Born Op
Copyright© 2025 by Traverse
Chapter 43: Charade
The next day arrived and everyone was on the edge, they all moved and paced themselves as they got ready for the battle that was about to commence.
Anthony sat in his room pressing his phone, he was already dressed with his katana hanging on his waist as usual, he was chatting his mother who wasn’t replying.
He missed her, but she has work to do so he didn’t really want to disturb her too much.
He looked at the time and it was 9:50AM. Ten minutes to the given time.
Anthony teleported and arrived at the door leading to the colosseum, pushed it open and entered with steady steps like he owned the place since it was founded.
Though they called it a coliseum, Anthony refused to name it that because it was just as huge as the training hall he used for weapon training with Klaus.
It seems they used space magic to expand it to the extreme, creating more space to accomodate people.
Anthony looked around and saw that many people have gathered.
In the Academy time was always of essence, a second late here could cost you a lot.
So everyone basically arrived before him, he always arrived on time, but his classmates always make it seem like he came late as he is always the last to arrive despite always arriving before the stipulated time.
Bryan looked at Anthony who was still releasing an F- rank and clenched his fist, after Anthony lazed around all six months he thought he finally had a chance and just had to be wary of Tiara now, although he hasn’t fought her, he won’t underestimate her.
The Dean has taught Bryan a lot of things, not just about training and fighting. But more about the world itself, he taught him things he should know for his level and a step above.
This was Bryan’s confidence in ranking 1st in the Written exam Rank.
He once asked the Dean about the reason for the five marks missing in the one thousand mark written exam or clues to it.
But the Dean smiled and said if he could get it, he would, there was no trick, if there a trick it would be to read.
Bryan didn’t understand but still read more and more, his brother’s death also added to his hatred for demons making him even train harder everyday.
Even his elder brother Heinz, the student council president graduated immediately and went straight for the demons
Bryan was confident that he could at least touch the 995 score and enter the 996 realm if he read like his master told him, but he fell short and was a point away.
Yet, the person he trained hard to surpass simply enjoyed life and surpassed him with minimum effort.
As Bryan was deep in thought a professor with a four star badge on his chest floated down from the skies with a spear hanging on his back with aura resembling a tidal wave about to crush all of them.
Normally Freshmen won’t see people of such status in the Academy till their third year, but this was the golden generation.
All of them were freaks, even someone who is considered mediocre right now is a genius in the previous generations and eras.
So none of them would be expelled for not meeting the required mana rank but rather if they tanked their written exams.
“The name’s Dame, you green pigs are here to find out who is a greener pig amongst all of you, so if you are the greener pig don’t feel too proud or become arrogant” The professor started speaking.
“You lot will be sent to a secret realm that the Academy owns, and as usual you are there for killing monsters and nothing more”
“You will have to survive twenty four hours there while fighting for points”
“Speaking of points, monsters that count as point are from middle D rank upwards, anything lower in rank counts as zero”
Everybody was shocked, this was simply too much, even D- rank monsters counted as zero, they couldn’t believe their ears
The Dean and Vice principal did this because even the weakest student here was already peak D rank, and there was simply no need for weak monsters during this monstrous era.
Even if the D rank students were allowed to fight and kill monsters of lower ranks, no matter how they killed, they won’t be able to surpass others even if they cleared the entire realm of the monsters.
Some began to murmur amongst themselves while some kept quiet as they didn’t even plan on hunting D rank monsters at all.
“Silence” Dame said as his aura flared and stopped the noise
“Now, you are to kill monsters and earn points, you won’t be told how much point any beast cost, also you won’t be able to see your points or other’s points, you are just going to come out twenty four hours later and find out”
“Of course we won’t send you to your deaths, as the realm is always cleared by us leaving the highest monster there only at the SSS+ rank, so no need to worry”
The students were stunned, ‘what did he mean no need to worry, some of us can’t kill C rank monsters and you are saying there are SSS+ monsters’
Then Dame waved his hand and 800 blue balls appeared and moved to each student and floated in front of them
“This is a ‘life ball’ as the inventor calls it, well such a stupid name, it is used to teleport to any location already engraved on it and it’s a one time item” Dame said with a smile
“I’m sure most of you know the difference between this and your Academy wrist watch that teleported you during the entrance exams, as this can move you even if you are in another space like the secret realm without distance limitations while the wrist watch has a distance limitations and can’t move across realm”
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