—"In team matches, teammates strong enough to leave you without worries would become opponents who gave you headaches in individual matches and Fun Matches."
What had she said back then?
"Were Ao Fa and Rong Shan really that good at teaching apprentices?"
"Ao Fa... I could only say that every so often, she taught an exceptionally gifted apprentice. Cuo Da—Bern—Aihao—Rong Shan. As for Rong Shan... the only thing I could be sure of was that with his strength and bearing, if he said he wanted to teach at an academy, the Nine Great Magic Academies would fight to have him. Smaller Magic Academies would even be willing to make him principal."
"Oh, what about you?"
"What?"
"If you announced that you were willing to become a teacher, would the Nine Great Magic Academies fight to have you?"
"...Mm, of course. Absolutely."
"Were they too scared not to fight for you?"
"If the pressure was too much and you didn't want to live anymore, you could just say so."
Every apprentice considered a favorite to win had their own top-tier skills... and items.
This was also the information various intelligence networks had compiled since last year.
It seemed that the third-year apprentices who had begun emerging from Astralana 169 onward all possessed exceptional skills and items.
Time Skills, Theft Skills, invincibility skills, control skills, replication skills, Deprivation Skills, Retaliation Skills, damage-transfer skills...
Geniuses had emerged in clusters.
The third-year students of years 170 and 171 were the same.
Although Mirror Goose was participating in the Godly Game for the first time, he had become a favorite to win in underground casinos before even entering the Godly Game because he possessed a skill called Early Retirement.
The terrifying part of this skill was that once someone was marked by it, all