Chapter 43: Charade

The next day arrived and everyone was on the edge, they all moved and paced themselves as they got ready for the battle that was about to commence.

Anthony sat in his room pressing his phone, he was already dressed with his katana hanging on his waist as usual, he was chatting his mother who wasn't replying.

He missed her, but she has work to do so he didn't really want to disturb her too much.

He looked at the time and it was 9:50AM. Ten minutes to the given time.

Anthony teleported and arrived at the door leading to the colosseum, pushed it open and entered with steady steps like he owned the place since it was founded.

Though they called it a coliseum, Anthony refused to name it that because it was just as huge as the training hall he used for weapon training with Klaus.

It seems they used space magic to expand it to the extreme, creating more space to accomodate people.

Anthony looked around and saw that many people have gathered.

In the Academy time was always of essence, a second late here could cost you a lot.

So everyone basically arrived before him, he always arrived on time, but his classmates always make it seem like he came late as he is always the last to arrive despite always arriving before the stipulated time.

Bryan looked at Anthony who was still releasing an F- rank and clenched his fist, after Anthony lazed around all six months he thought he finally had a chance and just had to be wary of Tiara now, although he hasn't fought her, he won't underestimate her.

The Dean has taught Bryan a lot of things, not just about training and fighting. But more about the world itself, he taught him things he should know for his level and a step above.

This was Bryan's confidence in ranking 1st in the Written exam Rank.

He once asked the Dean about the reason for the five marks missing in the one thousand mark written exam or clues to it.

But the Dean smiled and said if he could get it, he would, there was no trick, if there a trick it would be to read.

Bryan didn't understand but still read more and more, his brother's death also added to his hatred for demons making him even train harder everyday.

Even his elder brother Heinz, the student council president graduated immediately and went straight for the demons

Bryan was confident that he could at least touch the 995 score and enter the 996 realm if he read like his master told him, but he fell short and was a point away.

Yet, the person he trained hard to surpass simply enjoyed life and surpassed him with minimum effort.

As Bryan was deep in thought a professor with a four star badge on his chest floated down from the skies with a spear hanging on his back with aura resembling a tidal wave about to crush all of them.

Normally Freshmen won't see people of such status in the Academy till their third year, but this was the golden generation.

All of them were freaks, even someone who is considered mediocre right now is a genius in the previous generations and eras.

So none of them would be expelled for not meeting the required mana rank but rather if they tanked their written exams.

"As you already know, no killing or giving fatal crippling blows are allowed, you get ranking points by killing the monsters yourself and Academy points by bring corpse, so even if a student at the C rank brings back corpse at the A rank, we won't care if you killed it or not, just that you brought it back, robbing other students of corpses are allowed"

"And I don't need to tell you this but you know that no potions are allowed right"

"You can only walk in with your weapon and space rings and that's all, you can see the time count down on your watch, the watch has been updated also to count your scores and send it back in real time and you will automatically be brought out of the secret realm when the time is up"

"The secret realm has many monsters nest, so be careful you green pigs, the realm teleports everyone to random places and you would hardly meet each other, so don't die as the Academy won't compensate your families, we won't be watching you at all, so do as you please" Dame said with a smirk.

Anthony shook his head at these rules.

These old men were truly scheming, the ginger gets spicier the older it gets.

They made the corpse for point rule and asking of no questions particularly for him, so that he could bring back whatever he could and they could gauge his strength, it seems they found out he has more than he shows but they don't know what he has or the depth of what he has.

Even if they didn't ask any questions, the marks on the beast and monster body will giveaway how it died, comparing that and the person that brought the corpse was the only answer they need, so there was no need to ask anything at all.

Besides Anthony was already rich, he didn't need these points, even if he became broke and needed points, he could just go back and bet again and become a millionaire again.

The rule of also not seeing your point or anyone's until you come out to know your final ranking was to make people go all out due to fear of the unknown.

To make them continue hunting and keeping the corpse, and they couldn't stop because for all they know, they could be in the last, or the second place just needing one point to climb to first place, so why stop at all.

This was another rule to make Anthony show some cards he had.

Also they said they won't be watching was a lie, there was no way they would send their students of a golden generation at that to a secret realm without supervising them for twenty four hours.

This was another way to make Anthony move freely without hiding.

Though they monitored them in the boran forest during the entrance exam using nanobots that had cameras and speakers that were so small and hard to see, but Anthony saw them and so did others who had good eye sight.

But now saying they won't be watching was a total lie, they simply won't be watching with cameras but with another thing entirely that won't be detectable for people of their realm.

They simply hide all these ploy by planting a benefit Infront by using the artifact that even rich kids and family don't have and with the Academy points.

The entire exam rule is a charade, made just for Anthony to show some card so they could see for themselves, all this planning because he scored a perfect score during the written exam.

Anthony knew it was because of the perfect score in the written exam but that won't stop him from getting a perfect score next time

If Anthony didn't have the passive skill "scheming mind" he would have 100% sure fallen for this pit, he truly thanked the skill, he was a normal person in his past life, there was no way he could find out about any of this schemes, this is why Anthony wished for the "scheming mind" skill, it was truly dangerous to trust old men in any fantasy.

He would show them what they wanted to see, just not himself but his subordinate.

"They should be enough for them to enjoy as a show won't it" Anthony said to himself.

Now the stage for his subordinate debut has been set, all he has to do was just watch