Demon Slayer: I was taken home by Shinobu Kocho at the beginning.

"You should all understand the situation of the small group. Next, we will explain the situation of the large group."

After the exam begins, you can form groups of up to six people and work together. These groups can only team up with students of the same grade.

Of course, there are also gender restrictions for larger groups. Groups with three or fewer people have the same restrictions as smaller groups, while in larger groups of four or more people, girls must make up at least 50%.

"In order to give you a clear goal for forming a team, I will now tell you about the exam content."

Last year's deserted island survival exercise must have left many students feeling anxious because they couldn't fully utilize their potential.

However, you can assume that this year's exam will require [all abilities].

Beyond the abilities I just mentioned—academic ability, physical strength, mental fortitude, and communication skills—you all have the potential to utilize your own strengths as well.

Nagumo is quite capable; he's considered things so comprehensively.

However, Tatsuya Kamio then paused for a moment. Indeed, if the exam plan was riddled with flaws, the school probably wouldn't approve it.

"So it's okay if you want to team up with students you have close relationships with, but the overall ability of the group may directly affect the results of the special exam. Therefore, I suggest you consider all aspects before forming a team."

The students in the class expressed their understanding, and then the next topic was introduced on the board: "Now that you fully understand the importance of the group, let's talk about the compensation."

Finally, it arrived. Tatsuya Kamio and Ryuen exchanged a glance, both seeing the anticipation in each other's eyes. Then, they looked at the screen in front of them, which displayed the exam rewards displayed on the board.

The first-place group:

The class has 500 points, the individual has 2 million points, and the protection point is 1.

Second place group:

The class has 300 points, and the individual has 1 million points.

The third-place group:

The class has 200 points, and the individual has 500,000 points.

The top 50% of groups (including first to third place)

My personal points are 50,000.

The top 70% of the groups (including first to third place)

Personal points are 10,000 points.

Note 1: The class points obtained by the first three groups will be transferred from the last three groups (if the class points to be collected are less than the reward amount, the remaining points will be made up by the school, and this exam will not cause a class point deficit).

Note 2: Regarding class points, regardless of the number of students, they will be distributed equally according to the number of classes (rounded to the nearest whole number).

As expected, because it involves the total resources of three grades, the number of class points and personal points involved is particularly large.

If a class can sweep the top three spots and avoid the bottom three, it can directly obtain 1,000 class points.

Based on the current situation of the second grade, even Class D is almost close to the level of Class 1.

However, Tatsuya Kamio had some doubts about the private points system.

What is Nagumo up to?

Although the rules state that a maximum of 1000 class points can be plundered from other grades, these points can only generate a maximum of 400 million private points per month.

Not to mention that no class in the second grade has forty students, so with less than a year left until graduation in the third grade, what can you do with so many points?

He'd been holding back this amazing move for so long, and all he got was this little bit of personal points?

Who are you trying to fool?

So, there must be some special rules, right?

Moreover, there's a problem that's quite concerning.

"Teacher, if the group that wins first place has multiple students, will everyone receive the protection points, or will only one student receive them?"

"Of course, everyone in the group will receive a protection point, but the class points and personal points rewards will be distributed equally."

For example, a group that won first place has 6 people, including 3 from Class A, 1 from Class B, and 2 from Class C.

The final reward distribution is that Class B receives half of the total reward, which is 250 points, while Class B, with only one person, receives one-sixth of the total reward.

Do you understand now?

The students nodded, and then the explanation of the exam continued on the board.

"Since such a lucrative exam has been arranged for you this time, the punishment will naturally be very severe as well. That's right, expulsion."

Moreover, all students from the five lowest-scoring groups dropped out of school.

This caused the students in the class to gasp in shock. The group with the lowest scores was expelled. This was far too harsh. At least five students were guaranteed to drop out.

If we're unlucky, it could even lead to up to thirty students dropping out.

However, a group of six usually wouldn't end up at the very end.

"Of course, points can also be used to help with this exam. As long as 600 million private points are paid, the entire group can avoid being expelled. If it is a group of six, it will only be 100 million points per person on average."

However, once the exam begins, you will not be able to lend or borrow personal points, so the condition is that you must have the necessary rescue points on your mobile phone before boarding the ship.

Furthermore, to prevent anyone from sabotaging the team, if the six-person group accidentally falls into the bottom five, even if the others can't contribute points, as long as someone can contribute 100 million personal points, they will still be saved.

No wonder I don't recommend taking the exam alone; there's a reason for that. Besides, the average punishment is reassuring.

Should we share the risks?

Haha, interesting.

"In addition to that... there are additional rules for this exam."

As she said this, the teacher put another picture on the electronic blackboard, showing eight items.

"This is a special prop used in the exam."

Basic Cards:

1. Leading Card: At the start of the exam, the number of initial points available becomes 1.5 times (initial points can be exchanged for living supplies).

2. Additional Card: The holder receives double the personal points rewards.

3. Halving Card: Reduces the personal points paid when a penalty is imposed by half.

4. The "Hitchhiking Card" grants an additional half of the personal points awarded to the designated group at the start of the exam (this effect disappears if the designated group is grouped with you during the exam).

5. Insurance card: If a candidate is disqualified during the exam due to physical discomfort, the holder will be given only one day of recovery period and can return to the exam after recovery (this is invalid if the disqualification is due to misconduct, etc.).

Special Cards:

6. Entry Card: Students with this card can be the seventh student in their group (effective after the exam begins and unaffected by gender ratio).

