TopAppnovel Chapter 722 : Chapter 722
Chapter 722 : Chapter 722
Chapter 722: Don't You Understand? Your Choice is Meaningless!
"Who? Xia Li?!"
Many people from the Holy Angel Academy were instantly agitated upon hearing this name.
Perhaps Xia Li was not well-known in the Witch Academy, and her strength was not even considered top-tier.
But the fact that she could single-handedly lead a leisure club and establish a private little treasury was enough to indicate that she was not simple.
And the reason why the students of the Holy Angel Academy were so familiar with Xia Li had to do with another matter.
Xia Li harbored a strong hostility towards the people of the Holy Angel Academy; she would do anything that could make the Holy Angel Academy unhappy.
In the previous batch, Xia Li and a group of Witches directly rushed to their location and snatched Tan Han, so much so that the Holy Angels who chased them all the way to Modu could only send their corpses back via death.
At this time last year, it took many days from the start of the volunteer application until Tan Han was finally brought to the Witch Academy.
But this year, in the fight to snatch this young man named Yang Yunhan, no one had expected that the various academies would go to such lengths!
It was foreseeable that this would be another protracted battle.
Although this area belonged to the region the Witch Academy's influence radiated to, the journey from here to Modu was not short.
Even taking the high-speed rail would take a long time.
It was impossible for the other academies to let the Witch Academy people return so safely and soundly.
But now, with the sudden addition of Xia Li, their plan to simply run away was shattered.
As they were delayed, the various academies who had temporarily unified their fronts also caught up.
After a brief siege, they first "eliminated" these bird-men who tried to snatch the prize.
After all, the people from their academies were snatching openly and honestly, while these bird-men were trying to sneak him away on the side.
If it weren't for Xia Li blocking their path, they might have succeeded.
If Yang Yunhan were truly taken to the Holy Angel Academy, it would be difficult to bring him out.
Although it wouldn't be as difficult as within the Curtain Wall of the Witch Academy, breaking through the blockade of so many Holy Angels in the Holy Angel's base camp would also be incredibly difficult.
"You! You… so many people ganging up on our Holy Angel people, do you even care about fairness anymore!"
"The fist is the law! What, do you want to reason with us?"
A male Wizard from the Wizard Academy stepped forward and extended his hand.
His right arm was completely replaced by a mechanical arm, clearly indicating that he followed the Mechanical Faction of Wizardry.
And with a punch like that, he directly struck the bird-man right in the eye, showing absolutely no mercy, as if venting his anger over the bird-men's unsportsmanlike conduct of stealing the person just now.
Accompanied by a scream from the exposed Holy Angel, Xia Li watched from the side, eager to join the fray.
These Holy Angels really didn't learn their lesson.
Last batch, those Holy Angels also took Tan Han away in this manner, and it was ultimately Xia Li who snatched Tan Han back from the Holy Angels.
However… Tan Han seemed to have actively applied to the Holy Angel Academy, possibly influenced by her family.
After all, the Holy Angels had the most enormous faith system in the Main World and the most widespread Holy Light Churches.
These churches were not solely for cultivating believers and collecting faith; they also scouted for talented children, proactively paying attention to them and developing them into Holy Light believers.
Although the college entrance examination Destiny distribution could rely on the World Consciousness and Destiny to identify which people were valued geniuses, there was another level of genius that existed outside the general discernible range.
Tracing back through history, such geniuses were not few, which was enough to prove that the World Consciousness and the Destiny representatives also had moments of misjudgment.
Therefore, the mentors in the academies were all qualified to make additional admissions and enroll children they considered geniuses into the academy after discovering them.
Otherwise, what were the extra admission quotas in the various Transcendent Academies for?
However, most Transcendent mentors rarely did this because… it was troublesome.
And with the discovery of "Yang Yuehan" by Witch Ji Niang this year, her reputation immediately soared.
It can be said that Witch Ji Niang instantly became the Witch with the best vision and luck in recent years.
Perhaps the only one.
At this moment, the already injured Holy Angel was knocked down to the ground again with a punch.
His already battered appearance was now compounded by injuries, with his broken Angel Wings folded behind him at an odd angle.
"Argh… you… mhm… you will all suffer retribution! Hiss…"
"We're waiting for your Holy Angel's retribution. If there truly is retribution, the ones who should die the most are you bird-men."
Xia Li retorted to the stubborn Holy Angel from the side, and then followed up with a kick.
