First Place in Stage One—Chen Changhe

The previous rounds had flowed together seamlessly.

But by the tenth round,

everyone else's pace had slowed.

Quite a few had fallen into grueling battles.

Their troops could not compare to Chen Changhe's.

They could only rely on guerrilla tactics and terrain to wear down the Dwarfs.

As a result, they needed much more time.

Since the others had not yet completed the tenth round,

Chen Changhe had no way to begin the eleventh round of assessment.

Chen Changhe's eyes shifted.

He gave the order for the Snotling Orks to dig the corpses back out of the ground and transport them into the Divine Domain through the portal.

The corpses of these troops could also count as a kind of resource.

Perhaps the Gretchin Orks could make something out of them.

Even if they had no other use,

they could still serve as rations for the Orks.

Orks did not need to consume food,

but that did not mean they could not eat.

They also had digestive organs and could obtain energy by digesting food.

It was merely that Chen Changhe was too poor and too stingy

to provide enough food.

These things could not satisfy every Ork's needs,

but they could be used to reward the Orks who performed well.

Chen Changhe had always been an upright and generous deity.

Zheng Dongfeng could only shake his head when he saw what Chen Changhe was doing.

"This habit of stripping even a passing goose bare is truly insane."

"He even wants to take advantage of this..."

However, the exam rules had never stated that corpses produced during the assessment could not be taken.

Zheng Dongfeng had no reason to object.

"Still, being able to take these corpses away is Chen Changhe's own capability."

"Other students would not have the chance to do this..."

The troops used in this assessment all came from Zheng Dongfeng's subsidiary plane.

They were considered his private property.

Chen Changhe's actions were undoubtedly fleecing him.

Still, he did not mind.

He treated it as a reward for Chen Changhe.

After the tenth round ended, fewer than a hundred students remained in the assessment plane.

By rights, the first stage of the assessment could have ended already.

But Zheng Dongfeng changed his mind.

The portal opened once again.

The troops for the eleventh round stepped out of the portal.

"Th-Those are Blazing Crocodile Dragons?"

Lu Hongrong's face went pale.

Five thousand crocodile-like creatures covered entirely in flames emerged from the portal.

Although they looked like crocodiles, they were dragonblood creatures.

Their feet bore huge curved claws for hunting, they were extremely fast, and their long narrow jaws were packed with sharp fangs.

They could easily tear apart their prey's bodies. Though they had no spellcasting abilities, they possessed flaming shells, their entire bodies burning with scorching fire.

Ordinary Blazing Crocodile Dragons were already Elite Lifeforms.

The Blazing Crocodile Dragons that had appeared looked exceptionally powerful.

Lu Hongrong revealed a regretful expression.

Lu Hongrong's core believers were Starblade Demonkin.

They were ogre-like believer creatures that looked like big-headed dolls holding daggers.

They possessed the skill Starry Sky Strike, allowing them to use the daggers in their hands to swiftly attack opponents.

Their attack speed was extremely fast, and their damage output was highly efficient.

She had even cultivated a Starblade Demonkin Hero Unit.

It possessed the ability to teleport over short distances.

But facing these five thousand Blazing Crocodile Dragons, she knew she had no chance of winning.

"Forget it. I can't defeat these five thousand Blazing Crocodile Dragons, and no one else can either."

In any case, the first-stage rankings would not affect the final assessment.

The real time to exert herself would be during the second-stage ranking competition.

Lu Hongrong chose to abandon the assessment and was teleported out of the assessment plane.

When she appeared in the school plaza, the other students were teleported out as well.

Everyone waited for Zheng Dongfeng to announce the format of the second-stage assessment.

Yet they discovered that Zheng Dongfeng was not doing anything.

Instead, he was staring at something on a virtual screen.

It was not only Zheng Dongfeng.

Even Shan Mu, the homeroom teacher of Class One, was doing the same.

Unlike the other homeroom teachers, he had not gone to his own class to summarize the students' battles.