7. Invalid cards will result in zero personal points being paid out as a penalty.

8. Trial Card: Grants the right to multiply the points reward for the special exam class by 1.5 times (but if the student does not make it into the top 30%, everyone in the group will be expelled, which can be offset by using 6 million personal points. Note: Students with this card can disable it at the start of the game).

Note 1: Any additional class points and personal points generated will be made up by the school.

Note 2: All students will receive a random card at 8:00 AM tomorrow.

Note 3: You can hold multiple item cards, but only one of the duplicate item cards can be active.

Note 4: All cards can only be traded between grades. The maximum number of times each item card can be traded is 1. Once the holder changes, it cannot be traded again.

"Once the cards are distributed, you can browse who owns which cards on O."

These cards can be sold to students who want to buy them, or they can be bought and owned by one person.

However, since identical effects don't multiply, having two identical cards is pointless.

After reading these special rules, even Kamio Tatsuya couldn't help but be shocked. What was Tsukishiro trying to do?

Although the scale of this exam was very large, the rewards he gave were far too generous.

Some might think the biggest reward for this exam is getting first place and receiving 500 or even 750 class points.

However, this is not the case. In Tatsuya Kamio's view, the key lies in the rideshare card.

There are currently 156 students in the second grade, which means there are 156 prop cards. Each grade only has one of each type of special card, which means there are 153 regular cards in the second grade.

Assuming that the regular cards are distributed equally, then there will be approximately 30 ride-sharing cards. Let's assume there are 30.

If all thirty rideshare cards are assigned to the same group, and that group wins first place in the exam, how many private points will that generate?

First, there's the private points reward for the first-place team: 200 million. However, these points can be doubled using an additional card, making it 400 million.

The rideshare card grants half of the individual points earned by the first-place team, which is 200 million. With 30 cards, that's 6000 million personal points.

The three grades combined total 1.8 million private points.

If these groups also use the bonus cards, then the reward points will double, reaching 3.6 million!

That guy Yuecheng...

Could it be that he thought he could only stay until the end of summer vacation, so he went all out?

"There may be some people who can't understand everything from this explanation, but the special exam manual will be automatically sent to the tablet before noon, so you can check it there."

After the first class ended, the teacher looked at the students on the board and said, "You can take your time to think about what group strategy to formulate in the next class. Class dismissed."

Tatsuya Kamio and Ryuen exchanged a glance, both seeing the determination in each other's eyes to win the exam.

"Once the cards are distributed tomorrow, we'll immediately contact the first-year students to purchase ride-sharing cards and additional cards. Perhaps this time, we'll need to collaborate with the third-year students."

Tatsuya Kamio immediately offered his suggestion, and Ryuen had no objection to it, clearly understanding what Kamio meant.

"Leave the first grade to me, you take care of the third grade."

"no problem."

Tatsuya Kamio nodded. Now that the rules were fully revealed, he understood what Nagumo wanted to do.

This guy also wants points. As long as he can secure first place in this exam, he can use the combination of ride-sharing cards and bonus cards to siphon a lot of points from the school.

If the winner of this exam can be confirmed, then Tatsuya Kamio and Ryuen will have to focus all their efforts on collecting these two types of cards.

Therefore, they were willing to sacrifice the contracts of Class C and Class D held by the two of them!

Even if he had to give up first place in this exam, Kamio Tatsuya wouldn't care at all; he didn't care about class points or anything like that!

Anyway, there will be plenty of special exams in the future, and there will be plenty of opportunities to earn class points, but it is really rare to get so many personal points in one exam!

As for the first graders, although cards cannot be traded across grades, it's not impossible to tamper with them.

Since Longyuan has taken the initiative to handle things there, let's leave it to him.

The task of confirming the first place naturally fell to Tatsuya Kamio.

It seems I'll have to go to the student council after school and have a good talk with Nagumo about the exam.

Besides competing for rankings, it is also very important to prevent students in the class from falling into the bottom three or five.

"Taking special exams on a deserted island for two consecutive years, although I had considered it..."

After leaving the board, Shiina approached Tatsuya Kamio, somewhat wistfully.

Shiina is not good at physical strength, so the deserted island test was a very difficult test for her.

"Let's be optimistic, because next summer we might face a survival test on a deserted island."

Kamio Tatsuya made a joke at Shiina.

“Yeah, what’s coming will come eventually. Tatsuya, do you want to team up with me for this exam?” Shiina looked at Kamio Tatsuya with anticipation.

"Well, I don't have any objections, but if we want to form a team, we'll need to bring in another girl to make it a group."

Kamio Tatsuya shrugged. He didn't plan to compete for first place in this exam; that would be too tiring. He just needed to know who came in first.

"That makes sense. Should we bring Masumi along?"

"I'm afraid it will be difficult. Masumi has excellent physical strength, and Sakayanagi will definitely not give up on letting her work hard for the class." Kamio Tatsuya shook his head.

The other second-grade girls, who were familiar with the two and didn't care about class points...

almost none.

Chapter 318 Nan Yun is really troublesome.

For this exam, Kamio Tatsuya does not plan to form a team. If he has to form a team, he only plans to team up with Ayanokoji.

Since this exam will be the last chance for Tsukishiro, who dropped out of school, and Ayanokouji, it's better for them to work together than to be defeated one by one.

Now, Tatsuya Kamio's strength, agility, and stamina have all reached the human limit of seven points.

Moreover, he studied martial arts with Horikita for several months last year, so even if he was attacked by Tsukishiro, he wouldn't be a liability.