"Let's hope so! If anyone voluntarily left the Trial Grounds because of this Beast Tide, we can give them another chance at the assessment!"
The Headmaster, who had remained silent until now, nodded gravely and sighed. "After all, this Beast Tide came out of nowhere. None of us anticipated it, and it isn't fair to these students."
"Now we can only hope these students aren't fools. They mustn't overestimate themselves and provoke these Demon Beasts!"
A Beast Tide was terrifying in itself, but everyone also knew that something must have triggered it.
Under ordinary circumstances, a Beast Tide was usually triggered by the appearance of some treasure or spirit herb of immense importance to the Demon Beasts.
The Demon Beasts within these Beast Tides all had a single goal: the spirit herb about to ripen, or the treasure about to emerge.
During this process, as long as no one deliberately provoked the Demon Beasts or recklessly stood in the Beast Tide's path, their lives generally would not be in danger.
But if someone attacked the Demon Beasts at a time like this, heedless of life and death, it would inevitably bring an apocalyptic disaster!
This was not the first time such a thing had happened, so ordinary cultivators knew this taboo.
Unless they were fools bent on dying, no one would deliberately provoke the Demon Beasts within a Beast Tide.
And yet.
Just as the dean finished speaking, a beam of golden sword light suddenly tore out across the pitch-black Beast Tide!
"Holy shit! What's that? Sword light? How could anyone dare attack the Beast Tide? Has this bastard had enough of living?"
Everyone was stunned when they saw the sword light in the bronze mirror.
They had never imagined that someone would actually be foolish enough to attack the