The difference was actually that minuscule.
This time, they did not announce the exact number of Star Beasts obtained, only the School Credits.
Many who did not know the truth were discussing it in private.
The top ten of this year's intake had actually fought to a near standstill!
Although the top three had far outstripped their peers, their results were not too outrageous.
The principal personally presided over the ceremony and gave a speech, then congratulated the top ten, giving particularly high praise to the top three, and awarded School Credits to all the new students.
And the class with the most outstanding performance this time was Class One.
Of its thirty-six students, twenty-six had made the top thirty!
Of course, if the ranking extended to the top thirty-six, Class One had thirty-two students in it!
Xiang Bing and Xiang Chong, who had withdrawn midway, had fallen past ninetieth place.
Everyone was jubilant.
Then, they all shared the same question.
What was wrong with the champion and runner-up today?
Why did they lack every trace of the high spirits a champion and runner-up ought to have, looking instead like a pair of wilted radishes?
Or perhaps like frightened quails...
When they accepted their awards, the sheer flattery in their smiles at the principal, the way they bobbed their heads and wagged their tails to please him... they were simply a pair of loathsome, fawning toadies...
The award ceremony ended.
The storm Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong had anticipated never came, as though the whole matter had been swept aside...
The two held their rewards and scratched their heads, both feeling that their brains were not quite up to the task.
That was it? Zuo Xiaoduo was utterly bewildered.
"Yeah, they just let it pass like that?" Li Chenglong also