Global Composite Master: Compositing an Undead Army from the Start

"Is it the same at the other testing sites?"

"I just checked. Yes, the status of all candidates at other test sites has also changed to Floor 0. I'm not sure what went wrong."

"How is this possible? Is the Academy Alliance deliberately keeping us in the dark?"

"Possibly. I heard there was a recent Alien attack on a student during an examination. Maybe this non-disclosure is to protect the students."

"But now nobody knows the scores, right? Could the Academy Alliance have backup records? Even if they do, wouldn't it be easy for the Aliens to get hold of them? Hiding the exam information is utterly pointless. Besides, they have to announce the results after the exam. Otherwise, how will people apply and get admitted? Isn't that just making things unnecessarily complicated?"

"That makes sense. Indeed, there doesn't seem to be a reason to conceal the information. So, what's happening now? We have an anomalous two-star Skeleton Mage here. Hiding information about him might be understandable, but the other test sites were showing normal scores... and now they've all changed to Floor 0. It's truly baffling."

"I wonder how the candidates inside are doing."

At this moment, the broadcast announcement began.

"Everyone, please remain calm. We are urgently investigating the abnormal data synchronization issue with this instance. We believe answers will be available soon."

This sudden development immediately puzzled the Academy Alliance official in charge of this year's college entrance examination. He dispatched personnel at top speed to investigate the cause.

Simultaneously, the Aliens had also relayed this peculiar situation to their headquarters.

"All candidate information has changed to Floor 0? What are these Earthlings trying to do?"

Rangu was also quite perplexed. As the teachers had discussed earlier, hiding candidate information like this was meaningless. After all, the information would have to be announced soon anyway. What was the point of hiding it? If the results weren't announced, how could their school's admissions be credible? This move to hide information was utterly foolish. Having dealt with Earth for so many years, he didn't believe Earth's higher-ups could be this stupid.

"Could they have done this just to confirm that the two-star Skeleton Mage is truly extraordinary? I heard the highest floor in this instance is fifty, and he's already reached it."

"That's useless. If they really wanted to do that, it's far too late. The two-star Skeleton Mage has been on the fiftieth floor for some time now. He cleared previous floors extremely quickly, yet this time, he lingered on the fiftieth floor for several minutes. If they truly wanted to confirm his exceptional strength, shouldn't they have changed the displays within a minute of him reaching the fiftieth floor? This whole situation is just baffling now."

"Sir, we've received internal news. Even the administrator of the entrance exam team doesn't know what's happening. He has already ordered a thorough investigation."

"Could they be putting on an act?"

"What's the reaction from the Alliance higher-ups?" Rangu immediately asked the team in contact with their moles within the Alliance leadership.

"The message was just relayed. The Alliance higher-ups seem genuinely surprised, but we don't know if they're just acting."

Just as everyone was feeling bewildered, lights suddenly flashed in the centers of all ten examination venues. Nearly one hundred thousand candidates were teleported out simultaneously.

This development left the teachers and the Academy Alliance's entrance exam staff even more dumbfounded.

"What's going on? Why have all the students been teleported out?"

"Did something go wrong with the instance?"

Someone immediately asked a nearby student, "Why were you all suddenly teleported out?"

"We don't know either. We suddenly received a notification that the instance was abolished, and then we were teleported out."

The questioned student also looked completely baffled.

"The instance was abolished?"

"Yes."

"How could this happen?"

For a moment, everyone who asked the students this question received the same answer.

Soon, this news spread throughout every examination venue.

The entrance exam staff also heard this information.

"The instance abolished itself? Why was it abolished?"

"No one said. The students all received the same message: the instance has been abolished."

"How can this be? I'll contact the higher-ups to check the situation..."

The overall director of this year's college entrance examination was frantic.

「Meanwhile, with the Aliens.」

"All candidates were teleported out en masse? Why?"

Now, Rangu and his subordinates were utterly baffled.

Soon, new information arrived.

"Sir, we have an update. It's said the instance has been abolished."

"The instance was abolished? Do we know the reason?"

"It's unclear. All the students claim they don't know."

"Sir, surely they didn't abolish it themselves, did they?"

"Then what was their reason for abolishing it?"

"Perhaps it was to make that Skeleton Mage a clear target, to entice us to act. Having one specific target is much easier for them to counter than if we were to attack a large group."

"Unlikely. If that were true, we wouldn't act so rashly either."

"Then what could it be? They actually dared to abolish an instance they worked so hard to establish? The cost of creating such an examination instance is considerable on our side; I imagine it's the same for them. They abolished it just like that?"

"The whole affair is undeniably strange."

"So, what do we do now?"

Even I can't decipher the Earth higher-ups' actions anymore, Rangu thought. His mind was filled with questions. He completely failed to understand what game the Earth higher-ups were playing now. Why suddenly abolish the instance?

It wasn't just him; at this moment, even Earth's higher-ups themselves didn't understand what had happened.