Chapter 722: Don’t You Understand? Your Choice Is Meaningless!
“Who? Shali?!”
Many people from Holy Angel Academy reacted instantly upon hearing this name.
Perhaps Shali is not well-known in Witch Academy, and her strength is not the top tier.
However, being able to lead a leisure club alone and establish a private small treasury is enough to demonstrate her exceptionality.
The familiarity of Holy Angel Academy’s students with Shali is related to another matter.
Shali harbors deep animosity toward the people of Holy Angel Academy, and she is willing to do anything that would make them unhappy.
In the previous year, Shali directly led a group of witches to their place and took away Tan Han, resulting in Holy Angel Academy having no choice but to send the bodies back after the chase into the Magic Capital ended in d*ath.
This time last year, from the moment she filled in the application until Tan Han was finally taken to Witch Academy, it took many days.
However, this year, to take away the boy named Yang Yunhan, no one expected the various academies to go to such lengths!
One can foresee that this will be yet another prolonged battle. Although this area belongs to the territory radiating from Witch Academy, the distance to the Magic Capital is not short.
Even taking the high-speed train requires a long time, and other academies would not allow Witch Academy to return so easily.
But now, with Shali’s involvement, the sudden blockade has completely shattered Holy Angel’s plan to make a quick escape.
With this delay, the various academies that had temporarily formed a united front behind them also arrived.
After a fierce siege, they quickly eliminated the avian creatures trying to take advantage.
After all, their academy was straightforward in their actions, while these creatures were sneaking around; if not for Shali blocking the way, they might have succeeded.
If they had really managed to bring Yang Yunhan to Holy Angel Academy, it would have been difficult to bring him back out.
Although it wouldn’t be as tough as into the depths of Witch Academy, breaking through the many Holy Angels’ blockades at Holy Angel’s base was equally daunting.
“You guys! You… So many of you are attacking our Holy Angel people, is there really no sense of reason left?!”
“Fists are reason! What, do you want to reason with us?” A male wizard from Wizard Academy stepped forward, extending his hand. His right arm was completely replaced by a mechanical one, clearly showing he belonged to the mechanical wizard faction.
With such a punch, he aimed directly at the avian creature’s eye without holding back, seemingly venting the frustrations of the previous ambush by the bird people.
Accompanied by a shriek from this brave Holy Angel, Shali observed eagerly.
These Holy Angels truly don’t learn from their lessons.
In the previous year, these Holy Angels had also taken Tan Han away using this method, and ultimately it was Shali who retrieved Tan Han back from Holy Angel.
However… Tan Han seemed to have actively applied to Holy Angel Academy, possibly influenced by her family.
After all, Holy Angel has the largest belief system in the Main World and the most Holy Light Churches spread out; these churches do not simply cultivate believers to collect faith, but also scout for relatively talented children to cultivate and develop into followers of Holy Light early on.
Although the distribution of fortune during the college entrance examination can depend on the World Consciousness and fortune to identify who are the valued talents, there exists another class of geniuses that exceed the ordinary discernible range.
Tracing back, such geniuses are actually not few, proving that even the representatives of the World Consciousness and fortune can make mistakes.
Thus, the mentors in the academies are qualified to admit children they consider talented into the academy.
Otherwise, what’s the point of reserving extra admission slots in the various extraordinary academies?
However, most extraordinary mentors rarely do this because… it’s troublesome.
This year, as Teacher Ji discovered the “Yang Yuelan,” her fame skyrocketed, making her arguably the luckiest witch in recent years.
At this moment, the already severely injured Holy Angel was again knocked down by a punch, and his already pathetic posture was worsened, with his broken angel wing twisted at an odd angle behind him.
“Ah… You… um… You will reap what you sow! Hiss…”
“We will wait for your Holy Angel’s consequences. If there truly are consequences, it is you bird people who should d*e first.” Shali rebutted this defiant Holy Angel beside her, and even added a kick.
“You witches do this every time, forcibly taking people to Witch Academy. Is it really interesting for you? Is a forcibly picked fruit truly sweet? Have you considered the feelings of the students! We are an Extraordinary Academy, and what you do is lower than the barbarians of Beast Academy!”
