Chapter 205: The Final Wave
They had achieved another glorious victory.
This time, the efficiency was much higher than the 6% they had achieved with the cooperation of Chen Ran and Cheryl at noon, and they had also saved a lot of time. If they could maintain this performance, they would probably be able to complete the remaining tasks in two days.
But this trip had also exhausted the girls. Several of them were on the verge of collapse. Fortunately, with Chen Ran’s continuous recovery, the girls’ physical strength recovered relatively quickly.
Cheryl was still resting with her eyes closed, while the swordswoman Lucy, who had contributed a lot to this battle, stood up excitedly and walked mysteriously toward Chen Ran.
“Teacher, I suddenly learned a new unique skill. Are you interested in seeing it?”
“Not interested,” Chen Ran turned away unceremoniously, took out a can of fruit drink, and started drinking. Lucy immediately went crazy and grabbed Chen Ran’s throat without any scruples, making Chen Ran choke on a mouthful of juice.
“Can’t you cooperate a little?” the swordswoman Lucy said angrily. Seeing that Chen Ran was half-choked to death, she finally let go. The other girls snickered.
“I’m dizzy. If you have a secret, just say it. Why be so mysterious?” Chen Ran patted his chest to catch his breath. “You’re trying to murder your teacher.”
“Hmph, who told you to always make me unhappy? You keep calling yourself teacher, but I don’t even know if you’re older than me,” the swordswoman Lucy squinted her eyes and looked at Chen Ran’s young face with a cunning look. “By the way, teacher, how old are you this year?”
“27!” Chen Ran answered without hesitation, but was quickly exposed by Cheryl, who was resting with her eyes closed.
“Last time, I heard from Ella that her boyfriend is one or two years older than her. And Ella is exactly twenty-one now, so her boyfriend is at most twenty-two or twenty-three.”
“Oh. So you’re really younger than me,” Lucy said proudly. “I’m twenty-five now. So the teacher is really not as old as me, but why do you look so mature and know so many things?”
“Ahem, silence!” Chen Ran coughed and stopped the snickering girls.
Speaking of which, his psychological age was indeed 27. Before he transmigrated, he had just turned 25 not long ago. After transmigrating, the system gave him an age of 20, and his appearance also became younger. He had been in this world for more than two years. These two years had been much richer than his previous 25 years. It was not false to say that his psychological age was 27. At least he was more mature than this group of late-maturing girls.
“By the way, what was the secret you mentioned before?”
Except for Dongfang and Cheryl, Chen Ran was probably the youngest in the field. Lucy and the other two girls were all twenty-four or twenty-five years old. At the age of graduation, it was not easy for them to reach this realm without innate talent. Even if they couldn’t be called geniuses, they were definitely talents in the empire. But to maintain his image, he immediately changed the subject in a roundabout way.
The swordswoman really came back to her senses, smiled proudly, wiped the sweat from her neck that hadn’t dried yet, then raised her two-handed sword toward a ghost tree in front of her, and with a shout, slashed down vigorously…
“Void Slash!”
A fighting spirit slash with an invisible trajectory flashed past everyone’s eyes. The ghost tree more than ten steps away exploded after a flash of white light, directly exploding into a sky full of leaves.
Cheryl opened her eyes with a smile on her face. “Lucy, congratulations on breaking through to the seventh tier of warriors.”
Void Slash was a high-level fighting spirit skill. It couldn’t be unleashed without the fighting spirit power of the seventh tier. She hadn’t expected her to complete a new transformation at this time.
A group of girls came forward to congratulate the swordswoman Lucy. In this way, the captain had two seventh-tier members. In just this trip, both Dongfang and Lucy had advanced in rank, which was an unexpected surprise.
“Mmm, thank you everyone, and thank you, teacher, for your help. I thought I wouldn’t be able to break through to the seventh tier until graduation,” the generous swordswoman clapped her hands happily, then stepped forward generously and forcibly gave Chen Ran a big kiss under his surprised gaze, causing a group of girls to laugh. The scene was extremely joyful.
Chen Ran wiped the saliva off his face and silently drew small circles.
His image as a master was completely ruined…
The next day, the academy’s magic video hall gave a rough description of the new round of each team’s situation.
Because the one-week holiday was over, the school was even more lively, and at this time, the Netherworld Challenge had reached its climax.
To many people’s surprise, the girls’ team of Team 4 had increased their completion rate by more than 20% in one day, reaching an astonishing 60%, directly surpassing Team 2, which was originally ranked first. At this time, the task completion rate of each team was as follows.
Team 1 48%, Team 2 59%, Team 3 40%, Team 4 60%, Team 5 39%, Team 6 44%.
In the beginning, the efficiency of Team 4 was not smooth. They had landed in a place where Netherworld creatures were not dense. But their explosive power was truly amazing, and their ranking rebounded fiercely. Often, after falling behind to a certain extent, they would suddenly improve by leaps and bounds, and their ranking would catch up again. Unlike other teams, the amount of tasks completed every day increased steadily.
At this time, the six teams had gradually figured out the distribution pattern of Netherworld creatures, and they all gathered toward the areas with higher-tier Netherworld creatures. The chances of the teams meeting were also getting bigger and bigger.
