Rise of the Zerg in the World of Gods

The two continued talking as they wandered around No. 1 High School's campus. By the time Dongfang Cheng came out, it was already more than half an hour later.

Looking at the packed audience seats, Dongfang Cheng wore a gentle smile. After delivering an opening speech, he got straight to the point.

"Everyone, the rules for the regional league competition differ each year, but the overall differences are not significant. So this year, we want to play it a bit differently, while also allowing students to showcase more of their talents, not just in terms of combat."

After a pause, Dongfang Cheng continued.

"This time, there will be no individual battles, one-on-one fights, or avatar battles. Individual battles are only to demonstrate personal strength. All participants will enter the same battlefield."

"Principal Dongfang, isn't this unfair?" Someone raised an objection.

"If we do this, won't those who are stronger be surrounded and attacked by others? If they're eliminated because of this, it's really unfair. This goes against the original intention of fair competition!"

"That's right. If everyone is on the same battlefield, naturally, people will first try to eliminate the strong competitors. Especially those who are weaker and originally had no chance of advancing will do so. This becomes too unfair!"

Others discussed among themselves.

"Everyone, please calm down." Dongfang Cheng gestured with both hands for everyone to be quiet.

"The Education Department has naturally considered this issue, so it's not a problem. At that time, everyone will be randomly spawned. They won't encounter each other immediately. Of course, if they have the ability to form alliances, that's the student's own skill. If someone is strong but lacks connections and gets eliminated, there's nothing we can do. This competition will not only look at their strong combat power but also their interpersonal relationships, adaptability on the battlefield, and various other aspects."

Dongfang Cheng briefly explained the situation.

"This time, we've borrowed a high-level plane from Tianhai University as the battlefield. All students will enter it, and points will be calculated based on the creatures they kill. The top fifty in points will advance, and all others will be eliminated."

"A high-level plane world? Won't there be creatures up to Gold Tier 9?" Someone questioned.

"Doesn't this become unfriendly to weaker students?"

"That's right. Gold Tier creatures are powerful. The strong might be able to deal with them, but the weak might be eliminated directly upon encountering one!"

The audience and people from other schools became noisy.

"Everyone faces the same environment, so there's no question of fairness. If you're weak, you can form alliances with others. How to do it is each person's choice. As for being directly eliminated by Gold Tier creatures? As long as your points are high enough, even if you're killed early, you won't necessarily be eliminated. Of course, if you encounter a Gold Tier creature at the start, that's just extremely bad luck."

Dongfang Cheng didn't indulge them.

"It's the same for everyone. Killing other people's creatures, killing native creatures, points are awarded based on the level of creatures killed. It's the same for everyone. This is the Education Department's decision. I'm just the messenger."

With that, Dongfang Cheng didn't say much more.

"All students, adjust your equipment and prepare to enter the game pods."

Following Dongfang Cheng's order, all students uniformly lay down in their adjacent game pods, making final adjustments, trying to connect to their Divine Domains, and seeing if they could contact the plane world used for the assessment.

Because they weren't really entering that plane world, there was no need to consider distance or transmission fee issues.

If it were real combat in a high-level plane world, every single one of these people would come back with heavy losses. How would they handle the subsequent assessments then?

So they adopted this entertainment mode. This way, there were no real losses, but they could still see how they performed on the battlefield.

In the future, when they go to invade and conquer plane worlds, it will be the same; they will encounter unfamiliar plane invaders. At that time, whether to cooperate or confront will be their own decision.

This was just letting them experience it in advance.

Now it was just competition between classmates. When competing with alien races, it wouldn't be so gentle. At that time, it would be real killing. When creatures died, they would really die, not revive. If they didn't have strong sustainability, even if they were powerful, they would still fall behind due to excessive losses.

After the adjustments were complete, the countdown began. Everyone had already connected their Divine Domains to the high-level plane world.

Then, troop after troop descended into that high-level plane world.

While the students entered the plane world, the spectators outside were not calm.

"What is that?"

The projection screen was divided into many sections, clearly showing each student's view, as well as a macroscopic overview of the entire plane world.

But what were they seeing now?

Why were there so many starships parked outside the plane world's membrane?

Where did a group of high school students get so many starships?

Or had this plane world already developed starship technology?

However, at this moment, no one answered them. Everyone could only focus on watching the competition.

"This brat!" Dongfang Cheng, who had just sat down, heard Zhong Tianyue cursing quietly beside him.

"How did I forget, at this time, all units would be exposed!"

Zhong Tianyue never imagined that Xu Luo had developed so many starships.

"You're saying these are Xu Luo's?" Dongfang Cheng was also surprised. That was dozens of starships!

Even the third-year high school students didn't have this many, and now they were saying it belonged to a first-year?

"If not his, whose are they?" Zhong Tianyue rolled his eyes.

"I might mistake other starships, but his are custom-made, even crafted by our school's teachers. I knew earlier he was customizing starships, but I didn't expect he already had so many. How many people has he robbed?"

Zhong Tianyue had always known that Xu Luo had stopped destroying others' Divine Domains and started talking about winning people over with virtue. In fact, it was just robbing people, but not all at once - like harvesting leeks, leaving a bit, coming back to harvest again and again.

But how many people did he have to rob to accumulate so many starships, and where did he get so many troops to arm these starships?

Were there no daily losses?

"Is this why he's a four-star seed?" Dongfang Cheng began to doubt his life.

What was his Divine Domain development like when he was a first-year?

Forget first year of high school, even in his first year of university, he wasn't this strong!

