What Right Does Tang San Have to Enroll? This Is Preferential Treatment Above Your Own Citizens!

"I-I lost."

After climbing out of the metal cabinet, Tang San dropped straight to his knees, his heart cold as dead ashes.

The bold declaration he had made a few days ago about "letting strength do the talking" had become a boomerang, whipping back to strike him.

Let strength do the talking? Your strength wasn't up to it!

Regret filled Tang San's heart, and he began resenting Dai Yun'er for making him give up his exam exemption. Had he known it would come to this, he would have entered Monster Academy without taking the test.

Power unused was power wasted once it expired.

But why had he believed Dai Yun'er's bullshit?

"Tang San... lost?"

"Can he still come here, then?"

"This exam really was too difficult, especially for people from the Douluo Continent like Tang San."

Faint whispers drifted around him. Students, teachers, alumni-the gazes that had once held anticipation now pricked Tang San's skin like a dense thicket of needles.

Perhaps they meant no harm, but hearing those words after failing the exam made Tang San deeply uncomfortable.

When someone felt inferior and sensitive, even a glance became guilty, laden with contempt.

"En Ci, aren't you going to announce the results?" Zhang Geyang called loudly. Only then did everyone realize that the Spirit Pagoda's master had arrived at some point.

"The Spirit Pagoda's Ghostflame Douluo..."

"What's he doing here?"

"Don't forget, Tang San is the one being tested today. You could say the entire Imperial Capital is watching."

The people of the Imperial Capital were indeed paying close attention to Tang San, from peddlers and porters to princes and nobles. Even Emperor Dai Tianling had turned on the Soul Guidance Television in his bedchamber to watch Tang San's assessment live.

Caught up in the atmosphere of everyone sharing in