Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr Three months passed amidst the hard work of everyone. These three months had not been peaceful. The newly established Lingtian Mecha Clan, which had turned the tide to become the number one faction of the academy, had always been the focus of all the cadets. As expected, the Lingtian Mecha Clan received two more challenges from the other factions of the academy — the former fourth faction, the Dwotong Mecha Clan, and the former second faction, the Tianji Mecha Clan.
The Dwotong Mecha Clan was the first to issue a challenge after Lingtian had defeated Leiting. The moment this challenge began, a great upheaval occurred within the Dwotong Clan. It should be known that a portion of the Dwotong Mecha Clan was made up of students from the Doha Central Scout Academy, and the Lingtian Mecha Clan just so happened to be a mecha clan made up of students from the Doha Central Scout Academy. The four regiment commanders were all from the Central Scout Academy — compared to Dwotong, which had gathered the students of all the scout academies on the planet of Doha, the pure Lingtian Mecha Clan gave these Central Scout Academy students a greater sense of identity.
Thus, when Dwotong issued the challenge, these seniors who had graduated from the Central Scout Academy were enraged. They angrily made demands, hoping that the regiment commander of Dwotong would voluntarily give up on this challenge. Unfortunately, the successor to Zhang Jing-an, the current regiment commander of Dwotong, Gu Jinxing, was not from the Central Scout Academy faction. He rejected this demand without hesitation, and this move thoroughly enraged the Central Scout Academy graduates. Conflict began to intensify, and Dwotong began to split internally.
When the challenge against Lingtian was about to begin, the Central Scout Academy graduates made a move that shocked all the cadets — they collectively withdrew from the clan. This move instantly reduced Dwotong's membership by almost one fifth, and caused Dwotong to fall from being one of the four major factions into dust. Whether in terms of numbers or strength, Dwotong was now almost on par with the other mid-tier factions.
Meanwhile, those Central Scout Academy students who had left the academy had unsurprisingly joined the Lingtian Mecha Clan. This greatly increased the strength of the Lingtian Mecha Clan — the other factions who had initially thought that Lingtian had just gotten lucky now no longer dared to underestimate the other.
"Gu Jinxing … Jinxing, Jinxing, Jinxing, Cautious in Action … this name really doesn't live up to his name." Zhang Jing-an, who had been fully focused on enrolling for the army division, heard this news from his battle team and instantly smirked coldly. "Ling Lan and the others... how can they be so easy to deal with? He's really stupid, actually not discovering the other's tricks."
Zhang Jing-an's words made his team members somewhat confused. Seeing this, Zhang Jing-an could not help but shake his head and sigh, "Our Dwotong is just short of an excellent strategist. Wuji, Tianji, Leiting, and the others have probably already seen through Lingtian's methods. Appropriately sowing discord, adding in emotional investment, and then taking drastic measures to deal with the situation, Dwotong can be considered to have collapsed under this series of schemes. Ling Lan's methods are as vicious as ever. She either doesn't do anything, or once she does, she'll do it with lightning speed. She's a terrifying opponent … "
The team member was somewhat unconvinced. "Even so, our Dwotong's overall strength is still stronger than Lingtian's. Our Dwotong has more than 2000 members. Even if we include those who have left Dwotong, Lingtian's numbers are still less than 1000 … in the Challenger League, our Dwotong has a higher chance of winning."
Zhang Jing-an smiled wryly. "How can it be so simple? I can bet with you that in the end, Lingtian will definitely win." Ling Lan had never lost before … unless he had intentionally given up.
Just as Zhang Jing-an had predicted, the final victor was the Lingtian Mecha Clan. Dwotong's regiment commander, Gu Jinxing, had learned from Leiting's lesson, giving up on the elite 12-man team battle and choosing the 50-man mecha team battle instead. However, the result was even worse than Leiting's. At the very least, Leiting and Lingtian had fought to the last person. However, when Dwotong was eliminated, Lingtian actually still had seven people left behind.
Of the seven people left behind, none of the four regiment commanders were missing. The two senior special-class operators, Zhao Jun and Li Lanfeng, had also survived. No one was too surprised that these six people had been able to stay until the end. After all, the strength of these six people had already been acknowledged by the cadets. What was truly surprising was that Lingtian's seventh person was not one of the team leaders of the Lingtian Mecha Clan's various battle clans, nor was he one of the main battle generals of the various battle clans. Instead, he was a vice-general of Ling Lan's battle clan, that enchanting, beautiful, and extremely delicate Luo Lang.
However, when they thought about Luo Lang's performance in the final battle, everyone felt that it was only natural that he would survive. This was because when Luo Lang fought, he was extremely tenacious. At the same time, he was also ruthless, not only towards others, but also towards himself. Many times, when he had fallen into an absolutely disadvantageous situation, when everyone thought that he would lose for sure, he had risked self-mutilation to explode with terrifying combat power and kill his way out of the encirclement. That style of never giving up made everyone sigh in admiration.
Dwotong's split before the final battle and their crushing defeat in the final battle had woken up all the mecha clans who wanted to take advantage of the situation. Although Lingtian's victory over Leiting was partly due to luck, in reality, their strength was not as weak as they thought. Additionally, they had poached a fifth of Dwotong's people. It could be said that Lingtian was now fully qualified to stand in the ranks of the first-rate factions.
