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2024-10-29 19:42:56Leonard and Daniel listened attentively as he briefed them on what was required. As soon as Mr. Reeves was done with the briefing, each person was given the form to fill out so that they could return back to their classes.
They filled it out and went back to class.
“Aren’t the interested people a lot? Even people that have never attempted to join a competition are there,” Daniel said as soon as they were alone.
“You weren’t here, Mr. Reeves said the top fifteen would be given an express admission into the top five universities.”
Daniel cursed out in excitement as his eyes bulged widely.
Even for students in this school that had influence and money, getting into the top five universities in their country wasn’t a joke at all!
“It’s going to be intense. Do you think we should study together?” Daniel asked. To him, he knew for sure that Leonard was a genius.
Most of their schoolmates had no idea that Leonard would only read for an hour a day or sometimes skip out on it completely so that he could do other things that would bring money.
And even in such a condition, he was able to bring the first position home without any struggle.
Leonard nodded, not minding if he studied alone or with someone, “We can study together on the weekends, the competition only starts in two months' time.”
Like that, they settled matters and returned back to the classroom.
“You have used our parent’s hard-earned money to get a good education, now you are planning to use the government to fund your pathetic life,” Edgar’s voice rang out as soon as he stepped into the classroom.
Leonard looked at Edgar from the corner of his eyes and then looked away deciding not to react to his words. After all, in a way, he was saying the truth.
“The world domination system would not accept a host that cannot stand up to challenges. To rid itself of such a host, the system would cripple the host’s organs from within so that the system can be free.” The now-familiar mechanical voice rang out.
Alarm bells rang through Leonard’s mind as he heard the system’s words.
He was not someone that was used to confronting someone unnecessarily but the system’s words had fear rippling through his heart.
He took a deep breath to gather enough courage to reply, “Your family relies on bullying the weak to make more money into their pocket, consider it good karma to spend some money on someone like me. It will save your generations,” he replied.
Even though he spoke very clearly and loudly, deep down, Leonard was struggling madly and his fists were clenched tightly in his pocket. But thinking of what the system was capable of and his mother that still needed him, he had no choice but to do it.
The class was in a deadly silence for close to three minutes until someone coughed and broke the uncomfortable silence.
“What’s the fuss about? If you think you are better than him, you don’t have to pick on him and bring yourself down to his level,” one of the boys that usually sat at the back of the classroom said.
Edgar glared at Zou Tai who had just talked but knowing very well that his background couldn’t match up to his, cowered away and instead pushed all of his anger toward Leonard.
“Good karma? Trash like you wants to reach for the sky.” Edgar said with a scoff and then stood up, walking towards Leonard.
“Even if you win ten more competitions, you still cannot get into any of the top five universities in the country, because no matter how you fight, you have already lost!”
Anger poured through Leonard’s body as he heard his words. Getting into the country’s number-one university was his biggest dream. And now, there was someone that claimed that he couldn’t even get into the top five??
This time, he didn’t even need a reminder from the system as his reply came from his own fury.
“You want to play god? This university, as long as you don’t play dirty, I’m more than capable of getting into them!”
Seeing how emotional he got, Edgar sneered, as if he was looking at an animal and not a person. His cruel eyes flashed with several scheming thoughts.
“I’ll not stoop to your level and play dirty but we can place a bet.”
Leonard said nothing but his now reddened eyes were fixed on Edgar as he waited for him to continue.
“If you get into a university in the top five.. No..” Edgar paused as though rethinking the bet again.
“If you can get into a university that is higher than mine, you will become my master, on the other hand, if I get into one that is better than yours, you will be my dog for life!”
Leonard nodded without even overthinking it. For domestic competitions and qualifications, it was hard for them to rank top because their school focused on a more centralized curriculum that would allow most of their students to get into top foreign schools.
Based on that standard, most of their students without connections would struggle for the top universities since they didn’t have the resources to go abroad.
Before long, Edgar had lured Leonard into having a six months bet with him.
Whoever got into the highest of the top five universities would become the master of the other one.
The whole class was in an uproar as both of them signed a paper with the agreement on it.
Leonard, a scholarship student dared to place a bet with Edgar who was from one of the second-tier top families in their country.
Everyone was confused as to how the usually silent Leonard had the courage to do such a thing.
By the time it was lunch, the news had taken over the whole school already.
“I wished the school would allow us to monetize the forum. By this time, I would have been raking in money because of you,” Daniel said regretfully with a kiss of his teeth.
He had an anonymous page where he posted everything that happened in their classroom and the school in general.
Because no one knew who it was, he was able to post anything he wanted and get as much engagement as possible.
But for Leonard that knew he was the owner of the webpage, he could only shake his head and watch as he checked every new comment on his post.
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