*shouldn't

We found the race that created the 5 scrolls? Also the skull architect is going to have a field day.

Ironic because the beasts are acting exactly as they're supposed to, following orders perfectly. Just the human they're taking orders from was compromised.

You know, during the opening ceremony would be a great time for Ves to harvest some spiritual energy to upgrade the Solemn Guardian, give it the power boost it'll need to hold it's own when it gets paired with a Master designed mass produced trashcan mech like the Tyrian chapters have been hinting at.

The intelligence people didn't think to... ask them? They're allies after all.

opens for half a year before it closes

Since this generation's God King got killed, shouldn't he be in the graveyard as well?

So the whole "schools will only be paired with other schools with the same number of points" was just not actually true? Since only one school has been undefeated, they win. Or better yet have separate martial and magic tournaments, like the "they're first in swords and third in magic" seems to imply is actually happening anyway .

Is he actually talented with swords? Leo sure isn't and the system is almost exclusively about magic. He got lucky once with the sword style and nothing related to swords since. He's got persistence, but no genius.

There has to be a spell that summons a flame blade. It's a classic, and would work so well for Leo

The smart move would be too sell his high level cores and buy a mountain of F tier cores. A C grade core surely is guaranteed sell for more than $7,500, etc, and it's probably not possible to get less than 1 point per F Core. Also with 70k points he might as well spend 50k on S grade Fire magic, the effects of the apple were still ramping up or whatever. And boost wind too. Also ask Camille and Eve for a small loan of a billion dollars, boost his stats to truely OP levels and slaught the tournament. Single chapter of pure destruction.

Assuming that an S ranked boss monster doesn't have the senses and speed to kill you before you even realize it seems like the last mistake a lot of adventurers make. I'm calling that the teams will run into each other while the boss slowly picks them apart, the teacher comes to save them, but Leo steals last hit because he's just so powerful and cool, gaining a stupid amount of points cementing his point lead, the System gives him a sweet reward, and the headmistress uses him getting first in a 2 man squad as the excuse to give him the apple.

wait ... the bathroom is where Ves his using the System, though I'm sure the footage was scrubbed.

Man Leo is dumb. Incread of using his massive mana regen to speedrun growing his mana pool, he gains an unreliable ally. Seriously, what has Lilith done to actually earn his trust? Teach him a couple magic spells; including vampire spells which are taboo, though we still don't have any reason vampires are taboo. She's one of the greatest enemies of humanity, doesn't give information when it could help (Nina), and now wants to bind her soul to him (requiring likely more mana drain than most mages have). The least he should be doing is getting a second opinion, Miss Camille's already proven willing to dabble in forbidden magic for no real gain. I've seen DnD parties meeting a friendly adventurer at a bar right after their friend died have more hesitation.

Ves is getting distracted again, but also at least his ideas are possible: the System gave him the Grand Dynamo and that intetaction sounds practically identical to what Ves wants.

Pretty sure everyone prefers the new Yuan

*puts on game of thrones director hat* Yuan just kinda forgot about the core.

Anthony/ The Eldest takes offense at this! For the colony!

So quests can lie then? Since the son didn't return, and almost certainly wasn't the woman's son at all, if the woman existed at all.

There once was an old scholar named Chekhov: he theorized that some people concealed guns on their person, but that'd be ridiculous.