Chapter 321: Major Events on the Planet, the Eastern Country's Directives!
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"Alright."
Yumiko Miura nodded and murmured a soft response, though she still felt entirely left in the dark about what had actually just transpired.
"Next!" Seito called out loudly.
Hearing the prompt, Miura turned around and walked away to rejoin her classmates.
Over the next hour, every single girl in Class A fell victim to the exact same treatment. However, because there were countless pairs of eyes watching the arena, they couldn't voice their complaints out loud; they could only turn around and glare viciously at Seito.
Fortunately for Seito, he had the ultimate privilege of being exceptionally handsome. If it were anyone else conducting the test like this, the girls would have likely cursed his ancestors out loud right then and there!
Unlike the girls, the boys of Class A were practically foaming at the mouth, staring at Seito with pure rage as if they wanted to tear him to pieces.
This was infuriating! What did he mean by "weak" and "spending too much time in the bathroom"? Damn it!! Their mental state had completely collapsed because of Seito's casual insults.
Seito, however, didn't care in the slightest. He simply continued running the defensive evaluations for the rest of the students.
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was noon.
Because there were only four test administrators across the massive field, the evaluation process moved quite slowly. After all, they had to grade every single student enrolled at Sobu High. The large-scale group combat tests would have to wait until the afternoon session.
Over in the VIP Pavilion...
Seito strolled over to the rest area where Haruno Yukinoshita and the others were gathered, with Amou walking right by his side. Before any of the girls could speak, Mayor Kiru shot a sharp, incredibly piercing glare straight at him.
"You brat... did you actually take these tests seriously?" Mayor Kiru asked, his voice dripping with heavy authority.
To be fair, Mayor Kiru was perfectly satisfied with the scores and feedback Seito had given to the male students. But the female students were a completely different story! Every single girl who happened to be exceptionally pretty or had a nice figure scored a seven out of ten or higher.
Combined with Seito's highly unorthodox, hands-on testing methods, Mayor Kiru heavily suspected that the kid was abusing his power for personal entertainment!
"Of course I took it seriously," Seito replied with a perfectly straight face.
Did this old man honestly believe he was handing out high scores based on looks and figures alone? Please! Could he really be that shallow?
When it came to these official evaluations, Seito hadn't shown a single shred of favoritism. After all, these tests were directly tied to the future safety of the students. As for why the attractive girls scored so high? Seito figured it was simply because those girls had an army of simp players backing them up in the God Domain, making their actual combat gear and levels much higher than the average student.
"Are you telling me the truth?" Mayor Kiru looked at him with deep suspicion.
"Of course it's the truth!" Seito replied calmly. He then checked his watch and added, "Alright, I promised to have lunch with the girls, so I'll be leaving now!"
With that, he waved toward Haruno and the rest of the group. Seeing his signal, the girls stood up in unison, and the large group left the pavilion to find a nice place to eat.
What they didn't realize was that two older men were watching their departure very closely from afar.
Seeing the massive flock of beautiful girls surrounding Seito, Asuna's father rested his chin in his hand, looking deeply thoughtful.
"It looks like our Asuna is going to face some incredibly fierce competition."
An extraordinary person would shine brilliantly no matter where they went. Asuna's father didn't doubt Seito's sheer capability for a single second. However, seeing so many top-tier beauties naturally gravitating toward the young man made him incredibly anxious.
Turning his head to look at Asuna, who was currently chatting with Kaguya Shinomiya, Asuna's father ordered, "Asuna, go run along and have lunch with Seito and the others."
"Kaguya, you get over there too!" Gan'an Shinomiya commanded right after, refusing to lose any ground to his rival.
The two girls exchanged a brief glance before standing up and quickly walking away. Compared to the sheer awkwardness of staying here, they wanted to get as far away from their seemingly unhinged fathers as humanly possible. It was simply too embarrassing!
Seeing the two of them leave, Ai Hayasaka quickly trotted after them. Standing around the terrifying patriarch for too long always made the little secretary incredibly nervous.
The three approaching girls immediately caught Seito's attention. He paused his steps, causing the rest of the harem to halt along with him as everyone turned to look at Kaguya's group.
"Teacher Seito, we would like to join you all for lunch," Asuna said, her face flushing a delicate pink as she took a quick glance back at her father.
Kaguya and Hayasaka remained silent, but their actions spoke louder than words as they stepped into the group line.
"Sure, the more the merrier," Seito said with a warm smile, readily welcoming them.
The expanded group quickly made their way into a quiet, scenic grove on campus, finding a comfortable spot to sit down together. Seito pulled out the bento boxes he had prepared that morning, distributing them to Amou, Kanade Tachibana, and the Yukinoshita sisters.
The lunch was quite simple but delicious—it was Kanade's absolute favorite: Mapo Tofu over rice.
Opening his own bento, Seito picked up his chopsticks and began to eat.
"How are the group combat tests going to work this afternoon?" Maple asked curiously, looking up at Seito mid-bite.
"It's pretty straightforward," Seito explained. "The entire school will be divided into Red and White factions based on their respective year groups. There's only one main objective for the match: Protect the King."
The rules of the game were incredibly easy to grasp. The entire Sobu High stadium grounds would serve as the active battlefield. Both the Red and White teams would elect a single student to act as their "King." The objective was to find a way to absolute coordinate their forces to protect their own leader while successfully assassinating the opposing team's King.
This format was highly effective for rapidly improving large-scale team coordination and battlefield tactical awareness.
Hearing the explanation, the girls nodded understandingly, and the group quickly devolved into a lively, cheerful chat.
While the girls talked, Seito pulled out his phone to browse the global news network.
With the recent exponential spike in monster manifestations across the Planet, every single military and law enforcement unit within the Eastern Country had officially transitioned into a supernatural management system. Despite the massive shift, the country successfully maintained its peaceful, prosperous lifestyle from the previous era.
However, the situation across the rest of the world was looking incredibly bleak.
Because foreign players lacked top-tier strength due to the Eastern Country 's long-standing dominance in-game, combined with the fact that various ambitious renegade players had fled abroad to stir up trouble, the West had fractured into countless warring factions and micro-states.
The civilian populations overseas were currently living in an absolute, fiery hell.
The situation was especially brutal for attractive individuals and their families, who frequently fell victim to roving bands of lawless players. Overseas, if a regular citizen didn't choose to align themselves with a powerful local faction, they were practically guaranteed a swift death.
Because of this global collapse, the Eastern Country was now viewed as the absolute safest haven on Earth. Countless millions of foreigners were desperately trying to flee to the country, pulling every string imaginable to secure a green card or official citizenship.
Faced with this unprecedented global migration crisis, Elder Yang and the central leadership fell into a deep silence.
Even before the dawn of the Supernatural Era, the Eastern Country 's green card was universally recognized as the single hardest document to obtain in the world. The government couldn't simply loosen its strict immigration policies just because the outside world was in chaos. As a result, the highest echelons of the state were holding emergency conferences every single day to debate how to handle the disintegrating global landscape.
Currently, three main strategic proposals sat on the central desk:
Total Unification: The Eastern Country deploys its supreme power to directly conquer and stabilize the entire planet under one flag.
Proxy Leadership: Hand-pick and support reliable, powerful foreign players, establishing them as regional leaders to quickly restore order in their respective territories.
Strict Non-Interference: Issue a direct mandate to all domestic players in the God Domain, explicitly forbidding them from targeting or hunting foreign players to allow the outside ecosystem room to breathe.
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