Under these circumstances, the third-ranked Wuji had shrunk back. Han Yu was wary of Lingtian's sudden increase in strength, but at the same time, he was also apprehensive of Li Lanfeng's craftiness. He believed that Li Lanfeng was definitely involved in Dwotong's tragic outcome.
After much consideration, Han Yu decided to give up on this potential opportunity to represent the Top Military Academy in the Mecha Grand Tournament. Of course, the reason why Han Yu had given up so easily was because he had long heard that even if they defeated Lingtian, in order to guarantee their strength for the Mecha Grand Tournament, the administrators of the military academy would specially arrange for them to fight against the Tianji Mecha Clan. The final victor would be the one to decide the true battle clan that would take part in the Mecha Grand Tournament.
The administrators of the military academy would definitely want to choose the strongest battle clan in the academy. If not for the fact that Leiting had lost to Lingtian in front of so many people, preventing the administrators of the military academy from meddling in the dark, they probably would not have taken a step back and sought out Tianji. Han Yu was a smart man — he was not willing to let the fruits of his hard work go to Tianji in the end.
Sure enough, after confirming that Wuji had given up, Tianji issued a challenge. The challenge they chose was the same as Leiting's, a 12-man elite battle. However, unlike Qiao Ting's conceit, the members Tianji had chosen to fight were all special-class operators, the 12 strongest people in Tianji.
Before the duel, everyone had thought that Lingtian's good luck would come to an end here, that they would definitely lose this time. After all, Lingtian only had three special-class operators — Ling Lan, Li Lanfeng, and Zhao Jun. No matter how strong the others were, they were still only advanced mecha warriors. 3 against 12 — no matter how one looked at it, the Lingtian Mecha Clan had no chance of winning. However, the final result was out of everyone's expectations. The final victor was still Ling Tian. Moreover, there were only two surviving members on the battlefield — Ling Lan and Zhao Jun.
It should be said that this match was not as one-sided as everyone had thought. Although the nine members of Lingtian were all advanced mecha warriors, the nine of them worked very well together. Not long after the battle had begun, they had successfully formed three teams. On the other hand, the members of Tianji were much slower. Not only did they fail to form teams, they even allowed Lingtian's teams to successfully surround and kill three mecha not long after the battle had begun. If the regiment commander of Tianji had not sensed that the situation was not good and ordered everyone to retreat and form teams, perhaps even more members of Lingtian would have survived.
After Tianji had formed teams, Lingtian had fallen into danger. Nine advanced mecha had been surrounded and killed by Tianji, but the members of the Lingtian Mecha Clan were extremely vicious. Even in death, they did not forget to drag others down with them. In the encirclement, Tianji had also lost two mecha.
However, when they had surrounded and killed Lingtian's nine advanced mecha, Lingtian's one and only special-class mecha team had also shown their vicious side, successfully killing off one of the mecha teams they had encountered.
At this time, Tianji's advantage had disappeared. 4 against 3 — although Tianji had one more member, in a situation where they were all special-class operators, one extra member was not enough to determine the final victory. In the end, the two teams decided to meet force with force, and the seven mecha were tangled up in a melee. Meanwhile, in order to protect Ling Lan, after defeating one mecha, Li Lanfeng used his broken mecha to perish together with the other mecha.
Zhao Jun, on the other hand, was locked in a bitter battle with the regiment commander of Tianji, who was ranked second in the academy. On the other hand, in everyone's eyes, Ling Lan, who was the weakest of the three special-class operators of Lingtian, was under the least pressure. She fought several hundred rounds with another special-class operator who was similarly not very strong.
In the end, Zhao Jun, in a half-crippled state, found a weakness in his opponent and defeated him. It could be said that Zhao Jun and the regiment commander of Tianji were equal in strength, so it was not surprising who would win and who would lose. It all depended on whose luck was better. In this battle, Zhao Jun's luck was undoubtedly better than the regiment commander of Tianji's — he had found the opponent's weakness one step earlier.
At the same time that Zhao Jun had defeated the regiment commander of Tianji, Ling Lan had also successfully killed her opponent, finally obtaining victory in this battle. Compared to the broken state of Zhao Jun's mecha, Ling Lan's mecha was practically unscathed, only slightly depleted of energy.
The spectators were extremely curious as to why this was the case. This was because during the battle, Ling Lan's opponent had once successfully hit Ling Lan. Being hit by a mecha of the same level, no matter how sturdy the outer shell of a mecha was, it was bound to be damaged. With this question in mind, everyone began to look up the information on Ling Lan's mecha. Only then did they find out that Ling Lan's mecha was a modified mecha.
Of course, they could only find out that it was a modified mecha. As for the other details of the mecha, they were unable to find out. The mainframe must protect the rights of its owner.
However, just this point alone was enough for the cadets of the military academy to find the answer they had been hoping for. They felt that Lingtian was too lucky to have obtained the modification prodigy Chang Xinyuan, and thus obtained this valiant modified special-class mecha. Because of this battle, Chang Xinyuan's reputation unexpectedly rose within the military academy …
This was the first time that a mechanic who could modify special-class mecha had appeared in the First Men's Military Academy. Thus, Chang Xinyuan instantly became the most sought-after character among the county governors. Many factions began to inquire about the contract Chang Xinyuan had signed with the Lingtian Mecha Clan. They hoped that Chang Xinyuan had only signed a temporary contract. That way, they would have a chance to take this future master of modification under their wing …
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