Start With Contracting Sprites

The teachers believed in the intel list too much because some of the information on it was very much in line with the students they taught.

For a while, they had suspected that the candidates hadn’t made it themselves, but some big idle boss made it.

However, Su Hao’s Silkworm Baby broke the facade of the intel list’s accuracy with a single move of String Shot.

“After all, String Shot is a move that is impossible to be learned by newbie sprites. It’s pretty normal that it isn’t recorded in the reports. Now, let’s see how Gu Mingrui deals with it.”

At the start, it was First High teachers like Old Chen and Old Gu, who were worried.

Now…

In turn, it was the Affiliated High teachers worrying about Gu Mingrui.

To be eliminated here… No, to injure the sprite here would be such a pity!

It would likely cost him the position among the best ten in the end!

“Little Stone Elephant, go up and roll!”

“Ahhhh!”

Little Stone Elephant rushed up, its speed getting faster and faster. Suddenly, it shrunk and rolled over like a huge stone ball.

Everywhere it passed, leaves and branches were all crushed by the stone ball. It bumped straight toward Su Hao in the distance.

“Very good!”

In the monitoring center, the Affiliated High teacher’s eyes brightened.

“Now, Dead Leaf Locust is suppressed and can’t fight back, but so long as Little Stone Elephant attacks the opponent Sprite Trainer, Silkworm Baby will have to interrupt its current movement to go back into defense.”

After speaking this way, he felt it was a bit shameful and added, “It’s a battle without rules, to begin with. The Sprite Trainer is the biggest weakness. If he’s attacked, he can only blame his standing position for being too attractive!”

Old Chen snorted and knew that this was an academic teacher at one glance.

Still, she sneered. “Did the one from your Affiliated High forget that Su Hao still has a Little Fire Crow? It hasn’t fought yet!”

“Little Fire Crow’s spiritual force is just a bit more than 100…”

The teacher from Affiliated High felt unsure as he spoke.

There can’t be a mistake in the intel list in terms of the spiritual force numbers, right?

In the forest…

Gu Mingrui’s eyes were fixed on the Little Fire Crow hovering over Su Hao’s head. He simulated the opponent’s possible responses in his head.

I have to attack Su Hao himself, otherwise, I can’t force Silkworm Baby to go back into defense!

His mind was already at its most focused state.

Then he heard…

“Stop playing.”

Playing?

What playing?

Gu Mingrui’s heart suddenly made a heavy beat.

Silkworm Baby, which was playing tag with Dead Leaf Locust in the thick woods, felt a little regretful.

Such a good moving target is so rare to come by.

It roared, “Gurgleeee!”

The thunder-like sound blew up near the ears of Dead-Leaf Locust.

Dead-Leaf Locust, which was flying around a tree, trembled.

Then, a light yellow figure with a pale green tail smashed down suddenly, like a meteor.

Bang!

Dead-leaf Locust was forcefully shoved onto the tree trunk. It hung there like a layer of skin, then slowly slipped down.

As it struggled a Sprite Commandeering: Persist covered its body timely.

Yet after that light yellow figure rebounded out, light green light dots appeared around its short little legs, which expanded rapidly and became an Energy Ball the size of a football in the blink of an eye, flying over in a flash.

Bang!

On the tree trunk—so thick it would take two people to embrace it—wood chips flew up, and an obvious dent was made from the explosion.

The Dead-leaf Locust passed out in the pit.

At the same time, Little Stone Elephant had only rushed to the place about a dozen meters from Su Hao.

A fireball flew over from the front, while an Energy Ball flew over blasting from the right.

The explosion wounded Little Stone Elephant in many places, and its rolling momentum was interrupted.

Gu Mingrui watched Su Hao approach with his sprites step by step.

He stepped back, then stepped back again, until there was no more space for him to retreat anymore.

“Don’t, don’t you come over…!”

…

The Affiliated High teacher, who was staring at the no. 55 monitoring screen was silent for a while.

“This Silkworm Baby…”

“So long as he doesn’t meet Bing Ning or Lin Mingzheng, it’s pretty certain that An City’s Su Hao can get into the top ten.”

“It’s still hard to say! The examination field is complicated, and anything can happen!”

The most affected were not the teachers from Affiliated High.

Gu Mingrui was eliminated, but Affiliated High still had other promising students.

They just found it to be a pity.

After all, no matter how strong Su Hao was, how could he be stronger than Bing Ning and Lin Mingzheng, who had already reached entry level?

However, Ping City First High, which came last along with An City First High in the previous years, felt a bit envious.

They were going to go last together again, but how did their An City First High secretly produce such a genius?

Why don’t we, Ping City, have one!?

…

Su Hao, who was walking idly through the forests, actually knew that the battle just now might have been captured by a camera.

He didn’t find out where the camera was, but he had a feeling that he was being watched.

This was due to the gradual strengthening of his soul power.

Anyway, after the joint examination is over, it won’t be important anymore whether my hidden skill is exposed, and whether my identity as an intelligence thief is exposed. 

The intel I sold with my own ability is not illegal!

…

In a blink of an eye, it was the third day of the joint examination.

With the protection of the light shield from the bracelet, Su Hao didn’t become miserable. He just looked much more tired on his face.

In the last two days…

Su Hao found it a bit hard to sleep in the tent and sleeping bag. But he didn’t have it that badly. After Silkworm Baby and Little Fire Crow defeated the wild sprites lingering around this area, no more stupid sprites came to disturb him over the night.

Among the other candidates, quite a number were attacked by wild sprites over the night.

All these were news Su Hao got from chatting after defeating other candidates.

Many candidates were eliminated because of fatigue after getting attacked by wild sprites.

Wild sprites eliminated many in their sleep.

There were also a lot who were eliminated by other candidates.

“The average candidate actually doesn’t have the ability to reach the end at all.”

Su Hao estimated that right now, more than 80% of the candidates had been eliminated.

“Little Fire Crow!”

The crow with a cluster of red feathers on its forehead flew onto his shoulder.

“Squawk~”

“Is it not too far from the finishing point?”

Su Hao held his chin and thought, Though I have also defeated a lot of candidates, there is no scoreboard for the joint examination, god knows what rank my score is at now. It’s far from secure enough to get into the top three, I still have to get another… dozens of scores!

Reaching the finishing point meant safety, but it also meant losing the last day.

Su Hao thought about it and made a turn first, walking toward the nearest supply point.

I’ll get some supplies first and get to the route necessary to get to the finishing point. I can probably get a lot of moving scores there… right?

A couple of hundred meters away, below a high tower of supply point…

Three dejected candidates were brought away by the staff of the primitive area.

“This group has more than 100 points!”

“The next group is our turn!”

Voices came from the bushes.

Ten students from First High started laughing.

“It’s really wonderful to wait here. After our sprites use all their unique skills, those fat sheep would probably lose their battle ability already. If we can catch one or two seeded players, we may even have a chance at the top ten!”

“That’s right. Seeded players are also people, so long as we move fast enough, they won’t have any ability to resist!”

Suddenly, a Silk-Cotton Owl flew down from the top of a tree and made two “coo”s.

His Sprite Trainer showed a look of joy. “Here’s another fat sheep, get ready!”

Everyone quietened down. Their looks went through the grass to the open space out of the high tower.

A candidate walked forward with two sprites.

Their eyes lit up.

This one seems to be a big fat sheep!

“Ready…”

A boy wearing a hat who headed the ten First High students slowly raised his hand.

However, before he could wave it, he saw that candidate turn his head and walk toward them.

He was smiling!