Chapter 249 – Honorary Champions (1/2)

Although, it didn’t go so well.

Starting off highly anticipated with fierce struggles, and turning into premeditated traps and conspiracies, and the sudden appearance of the monsters scared everyone.

Who would’ve thought that in the center of the island, in the ancient remains filled with silver leaf fruits, was actually secretly turned into a secret base that was producing monsters by the Holy Light Church?

Just remembering that days chaos made people go pale.

Lesser Devils, a terrifying monster that has never appeared within the public eye. An assembled body, mighty strength, and a distorted appearance, it was a lingering nightmare.

The only good news was that all those monsters died and no students died. Only a few unlucky ones were injured but they were saved by Saintess Snow.

But… what was the truth?

Even though the competition was over, everyone remained at the lakeside. Some were waiting for treatment, but more people were looking for an explanation!

Something this big happened while Heino Kingdom served as the host for the Academy Tormentor. Each participating student was treasures of their respective kingdoms, future talents, and they almost lost their lives. If Heino Kingdom didn’t provide a reasonable explanation, not only would it be a hard sell to the public, it can lead to further conflict.

Whether it was a conspiracy or by chance, as the head judge, Jennifer wouldn’t be able to escape involvement.

Of course she wasn’t a traitor, just a arrogant snob. She had no reason to collude with Anderson.

After investigation, Heino Kingdom gave an official investigation and tossed it to the Holy Light Church.

The investigation found that Selina took bribes for many years, deceived local officials, and secretly conducted human experimentation to create monsters, their goal was to finish off all the outstanding students on the last day of the academy tournament to incite conflict between the Four Kingdoms and to take that chance to develop the church’s influence.

There was overwhelming evidence and it made sense, so after everyone found out, they no longer dwelled on Heino Kingdom’s responsibility and rather pointed their fingers at the Holy Light Church.

Snow had anticipated it.

It was an inevitable conclusion, after all, they were in the wrong so it was natural to be accused. What Snow had to do was to try to set the record straight and salvage their reputation.

The explanation she gave as representative of the Holy Light Church was that Anderson had long been dissident, and he was secretly gathering a private force, in which Selina was his ally. He also studied black magic, and carried out taboo human experimentation.

Other than the existence of the Venus Society, Snow confessed everything.

Looking at the events that led up to this, in the end, the only people at fault were Anderson and Selina, and those foolish brainwashed believers. As the Saintess, she did her best to undo the damage.

Even if there were still people that tried to blame the church and wanted to use this to lower their public opinion. Thanks to Snow’s efforts, her kind and pure image helped the Church regain a lot of points. And with the passing of time, this event slowly faded away and simply became a talking point for people after meals.

And thus, the incident was suppressed and there was just one thing remaining, the selection of the champion.

Originally, Loran Academy finished off Water Academy, Cato Academy and Heino Academy, and was the first to find the hidden silver vault, they were guaranteed to win, but ended up being messed up by Anderson.

And who would have thought that a third-rate academy with no real battle experience risked the dangers of being killed by the Lesser Devils to plunder Loran Academy’s points?

And who would’ve known that the two goofy siblings, Lin Tian and Yao Zi would be the ones to face the Lesser Devils and save Caesar and Rosie?

They were many stronger than these siblings, but none luckier than them.

In the end, the one with the highest points wasn’t the calculating Heino Academy, or the strong and powerful Loran Academy, but the luckiest Bamboo Academy.

Fate is just so hard to figure out.

But no matter what, a final champion had to be selected. And the champion had to be selected based on the points, that was a long established rule.

So regardless of how weak Bamboo Academy were, and how they took advantage of somebody’s precarious position, it was an undeniable fact that they ended up getting the most points.

So Bamboo Academy was the champion.

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The awards ceremony was held a few weeks after.