"Could someone still be in the assessment plane?"

"No way, right?"

"Has he gone crazy?"

"Blazing Crocodile Dragons aren't like the previous opponents."

"Defeating five thousand Blazing Crocodile Dragons would cost a massive number of believers."

"Who would be so foolish?"

"Liu Qinzhong?"

"No, that guy isn't that kind of person."

Class One's former top student, Liu Qinzhong, had always been Lu Hongrong's old rival.

She knew Liu Qinzhong very well.

Liu Qinzhong was also known as Liu Daniu. Though he was a man, he acted rather effeminately.

His personality was quite soft and feminine as well.

He could not possibly do something so brainless.

"Huh? Where did Chen Changhe go?"

Could the one still in the assessment plane be Chen Changhe?

He had actually chosen to continue facing the eleventh-round assessment?

Inside the assessment plane.

Facing the Blazing Crocodile Dragons charging at the Snotling Orks in a mass assault,

Chen Changhe cast the divine spell Flame Resistance.

Flame Resistance was a universal divine spell.

It could temporarily increase believers' resistance to flame damage.

Chen Changhe had been studying divine spells in the library during this period.

He had mastered several divine spells.

This was one of them.

Ten points of Divine Power were consumed, transforming once more into Power of Faith to activate the divine spell.

In an instant, dazzling red light surged from the sky and covered every Snotling Ork on the battlefield.

All the Orks could clearly feel their bodies becoming stronger.

But this was only the beginning.

Divine Spell: Defense Aura!

Divine Spell: Agility Aura!

Divine Spell: Damage Amplification!

Divine Spell: Stamina Aura!

It had to be said that Chen Changhe was highly talented in learning divine spells.

He had mastered several divine spells within only a few days.

Although they were all the easiest universal divine spells,

that was still remarkable.

Zheng Dongfeng, however, did not think much of it.

With Battle Howl as a precedent,

would mastering these universal divine spells not be effortless for someone capable of mastering Battle Howl?

He did not know that Chen Changhe had taken

less than three days to go from first learning these divine spells to completely mastering them.

At this moment, rings upon rings of multicolored halos covered the Snotling Orks.

They looked like warriors truly blessed by a god.

This ignited their devotion even further.

"Waaagh! For the God of War!"

"For the supreme Creator Lord, creator of the Orks!"

They charged madly toward the Blazing Crocodile Dragons, which were clearly far larger than themselves.

They wanted to prove their loyalty to Chen Changhe through a fierce, exhilarating battle.

Chen Changhe could clearly sense that the threads of faith gathered from these Orks had grown thicker.

In the blink of an eye, several hundred more Orks became Fanatic Believers.

One had to know that the higher one's faith level, the harder it was to improve.

Once one approached the level of a Fanatic Believer, breaking through became even more difficult.

Chen Changhe had not expected that casually casting a few divine spells like this could create so many Fanatic Believers.

"Could I have found the right way to create Fanatic Believers?"

Still, Chen Changhe remained conflicted.

The believer capacity limit of his Divine Domain had reached its maximum again.

Even after the assessment ended,

these believers could not be recalled.

Originally, he had planned to have these Snotling Orks kill themselves.

After all, he did not lack troops.

But now, he was somewhat reluctant to do so.

Three thousand of these Snotling Orks had already become Fanatic Believers.

After considering it, Chen Changhe once again transferred ten thousand newly born ordinary Snotling Orks from his Divine Domain.

"What is that kid doing again?"

Another ten thousand believers?

Although they looked considerably weaker,

they were still fairly decent.

Zheng Dongfeng watched as Chen Changhe had those Fanatic Believer Orks carry the corpses of the Blazing Crocodile Dragons off the battlefield toward the Divine Domain.

At the same time, he sent the Orks who had newly entered the plane toward the battlefield.

"Is this... swapping troops in the middle of battle?"

"Is he using my assessment to train his own troops?"

"That kid is looking down on me too much, isn't he?"

Zheng Dongfeng instantly became furious.

