A heavy, suffocating silence hung over the grand hall. It wasn't the respectful quiet that everyone had spent hours preparing for; it was a tense, trembling buzz of pure disbelief.
Thousands of eyes from the seats were pinned directly toward the middle section — directly onto me. The giant glowing board still showed that impossible gold number, casting a sharp light across the faces of the crowd.
87,450 Exam Points.
"No way..."
A trembling voice broke the silence from the upper rows. "There's no fucking way! The highest entry score in the entire history of Astra Academy was forty thousand points! It was set by Lady Seris Lunaria herself last year! How did a failure from Celestial family double it?!"
"He must have cheated! It's mathematically impossible!" another noble student shouted, his face turning an ugly, frustrated red as he leaned.
