Chapter 224 - 194: The Final Five-star Professional Card Obtained, Synthesis
Chapter 224: Chapter 194: The Final Five-star Professional Card Obtained, Synthesis
[DING!]
[Exchange Successful!]
[Consumed: 850 Points. Remaining: 1,150 Points.]
Five minutes after Zhang Yi spent 850 Points to purchase his first Five-star Professional Card, the personal terminal on his wrist chimed with a notification.
[Cadet Zhang Yi, the Divine Domain Card you purchased has been delivered to the entrance of your dormitory. You will see it upon your return. Use your personal terminal to verify your identity and open the package.]
Zhang Yi had been wondering how the University Alliance Training Camp would deliver the Divine Domain Cards they purchased, and now he understood: they were delivered directly to their dormitory doors. Not only were there surveillance cameras in the dormitory hallways, but the boxes containing the Divine Domain Cards also required verification via their personal terminals to be opened. With this double layer of security, any cadet with a shred of intelligence wouldn’t dare steal someone else’s package. Otherwise, the moment they were discovered, their only fate would be immediate expulsion from the University Alliance Training Camp and severe punishment!
Just then, Zhang Yi, who had already won two arena battles, noticed a new message on his personal terminal. It was the second message sent by Instructor Li Qiongtian to everyone in the group chat just a few seconds earlier: "All cadets who have finished their arena battles, gather in the main hall immediately."
Zhang Yi had just been about to leave the combat room, unsure of where to go next. Upon seeing Instructor Li Qiongtian’s message, he headed for the main hall.
As he walked, Zhang Yi began to speculate. Instructor Li Qiongtian is gathering us in the main hall now. He either wants to summarize the results of our arena battles, or he’s about to tell us all the ways to earn Points.
After all, based on Instructor Li Qiongtian’s introduction, the only method Zhang Yi knew of for earning Points so far was through the arena battles.
When Zhang Yi walked out of the combat room and returned to the main hall, the noisy scene that greeted him almost made him think he’d come to the wrong place. The cadets who had finished their first arena battle were all gathered in small groups of two and three. They were still clustered by school, just as before, but the expressions on their faces were now vastly different.
Some cadets were ecstatic, animatedly gesturing to their companions. They had clearly won a great victory in their first arena battle, causing their Points to soar. Others listened to their companions’ excited chatter with grave expressions, their brows tightly furrowed. Apparently, they had lost at least once in the recent arena battle, costing them 500 Points, to say nothing of the damage to their Clans. Still other cadets looked utterly dejected, as if they were on the verge of tears. It was obvious they had gotten carried away during their arena battles and lost every last one of the 1,000 Points Instructor Li Qiongtian had given them. Now that they had come to their senses, they were starting to worry about their training over the next month in the University Alliance Training Camp...
Meanwhile, the huge, ring-shaped screen behind Instructor Li Qiongtian, which had previously displayed their respective battle rosters, now showed the changes in their Points after the arena battles. For most of the cadets, the change in their Points after the first arena battle had been finalized. Of the scores shown—2,000, 1,500, 1,000, 500, and 0—the 500-Point bracket had the most people. Evidently, the majority of cadets had chosen to stop after losing one match!
Zhang Yi, on the other hand, was one of the few "hardcore" players who had fought two arena battles, leaping from his initial 1,000 Points to 2,000! There were over fifty other such "hardcore" players, and among their names, Zhang Yi easily found the other three from his own school. Wan Hua, Hong Tianyi, and Huang Yingtian—their names were all in the 2,000-Point row.
Seeing their names, he knew the three of them had also finished their battles. Zhang Yi scanned the crowd, looking for them.
"Brother Zhang, over here!" Hong Tianyi’s voice came from behind him.
Hong Tianyi was standing with Wan Hua and Huang Yingtian, and the three of them were waving at Zhang Yi.
Zhang Yi walked over.
"Mission accomplished!"
"Brother Zhang!"
"All of us from Golden City No.1 Middle School got 2,000 Points in the first round of assessments," Wan Hua said, his voice filled with excitement. "We’ve seized the initiative in one fell swoop! Now, both our teacher, Xu Yiweng, who was sent with us, and the principal back at school will be proud when they hear this news!"
Before this arena battle, Wan Hua had always felt insecure about getting into the University Alliance Training Camp as the fourth-ranked student from Golden City No.1 Middle School’s final exams. He had imagined that everyone at the training camp would be as strong as the three students who ranked above him. As it turned out, this arena battle had actually beaten some confidence into him!
But Wan Hua hadn’t stopped to think that Golden City was the provincial capital, and Golden City No.1 Middle School was the top-ranked school in the entire city. Anyone who could stand out there, even someone entering as the fourth-ranked student from his own school, could still dominate cadets from schools in other cities. Their sights shouldn’t be limited to the current provincial exams. They should be looking further ahead, to the elite cadets from other provinces and regions they would face after the provincial exams—cadets who had survived round after round of eliminations