her abilities, this was simply a fish-farming expedition.
Yet she’d never imagined Xia Yi would go this far.
Camping exits and farming all other students like mobs…this behavior…could her teacher truly have done such things?
Where had that upright human Sword Saint Wright gone?
