The lunch break passed in the blink of an eye. All the students who passed the New Student Assessment were now neatly gathered on the Shrek Square.
After waiting for a moment, the Dean of Education, Du Weilun, walked over from the front of the square with a group of teachers. In addition to the homeroom teachers of each class, there were a few unfamiliar faces mixed in the crowd.
Du Weilun looked around at the students in the field, nodded with satisfaction, cleared his throat, and said loudly: "Hello, students. I believe you already know that the New Student Assessment and the ranking tournament have now completely ended. This meeting is both your class assignment meeting and an awards ceremony for the top three teams in the ranking tournament."
He paused, raised the folder in his hand, and said: "Below, I will announce their names and present their awards."
"Third place in the New Student Assessment—Furina's team. Team members: Furina."
A smattering of applause rang out from the crowd.
Many students muttered to themselves: If it weren't for Furina voluntarily conceding in the semifinals, it would be hard to say who would have taken first and second place.
As for Ning Tian's team, who competed with Furina for third place, in the eyes of most people, they were simply not good enough.
Even Dai Huabin, who possessed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, was defeated by Furina. How could Ning Tian and the others win? Without that level of trump card, facing Furina could only result in an outcome without any suspense.
Therefore, Ning Tian's team could only rank fourth. And the fifth-ranked Huang Chutian team, although they had the Lan sisters' Martial Soul Fusion Skill 'Heavenly Net' at their disposal, which was almost invincible among two-ring teams, still fell short when facing opponents of the level of Ning Tian and Furina, ultimately stopping at fifth place. However, there was no substantial difference between fourth and fifth; neither received extra rewards.
Furina walked out of the new student group unhurriedly, walked calmly to Du Weilun's side, then turned around, and waved at the crowd with a smile: "Hi, everyone! I am Furina, the Pope of the Axis Cult, and also the Water God herself—Furina! If any of you are interested, and don't have a good place to go after graduation, you are welcome to join our Axis Cult! The doors of our Axis Cult are always open to outstanding talent!"
The corners of Du Weilun's eyes twitched slightly, but he just coughed lightly, pretending not to see her poaching talent so openly.
Anyway, it wasn't the first or second time. Moreover, with the superb strength and talent Furina displayed in the competition, she was indeed qualified to stand here and recruit talent in this way.
Hearing that light cough, Furina also sensibly restrained her smile and stood quietly to the side.
Du Weilun continued to read: "Second place—Dai Huabin's team. Team members: Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Cui Yajie. Come up."
The three of them walked out of the new student group, but there was no excitement or agitation on their faces. When they reached Du Weilun, Dai Huabin's gaze first fell on Furina, lingered for a moment, then crossed the queue of Class One and landed on Huo Yuhao at the back of the crowd. His gaze was complex, and it was unknown what he was thinking.
Furina felt that gaze land on her, but she couldn't even be bothered to lift her eyelids. There was nothing worth looking at.
"Finally," Du Weilun raised his voice slightly, "let us welcome the first-place team of this New Student Assessment with warm applause!"
The applause was like a tide.
"First place—Huo Yuhao's team. Team members: Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao."
Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong walked side by side, Xiao Xiao was a step behind, and the three of them walked to Du Weilun's side together.
Du Weilun nodded with satisfaction. After the applause died down, he said loudly: "Good. Now I will first announce the rewards for the top three teams of this New Student Assessment. First, they will all receive the same reward—"
He looked around the audience and said slowly: "From now on, whenever each of you needs to obtain a spirit ring, you can apply to the academy, and the academy will assist you in obtaining the most suitable spirit ring that you can bear."
As soon as these words were spoken, a murmur of exclamation and envy immediately arose among the first-year students. Everyone could understand the value of this reward. The academy was essentially promising that the next spirit ring for these seven people would definitely appear at the 'limit age'. For example, if the limit for Xiao Xiao's third spirit ring was 1,500 years, the academy would find the most suitable 1,500-year spirit ring for her. It was the same for everyone.
In the eyes of many students, this reward could not be considered light.
