Admittedly, the members of the aristocratic families placed great importance on combat strength. However, one must not forget that the 10 great families were also the ruling class. To a ruler, one's brain was much more important than one's martial prowess. This included brother Divian, who appeared to have a slightly rough personality. However, she was able to handle these questions with ease.
The captain arena that lasted for 3 hours quickly came to an end. This time, there weren't any videos or recordings of the matches. The previous few arenas of the various squadrons had more or less been judged by the outside world. However, the results of this duel would only be known when the final results were announced 3 days later. The outside world was also making their guesses about the final result of this duel, with all of them focusing their attention on the CHF's official discussion forums. From the various official announcements, they were able to make guesses about some so-called "insider information".
However, this was clearly useless. The genuinely strong squadrons had already completely thrown the 2nd elimination round to the back of their minds, and were no longer in their consideration. Their absolute strength and self-confidence allowed them to not worry about the results or advancing to the next elimination round. Some of the truly discerning people had already made some targeted arrangements based on the performances of the various squadrons in the 2nd elimination round.
Naturally, such arrangements differed from person to person. Some squadrons made simple arrangements, while others made complicated arrangements. The busiest squadron was the Divine Dragon Academy.
Being the leader of the Divine Dragon Academy, Zhao Zijun had high hopes placed on him by his family. The Zhao Family definitely wasn't weak in this batch of squadrons. However, it would be extremely difficult for them to contend for the championship. There were too many strong opponents present, and even entering the top 4 might not be a guarantee. It was definitely insufficient to rely on victory and strength in the arena, with Zhao Zijun being the one to strategize and turn the impossible into the possible. This was the power of intelligence.
The other squadrons had either done their best or concealed their strength in the previous elimination rounds. Generally speaking, their performances were rather direct, with no room for maneuvering. However, the results of every single test conducted by the Divine Dragon Academy had been precisely controlled by Zhao Zijun. Who would be sent up on stage, and what sort of score they would obtain after entering the stage, had all been meticulously calculated by him. He wanted to accurately control the Divine Dragon Academy's ranking within the 5th to 7th place in this competition zone! Despite the organisers not announcing the exact ranking system for the final competition, according to Zhao Zijun's research and understanding of the organisers' system, maintaining his ranking at this level would prevent his squadron from meeting any strong opponents in the early stages of the competition, thereby preserving his squadron's strength.
To be able to understand the rules so thoroughly and have a good grasp of the organizers' thoughts, he would already be considered an outstanding leader in other teams. However, Zhao Zijun clearly needed to do more than that.
"It's about time to let the matter about the Seer Family out," said Zhao Zijun as he fiddled with a string of red sandalwood prayer beads in his hand. Naturally, it wasn't for the sake of praying to the gods or Buddha, as the faint fragrance coming from the prayer beads had always made him feel extremely good. "As a member of an aristocratic family, beating up commoners and forcefully abducting commoner girls. Haha! The idlers of the Federation have always loved to talk about such topics. Getting involved in such a matter in the eye of the storm, even if that fellow doesn't die, he'll still lose a layer of skin. Without their mainstay heavy soldier, the threat the Seer Academy poses will be much smaller. "
"Yes! That little boy is quite cooperative, but that woman … she's not willing to let go. "The subordinate was a little hesitant.
In Zhao Zijun's mouth, the incident of a bully was actually just a small fight over a girl's affections. It was said that the girl had changed her mind, but her ex-boyfriend was too untactful and honest. He wanted to ruin the matter. That 'ex-boyfriend' was already in place, but this little girl was not easy to deal with.
"Not willing to let go?" Zhao Zijun stopped what he was doing, before shooting an indifferent look at his subordinate. "It's just a woman. There's ten thousand ways to make her obedient."
Beads of sweat appeared on the subordinate's forehead as he hastily acknowledged.
Zhao Zijun continued to fiddle with his prayer beads. "How's the investigation of those few people?"
"There's nothing fishy about that heavy soldier from Valens called Tariq. He was born as a commoner, and his ancestors are considered clean. There's a local family power that has taken a liking to Tariq since a long time ago, and has been sponsoring his studies. However, their funds are limited. Furthermore, his father is a gambling addict, causing his family to be in quite a bit of debt."
"Haha, the worries of mortals …" Zhao Zijun laughed, before quickly continuing. "Find someone to contact that gambling addict of his and give him a sum of money, before setting up a trap to make him owe even more debt. There's no need to be anxious. First, we'll control his gambling addict father. This heavy soldier is slightly interesting. Although he doesn't pose any threat to us, if we use him well, he might be a force to be reckoned with. "
"There's also that Grai from Tianjing Academy. This person is rather interesting. From the looks of it, his information is rather clean. He's from the Christie Family of the northern region of the Federation. They're a small family that only appeared briefly in the northern region due to their fur business. During their most glorious period, their family was only at the level of a county tycoon, a very common and common type." Speaking up to this point, the expression on the subordinate's face turned interesting. "However, if we look at the things that Grai has done, it's slightly strange."
