Afterlife Department

"Welcome to the Chel Military Academy's Annual Challenge. Today will be the third and last stage of the Annual Challenge…" the host spoke.

Wallace Daune just silently listened while Emily can't help but yawn. Yesterday, he had Emily personally award the certificate to the winners again since he doesn't know if he will have an attack again.

"Twenty-five students… and all of them are in the honor list. Ai!" Emily sighed with pity as she looked at the twenty-five students of the Chel Military Academy sitting on the platform and are watching the twenty-five winners of yesterday's event.

Most of them are looking at Yi Bing, Huo Ling, Shou Ji and Shi Jiu, especially Huo Ling who have SSS spiritual strength and SS mental strength, and Yi Bing who have SS spiritual strength and SS mental strength.

The audience also are in an uproar, with some still can't believe with the four's data after it was displayed. All they know is that betas can't have this result. Yet, the data is true since the one who tested these four 'people' is Myer Reane. She can't make a mistake..

Reine Reane, who is in the identity of Yuale Figue, smiled as he stood beside Huo Ling. "The enemies must be very confused right now." He spoke. "Aunt Myer should be on our side, and with these data, the four of you would be sought-after. Logically, the four of you should be hidden by us as our aces on our sleeves. Yet, here you are, being high-profile." He said.

"This can also be showing your strength to them, that you don't fear them." Huo Ling answered.

Reine nodded. "In fact, aunt Myer should have really hidden you and then informed us. But – " he looked at Huo Ling. " – we aren't like them. We don't like to restrain our people, even if their actions might bring us trouble." He said.

"And that's why you are the good guys while your enemies are the bad guys." Huo Ling said.

Reine smiled, feeling pleased by Huo Ling's compliment. "I don't really understand why many people wants power." He said. "It would just bring you troubles, and would make you sacrifice everything in exchange for it." He frowned.

"So that's why you didn't vie for the throne." Huo Ling spoke.

Reine nodded. "I just want to live a carefree life. But…" his eyes narrowed. "These people really like to make troubles. They even killed cousin!" he said.

Huo Ling fell silent and looked at Shou Ji whose smile disappeared. They are also listening to Reine.

"Oh, right. You should have heard about Erich Reane. He is my cousin and a general." Reine spoke after he calmed down.

Huo Ling just nodded.

"I have warned cousin before about that Yu Yan. That Yu Yan is a snake. See, cousin now is dead because of that snake!" Reine gnashed his teeth.

Shou Ji didn't speak but suddenly, he thought of something. "Hm? I heard that this general has an adjutant. What about his adjutant? Did he also die?" he asked.

"His adjutant?" Reine muttered and tried to recall something. "Ah." He muttered as his expression suddenly changed.

Shou Ji's eyes narrowed. He knows something! He thought. Wei Shi… what happened to Wei Shi? He thought as he lowered his eyes.

"With you asking this… you must not be my cousin's adjutant." Reine spoke as he looked at Shou Ji.

Shou Ji's eyes flashed. Damn it! When did this brat become this sharp? He thought and smiled, doesn't want to speak.

"… so you're not on their side, huh…" Reine muttered with a thoughtful expression.

'on their side'? Shou Ji's fists clenched as his heart beat loudly, feeling that something is fishy.

"So, your cousin's adjutant is alive and he has his own forces?" Huo Ling directly asked, also helping Shou Ji.

Reine's lips curled up as he looked at Huo Ling. He then glanced at Shou Ji before his gaze turned back to Huo Ling. "So you are fishing for information about my cousin's adjutant." He said and smiled like the Cheshire Cat.

Huo Ling didn't answer, since the answer is obvious.

"Although this is troublesome since I have promised, but you don't look like bad guys and…" Reine glanced at Shou Ji before he retracted his gaze. "I'll tell you where he is now." He said.

"Where?" Shou Ji asked.

Reine didn't answer but he looked somewhere. Shou Ji followed his gaze and turned, only for his mouth to fall open when he finally realized something. "… Wallace Daune?" he muttered as his clenched fists trembled.

