Chapter 698: Teaching Assistant Location Wanted Order

Ninglan area.

A dense forest relatively far from Ninglan New City.

"I told you all not to run off to such a distant place. Where does this look like a place for a hunting target!"

"Aiya stop complaining. We deliberately walked this far, wasn't it to distance ourselves from those people? With too many people, there are no prey. Only with fewer people will there be opportunities."

At this moment, this group of three was traversing the dense forest. One complained, the other soothed, and one lagged behind, too lazy to speak.

That such three people could form a small team, one had to say it took some kind of destiny.

"Wait! There's movement! Look, isn't this our chance."

At this moment, they suddenly heard some movement and immediately became excited.

So they quickly went forward to check.

"Hey, hey! Be careful. What are you doing? What if you scare the target away?"

The person next to her quickly pulled back the overly excited teammate and reprimanded her.

"Sorry, sorry... I almost forgot."

"I see you've completely forgotten the hunting techniques you learned at Aphrodite Academy, haven't you?"

"Aiya, anyway, let's go check the situation. That movement doesn't sound like a large Mutated Beast."

The three exchanged glances for a second, and finally agreed with this assessment, preparing to move forward and investigate.

Just as the three of them were in positions—one on guard, one covering, and the other moving forward to check—

Suddenly, a muffled thud, as if a heavy object had smashed into something, and a figure fell straight to the ground.

"Who! What's going on!"

Hearing the unusual sound, the person responsible for covering sharply turned her head, only to see a bloodied corner of a book.

The spell ritual blossomed on it right before her eyes.

The exquisite and rapid spellcasting ritual instantly captured her attention.

This was the first time she had felt the exquisiteness and... the heat of a spell ritual at such close range!

Boom—!

With the burst of a heat wave, the person who had moved forward to search was now frozen stiff.

Whether it was the "corpse" she had discovered in front of her, with a nearly empty health bar floating above its head, or the scream, explosion, and heat wave from behind…

The events that erupted in this single instant had already exceeded the processing capacity of her brain!

She snapped out of her shock and subconsciously turned around, only to stumble and sit down on the ground.

Then, she saw two figures lying in a pool of blood, and a figure holding a book, not far behind her.

"Big… Big Sis Xiao Han?!"

"You know me? But knowing me won't exempt you from death, you know."

I looked at this unfamiliar girl.

I had no impression of her.

"It's fine, it won't hurt. You will be resurrected in Ninglan New City. Experiencing death and rebirth is one of life's rare experiences."

After saying this, I directly used a Fireball spell to grant her the most respectable way to die.

Otherwise, being smashed in the head by the Book in the Casket would indeed be a painful death.

I gently shook the Book in the Casket, flicking off the bloodstains, and then I saw a mentor appear beside me, the same one as before.

It seemed that every teaching assistant had a fixed mentor responsible for resurrecting them, or the examinees they killed.

However, resurrected examinees needed to return to their "starting point," which was the city they came from.

For example, the Witch Academy was Ninglan New City, Aphrodite Academy was the Third Sanctuary, and so on.

Otherwise, they could not hunt to obtain scoring during this resurrection period.

The reason I wasted a few words with the last one was that I had unlocked the second skill after killing two people just now.

Ice Shield Spell.

The casting countdown for this protective spell was a little faster than the Fireball spell.

With my reaction time plus the flying speed of the Fireball, I had enough time to activate the Ice Shield Spell.

"Are you sure you're still not going to kill her?"

At this time, the mentor asked.

"No, she's still alive and well. Her greatest utilization is to die in an accident."

I walked into the grass and lifted the critically injured teaching assistant.

"You are a competent decoy. I apologize for my previous rash judgment; at least you are exceptionally useful when luring targets other than me."

"You… you demon… quick… kill… me…"

"Hmm? You're using the last bit of your self-healing ability to repair your vocalization and language processing areas? Don't feel wronged. I know that of all of you teaching assistants who targeted me, not a single one is wrongly accused."

I snorted and decided not to pay her any more attention, focusing my attention elsewhere.

After I killed the first examinee, I noticed that my current status was "Wanted."

The Wanted status would be displayed on the screens of all examinees' Seeds of Knowledge, marking my real-time location.

This ability was not mentioned earlier.

It seemed to be the traditional "hidden rule" technique.

After all, the role we played was the target of the hunt.

