Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!
Chapter 141: Unparalleled Luck

Chapter 141: Chapter 141: Unparalleled Luck

The magician maintaining order climbed over the high wall again, and the chaos quickly subsided. People orderly lined up to hand their admission tickets to the staff members.

After verifying the information on the admission tickets, a skilled staff member pulled an envelope out of the pile and handed it back with the admission ticket.

Inside the envelope, there was a transcript.

Some people, the moment they got their hands on it, tore open the envelope impatiently and took out the transcript to repeatedly confirm their scores.

Most of them frowned deeply and felt dejected, their hands trembling slightly as they clenched the transcript, unable to accept the result momentarily.

The more extreme ones would tear up their transcripts in a fit of anger and storm off, without considering the feelings of the cleaners. Then, they got a little shock from the cleaners, who were also magicians, and were fined as well.

Indeed, blessings never come in pairs, and misfortunes never come singly.

Only a very few individuals showed an unprecedented happy smile on their faces, having finally passed the exam to enter the Library, crying tears of joy and shouting loudly as they ran to spread the news.

Those who did not open their envelopes gripped them tightly. They would find a secluded corner or a place that could calm them down before slowly opening them.

These individuals were mostly uncertain about their own scores and feared losing control of their emotions in public, which was why they chose to leave quietly with their transcripts.

Bai Jin, Yang Yu, and Shu Jing had not opened their envelopes either.

Yang Yu naturally knew his scores, and even without looking, he knew the Library would not admit someone like him who treated the exam papers nonchalantly and scribbled all over them.

The remaining question was whether the Library authorities would generously grant him a zero, allowing him to earn the dubious honor of being the All Things Library’s first-ever worst student.

Both Bai Jin and Shu Jing were also uncertain about their scores and decided to wait until they returned to the hostel to open them.

Before leaving, Yang Yu felt the piercing gaze of Elder Li Yan, similar to that of a giant dragon, upon him. Looking up, he saw Elder Li Yan scrutinizing him once more.

"It seems my zero-score tactic has successfully caught the attention of some bigwig in the Library. Although, this zero score is indeed out of necessity..."

Yang Yu gave Elder Li Yan a confident smile and, along with Bai Jin and Shu Jing, disappeared into the crowd.

Back at the hostel.

Trembling, Bai Jin took out the envelope, took a deep breath to steady her excited emotions, and slowly tore open a corner of the envelope. With a gentle pull, a crisp tearing sound echoed in the empty hostel, quite jarring to the ears.

Yang Yu sat next to Bai Jin and turned his head to look at her, "Stop dawdling. The sooner you’re done, the sooner you can move on."

"I’m not mentally prepared yet," Bai Jin paused mid-tear, steadying her breath while holding her chest, "I need to do this slowly, very slowly."

"Slowly won’t change anything. I’ll help you."

Yang Yu pinched the envelope with his left hand and tore it open from the other corner with his right hand, pulling out a thin sheet of paper.

"Forty-eight points for the fill-in-the-blank questions, forty-six for the short-answer questions, seventy-two for the subjective questions, for a total of one hundred sixty-six points."

The detailed scores for each question were presented in a table format. Bai Jin’s knowledge was really broad; she scored at least four points on almost all of the short-answer and subjective questions, and even if she didn’t get everything right, she could still roughly answer them. She was not on the same level as Yang Yu.

"Not bad, Bai Jin, to score one hundred sixty-six. One hundred sixty-six points should be..."

His gaze shifted to the last evaluation column, and Yang Yu was suddenly startled to see the words "Not Qualified" written boldly there.

"Not qualified? One hundred sixty-six out of two hundred isn’t a pass?"

"Huh?" Bai Jin was also surprised, "What’s going on? I thought I should have scored more than this. Besides, given the difficulty of these questions, my score should have been enough to pass..."

Beside them, Shu Jing’s mother was quite astonished, "The Library’s passing score is one hundred eighty points. Didn’t you guys know that?"

points?

This was the first time Yang Yu had heard of it.

With such a large exam scope, he initially thought that casually scoring 120 points would be sufficient to gain access to the Library. Unexpectedly, it required a high score of 180.

Not only did one need to read so many books but also memorize all the key points to ensure an accuracy rate of over 90% in order to pass...

Generally, only two words could describe those who made it into the All Things Library.

"Top student."

Those were two words Yang Yu would never reach.

Forget it, if he failed, he failed; no point dwelling on it. If not through scholarship, then through martial prowess.

During this exam, Yang Yu had also scouted the strength of the Library, observing quite a few members with a Star Number of two or more, thus gaining a rough understanding of their capabilities.

Most two to three-star Library members were magicians with Intelligence between 700 to 1200, clearly exhibiting a brittle nature.

As long as he didn’t encounter a genius like Dian Wen or some old demons, he should still have a fighting chance.

Reignited with confidence and considering the Martial Arts Exam, Yang Yu prepared thoroughly to gather more intelligence. He turned his attention to Shu Jing sitting opposite him.

Shu Jing took out his transcript from the envelope, glanced at it briefly, then folded the transcript back into the envelope, clutching it tightly until it turned white.

He looked up at the modest ceiling, then at his parents who had always stood by his side, and a look of utter helplessness crossed his face. In a second, from desperation to despair, his tears started to embarrassingly brim and fall.

The result was self-evident.

Even before receiving the transcript, Shu Jing had a premonition about the outcome.

Due to excessive nervousness, his mind went blank when he received the exam paper, remaining dazed for nearly seven or eight minutes before he suddenly came to his senses and began to write.

There was one question he clearly remembered, yet during the exam, he simply couldn’t recall it, wasting quite a bit of time.

Thinking it over, Shu Jing calmed down gradually and skipped that question.

He had his family behind him.

It was his family that pressured him, but they were also his support. It was because of his family that he could sit in the exam hall and strive for his future.

As his thought process became clearer, Shu Jing answered more smoothly.

But fate seemed to have played a joke on him. When he was on the penultimate question, time was up, and no matter how he tried, he couldn’t write any more on the exam paper.

He had fantasized that the questions he had answered would suffice in score.

But reality was cruel.

Fill-in-the-blank fifty points, short answer forty-four, essay eighty-three, total score one hundred seventy-seven, just three points shy of passing.

Forget the last question; if he could have completed the penultimate one, he would have been admitted by the Library.

It was really just a little bit short.

But it was this little bit that seemed to negate all his efforts thus far, completely crushing all of Shu Jing’s fantasies.

With a "snap," the sound of Shu Jing’s sobbing was drowned out by a louder noise as Yang Yu slapped the envelope containing his own grades in front of Shu Jing.