I built the Black Tower City in Sumeru.

Chapter 22 announces the exam results.

Yes, that's how aircraft carriers and battleships defend themselves—by using missiles and close-in weapon systems to intercept them.

Simply put, it's a proactive defense system.

Farusan rummaged through her personal storage box for a while and finally pulled out a pair of slightly glowing mechanical cores. The surface of the cores was engraved with intricate diamond patterns, and energy flowed continuously along the patterns.

It's quite beautiful and exquisite.

Chen Bo's eyes widened: "This is... the mechanical core of the Crimson King civilization?"

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Farusan casually tossed the cores to Chen Bo. "I dug these out of the desert ruins before. These two cores have extremely strong automatic feedback functions. They were originally used to control the light cannons inside the ruins for defense."

"It took me a lot of effort to crack that level and dismantle it."

Chen Bo carefully caught the core. If this kind of core were sold, it would probably fetch more than a million Mora.

"This is too precious, senior." Chen Bo's throat moved.

"Take it. Since you're my student, how can you not have something decent to offer?" Farusian waved her hand dismissively. "This thing has been gathering dust here for decades. I don't need it anyway, so giving it to you is a way of putting it to good use."

Having a mentor is great.

"By the way, I saw Kavi's name on the list of mentors for this competition," Chen Bo said casually, putting away his core.

Farusan scoffed, "That junior who particularly enjoys repairing houses? His houses are indeed artistically impressive, but as for other aspects, I'm not sure."

"What, are you scared?"

"No, not at all." Chen Bo smiled. "I was just asking."

Chen Bo wanted to make friends with Kavi and later ask Kavi to oversee the construction of his own main city.

I just asked to see if I could go through my mentor's connections.

However, it seems that this won't work now.

With the core of the Red King civilization's relics in hand, the armor design was basically complete, and the last piece of the puzzle was finally in place.

However, the capabilities of these two core elements of the Red King civilization now need to be tested.

After a simple test, it was found that these two core components have a very sensitive ability to sense energy and react accordingly.

Using this, my two floating cannons responsible for defense will automatically intercept, without me having to worry about it.

in the afternoon.

Sunlight streamed through the high windows of the Wisdom Palace, illuminating the stone-paved floor of the classroom.

This was Chen Bo's first time in a classroom.

This is the last class of the second year of the Life Theory School.

Simply put, it involves announcing the grades and then choosing the tutor for the class.

The students were very nervous because it concerned whether they could get into their desired research group, and even their status in the Academy for decades to come.

The sage Nafis stepped onto the platform, his serious face appearing particularly majestic in the shadows.

Without wasting words, he lightly tapped the virtual terminal with his finger.

"Results have been sent, and rankings have been updated accordingly."

The virtual terminal lights up.

Chen Bo immediately checked the rankings.

Anil, perfect score, ranking: 1.

Below his name is Palavi, with 98 points, ranked 2nd.

The once quiet classroom instantly erupted into chaos, with whispers of discussion filling the entire space.

"First place is Anil? That Anil who used to always be at the bottom?"

"It seems like Anil only passes two or three subjects."

"It's not surprising that Palavi is in the top two, but what's going on with Anil? How did he improve so much?"

Vitiga and Sumitra, sitting in the front row, looked extremely grim.

This academically gifted couple consistently ranked first and second in their grade, but this time, neither of them made it into the top two.

Vitiga suddenly stood up, and the wooden chair scraped against the ground with a screeching sound due to the speed of his movement.

"Sage, I request a review of your grades." Vitiga pointed in Anil's direction and shouted, "This doesn't make sense. Anil's past performance makes it impossible for him to have mastered the advanced theories of biomechanics in such a short time. I suspect someone cheated during the exam."

Sumitra also stood up.

Chen Bo sat in the back row, somewhat helpless.

To some extent, he had anticipated this kind of questioning, since "Anil" was indeed a complete academic failure in the past.

Sage Nafis raised his head, his eyes as cold as ice.

"Vitika, I'm also an invigilator. Are you questioning me?"

Vitiga paused for a moment, her imposing manner instantly weakening slightly: "No, I just feel..."

"What do you think?" Nafis snorted. "Although I didn't set the exam questions myself, I checked every single one. I also looked at Anil's exam paper. Not only were the answers accurate, but he also put forward a novel idea in terms of the logic of bio-energy conversion."

"If you believe he cheated, then provide evidence. If you don't have evidence, I will deduct some of your credits."

Vitiga's face turned red, and he was speechless.

He only had suspicions, without any evidence.

The continued questioning was actually a questioning of all the proctors, including the wise men and the discipline officers.

Moreover, who can the first place copy?

"Alright, quiet down." Nafis tapped the podium. "Next is the mentor selection process. Please come up and confirm your selection in order of ranking. Anil, you go first."

Nafis looked at Chen Bo with a hint of anticipation in his eyes.

As a sage, he hadn't seen such a talented prodigy in a long time. He was ready to extend an invitation to Chen Bo to become his assistant.

Chen Bo stood up and said without hesitation, "I choose Mentor Tinari. I want to get more involved in the field ecology, and Mentor Tinari's style suits me very well."

Nafis was stunned for a second.

The students made their choices before I even sent out the invitations.

Tinari was a highly respected scholar of the biophilosophical school and also one of my favorite students, so there was nothing wrong with making this choice.

Nafis regretted his aloofness and realized he should have extended the invitation immediately.

It's too late now.

"The first place winner, Anil, has chosen Tinari as his mentor." Nafis turned to the second place winner, "And you, Palavi?"

Paravi glanced at Chen Bo and immediately echoed loudly, "I also choose Mentor Tinari!"

Nafis was also somewhat impressed with his disciple Tinari, who was so popular.

Tina is a very good person and a very enthusiastic worker; she is quite well-known within the Living Wheel sect.

Then, the students chose their mentors one by one.

After everyone had made their choices, Nafis turned to Chen Bo and Palavi: "Tinari is in Sumeru City on business these past two days. After class, you two will come with me to see him. As for the rest of you, get out of class dismissed."

After class, Chen Bo and Palavi followed Nafis through the long corridor of the Palace of Wisdom and arrived at a quiet terrace.

A figure stood with his back to them by the railing. He was dressed in a smart forest ranger uniform, and what was most striking was the pair of long ears on his head that twitched from time to time.