Without looking back, he loosened his right hand and swept the Dark Iron Spear horizontally backward.
Clack!
Three bronze tokens flew out together.
The tall youth spun around and grabbed the nearest one.
Lu Yuan did not fight him for it.
The other two had already landed on the opposite side.
One red, one white.
He reached out, caught them, and turned to leave.
"Stop right there!"
The tall youth had barely taken a step when several people nearby who had been waiting for an opportunity lunged for the remaining token.
He cursed and had no choice but to turn back to fight for it.
Lu Yuan ran a dozen paces before stopping.
The tokens in his hand had become three again.
Two points.
This time, he did not continue diving into the crowd.
If he took any more, the ones he attracted would not just be two or three people.
In the last few minutes, the training ground was even more chaotic than when it started.
Until the short-haired man gave a single shout of "Stop," everyone slowly withdrew their hands.
The North Gate opened.
Those with tokens stepped forward one by one to register.
Two recorders appeared beside the short-haired man.
"Zhou Qi, two tokens, one point."
"Han Song, three tokens, two points."
"Xu Ang, one token, zero points."
It was Lu Yuan's turn.
He placed the three bronze tokens on the table.
The recorder lowered his head and wrote a few strokes.
The short-haired man glanced at the numbers in front of him.
"Lu Yuan, three tokens, two points, tied for first."
Several gazes around them immediately landed on him.
Lu Yuan said nothing, merely putting away the Dark Iron Spear and preparing to walk toward the North Gate Exterior.
"Wait."
A girl's voice suddenly came from behind.
Her voice was not loud, but the surroundings quickly grew somewhat quiet.
Lu Yuan turned back.
Qian Renxue had already walked over from the side of the wall.
Up close, those light-golden eyes appeared even clearer. There was no superfluous expression on her face, but she was very focused when looking at people, making it hard for anyone to casually brush her off.
The short-haired man bowed slightly toward her.
"Young Lord."
The expressions of the children nearby suddenly changed.
Yet Lu Yuan saw that the layer of blurred Gray Text above her head had finally grown clear by another section.
[Important Destiny Node: Nine years old, leaving Spirit City]
Qian Renxue stopped in front of him.
"You looked at me a few times just now."
It was not an inquiry, but more like confirming a matter she had already settled.
Lu Yuan looked at her.
"Because everyone was fighting for tokens."
"And so?"
"Only you weren't fighting."
A very faint smile grew in the depths of Qian Renxue's eyes.
"Just because of this?"
"Also, everyone was yielding to you."
Lu Yuan glanced toward the vicinity. "The instructor didn't chase you out either."
The corner of the short-haired man's mouth twitching beside them.
Qian Renxue also followed his line of sight to look around.
"So you guessed that I didn't come to take the assessment."
"Pretty much."
She nodded gently.
"Lu Yuan."
Lu Yuan looked at her.
"Don't go out too early in the second round."
Having said that, Qian Renxue turned and walked toward the North Gate Exterior.
Without offering a single extra word of explanation.
Lu Yuan's gaze fell once more upon that line of Gray Text.
[Nine years old, leaving Spirit City]
This was clearly not an inconsequential node.
It was just that the Eye of Destiny had not yet given him the subsequent content.
Outside the North Gate, the short-haired man had already raised his hand to signal the remaining people to gather.
"The first round is over."
"Line up according to your points."
"The second round begins now."
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