First-Class Assessment Result!

After the ten-second countdown, Li Qi shot into the sky, controlling Bone Spikes and a shield as he charged into the Corpse-Eating Bird flock. He continued using the same tactics he had employed on the fourth floor.

As he charged into the flock, the previously scattered Corpse-Eating Birds closed in one after another, completely surrounding him.

Within the encirclement, the cries of Corpse-Eating Birds rang out continuously. Blood occasionally sprayed through the air, accompanied by falling corpses.

Three minutes and forty-three seconds later, Li Qi's Mental Force was exhausted, and he was surrounded and killed by the Corpse-Eating Bird flock!

Returning from the Trial Tower space to the testing room in the Virtual Universe, Li Qi lowered his head and stood still, quietly thinking.

"I was wrong. The fifth floor of the Trial Tower isn't impossible to clear; it simply demands an extremely high standard from candidates in every aspect. Any weakness makes it difficult to pass.

"Leaving aside everything else, if my Movement Technique improved by another level, the Mental Force I needed to expend would be greatly reduced. I could easily achieve a result far beyond my current one."

He recalled what his third father, Ivanko, had said.

"My Trial Tower assessment result this time was 47% completion on the fifth floor. According to what Third Dad said before, 30% completion on the fifth floor is the passing line for a first-class result.

"But whether I can earn a first-class result depends on the level of the candidates in this year's group. As long as my completion rate is no more than 5% below first place, it counts as first-class.

"If I want to make Marcel despair, I need to get a first-class result. Now, it depends on..."

Li Qi raised his head and directed his gaze toward Marcel at the examiner's table.

"How... how is this possible?!"

Marcel wore an expression of utter disbelief. "47% completion on the fifth floor of the Trial Tower, a first-class assessment result, only 1% completion behind first place!

"Wasn't he affected? How could he still achieve such a result? He's only Fourteen. There's no way he has such strong self-adjustment abilities!"

"Damn it! The instructor position is gone!"

Seeing the unnatural look on Marcel's face at the opposite examiner's table, Li Qi smiled. "Haha! Chief Examiner Marcel, you should announce the results now."

Marcel announced with extreme reluctance, "The Trial Tower assessment has ended. Candidate Li Qi Royce achieved 47% completion on the fifth floor of the Trial Tower. His assessment result is first-class!"

After announcing the result, Marcel pressed the button to exit the Virtual Universe. After returning to the real world, he left the testing room with a grim expression.

This attempt to target Li Qi had caused him and his family heavy losses, costing them an instructor position at Zhaoguang Academy.

An instructor position at Zhaoguang Academy was extremely important to a Stellar Level family in Zhaoguang City. In the future, their family would receive fewer resources in Zhaoguang City's resource distribution.

Of all the students at Zhaoguang Academy, Zhaoguang City accounted for seventy percent!

Of the remaining thirty percent, twenty-five percent was held by Grassland Star and Planetary Level tribes, while the final five percent went to ordinary tribes.

The reason Zhaoguang City could occupy such a large share of the academy's students lay in the instructor positions it held at Zhaoguang Academy.

"Ha ha!"

Watching Marcel's fleeing figure, Li Qi felt immensely satisfied. The angrier he had been before, the happier he was now!

Walking toward the exit of the testing room, he planned to share this good news with his third father, Ivanko.

Inside the high-speed elevator, Marcel, whose face had previously been ashen, seemed to have suffered a tremendous mental blow. He leaned weakly against the elevator wall, his eyes bloodshot.

"It's over! This is completely over..."

He kept repeating those words in a low voice. A light screen had appeared from the communicator on his left wrist, with a large headline faintly visible on it.

"The new governor is about to take office; the Six Academies announce a purge of corrupt instructors."

Inside the chief examiner's office, Ian looked at the score sheet on the light screen before him and shook his head slightly. "I told you long ago that Li Qi was very talented."

Beside the score screen was another light screen, with the word Instructor displayed at the top.

The waiting area outside the testing room had become a noisy commotion. Everyone was discussing the news that the incoming governor had announced a purge of corrupt instructors.

At the same time, a well-informed Stellar Level expert had obtained Li Qi's Trial Tower assessment result from elsewhere.

Looking at the score sheet on the light screen, the Stellar Level expert shook his head and sighed. "A first-class Trial Tower assessment result. Marcel is finished now!"

"It can't be helped. His luck was just too bad. The new governor is about to take office, and the Six Academies have announced that they will purge corrupt instructors."

Another Stellar Level expert spoke. He felt that Marcel was truly unlucky, having run straight into the gun barrel.

Originally, Marcel would have merely lost the instructor position at Zhaoguang Academy, but now he was going to lose half his life!

"The Holk Family has effectively lost a Stellar Level expert. They finally managed to nurture one, and he hasn't even lasted ten years."

"Isn't that so? Marcel will probably be made an example of and dealt with severely. Most likely, he'll be sent to mine alongside those people from the United Training Camp."

Mining!

At the mention of mining, the two Stellar Level experts both fell silent. The Empire's punishment for United Training Camp instructors terrified them.

On a native planet, Stellar Level experts like them were absolute overlords, able to enjoy every luxury and wealth imaginable!

But in the Empire's eyes, they were nothing special. Dozens of Stellar Level instructors from the United Training Camp had all been dragged off to mine on other planets.

Using Stellar Level experts for mining seemed truly extravagant to them!

"Now that the new governor is about to take office, we should be more honest in the future and properly cultivate talent for the Empire."

In the end, the well-informed Stellar Level expert spoke up and broke the silence.

"We can only make this small contribution anyway. Since this matter is over, I'll head back first."

The other Stellar Level expert nodded in agreement, then ended the conversation and called several juniors to leave with him.

Almost at the same time, many Stellar Level experts whose juniors had already completed their tests gradually rose and left with their juniors.

To them, this spectacle had not been entertaining. Instead, it had made them feel the Empire's powerful deterrence!

When Li Qi emerged from the testing room and saw that the waiting area was nearly empty, he was quite surprised. Why had all those spectators left?

"Third Dad, did all those people leave earlier?"

Coming to stand beside his third father, Ivanko, Li Qi asked.

"A major event happened, so everyone went back early."

Ivanko looked somewhat solemn. Then a smile appeared on his face as he said, "Eleven, you did very well this time. You earned a first-class result in the Trial Tower assessment."

"Ha ha! I got a first-class result. That Marcel from the Holk Family's face changed completely when he announced the results." Li Qi laughed.

"Heh." Ivanko nodded with a smile. "It will be difficult for us to see him again in the future."

Li Qi found Ivanko's words somewhat strange and asked, "Why will it be difficult to see him again in the future?"

"Just look at the news on your communicator and you'll know," Ivanko said.

"This?"

Hearing that, Li Qi opened his communicator and took a look. He was immediately startled, a suspicion forming in his heart, before he looked toward Ivanko.

Ivanko nodded. "Things are just as you think. All right, let's go back."

Three days later...