45: Chapter 45 Three-stage defense breaking

In the real world, at the Qinghe Super Divine Kingdom Training Center.

In the medical area next to the main control hall, dozens of virtual access pods lit up with blinding red lights almost simultaneously, emitting shrill alarm sounds.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The pod doors popped open one after another. Lin Qi and over a dozen others sat up abruptly, their faces as pale as paper, their eyes unfocused, as if their souls had been sucked out.

The entire main control hall fell into an eerie silence in that instant.

Everyone's gaze was locked tightly onto the scene that had just unfolded on the giant screen.

After a brief silence, exclamations erupted like a volcanic eruption, instantly blowing the roof off the hall!

"Holy crap! What was that just now? An army of three thousand?!"

"They were wiped out! Lin Qi and his entire team were wiped out in an instant!"

"That guy named Fang Chuan... who exactly is he?!"

"Fourth place! His points have surged directly to fourth place!"

The audience seats were in an uproar. Every representative of the noble families, talent scouts, and teachers stood up, stretching their necks to stare fixedly at the screen, afraid of missing a single detail.

"Cheating! He is definitely cheating!"

An exasperated roar broke the commotion.

Principal Xiao Mi of No. 3 High School gripped the armrests of his seat so hard his knuckles turned white.

He stared fixedly at Fang Chuan's name on the screen and said coldly, "General Luo Yi, I demand an immediate investigation! An F-grade commoner could never cultivate a 48-level Five-star Believer, let alone an army of three thousand well-equipped, extraordinary troops! This severely defies common sense; he must have used prohibited items!"

He was nearly furious. Lin Qi was their No. 2 seed at No. 3 High School and a direct descendant of the Lin family. To be wiped out and kicked out of the game so inexplicably—how was he supposed to answer to the Lin family when he returned?

Moreover, to be taken out by an unknown F-grade student was a complete humiliation!

However, before his roar had even faded, another booming, vigorous voice rang out.

"Xiao Mi! You're talking absolute nonsense!"

Principal Yao Guishan of No. 1 High School no longer had any of the composure expected of an educator; he was flushed red with excitement.

He lunged forward to stand in front of Xiao Mi and pointed at his nose, cursing loudly.

"Can't handle losing, huh?! Huh?! Your students from No. 3 High School are less skilled and got taken care of by our student from No. 1 High School, and now you're here shouting 'cheating'? Have you no shame?!"

Just minutes ago, he had been fuming with frustration because Zhang Chao and Liu Ruyan were surrounded. In the blink of an eye, the situation had undergone a heaven-shaking reversal!

This feeling of going from hell to heaven made him tremble with pleasure!

"Our student from No. 1 High School won on his own merits, so what right do you have to call it cheating? Is the military's virtual battlefield whatever you say it is? The data is uploaded in real-time, it's solid proof. If there were a problem, would the military's technicians be blind? They would have found it long ago!"

Yao Guishan cursed with spittle flying everywhere. Xiao Mi was so thoroughly rebutted that he couldn't say a word, his face turning purple with suppressed anger.

"You... you..."

"Shut up, both of you!"

At this moment, a majestic shout rang out.

General Luo Yi, who was on the podium, slowly stood up. His expression was grave, and his eyes were sharp as knives. With just one look, he silenced the two arguing principals instantly.

He turned and ordered the technicians behind him.

"Retrieve the data for that follower of Fang Chuan's, especially that golden giant. I want to see the most detailed panel."

"Yes, General!"

The technician's hands became a blur as they rapidly typed on the keyboard.

On the big screen, Fara's figure, resembling a demon god, was isolated.

However, when the military database, representing the highest detection authority in the Dragon Kingdom, forcibly scanned Fara, the panel that popped up plunged the entire hall into instant silence. Everyone gasped.

[ Follower Name ]: Fara

[ Talent Grade ]: Five-Star

[ Faith Grade ]: Saint

[ Level ]: 48

[ Comprehensive Combat Power ]: Around 1.65 million

[ Bloodline ]: ???

[ Skills ]: ???

[ Equipment ]: King-grade Armor, Gold-grade Weapon

The entire hall fell into a dead silence once again.

Bloodline and skills could not be parsed?

How was this possible?! The military system was connected to the military's main AI. Forget a high school student's follower; even a deity's follower could be analyzed clearly!

General Luo Yi's pupils contracted sharply.

Mayor Li, who was beside him, along with the heads of the noble families, saw their expressions shift from shock to gravity.

They all thought of a possibility at almost the same time.

This Five-Star talent follower might be a new variety not found in the Dragon Kingdom's Five-Star talent follower catalog!

Mayor Li put aside his usual composure and stared at the screen with burning eyes. "A bloodline that even the military's main AI cannot trace... It seems our student, Fang Chuan, is hiding a massive fortune!"

In an instant, countless greedy and fanatical gazes locked onto the figure of the young man on the screen.

Inside the virtual battlefield.

As Lin Qi and the others disappeared, the tense, sword-drawn atmosphere dissipated as well.

Zhang Chao and Liu Ruyan remained in their dumbfounded postures, like two stone statues, motionless.

Their heads were buzzing.

Who am I? Where am I? What did I just see?

