Chapter 173 (1/2)

Nobody had seen it coming that a sudden change would take place at the end of the counting work. In an instant, everyone couldn’t help but secretly guess what was going on.

Bai Lingshi said gently, “Here comes the wild card.”

Zhao Yin beside her changed his face slightly and said with a grudging smile, “I don’t think so. Probably because the Totem Barbarian Tattoo is too tattered to be identified, it’s hard to decide how many military merits it deserves.”

As Zhao spoke, he seemed to regain his confidence and said, “See, the military merit of Totem Barbarian Tattoos Lin Xun has collected totals 1,000 at most. If he wants to make it into the top three with such an achievement, it’s rather ridiculous.”

In the end, he became composed again as if he could foretell like a prophet

Soon as the drillmaster announced Lin’s ultimate result, Zhao Yin fell into a daze completely.

“Lin Xun, 1,309 military merits!”

All present burst into an uproar an in unbelief with their eyes wide open.

“How could it be? The Totem Barbarian Tattoos he obtained are obviously not as many as Bai’s, but why can he get the same number of military merits as Bai Lingshi?”

“It…it’s so unbelievable!”

“If so, does it mean that both Lin Xun and Bai Lingshi get the first place in the war-zone assessment?”

All the trainees were in an uproar, and they couldn’t believe it.

Both Shi Yu and Ning Meng fell into a trance. In their views, the military merits Lin Xun got, at most, would be of about the same level as them. But surprisingly, he exceeded them and even jumped to the top one!

In other words, both of them lost the bet to Lin Xun.

At the moment, Zhao Yin’s face changed frequently. If Lin’s result wasn’t forged, it meant that he, who was originally one of the top three, would get the fourth place.

Zhao Yin had never seen this coming.

In addition to those trainees, the drillmasters and generals responsible for the counting work felt shocked, too.

They all looked at Lin Xun with complex expressions in their eyes. Deep down, they knew that the result they announced was actually not the real one but the most conservative one.

Lin Xun would get a higher result, according to the real classification of military merits!

That was because the tattered Totem Barbarian Tattoo that didn’t belong to an ordinary Barbarian Soldier. Only the Barbarian Soldiers at the second level could possess such tattoos.

Barbarian Soldiers at the second level were tantamount to those top practitioners at the medium stage of the Gang Spirit Realm!

According to the military merit reward standards of the empire, killing such a Barbarian Soldier could get 300 military merits at least and 800 ones at most.

As a result, the drillmasters after a short discussion granted Lin Xun the same result as Bai Lingshi. That was because Lin Xun obtained an inconceivable Totem Barbarian Tattoo that easily caused some controversies for him. Once he was in a higher ranking than Bai Lingshi, the controversies over him would become more.

Lin Xun was stunned, too. He was quite certain that he wouldn’t at least lose the bet to Shi Yu and Ning Meng because of the military merits he had obtained. But, he didn’t expect that he would jump to the top one at one fell swoop, making him as high as Bai Ling in the ranking.

He soon came to realize that this might be due to the Totem Barbarian Tattoo he obtained when he killed Shriying.

No matter how uproarious the people present was, the process of judging the military merits was done, and both Lin Xun and Bai Lingshi got the first place.

Lee Duxing got the second place without any doubt.

Only Zhao Yin, the third place, was a little awkward because everyone knew that Zhao Yin should actually get the fourth place after Lin’s result was announced.

“This is the game-changer,” said Bai Lingshi, and then she left after turning around.

Zhao Yin’s face color changed continuously, and he felt extremely uncomfortable. It was Lin Xun who was behind all of this!

“Want to rank first with Bai Lingshi? He should ask my permission first!”

Zhao Yin made a curse in his heart. He had made up his mind that he would look for a chance to teach Lin Xun a lesson after returning to the Bloodthirsty Camp, making Lin understand the gap between them.

Lin Xun had never anticipated that his result aroused Zhao Yin’s hatred, which was absolutely an unexpected calamity.

However, full of unexpected changes, things were so absurd sometimes.

“Since you lost, you owe me Flickering Blue-sky Liquor,” Dong Lu smiled gloatingly.

Song Ling snorted with a poker face, but deep down, he felt bewildered. A teenager at the Martial Spirit Realm could really kill a Barbarian Soldier at the second level. How did he do that?

What a stir could this matter cause if the information leaked out?

However, Song Ling also knew that the military merits of trainees from Bloodthirsty Camp was one kind of classified information in the empire. Although they knew it, they couldn’t leak it, which was for sure.

…

The three-month war-zone assessment drew to an end.

Only 42 trainees were left; some were sifted out while some were killed in the Demon-cloud Ridge.

After the trainees’ military merits were announced one by one, the drillmasters of the Bloodthirsty Camp didn’t stay longer. That evening, they, together with the 42 trainees who had passed the assessment, boarded the battleship and left the Reshahar Army Camp.