Where Team 1 was.
All the teachers and students were finally fighting monsters together harmoniously. No one was doing the stupid thing of killing alone anymore.
The powerful white knight, the rookie heavenly king Seiya, finally conquered the two idiots, the president of the Knight Department and the president of the Swordsman Department, with his powerful suppression, and became the undisputed boss of the team.
Although the latter two were still a little unconvinced, they had to succumb to the perseverance of the chicken-blood-injected Seiya. Neither of them was a fool. For the final victory of this competition, they accepted their loss and finally obeyed Seiya’s command.
Now, even the leading tutor of Team 1 couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Because the Netherworld creatures they were about to face, even the sixth-tier ghost warriors were becoming fewer and fewer. The seventh-tier ghost lords gradually became the mainstream, and the eighth-tier ghost generals also appeared in their field of vision. At least a few of them together. It was estimated that before long, ninth-tier creatures would also appear. Single killing was already quite difficult.
And they were also the first team to accidentally step into the high-tier Netherworld territory.
Where Team 2 was.
Colin: “Boss, the monsters here have been cleared almost completely. It’s time to change places again. We haven’t stopped at all. I estimate we are firmly in first place now, right?”
“Should be,” the president of the magic department straightened his sore shoulders. “There are no small monster spots nearby. There’s no other way. Next, we should go to the high-level creature territory for a stroll. Work harder, and the victory of the competition will definitely belong to us!”
“Hehe,” Colin nodded cooperatively, but his eyelids suddenly twitched at this moment. He thought of Team 4 where Chen Ran was. Although that team was supposed to be the least likely to win, he always felt that something was wrong.
Hopefully, it was just an illusion…
The team Chen Ran was in was the third team to enter the High-tier Netherworld Valley.
The task now was getting more and more difficult. With the strengthening of the Netherworld creatures, facing various powerful assaults and high-level spells of high-tier Netherworld creatures, their vigilance had reached the highest level.
The strongest in the team, Cheryl, was no longer limited to single-target turret output. She finally showed the style of the number one student in the academy.
Various exquisite fire spells shared the flank support work of the swordswoman Lucy, who had the most arduous responsibility. Cheryl not only had to be responsible for the strongest output, but also protect the integrity of the formation and the other people in the team.
Chen Ran’s command still played the most crucial role. As for the creatures summoned by Dongfang, he also began to demand comprehensive stability and phantom beasts with higher intelligence, such as electric pandas and fire pandas, which had high mobility, to cooperate with the team to kill the enemy. They could no longer follow the rhythm of targeted harvesting as in the beginning. But precisely because of this, the competition became more exciting.
With Cheryl, the strongest student in the academy, the swordswoman Lucy, who had newly reached the seventh tier, the seventh-tier creatures that Dongfang could summon at most, and Chen Ran’s high-level support, faced with the active assaults of powerful Netherworld creatures of various elements, they were all able to pass through safely in a smarter way.
It was precisely because of this that after nearly two days of breakthroughs, the team Chen Ran was in reached 90% of the task completion, which was amazing, leaving the second-place Team 2 behind by 15% and the third-place Team 1 by 22%. Of course, they didn’t know this, but the group of girls had an idea of the rhythm of the competition.
And at this moment, Chen Ran was hiding with all the girls in the team, estimating a batch of high-tier Netherworld creatures.
“Fifteen sixth-tier ghost warriors, three seventh-tier ghost war beasts, three seventh-tier ghost lords, and one eighth-tier ghost general. The difficulty is not small…”
Chen Ran stroked his chin, constantly thinking about the battle strategy.
“Teacher, isn’t the greater the difficulty, the more it tests your value? With you here, when have we ever made a mistake?” The swordswoman Lucy at the side winked and didn’t hold back her praise. This girl who had been arguing with Chen Ran at the beginning was now Chen Ran’s biggest supporter.
“No flattering the teacher. The teacher will get proud,” Chen Ran smiled speechlessly, pointing to the configuration in front. “Work harder today. I estimate that after solving this batch, we can complete the task. As long as we find the treasure as soon as possible, we can go back and sleep peacefully. Everyone will be relaxed.”
The girls nodded, but the whole team gathered in front was obviously not as easy to chew as Chen Ran had imagined. If they fought head-on, even with Chen Ran’s full-system support, they might not be able to gain an advantage.
“That eighth-tier ghost general, Cheryl, are you confident in restraining it alone in the group of monsters? The risk is a bit high,” Chen Ran asked.
“No problem,” Cheryl’s eyes flashed, and she answered without hesitation.
“Good,” after getting the answer, Chen Ran pointed to the formation on the opposite side and said, “Dongfang, you summon the fog panda to interfere with their vision. Cheryl, take advantage of the chaos to hold back the eighth-tier ghost general so that it can’t attack freely. The others will output madly. Try to deal with the easiest ones first. Only when the number on the opposite side goes down can we plan for victory.”
Chen Ran extended his palm, and the other girls placed their palms on it one by one. Everyone was united. After finishing this job, they would return to school as soon as possible.
