Ultimate Mission

Five hours later, more than eighty percent of the Minotaur Tribe had been killed or wounded.

Yet under the Area Revival ability of another Skeleton Race Heroic Lifeform—the Bone Reviver—the Skeleton Soldier legion only grew larger and larger.

In such desperate circumstances, the Minotaur Tribe's chieftain, the tribe's sole Heroic Lifeform, chose to stop resisting, asking only that Han Wu leave the Minotaur Tribe a sliver of hope.

It was willing to lead the remaining Minotaur Tribe into submission.

After much consideration, Han Wu agreed.

But the mission requirements stated that Han Wu had to slaughter over ninety percent of the Minotaur Tribe before he could submit the mission.

The Minotaur Tribe soon gave him its answer.

A thousand wounded and crippled minotaurs walked out from the tribe and willingly died beneath the Skeleton Soldiers' blades.

They did not stop until Han Wu had completed the mission.

Han Wu kept his promise and absorbed the Minotaur Race.

After submitting the mission, his total Assessment Points reached 3,570, leaving him only forty points behind first place.

"Two missions left. At least I've got choices!" Han Wu sighed.

But before his words had even faded, another mission worth ninety Assessment Points turned gray.

It was Qin Shuang. Like Han Wu, she had completed and submitted a mission at nearly the same time. Her total Assessment Points had reached 3,580.

Only one mission remained on the list.

Mission 500: Slay the Dark Frogman Demigod!

"This mission's difficulty is a little too insane." Han Wu frowned.

Even with an army of over twenty million Skeleton Soldiers under his command, he was unwilling to challenge a demigod—let alone a native demigod with home-field advantage in this plane.

But tempted by the enormous reward for first place, Han Wu could not suppress the desire in his heart.

There were vast numbers of locusts to feed in his God Domain, along with quite a few ordinary kin waiting for resources.

He also wanted to fight for first place and catch the attention of a top-tier university—Kyoto Academy.

So Han Wu had no choice but to take this mission.

Having made up his mind, Han Wu issued another divine decree.

The skeleton army advanced toward the region occupied by the Dark Frogmen.

In the control room, the Homeroom Teachers were tallying the data.

Eleven classes had already completed their assessments.

Yet among those eleven classes, not one had completed the ultimate mission on the task list: slaying a demigod.

This was normal. It had been the case every year.

After all, for students who were still Divine Beings, surviving in the Outer Realm under all sorts of restrictions was difficult enough.

Challenging a native demigod that held the geographical advantage was practically no different from courting death. Only an idiot would do something like that.

The Homeroom Teachers all believed that no student would attempt that mission.

The danger was simply too high, and the cost far too great.

One misstep, and if their kin incarnation died at a demigod's hands, everything they had gained in this assessment would vanish like bubbles.

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"Teacher Tian, only three students from your class haven't returned yet," one teacher remarked while looking at the rankings.

"Qin Shuang, currently in second place, has 3,580 Assessment Points. Han Wu, in third place, has 3,570. And Xu Sun, in seventh place, has 3,320. What could possibly be keeping them from returning?"

After considering the other Homeroom Teachers' questions, Tian Wen displayed the assessment interfaces of the three students.

For a moment, the expressions on every Homeroom Teacher's face around him became quite spectacular.

"Those two students of yours are truly audacious beyond belief. They actually dare set their sights on a demigod!"

"I can understand Qin Shuang's side. She now has four Heroic Lifeform Thunder Sparrows, so she barely has the strength to clash with a demigod-level powerhouse. But what about this Han Wu? How did he assemble such a Skeleton Legion? Aren't his Core Kin locusts?"

"Han Wu actually has three Heroic Lifeforms! A Bone Controller, a Bone Reviver, and a Minotaur Race Heroic Lifeform renowned for brute strength. That's truly astonishing!"

"Look at Han Wu's incarnation. Can any of you tell what rank this incarnation is?"

"Holy shit!" A Homeroom Teacher with detection abilities could not help swearing. "That's actually a Skeleton Lord incarnation!"

"Lord Lifeform?! You've got to be kidding me! Fuck, it really is."

The Homeroom Teachers cried out in shock.

They finally understood why Tian Wen had dared to wager ten points of divinity that Han Wu would take first place.

If they had known earlier that Han Wu possessed a Skeleton Lord incarnation and an army of over twenty million skeletons, they would have bet on Han Wu taking first place too.

"Teacher Tian, congratulations. You're going to strike it rich this time—a level-three divine office!" a Homeroom Teacher offered his congratulations in advance.

Tian Wen's face was brimming with delight, and he could not stop smiling.

"Look, Han Wu is only forty Assessment Points behind Huang Fei, who's in first place. In other words, if Han Wu can complete the mission to slay the demigod, he'll be the undisputed first place," one Homeroom Teacher shouted.

More homeroom teachers began congratulating Tian Wen, as though Tian Wen had already won the bet.

Only Liu Letian, his face iron-blue, stubbornly retorted, "Don't celebrate too soon. So what if Han Wu has a Skeleton Lord avatar? Han Wu's chances of taking first place aren't as high as you think."

"Don't forget, he still has a competitor—Qin Shuang. Qin Shuang is a descendant of a True God Family. Who among you knows how many trump cards she has in her hand?"

Those words sent the homeroom teachers into deep thought.

Judging by Qin Shuang's extravagantly lavish performance in the unified examination, she definitely had quite a few tricks hidden up her sleeve.

When it came to the possibility of winning the championship, Qin Shuang should have had the better odds.

"Look, Qin Shuang has taken the lead in bringing her followers to the Dark Frogmen's territory," one homeroom teacher shouted.

On the screen, Qin Shuang's Golden Light Thunder Sparrow avatar circled above the Dark Frogmen's territory.

More than ten thousand thunder sparrows gathered into a thundercloud.

In an instant, countless bolts of lightning descended upon the Dark Frogmen's territory.

It was a scene of ten thousand thunderbolts dancing wildly, the entire sky illuminated by lightning.

Countless Dark Frogmen were struck dead by the thunder.

Such a heavenly calamity immediately drew the attention of the demigod within the Dark Frogmen's territory.

The Dark Frogman demigod instantly cast a divine spell, gathering Darkness Power into a black barrier that shrouded the entire Dark Frogmen's territory.

Naturally, the lightning could no longer harm the Dark Frogmen below.

At the same time, the Dark Frogman demigod's voice rose into the sky.

"You dare destroy my tribe and slaughter my people? I will curse you—curse you to die a miserable death!"

As the words fell, a streak of black light shot out from the Dark Frogmen's territory and struck the Golden Crown Thunder Sparrow Qin Shuang had transformed into.

Qin Shuang was too late to dodge. Hit by the black light, she immediately felt the sky spin and the earth tilt. Waves of weakness pressed down on every nerve, leaving her unable to remain conscious as she fell from a height of a thousand meters.