The spacious classroom in the Demon Academy was filled with a blend of dim light, where the wood grain on the oak floor and the carpet carried an inexplicable desolation and obsession. Only the clear footsteps of the proctors echoed, like mobile killing intent, roaming within the examination hall.

The back row of the examination hall.

Hyperion hung her head, her eyes trembling slightly, her mind blank.

She never imagined that she would come to a Shadow World where she needed to play the role of a demon.

For her, this was a kind of extreme punishment.

Because, compared to other challengers whose backgrounds in the Shadow World temporarily disguised them as demons, she was directly stripped of her usual disguise magic, revealing her most authentic demonic form.

This was a sight she didn't want the people of the royal capital to see in public, even if she died. Hyperion didn't even know how to face Lan Qi in this form.

However, the only thing clear in her mind at this moment was—

She and Lan Qi were being broadcasted on the school's screens.

This was a performance, and also a death sentence.

She could only try to calm her mind and attempt to focus on the exam questions in front of her.

Although Hyperion, with half-demon blood, had extremely high affinity for demon magic patterns and was born with some demonic magic,

she had grown up as a duchess in the human kingdom since she was a child, and she simply didn't understand how to write these messy demon magics.

If even she couldn't, it meant that these questions were definitely not something the challengers themselves could answer.

If she wanted to pass the exam and leave this examination hall smoothly, the answer was obvious—

The challengers in the examination hall needed to determine which other candidates could solve the questions, copy the answers from them, and avoid the sight of the two proctors.

And Hyperion and Lan Qi also needed to cooperate, otherwise, they might not be able to collect enough answers to pass within two hours.

Because demon students also guarded against each other. For example, the students in the front row were particularly wary of other students seeing their papers, and it was even possible that some with a twisted sense of humor would deliberately use wrong answers to trick and mislead other students.

"Huff..."

Hyperion tried hard to adjust her disordered breathing.

The only thing that gave her a little peace of mind was that she could feel Lan Qi's calm aura not far beside her.

Presumably, he should also understand the rules for passing this examination hall.

Of course.

Hyperion wasn't sure if the strategy she was currently envisioning was the same as Lan Qi's, so she didn't make any moves.

Her agreement with Lan Qi was—

Lan Qi would look at the enemies, and she only needed to look at Lan Qi.

……

Not far to the right of Hyperion.

Lan Qi was leaning on his chair, looking up, watching the figures of the two proctors, lost in thought.

Their clothes were neat and tidy, and they were polite on the surface, but they carried an undisguisable aura of terror.

One was an owl-human demon, with smooth and glossy black fur, and two scarlet eyes that were cold and cunning. He wore a well-tailored classic suit, decorated with intricate golden details, reminiscent of an ancient and mysterious sect.

The other was a demon with dragon horns and scales, his figure full of majesty and power, his pupils seemingly burning with blazing flames. His body was also human-like, and his luxurious retro suit was embroidered with complex patterns, which looked like a symbol of some kind of power.

They both seemed to be teachers with high status in this school.

Although the two proctors also noticed Lan Qi's gaze, they didn't say anything.

Lan Qi's eyes were very upright, as if his heart was as clear as a mirror. He didn't look like he wanted to cheat at all, but rather like he was tired from writing questions and wanted to relax his eyes.

More importantly, paying attention to the proctors didn't count as any kind of whispering.

Although doing so would indeed garner some attention from the proctors, the difficulty of cheating would increase accordingly.

But this wasn't meaningless.

In a few minutes of observation, Lan Qi had already discovered a lot of things.

For example, the movement routes and speeds of the two proctors were very regular.

And.

In the classroom, there was indeed cheating going on—

Many of the demon students in the front row, once they discovered that the two proctors' lines of sight had a common blind spot, would take advantage of that brief time to start making small movements.

Some cheating methods were very simple, unadorned, precise, and efficient, while others directly used magic to play with technology. It could be said that the Eight Immortals crossed the sea, each displaying their own special abilities.

For example, a demon in the front row just now seemed to have used mental magic to forcibly occupy Lan Qi's vision for a moment at close range, causing his vision to go black.

Later, Lan Qi felt that he seemed to have been labeled as a poor student. It seemed that there was a cheating clique, and after discovering that Lan Qi couldn't write the questions, the nearby demon students didn't give Lan Qi any chance to peek, as if they were excluding him and not allowing him to participate in academic fraud together.

"Fortunately, my mental and magical resistance is high enough, otherwise, being controlled by this kind of magic would be really disgusting."

Lan Qi thought in his heart.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and felt that he had gradually understood everything.

So next, he would also start to show his strength.

……

At Lan Qi's location, an opportunity for the two proctors to simultaneously fall into a blind spot occurred approximately every minute.

There was a brief second of time to try to cheat, which was also the best time to act.

This rare moment was about to reappear.

At this moment, the two demon students in front of Lan Qi couldn't help but turn sideways, holding their papers in their hands, their bodies tense.

Their plan was to each write down the questions they knew, and then try to exchange the papers in their hands during this wave.

All of this was being watched by Lan Qi.

Even if it was simple and crude, it was indeed effective, because the two demon students were very clever and didn't fill in their names on the test papers.

Hyperion quietly observed Lan Qi from the side.

Following Lan Qi's prey-like gaze, she also noticed the movements of the two demon students in the front row.

Hyperion had to admit that Lan Qi's bold choice of "openly watching the whole field," although it increased the proctors' attention, was also extremely efficient in controlling a lot of information.

For example, the moment that was coming soon.

The two candidates in the front row were likely to exchange test papers.

As long as the reaction was fast enough.

Lan Qi could use the attached function of the tool magic card [Shadow World Recording Program] to record the information on the two test papers at the moment of exchange to a certain extent.

Then, he could view it in his own vision.

This was a convenience and information gap that only challengers possessed!

A blind spot appeared, and the two demon students in the front row also began to move.

Hyperion looked forward to Lan Qi successfully capturing the answer as he wished.

If they could use the two students in the front row as a springboard to successfully copy the answers of more students, maybe they wouldn't need to write for two full hours, and they could hand in their papers early and leave the examination hall.

Just as Hyperion was thinking this in her heart.

Lan Qi raised his right hand on the spot.

"Teacher, they are cheating!"

A righteous and stern voice echoed throughout the classroom.

Immediately, the two proctors both turned their heads sharply, their eyes locked on the two demon students who had failed to cheat and were only halfway through exchanging their test papers!

The two demon students who were reported by Lan Qi also turned their heads instinctively, their eyes wide with disbelief, looking at Lan Qi in the back row, as if they were looking at a dog!

"The two of you, I saw you."

The dragon-horned demon, who was closer to the cheating candidates, walked quickly to the front row of Lan Qi, while the farther owl demon clicked his tongue and turned back to continue walking forward.

A cruel massacre was about to begin.

The shrill screams seemed to be compressed into the air, causing other demon students to feel suffocated.

The next second, only the sounds of bones being crushed, blood splattering, and internal organs flying around remained in the classroom.

The cheating demon candidates were turned into two corpses in a short period of time!