When more than twenty massive fireballs, filled with the Fire Element, descended upon the natural detonation points formed by the mixture of poisonous gas and swamp gas,

BOOM! RUMBLE—!

The first fireball, moving at maximum speed, landed on a spot designated by a Magic Mark.

In an instant, it was as if a giant meteorite had slammed into the swamp.

The dark green toxic mist and swamp gas first turned into a roiling, semi-liquid state,

then erupted skyward, soaring into the clouds and becoming a pillar of jade-colored fire nearly a hundred meters tall!

The massive shockwave from the explosion pulverized the flesh of the nearby Poison-frogmen.

In the intense heat, the ashes of the Poison-frogmen instantly crystallized!

Within the same second, the remaining dozen or so fireballs reached the other marked points across the Poisonous Gas Swamp in quick succession,

creating a chain reaction with the initial blast as their impacts compounded.

The entire Poisonous Gas Swamp, as if bombarded by missiles, erupted in a continuous, unending series of explosions that shot toward the sky!

The Poison-frogman tribe?

In just a single minute, all of them had been turned into crystallized ash!

The chain reaction from the swamp’s explosion was immense!

Fortunately, the Elf Mage Corps was prepared.

While the first row of Mages set the Magic Marks and the third row cast massive Fireball Techniques,

and after the fireballs from the third row were launched,

the second row of Elf Mages at the very front of the corps began casting the First Level Spell: Magic Barrier!

The reason they chose the weaker First Level Spell, Magic Barrier, instead of Magic Shield, a spell with stronger individual defense,

was because the Magic Barrier spell could be stacked!

When the first Mage finished casting Magic Barrier, a second Mage would cast it as well,

and the defensive power of the two Magic Barriers would stack.

In other words, the more Mages casting the spell, the stronger the barrier’s defense would become.

Theoretically, with enough casters, this First Level Spell could even block the Power of a Ninth Level Spell, far surpassing its own level!

Furthermore, Magic Barrier was a very stable spell, allowing subsequent castings to be layered on top.

If a caster ran out of Magic Power and had to stop, it wouldn’t affect the barriers cast by everyone else.

Therefore, facing the massive shockwave from the explosion in the Poisonous Gas Swamp,

the Magic Barrier, formed by fifty Elf Mages continuously layering the spell, held firm in front of the Elf Mage Corps, withstanding the shockwave!

Five minutes later, the mushroom cloud from the explosion dissipated!

Afterward, the Magic Barrier, which had remained perfectly intact despite such a massive explosion, dissolved into motes of starlight and vanished after all the Magic Power was withdrawn.

The swamp, originally rotting and reeking of poisonous gas,

was now a landscape pockmarked with countless craters of all sizes.

The walls of the craters were covered with jade-like crystals and crystallized soil.

Only the Silver Treasure Chest, despite having gone through such a huge explosion, remained completely unscathed!

Except for the lock on the chest, which had been destroyed in the blast!

Zhang Yi glanced over and remarked, "Just what you’d expect from the school!"

After the explosion ended,

the other corps, which had been waiting at a distance so as not to get in the Elf Mage Corps’ way, also arrived at the scene.

When the Dwarf Corps and the Dwarf Leader saw this,

they first marveled at the Power of Magic, then expressed their admiration for the wisdom of the great God of Nature who had come up with this method!

The God of Nature, Zhang Yi, who was possessing Elf High Priest Shamiel, didn’t say much.

He just had the Elf Corps retrieve the Silver Treasure Chest from a distance.

...

Despite having just arrived, Zhang Yi had already caused quite a stir on this continent!

In Zhang Yi’s eyes, the power of the explosion had been astonishing.

But in reality, in the eyes of the proctoring teachers, the explosion’s power was also quite considerable!

You have to understand, this practice exam was nothing like the previous placement test. In that test, every student was isolated in their own Divine Realm, and only the teachers and the Divine Artifact Celestial Gaze Mirror could observe them!

For this practice exam before the finals,

every student in the entire second year participated!

All the second-year students had come to this continent through a Teleportation Gate.

