The Era of Gods - Chapter 36

Chapter 36 The Bet Between Teachers

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The Dog-headed People Army I had trained was quite effective against similarly low-level races, able to fight two or even more enemies at once. However, when faced with a large number of powerful foes, their significant racial disadvantages started to become apparent.

I had tried facing a single powerful opponent with the Monster cards I prepared for summoning in the Divine Realm—the outcome wasn’t bad.

But I had never attempted large-scale trials against middle-level or higher species for my Clan, not only because I lacked the resources, but also because I didn’t dare; after all, it was in the Divine Realm. If things got out of control, it would be the end of me.

Now I knew how this Dog-headed People Army of mine would fare against strong enemies—total defeat!

Indeed, they managed to hold on at the start, but as more and more Kobolds fell, their morale began to plummet, while the Demons’ morale soared with the Slaughter, eventually leading to a complete collapse.

The massive Furious Demons slaughtered Kobolds as if they were children—one swing of a blade per little friend. They would grab and tear one apart with their hands, the brutal scenes causing the morale of the remaining Kobolds to drop even faster.

As of now, I had been entirely routed, with just five or six hundred Kobolds left, but they were being pursued across the realm by the remaining one hundred seventy or eighty Furious Demons. It was only a matter of time before they were all killed.

Meng Hui, eliminated!

In the realm where Yuan Hong was, he had also entered the wave of Furious Demons. Compared to Meng Hui’s complete rout, his situation was much better.

Unlike Meng Hui’s single close-combat approach, Yuan Hong had integrated an Archers Profession Card into his Divine Realm, reclassifying nearly half of the Clan’s Lizardmen into Lizardman Archers.

The reason for not converting all of them was that ranged professions like Archers need a certain amount of melee combat to create the right conditions for combat. Pure ranged fighters are powerful, but they are helpless if the enemy gets close.

The greatest advantage of the Profession Card, aside from reclassification, is that the reclassified Lizardmen can not only improve their troop level by killing enemies but also can enhance their Professional Level through training. By now, out of more than a thousand Lizardman Archers, there are several hundred First Level Shooters, and even Level 2 Shooters number in the dozens. This was his core trump card.

Leveraging this elite force of Archers, after suffering great casualties, they were finally able to grind down the Furious Demons one by one. The battle was now drawing to its end.

But he wasn’t too happy because to resist this wave of Furious Demons, the majority of the melee Lizardmen had fallen—over two-thirds of them.

According to the rules of Endless Mode, where each wave is stronger than the last, the remaining Lizardmen absolutely couldn’t withstand the next wave of enemies. In other words, it would be difficult for me to fend off the next wave of foes.

Fortunately, if it was difficult for me to hold on, it would be even more so for the other students. The next wave would likely be the time to determine the ranking.

The Class 1 homeroom teacher Qiao Liang was standing with his arms crossed in front of a demi-realm, with a smile on his face indicating his good mood. Suddenly he looked up in a certain direction, as if communicating with someone:

“You’re overthinking it. If your student Yan Renjie can make it through, how could my student Wan Ying fail?”

In front of him, within the demi-realm, thousands of Harpies flapped their wings in mid-air, continuously firing arrows. The few dozen Furious Demons left on the ground roared furiously towards the sky, their annoyance immeasurable.

However, they couldn’t fly, and they didn’t even have projectile weapons. Facing airborne foes, they had no means of counterattack and were simply at the mercy of their enemies.

The overall situation was settled, and Qiao Liang turned his gaze away, smiling as he said:

“This time, the first and second places in the additional round will definitely belong to Wan Ying and Yan Renjie. As for the third place, it’s hard to say.”

At a certain distance from here, in another demi-realm, the Class 2 homeroom teacher Zheng Yifan nodded in response:

“Shall we make a bet? Instead of betting on the first or second, let’s bet on who will be third. Whoever loses will hand over three five-star cards to your Wan Ying or my Yan Renjie.”

“Sure, I’m rooting for Li Qing from my class. What about you, is it Tian Wei or Yao Shuangxi from your class?”

Zheng Yifan had anticipated this and laughed:

“This time you guessed wrong, I have my eye on Yuan Hong from Class 3.”

“Yuan Hong?”

“Yeah!”

Staring at the demi-plane before him, Zheng Yifan murmured to himself:

“After all, they’re all professional archers. As long as the next wave isn’t comprised of thickly armored Furious Demons, there’s a high probability of holding out until the next round.”

Inside the demi-plane, a large group of Lizardman Archers, identical to Yuan Hong’s clan but fewer in number, were resting on the ground littered with corpses. Unlike Yuan Hong’s clan of Lizardmen, the skin of these Lizardmen was a fiery red—not the red of blood, but like that of molten lava flames.

If Lin Xiao were there, he would definitely express his shock at recognizing the name of this race—the Lava Lizardman.

This was a variant of Lizardmen who lived on the edges of volcanoes or lava fields, a mid-tier mutated race. When Yan Renjie acquired this race and loaded the Archer professional template, he succeeded in class-changing them into a powerful profession called Lava Shooters.

Unlike the Lizardman Shooters, the attacks of Lava Shooters carry additional fire damage as well as a Lava Armor Piercing effect.

The previous wave of Furious Demons was shot dead by piercing their armor with the Lava Armor Piercing effect, compounded by the extra fire damage.

In Lin Xiao’s demi-plane, the battle was nearing its end. Under Lin Xiao’s guidance, the Naga used the remaining Fishmen as cannon fodder to attract the attention of the Furious Demons, delaying until the cooldown of Salted Fish Charge was ready, decisively launching a burst attack to kill nearly half of the Furious Demons on the spot. The remaining ones, severely wounded, were no match for the Naga.

In the test, players cannot take action personally as Divine Beings are strong enough to pass three levels on their own. However, they can cast Divine Arts to assist from the side, naturally including off-field coaching.

After slaughtering all the Furious Demons and concluding the battle, the next wave of monsters had yet to emerge.

Despite being in Endless Mode, there was still a pattern to follow; with each wave, the interval time would gradually lengthen.

The first round had a cooldown of only one minute; the last round took as long as five minutes; the cooldown for this round of Furious Demons was up to six minutes, adding one minute of rest and preparation time for each level passed.

While there was still time, Lin Xiao conveyed the tactics for the next wave to several Naga leaders in the form of Divine-mandate.

Even in critical situations, one must not lose their composure. Some players in such circumstances are so eager to take action themselves that they make the foolish mistake of directly commanding their clan—the opposite of wisdom.

A Deity’s command abilities are not necessarily outstanding. The correct approach is to communicate only with the clan leaders; as the actual commanders on the battlefield, the leaders have an acute understanding of the situation. Combined with the Deity’s god-mode ability to see what the leaders cannot, their cooperation can significantly increase the chance of victory.

Lin Xiao was very aware that his talent in command was quite average, so he didn’t direct the clan on how to fight but instead let them use their largest advantage.

As long as they utilized their greatest strength, getting through another wave wouldn’t be difficult.