Their world doesn't need gods.

The first step Alberta took was to include the students' own combat capabilities in the scoring criteria for the selection competition.

If a student can only command the puppets to fight and is completely useless in battle, or even needs the puppets' unilateral protection, which affects the puppets' own abilities, such students will not be qualified to participate in the competition even if they win the first place in the selection.

Alberta intends to use tough measures to force the next generation of nobles in the empire to face reality.

A powerful puppet alone is of no use in actual combat.

However, there is still a rather serious problem in implementing this plan.

That is, there are not enough people who can score students' practical abilities.

In today's Illya Arya Academy, apart from Alberta, Michelle and Sabrina, only the practical course instructor Webster and his wife Tiffany have practical experience and have actually set foot on the battlefield and experienced desperate fights.

Most of the other instructors in the academy who have "practical experience" graduated with good grades while they were students, and after serving in the Imperial Army for a few years, they came to the academy to be instructors.

Almost all of these guys' combat experience comes from defeating bandit gangs...

Some people don't even have this kind of practical experience, let alone have ever been on a battlefield.

It would definitely be inappropriate to let this kind of guy serve as a judge.

So Alberta thought of Alfred and planned to ask Alfred to come over to deal with this trouble.

(That Alberta girl... Tsk, I'll definitely have to let Illya punish her later. She dared to call me over as a tool.)

After listening to Cecilia's explanation, Alfred thought to himself.

If he had nothing to do, he wouldn't be so stingy as to be unwilling to help Alberta.

After all, Alberta still owed him a big favor, so it would be fun to use it to play a trick on Alberta.

But Alfred has important matters to attend to right now, and spending time as a judge is really...

If Liliana and others also participate in the trials, maybe we can consider it.

But Liliana and the others have already qualified, and Leonard will not join in the fun because his lover Jessica has already qualified. Even if Alfred is asked to be a judge, he will not be motivated.

"It's really difficult... I'm sorry to ask you such an unreasonable request."

Cecilia said regretfully.

"Wait a minute, Senior Cecilia, it's okay even if we find someone to replace you."

Alfred confirmed.

"Well, if it's someone you, Junior Al, recommend, he must be very reliable."

"In that case..."

Alfred thought about it and decided to ask Illya, Vivian and Chloe to be judges.

In terms of practical experience, the three of them certainly have no problems.

Moreover, these three people are now free and have plenty of time to participate in the five-day selection competition.

As for Vivian, Alfred wanted her to rest for a while. But Vivian herself was a little impatient and wanted to return to the capital to take over the work of [Netherworld] again.

It just so happened that being a judge for this selection contest was an 'important' job arranged by Alfred himself, which allowed Vivian to stay here and rest for a few more days.

Thinking of this, Alfred smiled in his heart with a plan in his mind.

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—Roderick—

"Brady, we still have a lot of time, let's go to that store again. I heard that the top girls there don't have many customers, so we can just bring them out to play together."

Roderick drunkenly suggested to Brady.

"Good idea, let's go there now. It just so happens that we can be a little extravagant today and just rent a top-notch suite for the night. With so many people, the usual rooms are too small."

Brady agreed without hesitation and made an even more exaggerated proposal.

The two men are now surrounded by beauties on both sides, and there are several good-looking bar girls following behind them.

A large group of beautiful women.

Even so, Roderick was still not satisfied and planned to go to another store and bring out all the beautiful girls there to have fun together.

Because Night Street was also involved in the attack by Illya and Arya some time ago, many people were injured or even killed. Many nobles dared not come to Night Street for night fun, which also led to a general downturn in business in the shops of Night Street.

Only the casino was as lively as ever, filling Roderick and Brady's pockets.

That store was a bar that Roderick and Brady often visited.

Moreover, some of the top girls not only have outstanding looks and figures, but also pleasant voices and are very good in bed. Roderick and Brady both like them very much.

They thought, since they had plenty of money, they might as well take care of the girls' business.

During the Olympic Fire Festival, Roderick and Brady had nothing to do. The student union was also busy with the preparations for the Olympic Fire Festival and had no time to take care of other things. The two of them spent the whole day hanging out on the night streets.

