NOVEL WEB Chapter 192 - Rating
Although the starship of Emperor Capital University wasn’t very large, it was spacious enough for each student to have their own room.
On the way back to her room, Mai Dongzi encountered Ren Guang, who had purposely come over to talk to her.
“How are you feeling?” Ren Guang asked.
Although Mai Dongzi looked better than the others on the outside, Ren Guang, who had already formed a brotherly bond with her, couldn’t feel at ease without checking in on her.
“I’m fine, cousin, don’t worry,” Mai Dongzi smiled at Ren Guang.
In fact, Ren Guang was in worse condition than Mai Dongzi. He had lost a lot of weight, which clearly showed how much responsibility he had borne as the team leader over the past month.
However, his growth was also noticeable. This training had been a rare and valuable opportunity for the elite students of Emperor Capital University, and each of them had experienced some degree of personal growth.
Given Ren Guang’s current state, his cultivation level should reach the mid-stage of level 6 within a month.
Once he confirmed that Mai Dongzi was fine, Ren Guang felt relieved and headed toward the room where his team was staying.
The rooms for the Starlight Squad and the Phantom Squad were not far apart. By the time Ren Guang arrived, the other members of the Starlight Squad had already entered their rooms, with only Ye Weilai still staring at Mai Dongzi’s back.
“What’s wrong?” Ren Guang asked, puzzled.
Ye Weilai had seen Mai Dongzi before, so why was she looking at her like that? Was something wrong?
“I’m not sure yet. I’ll tell you once I figure it out,” Ye Weilai replied.
Six hours later, the students of Emperor Capital University gathered in the starship hall. Everyone had cleaned up and looked much more refreshed.
However, their sunburnt skin couldn’t immediately return to its original color, and their significantly thinner bodies made it clear what they had been through.
This time, Mai Dongzi sat next to the Starlight Squad with the members of the Phantom Squad.
Not long after sitting down, Mai Dongzi noticed that the only female member of the Starlight Squad was staring at her profile in a daze.
Mai Dongzi was somewhat puzzled. She vaguely sensed that there might be something between this girl and Ren Guang.
But after all, she was Ren Guang’s cousin, so why would this girl give her such a strange look?
It wasn’t just Ye Weilai who was staring at Mai Dongzi. Shi Zimo was also looking at her. However, he first stared at Durant, then shifted his gaze toward Mai Dongzi, making his intentions quite clear.
The obvious desire to advance made Mai Dongzi smile. She gave him a nod, and Shi Zimo, grinning from ear to ear, stopped staring at her.
“Your warrior rank should be advancing soon, right?” Ren Guang said to Mai Dongzi.
“Not that soon, at least two more months,” Mai Dongzi replied.
On the last day on Liva Star, after enduring wave after wave of beast attacks, the Phantom Squad had gained ample experience through immense struggle.
The biggest gain was for Mai Dongzi. Every time the Phantom Squad was exhausted, it was her mental strength that held them up. She would help them “play hide and seek” with the beasts to recover before they fought again; without her, they wouldn’t have lasted this long.
For Mai Dongzi, while the intensity of this battle wasn’t comparable to the post-apocalypse battles of her past life, it was still better than any secluded training.
By the end of the training, Mai Dongzi’s mental power had almost been drained, and she was barely holding on with the little physical strength she had left.
After boarding the flying vehicle, she drank the energy potion, and once back on the starship, she got a good sleep. She could clearly feel her mental power had increased significantly.
Although she hadn’t reached the point of leveling up, this kind of growth would normally take at least six months of continuous cultivation.
So when she saw Shi Zimo looking so eager to break through the bottleneck and reach the rank of a level 6 warrior, Mai Dongzi readily agreed to help him, but that would have to wait until they returned to Emperor Capital University and got settled.
In the following two days of travel, aside from the regular training, the instructors gathered everyone in the starship hall to watch videos of the training.
The instructors didn’t just show them the more exciting clips; they also selected videos of teams with “special” performances, played them, and publicly commented on them— a public “execution.”
Any team that was criticized by the instructors was too embarrassed to even lift their heads.
The Phantom Squad was also critiqued. The moment they were criticized was when they first entered the desert and were attacked by desert beasts while resting at night.
“When entering a new area, without understanding the environment or knowing the dangers, the person on night watch was half-asleep and lacked vigilance, while those not on watch were completely careless, wrapped in animal hides, sleeping in all sorts of awkward positions. Not one of you thought that beneath you was sand, and the beasts could easily emerge from underneath. If it hadn’t been for Classmate Xi using her mental power to suppress the desert beasts, you’d all have been eaten down to the bone…”
Instructor Shan criticized them harshly, though his tone wasn’t at all intense.
The Phantom Squad felt deeply ashamed. At the time, they hadn’t failed to consider the danger, but they hadn’t thought it through properly. Now, looking back, they realized just how foolish they had been.
However, their embarrassment didn’t last long, as the criticism quickly shifted to the Thunderlight Squad. Their mistakes were even more significant, and they were mercilessly criticized by Instructor Shan, who showed no emotion.
It was rare to see their seniors in such a miserable state, and the Phantom Squad couldn’t help but enjoy it with a sense of schadenfreude, completely forgetting their own embarrassing moment.
The same scene replayed in the starship hall, one after another.
After the criticism came the moment to discuss merits, though there were no rewards.
The day after everyone boarded the starship, the points for the team training competition were announced.
None of the teams were able to achieve the ultimate goal of the training.
With no team reaching the finish line, the Phantom Squad, who had managed to stay in the game without eliminating any members and had killed the second most number of beasts, unsurprisingly earned the most points and became the champions of the group training competition.
The Sunlight Squad was actually the closest to the finish line. If it hadn’t been for the bad luck of encountering the beast tide in the last few days, they would have definitely reached the finish line on time.
Despite working hard and sticking it out until the final day of the training, the Sunlight Squad didn’t manage to be the team that lasted the longest.
In the end, they didn’t last as long as the Phantom Squad. But it wasn’t surprising that they lost to the Phantom Squad, since their leader was a powerful mental-type ability user. In that situation, they accepted the loss.
What the Sunlight Squad didn’t expect was that, because the remaining two members of Ability Team 1 latched onto the Phantom Squad, they ended up being the third-to-last team to be eliminated, which cost them five points.
It’s important to note that the Sunlight Squad’s total points were only two less than the Phantom Squad’s. If it hadn’t been for the interference from Ability Team 1, the Sunlight Squad would have definitely won first place.