Reincarnated as a Mosquito, the School Beauty I Sucked to Tears is a Reborn Empress

Hong Kong Island University possesses an exclusive Secret Realm not open to the public—the Shadowland.

Across the entire Great Xia Federation, no more than thirty universities have their own exclusive Secret Realms. Among those, only ten currently possess Secret Realms of Intermediate level or higher.

Hong Kong University is one of them.

The Shadowland is an Intermediate Secret Realm with an incredibly vast space. For years, Hong Kong University has been developing this realm, making it a key source of teaching resources. The Secret Realm itself is also perfectly suited for student combat trials and training.

This year’s academy grand tournament will be held in the Shadowland.

In previous tournaments, the rules were relatively simple: the teams from each academy would compete to see who could hunt the most Demon Beasts.

This time, however, the rules have changed. The new format is called—Battle Royale.

Academies will no longer simply compete based on the number of beasts hunted. Instead, they must ”hunt” each other and seize the Inner Cores from the Demon Beasts their opponents have killed!

This change in the tournament rules clearly encourages, even forces, direct confrontation between the academies! This shift in the rules has increased the tournament’s difficulty by several-fold, at least.

This will lead to one outcome:

The final score gap between academies will be enormous. Some academies might even end up with a score of zero!

And that is the cruel reality of the new tournament rules!

In past years, even when the Beast Taming Academy came in last, they were never too far behind the second-to-last team, allowing them to save a bit of face.

But this year, with the stark difference in raw strength, the Beast Taming Academy will likely end up with nothing at all!

Now, the Beast Taming Academy has truly been pushed to the brink.

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「Simulation Ecological Zone.」

After briefly explaining the rules of the academy grand tournament, Shepherd Mountain sighed and said earnestly,

”Lord Divine Lang, I know I shouldn’t be disturbing your Cultivation, but I’ve been left with no other choice.”

”The Beast Taming Academy has finished last for years. It’s humiliating, but that’s nothing. This old face of mine has already lost all dignity.”

”But this year is different. To be honest, in yesterday’s meeting, the deans of the other academies joined forces and passed a resolution. If the Beast Taming Academy comes in last again, we will be forced to give up our current campus and be demoted to an external branch!”

”Once demoted, the Beast Taming Academy will no longer be one of Hong Kong University’s seven great academies; it will become a mere affiliated college. As the dean of the Beast Taming Academy, I can’t—I can’t bear to let the academy be ruined in my hands!”

”So please, Lord Divine Lang, I’m begging you. Help the Beast Taming Academy just this once!”

”The Beast Taming Academy’s last hope... rests entirely on you.”

By the end of his speech, Shepherd Mountain’s voice was laced with bitterness, and tears were welling in his eyes.

Chu Sheng glanced at Shepherd Mountain... ’Seriously? An old man like him, what’s he crying for?’

’The Beast Taming Academy is going to be demoted and kicked off the main campus?’

’Doesn’t that mean the Simulation Ecological Zone will be gone too? They’re trying to destroy my blood-bag paradise!’

’Hmmm, looks like I really will have to step in for this tournament thing after all.’

’Wait a second...’

’A tournament of this scale must have a lot of rewards, right? As long as the rewards are good enough, even if Shepherd Mountain hadn’t asked, I would’ve had to find a way to sneak in and participate!’

’This old geezer has been talking for ages and hasn’t even gotten to the important part!’

Chu Sheng looked at Shepherd Mountain and rubbed his cockroach-like hands together.

”HISS HISS (Get it?)”

Shepherd Mountain froze. He didn’t understand what Chu Sheng was saying. It was only after seeing Chu Sheng’s gesture that he finally understood.

”You mean...”

”Oh, oh! For this year’s academy tournament, each academy will contribute twenty top-tier items as prizes to a common prize pool.

With seven academies, that’s a total of 140 prizes.”

”And all 140 of those prizes will go to the first-place academy! The other six academies get nothing!”

”In other words, each of the 20 contestants from the first-place academy will receive 7 prizes.”

After a short pause, Shepherd Mountain continued,