225 None of you are qualified! (1/2)

Chapter 225: None of you are qualified!

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“To sum it up, I believe we should form a ten-person team. Furthermore, I suggest letting Brother Tu Dahei be our team leader!” the bespectacled youth said.

Shi Xiaobai was slightly surprised.

The bespectacled youth was suggesting for him to be leader?

The other rookies turned to look at Shi Xiaobai and frowned for a moment. They finally understood the intent behind the bespectacled youth’s speech!

If Tu Dahei was the leader, it was equivalent to being in the same boat with Tu Dahei. If that was the case, Tu Dahei had the responsibility and obligation to protect them!

This was equivalent to clinging onto Tu Dahei’s leg!

“I think it’s reasonable!”

“Tu Dahei as leader, I’m fully in favor!”

“I’m willing to join the team led by Tu Dahei!”

“Leader Tu Dahei!”

“Leader!”

“…”

The rookies began to echo the bespectacled youth’s suggestion, and even began addressing Tu Dahei as leader loudly.

The bespectacled youth was extremely pleased. If they formed a team and clung onto Tu Dahei, they could then use the newly forged relations to ensure that Tu Dahei would help them complete future missions more easily.

A thirteen-year-old teenager would usually have some silly concept of heroism, even more so for a youth with eighth-grader syndrome who addresses himself as king. Sucking up to him would naturally make him develop a silly sense of responsibility.

The bespectacled youth clapped his hands and said, “Everyone, quiet down. Let our leader speak a few words!”

This sort of false leadership speeches would easily lead a person into thinking that he was truly in charge.

Everyone looked at Shi Xiaobai and waited for him to speak.

“This King refuses!” Shi Xiaobai said with a cold look, “This King refuses to form a team with all of you, and refuses to be your leader!”

The bespectacled youth’s eyebrows twitched before he immediately said with a laugh, “Brother Dahei, is there something you are not satisfied with?”

The other eight rookies frowned.

Shi Xiaobai looked at everyone and said solemnly, “Sorry, none of you are temporarily qualified to become This King’s subjects.”

With that said, Shi Xiaobai quietly walked towards a corner, leaving them staring at a cold back.

For Shi Xiaobai, the relationship between a leader and a team was equivalent to the relationship between a king and his subjects. As king, he had to be responsible for every subject! And the nine people on the waypoint were strangers to him. He would not establish a relationship of king and subjects with them easily!

This was because once this relationship was established, Shi Xiaobai would do many things that they would never expect. He was even willing to sacrifice his life as king.

And as strangers, they were temporarily unqualified to receive this!

However, Shi Xiaobai’s qualifying words and mental activity was not something the other nine rookies knew of. Hence, what Shi Xiaobai said sounded harsh to their ears.

“Heh heh, this fellow actually thinks of himself as a king?”

“Unqualified? What a joke. Letting you be the leader is just giving you face. Do you think we need it?”

“Fuck, does he truly think he’s that good? Your tricks have long been exposed by Fang Zhouzi. To think you think of yourself as some mighty figure.”

“Fuck it, I want to say that such a person is unqualified to be our teammate.”

“…”

The rookies on the waypoint began a cynical derision as a result of their rage.

The eyes of the bespectacled youth flashed coldly as he said, “Everyone, since he belittles us, why should we think highly of him? With the nine of us forming a team, we’ll let him see that we are equally as strong even without him!”

The bespectacled youth decisively gave up on Shi Xiaobai. There was a need to form a cooperative team, and using the common hatred that permeated the atmosphere was perfect.

Indeed, the few rookies did not have a second thought due to their wrath. They immediately went to the bespectacled youth’s side and soon, all nine were gathered together. There were a few who proposed for the bespectacled youth to be the leader. After pretending to refuse the role, the bespectacled youth eventually took up the leadership as the nine-person team. They began looking angrily and nefariously at Shi Xiaobai.

Shi Xiaobai did not speak, nor did he turn around. He only left them watching his silent back.

Suddenly, a resounding gong echoed throughout the sky!

Following that, a majestic and divine voice, from which it was impossible to distinguish its owner’s gender, reverberated through every corner of this tiny world.

“Welcome everyone to the first level of the Nine Revolutions Transcendental World—Nightmare Terror Island!”

Everyone pricked up their ears.

“The clearance requirement for Nightmare Terror Island—Killing a hundred Darkness Nightmare Terrors!”

“The Nightmare Terror Level Lord will arrive in five hours!”

“In a while, the final thirty seconds of protection will begin. When the countdown ends, the trial will officially begin!”