If You Can Do Better, You Do It!

Roar!!

The nine-meter-tall Minotaur gripped a massive, door-sized battle-axe and roared. The explosive sound wave blasted the figures in front of him more than ten meters away.

"Healing! Plant a Battle Banner! Fu Junlin, what are you doing?!"

The team leader, who held a greatsword and had a sharpened wooden stake driven through his abdomen, shouted.

Hiding in a corner by the wall, the somewhat lean Fu Junlin snapped out of his daze at the shout and pulled out one of the four Battle Banners strapped to his back.

Green light flashed across his hands, and the Battle Banner sank into the ground with a soft thud.

A dark green ring of light burst from the Battle Banner, instantly sweeping over his four injured teammates.

As the ring passed over their wounds, which were deep enough to expose bone, the bleeding stopped and the flesh began knitting together at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The second ring swept past, its color now deep green.

The third was pale green, and the fourth turned white.

Each pulse was weaker than the last, but his teammates' injuries had healed by seventy to eighty percent.

Fu Junlin pulled up the Battle Banner and strapped it back behind him, then hurried to another corner and planted a second one. A red ring of light spread outward.

His teammates' strength rapidly increased.

The greatsword-wielding team leader gave his orders:

"Mage, blanket the mobs with fire. Fistmaster, circle behind the Minotaur and hit his blind spot. Mecha Master, switch to the Gatling and cover me."

The mage's staff was nothing more than a shabby stick with a ruby set into its tip.

But the flames it unleashed were formidable, immediately keeping the surrounding giant spiders at bay.

An agile boy wearing enormous gauntlets slipped straight between the Minotaur's legs, intending to leap onto him from behind.

A tall, burly boy pulled an enormous Gatling gun from his Mecha Belt. The blue power source mounted on the gun flashed wildly.

Pale blue bullets poured toward the Minotaur.

The Minotaur held his massive axe in front of himself as a shield. Meanwhile, the greatsword warrior leaped high with his sword held point-down, fiercely compressed red light gathering along its blade.

The red Battle Banner amplified its power even further, and he was just about to bring it crashing down.

But at that very moment, the giant spiders nearby suddenly lunged forward with no regard for their lives. Just as one came within a meter of the mage-

Boom!!

A cloud of green blood exploded. The shock wave sent the mage flying backward, and he vanished into white light before he even hit the ground.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

More than a dozen spiders hurled themselves at the Fistmaster, the warrior, and the Mecha Master in rapid succession.

Their frenzied self-destruction blasted all three into white light on the spot. A flying spider leg even sliced the Mecha Master in half at the waist, sending his Mecha Belt falling to the ground.

In an instant, aside from the scattered corpses and blood, only the Minotaur and Fu Junlin, hiding far away, remained in the enormous Arena Zone.

Fu Junlin swallowed hard and stood rooted to the spot. His teammates had vanished faster than a tornado...

Meanwhile, outside the Arena Zone, inside a Teleportation Array-

The four who had been blown up tumbled out of the teleportation station one after another. The Blade-and-Sword Enchanter punched the ground bitterly, then lay back in defeat with his hands over his face.

Forty or fifty people surrounded the Teleportation Array. Some were teachers around twenty-five years old, but most were students of sixteen or seventeen.

They were all watching a large screen showing the Arena Zone.

"Fu Junlin! Don't forget to bring back my Mecha Belt!!"

The first thing the Mecha Master did after getting up was press the communicator at his ear and yell.

They knew it was over. All four teammates had returned, leaving just a War Banner Master behind, and he was no damn use on his own.

They had failed again, and the contaminated zone remained uncleared.

The stunning female teacher at the front sighed helplessly and prepared to tell Fu Junlin over the radio to hurry back.

But at that moment, unnoticed by everyone-

High in the sky, after a fireball exploded, a streak of white light pierced straight through the clouds.

It passed through the high-altitude Electromagnetic Interference Clouds and the virus-contaminated zone, plunging toward the Arena Zone on the ground.

Fu Junlin was just gathering his courage to rush out and retrieve his teammate's Mecha Belt.

But as soon as he rose, the white light falling from the sky slammed into him and sank straight into his body.

Fu Junlin flew backward into the wall behind him. Broken bricks fell away, and the impact nearly killed him on the spot.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Clutching his chest and coughing violently, Fu Junlin stared at the Minotaur in horror.

What the hell just ambushed me?

The Minotaur was also stunned, unable to understand why this human would hurt himself so badly.

"Holy crap, that's one big bull!"

A voice rang through Fu Junlin's mind, making him jump.

"Who's there?!"

"Don't be scared, kid. I'm just going to stay in your body for a while."

The voice even sounded a little excited.

At the same time, Fu Junlin felt himself losing control of his nerves. His limbs moved several times without his willing them to, as though something were fighting him for control of his body.

"Are you a ghost? Stop moving!"

