Chapter 238 - 237: The Desperate North District Examinees

"There is a way."

Hearing Yui Mu’s words, the crowd immediately followed his gaze and saw the North District candidates, who were also struggling to Resist the Demon Beast’s attacks on the other side.

Upon seeing the North District candidates, the candidates from the other three districts had a flash of understanding. They knew what Yui Mu meant.

Jiang Kangcheng, Yui Mu, and Miao Yuan exchanged glances, their expressions turning resolute. It seemed they had made a decision.

The candidates from their three districts also saw the look exchanged between Jiang Kangcheng, Yui Mu, and Miao Yuan, and they too nodded in agreement.

"No, you can’t do this! This is a treacherous betrayal!"

Seeing that something was terribly wrong, Bai Ye of the North District roared at the candidates from the other three districts, his face instantly twisting into an ugly expression.

However, the candidates from the other three districts ignored his furious roar.

Originally, the candidates from the four districts had each taken a position to surround the Golden-winged Black Wind Beast. But now, the candidates from the East and South Districts began to slowly move toward the West District candidates, all while Resisting the Golden-winged Black Wind Beast’s attacks.

As the candidates from the three districts gathered, the encirclement instantly collapsed, leaving two sides exposed.

At this moment, the North District candidates were on the Golden-winged Black Wind Beast’s left, while the candidates from the other three districts were on its right.

With only five or six of them, the North District candidates on the left looked isolated, their defense the weakest point in the formation. The Golden-winged Black Wind Beast was no fool. Relying on its combat instincts, it saw the encirclement break and immediately began to attack the candidates’ weakest area: the North District’s side.

"They want to use us as bait so they can escape!"

"Fuck, that’s so despicable!"

"The candidates from the other three districts are all bastards, just as I thought!"

"I told you we shouldn’t get involved with the other districts. Now look what happened..."

"No, I don’t want to die! Dammit!"

Only now did the North District candidates understand their predicament. Many began to hurl curses, but most were simply overcome with despair. In this situation, they couldn’t escape even if they tried. The Golden-winged Black Wind Beast had locked onto them, and it would chase them down no matter where they ran.

As for resisting, that was even more impossible.

The Golden-winged Black Wind Beast was something that thirty or forty people from all four districts combined couldn’t handle. How could the few of them from the North District possibly Resist it?

Other than being killed one by one, there was no other end for them.

The thought of death plunged the North District candidates into absolute despair.

Bai Ye’s face was filled with remorse. He regretted accepting the proposal from Yui Mu and the others to join forces with the other three districts to hunt this Level 5 Demon Beast.

Back when he had accepted the proposal, Yui Mu and the others had promised Bai Ye that the North District could split the rewards from this Level 5 Demon Beast equally with the other three districts.

The Demon Beast Crystal of a Level 5 Demon Beast could be exchanged for one hundred Level 4 Demon Beast Crystals. Split four ways, that meant each district would get twenty-five Level 4 Demon Beast Crystals.

Divided among the individuals, that meant each person would receive about five Demon Beast Crystals.

Obtaining five Demon Beast Crystals meant completing a quarter of the House Entrance Examination’s mission!

If it weren’t for such an irresistible temptation, Bai Ye never would have agreed to this proposal to team up with the other three districts.

Now, it was clear just how unwise that decision had been.

It was all because of greed that he and the North District candidates had walked into this bottomless abyss. It was too late for regrets.

"Now’s the time! Go!"

Seeing that the North District candidates had successfully drawn the Golden-winged Black Wind Beast’s attention, Yui Mu yelled and began to lead the others in their escape.

Alerted, the candidates from the three districts fled for their lives in the opposite direction without a backward glance.

In the process, only one candidate from the East District was unlucky enough to be struck by the Golden-winged Black Wind Beast’s wing as he fled, dying instantly. Everyone else managed to escape the beast’s attack range.

And, just as they had expected, after they escaped its attack range, the Golden-winged Black Wind Beast didn’t pursue them. Instead, it continued to attack the North District candidates.

With the few North District candidates left behind as bait, the Golden-winged Black Wind Beast had no time to hunt down the candidates from the other three districts.

’Heh, you can only blame yourselves for being from the North District.’ Yui Mu, who had come up with the idea, gave a cold smirk. He didn’t feel he had been ruthless at all. To him, this was perfectly normal. After all, suppressing the North District was a tradition for their three districts.

’The situation was critical. If we didn’t use the North District candidates as bait, which district would we have used?’

Once they had fled to a safe distance, the leaders of the three districts—Jiang Kangcheng, Yui Mu, and Miao Yuan—breathed a sigh of relief. Then they quickly left the chaotic scene, not even sparing a single glance for the North District candidates.

"Those bastards from the other three districts! So damn wicked."

"SOB... I can’t hold on much longer."

"Brother Bai, what do we do? Are we really going to die here?"

"Should we... crush the Help Stone?"

"AHHHH! I don’t want to die! But I don’t want to give up either!"

"..."

Watching the candidates from the other three districts grow distant and finally disappear, the North District candidates sank deeper into despair. Resisting the Golden-winged Black Wind Beast’s attacks grew increasingly difficult, and several times, someone nearly died.

The members of the North District were already clutching their Help Stones, but not a single one could bear to crush it.

Crushing the Help Stone meant they couldn’t enter the West Mansion. It meant they could never become peerless powerhouses in the future. It meant they would have no bright future. And if they had no future, then living was just as meaningless.

"Sigh... It’s all my fault. I’m the one who couldn’t resist their offer. I was too quick to trust them and didn’t assess the risks properly. A Level 5 Demon Beast with the strength of a Battle King... how could candidates like us ever hope to kill it? And even if we had somehow succeeded, given our relationship with the other three districts, would they really have let us have a share? They probably would have just killed us when it came time to divide the spoils."

Bai Ye sighed and said, "I was blinded by greed and endangered everyone. If we hadn’t joined the other districts to challenge this Level 5 Demon Beast—if we had just stuck to hunting Level 4 Demon Beasts while we waited for Tang Yi to join us—we wouldn’t be in this dangerous situation."

Hearing this, another North District candidate sighed. "Speaking of Tang Yi, if only he were here. He could definitely get us out of this."

"Yeah, Tang Yi is so powerful he can even defeat a Battle Emperor Powerhouse. What’s a mere Level 5 Demon Beast to him? Tang Yi could definitely kill it with ease and save us," another North District candidate added.