Unexpected Reliability

Final exams have begun.

The theme of the exam was cooperation and competition.

The exam content is the same as before: field training in remote and desolate areas.

The class had a total of twenty students, who were randomly divided into four groups and sent to the deep mountains and forests.

It requires teamwork to stay in the mountains for ten days to half a month, struggling to survive while searching for and exploring various relics in the mountains.

If you can't persevere, you can choose to abstain.

However, this would affect the group's overall score and the class's overall score.

This exam is a competition between students, between groups, and even between classes.

"Then, let the exam begin."

The homeroom teacher announced the start, and four different colored teleportation arrays covered everyone in the class, dividing them into four groups and teleporting them into an unfamiliar mountain forest.

Rogge quickly adapted to the dizziness caused by teleportation.

He quickly scanned his surroundings to check on the other members of the group.

Perhaps due to the butterfly effect, the team members this time were completely different from those who were destined to be there.

"My head is so dizzy..."

One of them shook his head, looked up and saw Roger, and his eyes lit up.

"Wow, I'm in the same group as Brother Roger! How lucky!"

Ira moved closer to Roger, clearly wanting to curry favor with him.

As for the other three...

"Oh, it's you."

A short-haired girl said casually.

When the midterm exam results were released, Roger teased Princess Lingsa, and this girl was standing by and looking down on Roger for bullying girls.

The name seems to be...

"Julie? She's alright, I guess."

Roger looked Julie over and nodded.

Julie possesses the talent to control wind, enabling her to create wind blades for attacks and briefly ascend into the air for reconnaissance, making her incredibly useful.

Then look at the other two, they are helping each other to their feet.

They looked up and immediately spotted Roger standing right in front of them.

"They're just lowly commoners!"

"Yeah, you idiot."

"Calling me an idiot again? I'm not an idiot! You are!"

Princess Lingsa stood on tiptoe and glared at Rogge.

As for the student next to her, she was a girl wearing glasses.

The girl with glasses is named Maya, and she is a librarian.

Rogge saw the other person several times when he went to the library to look up books about alien races.

Furthermore, according to Rogge's subsequent investigation, it was most likely Maya who reported him to the Third Prince.

So now Maya is acting a little guilty when she sees Rogge.

"Now that everyone's here, what are your plans?"

Rogge cut to the chase and asked.

"I want to follow in Brother Roger's footsteps!"

Without a second thought, Iraq pledged his loyalty to Rogge.

"Since we're in the same group, I guess I'll have to go with you, hmph."

Princess Lingsha turned her head away haughtily.

Maya, who was standing beside her, planned to go with Princess Lingsa, so she naturally didn't object.

"Then let's go."

Julie shrugged indifferently.

Thus, Roger naturally became the group leader.

Since we'll be staying in the mountains for quite some time, the first thing we need to do is set up a campsite for rest.

With the information provided by his predetermined fate, Roger quickly found a good place near a water source.

"Ira is exploring the area, Julie is chopping down trees with wind blades, Maya is making tools, and the idiot is starting a fire."

"Then what are you doing?"

"You're all spoiled and pampered, unable to even kill a chicken, so the rest of the heavy lifting will have to be left to me."

Roger sighed.

As evening approached, under Roger's command, the group worked together to set up a simple camp.

There were two tents made of grass and wood, plus a campfire.

The five sat around the campfire, their dinner consisting of fish caught from the river and wild vegetables that Ira had found while exploring the area.

Although it was very simple, the taste was alright.

"Are we really going to have to spend half a month like this? I wonder how the others are doing."

Julie looked at the campfire in front of her and spoke the minds of the others.

"Don't worry, the others will only be worse off than us."

Rogge said confidently.

The other Celestial Nobles suffered greatly under their predetermined fate.

Many people, including Princess Lingsa, did not persevere and chose to abstain early.

Only a few students persevered, but they basically lived a life of hardship, like eating tree bark.

