Overlord’s story is simple.
Four years ago, Ba Wang's strength was not the best among his class. In fact, his strength was only ranked in the middle. On the contrary, Ba Wang had a close friend who joined the organization with Ba Wang, trained together, and ate together. Their relationship was extremely good.
That best friend's ability was among the best in the class at that time, so in the graduation assessment four years ago, the best friend passed the assessment, while the Overlord was eliminated.
After graduation, the best friend quickly became a black soldier, and from time to time he would send letters to Ba Wang describing the various missions he had experienced. Ba Wang continued to work hard and train, wanting to graduate in the second assessment and keep up with his best friend. All he wanted was to continue to be his best friend's teammate after graduation.
However, one day, Overlord lost contact with his best friend.
The day we agreed to contact each other has arrived, but my best friend seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth and I can't get in touch with him at all.
After making inquiries from many sources, he finally found out that his best friend had died during a mission.
And my best friend died just three months before graduation.
After hearing the news of his best friend's death, Overlord was so grief-stricken that he used a lesser black soldier potion to seal off his emotions, but every time his emotions recovered, he would be greeted with another heartbreaking sadness.
He could not believe that his best friend died so easily. After all, he knew his best friend's strength very well. In the eyes of the Overlord at that time, he was already very powerful. In an unbelievable mood, the Overlord began to investigate, trying to find out the inside story of his best friend's death.
The result is naturally that there is no inside information at all.
After investigation, he learned an even more surprising fact—his best friend died relatively late.
Of the other nine students who died at the same time as his best friend, six died in the first two months, his best friend died in the third month, and the remaining three died in the fourth, fifth, and sixth months respectively.
In other words, among the students who graduated that time, the longest-lived one only lived for half a year after graduation.
This phenomenon is not an isolated case, nor is it special. It is normal in the entire organization, especially since they are from the Emergency Mobile Department, which is a department with a high mortality rate. Therefore, there is nothing to blame.
But it was this kind of "normality" that made the Overlord angry.
This means that the students who graduate from the organization are defective products that are far from meeting the qualification standards!
From that day on, Ba Wang’s goal was no longer to graduate successfully.
He became a wall preventing other students from graduating.
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"Only when the strength reaches the standard recognized by the Overlord will the students be allowed to graduate. Otherwise, they will have to repeat the year under the control of the Overlord. Since the Overlord's strength was the best among all the heroes, this system has become a tradition. Even if the Overlord doesn't say it, we all follow the fate of being controlled."
Yuan told everything.
Even Lao Luo, who had already betrayed, was stunned, and the other new students didn't say a word.
No one could have imagined that there was such a reason behind this.
Yuan sneered, "Do you know that since the implementation of this system, the survival rate of students one year after graduation has increased from 15% to 70%?"
It is precisely because of this increase in survival rate that they believe that Overlord’s decision is correct.
As the old students gradually graduate, the only ones who know the reasons behind Bawang's rule are Bawang and his second-in-command A Yuan who has always followed him.
In the eyes of others, the Overlord is nothing more than a hateful dictator who is preventing them from graduating.
After listening to this, Zhu Shijiu murmured, "So that's how it is."
Overlord's expression also softened.
"You know everything? I'm doing this for everyone's good! Do you think your strength is enough? Ridiculous! In my eyes, you are not even qualified!"
Overlord's words shocked everyone, and some new students couldn't help but back off after hearing the truth behind it.
Before Overlord reformed the system, only 15% of graduates could survive for a full year, all because they graduated hastily due to their lack of strength.
The existence of the Overlord is like a filter, which rejects all the new students who are not strong enough and trains them forcefully to become senior students. However, becoming a senior student is not enough, they also need to win over other senior students in order to graduate successfully.
"Do you think we really only have 18 senior students?" Yuan said, "We have a large number of senior students who know that they have no chance of graduating and have voluntarily given up the opportunity to take the graduation assessment. I want to know, if you new students are eliminated, how many of you will be willing to take the next assessment? Do you know your own strength?!"
A Yuan looked around with sharp eyes. Although he was just a prisoner, many new students had already begun to avoid his gaze.
Seeing this, Yuan laughed mockingly: "See, this is the new student you wanted to help you pass the exam! Defective products! All of them are fucking defective products! With this kind of quality, I'm afraid they will die as soon as they graduate!"
