36 Making People Question Reality (1/2)

The announcement caught the attention of most people in the area. At least the people that heard Jam say that he would prove he himself, when it came time for his Squad to turn in their corpses, were intrigued.

Jam and his squad made their way to the inspection zone. Once they arrived, the members of squad 21 started depositing their beast corpses, in the same order as when they were discussing. First Rina, followed by Cynthia, Alex, and Kirin.

Jam's squadmates deposited the same amount of demonic beast corpses that they said they had. And now, the moment to utterly destroy these spectators minds had finally come!

Jam made his way up to the inspection zone and told the people managing it, that he needed more space. This comment had all those who heard it, laugh mercilessly at Jam.

Even Squad 9 didn't require more space than what was already available; and they had well over 20 million Demonic Beast. Moreover, most of the Demonic Beasts they have killed were at the Saint Realm.

Everyone knows that the higher realm a demonic beast is in, larger its size. While there were exceptions to this rule, even the smallest Saint Realm Demonic Beast is large enough to take up 3 cubic meters of space.

Evangeline had already told the management ahead of time that Jam would probably have more corpses than her. Thus, the management compiled with Jam's request. If any other person had told them they needed more space, the management would not have taken them seriously. However, Evangeline was the real deal. Moreover, she wouldn't have a reason to lie to them.

Jam was allocated twice the amount of space that all the other people up to know had available to them.

Jam cast open a rift from his Spatial Storage Dimension to the inspection zone, and for the next couple minutes, an endless stream of dead Saint Realm Demonic Beasts flowed out his rift. Jam created a mountain of corpses, at least ten times larger than Evangeline's stack of corpses.

After the stream of False Saint Demonic Beasts ended, Jam made another pile of corpses. This pile of corpses only contained the Saint Masters he had killed. Along with the four Saint Masters Jam had killed in his fight to save Evangeline, he had also killed about 1,000 Saint Masters.

The reason the Saint Realm Demonic Beasts had started to group up was because of Jam's merciless hunting. If he had only stuck with hunting False Saint Demonic Beasts, sure the False Saint Demonic Beasts would have grouped together. But, they certainly wouldn't be forming groups of several hundred False Saints.

After Jam had broken through to the Soul Condensing Stage, he needed to challenge himself. And after realizing that no amount of False Saint would be able to compete against him, in skill, he started targeting the Saint Masters.

Needless to say, Jam's glorious mountains of Saint Realm Demonic Beast Corpses, drew in shock and silence from everyone. The fellow competitors, Jam's squadmates, the supervisors, the academy elders, even the Sect Head… It didn't matter who you were, when confronting the little devil known as Jam, and his absurd strength, you had to stand in awe.

After a moment of silence from everyone in attendance, management started counting Jam's points.

”One Hu-hundred sev-seventy nine million False S-Saints, and o-one th-tho-thousand thirteen Sai-Saint Masters” Jam's score was so high it made the announcer stutter in disbelief.

In total Squad 21 turned in 1,013 Saint Masters, 180.533 Million False Saints, and 7.5 Million Soul Fusion Demonic Beasts. The combined score for Squad 21 came out to be… 451,808,800,000 points.

In most people's' heads, a nonexistent event took place. Squad 9 came and said ”I'm the best with my 40 Billion points,” and Squad 21 — or more specifically Jam — came out and said ”Hold my beer!”

…

The rest of the inspection was uneventful. No one came close to reaching Squad 9's score, to say nothing of Squad 21.

Jam was sitting on a seat reserved for Squad 21 members. He was very uncomfortable, as the people who were entering the sitting area reserved for the squads to wait, were looking at him like he was an alien. The people that were already seated, picked up on the unusual aura surrounding Jam, and were staring at him as well.

Jam and his squadmates passed the time by sharing stories about their encounters during the competition. Jam story about being trapped in a natural formation and having to make a double breakthrough in cultivation, followed by a breakthrough in his formation skill, was the greatest highlight of the groups chat.

None of his squadmates had any memorable stories to share. Their collective experience was that of an average hunting session. After they split up, they spent most of their time searching for demonic beasts to hunt, then they would fight, kill, and collect the beasts. This process was near universal; it applies to most of the other squads as well.

Jam was essentially the source of most of the eventful occurrences in this competition. Jam saving Mary's squad, breaking out of a Tier 3 formation, saving Evangeline, and taking out more than 180 million Saint Realm Demonic Beast copses, were the most interesting events that took place in competition.