Chapter 1 An Encounter

Zhou Jing was stunned and looked in the direction of the voice.

The speaker was a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, with thick lips and narrow eyes, of average appearance, and an yin-yang head with half green and half blue hair. He was just short of having "I'm awesome" engraved on his face.

After taking a quick look, Zhou Jing had a good idea of what was going on, and put on a smile:

"My skills are okay, what's your name, young man? Looking at you, so talented, your abilities must be very powerful, right?"

"Of course!" The person poked his chest with his thumb and said proudly, "Tang Liu, S-rank, my ability is super-speed movement, and I was the ninth one selected!"

"Amazing, amazing, nice to meet you."

Zhou Jing said something perfunctory like coaxing a child, found an empty seat and sat down, then sized up the others.

Among the ten new students specially selected by the Crown Academy, there were young teenagers like Tang Liu who were not yet adults, and middle-aged women around forty years old, with a wide age range.

Except for Tang Liu, who looked like a smug brat, most of the others gave friendly smiles and briefly introduced themselves, only saying their names, but not reporting their abilities like Tang Liu did.

Only one person didn't speak, but he was an acquaintance, Wu Fan, who had been on the Slipstream. He was the twelfth selection and also came to the Crown Academy.

They had known each other for a few months on the ship, but they only nodded to each other and hadn't said a few words.

Zhou Jing knew that Wu Fan was a taciturn person, so he didn't try to talk to him at this time, but just nodded in greeting.

Seeing this, Wu Fan also nodded to him.

Just then, a gust of wind suddenly blew.

Whoosh!

Zhou Jing saw a flash of a figure, and Tang Liu had disappeared from his seat, suddenly appearing in the seat next to him, as if he had teleported.

"You haven't answered me yet, what abilities do you have?"

Tang Liu urged with wide eyes, but his narrow eyes were still just a slit.

Zhou Jing looked at the other person in surprise.

Super-speed movement? That's really fast...

His speed increase came from body strengthening, while the other party's super-speed movement was pure superpower. In terms of movement speed alone, Jason's four enhancements were inferior to the other party's. He had never met someone so fast.

'The combat power level of the main world is indeed much higher than that of the Alien Beast World. A new student who has awakened a powerful superpower can crush a warrior tempered in the Alien Beast World in a specialized attribute domain.' Zhou Jing's thoughts turned.

It seems that relying solely on Jason's four Alien Blood enhancements, in terms of strength, it's really not certain that he can overwhelm all high-potential awakeners, but it's hard to say when actually fighting...

Although he was thinking about the problem, Zhou Jing didn't show it on the surface, and replied with a smile:

"Just a very ordinary physical strengthening type, of course I can't compare with you."

When Tang Liu heard this, he immediately looked a little disgusted: "What? Then your superpower is very ordinary!"

"Yes, I also think I'm unremarkable, and I don't know why I was chosen."

Zhou Jing casually echoed.

Tang Liu's eyes rolled, and he suddenly patted his chest, in the tone of a leading boss, and said triumphantly: "Don't be discouraged, buddy, I think you're a good person. As long as you recognize me as the boss, I'll take care of you in the future!"

"Oh, what a pity, I already have a boss, and he's very powerful. I don't dare to betray him." Zhou Jing shook his head and sighed, with a look of regret.

Tang Liu became interested:

"Who is your boss?"

Zhou Jing smiled:

"His name is Lin Kun, and he was selected by the Gem Academy. I only recognize such a strong person as my boss... How about this, if you can teach him a lesson, I'll agree to be your little brother, although I don't think you have any chance of winning him."

"Who said that! You just wait and see! Lin Kun, right, I've remembered it, I'll have a fight with him when I get the chance!" Tang Liu was unconvinced and rubbed his fists.

The others smiled without saying a word, happily watching Zhou Jing tease the rebellious teenager.

Zhou Jing deliberately went along with him to get closer, and soon Tang Liu felt that the two of them were quite familiar, and he spoke more casually. Before long, he had extracted the other party's experience from Tang Liu's mouth.

Fourteen or fifteen years old is the age for compulsory education. This kid has always been a bottom-ranked student, never studying, and likes to cause trouble and form gangs. He's just a hoodlum in school, and no classmates like him. He's also quite rebellious at home.

He should have had a dim future, but he had good luck and awakened a powerful superpower.

A person who has been uneducated since childhood, just like that, his future potential directly exceeds countless hard-working and upward-striving good children. There's nothing fair about it.

After getting the superpower, Tang Liu immediately dropped out of compulsory education, and, driven by his rebellious heart, directly immigrated and ran away from home... However, he didn't leave completely. His parents and siblings simply immigrated as well, and came over in the same batch as him, with the reason that they wanted to take care of his life.

Zhou Jing didn't make any comments after listening, and didn't have any opinions.

In this era, it's rude to interfere in other people's family affairs, because family conflicts are already a common occurrence in the current society. Everyone has their own difficulties and choices, and not judging is respecting others, and also respecting oneself... After all, few people like to hurt each other.

The ten of them waited for a while, and finally the mentor team from the Crown Academy arrived, as well as some senior students.