“Are you Holy Angels all so hard-headed? Just resolved one, and now you are coming out to talk nonsense again? With no strength, there’s less reason to speak; strength is the only reason!”
“Am I wrong! How many geniuses have you witches ruined, how many boys have you harmed, do you know… Wuwu!”
Facing these bird people who were still chattering on after losing, the witches chose the most direct way to silence them.
If they continued causing trouble, they wouldn’t hesitate to use a high-level silence spell and send their bodies back to Holy Angel Academy, since Holy Angel’s resurrection spell is quite powerful; what’s the harm in dying once?
But no matter how powerful the resurrection spell, it can’t bring back Xiao Han, who was killed by their joint effort.
“Now it’s time for us to battle.” At this moment, the mechanical wizard from Wizard Academy said.
Everyone understood the current situation; with Holy Angel causing such a ruckus, they could instead have a “calm” discussion here.
However, given the circumstances… no one could boldly take someone away, and other academies wouldn’t sit idly by and let someone escape with a person.
So now, it was only battle!
Losers lie down, losing the right to compete; the winners take everything and return with their prize to their own academy.
“Everyone, let’s not hide our strength anymore! Those lurking, come out now; it’s time for a direct confrontation.”
After all, what matters now is how much weight each academy places on this “Yang Yunhan,” and the number of people arriving plays a crucial role.
As this proposal was made, the people from each academy no longer hid, but the number of people who stepped out seemed less than anticipated.
After all, this was nominally accepting genius students back to school, but not many upperclassmen were willing to do this thankless job.
Moreover… it didn’t mean other students were unimportant.
The number of new students in each extraordinary academy is at least in the thousands, at worst in the tens of thousands, considering each academy’s faculty and data like Tan Han’s.
Thus, this time for one new student, dozens of people from each academy participating led to a grand brawl totaling over a hundred… that’s already quite terrifying.
Tan Han didn’t seem to have such arrangements.
Although this was related to being taken by the people from Holy Angel…
But what would happen when over a hundred upperclassmen gathered?
Given enough time, the aftermath of their fighting could bring a city to a standstill!
Of course, this was in full battle mode, but due to the principle of paying for damages, many people were still restrained.
Even though there are subsidies for destruction during abductions by the academy, if widespread infrastructure damage occurs, the subsidies have their limits.
“Wait! Don’t you care about my feelings? I’m the student! Isn’t it my own decision which academy to choose?!”
At this moment, amidst the tense atmosphere, a youthful shout suddenly startled many present into silence.
This was Yang Yunhan’s second time loudly expressing his thoughts, and compared to the first, he had made significant progress, at least in clarity, and he didn’t crack his voice from excessive excitement.
His first angry shout to express his opinions was at home, the last time he saw his parents… that time, his parents slapped him across the face and knocked him to the ground.
But this time… no one would slap him. Because reality’s society tends to educate people in even more radical ways.
“So, which academy do you want to choose?”
In the hushed atmosphere, Shali was the first to step forward and break the silence caused by the boy’s anger.
“I… I.” Yang Yunhan was suddenly at a loss for words when asked this.
Because he hadn’t thought it through; during this period, he was tormented by that sentence, engaging in self-deprecation, to the point that he didn’t even have a real target.
It wasn’t until he saw his score that he gained confidence, realizing he was a genius, that he woke up.
However, he had remained immersed in this idea of having the right to choose his desired extraordinary academy but had never considered that this “freedom” of choice was akin to the “freedom” of leaving his parents.
When it came down to making a specific choice, he had no basis or plan, and all he felt was confusion.
Objectively speaking, Yang Yunhan couldn’t be blamed.
Yang Yunhan was not from a distinguished family but from an ordinary household, and such families had no channel to understand extraordinary academies, so children from ordinary families couldn’t plan without access to information.
What they knew about extraordinary academies were all things the academies wanted them to understand, offering no room for regrets.
This is also why extraordinary academies don’t allow new students to leave campus after enrollment; because most students from ordinary families discover that the gap between extraordinary academies and their expectations is far too great.
As Yang Yunhan was forced into silence by the question, “So, which academy do you want to choose?” for several seconds, he looked towards the mechanical wizard not far off.
