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Chapter 137 What? Five Saintess candidates teaming up?
the next day.

Celia arrived at the agreed location on time and stood with everyone in the class, waiting for the instructor's instructions.

When the appointed time arrived, Elena came before everyone, counted the number of people, confirmed that most of them had arrived, and then said:

"Some students were unable to participate due to personal reasons, but the rest were present."

"This is your first time participating in the school's ancient ruins trial, so let me tell you about the precautions for the ancient ruins."

"First of all, ancient ruins are a collective term for the remnants of all eras before the Age of Calamity. Due to various reasons, they have been contaminated or covered up, or invaded by monsters."

"Some of these relics are buried deep underground, while others exist in the open and are referred to by the locals as forbidden areas."

"The ancient ruins we are heading to now are called the Lost Lighthouse, located in the east of the empire, on a once very important lighthouse for navigation."

"Most of the monsters in this lighthouse are corrupted monsters, as well as some corrupted heretics. The Deep Sea Aid Society once used this lighthouse as a base, but later abandoned it because the pollutants emitted by the lighthouse were too concentrated, causing most of the heretics inside to have their minds corrupted."

"The core area of ​​this lighthouse is very dangerous, so this time we will only operate on the periphery to clean up the pollutants that have escaped from inside, and absolutely not go near the core area."

"I will send you the relevant map. The activity area has been marked out. As long as you don't cross the barrier nets placed by the knights, there won't be much danger. If you cross the barrier nets out of curiosity and enter the lighthouse's illumination range, good luck to you. The school will at most compensate you with 10 gold coins, but you will have to pay with your lives."

As she spoke, Elena revealed a sinister smile: "I almost forgot, let me tell you a very typical case. There was a student who knew that the school would compensate for deaths during the trials, so he took it upon himself to enter the lighthouse's illumination range and disappeared. In the end, the school compensated his family 10 gold coins according to the agreement, and then..."

"The school sued the other party in court for failing to cooperate with the operation and violating the trial agreement, resulting in significant losses, and ordered them to pay 30 gold coins in compensation."

Countless students gasped in shock.

How terrifying! Not only did they have to give back all the compensation, but they also have to pay an extra 20 gold coins.

"However, the school is not a cold-blooded business association. After the verdict, they chose not to inherit the deceased's estate, so they did not need to pay compensation."

"..."

Elena said calmly, "I'm saying this so that you will cherish your own lives. If you die for someone, that person may not necessarily benefit, but you will lose your life forever."

Believe it or not, this one case was more effective than emphasizing the importance of cherishing life a hundred times.

Everyone has decided to cherish life and has no intention of deliberately dying to make the school pay compensation to their families.

Of course, such extreme ideas are rare, perhaps only a few cases every few decades.

Even if there are such cases, most of them involve parents dying and receiving compensation from their children, rather than children dying and receiving compensation from their elders.

"Back to the Lost Lighthouse, this trial will divide everyone into teams of five, with each team assigned a trial area. Your goal is to kill all the monsters and purify all the pollutants in the trial area."

"It should be noted that the instructors cannot enter before the pollution is purified, otherwise it will trigger a reaction from the lighthouse and cause it to shine its light on you. Therefore, you will need to work together as a team to complete the purification process before the pollution is completely eliminated."

"The school will issue everyone a teleportation badge. This badge only requires a trace of magic to activate and will teleport you back to the school's camp."

"Please note that once the badge is activated, the school will evaluate your actions and trial process. If there is any laziness, passive resistance, or other such behavior, your grades will be canceled."

Elena spoke for a long time, explaining all the precautions and arrangements, before starting the team formation process.

"In principle, team formation is free, but for your safety and to avoid bullying, students from the same class can form a maximum of 3 teams, and the remaining 2 must be students from other classes."

"At the same time, each team must have a student who is good at healing; otherwise, the team is invalid and the student will have to accept the school's arrangements."

"Alright, let's start forming teams now." After saying that, the students scattered and began looking for teammates.

Celia attracted everyone's attention. Milbe was a step ahead of Enars.

"Celia, let's team up! With my protection, you'll be fine. You can just sleep it off and get through the trial!"

“Mir,” Elena’s voice came from the side.

Mir turned around. "Instructor Elena? Is something the matter?"

"Have you forgotten what I just said? Trials require teamwork; there's no room for slackers. Team trials have individual and team scores. Do you want Celia to get a zero individual score?"

"I did not mean that……"

“Celia, come with me. You are a second-tier mage. Your trial is in a different area than theirs, so you can’t team up with first-tier mages.”

“Okay.” Celia followed Elena away, leaving Mir dumbfounded.

A friend came up and laughed, "Hey, Mir, she's a second-tier mage now, how dare you say you're protecting her?"

Another friend laughed and said, "With me protecting you, you'll be fine, hahaha..."

Mir's face flushed red. "You...you wait and see! I'll advance to the second rank after my trial and show you!"

"Hahahaha!"

……

Celia followed Elena away from the student area and arrived in front of a building.

Celia looked at the building in front of her. It was a multi-purpose building with professors' offices, meeting rooms, laboratories, and more.

Once downstairs, Elena turned around and said, "You are a second-tier mage and also a candidate for saintess. All the saintesses of this year have already reached the second tier. After discussions between the school and the Holy Court, considering your different focuses, it has been decided that this time your small test will no longer be evaluated through combat as in previous years, but will instead be combined with this trial."

She paused for a moment, then smiled: "So, you're going to form a team to explore the lost lighthouse together."

"What?" Celia's eyes widened. "You're asking the five of us competitors to form a team and explore ancient ruins?"

"It wasn't me, it was the headmaster, it was an arrangement by the Holy Court."

"Isn't this wrong? Logically, shouldn't each person lead a team, and then we see who leads the best team?"

Elena nodded: "It's the same every year, but this year is a little different."

"What's the difference?"

"The Lost Lighthouse is emitting abnormal light, which has given birth to some strange humanoid monsters. Each of you leading your teams cannot enter the area of ​​illumination to investigate because there are not enough second-tier mages."

"Therefore, after discussion between the principal and the Holy Court, it has been decided that you will form an elite team to enter the lighthouse area and investigate the abnormal illumination."

"Ah, this..."

　This is only today's update! There are four more to come!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)