Fu Junlin was horrified. Not only could this thing talk, it was trying to steal his body. This was exactly like ghost possession in those ancient legends.

The presence inside him immediately behaved itself and stopped randomly trying to control his body.

"Look how scared you are. So stingy!"

"What exactly are y-"

Fu Junlin was about to demand an explanation in terror, but the Minotaur was already charging toward him, swinging his massive axe.

Getting away alive came first.

Fu Junlin rolled across the ground, reaching forward to snatch up the Mecha Belt, then quickly pressed the button on his name badge.

Watching the Minotaur charge, Fu Junlin wore a confident expression that said, "See you."

But when his finger pressed down...

Huh?!

Where's my name badge?!

The massive axe came down with a howling rush of wind. Fu Junlin could only roll again, narrowly escaping.

Although being hacked to death would also send him back to town, the pain was very real.

This wasn't some illusion-based game. They had come out through a Teleporter and only had eighty percent damage reduction.

If they were injured, they would still suffer injuries of varying severity after returning.

And if the Teleportation Array's power source ran out or malfunctioned when he died, he would really be dead!

The crowd watching the large screen began to stir.

"What's wrong with Fu Junlin? Why isn't he coming back?"

"Has he gotten carried away? Does he actually want to challenge the Minotaur boss?"

"Oh, come on. Fu Junlin specialized in Battle Banners precisely because he's such a coward. When it comes to fearing death, he's number one, and nobody even comes close!"

The female teacher in charge of Class Three shot them a displeased glance.

Her name was Shi Hongyu. Her stunning beauty was unmatched throughout the school, and as someone with Superior Species genes, her rating was very close to Mighty Species.

Her figure was equally flawless. A pencil skirt and blouse showed off her long, snowy-white legs and slender waist, while her long hair, fading from black to red, made her unforgettable at first sight.

Yet she had firmly chosen to teach a class of students with Subspecies genes.

Now, she took out her radio and said sternly:

"Junlin, return to town immediately."

But Fu Junlin's desperate cry came through the radio:

"I... I lost my name badge!"

The teacher froze, and everyone burst into laughter. So that was why.

Judging by that desperate voice, the boy was probably already scared out of his mind.

Contempt showed in many of the students' smiles. Quite a few of the girls shook their heads and sighed in disappointment.

Fu Junlin had an outstanding physique, outstanding looks, and an outstanding mind. He was very popular with the girls.

But his cowardice disappointed them time and again.

In times like these, whether in the safe cities where strength reigned supreme or the contaminated zones outside where monsters ran rampant-

The weak were destined to have nothing.

Inside the Arena Zone, Fu Junlin was running all over the place with the Minotaur chasing him, making himself the laughingstock of the watching students.

The voice in his mind spoke with delighted surprise:

"Not bad, buddy. You're lightning-fast! But do people on your planet always exercise in such unusual ways? You need a little animal chasing you before you'll run?

"Is this how you unlock your potential?"

"Ever seen a nine-meter-tall little animal?! What do you mean, people on our planet? Are you not... fuck!"

Fu Junlin cursed irritably, but that moment of distraction nearly got him split in half by an axe. He hurriedly picked up speed.

"Oh, so you're not exercising."

"Of course not!"

"Then why the hell are you letting him chase you? Beat his ass!"

The voice in his mind sounded puzzled.

"If you can do better, you do it!!"

Fu Junlin blurted out the familiar retort. If he hadn't been such a coward, he wouldn't have become a War Banner Master.

Who knew that the moment those words left his mouth, a reply would ring through his mind?

"You got it!"

Then Fu Junlin felt himself instantly lose control of his body.

He couldn't quite say he had become a spectator. It was more as though someone behind him were forcibly controlling his body.

But apparently, because of what he had just said, he had effectively agreed to hand over control.

Fu Junlin planted a foot against the wall and instantly shot up into a tree seven or eight meters tall.

Even Fu Junlin himself was terrified by that leap. He had never jumped so high before.

"Your physical condition is pretty lousy. You're a bottom-of-the-class student too, aren't you?"

Muttering inside his head, the voice had already made Fu Junlin pull something from the Mecha Belt.

An enormous Gatling gun.

Fu Junlin was just about to stop the presence and explain that it couldn't use this thing without training.

His body was already hefting the enormous Gatling gun and hurling it at the Minotaur like a throwing dart.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh-bang!

Awooo!

Standing in the tree gave him just the right height, and the weapon struck its target dead-on.

The Minotaur hadn't expected his opponent to throw even the gun at him. The Gatling, weighing nearly a hundred kilograms, slammed straight into his face, and he clutched it in pain.

Fu Junlin's body reached into the Mecha Belt again and pulled out a massive sniper rifle a full meter sixty or seventy long!

He poised himself to throw it!

Fu Junlin cursed furiously:

"What the hell kind of creature are you?! Is that how you're supposed to use these things?! Who have you ever seen throwing guns at people?!"