Chapter 13: The Ranking (1)
– He was the one who clearly understood his strengths and weaknesses, knew how to set appropriate goals, then tried the best for that goal. On his path, he took slow but sure steps. (Class K)
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It was eight thirty in the evening.
After receiving the announcement that the rankings had been updated, the students all gathered at the electronic screen position. However, did not know what happened that there were only students of Class K presenting. There was no one from Class I.
[Base Individual Ranking]
"Hey, where's class I? We haven't seen them since dinner!"
"May be they felt too ashamed to face us, ha ha!"
"Woohoo! I got higher rank!!"
"Me too! Oh my god! This is so wonderful!!!"
"Huh? Hey, is there anything wrong? Why all the names are from our class?"
"Here, except for Hawley at the sixth, the whole from the first to twentieth are all of our class!"
"Heh??? Hawley was down to the sixth? Hah, it serves him right!"
[National Individual Ranking]
Maddox was standing next to Dallton, both searching for their names on the National Individual Rankings. Suddenly Maddox found that Dallton seemed strange, he immediately ask.
"What's up Dallton?"
Dallton pointed to a certain row on the screen, said in a trembling voice: "Look, look at this one... this rank... is it one-eight-one or eight-one?"
"What?" Maddox strained his eyes, then answered with a loud voice: "Eight-one! It is eighty one! Are you crazy?"
"One hundred and eighty four, subtract eighty one..." Dallton muttered to himself, then he whispered: "My, my gosh..."
"What?" Maddox grimaced. He could not hear what Dallton said.
"I, I got an increase of one hundred and three ranks! My god! It's a hundred-and-three ranks!!! Man, am I dreaming?... Ouch! It hurts! So it's not a dream! Ha ha, ha ha ha..."
Maddox watched Dallton screaming, then slapping himself on the thigh, then screaming again and storming out of the crowd, jumping like a madman. He was about to grab Dallton and give this crazy guy a punch to wake him up, but then he could not take any action, because –
Taking Dallton as an opening, the rest of students also started mumbling and calculating, then shouting and jumping up. Like a bunch of psychopaths...
Parker: "I, I got ninety one ranks of increase!!!"
Jarron: "I rose sixty three ranks! Oh god fifty! Mom, Dad, I ranked Fifty!!! It's the Fifty nationwide! Oh My God, anyone please tell me this is the truth!!!"
Even a soft and gentle person like Rinne also shouted, "Me, I got a rise of ninety nine ranks! Now I've reached the Top One Hundred nationwide!!!"
Maddox nervously searched for his name, then slowly found out... He rose eighty-nine ranks, ranked eighty-six nationwide!
"Look at Neil, Edelina and Iris! And Hudson! He ranks Twentieth nationwide! Hell, what do they eat to be such that good? I swear that I will follow them every day!!"
"Where's our Leader name?"
"Right! Why we don't see his rank?"
"You stupid! Check the lower ranks for what? Search for the top! You forget that Leader ranked Third last month? Wait for the screen to go back to the top and then search!" ⬅ Please sympathize, because the size of the screen was limited, there were only forty ranks shown at one time.
After the joy for their own achievements, Dallton and the others felt a bit nervous now.
Since having received the lesson "focus on yourself, focus on your own goal" by Angus, Class K had no longer envy and hate each other. Everyone tried their best for their goals, and at the same time tries to coordinate in team activities to achieve good results together.
Finally, the results were really good, far more than they expected!
If checking it carefully, except for Cody who was still in the bottom group – because his score for the first four weeks were too low for the score of this month to be able to raise his rank up – then the remaining nineteen people of Class K led by Leader Angus were all in the Top One Hundreds nationwide.
This was a phenomenal achievement, super phenomenal, extremely phenomenal!!!
However, the ranking competition on the top was always fiercer than that on the middle and the bottom: While they were all promoted with a large distance from last month, Neil, Edelina, Iris, or Hudson had only risen by ten, twenty ranks – And this could be considered as "miracle"!
Leader... Could Leader compete with the top ones of the other base?
The result –
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Thump! Thump! Thump!
Sneakers hitting onto the floor in the dark made particularly loud sounds.
Dallton ran fast on the dorm hall corridor. When reaching room Nine, he stopped, unconsciously regulated his breathing, and adjusted his clothes properly, then raised his hand to knock on the door.
