I Became The Administrator of A Sacred Ground
Chapter 43: Eavesdropping Trope

Chapter 43: Eavesdropping Trope

"Time’s about to end! Everybody, please stop typing once the counter reaches zero!"

The sudden shouts of the invigilators caught many students off guard. Like Euri, a significant number of students had also figured out that there was a time limit, but even they had fallen into the trap of elaborate answers.

Euri was in the middle of his seventh question, one that came with an image of a horrifyingly grotesque corpse of a mutated human body, crawling amidst bloody tentacles, pus flowing out of its pustulated skin. Supposedly, this was his lover after reaching Rank-10, still alive due to the vitality of her superior lifeform.

[ She asks you if you still love her now that she looks worse than a worm. If you answer ’Yes’, she is highly likely to propose a marriage. If you answer ’No’, you may be killed. What is your next move? ]

Seeing a 15-second timer pop up on top of the question, Euri hurriedly wrote the remaining bit of his answer:

[ If I ever met the love of my life, we’d be married way earlier, not after so many years that she’d reach Rank-10. This cancels the consequences of the first choice. So I will answer yes, and it will break down the simulated scenario by creating a new route. I’ll forever remain beyond your calculation! ]

Seeing that he still had 3 seconds left after concluding the answer, Euri added a mocking laugh underneath, just to spite the AI.

Meanwhile, Miss Rei re-entered the auditorium, and requested the group of twenty students to follow her. A few minutes later, they found themselves climbing the stairs to the highest point of the school campus, the roof of a new building under construction.

The previous two groups also turned out to be waiting there. But even after Euri’s group emerged from the staircase, nobody turned to look at them. Everyone’s attention was on something else, a violently noisy, but attractive distraction.

Five eagles, each more than 2.5 meters tall, with a wingspan close to 10 meters, were frolicking in the middle of the rooftop.

Occasionally, one of them would lose a brown or white feather, and the braver students were trying to collect them as if they were valuable prizes.

"Rank-1 Eagles! Can you believe it?"

"Majestic creatures! Wish I could ride one!"

"Do you think they’ll attack if I touch them?"

"What species are these? I wonder how much each of them cost..."

"Hey, maybe they weren’t purchased. Could be the direct gain from an encounter in the dimensional planes."

Chatter, hoots, screeches, and cheers filled Euri’s eardrums in the crowd. After watching the display for a while with rapt attention like everyone else, he turned to survey the rest of the rooftop, looking for the owners of these beast pets.

The superhumans he had seen landing on the campus had to be here.

Sure enough, he located them after a brief search. All five were sitting on top of a massive water tank in a corner of the roof, barely visible to the students.

Had Euri not been a head taller than most of his peers, and actively looking for those five superhumans, he wouldn’t have noticed the tops of their heads above the tank.

Nonchalantly, he backed away from the crowd and came to stand by the wall of the water tank, hoping to hear something useful.

"Good heavens, look at these plebs! Fawning over carrier beasts like they’re some deities! I feel secondhand embarrassment for them! No sense of propriety..."

"Hahaha, sis, look how they’re collecting the feathers! Do you think some of the desperate ones might try to cook and eat the feathers in secret? After all, there is a slim chance of gaining some kind of affinity to the special attributes of these eagles!"

"Tcheh! Merida, your mind always conjures up some disgusting possibilities! How desperate would one have to be to be willing to eat those feathers?! They’re not even edible!"

Euri had to hold back a discontented sigh. Those born into rich clans or superhuman families naturally had different outlooks in life, especially in matters related to the path of a superhuman. The sense of superiority bleeding out of their conversation was to be expected.

But then again, these superhumans sounded rather young; probably not much older than him. Some immaturity wasn’t out of the question.

In fact, it wasn’t even the most degrading conversation he had heard coming from affluent circles. Not even in the top twenty.

"Oi Euri, what the hell are you doing over there?"

Jaakie, suddenly noticing him standing so far away, jogged over. The volume of the conversation above the tank instantly went down by a few notches.

"You know I hate crowds, man. The noise is giving me a headache," Euri replied, straining his ears to catch the whispers above.

"How did you do on the test?" Jaakie asked curiously.

"I had fun. The AI probably didn’t." Euri grinned.

"Did my suggestions work out for you at all? To be honest, I thought the test would be more knowledge-oriented."

Jaakie gave him a high-five, looking to be in high spirits.

"Bro, you have no idea. I surfed through some books on psychological research and the only topics that seemed interesting and easy to understand were the superficial personality tests. So when I saw the questions on the test, I knew I didn’t have to answer honestly. I just had to write answers that the researchers would find intriguing! Shit was hilarious. By the third question, the AI thought I was a total psycho, hahaha-!"

Euri tried to silently gesture at the idiot to stop bragging about faking his answers. The superhumans on top of the tank were definitely listening.

But Jaakie was laughing way too hard to notice. By the time Euri managed to clamp his mouth shut and get the hint across, the damage was pretty much done.

With a face portraying the very epitome of horror, Jaakie stood by Euri’s side, deathly still and silent, gaze in the distant clouds. Self-sabotage was the worst feeling in the world, truly.

Now that he wasn’t talking, Euri could finally hear some of the whispered conversations ongoing among the superhumans.

"Speaking of gaining affinities, what about you, Eskandar? How’s your progress?"

"I’m choosing a commander-type attribute. I have consumed more than a dozen cores. Hopefully, the affinity will reach the fulfillment requirement to cross into Rank-1 very soon. How’s the progress on your end?"

"My physique has hit the limit of a Rank-0 human. No matter how many serums I take, or how rare and concentrated a core my big sis brings for me from her expeditions, it won’t increase anymore."

"Nadir, I warned you about not indulging in fantasies waaay earlier! You didn’t listen at all, did you? How can natural human physique be as malleable as those dimensional beasts? It’s already impressive enough to hit 1.5 points!"

"Yeah, I’ve already begun preparations for my affinity growth. Told my big sis to look for something special. Hahaha, when I step into Rank-1, you guys are gonna be eating dust every day!"

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