Everyone's attention was instantly drawn over.
The Principal's and Silver rank professional Shi Wei's eyes lit up as well.
The Principal glanced at the timer, unable to suppress the joy on his face. He said to Shi Wei, "Lord Shi Wei, look, less than half an hour! Qing Xue got out in less than half an hour!"
He clearly remembered that Third High School's previous fastest clearance record had been thirty-five minutes.
This time had undoubtedly broken the record!
And it had shattered it by a huge margin!
Shi Wei nodded approvingly. "Not bad. An A-Rank Class, plus that refusal to give up—she's got potential."
The teachers and students were even more stunned.
"Oh my god! Less than thirty minutes! A solo clear!"
"An A-Rank Class really is different! That's insane!"
"Is Third High School going to produce a candidate for a top university this year?"
Amid the congratulations and praise, Jiang Shuyue stood like a proud peacock, basking in everyone's attention.
Yang Yu stood outside the crowd, silently grumbling to himself.
An A-Rank Class was impressive?
Her dad was the impressive one, okay!
Without that luxurious set of equipment, she would probably still be getting chased around by the BOSS.
Jiang Shuyue excitedly walked toward the huge Stone Tablet by the Dungeon entrance.
It was the Ranking Board that recorded Dungeon clearance times.
She wanted to watch her own name be engraved in the first row!
Full of anticipation, she raised her head and looked at the Stone Tablet.
The next second, the smile on her face completely froze.
At the very top of the Stone Tablet, in the first row, there really was a newly engraved name.
But that name was not Jiang Shuyue.
It was Yang Yu.
[First Place: Yang Yu]
[Class: Warrior]
[Clearance Time: 19 minutes 21 seconds]
Jiang Shuyue's pupils shrank to pinpoints in an instant.
She stared fixedly at that name, as though she wanted to see through it.
Yang Yu?
How could it be Yang Yu?
Nineteen minutes?
How was that possible!
Unable to believe her eyes, she blinked hard and looked again.
That was right.
Plain black text on a white background, perfectly clear.
It was Yang Yu.
The very same Yang Yu who had awakened as a D-Rank Warrior and received everyone's sympathy and regret.
Not only had he cleared it, he had done so in just nineteen minutes!
A full ten minutes faster than her!
An icy chill shot from the soles of Jiang Shuyue's feet straight to the top of her head.
She felt as though an invisible hand had viciously clenched her heart, the pain leaving her barely able to breathe.
Why?
Why had this happened?
Her mind was blank, buzzing endlessly.
She couldn't understand it.
She was an A-Rank Frost Mage, one of heaven's favored!
She wore a complete set of excellent equipment that her father had bought at a staggering price!
To pursue speed, she had taken so many potions and even used items to forcibly withstand the BOSS's ultimate attack, nearly dying inside!
Why?
Why had she given so much, only to lose to him in the end?
Lose to a D-Rank Warrior?
That familiar name and that calm, indifferent face surfaced in her mind once more.
It was as if the countless Nightmare difficulty experiences of the past three years were repeating themselves.
Every time, no matter how hard she worked or how desperately she struggled, all she ever saw in the end was Yang Yu's unreachable back.
It had been that way in academic classes.
And now, even after changing classes, it was still the same!
She had originally thought that after awakening an A-Rank Class, she could finally hold her head high, leave him far behind, and make him chase her back.
She had even given him a weapon out of pity and told him to take it in stride.
Thinking back on it now, it was all so laughable!
She was the real clown!
Overwhelming grievance and unwillingness drowned her like a tide.
Three years.
A full three years—how exactly had she survived them!
That despair of giving everything she had yet only ever seeing the back of the other person's head engulfed her once again.
She was about to cry.
Her eyes instantly reddened, tears welling inside them as her vision blurred.
The noise and praise around her now sounded unbearably harsh.
The Principal and the teachers also noticed something was wrong.
"Student Shuyue, what's wrong?"
"Yeah, didn't you break the record? Why do you look like that?"
"Could it be... happiness?" the Principal secretly guessed.
Was that really necessary?
It was just a low-level Dungeon like this. Was she so happy after clearing it once that she cried?
Shi Wei frowned as well.
Had that man really raised his daughter to be like this?
Was that really a good thing?
Jiang Shuyue didn't answer them.
She turned around and, looking utterly lost, walked through the crowd step by step until she stood before Yang Yu.
Under the shocked, bewildered, and confused gazes of everyone present.
The tears that had built up in her beautiful eyes for so long finally burst forth.
"Yang Yu..."
Her voice trembled with tears as she spoke.
"Next time... next time, I'll definitely surpass you!"
"I'll definitely surpass you next time."
Yang Yu had heard those words so many times his ears were practically callused.
Ever since the first midterm exam in their first year of high school, whenever he came first and Jiang Shuyue came second, she would run over with red eyes and clenched fists and say those words to him.
Three years had passed, and she had said it more than a dozen times.
And the result?
She had never surpassed him even once.
He hadn't expected that after changing classes, this familiar scene and familiar line would appear again.
Looking at the school beauty crying so pitifully before him, Yang Yu even felt a little sorry for her.
Come on, at least change the line.
Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard Jiang Shuyue's words.
Especially Yang Yu's best friend, Zhang Wei. With a face full of question marks, he leaned over and quietly asked Yang Yu.
"Bro Yu, what's going on? Didn't Jiang Shuyue surpass you? She's A-Rank and you're D-Rank, so why is she still saying that to you?"
"Did something happen to her?"
The surrounding students were equally confused.
"Yeah, why is the school beauty crying?"
"Didn't she break the record? Why is she saying she wants to surpass Yang Yu?"
"Why can't I understand this plot at all?"
They were still immersed in the glory of Jiang Shuyue's A-Rank Class and the shock of her record-breaking result, completely failing to realize what had happened.
But the Homeroom Teacher was different.
He was a meticulous person. The moment he heard Jiang Shuyue's words and recalled her frozen expression just now, he immediately realized something.
Could it be...
An absurd guess arose in his heart.
He rushed to the Ranking Board Stone Tablet at the Dungeon entrance and looked up.
He froze completely in an instant.
[First Place: Yang Yu, Class: Warrior, Clearance Time: 19 minutes 21 seconds]
[Second Place: Jiang Shuyue, Class: Frost Mage, Clearance Time: 29 minutes 05 seconds]
[Third Place: ...]
Yang Yu!
Yang Yu was actually in first place!
And he had only taken nineteen minutes!
A full ten minutes faster than Jiang Shuyue!
The Homeroom Teacher felt his mind buzz as though a heavy hammer had struck it hard.
How was this possible?
A D-Rank Warrior, with no equipment and no teammates, clearing it solo in just nineteen minutes?
What kind of concept was that?
This was no longer genius. This was a monster!
Seeing the Homeroom Teacher's stunned, utterly discomposed reaction, the Principal and Silver rank professional Shi Wei both sensed that something was amiss.
The two exchanged a glance, and their figures flashed as they instantly appeared before the Stone Tablet.
When they saw the glaring words in the first row, even the experienced Silver rank powerhouse Shi Wei couldn't help but suck in a sharp breath.
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