Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Lin Xiao has not only scored the first place in this placement test, but he also passed the bonus test and will be given a bonus reward.”
The class teacher extended his finger. A card that contained a touch of Divine Power appeared at the tip of his finger. With a smile on his face, he said to Lin Xiao, “Lin Xiao, please come forward and receive your reward.”
Uhm…
He was speechless. Why must he make this look like an award ceremony? Wasn’t this a little too high profile?
However, his teacher had always done things like this. In every placement test, he would flatter the students who got good grades in an extravagant manner in order to encourage everyone to improve.
For the sake of the Divine Realm Card…
Alright then!
He stepped forward amid the envious and jealous eyes of his many classmates and reached out to take the Divine Realm Card from this class teacher.
Yuan Hong had been watching him. When he extended his hands and took the card, the red prismatic crystal on his forehead lit up, and a voice sounded in Lin Xiao’s ear out of nowhere,
“Lin Xiao, is that a 5-Star Divine Realm Card?”
He turned around in bewilderment. The expressions of his other classmates were still the same, so it seemed that he was the only one who could hear the voice. He nodded his head.
“Yes.”
“I’ll trade it for two 5-Star cards!”
Lin Xiao knitted his eyebrows. The suggestion was fine by itself, but his tone of voice that felt as if it was your privilege that I’m trading with you… he was pissed.
He turned him down directly. “No.”
“I’ll make it 3 cards!”
“I’m using it myself.”
Taking the card from his teacher, he immediately went into his Divine Realm.
After being rejected many times, Yuan Hong’s expression didn’t alter, only his tone became a lot deeper, “This Divine Realm Card is very important to me. My offer of three cards remains, and you can even acquire my friendship.”
Lin Xiao raised his head in bewilderment and looked over with an extremely peculiar expression.
But like, what the hell? This sentence felt extremely familiar. He remembered this line as one of the classics of villains who thought too highly of themselves in the online novels that he fancied the most in his past life. It felt as if it is your honor that I’m doing this with you.
“Could it be that I am the protagonist in this lifetime?”
The familiar style of supporting characters, the classic cheat code, rising up during crucial moments. Weren’t these the standards of a protagonist in a novel?
But there were some parts that didn’t feel right. He wasn’t a complete waste at the beginning, his parents were not dead, nor did he have a beautiful elder or younger sister. He also didn’t have annoying relatives. The most important thing was that his class teacher wasn’t a belle, and nor were there any hot chicks in his class.
“Definitely a negative there!”
He licked his teeth, raised his head, smiled from ear to ear, and shook his head.
He doesn’t give a red-*ss about Yuan Hong. Although he was the descendent of a True God, Lin Xiao wasn’t so bad either. The Lin Family too had a True God, so who was afraid of whom?
Besides, he was on the reasonable end this time. He had earned the reward with his own capabilities, so why must he give it away?
Well, it wasn’t ‘give away’, it was ‘trade’, but the meaning was the same. If he didn’t want to trade, what could the other party do to him?
And it was true that Yuan Hong couldn’t do anything to him. If Lin Xiao were a student from an ordinary background, he might still be able to threaten him, but although the grades of this Lin Xiao guy were so-so in the past, his background wasn’t that atrocious. In terms of that, Lin Xiao might be inferior to Yuan Hong, but he wasn’t someone that could be threatened casually. If he didn’t want to trade, he couldn’t do anything about it.
Staring deep into Lin Xiao’s eyes, Yuan Hong looked away expressionlessly.
The other students didn’t notice the secret confrontation between the two. Wu Hai, the class teacher, seemed to have noticed something, but he only glanced at the two for a moment before looking away and saying in a deep voice, “Second place in this placement test is Yuan Hong, and the third is Wan Chuan. Come forward and receive your reward.”
Compared with first place, the second place and the third place weren’t entitled to receive their reward individually.
Handing the two cards to the two of them, Wu Hai said, “The placement test has ended, but a greater test will be coming next month. I doubt I have to remind you what the finals mean. Yes, class redistribution it is. This is directly related to your future achievements. It is something of grave importance.”
“I’m not going to tell you a grandmother’s tale. I believe all of you are much clearer than I am. I am not demanding from you anything extra. I’m not asking you to get into the ranking leader board, nor am I asking you to get into Elite Class. I have only one thing to say.”
At this point, he extended his left hand, and a card emitting dazzling golden light emerged. The compelling desire to go forward and snatch it arose spontaneously in everyone’s hearts.
Gods, whether divine life, demigod, or even True Gods, had a natural desire for Divinity.
Needless to say, nor see, everyone knew what that was. Yuan Hong and Wan Chuan, the two top students in the class, couldn’t help but step forward and say, “Sir, is that…”
“Yes! This is 1 point of Divinity!”
Class teacher Wu Hai was very satisfied with the students’ reaction. With a smile, he said, “This the finals, the reward for the best in the class shall be this 1 point of Divinity. In the finals, no matter who it might be, as long as you are the first place in the class and in the top five of the entire school, you will be given this 1 point of Divinity.”
After a momentary pause, the class teacher added, “For Lin Xiao, you only need to be in the top 10 of the school.”
As everybody turned to look at Lin Xiao, Yuan Hong immediately asked, “Sir, why is that so?”
All the students in the class were confused likewise. Evidently, they wanted to know what the reasoning behind that decision was.
Wu Hai said, “This 1 point of Divinity came from Lin Xiao’s Divine Realm during the placement test. He made some contributions in acquiring this 1 point of Divinity. I didn’t compensate him with anything, and therefore, I’ll be giving him special treatment for the finals. Besides, should anyone else fulfil the requirements like him at the same time, priority will be given to him.”
As soon as his voice fell, Yuan Hong and the few other top students said at the same time, “We object!”
“Yeah!”
The class teacher’s oppressive eyes came sweeping over, and the few top students mildly shuddered. Yuan Hong gritted his teeth and said, “I feel that this is unfair for us. We are willing to make up to Lin Xiao now, but the competition for that 1 point of Divinity must be fair.”
Wu Hai pondered for a moment and said to Lin Xiao, “Lin Xiao, what are your thoughts on this?”
Lin Xiao clasped his hands together, and his mind was rapidly processing their proposal.
In principle, he didn’t want to reject it. After all, for him, getting top ten or top five in the whole year wasn’t too much of a difference. It was equally difficult to accomplish.
Although he could ask his parents for some goodies during this time, the goodies which he could acquire were limited.
Even aside from the things his parents wouldn’t be willing to provide for him or simply didn’t have, he would run into that regulation where every student could only use one card per month. Although Lin Xiao had only used three cards and had the quota to use another six, these three cards were new cards that were formed by the decomposition of six cards using the cheating cube.
He had only used three cards, but in the eyes of outsiders, he had used at least five to six cards. Hence, he could at most use three to four other cards. Deducting one reserve spot to prevent the scenario where if he acquired a good card but was unable to use it, he could get at most three or four cards from his parents.
At present, he was in possession of the Creation Cube, so he would definitely Decompose and Merge these cards into cards that were even more powerful. Naturally, the more basic cards he had, the better it would be.