The Battle Queen They Blindly Kicked Out (Joanna) novel Chapter 118

Chapter 118 Loyalty

Ten billion was a lot.

But one SS-rank talent upgrade stone cost 200 billion.

Yeah, talents could be upgraded with stones.

But anything that could upgrade an S-rank talent to SS-rank was a Legendary-tier item. Those didn’t just cost money-you also needed special contribution points.

Joanna knew the Alliance Academy had them, and so did the Divine and Demonic Training Camp.

That was why she had to succeed in this Star Domain Battle.

Beside Joanna, Katherine pulled out her bow and grinned. “Of course I didn’t pay for an enchantment. I found a company to sponsor me. This bow came from their warehouse, so it already has enchantments. I have to return it once I reach Level 20.

“Oh, Joanna, look over there. See who showed up?”

Joanna looked about 50 yards away and saw a team led by Ivan.

Joanna was confused.

“Didn’t he already get a guaranteed spot in college?”

“After Ivan got his spot, one person left his team. He tried to recruit others, but no one wanted to join. Everyone already had a team. His team is built completely around him. It’s risky for outsiders.

“Especially that shaman-weak healing. No tank wants to go on a suicide mission with them. Ivan is safe because of guaranteed admission, but his teammates aren’t.

“So he has to keep taking the trial. If he fails, it won’t hurt his chances, but the minister who supported him will look like an idiot.”

d happy about it.

y felt a little bad for him.

really was a good captain.

His team was carefully put together, and their combat power was strong. In the SAT dungeon, they just made a bad call in strategy. But the cross-stellar trial was different. It was about a

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massive simulated public dungeon.

A large public dungeon wasn’t a real battlefield, but it was still a dungeon.

It was like those secret realms in cultivation novels from Joanna’s past life.

They opened once every few hundred years. You went in to hunt monsters and find treasures, but it was super dangerous.

During these nine days, the teachers rushed to teach the elite academy students. Joanna watched one class and then stopped going.

Because strength beats everything else.

As long as her attribute points went up, she could just crush everything.

Besides, the other students had zero experience with public dungeons.

She had loads. Before the SAT, she and her two bound partners were basically living in public dungeons.

“Ivan is a good fit for a public dungeon, but his teammates? Not so much. Their healing is just too weak.”

Joanna never treated these teams as real rivals. She always compared herself to the strongest person of the past years. Still, she kept all the intel she gathered clearly in mind.

She quickly analyzed the other teams’ data.

Ivan’s team was built completely around him. If he were taken out, the team would be left with high damage output but no defense and no healing-it would collapse fast.

Katherine nodded.

“Yeah. That’s why Ivan teamed up with several other groups and said they’d clear it together. But that ably lower his score.”

nts.

anked the monsters but other teams landed the kills, he’d only get a tiny share of the

“He’s pretty loyal.”

If he didn’t care about his teammates, he wouldn’t have come to find Joanna back then.

Now, he was still joining the cross-stellar trial for his teammates. That was risky. If his results

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were too bad, even if his guaranteed admission wasn’t canceled, people would question it.

Also, if his score was too low, after entering Voidstar Academy, the resources he’d get would be reduced.

From Ivan’s perspective, Joanna thought he was being reckless.

But from his teammates’ perspective, he was reliable and loyal.

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