Reine looked at him. "… you know the adjutant." He said.

Shou Ji took a deep breath to calm himself. He thought that it was just a coincidence that Wei Shi and this Wallace Daune has the same name, 'Wallace'. But, he should've known… he has sensed a strange aura before and Wallace Daune is in the same area as him. How can it be simple and coincidence? Wei Shi is Wallace Daune! Fck! And that Emily… she must have known it! She concealed her elder brother from him!

Shou Ji's face darkened and Yi Bing, Huo Ling and Shi Jiu fell silent. Reine's smile suddenly became stiff when he felt Shou Ji's mental strength. "Fck." He cursed. I messed up. He thought and placed a palm on his forehead.

Fortunately, Shou Ji remembered where they are and he suppressed his mental strength that is leaking. Some of the participants near them shivered in fear. This guy is so scary! He has S mental strength… then how about the other two who have SS mental strength?! We will die, then! They thought and wanted to cry. Fortunately for them, they won't become opponents. And the opponents of these four 'people' before were also fortunate to not taste the mental strength and spiritual strength of these four monsters. But, just their physiques are scary enough!

Suddenly, they casted a gaze of sympathy to the twenty-five senior students of the Chel Military Academy. Whoever becomes the opponents of these four monsters will definitely suffer. And, the expressions of the twenty-five students are really ugly. They have watched the battles and noticed that only the physique of these four 'betas' they have used in fighting. They haven't used their mental strength and spiritual strength.

If they don't know how to use mental strength and spiritual strength, which is reasonable since they haven't been trained, then them military students would be lucky and they can defeat them. But, if these four 'betas' are actually just hiding… then they are terrifying! They are already strong enough by relying on their physique… then how much more with their mental strength and spiritual strength?!

"Hey. One of them have only B spiritual strength." One of them spoke and looked at Shou Ji.

"Someone who would be his opponent can win, even if that guy's mental strength and physique are S-rank." They said.

They all looked at each other. Their gazes are speaking. Shou Ji's spirit would now be targeted.

…

"Hey. Looks like they know how to deal with you." Reine whispered to Shou Ji when they saw the Chel Military Academy's students looking at Shou Ji.

Shou Ji wryly smiled. "Who made me have B spiritual strength?" he asked. "But…" his lips curled up as he looked at the military students with his eyes curled into crescents. "It's not as if I haven't thought how to make up for this 'weakness' of mine?" he asked.

"Oh~" Reine muttered and slyly grinned. "Know yourself and know your enemy, huh?" he said and looked at the twenty-five students who were caught off-guard when Shou Ji looked at them.

"Fck!" they lowly cursed and their expressions turned even uglier.

Some of them sighed in defeat, accepting their fate. "Who made us so unlucky to meet them?" they asked.

"A loss is just a loss. If things would become worse, I will shamelessly beg my teacher to pull strings for me." One of them said.

Suddenly, someone spoke. "Who knows their origin?" they turned and saw that it was Alexus Febi.

Dwinn Lux, Alexus Febi's best friend, laughed. "You think that their background is fake?" he grinned.

No one spoke. Only Dwinn can speak carelessly like this.

"Who cares about them?" Loui Lene frowned as he looked at the four 'people' with disdain. "We can defeat them." He said.

The others nodded. "Yes. We've already reached this far." They said as they clenched their fists.

Dwinn rolled his eyes while Alexus remained silent. In thirty minutes, the battle will start!

…

Yu Yan was writing something in his office when he heard a knock on the door. "Come in." he spoke without lifting his head.

The door opened and it was his adjutant. "Sir. The Annual Challenge has started. Young master Loui's match is the third match." He spoke.

"Okay. Help me turn the monitor on – ugh!" Yu Yan suddenly cried when he felt his head ached again.

"Sir!" his adjutant cried and immediately caught him when he fell.

Yu Yan's felt his head is throbbing in pain and he immediately sweated. This again! He thought as he lost his consciousness.