A single axe strike to wipe out a Four-Star follower? Stomping seven or eight enemies to death with one foot? A whirlwind to clear the field? And then summoning three thousand thugs equipped with Silver and Gold gear?

The hell... is this really the Fang Chuan I know?

Brother, did your account get hacked? Say something, brother.

"Chuan... Chuanzi..."

He spoke cautiously, his voice trembling.

"Are... are you possessed by some passing Supreme God?"

Besides this explanation, he couldn't think of any other possibility.

An F-grade Divine Kingdom, able to cultivate such a monster?

Forget F-grade; his father, a pinnacle Demigod who had struggled his whole life, had as his strongest follower only a Four-Star one, whose initial combat power wasn't even as high as his Cang Ya.

But what was this thing Fang Chuan summoned? Five-Star talent! Level 48! Faith grade was Saint! And that golden glowing armor—it clearly wasn't an ordinary item! This was completely beyond his scope of understanding!

Although Liu Ruyan didn't speak, her deathly pale face and constantly trembling eyelashes betrayed her extreme inner turmoil.

She looked at Fang Chuan, her eyes filled with complex emotions. Shock, bewilderment, confusion, and a trace of something she hadn't even realized herself... awe.

How had she thought of Fang Chuan before? A poor wretch with bad luck who awakened a trash Divine Kingdom? An average person who cared too much about face and insisted on acting tough when he couldn't? A dead weight who needed her and Zhang Chao to protect him?

Thinking about it now, how laughable and foolish those thoughts were! The clown was actually me!

He didn't need protection; he was clearly a giant dragon lurking in the abyss! And she was merely a firefly flaunting its power before him, thinking itself radiant.

The moment she thought about how she had spoken to Fang Chuan with that high-and-mighty attitude earlier, and even felt that he was a nuisance, her cheeks burned, and she wished she could crawl into a hole.

Seeing the two of them looking so scared out of their wits, Fang Chuan found it a bit funny, but he maintained his calm appearance.

He knew that today's incident was too big; he had to give them a reasonable explanation, or it would be hard to get along in the future. Of course, the matter of the system could absolutely not be exposed. Fortunately, he had already thought of a cover story.

He sighed, his face showing a perfectly measured look of world-weariness and emotion, and he spoke slowly in a tone tinged with nostalgia:

"Sigh, this is a long story."

"Actually, my Divine Kingdom is indeed F-grade; that much is true."

"However, I was quite lucky."

Fang Chuan said to Zhang Chao, "Do you remember what I said when I gave you Cang Ya? I said I found it while mining. Actually, deep inside that mine, there was a hidden realm—a dilapidated relic of an ancient deity."

Zhang Chao gasped, instantly realizing the truth.

Liu Ruyan trembled upon hearing this, her eyes wide as she looked at Fang Chuan.

Damn! You gave him Cang Ya? Wait, no, Cang Ya is a Four-Star talent follower, and you just gave it away like that?! Liu Ruyan's legs went weak with envy!

Fang Chuan continued, "Actually, besides discovering Cang Ya, my followers also found a secret chamber. There was a hidden realm inside, a relic of an ancient deity."

Zhang Chao and Liu Ruyan were insanely envious. Three Five-star Believers; they had already seen two of them. It was one thing for their combat power to be badass, but they were also Saints! A single Divine Kingdom year generated over 200,000 Faith points! They were far stronger than that Lu Hai!

"A relic of an ancient deity?!" Zhang Chao and Liu Ruyan exclaimed simultaneously.

"Yes." Fang Chuan nodded, his expression appearing very sincere. "That deity fell a very, very long time ago, leaving behind only a trace of residual divine consciousness and his legacy. His divine consciousness told me that he was a very powerful Goblin Main God while alive, but he fell here due to a war that engulfed the entire universe."

"He took a liking to me, so he passed on all his legacy to me, including his final divine power, knowledge, and his most loyal followers. Fara is the strongest warrior under his command."

Fang Chuan pointed to the golden giant behind him.

"And those Goblin troops from earlier were also unit templates he left behind. It was by relying on the divine power he left behind that I was able to cultivate them to this level in such a short time."

After speaking, he specifically added one more sentence to increase the credibility of his story.

"However, the divine power left by that Main God is limited; every bit used is a bit less. So, this counts as my trump card, and I can't use it lightly. If I hadn't seen you two being bullied so miserably today, I wouldn't have wanted to expose it."

He looked at Zhang Chao and said solemnly, "Chaozi, Ruyan, this matter is of great importance. You must keep it a secret for me; you absolutely cannot let it slip. Otherwise, if those malicious guys find out, I'm afraid I'll be in big trouble."

Zhang Chao looked at Fang Chuan's serious expression, his heart burning with heat, and he slapped his chest hard.

"Chuanzi, don't worry! Whoever dares to leak this, I, Zhang Chao, will be the first to kill him!"

Liu Ruyan also nodded frantically like a chick pecking at rice, her eyes filled with excitement as she looked at Fang Chuan.

Zhang Chao excitedly rushed to Fara's feet, his eyes full of fanatical worship.

"My dear mother, with this monster daddy of yours here, what is there to fear from Lu Hai or Qin Yao! Chuanzi, you've got the first place in this joint exam in the bag!"