thefictionvixens Chapter 43 seems to suggest that he's going to back down!
Chapter 43 seems to suggest that he's going to back down!
Although they usually let the sheep roam freely, the students in the class really didn't dare to cause trouble when the homeroom teacher was around.
The class time passed peacefully, but after class, the news that Long You and Bei Bei had teamed up to participate in the freshman competition spread like wildfire throughout all the freshman classes.
Long You's class is not the same as Huo Yuhao's. Among all the new students this year, Long You and Bei Bei are the only two Soul Masters. Xu Sanshi, who was supposed to form the Twin Stars of the Outer Academy with Bei Bei, is only at level 29 Soul Power.
In fact, according to the original novel, Bei Bei became a Soul Master at the age of thirteen. That is to say, if it weren't for Long You's intrusion and stimulation, this year's freshmen should not have had any Soul Masters, and Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi would have become the strongest at their level with a Soul Power of level twenty-nine.
In the cafeteria, feeling the constant stares directed at her, Beibei said somewhat nervously, "Xiaoyou, aren't we going a bit too far? Won't the other freshmen complain?"
"What? You want to partner with someone else? Aren't you worried about the hassle?"
"Of course it's too much trouble. Otherwise, I wouldn't have agreed to let you drag me to register when we were in class."
"That's fine then. I can say with certainty that some freshmen will definitely want to complain to the academic affairs office about us, but the fact that the three of us will team up to participate in the freshman competition will not change in any way."
I've been here for three months now, and I refuse to believe that you haven't discovered yet, Beibei, that Shrek Academy is actually an academy that prioritizes practical combat.
In actual combat, victory is the only thing you need to pursue. To ensure victory, you can use all sorts of means, including forming strong alliances and relying on powerful allies. After all, finding strong reinforcements and getting them to agree to team up with you is a skill and a matter of strength.
However, our classmates haven't realized that social skills are also a very important skill. True combat power is a very complex concept, encompassing many aspects, and is definitely not just about martial spirit strength.
"I didn't realize it until you told me."
"It's good that you realize it now. Let's prepare well, and when the freshman competition starts the day after tomorrow, we'll take turns attacking. Speaking of which, the thing I'm most unhappy about in the freshman competition is that we're not allowed to use soul tools."
"We're clearly aiming for practical combat effectiveness, so why are we preventing the use of soul tools? How many soul masters these days fight without using any soul tools at all?"
"Alright, stop complaining. Whether you use a soul tool or not, your methods are bad enough. Leave some room for maneuver."
"Beibei, have some conscience! I don't have a single offensive soul skill besides my soul tool!"
"Ha, being controlled by you to death will only make me feel worse."
Because she couldn't stand the way her fellow freshmen, especially some of the girls, looked at her, Tang Ya went back to her dorm after class. Having finally "enjoyed" a "dinner for two," Long You and Bei Bei chatted with less restraint.
On the morning of the third day, the freshman competition started on time. Unlike the other freshman class teachers who were giving their students a lot of advice and instructions, Han Yu, the homeroom teacher of Longyou class, still adopted a laissez-faire attitude.
He only said one sentence: "The first ten rounds are a round-robin tournament, and you won't encounter your teammates. These ten rounds will determine whether you can stay at Shrek Academy."
In the north-central part of the Martial Soul system teaching area, adjacent to the Soul Fighting area, lies the Shrek Academy's outer court assessment area. An oval-shaped open space is surrounded by a low wall, inside which are individual cubicle areas separated by removable and modular partitions.
Long You came here last night to check out the venue. At that time, the entire assessment area had been modified to meet the specifications for the freshman competition. There were a total of forty-five squares, and each square area was actually 400 square meters, which was enough for the freshmen to perform.
According to the draw results, Longyou knew that there were a total of 330 freshman teams participating in this freshman competition, which meant that there would be seven or eight freshman teams in each grid area.
Each freshman team assigned to a grid area forms a competition group. The 330 freshman teams will first compete in a round-robin tournament within their group, and then in a round-robin tournament outside their group. In short, each freshman team will accumulate points through the wins and losses in the round-robin tournament, and the freshman teams with the lowest scores will be directly eliminated.
Group 26—this is the area number that Longyou's group needs to go to. Feeling quite relaxed since he didn't need to participate in the first match, Longyou played the role of the junior disciple, obediently following behind Sect Master Tang Ya and Senior Brother Bei Bei.
To be honest, Long You has to admit that his mind isn't on the freshman competition at all. As long as he can pass the round-robin test, Long You will become a core disciple of the Soul Guidance Department, so he has no intention of showing off his skills in the freshman competition.
Long You has now devoted most of his energy to improving his forging skills, and recently he has begun to grasp the basics of spirit forging. Long You is confident that if he gives himself another half month, he will be able to forge his first piece of spirit-forged metal.
With the enhancement of spirit-forged metal, the effectiveness of the soul tools manufactured by Longyou will be further improved.
Take the telegraph machine as an example. If the core array for transmitting information is made of spirit-forged metal, then the soul-conducting telegraph machine made by Long You can directly connect Shrek City to Tiandou City without the need for intermediaries.
Of course, the telegraph machine wasn't the ultimate goal. Longyou wanted to take advantage of the expanded communication range to develop mobile phones directly. Although communication satellites and fixed signal towers couldn't be built, carrying a small signal tower in a storage soul tool and taking it out to strengthen the signal when needed should still make it possible to achieve real-time mobile phone calls.
hiss--
A chorus of gasps pulled Long You out of his thoughts. Unbeknownst to him, the trio had already arrived at the assessment site.
At this moment, several teams of freshmen from other classes had already arrived at the venue. The freshmen who had already arrived had very interesting expressions when they saw that the "Great Demon King" team, which had been the talk of the town for the past two days, had actually come to their group.
Taking in the expressions of the other freshmen in the grid area, Long You followed Bei Bei and Tang Ya, who were leading the way, to the edge of the area and stood there. He then whispered to the two of them:
"Hey you two, I have a feeling this freshman competition might be pretty easy for us?"
"Hey, hey, don't do that, be serious."
"I'm serious, look closely at the mouths of those freshmen over there who are talking. Their mouths are clearly saying that if they run into us, they should just admit defeat and save their strength for the next match."