Since childhood, he had been interested in mechanisms, but the few things he encountered in real life were scarce; he used to have many broken toys at home…
Thus, at this crucial turning point in his life, he relied on those seconds to decide the course of his future.
“I choose you! You’re from Wizard Academy, right? A few days ago you called me; you said you’d admit me!”
With Yang Yunhan’s bold declaration of his choice, the Holy Angels on the ground felt another stab in their hearts.
They had thought Yang Yunhan would choose them!
Even though they were in a woeful posture now, even mentioning them would have been a consolation, at least it would indicate that not being able to bring Yang Yunhan back was their failure, not a reflection of the other’s judgment.
But now… Yang Yunhan wouldn’t even spare them a glance!
The support Holy Light Church had given their family, the care they’d shown them, the expulsion of the disturbances from Inferior Demon Academy a year ago… all had become a joke!
“Very good! Truly discerning! A real man should choose Wizard!”
Hearing this decision, the people from Wizard Academy instantly broke into joyful laughter.
They weren’t worried about Yang Yunhan choosing them, turning them into targets.
Because Yang Yunhan’s self-proclaimed choice meant nothing to the students from various extraordinary academies present here… it was worth very little!
If merely speaking could define one’s path, what were they all doing here?
So ultimately, it all boiled down to who had more power.
However, at this moment, Shali from Witch Academy felt offended by Yang Yunhan’s choice.
“You! Yang Yunhan, you actually chose Wizard Academy? Don’t you know your sister is in Witch Academy?!”
“My sister… don’t mention her! What’s she worth? Isn’t she already dead?!”
Yang Yunhan repeatedly uttered “sister,” as if completely igniting the rebellious emotions within him; he had finally emerged from the shadow cast by that figure…
Why should he go to the Witch Academy that that person attended!
Even if that academy turns female… how disgusting.
“Do you know what you’re saying… Yang Yuelan is your sister! Do you know that! I have never met anyone as heartless as you; she’s already dead, and here you are gloating?!”
“She deserved to d*e; I don’t want such a sister! Only when she is gone can I have my moment! That person only scored over five hundred… but I can score over seven hundred! I am the real genius.”
“You… you, score… what’s score worth…” Shali was nearly driven mad by Yang Yunhan; she saw not a shred of the former Yang Yuelan in him.
When she heard about Yang Yuelan’s fall and how other academies conspired against her, she had grieved for a long time in the academy.
This time, she didn’t come at anyone’s behest but of her own volition.
But now it seemed… this person wasn’t worth her efforts.
So… infuriated, Shali turned and left without a trace of nostalgia.
With Shali’s departure, many from Witch Academy were shocked; many of the students present were part of Xiao Han’s support group.
However, if Xiao Han’s brother was such a person… honestly, many began to share Shali’s sentiments and wanted to turn and leave.
Such a person doesn’t deserve to enter Witch Academy!
And another faction… was thinking about how to kidnap this ignorant Yang Yunhan to Witch Academy, to show him the witch’s methods properly.
Such a disobedient brother… They, Xiao Han’s support group, would ensure that someone educated this guy properly!
“I’ve already chosen Wizard Academy, why aren’t you taking me away?”
At this moment, Yang Yunhan saw someone leave due to his outburst but didn’t care; instead, he looked at the people from Wizard Academy.
“You made your choice, but we haven’t made ours; we’re happy with you choosing Wizard Academy, so go stand aside and don’t hinder us.”
“What… does that mean?” Yang Yunhan was momentarily confused by the current situation.
“Don’t you understand? Your choice is meaningless; ultimately, which academy you can reach is still determined by our strength!” At this moment, someone else coldly explained to Yang Yunhan as if dispensing charity.
“Score? Genius? Who wasn’t a genius back in the day? Scoring over seven hundred, what’s there to be proud of? I was just eight points away from a perfect score back then! Yet none of us had the treatment you do!”
“Let the battle begin! Don’t hold back; let the inexperienced newbies see the cruelty of the extraordinary world!”
With these sharp taunts, a grand brawl erupted before Yang Yunhan’s innocent eyes!