The one who opened the door was Cody.
Inside the bright living room, there were not only Cody, Neil, Iris but also Hudson, Gilmar, Edelina, Trixi, Gennista who were all sitting there.
Dallton was a little surprised, but he quickly regained his senses, saying: "I, I came to inform Leader about his rank. He didn't come."
Cody smiled: "Come in. Join us."
Dallton entered the room and then he realized that, except for the owners of the room who were Iris, Neil, and Cody, the reason why the rest of the people presenting in this room were to inform the Leader with his rank. But Leader was busy in his own room, so they were all waiting.
Dallton joined the waiting group. Although he appeared to be calm on the surface, his mind was not at all calm.
Hu hu, those people was a bunch of "talents", he could feel the pressure from them! Fortunately, he still had Trixi and Gennista who were a bit like "mortals", so he was not lonely, hic.
But before Dallton's ass could feel the heat from the chair, he heard another knock on the door.
Neil and Cody looked at each other and smiled. Edelina lazily put her chin on her hand and suggested, "Maybe you guys should let the door opened."
Iris nodded: "Yes, agreed!"
This time, Dustan, Derwin and Fulton came together in a group. Then, Tina, Rinne, Jarron, Jaclyn, Nissyen, Parker, Maddox also came in turn.
The inherently not-so-small living room suddenly became cramped. Surfing around eighteen familiar faces, Iris said: "We're all here, so no one come anymore. What did we talk about just now?"
Hudson smiled. "About Cody's rank."
Trixi immediately nodded: "Yes, I was saying that... Cody, don't be sad. This month, the points for the team competition category is still low, so it cannot raise your rank much. But from the next week, there will be more points for the team category. Our class is cooperating very well, so we will all get good results by the end of the course!"
From the fourth to the eighth week was the time for new students to get acquainted with the team competition category, so the points counted for this category were not much.
However, starting from the ninth week, the power controlling class would be added, teacher would officially and directly teach the new students how to activate and control their internal power, also how to apply it to combat and coordinate with teammates. Since then, the points for physical categories would decrease, and the points for team competition would increase significantly. Cody could make use of this to improve his rank in the following weeks.
To everyone's concern, Cody shyly scratched his head: "Thank you guys... But, I'm not sad at all."
Heh?
The whole class was in the Top Twenty of the base, did you stand alone at Thirty-Nine Nine without being sad? ⬅ By the rest of the crowd.
Also, on the National Rankings, the whole class was in the Top One Hundred, only you were ranked One Hundred and Ninety-Seventh!!!
But you said you were not sad at all???
To everyone's round eyes, Cody said slowly:
"Leader Angus once said, we should focus on our own goals right? You guys goal is to increase the rank, but for me, it is to increase the score."
"My score used to be very low, very far from everyone. While you guys were just a few points behind the higher ranks, I'm a hundred and twenty points behind the one above me."
"But now I have caught up, I was no longer left behind. So, it looks like I only got one rank up on the base ranking, but it's good enough to me! My starting point is much inferior to you guys, so it takes time to improve."
"Miracle doesn't fall from the heaven!"
The crowd in the room was dumbfounded.
They were trying to console Cody, but was there any one here who really care about his situation?
The Dragon races worshiped strength.
Compared to the twenty years of growth and development, the so-short one month of living together and helping each other was not enough to erase the truth that had absorbed into the bones of each dragon.
They all gathered here for Angus, and it was because they appreciated and respected Angus.
But for Cody – In everyone's impressions, he's the worst, always looking dull and slow. These evoked more pity than empathy!
Yet, the person that was considered to be slow and weak, turned out to be the most thorough of the group.
He was the one who clearly understood his strengths and weaknesses, knew how to set appropriate goals, then tried the best for that goal. On his path, he took slow but sure steps.
The Dallton group felt like, today they had just "learned" something!
Unexpectedly, just by going to inform the Leader rank that they could get a new lesson!
As expected, the people who have been close with Leader for a long time were not ordinary ones!!
From now on, they had to follow the Leader more to be infected a little more of Leader "temperament", becoming smarter and stronger ha ha ha!!!
Of course, at this moment Angus did not know that his image in the heart of Class K had just been raised to a new level...
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