Chapter 270: The Rankings

After Coco finished sealing away the Memory Corridor, it was somehow decided that Noblesse Magic Academy would be the ones to take custody of it. Talk about a heavy responsibility for a school to shoulder.

Still, I suppose there’s no place safer. There’s always someone on campus, and the place is crawling with absolute monsters in terms of strength.

Duke hit me with a "Shouldn't you have just done that from the start?" which—okay, fair point. But look, there’s a proper order to these things! You can’t exactly run around begging people to save you before the burglar has even broken into your house. No one would take you seriously.

Besides, we needed to see exactly where we stood. We had to confirm our own strength.

In the end, Cecil never did tell me how she actually managed to take down Roz. But there’s no doubt in my mind that she broke through some kind of ceiling. Honestly, it was a little unnerving—when she finally showed up, she was drenched in sweat and shaking like a leaf.

Whatever she did, it was something that required a terrifying amount of focus, even for someone as skilled as her. I’m honestly looking forward to finding out what it was, even if it scares me a little.

Meeting Roz had actually brought back a few of my old, darker impulses. That primal urge to seek out the strong, to hunt them down, and to utterly crush them.

But the flighty students—the ones who were just riding the hype—had already withdrawn from the Academy. Only the true powerhouses remained now.

Eventually, the point totals were tallied up once again.

For the Intermediate-year Students, I was still sitting at the top of the heap. No surprises there.

Allen took second place.

The real shocker, however, was that the rankings from third place downward had been completely turned on their heads.

Third Place: Carta Wiore

Fourth Place: Duke Billian

Fifth Place: Cynthia Violetta

Sixth Place: Shari Elias

Seventh Place: Lilith Scarlet

Eighth Place: Tura Enizi

Ninth Place: Olin Pastel

Tenth Place: Cecil Antwerp