58: Chapter 58: A Living Demon God? A Massacre of 300,000!

There were only five days left until the midterm streaming exam.

Jiangcheng No. 3 High School, the virtual classroom of Class 7, Grade 12.

No one was whispering to each other, and no one was discussing how many new troops had been hatched in their Divine Realms.

Bang.

The classroom door was pushed open.

Teacher Lei Yan strode onto the podium.

He did not bring any lesson plans, his gaze sweeping over every young face below.

"Let's get straight to the point." Teacher Lei Yan's voice echoed in the classroom.

"In Tianhai Province, there were originally about one million awakened students in this year's senior class." Teacher Lei Yan held up a finger, then slowly lowered it.

"After going through the practical assessments and the preliminary elimination rounds, only three hundred thousand remain standing here, ready to participate in the province-wide streaming exam."

The whole class was in an uproar.

An elimination rate of seven hundred thousand people.

This meant that besides transferring to become logistics support troops.

There was also a significant portion of people who had died in those unknown tests.

"You might think you are lucky to have survived." Teacher Lei Yan sneered.

"But this exam is no longer a virtual simulation, nor is it about clearing out those peripheral Shattered Continent."

Teacher Lei Yan pressed a button on the holographic control console.

A distorted star field was projected onto the blackboard.

In the center of the star field, a broken planet glowing with a dark red light was suspended.

"The Provincial Department of Education, in conjunction with the military, has prepared a big gift for you three hundred thousand people."

Teacher Lei Yan said, word by word: "Exam location: Military classified star map, [Code Name: Ember-07]."

"That is a real plane, and furthermore, deep within that red Wasteland, lies buried a living Lesser Abyssal Demon God!"

A living Demon God!

These five words smashed into the classroom, directly shattering everyone's psychological defenses.

A full dozen seconds passed.

With a "swish" sound, Class Monitor Li Xiuqi was the first to stand up.

"Teacher Lei Yan... are you joking?" Class Monitor Li Xiuqi pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, "A living Demon God?"

"Most of us are rookies who haven't even touched the threshold of a demigod, and most people's dependents are only Tier 2 or Tier 3."

"You want us to invade a Demon God Plane? How is this any different from delivering food!"

Not only Class Monitor Li Xiuqi, but the elite students in the class who possessed C-grade and B-grade Divine Realms also turned pale.

Invading a Divine Realm means the opponent is the master of that plane.

The opponent can freely use plane laws to suppress outsiders.

What's more, the opponent is a Demon God.

This is going to one's death.

"Quiet!" Teacher Lei Yan shouted sternly, suppressing the wave of panic that was about to erupt.

"This Demon God was severely injured by the joint efforts of high-ranking military officials in an interstellar battle two years ago."

"Its divinity has shattered, and it is currently in a state of extremely weak, deep sleep."

Teacher Lei Yan clicked on a zoomed-in view of the dark red planet.

"Its plane laws are riddled with holes and cannot launch plane suppression at all."

"During the exam, the military's starry sky matrix will be fully activated to protect your Divine Realm coordinates from being reverse-tracked."

Teacher Lei Yan's eyes swept over everyone: "Your mission is to descend onto this broken plane, plunder resources to your heart's content, kill its believers, and even... dig out its divinity fragments!"

Hearing about the military matrix protection, the gasping in the classroom calmed down slightly.

But Teacher Lei Yan's next words made the temperature drop to freezing point again.

"Although the Demon God is sleeping, there are still hundreds of millions of Abyssal natives living in its plane."

"Furthermore, even in its sleep, the unconscious pressure emitted by the Demon God is enough to make your weak-willed believers go insane, mutate, and turn around to bite you."

Teacher Lei Yan crossed his arms: "For this exam, three hundred thousand senior students from all cities in Tianhai Province will be deployed simultaneously."

"This is a province-wide battle royale, and it is also a carnival belonging to the strong."

"If you can't hold on, crush the talisman issued by the military at any time and roll back to reality."

"The price is immediate elimination and being assigned to logistics for life."

The rules were read out.

In the eyes of the vast majority of civilian students, only despair remained.

Three hundred thousand people fighting for food.

Hundreds of millions of Abyssal natives defending.

With this level of difficulty, they, as civilians with only Tier 1 or Tier 2 troops.

Would probably not even be able to defeat the low-level monsters on the periphery after entering, let alone face the Demon God's pressure.

"Teacher Lei Yan." A male civilian student raised his hand, his voice filled with a crying tone, "We... we really won't be able to survive."

