Chapter 239: Chapter 200: Five Great Thrones, Golden Throne; Positioning, Eliminating 4/5 of the Students

To challenge a student in a Wooden Seat required one Five-star Divine Domain Card. To challenge a student in a Black Iron Seat required two. For a Bronze Throne, it was three. Following this pattern, challenging a student on a Golden Throne required five Five-star Divine Domain Cards!

Furthermore, students without a seat could only challenge those in the Wooden Seats, and even students who already had a seat could not skip tiers to obtain a higher-grade one. The only exception was on the first day. Before anyone had chosen a throne, if multiple people competed for the same one, they could bypass this prerequisite by paying the corresponding number of Five-star Divine Domain Cards to issue a direct challenge!

One could challenge a maximum of three times a day. Zhang Yi made a rough calculation. If he didn’t manage to grab a seat on the first day, then starting from the second day, even with formidable strength, he would have to challenge his way up one tier at a time. All the way to a Golden Throne, this would require a total of fifteen Five-star Divine Domain Cards!

This wasn’t just a test of the Clan’s strength within the Divine Realm; it was an even greater test of the financial power of the Lords of the Divine Realm! This was why Instructor Li Qiongtian had previously hinted that Zhang Yi should buy some Five-star Divine Domain Cards with a high Star Level, but not necessarily high quality.

So they were to be used as challenge fees.

However, the rules were not without their loopholes. Zhang Yi had already thought of one that would suit an exceptionally powerful student.

For example, what if he used his strength to snatch a Golden Throne at the start of the assessment? After defending it, he could deliberately concede, giving the Golden Throne to Hong Tianyi. Then, Zhang Yi could spend more Divine Domain Cards to challenge his way up from the Wooden Seats, all the way back to a Golden Throne.

Wouldn’t that be equivalent to me single-handedly monopolizing two Golden Thrones?

But on second thought, Zhang Yi dismissed the idea that this was a loophole.

After all, being able to snatch a Golden Throne in the first place is a display of strength in itself. And if I were to give up the seat, and the student who took my place could then defend that Golden Throne, that would indirectly prove our strengths aren’t that far apart. They would also be a student qualified to fight their way up from the bottom! So in that sense, they just failed to get a Golden Throne at the start, but their strength is more than enough to hold one. With seven days and four rounds, even if they only challenged one tier per day, they could still make it to the top!

Having sorted it all out in his mind, Zhang Yi no longer felt any hesitation. Now, all he had to do was follow the rules and quietly wait for the right moment when Chief Instructor Yang would lift the restrictions, allowing them to use their Divine Power to fight for the seats.

The Starry Hall where Zhang Yi and the others were was, in fact, a weak point in reality within the Yanhuang Federation First War Fortress—a place connecting Subspace to the real world. Here, as long as Chief Instructor Yang lifted the War Fortress’s restrictions, they could start competing for the thrones. They would use the methods of wielding Divine Power they had learned during the provincial exams and in their sparring sessions with the instructors.

Because Zhang Yi was a relatively fast reader, many other students were still reviewing the information on their personal terminals when he finished. This gave him some spare time to observe his surroundings.

Hong Tianyi was to his left, positioned slightly ahead of him. Huang Yingtian and Wan Hua were on his right, huddled together. Also within his line of sight were students from Golden City Sixth Middle School and Golden City Eighth Middle School—the ones who had previously passed him information. They, too, were from the Donghuang Province training camp division and represented top high schools in Golden City.

After a month, even though they had yet to formally interact, Zhang Yi had a basic understanding of the background of Lu Mei—the red-haired girl known as the Fire Witch, who was even stronger than Wan Hua.

Zhang Yi pulled his gaze away from his surroundings and refocused on his own situation. He and the others had been brought in by their instructor neither too early nor too late, placing them right in the middle of the crowd. From this distance, given his strength, it shouldn’t be difficult to secure a seat quickly. However, snatching a good throne would be much harder and would come down to luck.

Still, it’s not like I have no chance at all!

The message sent to each student’s personal terminal clearly stated that the battles for the thrones would be God Wars. During these battles, a temporary Space would open to connect the two competing Divine Realms. It was much like the God War Zhang Yi had once fought against Li Boyang.

Furthermore, when competing for thrones of different levels, the restrictions on the God Wars initiated here would also vary. The highest-tier God War, for a Golden Throne, required each side to commit ten thousand troops, a battle involving a total of twenty thousand troops! For each tier below that, the number of Clan troops a student needed to commit would decrease by 2,000.

This was nothing like the provincial exams.

Now, even the lowest tier required sending 2,000 Clan members into battle. And to compete for the highest-tier Golden Thrones, it would be difficult to determine a winner without fighting until the very end. In other words, of the ten thousand troops each side committed, having casualties exceed half, or even the vast majority, was a completely normal occurrence!

At this point, even students strong enough to fight for a Golden Throne had to weigh the pros and cons: could they defeat an incumbent and still be ready to face the next challenger?

If a student truly misjudged their own strength at a time like this and fought for a Golden Throne they weren’t strong enough to hold, they would have to bear the enormous cost of potentially having their entire Clan wiped out in a single battle! After all, once a God War began, unless both sides agreed to end it, it could only be concluded by satisfying the conditions set when it began. For this round of assessment at the University Alliance Training Camp, only one such rule remained: the battle could be forcibly ended when a student’s combat-effective Clan members dropped below 20%!

But within a Divine Realm, a force of ten thousand combat-effective Clan members required the support of at least thirty thousand non-combatants. If a Clan Corps of ten thousand suffered eight thousand casualties, the Divine Realm’s combat power after that single battle would likely be even lower than when they first entered the University Alliance Training Camp!

Therefore, students from the various University Alliance Training Camp divisions only needed to recall their ranking among the top 50 from their provincial exams and extrapolate that to a group a hundred times larger. This would give them a rough idea of where they stood among these 5,000 participants.

However, only the weakest students needed to choose their battles so carefully. As for Zhang Yi, who had been a top contender at the end of the provincial exams, he only needed to decide which color of throne to aim for! On top of that, he could also use this opportunity to increase his holdings of Five-star Divine Domain Cards. Even Divine Domain Cards he couldn’t use himself would be excellent fodder to enhance the ones he wanted.

When all the students had finished reading the rules, a nearly tangible tension fell over their side of the Starry Hall.

Suddenly, Chief Instructor Yang’s voice rang out, "Assessment, begin!"

As Chief Instructor Yang’s voice echoed, Zhang Yi had no time to check on the other three students who had come with him from Golden City No.1 Middle School. Hundreds of students around him had already unleashed their Divine Power, flying toward the seats over a hundred meters away in the Starry Hall.

Zhang Yi’s target was clear: the Golden Throne at the very top! He either wouldn’t make a move, or, if he did, he would go for the prize with the highest reward—the Golden Throne.

Moreover, the God Wars for the Golden Thrones would be broadcast live on a projection for the entire Starry Hall to see. But Zhang Yi didn’t notice that after the assessment for the thrones began, over a dozen figures he had never seen before had appeared on the main platform.

Relying on his immense power, Zhang Yi converted the nearly 6.6 million Faith Value stored in his Divine Realm into a huge, conical sphere of light. It rammed aside the students directly in his path and sent all others blocking his way flying. In less than five seconds, he arrived before an empty Golden Throne.

The very moment his backside touched the seat of the Golden Throne, a violent force slammed in from the side. Carrying an incredibly explosive aura, the immense power crashed directly into the Divine Power barrier that had formed around him.

BANG!

The two streams of Divine Power collided. Zhang Yi used the momentum from the impact to firmly plant himself on the Golden Throne

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