Chapter 599

Exemption?! After reading the notification from [Materialist], Leon couldn’t help but slightly start, then instinctively raised his head abruptly to look at the Twin Fish Director sitting on the lectern.

The basic effect of the [Materialist] badge is that the more you “understand” abnormalities, the more resistant you become to corresponding anomalies. And the “Anomaly Observation” secret art of the House of Pisces can directly help you obtain a massive amount of intel.

If I learn the Pisces secret arts and gain this unparalleled analytical ability, then wouldn’t it mean…

“Leon?”

Looking at Leon who had silently stood beside her after wiping out the centipede monster queen and hadn’t moved for a long time, Armin couldn’t help but gently push him, asking worriedly:

“Are you okay?”

“…”

“Leon?”

“Oh! Oh!”

With great effort, Leon tore his gaze away from the closed-eyed Twin Fish Director and apologized with a smile:

“Sorry, I was spacing out… Senior Armin, thank you for helping me earlier.”

“You’re welcome, and actually, I didn’t do much. Mainly, you were just awesome.”

Glancing at the bull-horned man who had been completely incapacitated by her talent inside and out and now lay beneath the table, Armin looked at Leon, whose physical contact with others’ talents left him unaffected, and couldn’t help but say expectantly:

“Leon, would you like to continue working with me and finish this exam early?”

Finish the exam early?

After hearing Big Sister Stool’s words, all the cleaners around involuntarily changed expressions.

As for what that “cooperation” exactly referred to, the horned man from Taurus Division had already suffered the same fate, and these two psychos from Virgo Subdivision were probably preparing to replicate their previous actions, one by one wiping everyone out!

“Twin Fish Sir!”

Realizing what Leon and Armin were about to do, a cleaner immediately shouted: “This is an exam aimed at individual combat! Their collaboration should be considered a violation!”

“Yeah! They shouldn’t be allowed to act recklessly like this!”

“That guy hasn’t even manifested his talent yet; if he makes it to the end like this, it’s too unfair!”

“Quiet!”

Hearing the protests from the cleaners below, the Twin Fish Director opened one eye again and calmly said:

“The current rules of this exam do not prohibit collaboration. If your willpower can hold up, you can also follow their method.”

“But we can’t cooperate like them if our talents interfere when we get close!”

“That’s none of my concern.”

After appreciatively glancing at the duo who had just been filled with crap, the Twin Fish Director, with one eye open and one closed, indifferently said: “What I can confirm now is that they haven’t violated any rules. Don’t think I’m favoring anyone; when that little bull tried to mess around earlier, I didn’t stop him either. As long as you don’t break the rules I’ve set, you’re free to do whatever you want.”

“…”

Seeing that the Twin Fish Director had given them the “free action” permit, most of the cleaners couldn’t hold back when Armin called Leon into action and started to wipe out other candidates one by one.

“It’s not bros… must you go so far?”

Being pulled out from under the table by Leon and having his “ability” grabbed to prevent escape, the male cleaner with a fox tail on his butt couldn’t help but complain with a woe-stricken face:

“I’ve already quit the exam outright and crawled under the table myself. Why are you still dragging me up to force-feed me?”

“This… sorry…”

Glancing at the header of the fox man’s test paper and seeing the mark belonging to Libra Division, Leon awkwardly explained: “Mainly because you’re worth five gold… uh… I mean, your abilities and talents are very outstanding. Our Virgo Subdivision wants to take first place this time, so we have to suppress others’ scores as much as possible.”

“…”

“Sorry.”

Where exactly are you sorry? You seem perfectly fine to me! After the fox man collapsed in indignation, Leon, who had already wiped out nearly three hundred candidates, wiped his sweat and anxiously glanced at Big Sister Stool who looked pale beside him.

“Senior Armin? Are you okay?”

If you ask about the condition, it’s definitely not good…

After hearing Leon’s concerned inquiry, Big Sister Stool couldn’t help but smile and nodded forcefully.

“Still okay, keep going!”

Although the strength and talents of these cleaners who came for the evaluation were only average, even if they were mediocre, after colliding with three hundred people’s “talents,” her willpower was starting to feel the strain.

But even though her willpower was nearing its limit, there were still other things she could use as “fuel” to keep going. If she could see Leon knock everyone out and secure first place for Virgo Subdivision, it would be worth recuperating for a month afterward!”Alright…”

Through Senior Armin’s eyes, feeling her determination, Leon stopped asking further questions and followed the exhausted Big Sister Stool, continuing his “irrigation” journey.

Soon, amidst a series of curses and scolding, almost all the candidates in the examination room had dived under the tables. Only two figures, one black and one white, remained seated in their original spots.

“Alright, looks like I can only help you here.”

Glancing at those two silhouettes, after over four hundred clashes of talents, Armin, whose willpower was utterly drained, lay down on three chairs arranged side by side under Leon’s support and promised with a smile:

“Come on! If you win first place this time, I’ll give you ten bottles of the reagents I’ve been treasuring once we return to the bureau!”

“…”

Thanks for the encouragement, but forget the reagents…

In Leon’s strange expression, Armin, who was already utterly exhausted, peacefully lay down, securing fourth place. Seeing that all other cleaners had withdrawn, leaving only the top three, the Twin Fish Director sitting cross-legged on the podium opened his eyes and slightly swayed his bent body.

“Hum!”

With a strange hum, the spacious examination room suddenly shrank, and all the fallen cleaners were ejected. The originally huge examination room now only had the front row of seats remaining.

The “Angel” with six wings on his back sat on the left, the “Death God” hidden in the gray mist on the right, and the battered Leon in the middle. The three sat shoulder to shoulder, extremely close together. Leon’s left leg was even touching the soft feathers of the “Angel’s” wing.

(End of Chapter)