manynovel Chapter 198 Is this kid here to cause trouble?
Chapter 198 Is this kid here to cause trouble?
Chapter 198 Is this kid here to cause trouble?
After leaving Dean Xiao's office, Jiang Han remembered that today seemed to be Lei Academy's challenge day, so he went directly to Lei Academy. He hadn't shown up at Lei Academy for half a year and didn't know where his ranking had dropped. This time, he came back to find the students of Lei Academy to practice with, uh, no, to spar and test whether his strength had improved in the past six months.
As soon as Jiang Han entered Lei Academy's training ground, he saw many new faces, presumably freshmen who had been promoted from the Qing Campus this year. He could also hear students discussing today's competition from time to time.
"Hey, who do you think will be number one in our Thunder Academy this month?"
"Who else could it be but our big boss Luo Mingyuan? Who else is qualified to occupy the top spot?"
"It's hard to say. Chen Yuxuan, who used to be ranked second, didn't reach the third level of the intermediate stage in fire magic. I heard a rumor recently that Chen Yuxuan's fire magic has broken through to the third level of the intermediate stage. So it's still unknown who will be the top of the Thunder Academy this month."
"If only I had one-fifth of the strength of those two big shots, I would really like to experience training in the Three-Step Tower."
"Dude, if you can dream about anything, you should just go back to sleep."
Upon entering the Thunder Academy's training grounds, Jiang Han went straight to the challenge registration area. He smiled when he saw the instructor in charge of registration information. The instructor was Zhou Jing, the same instructor who had registered Jiang Han's information the first time he participated in the challenge. When it was Jiang Han's turn to register, Zhou Jing asked without even looking up, "Name, ranking in last month's challenge, and the opponent you want to challenge."
"Jiang Han, I'm not entirely sure about the rankings from last month's challenges. As for who I'll challenge, I'd like to challenge all the students from Lei Academy. I wonder if that's possible?" Jiang Han said with a smile.
"If you don't want to participate..." Zhou Jing was originally going to scold Jiang Han. He was jokingly saying that he had been in charge of countless challenge matches, and apart from Jiang Han's monstrous arrogance back then, he had never seen anyone more arrogant than him. But today, he encountered a student who was even more arrogant than Jiang Han when he first participated in the challenge match. He actually wanted to challenge all the students in the entire Thunder Academy.
Wait, what was his name again?
Jiang Han! ! !
When Zhou Jing looked up and saw that it really was Jiang Han, he felt like a thousand grass mud horses were galloping through his mind. Thinking back to the last few challenge matches this kid participated in half a year ago, as long as he went on stage, he didn't need at least four teachers to activate the defensive barrier, otherwise the aftershocks of the battle could have demolished their Thunder Academy's trial hall.
"No, the training grounds can't accommodate all the trainees," Zhou Jing said, shaking his head.
"If we can't have them all participate, then we'll have them come in batches. Our Thunder Academy cultivates future pillars of various industries. If they don't experience some trials and tribulations, what's the difference between them and flowers in a greenhouse?" Jiang Han said calmly.
He even had a righteous look on his face, as if he was doing what was best for the students of Lei Academy. People who didn't know his character would probably actually believe his nonsense.
"Then wait a moment, I'll go ask the department head and see what his attitude is." Zhou Jing said, turning to find the department head, Shao Lei.
As soon as Zhou Jing left, the students behind Jiang Han erupted in chaos. Many students had clearly heard the conversation between Jiang Han and Zhou Jing. Many new students were filled with hostility towards Jiang Han, while the older students who had experienced Jiang Han's torment—or rather, friendly sparring—remained silent.
"Holy crap, who is this kid? He's so arrogant, threatening to beat up all the students in our academy."
"I don't recognize them. Could they be from another department trying to cause trouble?"
"Don't stop me later. If I don't teach this kid a lesson, I'm not Tang Hao."
"Damn, when did this guy get back? Why didn't any of us give him a heads-up?"
"Hey, senior, you seem to know him. Who is he? Why is he so arrogant in our Thunder Academy? Isn't he afraid of getting beaten up?" a new student asked the senior student next to him.
