Virtual 52nd War Zone · Seth Canyon—this is a virtual area constructed after the famous canyon at the junction of the eastern and western continents. It is only open to each year’s graduates of the continent’s higher academies, and essentially serves as the graduation assessment for all academy graduates across the continent.

The ninth-level difficulty of Seth Canyon is similar to that of the real canyon. If any graduate can pass it, the resume rating of all graduates in that country will be increased by +1.

However, in the past thirty years, the Xing’ao Empire has never had such a graduate.

“By the way.”

Grace White’s expression shifted slightly as she asked, “What about that person? Didn’t he come?”

At her words, Albert, April Wells, and the others’ faces changed, then they all shook their heads.

“He actually didn’t come? This is the final assessment for every year’s graduates.” Grace White was very surprised.

Albert narrowed his blue eyes and said indifferently, “If that person were to come, his goal would definitely be the ninth-level difficulty. Since he hasn’t shown up by now, he probably isn’t confident and simply decided not to come.”

April Wells and the others all nodded, agreeing with Albert’s judgment.

The crowd was abuzz, all discussing a single name—Lynn.

Lynn, to be precise, is not a name but a codename, and is also the most mysterious person among this year’s graduates of the Xing’ao Empire.

Four years ago, when first-year geniuses led by Albert were rising rapidly and dominating various war zones on the Alliance Academy’s virtual platform, Lynn suddenly appeared, suppressing all the same-year geniuses of the Xing’ao Empire with overwhelming strength.

In his third year, he even consecutively defeated fourth-year geniuses and broke records set by upperclassmen, shocking the entire Xing’ao Empire.

However, this person is too mysterious, always using the codename “Lynn,” and no one knows which higher academy he is a genius student of.

Over the past year, Lynn has rarely appeared, which allowed Albert to overtake him and claim the top spot in the Xing’ao Empire’s graduate rankings.

Yet, in the hearts of the vast majority of Xing’ao Empire’s students, Lynn is still the undisputed strongest graduate.

“What a pity…” Grace White sighed softly, regretfully saying, “The 52nd War Zone is about to close, and even if he comes now, it’s too late.”

At the canyon entrance, a monument displayed a countdown—only twenty minutes remained until Seth Canyon would close.

Suddenly, Albert’s expression changed as he looked toward a spot in the crowd, where, at some point, a new figure had appeared.

It was a man wearing a mask. The soft armor on his body was very old—it was the standard-issue soft armor given by the system to first-year academy students when they first entered the virtual war zone, offering only basic defense.

Some first-year students, upon receiving it, even disdain to wear it, as it marks them as first-year rookies.

However, the soft armor worn by Lynn had always been this same set. Even a year ago, when he was in his third year and challenged the seventh-ranked genius among last year’s graduates, he hadn’t changed to any other armor.

“Lynn…” Albert murmured.

Grace White and the others were astonished. Following his gaze, they saw only a blurry shadow slip past the crowd, gliding across the ice like a ghost, and disappear at the canyon entrance.

“With so little time left, how could he possibly make it? Even for the first-level difficulty, the time wouldn’t be enough…”

April Wells exclaimed softly, her beautiful eyes suddenly widening as if she had thought of something. “Did Lynn show up now to give himself the greatest pressure and challenge the ninth-level difficulty?”

Everyone present had changing expressions, all considering this possibility. With the strength Lynn had shown in the past, challenging the eighth-level difficulty would not be difficult.

But he only appeared now, clearly intending to put himself under immense pressure and attempt the ninth-level difficulty of Seth Canyon within the extreme time limit.

Breaking through one’s limits under extreme pressure—this is something geniuses have always enjoyed attempting…

“Only twenty minutes left…”

Albert’s eye twitched slightly. He gritted his teeth and said, “Lynn! Let me see for myself—can you create a legendary academy record not seen in thirty years…”

Time ticked by, second by second—

The crowd stared intently at the countdown on the monument. Although passing the ninth-level difficulty of Seth Canyon within twenty minutes seemed utterly inconceivable, everyone present still wanted to see if a miracle could happen.

Ding!

With just one minute left before noon, a soft sound suddenly came from the canyon entrance. A light screen appeared, displaying a line of text…

In an instant, the crowd erupted. They knew there was only one situation in which a light screen would appear at the canyon entrance—someone had passed the ninth-level difficulty of Seth Canyon.

“He really did it…” Grace White’s eyes widened as she murmured.

…

At the same time.

At Nanluo Academy, the fourth-year dormitory was in an uproar, waves of cheers surging like a tide.

“Ninth-level difficulty of Seth Canyon, cleared! Lynn, you’re our god!?”

“Did he really do it? Does that mean all of us Xing’ao Empire graduates this year get a +1 on our resume rating?”

“Amazing! With a +1 resume rating, I can enter the Nanluo Provincial Guard Department’s trial training…”