In other words, if another student’s arrival point happened to be relatively close to Zhang Yi’s, they would also have been able to see the massive explosion he had just caused!

Of course, at the beginning, it was impossible for any students’ arrival points to be that close to one another.

With the help of the school’s smart A.I.,

each examinee’s Clan, after being transported through the Teleportation Gate to this vast Broken Continent, would appear in a place that was relatively suitable for them.

There was no way a Fishman Clan,

after crossing through the Teleportation Gate,

would be teleported to dry land!

Most Clans were teleported to locations with a 60% to 80% compatibility match.

In other words,

although the initial areas would have some challenges, the difficulty wouldn’t be too high.

It was a relatively suitable starting point for a novice’s development!

But it was also precisely for this reason that,

all of the second-year homeroom teachers, as well as subject teachers with no classes, had come to this continent.

In the Subspace outside this continent,

each teacher revealed their Divine Being appearance,

supervising—or to be more precise, observing—each student’s performance on this continent!

Although the strength of the second-year teachers at Golden City No.1 Middle School had not reached the level of a True God,

they were all Eighth Transformation Demigods or Ninth Transformation Demigods. They were only one opportunity away from becoming True Gods!

Supervising this group of fledgling Demigods, who were merely between the First and Third Transformations, was more than enough for them!

The subject teachers focused on different students.

It might be a student who had made a deep impression on them, or it could be a randomly chosen one.

But the homeroom teachers definitely kept their eyes on the top-performing students in their own class.

So, the moment students like Zhang Yi, Wan Hua, and Lin Aoxue entered this Divine Realm,

they were instantly spotted by their homeroom teacher, Guo Aiqing, who had been closely monitoring the situation on the continent.

Compared to Wan Hua and Lin Aoxue, who joined Class 1 later, Guo Aiqing paid a bit more attention to Zhang Yi, as she had been his teacher since he was in Class 7.

So when the three top-performing students in her class arrived on the continent, Guo Aiqing focused on Zhang Yi first.

Seeing that Zhang Yi’s Clans now included Fire Elves and Mountain Dwarves,

she guessed that Zhang Yi had probably already used the Four-star Divine Domain Card [Fated Encounter].

Otherwise, in just one short month, it would be impossible for two other Clans to have appeared in Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm.

Even if one were to load a Divine Domain Card of the same Clan as one’s Initial Clan,

a single Divine Domain Card would generally only contain one Clan.

From her god’s-eye view, homeroom teacher Guo Aiqing

compared the size of the Clans Zhang Yi brought with him to those of the other students.

If a student’s Initial Clan was something like Kobolds or goblins,

then the number of Clan members Zhang Yi had brought was definitely not as high as theirs.

But in a competition of the Clans’ combat Power, Zhang Yi would definitely rank in the top ten!

The reason he wasn’t in the top three

was because other students had Initial Clans like Harpies or Half-eagle-men—Clans that controlled the skies and could escape even if they couldn’t win a fight!

Therefore, as Guo Aiqing watched from her god’s-eye view while Zhang Yi cleared out a small Goblin Tribe and the Giant Demon Clan, she felt it was all quite ordinary.

However, when it came to clearing out the Poison-frogmen in the Poisonous Gas Swamp,

Zhang Yi’s methods made her eyes light up.

He wasn’t bound by convention, instead cleverly exploiting the terrain!

He had obtained the Silver Treasure Chest without losing a single Clan member and with barely any effort!

He was hands-down the fastest among all the examinees to obtain a Silver Treasure Chest!

Meanwhile, the other teachers, also watching from their god’s-eye view, were keeping their eyes and ears open.

On this Broken Continent, which was neither large nor small from their perspective,

they suddenly heard a huge noise coming from the western part of the land.

One by one, the homeroom teachers and the subject teachers with free periods couldn’t help but turn their gazes toward the west of the continent.

And then, they saw what was, to them, an extremely small mushroom cloud slowly dissipating!

Then they saw Guo Aiqing, the homeroom teacher of the top-ranked Class 1, who was already focused on that spot.

So, the other teachers couldn’t help but drift closer,

wanting to satisfy their curiosity

and find out what had just happened.