Teacher Lei Yan tapped the blackboard and explained in a deep voice: "The Demon God's laws have been shattered. The military has calculated that the strongest natives currently in the plane will not exceed Tier 6."

"Furthermore, for this exam, you are allowed to form teams freely. The military will not let you throw your lives away for nothing."

Everyone's expressions remained ugly.

The strongest is no more than Tier 6?

Even the weakest Tier 6, for these civilian students, is a devastating disaster.

Seeing this, Teacher Lei Yan threw out the pacification policy he had prepared long ago.

"Those who are afraid can hide in the outermost area of the plane after landing. There are no high-tier monsters there, and you can dig for some low-tier magic ores."

Teacher Lei Yan pointed to the edge area of the star map: "As long as you don't go to the core area to join the fun, and honestly act as cyber-pals, your survival rate will be over 80%."

"By relying on the points from mining, you can get a passing grade and stay at the No. 3 High School to continue studying for a fourth year of high school, which shouldn't be a problem."

Hearing this, the civilian students breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Scared the hell out of me, so it turns out we can still hide."

"As long as we can survive, what's wrong with being a miner inside? Clock in, clock out, and stay safe."

"Team up, team up, we'll find a pit on the edge to squat in, and we definitely won't run around."

The tense atmosphere in the classroom visibly relaxed.

For most people, dignity and future are worthless in the face of life.

Teacher Lei Yan looked at this group of students preparing to go mining, a trace of disappointment flashing in his eyes.

But he didn't criticize them; instead, he changed the subject and threw out the real main event.

"However, high risk is always accompanied by high returns."

Teacher Lei Yan's voice suddenly rose, making everyone's eardrums buzz.

"All resources you plunder in the Demon God Plane, no matter how much, are tax-free by the military! Everything belongs to you personally!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of those elite students lit up instantly.

Tax-free!

The transaction tax and cross-plane tax in the god world are extremely high.

With this statement, the military is essentially pushing a golden mountain in front of them.

"Besides that, the exam rewards are officially announced."

Teacher Lei Yan pulled up the final reward list on the blackboard.

Golden fonts danced on the holographic light screen.

"The top 100 in the province will be directly commissioned by the military! Enjoy second lieutenant-level resource allocation!"

"The top 10 will each be rewarded with five hundred million faith points!"

The sound of gasping for air rose and fell in the classroom.

Five hundred million!

For many medium-sized families, this is a huge sum that would require selling off assets to scrape together.

"3rd place: rewarded with a Platinum-grade strategic building!"

"2nd place: rewarded with five billion faith points, and a choice of any Diamond-grade Divine Realm building blueprint!"

Teacher Lei Yan took a deep breath and announced the final reward.

"1st place: rewarded with... one divinity fragment with a choice of attributes!"

Boom!

The entire virtual classroom was in an uproar.

Elite students represented by Class Monitor Li Xiuqi and Zhao Tianqi were so excited they jumped up from their chairs, almost flipping the tables over.

Divinity fragment!

This is a puzzle piece on the road to becoming a True God.

As long as one can successfully fuse this fragment, becoming a True God in the future is almost a certainty.

This overwhelming wealth is enough to drive all the families in Tianhai Province crazy.

It is foreseeable that those prodigies hidden by their families, the monsters created by pouring massive amounts of resources.

Will stir up a bloody storm in [Ember-07].

The fanatical emotion infected everyone.

Except for Lin Yuan, who was sitting in the corner.

Lin Yuan leaned back in his chair, expressionlessly looking at the reward list on the blackboard.

"Another divinity fragment."

Lin Yuan tapped his fingers lightly on the desk, lost in thought.

The reward for first place on the starry sky war chess rookie leaderboard is a divinity fragment.

Now, the reward for first place in the midterm exam is also a divinity fragment.

Since when did the authorities become so generous?

Giving out this kind of strategic resource that can change one's destiny as if it were Chinese cabbage?

There must be something fishy when things are out of the ordinary.

Commander Xiao Lie gave him a remnant root of the Mother Tree, all while demanding he stomp the prodigies of the provincial capital under his feet.

The authorities giving out such heaven-defying rewards can only mean one thing.

The front-line battle situation is tight, and the military urgently needs to, within the shortest possible time.

Use a cruel method of raising Gu to cultivate a batch of True God seedlings capable of standing on their own.

"The strongest native is no more than Tier 6?"

That might fool those who are preparing to go to the edge to mine.

Since the reward is a divinity fragment, the danger level of the core area must far exceed everyone's imagination.

"It seems this money won't be easy to earn."