Chapter 573 (1/2)
Chapter 573: Targeted
Translator: Thyaeria Editor: Thyaeria
The hundreds of Academy Plaques placed before his eyes truly possessed a slight shock factor. Even with Mu Chen’s character, the scene before his eyes caused him to slightly gawk.
Mu Chen stared at the Academy Plaques. If he was able to obtain all of those points, his group should have enough points to catapult themselves into the Top 8 …
Beside him, the eyes of Xu Huang and the others turned scorching hot, similarly showing their shock due to the presence of so many Academy Plaques.
Standing by his side, Luo Li didn’t say a word, while Wen Qingxuan crossed her jade-like hands before her chest as she cast her beautiful eyes towards Mu Chen.
Behind Lin Zhou’s back, the dozens of groups were also staring at Mu Chen, complicated feelings filled their eyes. However, they did not make any noise in the end. That’s because they knew that if not for Mu Chen appearing here today, they would be hard-pressed to escape the calamity they were in earlier.
According to the rules, Mu Chen would absolutely obtain the majority of the spoils of war. As for them, being able to obtain the bits that trickle down would in fact be an exceedingly good deal by itself.
Hu.
Under the glare of everyone present, Mu Chen continued staring at the Academy Plaques as he deeply pondered for a bit. Finally, a smile appeared on his handsome face. This smile was entirely different from the dark and sinister one that Lu Tian wore earlier, being able to cause warmth to appear in the hearts of people.
It had to be said that the smiling Mu Chen possessed quite some charm, shown by the gradually relaxed expressions on the faces of the groups behind Lin Zhou.
“Captain Lin Zhou, you’ve truly given me a hard problem to solve,” said Mu Chen as he looked towards Lin Zhou.
Hearing that, the latter gawked, before scratching his head and replying, “You don’t need to worry about it. In fact, matters like weak groups being eliminated by powerful groups are too much of a common thing in the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament. There’s no one that would say anything about it.”
“Of the points here, I’ll take a one portion, with Wen Qingxuan and her group taking another. As for the last portion, you can distribute it among everyone here. After all, these points are your spoils of war,” replied Mu Chen within a smile.
Hearing Mu Chen’s reply, Lin Zhou and the rest immediately gawked while blankly staring at Mu Chen as they felt slightly inconceivable towards the former’s decision. After all, they had collaborated with some powerful groups before. However, those so-called “collaborations” were in fact those powerful groups wanting to utilise them as cannon fodder or meat shields. Furthermore, when it came to the distribution of points, the powerful teams would seemly seize half or more of them. Only the rest would be distributed to the groups that were in collaboration with them.
Therefore, when Mu Chen had only taken a taken portion, all of them seemed to be slightly unable to believe what they just heard.
“Don’t look at me like that. I’ve not gotten to the stage where points don’t matter. On the contrary, I rather love snatching points from them as opposite to those weaker ones.” replied Mu Chen with a faint smile as he pointed towards the Lu Tian who was buried in the sand.
Exchanging glances with each other, a slightly unconcealable look of gratitude emerged from the eyes of Lin Zhou and the others after deeply pondering for quite a while. Their groups weren’t strong or weak, causing them to feel extremely awkward in the current situation of the Great Spiritual Academy Tournament. Generally speaking, upon reaching such a stage, they would seemingly become point banks in the eyes of those powerful groups. Such a status could be considered as low and pitiful. Therefore, Mu Chen giving them such an extremely large choice was a first for them.
That’s because all of them knew what Mu Chen was giving them wasn’t just a choice, but respect, too.
“Thank you, Captain Mu Chen.” the groups standing behind Lin Zhou cupped their hands towards Mu Chen as they said their thanks in deep voices.
The dozens of group captains cupped their hands towards Mu Chen while saying their thanks, with gratitude present within their eyes. During this period of time, their emotions were truthfully not quite good. Could anyone’s honor not be hurt by being exploited by powerful groups one after another before having their points snatched away from them?
Mu Chen was somewhat stunned and amazed by their responses. Giving an awkward laugh, he turned his gaze towards Wen Qingxuan before saying, “Take two portions of the points. I’ve said before that I’ll try my best to let you regain your Numero Uno place again.”
Panning her head to shoot a look at Mu Chen, Wen Qingxuan raised her red lips before replying in a low voice, “I never knew that Captain Mu Chen also knows quite a good move to buy the hearts of people.”
Unable to tell whether Wen Qingxuan had any intent of ridiculing him with her reply, Mu Chen wrinkled his forehead as he said, “That’s not my intention. I purely dislike doing something like that.”
“Okay, okay. I never said that you were like that.”
Wen Qingxuan replied with a faint smile, with her voice unexpectedly turning somewhat gentle. Looking deeply at Mu Chen with her beautiful eyes, she said, “If you had truly devoured all of those points, I would have become slightly disappointed in you, although this truly is no concern of whether it’s right or wrong. I know that power is the say in this place, and that there’s no one that’s able to criticise or find fault with what you do. Nevertheless, if you’re unable to even resist such a temptation, I’d truly be unable to believe that you’d be able to walk far in the path ahead of you.”
Shooting a look at Luo Li, she said in a profound manner, “If you’re unable to walk that far, don’t destroy such a lustrous girl as her.”
“Everyone has their own interpretations of the truth. However, it seems as if you’re praising me,” replied Mu Chen as he rubbed his nose. Truthfully speaking, his thoughts were extremely simple, as he did not want to use such a way to obtain points. That’s because he knew that this wasn’t the original intent of the creation of this Great Spiritual Academy Tournament. The groups that relied on the weak groups to obtain a large quantity of points would not be able to truly stand at the peak at the end.
“Your skin’s quite thick, huh,” said Wen Qingxuan as she rolled her eyes towards Mu Chen. The gentleness that was present within her voice was instantly gone, and she regained her arrogant, phoenix-like appearance once again.
As she spoke those words, Wen Qingxuan waved her jade-like hand, before taking out two portions of the points present on the Academy Plaques. As the thick brilliance rose up, the points on her Academy Plaque drastically rose by 20,000 points, inching closer towards the Numero Uno, Ji Xuan.