Not to mention that because of the intervention of Rogge's alien subordinates, the area was sealed off, and the monsters sealed in the ruins were released, leaving a considerable shadow on the students.

Of course, thanks to the Holy Sword Maiden's efforts, and the timely arrival of the teachers and judges, no one was killed in the end.

Now that Rogge has restrained his alien subordinates, there are naturally no further unexpected developments.

As long as the field training is completed step by step, Roger is confident that his group will win first place.

"Speaking of which, what should we do if we need to use the restroom?"

Princess Lingsha shyly raised her hand, her little face flushed.

"Generally speaking, I'd just find a secluded patch of grass to relieve myself..."

"That's perfectly natural," Roger said.

He glanced at Princess Lingsha, whose face was pale, and then changed the subject.

"But I knew you wouldn't be able to stand it, so I've put up a makeshift outhouse in a corner nearby, with a water trough next to it, so you can just go there to relieve yourself."

"I find you a bit scary; you actually considered this step."

Julie looked at Roger with a very strange expression.

Even Maya, who was not very comfortable facing Rogge, quietly echoed his sentiments.

"Completely different from its appearance, surprisingly reliable."

"Do I look that unreliable? I'm worrying about failure before I can win; I'm just being prepared."

Roger replied with a displeased expression.

Although he was a man whose life was filled with failures, that was only his predetermined fate. Now he is much more cautious than before.

After all, he came here with a mission as well.

[Objective: To successfully complete the final field training.]

[Reward: Performance will be improved based on completion.]

[Penalty: The evaluation will be lowered accordingly based on the completion status. If the training is failed, the final overall evaluation will be permanently lowered.]

Given the existence of permanent penalties, this mission is clearly related to the final outcome.

Therefore, Rogge naturally had to be fully focused and complete the task diligently.

"Brother Rogge is indeed the strongest."

Ira looked up at Rogge with eyes full of adoration.

After dinner, everyone was thinking of taking a bath in the river, and Roger was already prepared.

He had previously sent Ira to explore the surrounding area, where they discovered a clear little pool. So he and Ira worked together to simply enclose it and create a makeshift open-air bathhouse.

"..."

Now the other people were looking at him even more strangely.

"Why are you looking at me? Is it wrong to do more?"

Roger stood with his arms crossed, completely self-righteous.

Silent all night.

The next morning, after a quick wash, the group began exploring the nearby ruins.

In this practical training exam, wilderness survival is just the basic requirement; exploration of historical sites is the bonus point.

"These are relics from a lost era."

Upon entering the ruins, the Maya immediately determined the age of the ruins from the surrounding fragmented murals.

"The Lost Era? You seem to know a lot about history?"

Roger raised his eyebrows slightly.

He wasn't familiar with Maya, so he didn't really know that she had some knowledge of history.

"Yes, I'm more interested in history."

Maya nodded.

After spending a day and a night together, her fear of Roger had lessened considerably.

She became particularly talkative when discussing history, a field she was interested in.

"The Lost Era is the time before the truth was born and before human civilization rose. That period of history lacks records and is almost completely buried in the past, forming a historical gap."

"It sounds like I'm also a little curious about the Lost Era."

Julie chimed in from the side.

"As far as I know, several history teachers in our college are very enthusiastic about exploring the history of the lost era."

"But wouldn't that easily touch on taboos? The Truth Cult is quite averse to discussing the history of the Lost Era."

Princess Lingsha said.

As Roger listened to their casual conversation, he realized something.

Perhaps the Sinful Prison Sword, and even the Sinful Race, are related to the Lost Era.

The reason why Rogge, whose destiny was predetermined, failed to find the Demon Sword of Sin was entirely because he had no opportunity to come into contact with and understand the history of the Lost Era.

The group continued to explore the ruins.

The academy's teachers had already cleaned up the ruins, and since Roger had no intention of causing trouble, there was basically no danger.

That's what I was thinking.

Sudden.

The entire site suddenly trembled.