"Everyone, welcome to the Crown Academy. You are the new students we have specially selected, and the academy has high hopes for you."

Li Yun's tone was enthusiastic.

He was the chief mentor of the Crown Academy, wearing a Purple Star badge on his chest. He was a level four super-powered person, a middle-aged man.

"Hello, Mentor Li." Zhou Jing and the other ten stood up and greeted him.

"Let me introduce to you, this is the mentor team of the Crown Academy..."

Li Yun reached out and introduced the ten of them, introducing them one by one.

All the courses in the Superpower Academy are not limited to the academies, but are selected according to the needs of each student. Each mentor's course is open to students from all three academies, so for most students, it doesn't matter what academy the mentor belongs to.

However, for the key-cultivated top students, the mentor team of an academy is like a private tutor who opens a small stove, giving special training to the leading figures of their own academy, so that they can cope with academy competition activities. This is a public benefit, a special treatment.

The world of super-powered people is still very realistic. With ability, there is special treatment. The cost-effectiveness of cultivating potential stocks is naturally higher than cultivating ordinary ability users. Fairness and equality only guarantee the basic situation. One cannot expect the strong to have no privileges at all. The system cannot violate the law. Since human civilization entered the interstellar era, it has rarely used concepts to fool people. What it is, it is. After all, people's understanding of reality is becoming clearer and clearer. Constantly concealing, embellishing, and distorting reality is purely treating people as fools. For the Star Alliance, which has colonized hundreds of planets, it is completely unnecessary, because technology and economy are expanding almost endlessly, and the material security is fully provided.

"They are the leading figures of the Crown Academy, the main force in the academy competition activities..."

After getting to know the mentor team, Li Yun pointed to a group of senior students and explained the role of the Crown Society.

Deng Yunjie put his hands in his pockets, stepped out from the crowd, scanned a few people, and said slowly:

"I am Deng Yunjie, the president of the Crown Society. You can call me President Deng. In the freshman competition in a month, you ten are the absolute main players. Prepare well. You must listen to my command and arrangements at that time. Whether you participate in the ring competition or the team competition, and when you will play, will be decided by us."

Zhou Jing and others nodded without speaking.

Tang Liu was a little unhappy:

"Ah? Still have to listen to your command? Why can't I choose myself?"

Deng Yunjie looked at him and explained unhurriedly:

"Do you think academy competition is for fun? This is not just your business. The results you achieve also affect the GPA of everyone in the academy. This is related to the interests of the collective, and individual performance cannot be allowed. Of course, if you have any opinions, you can raise them at that time, and we will consider them, but in the end, you must listen to our command. There can only be one voice in the team."

"Okay, okay."

Tang Liu stopped talking reluctantly.

Although he was a bit of a hoodlum, when he saw Deng Yunjie, a more hooliganish senior, he was a little afraid to stir up trouble.

Li Yun secretly noted that Tang Liu might be a troublemaker, his expression did not change, and he took over the conversation and said with a smile:

"In order to cope with the freshman competition, during this month, our mentor team will track everyone's classroom performance and cultivation progress, and give you one-on-one guidance, so everyone should cherish this opportunity."

The few people nodded one after another. If the privilege falls on their own heads, of course no one will push it away.

At this time, Tang Liu asked curiously:

"Well, there are thousands of freshmen in this session, and each academy has recruited at least a thousand people, so are there only ten people participating on each side?"

Hearing this, Li Yun smiled and waved his hand: "Of course not. This time, the freshman competition has twenty places for each academy in the ring competition and thirty places in the team competition. The three academies together have a total of one hundred and fifty freshmen participating. We also have to select some people from the freshmen to fill the places, but you ten don't need to be selected, and you will definitely play."

It would take too much time for thousands of freshmen to appear, and only one hundred and fifty people have the opportunity to compete for places. The others can only be spectators, and they won't even have the opportunity to participate.

This is inevitable. In addition to re-educating all the awakened people and maintaining stability, another goal of the Superpower Academy is to select objects worthy of cultivation and select talents for governments of various countries and various agencies.

However, although they cannot perform on stage, in daily courses, ordinary students can still shine for the academy collective, earn points, accumulate little by little, and ultimately still affect the academy ranking.

There must be top students, and the average level cannot be left behind.

At this time, Deng Yunjie scanned the crowd, his eyes paused on Zhou Jing for a second, and suddenly said:

"You all have good potential and don't need to go through internal selection, but we still need to have a clear understanding of your combat power... After selecting other participating freshmen, we will hold an internal spar to understand the contrast in your combat power, so that we can decide whether you will participate in the ring competition or the team competition."

Tang Liu's eyes lit up, and he looked around at the other nine people, full of interest:

"So will we be fighting then? Great! I'm definitely the strongest."

Hearing this, the few people looked at each other and didn't react.

Zhou Jing shook his head secretly.

It seems that this is also an assessment. Although they are the designated candidates, if they are defeated by the freshmen selected in the actual combat, not only will they lose face, but the academy might also shift the focus of cultivation to others.

Therefore, those selected participating freshmen will probably do their best to beat the ten of them.

'Competition is really everywhere...' Zhou Jing has a deep understanding of the atmosphere of the academy.
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