"You Witches always act like this! Forcing people into the Witch race, is this meaningful to you? Is a forcibly twisted melon truly sweet? Do you ever consider the feelings of the students! We are a Transcendent Academy, and what you are doing is worse than those barbarians from the Beast Academy!"
"Are all you Holy Angels so stubborn? We just dealt with one, and now it's your turn to start running your mouth? If you don't have the strength, talk less about logic. Strength is the only logic!"
"Am I wrong! How many geniuses have you Witches ruined, and how many boys have you harmed? You know very well… Wuwu!"
Faced with these persistent, talkative bird-men who had lost, the Witch Academy side directly chose the most direct way to silence them.
If they continued to cause trouble, they wouldn't mind using an Advanced Silence Spell and sending their corpses back to the Holy Angel Academy.
After all, the Holy Angel Academy people were very good at the Resurrection Spell, so what was the big deal about dying once?
But even the most potent Resurrection Spell couldn't resurrect Xiao Han, whom they had jointly killed.
"Now it's time for the fight between us."
At this moment, the Mechanical Wizard from the Wizard Academy spoke.
Everyone understood the current situation.
With the Holy Angels stirring up trouble, they could instead have a "peaceful" conversation here.
But the current situation… no one could blatantly take a person and leave.
The other academies would not stand by and watch anyone run off with the person.
So, now, only battle!
The loser lies down and loses the qualification to compete.
The winner gets everything and takes the person back to their academy.
"Why is everyone still holding back? Those who are still hiding, come out! Now is the time for a head-on clash."
After all, what was being competed now was the respective academy's level of importance placed on "Yang Yunhan," and the number of people who arrived played a crucial role.
With this suggestion, the people from the various academies no longer concealed themselves, but the number of people who stepped out was not as many as expected.
After all, this was only nominally a mission to escort a genius student back to the academy, but not many high-grade students were willing to do this thankless task.
And… this didn't mean that other students weren't important.
The number of new students in a Transcendent Academy is at least in the tens of thousands, or at the very least, in the thousands, considering the teaching staff of each academy, Tan Han, and so on.
So, this time, a massive battle royale involving dozens of people from various academies, totaling over a hundred people, all for one new student… this was already very frightening.
Even the situation with Tan Han back then didn't have this level of configuration.
Although that was partly because she was lured away by the Holy Angel Academy…
But what happens when over a hundred high-grade students gather together?
Given enough time, the aftermath of their fighting would be enough to bring a city to a standstill!
Of course, this was under full-power mode, but due to the principle of "whoever breaks it pays for it," many people were still restrained.
Even with the academy's subsidy for damage during snatching people, there was an upper limit to the academy's compensation if large-scale infrastructure damage was caused.
"Wait! Don't you all care about my feelings! I am the student! Isn't it my own decision which academy I choose!"
At this moment, under this tense and hostile situation, a young roar instantly stunned many people present.
This was the second time Yang Yunhan had roared out his thoughts with his loudest voice.
Compared to the first time, he had improved a lot; at least his expression was clear, and his voice hadn't cracked due to over-excitement.
The first time he had expressed his thoughts with such a roar was at home, during his last meeting with his parents… that time, his parents slapped him, knocking him to the ground.
But this time… no.
No one would slap him.
Because the reality of this world only educates people with more aggressive means.
"Then which academy do you want to choose?"
In the silence, Xia Li was the first to step forward and break the silence caused by the young man's anger.
"I… I."
Yang Yunhan was suddenly speechless when asked this.
Because he hadn't thought it through.
During this time, his mind had been tormented by that one sentence, constantly self-deprecating, to the point where he had no real goal.
It wasn't until he saw his score, which gave him confidence and made him realize he was a genius, that he finally woke up.
But he had been so immersed in the idea that he was qualified to choose the Transcendent Academy he desired, yet he never considered that this "freedom" to choose was just like the "freedom" of leaving his parents.
When it came to making a specific choice, he had no basis, no plan whatsoever, and his eyes were filled only with confusion.
However, objectively speaking, Yang Yunhan couldn't be blamed.
Yang Yunhan was not from a family of power but from an ordinary family.
Such families had no channels to understand the Transcendent Academies, so children from ordinary families, even if they wanted to plan, had no channels to get information.
The Transcendent Academies they knew about were all the content the Transcendent Academies wanted them to know.
There was no room for regret.
This is why the various Transcendent Academies do not allow new students to leave the campus after enrollment; it is because most students from ordinary families discover that the gap between the Transcendent Academy and their imagination is too vast.
