Professor Li's class continued as usual until he neared the end of his lecture.
''Before we end class,'' he started, ''I want to talk about the rankings of the previous dungeon exercise.''
All students remained quiet, staring at him with expectant eyes.
''These will come as quite a shock for some,'' Professor Li continued, switching to a different page. ''While others have been aware of this for a long time.''
A large list of names and the cores they recovered appeared on the hologram.
As Professor Li zoomed in on the top ten, several gasps went through the classroom.
''People managed to kill C-rank creatures?" they whispered, confused.
''But how…''
''That should be impossible.''
''No group with three Bronze Cores should be able to do that…''
Students murmured all through the class.
Notably, students from rich backgrounds stayed silent, clearly unsurprised.
'I wonder what happened to our score,' Logan thought, not finding his group in the top ten.
