265: Chapter 265 The Origin of Soul Deification! The Secret Experiment of the [Deification Legion]!

With support, Drew moved quickly.

He soon found suitable candidates.

Freshmen recruited this year from the two transcendent-level academies, [Europa Temple] and the [Amazon Tribe].

These little brats had been clamoring for the academy higher-ups to hold a Water Blue Planet global academy league as soon as possible to compete with the freshmen of Galaxy Academy.

They wanted to show off their strength to the freshmen of other supreme academies.

But then Zhang Jian emerged out of nowhere.

He was the first to clear a Hell-level Dungeon with strength below the Second Job Change.

The first to achieve an Extreme-level evaluation on a Hell-level clear.

He constantly obtained Heavenly Dao-grade rewards.

Despite being a freshman, he became a mentor and even an associate professor at Galaxy Academy...

His strength was even hailed by many as the number one among freshmen.

This also extinguished many people's desires to compete with him.

And the appearance of the Merit Treasury was only for all of Huaxia.

It did not extend to foreign countries.

Seeing some of their peers successively completing their Second Job Change and their strength continuously improving...

The freshmen of the two academies had long been anxious.

The small group led by Andrew was especially worried.

As a prestigious Divine-Grade Professional, from enrollment until now...

Although he had become the number one freshman of this year with his Second Job Change status.

And even led a super strong team of four Divine-Grades, making them a unique freshman team among the two academies.

But with their strength, after several attempts at the Level 40 Hell-level Dungeon [Spreading Maze], they still couldn't achieve an Extreme-level evaluation.

Just a few days ago.

When their team switched targets and prepared to challenge a Level 40 Dungeon in the USA...

They were shocked to find that the Hell-level of that Dungeon had already been cleared.

The record was a terrifying 24 minutes and 35 seconds.

It far exceeded the most optimized clearing speed they had meticulously planned for this Dungeon.

And the name of the clearing team was surprisingly Wang Fei's Team.

Furthermore, there were only 3 members in the team.

This result left them in both disbelief and deep fear.

Andrew couldn't understand why the opponent was so powerful.

He fell into a state of deep confusion.

Was he, who aspired to be the strongest Professional, going to admit defeat just like this?

He locked himself in the luxurious single villa dormitory provided by the academy for three whole days.

Just as he was at his lowest point of decadence.

Drew came to find him.

Drew was previously just the vice-dean of the [Amazon Tribe].

But after climbing the high branch of Blood Shadow, his status and position had skyrocketed.

He was now the joint General Dean of the two academies.

No matter how low Andrew's spirits were, he had to pull himself together, get out of bed, and respectfully lower his head.

"Greetings, General Dean!"

Drew looked at him coldly.

Just as Andrew thought he was about to receive a harsh reprimand.

Drew's tone was very calm.

"You are a Genius I have always favored. I don't think you are any weaker than Wang Fei or that Zhang Jian."

"There is now a chance for you to catch up with them, or even surpass them. Do you want to try?"

Drew's words made Andrew's nose sting.

So...

Lord Drew had never given up on him!

A surge of warmth welled up in his heart.

Without even asking what the chance was, he simply nodded heavily.

"I'm willing!"

Drew nodded and took him away from the villa.

Accompanying them were his four teammates and forty-five other freshmen who had agreed to participate in the plan.

In fact.

When he first released the news to recruit experimental candidates.

Almost ninety percent of the freshmen had actively signing up.

But for the sake of caution, he didn't make a public announcement.

First, he secretly found a group of slaves to experiment on.

After sacrificing over a hundred lives, he collected data he felt confident in and then approached Andrew and the others.

Inside the dean-level exclusive laboratory of [Europa Temple].

There were ten sophisticated, giant culture dishes.

Each had enough space for an adult to lie down with room to spare. They looked both Professional and luxurious.

Inside the culture dishes, placed in various positions, were portions of a substance Drew named "Soul Deification Origin."

Once Andrew and the other nine had lain down one by one under the guidance of the staff.

Drew quietly opened a door to the side.

Behind it.

Was an even larger space containing at least a hundred culture dishes.

However, these were smaller and more cramped than the ones in the laboratory. The people inside could barely fit, and their expressions were pained.

And there was basically only one portion of "Soul Deification Origin" in each of those culture dishes.

Drew first started the luxurious culture dishes Andrew and the others were in.

On the corresponding giant screen monitoring the data in real-time.

At the slightest hint of an obvious fluctuation, he would activate the simple culture dishes on the other side.

The experimental subjects here included ordinary freshmen from other supreme academies, teachers from ordinary academies, and some ordinary Professionals from society who were lured by high experimental fees and wanted to take a gamble.

These people were exactly what Drew used as a safety net for these Genius freshmen.

Whenever an abnormality occurred during their absorption process, the associated equipment would transfer the potential risks to the bodies of these ordinary people.

From time to time, someone would scream and die.

Although the others were terrified, they still plucked up the courage to attempt the absorption.

After six full hours.

Drew, who had been operating the equipment back and forth, looked exhausted.

This joint experiment finally came to an end.

Although seventy-four people on the ordinary side had unfortunately died.

And twenty-one were seriously injured.

Five lucky ones had survived.

Their faces were filled with both lingering fear and pleasant surprise.

They had successfully completed the experiment and received the 5 million fee.

They had also activated at least one new talent or strengthened an existing one.

Their strength had been raised by a level.

Furthermore, they had automatically joined the [Deification Legion] established by Drew, where they could enjoy a series of generous benefits.

As they walked out of the laboratory, their lives were already completely different.

After they left in high spirits.

Drew's calm expression finally changed.

All ten Genius freshmen they had high hopes for had successfully completed the absorption!

Although three suffered some permanent physical damage because the Origin they absorbed exceeded their capacity.

Their strength was still much higher than before.

The other seven were completely unharmed, and their auras were significantly stronger.

Among them.

Five had absorbed at least two clumps of "Soul Deification Origin," strengthening their talents at least twice.

One person had absorbed three clumps of "Soul Deification Origin" and underwent a complete transformation.

Andrew, who was originally the strongest, had absorbed a full four clumps of Origin. He was now radiating golden light, looking like a god.

Stepping out of the culture dish, he felt the infinite increase in his own potential and the exaggerated talent appearing on his status panel.

Amidst his excitement, he didn't forget his position.

He knelt on one knee before Drew and said, "Thank you for your guidance, Lord!"

After recording the improvements of the ten people one by one, Drew specifically kept Andrew and another girl named Catherine.