<h4>Chapter 81: Survival Exercise 6.</h4>
"Are… Are the beasts gone?" Tessie stuttered when her eyes met with those of her crush.
Ever since she saw ke beat d with so much ease, she had been getting a tingling feeling in her heart anytime she saw. The problem was that the aura ke emitted any time he was in ss always made those trying to approach reconsider their actions.
Also, she was rank 47 and she wasn''t sure about how ke would react when a low ranker approached him. That was why she was surprised that her prince charming came to save her at her time of need, but
(AN: As you, all know their badges have many functions which include disying the owner''s rank on its surface. That was how the leader of the oppressors stated his team was stronger than there''s.)
"Sorry love..." ke said apologetically as he knocked out the girl. He felt like Jack the reaper instead of being her prince charming.
When ke lifted her in his hands, he couldn''t help but admire her silky jet-ck hair and feel her smooth beige skin. Although she wasn''t a flirtatious stunner like Cami, she was a gentle beauty.
[Remember you don''t have much time, so please focus!] The system''s words snapped ke out of his reverie. He carried her and quickly dashed towards the area the battle had urred.
''It''s time to test this out.'' ke said as he brought out his katana from his dimensional space.
While they were watching the episode between both teams, they hade with a theory about the exercise; ording to the system the survival exercise was meant to teach the students how to survive from both beasts and their fellow humans, and that led to the idea that what mattered was which teamsted longer.
It meant that if all teams except one were to be wiped out, there would be no need for the exercise tost any longer, which meant for his team to win the exercise they could either wait for the other teams to get wiped out or he could speed up the process by eliminating them but this brought about a question. How was he meant to eliminate them without killing them?
ording to what the principal said they were allowed to do whatever they wanted, but they shouldn''t kill one another, also he mentioned there was a possibility that the professors wouldn''t make it in time so he was afraid of killing a student by mistake.
"She''s too pretty for this." ke had nned on stabbing her to carry out the test, but after seeing her gentle pretty face, he decided to pick another guinea pig since they were many. "Let''s move over to the oppressors," ke said as he walked up to the unconscious leader.
[The principal said only those in life-threatening situations will be saved, which means we can stab them let bleed out, and get saved by a professor, but we don''t have much time waste. We have to make sure that anyone knocked down is crippled in order to prevent them from rising again and it requires us to look for a way to eliminate them quickly.] ke could swear that for a moment the system sounded like a psychopath.
[From my deduction, there should be a mechanism the school must have ced to ensure that the students don''t die from instant attacks giving the professors time to save them. So, you should give them a killing blow.]
"How sure are you?" ke was stunned by the system''s words. There were just a lot of things that could go wrong.
[There are two things that could happen, either our n works or you be wanted by the empire to kill a student, then you end up hiding in the jungle and surviving on beast meat. There''s absolutely nothing to lose.] The system said with an ironic smile.
ke was regretting why he bothered to ask, but he decided to get this over with and leave the area. "Here I go..." ke said as he stabbed the katana at the leader''s heart, but before it could pierce its body the leader''s badge glowed and a barrier blocked the de.
"Guess you were correct..." ke said.
[I am always correct.] ke couldn''t deny its words but it would hurt his pride to admit it, so he decided to be silent.
Just a second after the barrier protected the leader, professor Vadik the darkness mastery professor appeared, then he disappeared with the student.
"That answers our question." ke thought as he went over to the next student and did the same thing. After waiting for the next student to be warped away by the professor that he went to the next.
After ke had repeated the same procedure for the third time, the professor couldn''t help but speak up.
"I would really appreciate it if you do this quickly so that I can get this over with." ke could feel the frustration behind his emotionless expression.
"Sorry…" ke couldn''t help but scratch his head as heughed sheepishly.
[Why do you always keep doing this to me.] The system face-palmed.
''As is if anyone knows you exist.'' ke retorted.
After ''crippling'' them and the professor had taken them out, ke quickly stored the corpse of the sdes and quickly went out of the area, because the system had already alerted him of the beasts that were making their way towards his location.
The only reason he had the confidence to attack both the beasts and students was that he had the system that prevented both humans and beasts from taking him by surprise, if not he wouldn''t have even had the guts to watch that episode.
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In the principal''s office.
"As expected of the rank 1." Through an array that allowed all everyone in the school including those in the normal ss to watch how the exercise was going, Principal Lovren had seen everything that had urred, from when ke began spying on both teams till when he had knocked out thest student.
"Seems I was wrong in thinking he was behind the rest of the students in the elite ss." Principal Lovren was more than pleased with his performance.
When all the action was over, Principal Lovren shut off the live feed and contacted Prince Bryon.
"Your Highness…" Lovren bowed before he continued. "His performance was more than splendid, only if the other students could learn from the exercise instead of extorting from each other."
"Well, I am not too surprised because it was as expected," Bryon said with a smile.
"As expected?" The Principal said with a confused expression.
"Have you heard of the E rank adventurer Zero?"
"You mean the one that slew the elite ranked knox?" His expression change from confused to shocked.
"Yes, that''s him." Prince Bryon replied.
"…" Principal Lovren was shocked to the core, not only was he an E rank adventurer, ke was a first-year who was meant to be weak and inexperienced. He wanted to make be sure his ears were not failing him, but he didn''t dare to ask the prince to repeat his words.
…
Principal Lovren wasn''t the only one shocked, except for professor Vadik every other professor was astonished by ke''s performance.
The normal reaction they saw in previous years when the students were put against beasts, was fear, but all of ke''s actions were done with confidence and precision. It was quite disappointing that the newly formed elite ss were no different from the reaction those in the normal ss would have, but ke''s action made almost all of them nod in satisfaction.
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Back to the forest.
With the help of the system''s detection ability, ke had managed to evade the beasts that wereing his way and returned to their camp.
''Today''s harvest wasn''t that great, but it should be enough for today.'' ke sighed. Now that he was in the forest, he didn''t have the concealed space to fall back on in case he was out of beast cores, but he could do nothing about it.
"You''re back?" His arrival alerted the whole team, but they soon calmed down when they saw that it was ke.
"While you were gone, we think we came up with a theory..." Luciano said with a calm tone, but it managed to pique ke''s interest.
"Am all ears..." ke sat crossed-legged.
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