This is definitely not because of Roderick's failure at the Holy Fire Festival.

Unlike previous years, the empire's now well-known eleventh princess Erica made a sudden decision to visit Illya Arya Academy during this year's Holy Fire Festival.

This is an unexpected surprise for boys born into earl's family or below.

In order to avoid the situation of foreign relatives becoming monopolistic, the family of the empress's husband is usually not of very high status or power. This gives hope to those boys who want to get close to Erica and then become her husband to rise from a sparrow to a phoenix.

They all wanted to get close to the princess who would most likely inherit the throne in the future, and they fantasized that the charming Erica would fall in love with them.

Roderick was not one of them.

Although he also tried to approach Erica and talk to her, it was only because she was a beautiful girl.

Unfortunately, Roderick's size was totally disproportionate to his fighting ability, and he couldn't squeeze through those ferocious male students.

Roderick simply gave up.

He knew that those boys who wanted to take advantage of Erica would definitely regret it in the future.

Because Erica is one of the main bosses in the second generation of the game.

The person who will inherit the throne in the future will definitely not be Erica.

Although not as dangerous as Alfred, the final boss of the first generation, Erica is also a pretty scary guy.

Not being able to get close to her might be a good thing for Roderick.

You are curious why Roderick still thinks like a gamer even though he has experienced so many failures and there is such a big deviation between the reality and the plot in the game?

Because apart from believing in the game's script, Roderick has no other spiritual sustenance.

Roderick is actually quite self-deprecating. Without the support of the game plot, he doesn't believe in his heart that he can do anything.

Ah, in fact, the main reason is that Roderick wants to rely on the plot of the game to easily become the winner in life that he imagines in his mind.

It's like being addicted to gambling, always thinking that you will definitely win next time.

Roderick has always believed in his heart that even if there was a "little" deviation in the past, the future will definitely be the same as the plot of the game. And he can also live a happy life surrounded by wealth and beautiful girls with the knowledge in the game.

As for Erica kissing Alfred after dancing with him, Roderick just felt a little jealous when he heard about it, thinking that villains are just like villains.

Just seeing the lively atmosphere of the Holy Fire Festival made the cynical Roderick feel irritated.

Brady was also in a bad mood because he was slapped by a girl because of his inappropriate behavior. He and Roderick hit it off and ran to the night street to relieve their stress.

A release in every sense of the word.

Roderick and Brady arrived at their destination, ordered some drinks and snacks, and then started drinking again. After having enough fun in the bar, the two took a group of girls to have a midnight snack.

At night, a group of people finally partied in the top-level box of the largest hotel on Night Street until dawn...

Several days passed in a daze.

The life of luxury was so sweet that both Roderick and Brady forgot about time.

By the time they realized they had to go back to school, it was several days after the Fire Festival.

Roderick and Brady were absent from work for several days without reason, and when they came back, they smelled of alcohol and cheap aphrodisiac perfume. In addition, both of them had a lot of criminal records, so the members of the student union were too lazy to pay any more attention to them and directly threw them into the detention room for three days.

After the Holy Fire Festival, Princess Erica was attacked on her way back to the imperial capital.

This matter had already spread among the students, and the atmosphere in the academy was quite tense. In addition, the student union had to prepare for the Puppet Master Academy Competition, so they didn't have the time to pay attention to these two troublemakers.

"Hey, Brady, it suddenly occurred to me that it's almost the end of the semester, and the Puppet Master Academy Competition will be held soon."

Roderick sat in the confinement room and said to Brady who was still drowsy across from him.

"Ah...I guess so. What happened to that game?"

I don’t know whether Brady wanted to sleep or was simply not interested in the Puppet Master Academy Competition.

In short, the voice that replied to Roderick sounded listless and gave people the feeling that he was indifferent.

"Are you stupid? If we win the competition, we will be the rising stars of the Puppet Master Academy in the imperial capital. By then, those bitches who look down on us will surely be eager to take off their clothes to please us.

Aren't you interested in the cool plot of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?"

Roderick couldn't help but complain about Brady in dumbfoundedness.

But Brady also looked at him with a dumbfounded expression, as if to say, it's happening again.