After being mentally frozen for dozens of seconds by the question, "Then which academy do you want to choose?"
Yang Yunhan looked at the Mechanical Wizard not far away.
He had been interested in mechanical things since he was a child, but there were few things he could access in real life.
His home used to have many broken toys…
Therefore, for this crucial turning point in his life, he decided his future in those dozens of seconds.
"I choose you! You are from the Wizard Academy, right! You called me a few days ago and said you would accept me!"
With Yang Yunhan's choice being boldly stated like this, the Holy Angel Academy people lying on the ground suffered another blow, a psychological blow.
They thought Yang Yunhan would choose them!
Even if they were in a sorry state now, even a mention of them would have been a comfort.
At least it would have shown that their inability to bring Yang Yunhan back was a problem with their ability, not the opponent's judgment.
But now… Yang Yunhan wasn't even willing to look at them twice!
The past funding from the Holy Light Church to their family, the care they provided, helping them drive away the Imp Academy's harassment a year ago… everything became a joke!
"Good! Good! You have good judgment! A true man should choose the Wizard Academy!"
The people from the Wizard Academy were overjoyed upon hearing this decision and burst into laughter.
They were not worried about Yang Yunhan choosing them, which made them the target of everyone.
Because Yang Yunhan's choice, which he thought he could make for himself, was… worthless to the students of the various Transcendent Academies present!
If Yang Yunhan could choose his own path just by moving his lips, then what were so many of them doing here for?
So, in the end, everything still depended on who was more capable.
But at this moment, Xia Li from the Witch Academy was infuriated by Yang Yunhan's choice.
"You! Yang Yunhan, you actually chose the Wizard Academy? Don't you know your sister is in the Witch Academy!"
"My sister… my sister… you're not allowed to mention her! What is she to me! Isn't she already dead!"
Yang Yunhan repeated the address "sister" in his mouth, as if completely igniting the rebellious emotion inside him.
He had finally stepped out of the shadow that figure had cast over him…
Why should he… go to the Witch Academy that that person had gone to!
And that academy even turned people into girls… how disgusting.
"Do you know what you are saying… Yang Yuehan is your sister! Do you know! I've never met anyone as heartless as you. She's dead, and you are here gloating!"
"She deserved to die! I don't want a sister like that! Only with her gone can I have a chance to rise! That person only scored over five hundred… but I scored over seven hundred! I am the true genius."
"You… you, scores… what are scores worth…"
Xia Li was so enraged by Yang Yunhan at this moment that she was on the verge of madness.
She couldn't see a single trace of Yang Yuehan's shadow in this person.
She had grieved at the academy for a long time when she heard that Yang Yuehan had fallen and was jointly assassinated and persecuted by the other academies.
She was not here on anyone's commission this time; she had come on her own initiative.
But now, it seemed… this person was not worth her effort.
So… the enraged Xia Li turned and walked away, without a hint of reluctance.
With Xia Li's departure, the people from the Witch Academy were also very shocked.
Many of the students who came here were members of the Little Han Support Group.
But if Xiao Han's brother was this kind of person… honestly, many people also felt the same way as Xia Li and wanted to turn around and leave.
This kind of person was unworthy of entering the Witch Academy!
As for the other half… they were thinking about how to lure this ignorant Yang Yunhan to the Witch Academy and give him a good taste of the Witches' methods.
Such a disobedient brother… their Little Han Support Group people would certainly teach this person a good lesson for Xiao Han!
"Didn't I already choose the Wizard Academy? Why aren't you taking me away?"
At this moment, Yang Yunhan didn't care about the person who was angered into leaving and instead looked at the people from the Wizard Academy.
"You've made your choice, but we haven't made ours yet. We are very happy that you chose the Wizard Academy. Now, step aside and don't interfere with our performance."
"What… what does that mean?"
Yang Yunhan was confused by the situation before him.
"Don't you understand? Your choice is meaningless. Where you ultimately go is still determined by our strength!"
At this moment, a person from the other side explained to Yang Yunhan in a tone of condescension.
"Scores? Genius? Who wasn't a genius back then? Scoring just over seven hundred, what are you so proud of? I was only eight points away from a perfect score back then! And I didn't get this kind of treatment!"
"Start the battle! Don't hold back, any of you. Let this un-enrolled newbie see the cruelty of the Transcendent world!"
Accompanied by these harsh taunts, a massive battle royale officially kicked off in the midst of Yang Yunhan's naive gaze!