"Flattery won’t take you anywhere, Mr. Black, but results might." Giving the playboy Dean an impassive look, Professor Skinner moved back.
"Go on, you know what to do."
Caught off guard by the sudden increase in coldness from the woman, Dean had no comeback.
With a wry smile, he moved to the magical device and placed his hand on the orb.
Just like before, a ball appeared. The color of this ball was also the same.
"Let’s see how this goes." Whispering to himself, Dean controlled the ball to move around a bit. But he would stop it as soon as it was about to touch the wall.
After two or three tries , he finally started to move it straight up ahead.
The speed with which it moved was completely different from before. The ball wiggled out of the straight line a little but not too much.
Compared to him, Professor’s control was in a completely different league. Her ball moved straight as an arrow without diverging out of the path.
Even then, Dean did not have any difficulties passing the first level.
Maintaining the momentum, he moved on to the next level.
This time a zig-zag maze.
The ball started off fast as before, but at the end it abruptly stopped before it could hit the wall of the turn.
With a spin, it moved again and once more before another star lit up.
"Yes." A grin found its way to his face as he moved on to the next level without being interrupted.
Unlike the first two levels, the third level had a pentagon-shaped maze with some paths blocked, and there was only a single correct path he could take.
"This is really fun."
Instead of feeling the pressure, Dean was enjoying himself as he entered. Follow current novels on novel fire.net
"Is it really possible then?"
Looking at how smoothly he took one turn after another, those who seemed still worried no longer felt so.
But once more their happiness was short-lived.
Just as Dean reached the fourth level, his grin suddenly vanished.
Seeing his expression, Professor ner, who seemed to be relaxing in the corner, suddenly exclaimed. "Ah, I forgot. After the third level, you cannot stop the ball also decrease the speed below a certain level."
Dean’s lips twitched in annoyance. Sweat started forming over his brows as he tried his best to keep his ball away from the walls.
Unlike before, this new level demanded a whole new level of control over the dragon energy.
"Is there something else I should be aware of in the further levels?" Dean did not want to take any chance again.
And he was really correct in asking Olivia.
"Tch." Clicking her tongue, she relented and gaveor the information to the boy. "After the seventh level, the speed will increase, and you can only try to control the direction with your control, but... oh well, you will see yourself. There is no point in telling you that."
She casually took a seat on the chair that had appeared out of nowhere and crossed her arms, watching Dean struggle with amusement.
Dean no longer had the attention to focus on getting angry or saying anything, as all of his focus was on completing the level.
Soon, the fourth star was glowing as well.
But he had no time to gloat, as the fifth maze was so complex he barely had the time to choose the correct route.
He almost collided with the end of the path but barely escaped.
Eventually, the fifth star was glowing as well.
As soon as the next level started, Dean could not even react before the ball struck the side wall, being too fast.
"You did not tell me the passage will become narrow as well." Dean groaned seeing the red "Loser" message in the air.
"Want me to guide you through all the levels as well?"
Although Professor Olivia mocked Dean’s naive words with an eye roll, the boy asked with glowing eyes, "can you?"
A vein throbbed on the professor’s face. "Go back to your seat before I throw you there."
"He almost beat the previous record. No wonder Otis Douglas only managed to reach this level."
"Why are we so unlucky? We got a witch for a teacher...."
Professor Skinner waited till the Dean was in his seat and coldly announced.
"Next, from the front benches, left to right. Come one by one and take your turn."
It was not clear whether she heard the words of the students or not, but her eyes had suddenly sharpened.
With that, one after another, the students sitting in the front worked.
"I should be able to do better than this."
The results were even worse than what Dean managed to accomplish. At least he reached the fifth level.
Some could not even reach the fourth level, let alone cross it, but one or two talented individuals managed to repeat the feat Dean had accomplished.
"You will only get one chance per cycle. Once everyone has had their turn, it will repeat over and over again until you have completed the task assigned to you."
The first time Professor skinner showed them and told them about the task, not many had realized the difficulty of it or had underestimated it.
They finally knew it.
They knew the dread it brought.
And they also realized that...
They might actually have to skip the lunch and spend the whole day in the room if the worst comes to pass.
"How will we get out of this?"
"Do you know of a secret pill that can increase your control for a short time? I don’t mind the side effects."
Ignoring the cries of other students. Jinn stood up since it was finally his turn.
"Another guy who will despair and join our rebellion. We must show unity against the teacher."
"I hope he fails on the first level—"
The boy was forced to swallow his words when Jinn placed his hand on the glass orb, and the next second the first star lit up.