His face alternated between red and white.

Although more than half of the Blazing Crocodile Dragons on the battlefield had already died,

and fewer than three hundred of Chen Changhe's Snotling Orks had died,

the outcome had already been decided.

But was Chen Changhe not being at least somewhat disrespectful to him, the principal, by using the assessment to train troops like this?

More than three thousand of the five thousand Blazing Crocodile Dragons had already died.

Every one of the remaining thousand-plus was covered in wounds.

Several Snotling Orks clung to each Blazing Crocodile Dragon.

They kept tearing into the Blazing Crocodile Dragons, eating them on the spot.

The battlefield was filled with the wails of Blazing Crocodile Dragons.

Although the Blazing Crocodile Dragons' shells burned with flames,

the flesh beneath those shells was perfectly normal.

To the Orks, it was an exceptionally delicious meal.

So many had survived

only because Chen Changhe had ordered them not to strike fatal blows.

Whether withdrawing the original Orks or hauling away the Blazing Crocodile Dragon corpses, both took time.

"Other than me, no one else should still be proceeding to the next round of the assessment."

"If we slaughtered all the Blazing Crocodile Dragons outright, when would we have time to clean up the battlefield?"

In the end, Chen Changhe simply ordered the Orks to carry more than a dozen half-dead Blazing Crocodile Dragons back to a spot near the Divine Domain entrance.

To keep those Blazing Crocodile Dragons from dying of excessively severe injuries,

Chen Changhe even spent a little Divine Power to cast a healing divine spell on them.

"There's no point in continuing the test!"

Zheng Dongfeng glared at Chen Changhe indignantly.

"What kind of Goblins are this kid's Goblins?"

"How do they have such terrifying recovery abilities?"

Chen Changhe had not bestowed any divine spell buffs upon the second batch of Snotling Orks that entered the battlefield.

Relying solely on their natural physical toughness, they endured the Blazing Crocodile Dragons' flames and launched frenzied attacks against them.

The sight of them, their entire bodies burned yet still fearlessly tearing into the Blazing Crocodile Dragons,

gave even Zheng Dongfeng chills.

Under normal circumstances, if another deity issued such a suicidal attack order,

either the worshippers would lose their combat strength from severe burns,

or their faith level would decline because of it.

Yet these Snotling Orks, even when their bodies had been burned half-cooked,

not a single one died from the burns.

He could sense that the injuries on those Snotling Orks were rapidly healing.

They only needed to rest properly for a while before regaining their combat strength.

Even more terrifying was that, despite being treated like this,

the faith of these green-skinned monsters shouting "Waaagh!" had not weakened in the slightest.

Instead, it had increased dramatically.

"They're freakishly bizarre!"

Zheng Dongfeng sighed repeatedly.

He truly had no idea how Chen Changhe had cultivated such a Goblin race.

"Forget it... There's no need to act out of spite."

"There's no need to continue the assessment."

Zheng Dongfeng flicked a finger.

A force locked onto Chen Changhe and expelled him from the assessment plane.

Chen Changhe's Snotling Ork troops were also loaded into a God Card, which appeared in Chen Changhe's hand.

That was Zheng Dongfeng's doing as well.

Though he was extremely interested,

Zheng Dongfeng still did not have the nerve to covet Chen Changhe's worshippers.

The dozen or so Blazing Crocodile Dragons were likewise sealed within the God Card.

"So that's it?"

Chen Changhe was stunned.

He had not had his fill of fun yet!

But when he looked at the Troop Divine Card in his hand, realization dawned on him.

"So there's another way to solve this problem..."

"It seems I need to learn how to seal Troop Divine Cards."

The creation of Loading God Cards had to be done by deities.

But the sealing of consumable Resource Divine Cards

could be done by ordinary Divine Beings.

The Mushroom Resource Divine Cards he had sold before were sealed by himself.

However, compared to ordinary resources,

sealing Troop Divine Cards was far more complicated.

He did not know how yet.