Chapter 87: After Getting the Badge, That’s When It Really Begins

After the first [Mana Core Badge] was discovered, the rhythm of the entire Third Enclosed Ecological Zone changed completely in almost a single minute.

New students who had originally been hunting magical beasts in the outer areas, searching for resources, and slowly accumulating screening evaluation points according to their own plans all took out their maps.

Even those temporary teams that had clearly stated at the beginning that they would not participate in the badge contest could not help but start recalculating distances, because something like core cultivation qualification was not something ordinary points could compare to.

As long as there was a chance to seize one, even if they had done nothing for the previous few hours, the greatest gain of this screening would already be in hand.

Of course It was only "seizing."

That was still far from enough.

The badge had to be held until the screening ended.

In other words, from the moment one obtained it, what one got was not a reward, but a target that would continuously draw other students toward them.

In the high monitoring area, Victor did not shift all his attention to that region just because the first badge had appeared. Instead, he first swept a glance over the positions of several main targets.

Mia was the farthest from there.

After the girl saw the announcement, she unfolded her map and looked at it for less than ten seconds before putting it away directly. She continued forward along her original outer route, without even the slightest intention of turning.

Running over now to compete with level ten-plus first-year elites for a mana core badge was not called courage. It was called having something wrong with your brain.

So she did not go.

Victor was instead even more satisfied.

On the other side, Ryan had already changed route.

He was very fast, but unlike some of the students around him, he did not directly use high-consumption movement skills to rush. Instead, he continued advancing along the shortest route between woodland and rocky slopes. When he encountered a magical beast blocking the way, he simply avoided it, not wasting time for screening points.

As for Leah Victor looked at the third monitoring crystal.

The girl had likewise stopped at a fork in the forest.

The map on her identity card had already been unfolded.

The exact location of the first badge had not yet refreshed. Right now, everyone only knew that it had been discovered by a student, so the truly large-scale contest had not yet begun.

"You think she’ll go?" Cecilia asked from beside him.

"She will."

Victor answered without any hesitation.

"You’re that sure?"

"If she hadn’t trained yesterday, maybe not."

Victor watched the girl in the image.

"Now she will."

Because a change in strength was not only reflected in level and skills.

A person’s judgment of their own abilities would also change along with truly mastering power.

Before yesterday, if Leah had been asked to actively participate in a resource contest among more than four hundred new students, the first things she would probably have thought of were still whether she would be closed in on by a speed-type profession, whether her skills could hit, and what she should do when facing several people at once.

But after Evelyn’s training, and after just now solving three Gale Hyenas on her own, she had at least confirmed one thing.

She was not merely a turret that could only stand at a distance and release [Starfall].

She could control the battlefield.

Sure enough, In the image.m, Leah lowered her head and glanced at the map, then looked toward the general direction where the first mana light pillar had appeared, and finally changed route directly.

She did not sprint at full speed.

But she was indeed going.

Cecilia gave a soft laugh.

"Looks like you really do understand her."

Just then, about ten minutes later, the identity cards of almost all students lit up at the same time.

[First public refresh of Mana Core Badge location.]

In the center of the map.

A red area quickly appeared.

It was not precise coordinates.

It was a circular area with a diameter approaching five hundred meters.

[Eastern Rubble Hills.]

The routes of a large number of students changed instantly.

Some had originally been very close qhiwk others gave up thinking that it wasn’t worth the stress.

Leah’s distance from the red area was One thousand seven hundred meters which was suprisely close .

Moreover, her direction of advance was different from the main force, so she could enter the Rubble Hills from the southeast side.

Ryan was a bit farther, about Two thousand four hundred meters away But with his movement ability, the difference was not great.

The students who were truly already inside the red area were at least thirsty plus .

...

Eastern Rubble Hills.

"Hurry!"

"Don’t let them get around!"

"Someone on the left!"

A slender male student rapidly charged up a gravel slope. A tear had already been cut in the academy uniform at his chest, and his right hand tightly gripped a black-silver badge no larger than a palm. Behind him, three students who had originally formed a team with him were desperately holding others back.

His name was Evan he was. ALevel-twelve wind-element scout.

He was also the earliest discoverer of the first mana core badge.

The process of finding the badge could not even be called difficult.

The four of them had originally only planned to hunt a level-twelve Rockback Lizard, but behind the magical beast’s nest they discovered a decayed metal box. After opening it, the badge was inside.

The truly difficult thing Had only begun after that.

At first, only one nearby three-person team saw them.

In less than five minutes Seven people became twelve.

After the first public location refresh now Everyone nearby came.

"Evan! Keep moving!"

A shield warrior in the rear had just blocked two spells when, on the other side, a sword-wielding student directly leaped down from the rocky slope. He did not continue entangling with him at all, but chased after the person actually holding the badge.

"Put the badge down!" The sword-wielding youth lande. Mana erupted beneath his feet and the distance shrank instantly.

Evan glanced back, his expression very ugly.

He was a scout profession to begin with. Frontal combat was not his strength, and moreover, he had already consumed quite a bit of mana escaping to this point.

But let him hand the thing over?

Impossible.

He had only held it for less than ten minutes.

"Take it yourself if you can!"

A wind blade was flung backward.

The sword-wielding youth directly twisted aside to avoid it.

The distance closed again.

Ten meters.

Seven meters.

Five meters.

Just as the longsword was about to touch Evan’s back, a heavy impact suddenly came from the side.

Boom!

Both turned their heads at the same time.

A Rock-Horned Deer at least two meters tall charged out from behind the slope, and following Behind it was five more!

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