If we hid somewhere and engaged in counter-hunting, that wouldn't do, would it?

So, after the first kill, I was immediately issued a Wanted order for one hour!

Killing two people meant the Wanted time was stacked.

So I had accumulated a full three hours now.

At this moment, the three students had also been resurrected with the help of the mentor.

It was their first death.

Under the mentor's guidance, they also knew what they needed to do—return to the starting point to check in, and then set off again, otherwise, they couldn't even obtain scoring during this period.

These three people were still in a state of shock at this moment.

Judging from their appearance after resurrection, they were still checking if their bodies were intact.

"That was really Big Sis Xiao Han… I didn't expect Big Sis Xiao Han to fool us directly…"

"Hmm? What is this? A Wanted order? Big Sis Xiao Han is on a Wanted order."

At this time, one of the three people also noticed this matter.

These few people were still somewhat bewildered after just dying by my hand and instantly being resurrected.

As for their emotions toward me… they hadn't accumulated too much, mainly because I killed them too fast, so there wasn't much time for emotions to brew.

"That… Big Sis Xiao Han?"

"Hmm? Do you have anything else to say? But you are welcome to come back for revenge. Next time, remember to bring more people."

I looked at them and, for once, exchanged words with them.

"This… we definitely can't beat you, Big Sis Xiao Han… that… we are curious about the one you are carrying in your hand…"

"Oh, she's also a teaching assistant, the one who cooperated with me to act as a decoy."

I explained very thoughtfully to them.

"Huh?"

Clearly, they indicated that they couldn't comprehend this explanation…

"She… this, she's clearly on the verge of death…"

"But she's not dead yet, is she? Don't worry. This is just a small conflict between teaching assistants at the beginning. The loser should have the demeanor of a loser. What's more, she failed a sneak attack. Humiliating her a bit is very normal."

"Conflict…"

Hearing my words, the three people subconsciously shivered, and suddenly felt that their death just now seemed to have been quite clean?

"Do you want to chat some more? If the intelligence you provide is valuable enough, I don't mind waiting for you for a transaction. This one is a teaching assistant, after all. If you kill her, you should be able to get a lot of scoring, right?"

"Sorry… we're leaving first…"

"Are you really leaving just like that? But that is…"

"We have no life to take her. What if we get fooled again when we go out?"

"Death deducts scoring. We are already in the negative! Be conservative, be conservative…"

Of the three people, besides one who was somewhat interested, the other two directly dragged that person and ran away.

They didn't give me any chance.

And at this moment, with the appearance of my Wanted order, it also caused a stir among the examinee group.

However… this was not the first Wanted order.

Earlier, several teaching assistants who didn't know better had killed examinees in their haste to unlock their skill trees, which triggered a Wanted order.

Now, it was just adding one more.

It was just that this newly added one was recognized by many people.

But what surprised them was that the duration of this Wanted order and location tracking was longer, lasting a full three hours!

And these three hours were stacked in a very short time, which indicated that the teaching assistant Xiao Han had killed three examinees in a short time!

This combat power and killing efficiency genuinely scared some people, but similarly, more people were eager to try!

Moreover, this location tracking would last until noon today, a long time during which the opponent couldn't hide at all.

And this was under the premise that she wouldn't continue to cause more slaughter.

It could be foreseen that the teaching assistants were not recommended to actively hunt the examinees in this joint exam, unless the teaching assistants wanted to forgo seven nights of good sleep!

And at this moment, the newly arrived examinees had just left the radiation range of the city shelters and sanctuaries they were in and hadn't seen many Mutated Beasts.

So, after seeing these Wanted orders, they directly chose to accept the bounty!

It must be known that hunting one standard aggressive Mutated Beast was only 1 point of scoring.

Large Mutated Beasts required teamwork, but on average, the scoring might not even be enough to split to one point per person.

But look at those Wanted teaching assistants… just one kill gave them one hundred points of scoring!

This was practically a mobile horde of Mutated Beasts!

And there was only one target.

The opponent's combat power was not much different from their own, and they had the advantage of numbers…

Comparing the two, why wouldn't they go and pull off something big?

There was nothing to be afraid of anymore.

Didn't the opponent just have the identity of a teaching assistant?

Hadn't they only heard rumors that she had influence comparable to a mentor?

