While the students of Royal Creek were bummed out, the students of Northon Institute were celebrating. Everyone gathered around Zeke when he returned to his seat.

"Zeke, why didn't you tell us you were Specter!?"

"That was one crazy competition!"

"I heard you've partnered with the number one hacker!"

"Have you met her in person?"

Many in Zeke's entourage bombarded him with question after question. The barrage left him with a headache, and he silently looked at Nicole's direction.

'These people are already excited to know that I'm ranked second. If they knew that Nicole is here, wouldn't they all sh*t their pants? I guess Mr. Hardy will be in for it later, Nicole seems to be seething...,' Zeke thought to himself.

up by contestants completing their turns, with more than half being eliminated. On the main seat, Sebastian was spectating the

be holding herself back in the first two rounds. Nobody in the competition knows for sure what her actual

at Sebastian's direction, and she did not seem to be requesting for him either. After all, Sebastian was just a spectator watching as the competition

of Nicole, Gary, and Ryder having made it, while Zeke had skipped it and

"Gary, Ryder, you two are to be in a team together. The tacit cooperation between the two of you can increase our chances of winning. Nicole and Preston, which one of you is sure to secure a

and looked at Nicole. "Without a doubt, it would

joke is this? How can Nicole be any better than Preston? Should we pick the one

too much for her to enter the finals since she's still a kid. They might not make it into the finals anyway, so

to team up with. Just

don't worry," Preston

not come head-to-head with Nicole and Zeke, the possibility of him entering the finals would still

comfort her. "For a person of your age, it's okay to be nervous,

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