"Firstly, not long after entering the academy, this Grai had donated a sizable library to Tianjing Academy, with a sum of around 3 million. This isn't a sum that a small family can casually fork out. The problem is that it's normal for him to be very weak. However, his current performance is extremely good, and there's basically no need for that. "Secondly, he's from the northern region. Not long ago, he had actually chosen to travel to the northern region as his destination. Furthermore, the results of our investigations show that he wasn't particularly familiar with the local customs and practices of the northern regions. Being a descendant of a family that has been rooted in the northern regions for over a hundred years, this isn't too normal. Furthermore, there's also information on a few other people from Tianjing Academy … "
The Zhao Family's information network wasn't much weaker than the Mo Family's. In fact, they could even stand shoulder to shoulder with the Mo Family through certain special channels. Therefore, it wasn't strange for them to be able to obtain such information.
As Zhao Zijun listened quietly, the prayer beads in his hand started to spin faster and faster.
Tianjing Academy had always been a target that he had secretly paid attention to. Naturally, it was mainly due to Carolyn and Gui Hao. However, this lousy squadron had actually managed to repeatedly perform miracles. He felt that they would be able to enter the final competition even without his help. It was extremely important for the Tianjing squadron to enter the final competition. Regardless of whether there was anything going on between Wang Zhong and Carolyn, he had to make sure that there was something going on. Gui Hao was a good person, except for his perfectionism. He wanted to stick a needle in and muddy the waters.
"Slightly interesting …" Zhao Zijun gently pinched the prayer beads in his hand. "For the time being, there's no need to care about Tianjing's matters. Let's continue to observe. I hope that they don't disappoint me!"
… …
To the majority of the squadrons, the days of waiting for the final results were filled with nervousness and anxiety. The marking of the papers by the organisers was in full swing. There were many outstanding papers, and there were many who had scored rather high marks during the question and answer session. However, the true difference between the two would still lie in the final thesis.
The few people in charge of marking the papers were all high ranking academicians of the Federation's Academy of Sciences. Diesel was the person in charge of the Academy of Sciences for this CHF. Frankly speaking, he wasn't too satisfied with these students. Nowadays, students always felt that strength was everything. However, they didn't understand that there was a limit to a person's strength, while the power of science was limitless. What's more, possessing a very high field of vision would also be of great help to one's strength. Not everyone could become a scientist, but they needed to have a certain level of knowledge.
Basically, they were all platitudes or meaningless. Therefore, there weren't many papers in this batch of examination papers that caught his eye.
The majority of the people had written about things that didn't make sense. Their understanding of runes and dimensions was rather lacking, causing the few high ranking academicians to shake their heads in succession.
Every single person from the Academy of Sciences valued literature over martial arts. This batch of papers were written by the so-called most outstanding batch of people in the Federation. However, the results were truly too disappointing. Once again, it proved that the pursuit of martial arts was the greatest obstacle to the pursuit of true scientific knowledge.
Naturally, there were also a few that weren't bad. For example, Copperfield's Laura had a rather deep and thorough understanding of rune patterns, which was rather compatible with some of the first-hand research information that Old Potter had revealed. Naturally, this was easy to understand, and didn't cause Diesel to feel any shock. After all, the future father of rune patterns was Laura's biological grandfather. There were also a few others, such as Martial Ghost Divine Emperor's Gui Hao. He started from the perspective of the impact that rune patterns would have on the current rune system of the Federation. Ingeniously, he avoided the field of scientific theory that he wasn't proficient in, and discussed the upcoming revolution of rune patterns from a macro perspective.
It had to be said that even Diesel was captivated by his words. He didn't really want to look at a person's level of research, but the height of their field of vision. Gui Hao had a thorough understanding of the current political and scientific structure of the Federation, and was completely unable to tell that he was a youth that wasn't even 20 years of age. Furthermore, his ideas were rather high, and in Diesel's opinion, he could easily rank within the top 3.
"Teacher Diesel, please take a look at this." said an examiner as he brought a set of papers over, a rather helpless expression on his face.
"What's wrong?" A few good essays had caused Diesel's mood to improve slightly.
"This … I feel that I'm somewhat unable to grade it. I'll have to ask you to appraise it."
The examiner was a high ranking academician of the Academy of Sciences, and his eyesight was definitely top notch. At the start, he felt that Wang Zhong was simply spouting nonsense. However, the more he read, the more he felt that Wang Zhong's words were terrifying. He didn't know if Wang Zhong was just spouting nonsense or if there was some basis to it. However, in terms of novelty, no one could match up to him.
Diesel curiously received the paper, and took a look at the name written on it: Tianjing Academy, Wang Zhong.
Wang Zhong … where had he heard this name before?
"Hypotheses on the origin of the hyperdimension …" Diesel couldn't help but laugh. "What a big tone. Although it seems modest, it's actually extremely conceited. Is the origin something that a student can guess?"
Nowadays, students were either ignorant and incompetent, or biting off more than they could chew. The hyperdimension was the main topic of their research. However, in the past decade or so, there hadn't been any theoretical melee combat. Only the Old Potter had suddenly comprehended something, causing him to toss and turn his head.
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