Chapter 274: Letter of Appointnt
Other than Class Four, every other class could appoint group leaders. After he got back, Xiao Lin imdiately appointed Gu Xiaoyue and Zhou Feng as group leaders. It was different from the verbal appointnt during the monthly examination; this appointnt would be in their records.
After the evaluations ended, the student union president hurriedly ushered everyone else away before inviting Xiao Lin into his office. What caused Xiao Lin so surprise was the presence of a pretty short-haired girl in the office conversing with the president.
When she saw Xiao Lin walk inside, the woman gave him a thumbs-up, praising him, “Not bad! It’s rare to see those old farts so defeated. You have more potential than I thought.”
Xiao Lin looked at the president, who was smiling at him. He got up from the desk before moving to the sofa to the side, motioning for Xiao Lin to do the sa, indirectly establishing a better relationship among all of them.
“I’m Yu i. You must be Xiao Lin. I’ve heard good things about you,” the woman greeted him warmly.
The president smiled as he added, “Yu i is an army major. Her grandfather was Yu Sheng—he was a brilliant engineer from Dawn Academy a century ago.”
Yu i unhappily blinked at him, feeling like the president had said too much.
Xiao Lin found it strange that even her grandfather had been introduced, but he suddenly gasped, standing right up from the sofa before gaping as he said, “An engineer from a century ago? Is your grandfather Captain Yu?!”
Yu i did not say anything, silently agreeing, but she did not seem to want to continue on that topic. The socially-savvy president quickly changed the topic. “Those old farts... Ahem, those seniors are all part of the army as well. This examination had so sensitive contents, but since such a long ti has passed, the secret stopped aning as much, but it’s still part of the army’s jurisdiction.”
Dawn Academy was still just a school in the end–a place to cultivate new talent–but as colonists, the real battle was in the New World which was controlled by the army.
“Dawn Academy had to be different from the Arican Judge Academy. The dean’s power can’t just be limited to school affairs,” Xiao Lin said curiously.
“You know quite a bit, huh?” Yu i raised her eyebrows.
“That’s right. Our current dean is the strongest and most heroic dean Dawn Academy has ever seen. It is regretful that there are always so people within the academy who fail to understand the dean’s decisions. They don’t dare to publicly oppose the dean, but regularly ss with him in the shadows.” The president seed to respect the dean greatly.
“An opposing faction?” Xiao Lin put a different spin on it.
“Yes, that can be said to be so.”
“I still don’t understand, those old people are the dean’s opponents, so why are they targeting instead? Is it just because the dean treats better than most?” Xiao Lin was still puzzled. On the surface, the dean did not help him that much, he did not believe those old farts would be so free to target him based on that.
Yu i exchanged looks with the president before taking out a docunt from a small bag she had with her. “You’ll understand after you look at this; it’s also the reason I ca back here from the New World to find you.”
Curiously accepting the docunt, the golden letters on the white paper completely shocked Xiao Lin.
[Letter of Appointnt: Appointing student Xiao Lin as a captain in the army; to be temporarily assigned to the sixth regint.]
At the end was a stylish signature and a seal made with magic, proving that this appointnt was made personally by the dean.
Yu i smiled bitterly. “Given the rules, the dean can appoint anyone as an officer, but it needs the approval of others. This ti, the dean circumvented everyone else and issued the order, which led to a great amount of dissatisfaction. They could not grasp the dean’s real goal, which is why they ca here to target you in order to test the dean’s response.”
Xiao Lin had yet to snap out from his stupor. Normally, a student could enter the military after they graduated from the academy, and monitors or year leaders could usually enter the army as officials.
However, that would require him to complete his fourth year. He was still just a new student who had just been in the academy for three months!
“Do you an I’ll need to join the army and leave the academy?” Xiao Lin could not understand what the dean’s sudden move signalled. He did not feel like he could do anything in the New World at the mont, especially since he was still far behind everyone else in skill.
“No, the dean especially told that, before you reach Black-iron rank, you’ll only be a captain in rank; you won’t have any actual military powers,” Yu i explained.
Yu i’s tone led Xiao Lin to think of sothing. He asked, “The sixth regint? What are you to that regint?”
“She is the commander of the sixth regint. I’ll give you so background information as well. Dawn Academy’s military wing currently has six regints; the sixth regint was only ford a few years ago,” the president explained to Xiao Lin.
The young lady was already in charge of an entire regint. Xiao Lin was quite surprised. Regints were the common army classifications on Planet Norma, and being able to be the commander of an entire regint was no easy feat.
“Even though there are many things I need to let you know and many questions you need answered, you still need to reach Black-iron rank before anything happens. Otherwise, even with the dean’s letter of appointnt, my regint does not need soone like you at all.”
After a pause, Yu i smiled and said, “I ca today because I was curious who could make the dean do so much. The fact that you pissed those old farts off so much exceeded my expectations. Alright, let’s stop here. I’ll take my leave for now.”
After her monologue, Yu i left imdiately. Xiao Lin held onto the letter of appointnt, looking at the president with a baffled expression. “Why do you think the dean gave this to ?”
The baby-faced president smiled. “Don’t overthink it; focus on graduating for now. The commander is right. Without the proper strength behind it, that letter is just a useless piece of paper.”
“Does this count as an advance promotion?” Xiao Lin laughed. He did not know if he really wanted to join the military, but soone had actually already paved the way for him. If he was not opposed to it, he really did not have a good reason to reject it.
Before he left, the president stopped him. “Oh, what you said earlier about the lock and key; make sure you don’t bring it up to anyone else, understand?”
“Relax, I’m not so loose with my words. This is all just my own speculation after all.”
After Xiao Lin left, the president smiled to himself as he looked at the blue skies and vibrant sun outside, sighing as he said, “I wonder how long this peace will last!”
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