75: Chapter 75: 300,000 Airdropped to Demon God Star, the Battle Royale Game Begins

Jiangcheng Third Deity Academy, playground.

The senior students and teachers were fully armed and assembled in ranks.

The class teacher, Teacher Lei Yan, stood at the very front of the formation, conducting a final headcount.

His gaze swept over the students of Class 7, eventually landing on Lin Yuan at the end of the line.

Lin Yuan was wearing a standard combat uniform, his hands tucked into his pockets, standing in a relaxed posture.

Teacher Lei Yan suddenly frowned.

This kid... is a bit off.

As a powerhouse at the Fifth-Turn Demigod level, Teacher Lei Yan had an extremely keen perception of the aura of the Law.

Just a moment ago, he had tried to probe Lin Yuan's condition with his Mental Energy.

But it felt like stepping into thin air, falling into a bottomless abyss.

There was no overflow of the Law, no fluctuations of Divine Power.

It was as calm as stagnant water.

But beneath that stagnant water, Teacher Lei Yan faintly sensed a palpitation that made his hair stand on end.

That feeling was even more terrifying than facing high-level monsters directly.

And he was a Fifth-Turn Demigod with deep foundations!

"An illusion?" Teacher Lei Yan shook his head, forcibly suppressing the shock in his heart.

Even if Lin Yuan was gifted, he was still just a high school student.

He had only awakened his Divine Domain a few months ago at most; how could he possibly surpass him in terms of aura and foundation?

"It must be that Commander Xiao Lie secretly gave him some high-level Divine Artifact to conceal his aura." Teacher Lei Yan provided a reasonable explanation in his mind.

He was someone valued by the Commander of the Spark Legion.

It was perfectly normal for him to have some trump cards for self-preservation.

He withdrew his gaze and stopped dwelling on it.

"All personnel, board the ship!"

Three hours later.

Tianhai Province, near-Earth orbit.

The province's 300,000 senior high school students were being uniformly pulled and transported to a giant space fortress via the interstellar military ports of their respective cities.

The fortress was named "Demon Suppression".

A steel fortress stretching tens of thousands of kilometers lay horizontally in the deep Universe.

The 300,000 students stood on the open-air plaza in the center of the fortress.

Looking through the transparent energy dome, everyone raised their heads.

Directly in front of the fortress, a planet floated silently.

The surface of the planet was covered in hideous cracks, and dark red magma flowed through the rifts.

The atmosphere was shrouded in thick, black-red demonic mist, with lightning occasionally exploding within the fog.

It was an extremely oppressive, manic, and evil pollution of the Law.

Even separated by the Void Realm and the shield, it still made many students feel tightness in their chests and difficulty breathing.

This was [Code Name: Ember-07].

The sleeping place of a living lower-level Abyssal Demon God.

"Buzz—"

Above the fortress, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded.

Three figures rose into the air from the fortress's main control tower.

Without the aid of any anti-gravity equipment, the three of them hovered above the heads of hundreds of thousands of students solely by their Physical Body strength.

In the center was an officer wearing the rank of General.

He had a burly build, a mechanical prosthetic eye in his left eye, and a scar running across his entire right cheek.

The pressure of a True God descended with a boom.

Compared to General Lei Meng from the previous Jiangcheng exam, this pressure was more restrained, yet far more lethal.

The plaza fell instantly silent; the 300,000 people didn't even dare to breathe.

"I am the Deputy Commander of the Tianhai Province Theater, Chen Tie."

The Lieutenant General's voice boomed in everyone's mind through the military matrix.

"I don't want to waste words."

Chen Tie pointed at the dark red planet outside the shield.

"That is your next tomb, or, your throne."

Chen Tie raised his hand, and a light screen unfolded in the starry sky.

"The official rules for the midterm Streaming Exam are as follows!"

"First, Military Merit point System. Killing monsters and seizing resources will be automatically calculated by the System."

"Second, the exam has no fixed time limit!"

As soon as these words were spoken, a commotion broke out among the students below.

No time limit? How long would they have to take the exam?

Chen Tie looked coldly at the crowd below, his mechanical eye glowing red.

"There are only two conditions to terminate the exam."

"First, someone manages to break through the planet's core defenses and destroy the [Pseudo-Abyssal Core Source] deep within the Demon God Plane."

"Second, the elimination rate of the participating students exceeds thirty percent!"

Silence.

A deathly silence.

The next second, the entire plaza erupted in an uproar.

"Are they crazy?! Destroy the Core Source? That's the heart of the Demon God Plane! Going to the core area is suicide!"

"An elimination rate of over thirty percent? Thirty thousand people—does the exam only end when ninety thousand people die or are forced to retreat?"

"In the last Jiangcheng exam, the elimination rate was only five percent!"

Panic began to spread through the crowd.

Fatty Wang stood beside Lin Yuan, his face turning pale.

Over the past few days, he had hoarded another 55,000 Bronze Four-Star Black Demon Pigs in his Divine Domain.

He had thought that relying on this force, he could just find a mine cave on the outskirts to hide in and safely get a passing score.

But now, hearing this elimination rate, his legs went weak.

"Yuan... Brother Yuan." Fatty Wang swallowed hard, gripping the corner of Lin Yuan's clothes tightly.

"Thirty percent... is the edge really safe? This hellhole doesn't look like it has any way out."

Lin Yuan supported the Fatty's shoulder with one hand, steadying him.

