Chapter 596

After hearing the warning from the Twin Fish Director about “not drawing nonsense,” Armin glanced at Leon’s still blank test paper on the table, couldn’t help but shake his head slightly, then sat up straight again, staring at the towering ancient tree behind the Twin Fish Director.

Twisted, knotted, rotten, and filthy.

Rather than flowers, fruits, branches, and leaves, it was more like the murky leaves made of tiny fragments of animal and plant corpses, strung together by glass-like slender transparent rods, stretching out from the dark yellow and stout double helix tree trunk, swaying faintly with a sense of calm decadence.

Below the monstrous giant tree was a pristine white soil where a pair of eyeballs and ten fingers were buried. Above it, in place of the sun, was a gigantic harp leaning against the deep night sky, composed of seven bright stars and two patches of nebulae.

And a figure of a slim, faceless, eyeless girl whose form flickered slightly, stretched out her bald hand like a blob of flesh, lightly placing it on the seven-stringed harp, playing hollow notes that no one could hear…

This thing is not easy to draw at all.

Staring at the huge tree behind the Twin Fish Director for quite some time, still unsure how to continue sketching, Big Sister Stool contemplated for a moment before adding seventeen or eighteen thin branch lines to the originally stubby tree.

Then, she drew a pair of circles under the tree with ink dots in the middle as eyes, followed by ten small cylinders representing fingers. She then picked up her pen and sketched a “ji” character with seven vertical lines in the center at the top of the exam paper as the harp, paired with a female matchstick figure without a face but clearly having breasts and hips…

Hmm… Although it still didn’t look very similar, the essence was captured.

Looking at the abstract “answer” filled with full abstraction on her exam paper, Armin couldn’t help but nod satisfactorily, then put down the pen in her hand and began waiting for the Twin Fish Director to “collect the papers.”

However, just at that moment, a melodious hymn suddenly rang out from three rows away.

As if thousands of light feather pillows had been torn apart simultaneously in the sunlight, countless glowing white feathers sprayed into the air from an examiner’s test paper, accompanied by the high-pitched clear soprano singing, fluttering and falling everywhere like snowflakes.

Caught off guard, the other examiners who got touched by the falling feathers relaxed their brows and eyes, their anxious expressions instantly turning calm and peaceful, revealing devout looks of yearning on their faces.

The rest, however, involuntarily trembled all over, then, as if scalded by red-hot irons, their skins burned black scars where the feathers touched, squeezing out uncontrollable cries of pain from their throats.

That person… Is she the Purifier Maiden from the Scorpio Division?

Glancing at the back view of the one who remained unmoved by everything and continued painting attentively, Armin didn’t dodge the feathers that had already floated above her head; instead, out of curiosity, she reached out and actively caught one.

“Zzzz…”

With a sound akin to sizzling hot oil meeting water, Armin’s palm instantly turned pitch black, scorched with a feather-shaped black scar.

But at the same time, as if stimulated by something, the abstract monster tree on Armin’s test paper wriggled twice, its spiral roots actually pulling out from the soil, transforming into viscous yellowish streams, violently sweeping toward the surroundings.

Right after that, almost simultaneously, on the other side of the examination room, a cold gray mist exploded, with a large amount of thin and sharp translucent air currents flying around with intimidating momentum, cutting the examiners within the mist range all over their bodies.

“Shit! What the hell is this?”

“Weren’t we supposed to be taking a drawing test? What are they doing?”

“Twin Fish Sir! Someone’s cheating! Wake up quick!”

Finally, someone finished.

“Don’t panic, this is all normal. No one is deliberately attacking. It’s just that the better ones among you, with my assistance, have manifested your own talents.

Also, you don’t need to worry about anything happening to yourselves. Your physical bodies aren’t here in the examination room; only your wills are present. Under my protection, even if you get shredded and crushed by their abilities, you can still immediately recover.”

We won’t die?

Hearing the explanation from the Twin Fish Director and seeing the tables and test papers that remained untouched without a single scratch despite being cut by the sharp air currents, the hearts of the examiners, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled back into their stomachs, then…

Jumped straight back up to their throats! “Ah!!”

After the Twin Fish Director’s explanation ended, the intensity of the white feathers, turbid flows, and gray mists instantly increased another level, triggering a series of screams.

The examiners within the coverage of others’ “abilities” were either burned black all over, cut until blood streamed, sprouted extra limbs, or suffered from head-to-toe rot…

The worst cases exhibited multiple symptoms simultaneously, cycling through one “symptom” after another, regrowing under the enhancement of the grand dream only to endure a new round of torment.

After personally witnessing several unfortunate individuals go through the cycle of life and death repeatedly, most of the examiners present shuddered collectively, fear flashing in their eyes.

No mistakes inside 69 Book Bar!

Dying might be impossible, but there was no mention of not feeling pain! And the faster the healing, the worse the pain!”Wait! Wait a minute! Ah!!!”

“No! This isn’t fair!”

“Stop! Stop now! I’m not taking the exam anymore! I quit!”

“Quitting is definitely not an option. Since you entered this examination room, you can only leave when the evaluation is completely over.”

Lifting his hand slightly, he pressed down all those who wanted to escape the range of others’ “abilities,” forcibly returning them to their original seats. Looking at the group of screaming examiners, the Twin Fish Director couldn’t help but shake his head and say, “It’s getting worse every year… The mental stability of your group isn’t bad, but your brains and stress resistance are the worst batch I’ve ever handled.

If you observed more carefully, you wouldn’t find it hard to discover that in the exam I arranged, only ‘ability’ can counteract ‘ability.’ Even if your own ‘ability’ is insufficient, using a little brainpower would easily protect you from harm caused by others’ ‘abilities’…

Sigh, well… I’ll just tell you directly!”

After sighing disappointedly, the Twin Fish Director closed his eyes again, his face full of disappointment as he announced the correct way to pass the first exam.

“Those who want to continue the evaluation should quickly pick up their pens and finish their test papers, allowing their own abilities to manifest.

Under the refinement of others’ ‘abilities,’ your ‘abilities’ can be polished better. If you surpass yourself, you might even achieve victory with inferior strength. As for those whose own abilities are truly inadequate and can’t withstand the invasion of others’ abilities even after drawing everything out…

Can’t fight? Don’t know how to hide? Why not crawl under the table?”

(The chapter ends here)