chsdbacks Chapter 96: The welcome match concludes, and the friendly match begins.
Chapter 96: The welcome match concludes, and the friendly match begins.
Chapter 96: The welcome match concludes, and the friendly match begins.
Mu Nujiao lost, which meant that all the cultivation resources of the Qing Campus would be plundered by Mo Fan. After a few minutes of calm, the Qing Arena instantly erupted into chaos.
"I don't believe it! I don't believe it! How could the Goddess of Shepherds possibly lose?!"
"Could it be that Mu Nujiao let him go? Otherwise, how could that devil Mo Fan have gotten out of the Kunzhi Forest prison?"
"You're talking nonsense. Why would Goddess Mu go easy on that devil Mo Fan? She's a member of the Mu family in Shanghai, would she be short of cultivation resources? It must be that guy Mo Fan who cheated."
"Heavens above, are you kidding me? I worked so hard for three years to get into Pearl Academy. If it weren't for the cultivation resources provided by the school, how would I break through to become a mid-level mage? I'm the hope of our village! Waaaaah!"
The audience in the arena was filled with deafening cries and murmurs, making Mu Nu feel both shy and indignant, her cheeks burning hot.
Aside from Jiang Han calmly petting the fox, Zheng Bingxiao, Hai Dafu, and the others from the Summoning system stared blankly at Mo Fan in the arena, as if in a dream. They hadn't expected Mo Fan to win either.
The Summoning Department has certainly made a killing this time, but it's a nightmare for all the other departments in the school.
The department heads from the Qing Campus in the audience were dumbfounded. Someone was the first to speak up and advise, "Dean Xiao, what... what should we do?"
"Why don't we persuade Mo Fan to give up voluntarily? Otherwise, the impact of this competition will be too great," someone suggested.
Dean Xiao snorted coldly, "Rules are rules! This time, we're using Mo Fan as a warning to those freshmen and to tell them that the university's resources are earned through competition, so if they don't have the strength, they should give up early."
"If they were truly capable, Mo Fan would have had no chance of winning this match."
Faced with Dean Xiao's reprimand, the heads of all departments lowered their heads. Dean Xiao glanced at them, cleared his throat, and decisively announced the results of the competition: "Alright, today's beast fighting competition is over. All the department's public resources for this semester will belong to the Summoning Department."
"Don't you think this is unfair? If the Summoning Department can't complete 100 challenge objectives, their training resources will be distributed among the other departments. Will you still say it's unfair then? You'll definitely say that's how reality is, survival of the fittest. But what about you now?"
"Actually, the public resources allocated to each person each semester are neither a lot nor a little, and they can't affect your cultivation at all. What you can't accept is not that you don't have cultivation resources, but that all the cultivation resources are in Mo Fan's hands. If you had the strength, why didn't you eliminate him just now?"
"Do you remember what I said at the start of the competition? Have you forgotten what kind of magicians our academy aims to cultivate? I'm very satisfied with today's beast fighting competition because someone has finally broken this unchanging tradition of over a decade. This is a good sign. Don't think you have no chance; isn't there still the challenge from the senior students of the main campus?"
"If you want to prove yourselves, then show your seniors your true abilities!!"
Dean Xiao's words, though laced with anger, also carried a hint of disappointment, causing the students in the fighting arena to lower their heads in shame.
Yes, if they had protested against this unfair rule from the beginning, Dean Xiao would probably have agreed to withdraw it. Their biggest mistake was waiting until others had won a major victory before banding together to object to the unfairness of the rule. Dean Xiao wanted to use this incident to warn the students and tell them how hard-won cultivation resources are.
"Dean Xiao, what you said makes a lot of sense. Allocating all the cultivation resources for this semester to Mo Fan... have you considered... students like us from impoverished backgrounds? Unlike the scions of wealthy families, we don't have abundant cultivation resources. We rely on the resources allocated by the academy to sustain our cultivation. Without the school's resources, we..." A stubborn-looking boy stood up and asked loudly.
Dean Xiao glanced at the student who had stood up, and instead of getting angry, calmly said, "Because this is a school, you are allowed to ask such questions. You would never ask such a naive question in society. Do you all think Mo Fan's current achievements are related to his family background?"
"Yes," the young man nodded.
Many students in the arena nodded in agreement. They all felt that Mo Fan and Jiang Han must be from aristocratic families. If it weren't for the abundant cultivation resources provided by these families, how could they have achieved what they have today?
"This student who stole your resources and whom you utterly despise, comes from Bo City!!" Dean Xiao said coldly.
Bo City? The city that was under a bloody alert and where countless citizens perished. Upon hearing Dean Xiao say that Mo Fan was from Bo City, the scene fell silent once again. After a long while, Dean Xiao sighed and said, "He, Jiang Han, and Xu Zhaoting from the Lei faction are all from Bo City. Among them, Mo Fan's family background is relatively ordinary, even worse than most of you."
"Dean Xiao, isn't it a bit unfair that I'm being dragged into this? Isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to expose our past like this?" Mo Fan said awkwardly, scratching his head.
After the welcome competition concluded, the teachers began arranging friendly matches between returning students from the main campus and new students from the youth campus.
The friendly match was conducted in the form of a ring. The arena below was transformed into five rings by the operation of the super-level earth mage. Each ring had a champion. The champion of the first ring was Jiang Han, the champion of the second ring was Cao Man from the Thunder Academy of the main campus, and the champion of the third ring was Zheng Yu from the Ice Academy of the main campus. As for who the champions of the fourth and fifth rings were, Jiang Han did not inquire.
The referees for this match were several department heads from the Qingdao campus, as Gu Han was no longer suitable to continue serving as a referee.
Gu Han's strength is only that of a mid-level mage, making it impossible for him to save the students in a crisis. In contrast, the department heads of the Qing Campus generally possess high-level strength and are extremely suitable to serve as referees for this competition.
Zheng Songlang, director of the Ice Academy at the Qingdao Campus, announced loudly: "Jiang Han, the champion of the No. 1 arena, and Yao Bin from the Ice Academy at the main campus is the challenger."
"Cao Man, the champion of the second arena, and Chen Yue from the Qing Campus is the challenger."
"The champion of the third arena, Zheng Yu, is challenged by Luo Song from the Qing Campus."
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As soon as Zheng Song, the director of the Ice Academy, finished speaking, the audience in the arena started discussing it again.
"Hey guys, it's a battle between the senior students from the main campus and Jiang Han. Who do you think will win?"
"That must be Senior Yao from the old campus. No matter how good Jiang Han is, can he be better than Senior Yao?"
"I still think Jiang Han can win. His summoned beast is so powerful, and it can even do mid-level lightning magic."
Mo Fan's eyes darted around, and he said with a grin, "Brothers and sisters, is anyone willing to take a gamble on this controversial issue? I'm using 50% of the resources I just acquired to open a betting pool. I'll bet 10 to 1 on Jiang Han and 3 to 1 on Yao Bin. Anyone interested can give it a shot; you might just turn a bicycle into a motorcycle."
"You untrustworthy bastard, how can we trust you?"
"Yeah, you're using our resources to run a gambling den, you're utterly inhuman."
"Why don't we give it a try? We might actually make a lot of money. I'll bet five thousand on Yao Bin to win."
"I'm also betting on senior Yao Bin; I'll put in two thousand."
"I'm betting on senior Yao Bing; I'll put up eight thousand."
(End of this chapter)