Zhu Shijiu also looked at the other new students, only to see that most of them avoided his sight, with visible hesitation on their faces.
He suddenly laughed: "So... I did something wrong?"
A Yuan also laughed, but his laugh was ironic: "You are wrong! You are just claiming to be righteous! Your actions are only hastening their death!"
The Overlord finally stopped just listening and said, "The organization did not stop me from ruling the graduation assessment. This to a certain extent shows that the organization also recognizes my approach and my philosophy. There are many newcomers who actually cannot meet the qualification standards..."
Zhu Shijiu suddenly interrupted and asked, "Including me?"
The Overlord was speechless.
"If I lose to you today, will I have to wait until the next graduation assessment? Your actions are nothing more than desertion that denies all possibilities."
Zhu Shijiu said calmly.
"Doesn't the organization know about the high mortality rate among graduating students? Didn't they think of adjusting the eligibility criteria before you took the initiative?"
"No, the organization knew about it, but they still did it. Why do you think that is? The answer is simple, because the current situation facing the world does not allow the organization to slowly select what you call qualified products."
"What if we face a high mortality rate among Zerg? Isn't it true that 15% of the students can still survive?"
"Graduation examinations have always been held irregularly. The organization will only hold a graduation examination when it feels that there are enough students. Your domineering behavior will only lead to fewer and fewer students applying for the examination, and the frequency of graduation examinations will become lower and lower, resulting in more and more students being held back."
"Overlord, you are too arrogant. You thought that doing this could save the lives of the students, but you never thought that your actions caused the slow death of the world!"
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Overlord's eyes were red as he asked, "Do you want me to watch a large number of students die?!"
Zhu Shijiu said: "I just want to say that everyone should have the right to choose. Do you think those black soldiers who died at the hands of the Zerg will regret graduating too early?"
The Overlord asked back, "Do you think they won't regret it?"
"I would regret it. If I died at the hands of the Zerg, I would also regret it."
Zhu Shijiu gave an answer that surprised the Overlord.
But in the next sentence, Zhu Shijiu made another turn.
"But this is not a matter of whether we regret it or not. Even if we regret it, we have no choice but to do it!"
Zhu Shijiu looked around and saw those eyes that had avoided him before.
"You are afraid of death, and so am I, but we have no way out! Everything we have done may be in vain. I may be boasting now and think I am well prepared, but in fact I will die at the hands of the Zerg right after graduation. But what can we do? We have no way out. Death is the fate of the Black Soldiers!"
"We become students just to become black soldiers! If we become black soldiers, we are destined to die at the hands of alien insects!"
"We have no right to retreat! We can't tell ourselves that I can't die because I'm not ready. Is the world ready to face the sudden appearance of alien insects? Do we still have time to prepare slowly?"
Zhu Shijiu suddenly looked at Lao Yang: "Lao Yang, after listening to what Ba Wang said, do you still want to graduate now?"
Old Yang was in a trance for a moment, then he smiled and said, "Yes. I want to be a black soldier."
"Why do you want to be a black soldier?"
"To kill the Zerg."
"Why do you want to kill the Zerg?"
"Because the Zerg are devouring our home."
Zhu Shijiu asked the Overlord: "Is this reason enough? We want to graduate, we want to kill the Zerg, and we want to risk our lives to stop the world from being devoured!"
"It is the duty of the people protected by our Black Soldier Organization to prepare slowly in the back. We have only one duty, and that is to step up when it is our turn. That's all."
The Overlord was silent.
Zhu Shijiu leaned over and looked at the equally silent A Yuan: "According to your theory, the strong ones should graduate and face the alien insects, and the weak ones should hide in the base and survive. The fittest will survive... Ha, how can this be true in the world?"
The people in the forest were silent for a long time.
Until the Overlord looked at Zhu Shijiu with complicated eyes: "Zhu Shijiu, I admit that I am not as strong as you. If it were you, what would you do?"
Zhu Shijiu smiled.
"I will only set one rule - Voldemort is not allowed to exist in the graduation assessment of the extreme training course! In the dictionary of the black soldiers, there is no option of 'surviving to the end is victory'."