"Old Zhong, Xu Luo's strength is too strong, it's completely off the charts. Should we discuss with others about letting him advance directly? Letting him compete with other students is simply unfair and too much of a blow to ordinary students."

Dongfang Cheng came to his senses and quickly suggested.

"Using a high-level plane was meant to temper their spirits, but Xu Luo already has Gold Tier units, and his own strength is very powerful, able to fight Gold Tier creatures. Here, he's just going to rack up points. There's no meaning in tempering for him."

"Bullshit!" Zhong Tianyue cursed directly.

"They're about to ride on our heads and defecate, and you're still talking about morality? We should let Xu Luo teach them a good lesson, tell them that all their schemes and tricks are useless!"

"But..." Dongfang Cheng still couldn't bear it.

These students all had good talents and were the future pillars of the 11th District.

Being hit hard at this time would affect their future.

As the principal of No. 1 High School, who would also work in the Education Department in the future, he had to consider issues more comprehensively.

"Then, what about those students who lost their Divine Domains?" Zhong Tianyue said in a low voice.

"Dongfang, in just a few months since school started, those schools have already had 4,823 students lose their Divine Domains. Just from yesterday to today, another 18 students lost theirs! It's because of their plan. Even if they get a bit more resources, can it make up for such a huge loss? Over four thousand!"

Dongfang Cheng fell silent.

This was the result obtained after they reported to the Education Department and the audit team began to investigate.

Those dozen or so cities, hundreds of high schools, in just a few months since school started, nearly five thousand students had lost their Divine Domains and had to transfer to ordinary high schools.

That was the hope of nearly five thousand families!

They didn't know before, but after the results came out, it was shocking!

"This matter will definitely be dealt with seriously!" Dongfang Cheng sighed.

"Old Wen is also having a headache over this matter!"

Zhong Tianyue rubbed his forehead.

"Dealing with these people is certain, but the aftermath work is the most difficult. So many students have been affected. Old Wen's place is already financially strained, they can't come up with much money. Divided among so many people, the compensation each person gets is barely anything. What use is such compensation?"

"A bunch of fucking bastards!" Even Dongfang Cheng, who usually minded his image, couldn't help but swear.

Those affected by this incident were not only the students who had already lost their Divine Domains but also those remaining. Their strength development had been affected, and their overall strength was weak.

The reason they hadn't had their Divine Domains destroyed wasn't because they were strong, but simply because they were lucky and hadn't been encountered by others yet. Otherwise, the result would have been the same.

"This matter should have reached the Governor's side, right?" Dongfang Cheng thought for a moment.

"District One should have some response."

Now humans no longer had the concept of countries, everyone was a member of the Federation.

The Ancestral Star was the origin of humans, and the planetary chief of the Ancestral Star was the Governor.

"By the time they come up with a solution, it'll be too late." Zhong Tianyue sighed.

Involving so many people, District One would definitely discuss for a long time, but by the time the results come out, who knows how many more students would have suffered.

"It's also because there aren't enough slots. Otherwise, we could directly compensate those students with a slot, letting them start over."

Dongfang Cheng shook his head helplessly.

Although No. 1 High School had considerable resources, these were the school's resources, and many things couldn't be liquidated. Wanting to help, it was just a small effort.

"Speaking of slots..." Zhong Tianyue looked towards Xu Luo, who was in the competition.

"This kid has recently started to realize the value of Divine Domain cores and has stopped destroying them, instead directly taking the cores."

"How many can he bring back on his own?" Dongfang Cheng didn't think much of it.

"Although Divine Domain cores are valuable, ten or twenty of them are just a drop in the bucket for this matter. It's just increasing his income a bit."

Zhong Tianyue smiled without speaking.

But in his heart, he already had an idea. He'd ask this kid later, see if he could get more cores.

Divine Domain cores weren't just qualifications to log into the World of Gods, they could also strengthen one's Divine Domain. A Divine Kingdom that integrated multiple Divine Domain cores would be more stable and easier to comprehend rules. This was also why Demi-Gods constantly fought each other, not just for resources, but more importantly for Divine Domain cores.

However, the school wouldn't tell students this information, they wouldn't even mention this matter.

Because if students knew the function of Divine Domain cores, it wouldn't be a good thing. If their strength wasn't enough, knowing was useless. If their strength was sufficient, they would know without being told.

Thinking about how Xu Luo had brought back no less than a hundred Divine Domain cores before, Zhong Tianyue seemed to understand where those starships of his came from.

He hadn't thought of this earlier.

Now, dozens of starships were quietly floating in outer space, like a non-static image, often subconsciously ignored by people.

And how many troops were hidden in these massive starships, no one knew.

Just like how many units Xu Luo, who had already entered the plane world, had brought was also a secret.

Many people even started guessing games, wanting to know exactly how many units Xu Luo had.

In previous competitions, no one had been able to force out his full strength. This time, they thought they should be able to know!

After all, it was a high-level plane world with powerful Gold Tier creatures. Even if Xu Luo was strong, he shouldn't be enough here.

Some people specifically paid attention to his situation, directly recording the units that died, planning to count slowly afterwards.

This time, he was the same as before. His avatar was on the ground, with only some fairy butterflies around him. As for the worker bees, they had already flown in various directions, starting to explore information about this world.

And other Zerg were all hidden underground. No one knew where they were, let alone their exact numbers.

This was a question many people were curious about, but when Xu Luo was interviewed after becoming Tianhai City's rookie king, the response they got was just a "Guess!"

The more unknown, the more curious people became!