"Take a deep breath." Lin Yuan's voice was steady: "Since we're already here, we have to go in even if we're afraid of dying. Remember what I told you. Once you land, mine, and hide well."

After comforting the Fatty, Lin Yuan's gaze turned to the termination conditions on the light screen.

His eyes didn't linger on "30%", but were locked firmly on the first item.

Pseudo-Abyssal Core Source.

The source of the Demon God's power.

"Silence!"

Chen Tie roared, and the pressure of a True God swept across the entire field again.

Forcing everyone's voices back into their throats.

"Scared? Want to quit?"

Chen Tie sneered.

"The abyss does not need the weak. You enjoy the Federation's resources and breathe the air bought by the lives of soldiers on the front lines, so you should be prepared to die at any moment!"

"Whether you are from a noble family or a commoner, once you step through this door, the monsters only recognize your flesh and blood!"

"If you can't handle it, crush your amulet early and get back to the logistics department to scrub toilets."

"But as long as you are still standing in this exam hall for one second, show me the backbone of a Deity!"

Chen Tie swung his right hand heavily.

"Transport matrix, operate at full load!"

"Deploy!"

Boom!

Blue formation patterns lit up on the plaza floor.

Beams of light shot up into the sky, swallowing all 300,000 students.

The light faded.

The spacious plaza was empty.

On the top floor of the fortress, in the highest-level VIP viewing room.

The scene here was completely different from the murderous atmosphere below.

The hall was carpeted, and the long table was set with various precious fruits and wines that could enhance Divine Power.

Dozens of men and women sat on sofas, watching the projection screen that covered the entire wall in front of them.

On the screen, 300,000 points of light were falling like a meteor shower into that dark red Demon God planet.

Everyone who could sit here was a true big shot of Tianhai Province.

Heads of top financial groups, patriarchs of first-class noble families, military corps commanders...

Compared to the municipal officials at the Jiangcheng spaceport last time, every single person here could make Tianhai Province tremble with a stomp of their foot.

The Commander of the Spark Legion's Jiangcheng Theater, Xiao Lie, was also sitting among them.

He was wearing a dark green combat uniform without any military rank, holding a glass of strong liquor, his eyes fixed on a tiny point of light on the screen.

"General Xiao, long time no see."

A deep voice echoed in Xiao Lie's mind.

Telepathic transmission.

Xiao Lie didn't turn his head, his hand holding the glass pausing slightly.

Sitting diagonally opposite him was a middle-aged man in dark gold robes.

The man had a cold expression, his brows bearing a slight resemblance to Xiao Ting.

The current head of the Xiao Family, a hegemonic force in Tianhai Province, Patriarch Xiao Tiannan.

"Any advice?" Xiao Lie took a sip of wine and replied calmly in his mind.

"Advice, I wouldn't dare." Xiao Tiannan leaned back on the sofa, his fingers tapping lightly on the armrest.

"I just feel that General Xiao has been overstepping lately."

Xiao Lie didn't respond, listening quietly.

"The Federation's resources are limited." Xiao Tiannan's telepathy carried high-and-mighty arrogance.

"Noble families and financial groups occupy resources to cultivate the top powerhouses to guard the Abyssal front line. This is the order formed over hundreds of years."

"Commoner children have too poor a foundation and mediocre bloodlines. Giving them resources is just throwing money into the water."

Xiao Tiannan's gaze turned cold: "But you, the dignified Commander of the Spark Legion, instead of supporting your own family's children, are dumping massive amounts of military-approved resources on a commoner from Jiangcheng."

"Xiao Lie, you are breaking the rules."

"You are not only damaging the interests of the noble families, but you are also a sinner of the Xiao Family."

"Ting'er has been preparing for this exam for how long? Yet you secretly support an outsider to be his stumbling block."

After hearing this, Xiao Lie suddenly laughed.

He put down his wine glass, turned his head, and looked straight into Xiao Tiannan's eyes without any avoidance.

"Rules?"

Xiao Lie transmitted back, his voice as cold as ice.

"The rules you speak of are just letting you bloodsuckers monopolize ninety percent of the province's resources and then raise a bunch of greenhouse flowers who have barely seen real combat?"

"When the Abyssal Demon Gods attack, will they care what bloodline you have? Will they look at your noble family's genealogy?"

A hint of mockery flashed in Xiao Lie's eyes.

"Xiao Tiannan, you haven't been to the front line in too long. You have no idea how rotten the Abyssal defense line has become."

"I don't need young masters who only know how to set up battle formations and compare equipment."

"What I need are monsters who can crawl out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood."

Xiao Tiannan's face darkened.

Xiao Lie's words were equivalent to pointing at his nose and cursing.

"A commoner who awakened a Wasteland Divine Domain, and he deserves to be called a monster?" Xiao Tiannan snorted, his tone full of disdain.

"Just cannon fodder piled up with resources. In front of the true foundation of a noble family, he is vulnerable."

"Is that so?"

Xiao Lie withdrew his gaze and looked back at the big screen.

"Then let's wait and see."

The corners of Xiao Lie's mouth lifted slightly.

"Open your eyes and watch clearly."

"Watch how the commoner I invested in, in this exam, takes those noble Prodigies and heirs of financial groups you fed with countless resources..."

"And beats them black and blue, one by one."

Patriarch Xiao Tiannan remained expressionless and sneered.

"Big talk, then let's wait and see."