The Editor Is An Extra-Chapter 117: Results of the egg challenge phase
Time passed like an unseen variable, and before I knew it, we were already at the seventeenth hour since the egg challenge phase began. To my disappointment, I hadn’t managed to find Fabian in the mushroom grotto. What I did see though, was the corpse of a slimy, headless, and tailless beast whose species I couldn’t recognize.
The place it’s head was supposed to be, had slight frays of decay, which I reckon was Fabian’s work. And judging from how the corpse had been at that time, I had missed him by the minutes.
So, I abandoned my not so logical mission of finding Fabian just to annoy him, and focused more on hoarding more eggs. During the past nine hours, I had eliminated quite a lot of students, be it with my main body, or through my reflections.
Yep, a whole bunch of students were probably angry at my ass now. I wasn’t bothered though, it wasn’t like I cared what they thought.
The last hour was particularly boring to say the least, but since I managed to survive the last nine, what was one. As soon as the last second ticked by, I suddenly felt myself being transported even before the signature flash of light.
Though I was still forced to close my eyes when the bright light came.
"This marks the end of the egg challenge phase of the culling games." I heard instructor Summers’ voice before I even opened my eyes. When I eventually did, I found myself in the midst of my fellow students.
Instructor Summers floated above us, making us have to crane out necks to see her. For some reason unknown to me though, it seemed like the stunning instructor was glaring at me.
"All students are required to place the eggs they’ve acquired in barrels below." Her voice reverberated through the stadium as she waved her hand, and tens of barrels appeared before each student, including myself.
Each barrel was as large as human, so there wouldn’t be any problem putting the eggs inside, So each student got ready to do so.
At the same moment, the many frames floating above fused into one and began displaying a scoreboard with the names of all the students about to deposit their eggs, but there were no scores next to the names yet.
Suddenly, a name appeared on the first ranking spot, with the number 2 next to it.
#1. Reese Zolomon – 2
I knew from the novel that the scores and rand placement of the names of each students, would change in respect to the number of eggs they deposited into the barrel.
This Reese guy was simply the first guy to do so, hence the reason why his name appeared on the first place.
As soon as it did however, It suddenly went down a rank as another name took the top rank. This continued for the next ten seconds, students depositing eggs into the barrel, and their score and names going up the rankings, before being ruthlessly pushed down, and vice versa.
Watching the scene for a little while longer, I turned my focus onto the barrel in front of me. Two eggs materialized before me, which I promptly dropped into the barrel. After that, I began a monotonous regime of doing just that, as slowly as I could.
For the next ten minutes or so, I kept doing just that. By this time,a lot of students had already ran out of eggs, and their names got stuck in one place on the rankings, or even moved a few ranks down when someone else that was below them went up a rank.
What was funny was that some students didn’t even move from their spot since most of them didn’t manage to acquire a single egg by the end of the challenge.
Besides this, some simply lost their eggs to other students before the end of the challenge. Their animosity was currently fueled as they glared in the direction of the some of the students who were in the process of depositing the eggs, including myself. One reference being porcupine girl, who was glaring at me like there wasn’t tomorrow. Apart from that, the number of students who seemed to be glaring at me in animosity was seemingly higher than others.
-"That bastard!"
-"He robbed you too?"
-"I’m also a victim as well and I only acquired two eggs,"
-"I’ll make sure he pays in the next challenge,"
"Damn, can’t a guy catch a break?" I muttered under my breath as I tuned the extras out. They couldn’t do shit, that much I was sure of.
What I found surprising however, was that guy with the barrier ability. He kept depositing egg after egg.
As most students began slowing down in the number of eggs they were bringing out, the big wig ones, namely; Alistair, Rose and Fabian, began bringing out their eggs with much faster speed than before.
It almost seemed as if the students suspected of having the most amounts of eggs decided to stop playing around. I glanced at Alistair with a small smile tugging at my lips, and when he noticed my gaze, he looked back at me without any expression on his face whatsoever.
’Hoho, is that animosity I sense?’ I inwardly chuckled. The white haired bitch by his side didn’t hesitate to reveal her hatred for me however. If looks could kill, I’d be dead a thousand times over with the glare she was sending my way.
I smirked provocatively, before turning back to my barrel, and began churning out as much eggs as I could as fast as possible.
"Hmph, I may have lost this one, but I won’t, on the next challenge." Fabian scoffed as he placed the last egg from his storage into the barrel.
’Right, the classic Main character rival’s speech.’ I scoffed.
After his speech, Fabian raised his head to stare at the scoreboard, making his eyes widen slightly at the result. The current results read;
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#1. Sasha Dursely - 49 Eggs.
#2. Rose Darkfell - 47 Eggs.
#3. Fabian Ashton - 42 Eggs.
#4. Aric Tinubu - 40 Eggs.
#5. Levi Stormbreaker - 39 Eggs.
#6. Damon Darkfell - 36 Eggs.
#7. Alistair Von Drake - 34 Eggs.
#8. Ceres Hunt - 30 Eggs.
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Ths scoreboard was still counting since the students were still inputting their eggs, so Fabian’s name was quickly pushed down.
He probably couldn’t fathom how this was possible especially since he had dropped every egg in his position into the barrel already.
’Well, wait until you see this.’ I thought cynically, before I continued to pour in my eggs.
After a few more seconds, all students had stopped, and the rankings on the scoreboard had undergone change once more.
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#1. Alistair Von Drake - 71 Eggs.
#2. Rose Darkfell - 68 Eggs.
#3. Damon Darkfell - 58 Eggs.
#4. Aric Tinubu - 55 Eggs.
#5. Sasha Dursely - 52 Eggs.
#6. Levi Stormbreaker - 45 Eggs.
#7. Fabian Ashton - 42 Eggs.
#8. Marcel Jean - 35 Eggs.
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-"Alistair won..."
-"As expected."
-"Rose came very close though. If she had three more eggs, it would be a draw,"
-"The statistics are unbelievable, how did this happen?"
-"I did not even expect to see the unruly prince in top three... Who knew he gathered this much,"
Chatter! Chatter! Chatter!
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"What..." I stared at the scoreboard dumbfounded. How the hell did Alistair manage to get to the top spot. I had made sure to take his place in that desert, and acquired the eggs he was supposed to get.
Is it fate still trying to correct things and put him back in first place? Knowing him, he could have found another treasure hotspot after that, one that was never mentioned in the novel, and acquired a shit ton of aether there.
Well, whatever it is, be it fate, it his protagonist halo, he wasn’t getting first place this time around.
I didn’t bring the eggs out manually any more. I simply turned my storage ring towards the barrel, and as if a flood gate had been opened, a flood of eggs began appearing and falling into the barrel.
The entire place turned noisier at what I was doing, and the fact that my name rose through the ranks.
-"What? He had more?"
-"How in the world does he have more?"
-"This is unbelievable,"
-"Why did he stand there all this time if he still had more?"
Soon, the last egg I had, dropped into the bottomless space contained in the barrel. After that, I raised my head to see the new rankings.
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#1. Damon Darkfell - 103 Eggs.
#2. Alistair Von Drake - 71 Eggs.
#3. Rose Darkfell - 68 Eggs.
#4. Aric Tinubu - 55 Eggs.
#5. Sasha Dursely - 52 Eggs.
#6. Levi Stormbreaker - 45 Eggs.
#7. Fabian Ashton - 42 Eggs.
#8. Marcel Jean - 35 Eggs.
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"...."
Staring at the speechless spectators, I smirked.
"Now this is the best way to end a Chapter." I chuckled.
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