Chapter 39

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Su Mo’s vision darkened and became bright again as he found that he had appeared on a small, circular stage. There were cliffs all around him, which were surrounded by fog. There were also another seven monsters that had appeared together with him.

At that moment, a loud voice sounded in his mind: The Monster Tower’s trials will now begin. Kill the other participants; the last survivor will move on to the next round.

The other seven monsters’ gazes became savage; they all had the same goal as him.

However, Su Mo looked at the seven other monsters’ levels and HP, which were showing above their bodies. There were even their skills and battle styles, and when he looked at himself, he was the same.

Savage Wolf Lafu, Level 25, Common, Skills: Claw Strike, Thick Skin, Sweep, ferocious battle style, Strength Evaluation: 1.5 Stars.

Su Mo looked at the green-skinned lizard closest to him: Level 35, Elite, Skills: Poison Shot, Tail Strike, Chain Lightning, Tenacity, sly battle style, Strength Evaluation: 3 Stars.

Apart from a Pigman who had a 3.5 Star evaluation, the strongest was this green-skinned lizard.

Lafu/Su Mo was the weakest out of the eight monsters. The others were essentially all Elites, and one was a Boss. Only Lafu and another monster were Common monsters.

What was key was that the other Common monster was Level 30, and it was significantly higher-level than Su Mo.

As the weakest monster, Su Mo could only express his weakness. He whined and retreated—this was called showing weakness to the enemy.

However, the green-skinned lizard next to him was not intelligent enough to understand his intentions.

It opened its mouth towards Su Mo and began to gather energy, and a Chain Lightning was about to appear. Su Mo inwardly cursed and stealthily took out a healing potion from his bag and put it in his mouth.

Recovery potions could instantly recover a large amount of HP, while healing potions gradually recovered HP.

He did not believe that this Chain Lightning would be able to instantly kill him; after all, it was an AOE attack. His only worry was that this fellow would be determined to kill him.

The eight monsters on the stage all began to reveal their strength. Su Mo was guessing that the system was testing the intelligence of these monsters; he would have to play things intelligently if he wanted to survive.

The green-skinned lizard did not attack the greatest threats to it; rather, it wanted to eliminate him, the weakest, first.

The Chain Lightning rushed towards Su Mo, and Su Mo was unable to dodge. He leapt up and fell to the ground, his body spasming. Half of it was real, and half was him pretending.

You want to compete with me in intelligence? I’ll make you doubt your lives.

After spasming a bit, Su Mo lay on the ground and did not move. Fortunately, the System God did not reveal their HP anymore, or else the other monsters would be able to see that Su Mo’s HP was gradually recovering.

The green-skinned lizard looked at his work with glee before turning to join the other monsters to attack the 3.5 Star Pigman.

It was a pity that although this Pigman was quite powerful with its rake, it was being attacked by so many other monsters, resulting in it being pushed back. In the end, it had no other choice but to jump down from the stage.

Well done!

Su Mo lay on his back with his tongue out, looking like he was dead, but he was observing the situation. Seeing that the most powerful monster, the Pigman, had died, he could not help but inwardly praise the others.

The second to be eliminated was the green-skinned lizard. It was too confident in its AOE attacks, and in the end, it chose to die rather than give up.

Before dying, it had killed the Level 30 Mini Boss.

The remaining monsters began to chaotically battle. In the end, the last remaining one was a Level 30 Highland Antelope. It was covered with injuries but filled with battle intent. After it thought it had killed all other opponents, it saw Su Mo pretending to be dead.

The Highland Antelope slowly and proudly walked in front of Su Mo.

It began to trample on the ground—this was the windup for Charge, as well as a way of putting pressure on its enemy. Why would it take a half-dead Common monster that had nearly been killed by Chain Lightning?

At that moment, Su Mo suddenly leapt up from the ground and swiped at the Highland Antelope with his metal claws, leaving many wounds.

This scene made Su Mo think of a movie featuring Bruce Lee.

It was a pity that the character he was playing was not Bruce Lee but Mister Shi Jian, with the metal claws.

The Highland Antelope was shocked; it could not understand why there was such a sinister monster in the world. Only after a long while did it react and start to counterattack.

The reason why it was able to become the second-last survivor was because it had a skill that could knock targets flying. Some monsters had been kicked off the stage by it, but it was a pity that this attack was useless against Su Mo—he was as slippery as an eel.

The Level 30 Elite monster did not have much HP left, and even though its skills were powerful, they were easily dodged by Su Mo.

Su Mo was Level 26 and had more than half of his HP. Even though his skills were not very strong, he shamelessly had metal claws and most importantly, he had potions.

This was destined to be an unfair battle.

Seeing that there was no way it could beat Su Mo, the Highland Antelope jumped off the stage. It seemed that jumping off was better than dying in battle; Su Mo had seen this happen many times.

When only Su Mo was left on the stage, that loud voice once again sounded out, telling Su Mo that he had progressed to the next round.

A teleportation circle appeared beneath Su Mo’s feet, and after the scenery changed, he found that he was in a room. It looked quite familiar—like it was a classroom.

There were some numbers on the blackboard at the front.

5+1×6=

There was nothing else, as if the blackboard was waiting for an answer.

The loud voice confirmed Su Mo’s guesses—it wanted him to write the answer.

Su Mo was stunned. Was this a trial for monsters?

It was so strange—shouldn’t trials be done through fighting? What the hell was going on with this primary school maths question?

At that moment, a countdown timer appeared in front of him: There were three minutes in total.

With Lafu’s own intellect, would he be able to work it out?

Su Mo immediately squashed that idea—it was quite shameful to think that his pet could not even do basic maths.

Su Mo instinctively was about to write 36, but he remembered the order of operations: multiplication first, then addition. The answer was 11.

He came in front of the blackboard and pretended to think hard. When time was almost up, he slowly wrote 11, and the system notified him that he had passed this round.

This was very simple, and Su Mo felt quite pleased. As long as there was no university-level maths, he would be fine.

The third round was similar to the second, but instead of a blackboard, there was a squirrel teacher wearing glasses. It stood at a lectern and looked incredibly serious.

“Now, there will be a riddle. You need to carefully listen to all of the details. If you cannot answer it, I will invite another monster to help you. As for whether it will be able to help you, you can only pray to the System God.”