However, when Furina heard this, she couldn't help but complain to herself: This is too perfunctory, right? Which student with power, influence, and money would care about this? If you spend your own money to hire people to hunt a Soul Beast, you can still get a spirit ring of the limit age. For a low-grade student, what is the difference between having this promise of a single spirit ring and having nothing?
She really couldn't understand if Shrek was pretending to be poor on purpose or if they didn't take the students' rewards seriously at all. Instead of giving a spirit ring, it would be better to just give some prize money, or a trophy or medal. The former could at least be used, and the latter could be considered an honor. Things like spirit rings... if you say they are useful, they seem a bit useful; if you say they are useless, they are indeed quite useless. Besides, as an academy, shouldn't it be the teacher's duty to help students obtain spirit rings? How did it become a reward when it got to you?
However, Furina was too lazy to continue complaining about Shrek Academy's stingy style. Anyway, her future Jianan Academy must never be like them.
Du Weilun continued: "In view of the excellent performance and all-win record of the champion Huo Yuhao's team throughout the competition, the academy has decided to issue an additional special reward to them. The academy will keep the specific content of this reward confidential. After the class assignment is over, you can come with me to collect it."
Upon hearing this, the three of Huo Yuhao did not show much excitement on their faces. Could the academy really give them a ten-thousand-year Spirit Bone?
However, no student raised any objections to Huo Yuhao and the others receiving extra rewards. Along the way, they had successively defeated the Ning Tian team led by a Soul Venerable powerhouse, the Xie Huanyue team, and the Dai Huabin team. All three Soul Venerables among the new students were defeated by their hands. This championship had no element of trickery, so it was only natural for them to receive more rewards.
Of course, some people felt that Furina was more suitable to win this championship, but Furina herself didn't care about it at all, so what could they, as bystanders, say?
"Alright, you can return to your teams." Du Weilun signaled.
Furina and the other seven returned to their respective positions and stood still.
After the nine people integrated back into the new student queue and Du Weilun finished another round of routine rhetoric, he finally got to the point—announcing the list of Core Disciples.
The square, which had been somewhat noisy, instantly quieted down.
The list of Core Disciples was not limited to the top three teams; as long as they performed excellently and had outstanding results, they had a chance to be selected.
Du Weilun opened the folder he had been carrying with him and read the names on it one by one: "After the academy's research and decision, the list of Core Disciples for this New Student Assessment is as follows: Furina, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Xie Huanyue, Zhou Sichen, Cao Jinxuan, Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo."
If following the trajectory of the original work, even if Huo Yuhao won the championship, with his one-ring cultivation, his name would definitely not be on this list. Even if Bei Bei and Tang Ya guaranteed repeatedly that 'the first place in the New Student Assessment must be able to become a Core Disciple', Du Weilun still didn't do it in the end. It can only be said that Shrek's 'fairness' is indeed flexible.
Next was the class assignment session. The entire first grade was divided into four classes: Class One was for attack system and control system Spirit Masters; Class Two was for Defense System and Agility Attack System Spirit Masters; Class Three was for support system Spirit Masters; and Class Four included food system, healing types, and other various special attribute Spirit Masters and Tool Spirit Masters.
Furina was finally arranged into Class One.
This was Yan Shaozhe's intention.
Considering that Furina had a close relationship with Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao, and her strength was indeed not suitable for being simply classified into the support system or food system. She could fight and support, so placing her in Class One was the most appropriate.
Furina was quite satisfied with this arrangement. Even if they really assigned her to Class Three or Class Four, she wouldn't say anything, and it would just happen to be an opportunity to poach people from other classes, letting Huo Yuhao continue to recruit talent for her in Class One. However, being assigned to Class One was fine. Anyway, in the original work, Zhu Lu, an Agility Attack System Spirit Master, was also stuffed into Class One. It can be seen that as long as you have connections, wanting to go to any class is not a problem.
The homeroom teacher of Class One was still Zhou Yi, and Class Two was still Mu Jin. As for who was the homeroom teacher, for Furina, it was actually all the same.
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