God's Slave: Reincarnated Into an Academy of Heavenly Descendants

Chapter 196: Wild Differences

In the Newcomer's area of the class and the Ascendans area of the class, there were a few things to be noted.

When Nolan had moved to the Newcomer's class, they were required to wait for a total of three years before they could take the exam and be allowed into the Ascendants class.

One could say the Newcomers had an academic session of three years before they were promoted.

But the same couldn't be said for the Ascendants.

The Ascendants didn't have a specific timeframe for how long they could stay in class.

Instead, they were offered promotions based on their experience value.

There were a total of three types of Ascendants based on their experience value.

One-star Ascendants, like Nolan, were easily recognizable by their single star.

They were the lowest of the low among the Ascendants.

The second level of Ascendants were the two-stars, who had acquired experience points of 10,000!

They were at a much higher level than the one-stars, and that came with benefits of more points and more authority than the regular one-stars.

Then there were the ultimate Ascendants with three stars—people who had accumulated a total of 100,000 experience points!

According to what Nolan had heard, they were exceptionally rare and held absolute authority over all the other Ascendants.

Their hierarchy was on the same level as the instructors themselves.

In the end, Nolan realized the one thing that was really important in the Ascendants class: experience points!

Only with experience points could they move higher and higher.

Right now, Nolan had 100 experience points, something he had obtained luckily by arriving early.

To move up and become a two-star Ascendant, he needed to amass a total of 10,000 points, or he would forever be stuck as a first-star Ascendant.

What troubled Nolan was the fact that experience points could only be obtained through performing incredible feats in class, such as the one he was randomly awarded for arriving early.

But those experience points were incredibly random, and there was no telling when they would be awarded again.

It could take hundreds of years to amass 10,000 points if one relief on those.

The best and most secure way to get experience points was by completing quests.

Each quest not only gave a certain amount of points to spend but also awarded experience points.

The more difficult the mission, the better the experience points awarded.

However, according to what he had learned from Instructor Dorothia, they would all be required to reach the next stage of cultivation before they would have a 50% chance of surviving even the simplest mission on the quest board.

None of them were at the required stage, nor were they even close.

Even if they were, their chances of surviving would be 50-50.

Essentially, they would be gambling with their lives.

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So Nolan understood.

For now, they wouldn't be going anywhere or gaining experience points anytime soon.

Now he understood why Luna had said they would be required to come to class for a year before being on their own.

It was also why Luna was able to stay at home and not attend classes and yet be fine.

It was because she had agreed to stay in the same position, no longer willing to move up the Ascendant rankings.

And since she wasn't required to attend classes, one could say she was as free as a bird.

The second noteworthy thing about what Instructor Dorothia had told him was about points.

Just as Nolan had guessed, the points were a form of currency in the Ascendants Hierarchy.

They could be used to buy various cultivation manuals, which helped boost divine essence absorption, or to pay for a cultivation room—a special chamber where divine essence was ten times more abundant than in any other place in the academy.

The more concentrated the divine essence in the chambers, the more points it allowed for a person to gain entry.

They could also be used to buy weapons and artifacts.

With enough points, one could even call on an instructor to explain a certain topic or technique, even if it was beyond their level.

But the points required for that would be excessively high.

Still, Nolan knew if he had a billion points, he would be a god in this place!

It was vastly unlike the Newcomer's area, where everything was essentially free for the students.

Here, one needed to harvest points.

Luckily for them, a total of 100 points were given to each student every three months by the academy.

The only other way to obtain points was by completing quests or stealing them!

Yes!

Unlike experience values, one could steal another's points, and Nolan couldn't imagine the chaos that would soon break loose once the higher Ascendants began siphoning away the points of the lower Ascendants.

Things would soon settle into chaos, and he was well aware of it.

That was why the class was silent, and none of the students rose from their seats even after the teacher had left.

They understood the gravity of the matter and would definitely have to think up ways to protect their pointd, not only from the higher Ascendants but even from themselves.

One star Ascendants like them.

There were people who, because they arrived late, had their points halved, causing them to obtain 50 instead of 100 points.

These students would no doubt be eyeing those who had their full points like predators waiting to strike, and the thought of stealing from a weaker person was something the psycho-celestial heirs were all fine with.

Nolan knew that at least.

Just like yesterday, the sun was starting to appear over the horizon, even though it was just past 3:00.

Soon, the night returned once more, the countless constellations brightly illuminating the sky.

Eventually, some students began leaving the classroom, and Nolan too rose to leave.

He had promised a certain person to arrive back home before 5:00.