Even if she had high combat power, she couldn't use it now.

Even if her combat experience was richer than theirs, they would see how she would run when surrounded.

Therefore, the opening scene of this joint exam hunt was the hunting of teaching assistants; the Mutated Beasts were relegated to supporting roles.

And at this moment, adjustments also began on the examination ground.

Various academies started dropping special hunting creatures, and location information, and so on, were made available at the various shelters and sanctuaries.

Some more rational people chose the safer route of hunting special creatures.

After all, after some comparison, they found that with so many people surrounding one teaching assistant, the scoring wouldn't be easy to split in the end.

Moreover, if a teaching assistant got ruthless, they might even take away a few unlucky ones, but those Mutated Beasts and special creatures did not have such powerful attack methods.

More importantly, these monsters did not have as many sophisticated tricks and combat instincts as people.

In other words, they only needed to deal with some livestock, while dealing with people required too many considerations.

And at this moment.

In an undeveloped dense forest relatively far from Ninglan New City.

"Strange, the location is roughly in this area. Can't this location tracking be more precise?"

At this time, a team that had arrived first, after confirming they had reached the designated area, began searching.

But their leisurely appearance didn't lead to any discovery.

"Hey, everyone cheer up. We are about to face a teaching assistant! I heard that teaching assistants are very formidable!"

"What's so formidable about it? We're looking for Yang Yuehan. She's about the same age as us, isn't she? The power she controls is also similar. What is there to be afraid of?"

"Exactly. The senior-grade female students

have strong physical constitutions and might be able to take us down without skills, but are we afraid of someone the same age as us? Haha."

Just as that person was laughing, the person at the very front suddenly seemed to discover something.

"Eh! Wait! Is that a person over there?"

"Where? Is it Yang Yuehan?"

"Not sure, but she also has a health bar above her head. It seems so? Why does she look like she's on the verge of death?"

A few people moved forward.

Because the sunlight was heavily blocked inside the dense forest, the area beneath the trees was somewhat dim, and even some shrubs were stunted.

The surrounding damp areas were all covered in ferns.

"Be careful. Did someone get here before us?"

However, when the crowd saw that the figure was tied to a tree, and that person was not Yang Yuehan, whom they knew, they were also puzzled.

But... they should have been horrified…

But who was to blame for the ignorant and fearless?

At this moment, anyone with even a slight clue would have realized that this was a trap.

But "teaching assistant," "tied up," "placed," and "low health" were simply too appealing, so much so that they didn't even notice my arrival!

"This... she's also a teaching assistant, right? She only has a sliver of health left. Should we kill her and split the scoring!"

"Yeah, hurry up and kill her."

At this moment, a voice that was completely unfamiliar to them joined their team.

But by the time they reacted, a crimson fireball had already finished charging.

Boom—!

An unsurprising explosion blew these people away.

Looking at the number of kills gained, perhaps only in the early stages of the joint exam hunt could I encounter such foolishly cute examinees.

If the teaching assistants didn't work harder at this time and the exam progressed to the later stages, then it would become troublesome.

But clearly, killing these few guys did not resolve the trouble.

Since this kind of team had already made it to my location, the main force aiming to hunt me was also about to arrive, or perhaps… the scouts had already arrived, but they were hiding in the shadows and held their ground.

As long as I made a move to leave, they would move to block me.

So, as soon as I showed the intention to leave, an arrow whistled directly toward me.

And I seemed to have predicted this attack, dodging it without even looking.

It looked like a Ranger from the Elf class. Sure enough, they were suitable for scouting, weren't they?

"Yang Yuehan, you can't run!"

"You really couldn't hide in the dark, could you? Since one of you is out, why are the rest of you still hiding?"

I held the Book in the Casket in one hand and looked calmly at the first person who emerged.

Then, several more figures followed suit and descended from the trees.

Among this group, I even saw an acquaintance.

Well, an acquaintance whose name I could barely recall.

Anni Stephens… if I remembered correctly, she was the class president of Class 66?

I met her around the time of the confrontation matches not long after enrollment.

She was a very lucky girl.

I remembered she was very lucky, and her spellcasting… was also very lucky.

I didn't expect her to choose the Ranger class as a scout this time.

"Hi Long time no see, Anni. I didn't expect the next time we meet, you'd be aiming an arrow at me? Wouldn't that be too heartbreaking?"