"The legendary fast sword passed down in the Tianma clan... Powerful..."

Although Vera had always wanted to compete with Clair secretly, she had to admit that Clair's inherited fast sword, passed down from her family, was indeed quite formidable.

In the instant the sword light bloomed, the movement was so fast that it was difficult to discern with the naked eye. Vera could barely keep up with the sword's movements.

She couldn't help but ask herself in her heart...

...If this sword wasn't aimed at the alchemical puppet, but at herself, could she catch this sword?

Of course, she could at least catch one sword, but obviously this level was not Clair's full strength. Her sword could be even faster.

Clair picked up the energy token that exploded on the ground and threw it to Li Wei.

"Great, now we have five tokens. Let's keep working hard~"

Li Wei caught the token thrown by Clair, and neither Vera nor Eris had any objections to giving the token to Li Wei.

After all, Clair defeated the alchemical puppet, so the ownership of this energy token naturally belonged to her. It was her own business who she wanted to give it to.

Although this was an unexpected event, it helped the four of them understand the power of the alchemical puppet.

"Indeed, the alchemical puppet is not strong enough. Under normal circumstances, a four-person team is enough to deal with it..."

Even Clair, the top student in her grade, could defeat the opponent with just one move.

Of course, this was still the first area. According to the previous rules, the enemies encountered as they went further would become more difficult. But honestly, based on their current level, even the alchemical puppet in the third area would not put up a tough fight.

And since that was the case, the school still considered passing the second area as an excellent standard, and the passing standard was just passing the first area.

And so far, no new student has been able to pass the third area in the first special combat test.

"So... as we thought before, the difficulty is probably all in the three elite guards and the competition between the teams."

Li Wei came to this conclusion, while Clair still had a carefree smile on her face. "Haha, isn't that great? Let's go, we're almost at the teleportation tower~"

"Well..."

At the same time, at the location of the teleportation tower, a tall and muscular boy, along with his three teammates behind him, smiled and reached out to the other team of four in front of him.

"Alright, we won. Be good and hand over your energy tokens..."

He was the boy who previously asked if teams could attack each other to snatch tokens. Since he asked and got a positive answer, it naturally meant he was planning to do so.

And his teammates fully agreed with his plan. So, just like Li Wei's plan, they intended to wait at the teleportation tower and take advantage of any opportunities. And fortunately, they immediately encountered another team with the same idea.

After a round of fighting, the victory was already decided...

"..."

Although the four-person group who failed was unwilling, they were indeed inferior in skill. There was nothing more to say, so they immediately took out their own energy tokens.

"Haha, thanks for the cooperation. Work hard for the make-up exam~

The tall boy accepted the four tokens and smiled at his teammates. "With these, and the ones we previously obtained, we have twelve energy tokens. We might be the first team to collect ten tokens."

"So... " A petite girl in the team asked tentatively, "Are we going directly to the next area?"

However, the tall boy leading the team decisively shook his head. "No, there is a key point in the rules that you haven't noticed, haven't you?"

"?"

The surrounding teammates had puzzled expressions, but the tall boy answered with a smile, "The rules state that the further you go, the stronger the alchemical puppets and elite guards will be... and the rules don't say you can't collect thirty energy tokens in the first area~"

"Ah..." The petite girl immediately understood, "Right, if that's the case, why don't we collect enough tokens in the first area and then directly enter the third area? That way, we won't have to linger in dangerous areas...""Yes, that's correct. And to be precise, we don't need to prepare thirty vouchers. After reaching a new area, each surviving person will receive an extra voucher. In other words, we only need to collect twenty-two vouchers, which is enough in terms of quantity~"

Of course, this is not something difficult to think of. Students should theoretically be able to think of it. The only possibility is that they encountered some difficulties in the execution process.

However, regardless of the specific difficulties they encountered, the plan itself should be feasible. Before encountering difficulties, they should continue to try...

Just when they were discussing enthusiastically, they suddenly heard a voice.

"Haha, it seems we have encountered fellow players~"

"..."

The tall boy immediately stopped talking and looked in the direction of the voice. After a momentary pause, he couldn't help but say, "Clair, right?"

The one speaking was Clair. As soon as she and Li Wei saw this tall boy, they immediately understood the situation and knew that he had the same idea as them.

And it seemed that he had already made a move.

The boy remained silent for two seconds, then smiled, "That's right. It seems Clair and Vera also plan to snatch energy vouchers from other teams. Since we have the same attitude, why not team up?"

He selectively ignored Li Wei and Eris, as no matter how you looked at it, these two were burdens to the team.

His proposal was as expected because it was obvious that they didn't have the confidence to win against Clair and Vera and didn't want to have conflict with them.

"Haha~" However, Clair laughed and put her hand on her waist, "Nice proposal, but since you have already made a move, meaning you have at least eight energy vouchers, why should I cooperate with you? I can just take your share directly, right?"

"... As expected."

The tall boy could only sigh helplessly at Clair's answer, which was also expected. If their positions were reversed, he would definitely not choose to cooperate and would directly snatch instead, but...

"...then there's no other way. But what if we add 'them'? It's now!"

The tall boy seemed to signal someone as he raised his hand. Suddenly, two sand dunes on the left and right exploded, revealing four figures behind each sand dune. A total of eight people, cooperating with the tall boy's group of four, surrounded Li Wei and the others...