Chapter 23 Chapter 21. Death Without a Chance of Survival

These unconscious students naturally became the primary rescue targets.

“Break!”

After the sound of something breaking through the air, a tunnel-like hole was opened up in the White miasma. Hockins jumped out of the hole, carrying two teams of six new students on the stretchers behind him. They were all unconscious.

As soon as these students were taken out of the forest, someone immediately called their names and sent them to the nearby first aid station for emergency treatment.

“How is it, is everyone here?”

Hockins wiped the sweat off his forehead and looked up at the teacher tabulating the new students’ list.

According to past predictions, the vapor should have appeared the next day, but they didn’t expect it to appear one day in advance. Fortunately, their students were all active in the outskirts of the Demon Beast Forest, followed by instructors, so they retreated in time and didn’t sustain any severe consequences.

However, the cycle that had always been accurate had changed. What exactly was the problem?

He didn’t know why, but he had a bad feeling.

“The total number of new students is two hundred and forty-eight, and two hundred and forty-seven of them have left the Demonic Beast Forest,”

The instructor in charge of counting the number of people shouted,

“We’re still missing a new student, Charles!”

Hockins froze for a moment. He should have heard this name before.

This student had gone with the senior students to the forest depths to train.

This wasn’t good.

Hockins had a bad feeling in his heart.

They would have been surrounded by miasma long ago at such a deep location.

In that situation, the senior students were at least in the first layer of the body refining tier and had some ability to protect themselves. As a new student, his physical fitness was no different from an average person’s, so he would have probably fallen for it long ago.

However, if those two senior students could protect him and get him out, his situation might not be so bad.

“The two senior students who formed a team with Charles, John, and Johnny, are out yet?”

Hockins asked.

The teacher in charge of counting the number of people shook his head. He did not see the name of this group on the list.

At that moment, a nurse suddenly said;

“You’re talking about John and Johnny? They’ve already withdrawn from the training and returned to school.”

“I guess Charles went back to the college with them.”

“That’s not right.”

An instructor at the side frowned and interrupted,

“I’ve been transferred here from the Academy for emergencies. There’s only John and Johnny in the Academy.”

“We thought Charles was recuperating at the nurse’s station.”

After hearing the latter’s words, Hockins’ mood, which had initially calmed down, tensed up again.

He thought of a terrifying possibility.

“Don’t tell me that the kid acted on his own and went back to train alone!”

This sentence was like a lightning bolt on a clear day, and everyone’s minds instantly went blank.

In other words, everyone had entered teams, and only Charles had entered alone!

It had been three hours since the haze appeared in the forest.

The possibility of him being alive was close to none!

“I’ll go find him.”

Hockins hissed as he spoke.

“Wait, Mr. Hockins, what are you doing?”

Just as he was about to rush into the forest, an instructor called.

The other party said with slight regret,

“Don’t be rash. With the level of danger in the forest right now, even if it’s you or me, we won’t be able to protect ourselves, let alone a new Beastmaster.”

“There are activities in the outskirts of the forest. We’ve already carefully searched it once. Charles must have gone deep into the forest. Do you think he’s still alive?”

Hockins was silent.

In the end, the few new Beastmasters he saved were still on the outskirts of the forest, but they were severely poisoned and had fallen unconscious.

Not to mention that the haze was even denser in the middle of the forest. Even the senior students at the first layer of the body refining tier would not be able to hold on for more than a few minutes. Charles would most likely fall into a state of severe poisoning when he came into contact with it.

Moreover, the forest of Demonic Beasts in the haze was filled with poisonous gas and many dangerous, strange beasts. No matter which one was picked out, it was not something the new students could deal with.

Even if Charles survived the haze, he would be buried under the attacks of the demon beasts.

He had no chance of survival.

“Let’s go, quickly send the injured to the Academy for treatment.”

Hockins let out a heavy sigh, turned his horse around, and led the group back to the Academy.

“Remember, many students were injured, and one died in this training.”

However, they didn’t know that …

Less than ten minutes after the main force left.

A figure jumped out of the haze.

Seeing that they had left the boundary of the monster forest, Charles let out a sigh of relief.

“System,”

(Ding! (Congratulations to the host for completing the mission. You have 188 points of self-discipline left!)

Charles once again exchanged all his discipline points for growth potions.

After swallowing the 188 bottles of growth pĹotions, the frost Dragon Whelp did not level up. Its strength only reached the peak of the eighth rank. Now, with each level up, the frost Dragon needed more and more energy. The effect of the growth potion was getting smaller and smaller, and it could no longer fill its needs.

It seemed that the growth potion would be completely ineffective when the frost Dragon Whelp reached the second Meridian.

Was the growth of the frost Dragon going to reach a bottleneck when it reached the second Meridian?

Charles was a little worried.

(Ding! (The host has been self-disciplined for nine days!)

(After another day of self-disciplined card-checking, the following product can be unlocked.]

The system’s voice rang out on time as if it was consoling him.

Charles looked at the locked bar and became more and more curious.

Let’s hope it’s a valuable commodity.

For now, it was better to bring these new beast crystals back to the Academy and Exchange them for the Academy’s Alliance dollars.

After resting for a while, Charles made his way to the Grinwood Beastmaster Academy.

Grinwood Academy had its trading center.

The items that students usually obtain from training outside could be directly exchanged for Alliance dollars in the exchange Center. There was no need to go to the City’s pawnshop to exchange.

It was very convenient this way. Second, it also prevented honest Beastmasters from being scammed by unscrupulous merchants.

At the same time, the trading center would also put up some medicinal herbs, tonics, and other precious items for Beastmasters to temper their bodies or their subdued beasts to level up.

Some of these items were purchased by the school from outside, such as growth potions, tranquil heart pills, element condensation pills, and so on.

There were also some treasures that the instructors and students had collected from the demonic beast forest, such as the yin spring tree fruit, various medicinal herbs, and demonic beast blood essence.

As soon as Charles entered the school gate, he found that the campus seemed mainly deserted today.