"You'll find out after the challenge ends." The veteran student finished speaking with a meaningful expression.
Before a minute had passed, Zhou Jing arrived with the department head, Shao Lei. Upon seeing Jiang Han, Shao Lei immediately strode over, patted Jiang Han on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Good lad, you actually came back alive. I knew I hadn't misjudged you."
"Director Shao, why do I feel like you're swearing at someone?" Jiang Han said.
"No way, I'm just happy to see you back, kid," Shao Lei said with a smile.
The conversation between Shao Lei and Jiang Han, filled with laughter and conversation, stunned many of the new students who had come to enroll. In their eyes, Shao Lei, the department head, had a rather volatile temper. This scene of him chatting and laughing with students was something they, as new students, had never seen before, and they found it quite novel. Meanwhile, the veteran students all wore long faces, and some even secretly sent messages to the girlfriends of the white magic students, saying, "Remember to come and rescue me tonight."
"I just heard Zhou Jing say you're going to challenge all the students in Lei Academy, is that true?" Shao Lei asked.
Jiang Han raised an eyebrow and said, "Do I look like the kind of person who would joke around? It's just that I haven't seen my classmates from Lei Academy for a long time and I wanted to have a little sparring session. Don't worry, I'll definitely go easy on you this time."
"How about I ask Dean Xiao in a few days to gather students from other departments for a friendly match?" Shao Lei said.
"That's possible, but I have to go to Xingcheng, so I might not be able to participate in the friendly match," Jiang Han said after thinking for a moment.
During the six months Jiang Han was missing, students from other departments would always boast about how amazing their students were, especially Wei Rong, the head of the Fire Department, who would always make sarcastic remarks about how bad the students from the Thunder Department were. Shao Lei couldn't stand it, so he held a competition with the Fire Department, with the stakes being the cultivation resources of each department. As a result, the Thunder Department achieved a score of five to seven, which almost made him furious. If Jiang Han had been there back then, would that guy Wei Rong have been so arrogant?
Now that Jiang Han is back, Shao Lei is determined to get revenge. Originally, Shao Lei planned to have a friendly match with Dean Xiao after Jiang Han's challenge match ended today, but since Jiang Han said he had something to do, he decided to postpone it for a few days. Anyway, getting revenge isn't urgent, it won't take a day or two.
"Alright, I'll go talk to Dean Xiao about the friendly match later. You get ready for the match." Shao Lei said, then patted Jiang Han on the shoulder and left.
Since Jiang Han was added to today's challenge, in order to prevent any accidents, in addition to the original mentors who were serving as referees, Shao Lei specially arranged for Zhu Xuefeng, who was ranked first among the mentors, to come over. Zhu Xuefeng was a middle-aged man with a refined and scholarly appearance. Don't be fooled by his gentle and easy-going appearance; his strength was quite explosive. As far as Jiang Han knew, this mentor named Zhu Xuefeng was a high-level master who had mastered all the skills, specializing in lightning, secondary in light, and minor in shadow.
The competition proceeded as usual. The mentors, who were acting as referees, went on stage to read out the names of the participating students one by one, and then stepped down from the stage to activate the defensive barrier. Jiang Han sat in the audience and initially watched the competition leisurely, but after watching for a while, he became a little sleepy and then fell asleep without realizing it.
When Jiang Han woke up, he saw the instructor, who was acting as the referee, come back onto the stage. He coughed and said, "Given that everyone did not achieve good results in the match between Thunder Academy and Fire Academy, Director Shao has decided to add a team competition to the challenge match."
"Today is the first match of the team competition. Before the competition, the defending champion said he wanted to challenge all of you one-on-one. That's right, he wanted to challenge all of you. Are you angry? If you are, then defeat him on the stage. To encourage everyone to participate, Director Shao said that each member of the team that defeats the defending champion will receive a lightning-type magic weapon. There is no limit to the number of people in the team; it can be a team of two or ten."
As soon as the mentor stepped off the stage, Jiang Han stretched and stood up from the audience, then walked straight to the center of the training field.
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